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Vengeance1701 · 06-21-2013

Yeah, despite being directed by Snyder, this reads like Nolan's Batman. Dark, humorless, joyless and not very fun.

Random thoughts that bugged me even as I was watching it:

1) Why focus so much on the fat bully if they never pay that off? Except to promote IHOP, I guess.

2) The Krypton stuff went on way too long. We're there to watch Superman, not Gladiator-El. All we really needed to know... "Planet's fucked, Zod's a dick, bye Kal-El!"

3) My respect for Zod might have gone up if he had Brer Rabbitted the Kryptonians into shooting them all into space, saving them from the destruction of the planet.

4) That family Zod's about to make a nice human flambe? Yeah, he totally did. We never see them again, not even running past the camera. The camera angles used (IE: on the exit) mean we completely should have....unless they decided to stroll down the subway tunnel.

5) Why the focus on the random girl in Perry's office? Did we really need to see that to know how anus-clenchingly horrifying the gravity wave was?

06-21-2013	#42
Vengeance1701 Modest Moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,998	Re: Man of Steel Review, Spoiler Free Yeah, despite being directed by Snyder, this reads like Nolan's Batman. Dark, humorless, joyless and not very fun. Random thoughts that bugged me even as I was watching it: 1) Why focus so much on the fat bully if they never pay that off? Except to promote IHOP, I guess. 2) The Krypton stuff went on way too long. We're there to watch Superman, not Gladiator-El. All we really needed to know... "Planet's fucked, Zod's a dick, bye Kal-El!" 3) My respect for Zod might have gone up if he had Brer Rabbitted the Kryptonians into shooting them all into space, saving them from the destruction of the planet. 4) That family Zod's about to make a nice human flambe? Yeah, he totally did. We never see them again, not even running past the camera. The camera angles used (IE: on the exit) mean we completely should have....unless they decided to stroll down the subway tunnel. 5) Why the focus on the random girl in Perry's office? Did we really need to see that to know how anus-clenchingly horrifying the gravity wave was? __________________ Meh. Cranky and old.