Why MAN OF STEEL was a good movie

@0megaDaGod thanks man

The main problem with MOS is...it hardly resembled the Superman of the prior 75 years. MOS was a great launching pad for an Earth-Three movie, though.

It wasn't horrible or a that bad movie, it was just very dissapointing one.

Well said @sauronsbane1.

I still personally enjoyed it though. I don't get all the hate either, but then again I'm not a Superman fanatic either. How it was depicted is what made me want to watch it bc yes his prior adaptations have been lame.com, I dug it and it is visually stunning.

man of steel is a good movie,just not a great movie.

Also, the first comment of this article will probably disarm people so they won't be too harsh, good to see another on cbm with a sense of humor and don't take themselves (or their articles) too seriously)...

It was a good movie. It just wasn't a good Superman movie.

Also, like The Mandarin reveal in IM3, the Metropolis destruction scene wasn't the film's downfall (conceptually at least).

Ask any non-fan of comic books or CBMs what they thought of MOS.
It's not about trolls or whatever.

@DaVinci31

Let me guess, you wanted to see this.









Psh, get the f*ck out of here. Superman has killed before in the comics, its time you mainstream fans got over it. Puss!es!

I could watch this movie all day every day. I loved it.

To those who hated the movie or were just slightly disappointed. There's nothing in The Man of Steel that prevents the next one from giving you the Superman you wanted. Towards the end of the movie Superman's interaction with Gen. Swanwick reflected a more sunnier, optimistic Superman. There were other glimpses. The exchange between Lois and Superman before taking off to destroy the world engine was another moment. Maybe more time should have passed, allowing Clark time to fully explore his powers and his heritage. Giving us a more self assured Kal-El by the time he encounters Zod, Faora and Nam-ek.

I think had they presented that version from the moment he put on the suit or shifted the tone with one scene or two during the battle of Metropolis. How sweet would it have been if they used that moment where the building was toppling over to display the lengths to which Kal-El would go to save human kind. Showing him either slowing or preventing the building from falling giving people below the time to get clear. An awesome display of power. The swelling music that was used when Superman saved the guy falling from the military copter would have been perfect for that moment. Giving people a reason to cheer this new champion who fights on behalf humanity. In addition to seeing him battle Zod and his army.

There are some people in the audience who need to be explicitly shown people avoiding death and destruction. The Gas Station scene while reckless could have included someone seeing Superman and Zod speeding towards them and getting people out before the explosion. Me on the other hand I need to be explicitly shown the dead or the dying. It's the Schroeder's cat in the box scenario. It all depends upon the observer. Was someone in that building when it collapsed? Was someone in that gas station when it exploded? Whatever the answer may be is valid. It all depends on the observer.

Would those key changes make the movie better for those who were disappointed?

The downfall of the movie was Goyer's script. Not the destruction or Zod's death. Complaining about that is stupid.

People Forget that in the 1980 movie Superman killed Zod,
and then LAUGHED about it with lois. literally. look it up if you dont believe me.

At least this movie showed a superman with remorse for DELIBERATELY (keyword here) taking someone's life. one of his kind at that, who are near extinction.

As for the city, im sure he didn't mean for other people to get hurt.
but it could have been worse, the whole planet could have been terra formed, and then billions would die.

Did I mention that he has been superman for less than 24 hours? Experience wasn't on his side.

@MisterMoustache

I saw no such wide shot as you describe. The gas station scene does not clearly show it empty or occupied. We left to believe that the writers intentions were not to imply a horrific death for whoever was inside. I base that upon the tone of the scene and Superman reactions in the aftermath of the explosion.




Mainly I saw soldiers dying in the battle of Metropolis. All other deaths could be implied depending upon what one chooses to believe.

Have they fulling established the full extent of Superman's powers and limitations? We are talking about a Superhero movie. Why would he not be able to slow down at the very least the fall of the building? As long as he holds it up at the right structural stress point. It shouldn't be a problem for Supes.

@FarkinA

0:23 mark. Nobody's around the gas station, with the exception of one dude, but he runs away unharmed. Now, of course someone could just choose to believe that there was someone inside the car or something like that, but then again, nobody just chooses to believe that Batman is crippling police officers when he flips over their cars during chases, just like nobody wants to believe that Thor and Hulk were killing civilians when they knocked down the Leviathan. That's a minor genre convention that requires a little bit of suspension of disbelief.

The battle of Metropolis was a total different thing, though. When Zod starts terraforming Earth, we see people running and buildings crushing them, so the movie establishes that civilians are dying there, there's no space for personal interpretations.

About Superman's powers, just remember the oil rig scene, when he struggles to hold the structure. A building is not like that, is way bigger and made of concrete, he's too small to hold something like that. It's a matter of balance.

Was such a good movie and a great starting point. Could watch this every day and it wouldn't get old

Yeah MOS was a good movie, it should have been much more though...

Epic, awesome, so much more...

Wont go into all the plot holes and Bay explosions or Superman not caring for human life when all this is happening. Lois knowing Clark's Superman before he actually is Superman was plain stupid and wrong, if its that easy no way he'd have a secret identity for very long, but main reason it didn't have the magic of a Superman movie, just felt it was another comic book movie and SUPERMAN should be so much more, if they don't care about all the characters why would we?

The forgettable score says it all too, its like making Star Wars or Jaws without the real score, you just don't do it, it wasnt even that good.

@ LEE Well....Superman was saving the world when Metropolis was getting [frick]ed up.

Mex @ I hope they bring ZOD back, he's a great villain and actor playing him, hey its a comic book movie, could happen.