Man of Steel

Ya Michael Shannon was top notch. I'm not sure what I expected from him (I'm a huge Boardwalk Empire fan), but he met and exceeded those expectations.

8.5/10

I definitely enjoyed it. It felt like it had room for a bit more humor, but as an action flick it delivers on the action. 8/10 or so. The story had a few strained and oh yea sure moments, but on the whole it was fairly free of nonsense, which I think made this movie solidly better than star trek was in terms of enjoyability. I never read the comics or watched the stupid kids cartoons. Could give one shit less about superman or his history, so my judgement stems from this movie and this movie alone.

I know you've all been waiting for my opinion, and I fucking loved it.

Now, I can definitely nitpick some things. The beginning sequence could have been half as long in my opinion, and the Avatar-esque flying crap seemed completely out of place to me, but it wasn't horrible enough to make me angry either. I also didn't like the particular weakness element but I could live with it again. A few other things were convenient or not quite perfect, but other than that, it was fucking awesome.

I absolutely loved the fight scenes with the chick beating on normal humans, it looked about as realistic as I could have ever hoped for. The fight scenes between Kryptonians was pretty fucking awesome too, although at times some of the cuts were a bit difficult to follow. Oh, and the intro fight scenes on Krypton, the "laser blasts" were way too fucking bright at times, but who knows what an alien blaster might look like, right?

I actually liked most of the re-imagining of his origin, and the way they twisted a bunch of it around worked really well for me, because let's face it, we've all thought the original Superman origin was kinda lame. So I liked this quite a bit, and was happy to see it veer away from what I've seen a dozen times already.

The ending was spoiled for me because I clicked that fucking spoiler (fuck!) but I was ok with the way it went down. I mean yeah, it could have been resolved multiple other ways too, but it was ok.

I don't know that this is my favorite superhero movie ever, but I don't know what is either. Probably Avengers or Dark Knight, but I never really loved any of the characters in either of those movies. I never really loved Superman comics either, but something about his movies always makes me envision the "perfect" movie, and that's why I had such high hopes. I probably liked the X-Men far more when I was growing up, and the first two movies were awesome, but they also weren't exactly the X-Men I wanted to see yet again, so are those my favorites? Hard to say. It might be a tie amongst all the movies and Man of Steel, for different reasons on each movie.

Oh, and as far as the old vs. young crap going on around here, as I mentioned earlier today in another thread, I'm 44. I love thought-provoking movies, but I also love to see shit blow up, or hot 18-year-old girls show their titties before they get hacked to pieces in Sorority Party Massacre 17. I've got a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, and every goddamn movie that involves planes is chock full of things I could nitpick...but I don't, because I know they have to sometimes cut corners in movies, or they just want something to look cool...and I don't want it to ruin every movie I see. I'd love it if a movie got every single thing about planes correct, but hey, Top Gun is still an awesome fucking movie even though the MiGs were just fucking F-5s. Along those same lines, this movie could have been even better without a doubt, but it was still goddamn awesome, and if this is the best Superman movie I get before I die, I'm fine with that.

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