Comments on: Man of Steel is the Superman movie we deserve … but I’m not sure we should love it https://cliqueclack.com/p/man-of-steel-review/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Mike B https://cliqueclack.com/p/man-of-steel-review/#comment-41233 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:39:28 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=10789#comment-41233 **Might consider spoilers** Man, you highlight as problems the best parts. The first 20 mins on Krypton were one of the most complete retellings of the origin done combining a lot of differing histories together into one almost short film. I don’t believe it gave enough “why” as answers to the choices made, but it set up everything extremely well. It told you everything about what a legacy Kal-El has to live up to from his Kryptonian heritage.
The ending with Zod is powerful for a lot of reasons. It is the death of Krypton, the death of his people. In that moment he becomes the last of his kind. There are no more gates out of the Phantom Zone or engines to explode to pull them out. He is effectively choosing to be the last Kryptonian. Beyond that the entire movie he is choosing to save people who didn’t have to die. He is putting a tremendous amount of effort into not hurting people, never fighting, but still doing good and the right thing. Then in the end, he is forced to kill. Being the executioner of his race. Becoming the Last Son of Krypton(betting on that title for the sequel).

To me, a lot of the problems in this film come from it’s pacing. It’s either sprinting or jogging constantly. Many of the fight scenes take either too long or kinda feel unneeded. AI Jor-El is too much of a assistant. I still don’t get how Jor-El got that second ship under the Arctic ice.

Comparing this movie to Avengers is just folly. Saying it has better special effects is just poking a stick at it for no reason. This movie should have better special effects. It came out later and Avengers is a lot more bright primary color movie. You are essentially trying to get a low blow in without looking like it. You are saying “Heh, the only thing this movie has better than The Avengers is Special Effects.” Even though it would be mostly true, they are vastly different films. The Avengers is excellent, but it also has 4-5 movies of backstory to prop itself up on. Man of Steel would be better compared to Iron Man because both are giving us a first glimpse of a universe. Where the Marvel universe is more pop action and an entertaining roller coaster with Black and white morality, DC’s Man of Steel looks like it wants to be the more thought provoking drama where hard and difficult choices are made between different shades of grey.
DC definitely has a harder part to pull off, it was not executed perfectly or really great in Man of Steel, but it was done well. I still think that the style and cinematography is going to have to change a lot as we go on because it’s just going to make it hard to watch as we get into DC’s 4th and 5th movies.

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