Man of Steel

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Just finished watching this movie. Would have to give it a 9/10. Movie was probably the best superhero movie I have seen. Probably not my favorites but probably the best IMO. The last fight scene with Zod was pretty epic. I will be intrested to see what is done with the next movies.
 
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I wonder if they'll go the lex luthor route. I remember seeing a lexcorp truck I think get trashed during a fight scene.
 
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TheDeeble said:
I wonder if they'll go the lex luthor route. I remember seeing a lexcorp truck I think get trashed during a fight scene.
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I would say its a good bet. There was also a brief scene of the Lexcorp logo on a skyscraper when it shows the Wayne Enterprises satellite falling back to earth.

I am glad they are going with the billionaire businessman version of Lex and not the idiot version from the original films! (Watch them say he got rich by real estate deals!):thumbsup:

The best version of Lex done was the Smallville version followed by the animated version and then the Lois & Clark series.
 
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Trying to talk myself out of going to see it again tomorrow. I've never seen a film more than once on the big screen.
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
I would say its a good bet. There was also a brief scene of the Lexcorp logo on a skyscraper when it shows the Wayne Enterprises satellite falling back to earth.

I am glad they are going with the billionaire businessman version of Lex and not the idiot version from the original films! (Watch them say he got rich by real estate deals!):thumbsup:

The best version of Lex done was the Smallville version followed by the animated version and then the Lois & Clark series.
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When they crash into the satellite during the end fight it says Wayne Enterprises. A lot of people didn't catch that either.
 
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Apparently I'm in the minority because I wasn't impressed at all. I don't know if it was the 11:15 start time at the drive-in or seeing Russell Crowe riding Falkor, the dragon from The Never Ending Story. The one I did like was seeing Michael Shannon as General Zod. He makes a great bad guy.
 
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turn3 said:
Apparently I'm in the minority because I wasn't impressed at all. I don't know if it was the 11:15 start time at the drive-in or seeing Russell Crowe riding Falkor, the dragon from The Never Ending Story. The one I did like was seeing Michael Shannon as General Zod. He makes a great bad guy.
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I agree that whole dragon riding thing was pretty bad. Cheesy as hell.
 
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I think this movie has me spoiled just watched World War Z a movie I had been looking forward to....Man of steel was playing next door, you could hear it. I kept thinking I wish i was watching it.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
I think this movie has me spoiled just watched World War Z a movie I had been looking forward to....Man of steel was playing next door, you could hear it. I kept thinking I wish i was watching it.
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Luckily the local drive-in was showing World War Z and Man of Steel back to back.
 
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orangeblooded2 said:
I think this movie has me spoiled just watched World War Z a movie I had been looking forward to....Man of steel was playing next door, you could hear it. I kept thinking I wish i was watching it.
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I went back and watched Man of Steel again today (First time I've ever watched a movie twice at the theater and I must say it was even better the second time around.)

I was able take in more I even noticed another Lexcorp sign that I missed before (On the under construction building they destroyed while fighting.) One of the pods in the ship Clark & Lois first go into was open? (Supergirl, Maybe?) Lots of others that I will wait and let others find.

One other thing I saw where some was saying did Lois not no Clark at the end when Perry introduces them. It was plain to see she knew who he was. I thought it was funny the way she said "Welcome to the Planet!"
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
I would say its a good bet. There was also a brief scene of the Lexcorp logo on a skyscraper when it shows the Wayne Enterprises satellite falling back to earth.

I am glad they are going with the billionaire businessman version of Lex and not the idiot version from the original films! (Watch them say he got rich by real estate deals!):thumbsup:

The best version of Lex done was the Smallville version followed by the animated version and then the Lois & Clark series.
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In Superman 90s cartoon was he the Donald Trump of Metropolis, and is that what he'll be in the Man of Steel movie series?
 
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firestorm said:
In Superman 90s cartoon was he the Donald Trump of Metropolis, and is that what he'll be in the Man of Steel movie series?
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I suspect they will combine the comic version, animated & Smallville version so I suspect Lexcorp will have construction contracts (rebuilding Metropolis) as well as defense contracts etc.. I suspect they will also have in politics in some way. He became President in the comics.
 
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This is a week old but I just came across it.

Click for entire article! ‘Man Of Steel 2′ – Everything We Know About The Upcoming Sequel

A ‘Man of Steel 2′ was never in doubt. Warner Bros. hopes Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot serves the same purpose as Jon Favreau’s ‘Iron Man,’ introducing movie-going audiences to a familiar hero while laying the groundwork for a larger comic-book universe to unfold on screen.

So now that Snyder’s ‘Man of Steel’ has opened in theaters, collecting an estimated $125 million in its debut weekend, we can turn our attention to the next step in Warner’s burgeoning D.C. Comics plan. Instead of ‘Justice League‘ or a Batman-Superman team up, it sounds like we’re going to get a second standalone ‘Man of Steel’ film to further flesh out this new world.
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Man of Steel fell to 3rd to World War Z, and Monsters University. As long as it remains in Top 5 I'll be very pleased along it making more than 300 Million in the United States.

As for the negativity this getting from Critics.

I would say for 2 Reasons.
1.They refuse to accept that CReeve Superman movies are over, and Man of Steel won't be reusing how they were made.
2.The embarassment Superman Returns that critics gave favorable reviews or praised still underperformed at the box office, and was luke warm.
 
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Just got out. There was a lot of good and a lot of bad. Its worth watching but i honestly would have bedn ok waiting for video. 7/10

Spoilers ahead

Things I liked:

-The visuals were incredible.
-Zod's motivations were clear.
-Flashbacks were great in developing Clark's character.
- Crowe did a good Jor-El

Things I did not like:

-The matrix krypton babies and implanting them in Kal's DNA. I tried to justify it as a nod to the Bottled City of Kandor but it still didn't sit well with me. Now it's always there floating around in his blood stream.
- The collateral damage in Metropolis was over the top. 100s of 1000s if people had to have died in that. Superman only really saved Lois (multiple times) and a couple of soldiers. Also, at one point it looked like the skyline of the entire city was demolished then all off sudden they are back to knocking buildings down.
- There was a whole army of Kryptonian warriors but only 3 ever attempted to attack Superman? And why did they change Ursa's name and never refer to Non as anything other than a big tall guy?
- I didn't mind Supes actions regarding Zod but his decision to wipe out the matrix babies is puzzling.
- Lois knowing Clark is Superman from the get go. Sorry but that just eliminates a classic dynamic of the Superman mythos. I did not care for that at all. Hell.... Everyone basically knows. He even told the military General he grew up in Kansas. We be Clark Kent at all?

Lastly I would add that this is not the New 52 Superman that someone had suggested earlier. I read Grant Morrison's Action Comics jrun to launch the New 52 as well as Justice League. This is not that same character.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Things I did not like:
- The collateral damage in Metropolis was over the top. 100s of 1000s if people had to have died in that. Superman only really saved Lois (multiple times) and a couple of soldiers. Also, at one point it looked like the skyline of the entire city was demolished then all off sudden they are back to knocking buildings down.
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This was a major battle between two super powered beings on top of a machine that was trying to level the planet. Its not uncommon in the comics (take his fight with Doomsday) or animated films (Superman: Doomsday or the recently released Superman: Unbound) where a majority of Metropolis is destroyed. I might be wrong but I suspect that the recovery will play a big roll in the sequel in regards to Lex Luthor who will likely hold a number of construction and rebuilding contracts.

- There was a whole army of Kryptonian warriors but only 3 ever attempted to attack Superman? And why did they change Ursa's name
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This is easy to explain Ursa was a made up character for Superman 2 she didn't make her comic debut until Action Comics #845 (in January 2007 written by Geoff Johns & Richard Donner)
Faora or Faora Hu-Ul debuted in the comics in Action Comics #471 (May 1977)

and never refer to Non as anything other than a big tall guy?
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The big tall guy wasn't Non. Like Ursa Non was created for the movie and also didn't make his comic debut until Action Comics #845 the tall Kryptonion was Nam-Ek who made his comics debut in (Superman #282 December 1974, He murdered a sacred Rondor (something like a Rhino) to develop an elixir for immortality and was sentenced to the Phantom Zone for his crime.) There are lots of comic "Easter eggs" in the film the tall bald Kryptonion who takes Clark's blood is Jax-Ur he is a scientist who was sent to the Phantom Zone for destroying one of Krypton's moons (which you can see a destroyed moon in one of the shots during the film)

- Lois knowing Clark is Superman from the get go. Sorry but that just eliminates a classic dynamic of the Superman mythos. I did not care for that at all. Hell.... Everyone basically knows. He even told the military General he grew up in Kansas. We be Clark Kent at all?
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I thought that Lois finding out who he was one of the better parts of the film. It establishes that this Lois is credible investigative reporter. I thouhgt it was great in the Smallville show that she found out before he told her and in the comics and animated films it makes for better story telling she can cover for him when he needs to step out. Kansas is a big place and at the end he destroys one of the satellites trying to see "where he hangs his cape"


Lastly I would add that this is not the New 52 Superman that someone had suggested earlier. I read Grant Morrison's Action Comics run to launch the New 52 as well as Justice League. This is not that same character.
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I think the character is the comics Superman we had pre-52 with elements from lots of other things like "Superman: Birthright" you can also find elements from the Smallville series. The new Man of Steel costume is basically straight out of 52 (See Below) with some cinematic tweaks.
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I suspect that's the way they will go with this "Universe" as 52 is a more "edgier" version of these characters.
 
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The the destruction just seemed over the top and the fact that you don't see Superman trying to minimize the damage or save anyone except Lois just bothered me.

Ill give points for the vague references to some obscure Superman lore. However, I think they tried to play it off as Ursa and Non but found different names to give them so fanboys could point to it. Still doesn't explain why more than just two at a time ever attacked Superman when there was a whole army of them.

I didn't even mention it before but Superman killed a whole ship full of Kryptonian babies. That bothered me as much as watching Jonathan Kent die when he could have saved him. Never in any comic version of the character would he have done that. Never.

Like I said,there were things I liked and things I didn't. It was certainly better than Returns but I'm not sure I would rank in my top Comic films.
 
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People are seriously complaining that it's too dark, or that too many people die? Pfff

If Superman is an ******* that kills a bunch of people and lets others die, that makes it more interesting. The darker the better.
 
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