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Meh. It was okay, but I was more entertained watching IronMan III. I was laughing out loud at the dildos they put Zod and crew into when they were putting them into the phantom zone. I just think the whole Superman story is played out and old. The need to reinvent him but also pay homage to the older Superman movies and story isn't needed. Just make it new.
Lois Lane was annoying as shit, That actress reminds me of the chick Pam from The Office. Amazing how she moves at light speed. She seems to be everywhere. How she managed to follow the entire final fight as Superman and Zod are flying at lightspeed through the city yet she is always there to see it happen was laughable.
What's ironic is that he is seen as a Hero and savior of earth but the only reason why earth was in danger was because of him. If he didn't exist, Zod wouldn't have attacked earth.
One thing I didn't see and not sure if it was there are those little snippets after the credits. Once the movie finished they didn't even roll credits, they just put the lights on and kicked us out, I guess they are trying to squeeze in as many viewers as they can today
I give it a 7/10 only because it was entertaining.
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It was good
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It was good
Good, not great. Doesn't make me anxious for a MOS II
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I give it a 7/10 only because it was entertaining.
Why else would you score a film?
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What's ironic is that he is seen as a Hero and savior of earth but the only reason why earth was in danger was because of him. If he didn't exist, Zod wouldn't have attacked earth.
Not true...there are nuclear explosions in space all the time; it would have happened eventually and the trio would have headed straight to Earth ... another planet near a yellow sun not existing on this side of the universe.
If not for Superman, the trio would have ruled the world unchallenged. It was Zod's mad desire for revenge against the son of his jailer that led him to various tactical errors which in turn led to neutralization of the trio's numerical advantage.
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Not true...there are nuclear explosions in space all the time; it would have happened eventually and the trio would have headed straight to Earth ... another planet near a yellow sun not existing on this side of the universe.
If not for Superman, the trio would have ruled the world unchallenged. It was Zod's mad desire for revenge against the son of his jailer that led him to various tactical errors which in turn led to neutralization of the trio's numerical advantage.
The king declares you guilty of faggotry.
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Not true...there are nuclear explosions in space all the time; it would have happened eventually and the trio would have headed straight to Earth ... another planet near a yellow sun not existing on this side of the universe.
If not for Superman, the trio would have ruled the world unchallenged. It was Zod's mad desire for revenge against the son of his jailer that led him to various tactical errors which in turn led to neutralization of the trio's numerical advantage.
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The king declares you guilty of faggotry.
the only thing you are "king" of is love of the kawk
your word means nothing, queerbait
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worst...post...ever
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The original Zod was the best
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The original Zod was the best
Kneel before Zod...
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MOS saw MOS 11 hours ago......loved every second of it!!!! The vast majority of folks that dislike this film like nothing about Superman and I care nothing about their reviews. They didn't grow up with the Donner films, they don't read the books, collect the toys, collect the merch, etc......for most this is a summer popcorn movie with splosions and a dude in a Superman costume. The character means nothing to them.
For me, my first movies in theaters were Star Wars and Superman the Movie. I loved Superman the Movie and it's been my favorite movie my entire life. I collected and played with every scrap of Supes stuff I could get my hands on. Love the comic books....have a crates of books in my garage. I used to draw Superman and write my own Superman stories. Every Sunday I would take my parents' newspaper, take out the funnypaper/comics, go write to Superman, read it and then cut out the image of Superman and fly it around my house. Dressed up repeatedly as Supes for Halloween. I owned all the old Superman cartoons and vhs and now dvd. Faithfully watch Lois and Clark. Faithfully watch Smallville until they basically took Superman out of the show LOL. I can quote every line of Superman the Movie, Superman II and Superman III and Superman IV (saw this for my 12th birthday in theaters with friends). I loved Superman Returns even though everyone else hated it LOL. I still collect Superman action figures to this day....bought one this morning before I saw MOS LOL. I love the character of Superman and have my entire life. In short, I am a fan of Superman; hence my Getbig handle "Man of Steel". For me MOS was glorious and wonderful....everything I ever wanted to see Supes do on the screen.....just loved this movie.
That said, for those reviewers who are pretty much like, "Eh, MOS was a Superman movie and it was just 'meh' for me.....I don't really like Superman anyways." Those reviews are my current toilet paper LOL.
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Why do you say this to me, when you know I will kill you for it?
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I loved the movie. Modern Superman and his enemies destroy the city in an epic fight.
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What's ironic is that he is seen as a Hero and savior of earth but the only reason why earth was in danger was because of him. If he didn't exist, Zod wouldn't have attacked earth.
Not true...there are nuclear explosions in space all the time; it would have happened eventually and the trio would have headed straight to Earth ... another planet near a yellow sun not existing on this side of the universe.
If not for Superman, the trio would have ruled the world unchallenged. It was Zod's mad desire for revenge against the son of his jailer that led him to various tactical errors which in turn led to neutralization of the trio's numerical advantage.
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Imax Monday 8)
Please no spoilers!
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im not so much into child movies
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Superman fan here ..... but I only liked MAN OF STEEL for the first 30 minutes or so.
NOTE' .... POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT .......!!!!!!
I enjoyed:
The new version of Supe's origination.
His relationship with his foster parents ... Ma and Pa Kent.
His young resentment and fear of his super-powers.
His somewhat adverse relationship with his class-mates.
His attitude towards those who wanted to fight him while he was a relatively young CLARK. (That bar scene was very well done and I really liked how he handled that situation in the parking lot!)
His concern for those on the Oil Rig platform.
And I liked how ZOD was overcome. I bet it took many consultations to put that in the script.
I disliked:
Most all of the entire movie when ZOD and his crew entered the picture. This is when this Superman production just became another Hollywoo Formula flick.
The fight scenes were well done but there were just way too many and way too long 'hit-em, sock-em, blow-em up, and knock-em-over" scenes that never seem to find an ending. These 'fight-em' scenes originated with INDEPENDENCE DAY and still continue in every blockbuster through the most recent IRONMAN .... and now it's the MAN OF STEEL's turn to overdo it.
I also disliked the fact that SUPE did not save his father. He coould have done it easily because he's SUPE. I laughed when his step-dad waved him off. I think that scene was a big mistake.
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MOS will make big bucks regardless of what I said above and some friends will be collecting decent residuals next year.
So watch out for a possible Superboy story adapted from the first 30+ minutes of this latest film which will show the trials and tribulations of growing up with super-powers through his early grammar school years and up to his early 20's or so.
MOS showed a small part of this .... and to me .... it was the best part of the whole darn movie.
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Superman fan here ..... but I only liked MAN OF STEEL for the first 30 minutes or so.
NOTE' .... POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT .......!!!!!!
I enjoyed:
The new version of Supe's origination.
His relationship with his foster parents ... Ma and Pa Kent.
His young resentment and fear of his super-powers.
His somewhat adverse relationship with his class-mates.
His attitude towards those who wanted to fight him while he was a relatively young CLARK. (That bar scene was very well done and I really liked how he handled that situation in the parking lot!)
His concern for those on the Oil Rig platform.
And I liked how ZOD was overcome. I bet it took many consultations to put that in the script.
I disliked:
Most all of the entire movie when ZOD and his crew entered the picture. This is when this Superman production just became another Hollywoo Formula flick.
The fight scenes were well done but there were just way too many and way too long 'hit-em, sock-em, blow-em up, and knock-em-over" scenes that never seem to find an ending. These 'fight-em' scenes originated with INDEPENDENCE DAY and still continue in every blockbuster through the most recent IRONMAN .... and now it's the MAN OF STEEL's turn to overdo it.
I also disliked the fact that SUPE did not save his father. He coould have done it easily because he's SUPE. I laughed when his step-dad waved him off. I think that scene was a big mistake.
If the movie was twice as long with more action I would've loved it even more.
The "big mistake" scene where Jonathan Kent held up his hand to prevent young Clark from saving him and revealing himself was one of my favorites LOL.
It amazes me sometimes how people are different.
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Why do you say this to me, when you know I will kill you for it?
:D
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"It amazes me sometimes how people are different"
MOS. Age difference most likely ..... and the fact that I've seen way too many Hollywood formula movies over the past 30 years or so.
In my opinion the first part of MOS was not a 'formula script' but it was a good story about how a kid who wanted to be like other kids his age would handle abnormal and often 'resented' super-powers.
To me, that was the only interesting part of this movie.
The rest was the same old, same old.
But I gotta admit that what Supe did to ZOD was a surpise to SUpe fans everywhere and very interesting. Something I did not expect and a major Supe change since the beer in the bar scene when he was a bit younger.
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lol another "super hero" movie
and grown men watch this
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"It amazes me sometimes how people are different"
MOS. Age difference most likely ..... and the fact that I've seen way too many Hollywood formula movies over the past 30 years or so.
In my opinion the first part of MOS was not a 'formula script' but it was a good story about how a kid who wanted to be like other kids his age would handle abnormal and often 'resented' super-powers.
To me, that was the only interesting part of this movie.
The rest was the same old, same old.
But I gotta admit that what Supe did to ZOD was a surpise to SUpe fans everywhere and very interesting. Something I did not expect and a major Supe change since the beer in the bar scene when he was a bit younger.
Prior to the Exile storyline in the comic books Superman sentenced General Zod, Zaora and Quexuyulx (can't remember spelling) to death by green kryptonite exposure when left with no outs. In one cut of Superman II after removing Zod, Ursa and Non's powers with red Kryptonite they're all killed when they fall into the cold depths of the fortress of solitude. In the comics the storyline that follows the death of the Krytonians is Superman's self-exile due to anguish over his killing them. In MOS after snapping Zod's neck Kal lets out huge, anguish filled scream over intentionally killing Zod. When confronted with Doomsday in "Death of" saga Superman has no choice but to take Doomsday's life. In the Justice League series an alternate universe version of Superman lobotomizes and kills Doomsday. Most are calling the death scene in MOS controversial, as a Supes fan I'm calling it par for the course in terms of established Superman mythos.
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Prior to the Exile storyline in the comic books Superman sentenced General Zod, Zaora and Quexuyulx (can't remember spelling) to death by green kryptonite exposure when left with no outs. In one cut of Superman II after removing Zod, Ursa and Non's powers with red Kryptonite they're all killed when they fall into the cold depths of the fortress of solitude. In the comics the storyline that follows the death of the Krytonians is Superman's self-exile due to anguish over his killing them. In MOS after snapping Zod's neck Kal lets out huge, anguish filled scream over intentionally killing Zod. When confronted with Doomsday in "Death of" saga Superman has no choice but to take Doomsday's life. In the Justice League series an alternate universe version of Superman lobotomizes and kills Doomsday. Most are calling the death scene in MOS controversial, as a Supes fan I'm calling it par for the course in terms of established Superman mythos.
Superman movie where he is not 100% boyscout? Count me in!
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Prior to the Exile storyline in the comic books Superman sentenced General Zod, Zaora and Quexuyulx (can't remember spelling) to death by green kryptonite exposure when left with no outs. In one cut of Superman II after removing Zod, Ursa and Non's powers with red Kryptonite they're all killed when they fall into the cold depths of the fortress of solitude. In the comics the storyline that follows the death of the Krytonians is Superman's self-exile due to anguish over his killing them. In MOS after snapping Zod's neck Kal lets out huge, anguish filled scream over intentionally killing Zod. When confronted with Doomsday in "Death of" saga Superman has no choice but to take Doomsday's life. In the Justice League series an alternate universe version of Superman lobotomizes and kills Doomsday. Most are calling the death scene in MOS controversial, as a Supes fan I'm calling it par for the course in terms of established Superman mythos.
^This.
Considering who wrote this I'm not surprised that the movie would go as dark as the Batman movies. If you don't want to see this then avoid the sequels.
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Loved the movie... didn't like Amy Adams in it (did anyone else think she was about 10-15 overweight, her face and butt looked a little too round). Also didn't like how she showed up in the train station at the end after Zod and Supes had been fighting over several miles of city.
I prefer the Krypton of the '70s movie, with its clean, monochromatic look. The new Krypton has giant flying insects and dinosaurs WTF...
Christopher Reeves did a hell of lot more acting in his movies than Cavill did in this new one... the guy barely spoke
A small snippet of the original score would have been nice, just 15 seconds or so...
Did anyone notice the young Lana Lang in the flashback...?
Also didn't like the revenge he did to the trucker in the little bar fight, I thought it was unoriginal to jack up the semi...
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MOS, I just finished reading your SUPERMAN APPRECIATION post and have to admit that I was impressed by your dedication to Supe and the story-line throughout the years. I read the Supe comic books as a kid and then stopped for a good number os years until I started collecting them once again to lock up and give to various family members.
A few family members and friends have worked on a couple of the Supe Hollywood movies and we discuss SuperHero movie making a lot when we gather together.
If you send me your email address, I'll send you Supe stuff that you will most likely cherish.
I go a bit overboard when Hollywood decides to make a SuperHero movie with some of the actors who have no right to wear a super-hero costume.
I manage to complain a lot .... especially when there was the possibility that Nicholas Cage was going to play the Superman part in a move that never got off the ground nor leap over tall buildings.
I always suggest that they use actors who look similar to what the original super-hero artist intended ..... but they always say ... "Who looks like that that can act in front of a camera?"
More on this but I gotta add the following before I sign off .....
A few years back I wrote a few posts about a friend who wore a Superman suit under his regular everyday Clark Kent suit and tie and attended school that way for a very long time.
He was a totally dedicated Superman fan who actually wanted to be Superman everyday. (He even knew the exact location of the phone booths in his neighborhood.) TRUTH!!!!
And I do recall kids who would hop into a fight in which the bully was winning while singing or humming the old Superman radio show tune.
And sadly I do recall one young kid who died after attempting to fly off a high building. I recall reading that not too long ago someplace.
So , YOU are not alone regarding your appreciation of Supe and his adventures.
But I still did not like the movie after ZOD came on board.
And I had absolutely no idea that Supe ever killed anyone in the comic book.
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MOS, I forgot to mention the following Superman story that was obviously connected to the roid frenzy before the roid frenzy became popular.
This one is still locked up someplace unaccessible but if I can recall the storyline ... it went something like this ......
Superman flies through some type of steroid like meteor shower that causes him to get so extremely muscular that he loses control of his super-powers and gets destructive.
I think that that was the writer's attempt to discourage the use of steroids way back a long while ago.
It was a good attempt but it failed miserably.
I'll see if I can find that story or the actual comic on the net.
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as a guy who worked on the Man of Steel comic (if that means anything, not trying to brag), I thought it was excellent. A different take for sure, but a fresh modern take I felt. Superman is a legitimate bad ass for once instead of a perfect boy scout. Also, I like the more serious approach to the movie; sick of light-hearted humor/cheesy lines like the Marvel movies always do (pandering to families/kids). I was also expecting that with this movie, but so glad that they kept it down. Will be watching again tomorrow to try and catch more of "easter eggs" in the background.
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as a guy who worked on the Man of Steel comic (if that means anything, not trying to brag), I thought it was excellent. A different take for sure, but a fresh modern take I felt. Superman is a legitimate bad ass for once instead of a perfect boy scout. Also, I like the more serious approach to the movie; sick of light-hearted humor/cheesy lines like the Marvel movies always do (pandering to families/kids). I was also expecting that with this movie, but so glad that they kept it down. Will be watching again tomorrow to try and catch more of "easter eggs" in the background.
Marvel definitely has that "light hearted humor" thing going... it works sometimes, other times I want to punch myself in the face. But on the whole I still enjoy the Marvel flicks.
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Marvel definitely has that "light hearted humor" thing going... it works sometimes, other times I want to punch myself in the face. But on the whole I still enjoy the Marvel flicks.
Amen! That's why I haven't gotten the nerve to watch Iron Man 3 yet, knowing what is inevitable. Shit, I wanted to murder myself after the first scene in GI Joe: Retaliation where the Rock was playing a video game and acting "cute."
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I will admit, the death scene bothered me because I don't think I've ever seen him kill but they wrote it in a way that gave him no choice. Obviously this was written this way to generate conversation but at the same time, ease fanboys.
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Good acting, amazing special effects...but the plot felt thin, it almost felt like Michael Bay directed this film, the screenplay was weak and they relied on too many cliches and tropes without having any of the depth that the dark knight had. Jonathan Nolan should have written the screen play for this movie.
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Loved the movie... didn't like Amy Adams in it (did anyone else think she was about 10-15 overweight, her face and butt looked a little too round). Also didn't like how she showed up in the train station at the end after Zod and Supes had been fighting over several miles of city.
I prefer the Krypton of the '70s movie, with its clean, monochromatic look. The new Krypton has giant flying insects and dinosaurs WTF...
Christopher Reeves did a hell of lot more acting in his movies than Cavill did in this new one... the guy barely spoke
A small snippet of the original score would have been nice, just 15 seconds or so...
Did anyone notice the young Lana Lang in the flashback...?
Also didn't like the revenge he did to the trucker in the little bar fight, I thought it was unoriginal to jack up the semi...
Did ya see the LexCorp tanker? ;)
Also, I found that it got old with the camera zooming in, then out...or vice versa with the CGI. Ok, we get it...it's a cool thing you can do with computers now.
I found the destruction of the city pretty much over the top. People are bitching about the killing of Zod, yet we are led to believe that no one died in the collateral damage of all those buildings coming down?
No fortress of solitude?
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Spoilerish
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/14/david-goyer-tells-me-about-his-plans-for-and-problems-with-the-man-of-steel-sequel/
We believe that Warner Bros.’ plan right now is to get a sequel to Man of Steel underway and only after that move screenwriter David Goyer, and very likely director Zack Snyder, onto Justice League. Unless Man of Steel somehow ends up being a flop – and so far, that’s very much not happening – I would expect them to stick with this scheme.
And it’s not a brand new plan. Back when David Goyer first started work on the Man of Steel screenplay, the studio told him to leave their options open and make sure the film could, if everything worked out at the box office, form the beginnings of DC Comics Movieverse.
So Goyer did that. There’s nothing in this film that should prevent the introduction of a Batman, an Aquaman, a Wonder Woman or a Flash.
But it looks to me, in fact, that while leaving the way open for the introduction of other superheroes, Goyer has simultaneously made some different sequel problems for himself. At the very least, he’s reinvented Superman in such a way that many of the old standby tropes we know from 75 years of comics, radio, TV and film just aren’t going to fly anymore.
I have to say, that’s one of the things I most enjoyed about Man of Steel, and I do feel very curious about what new, distinctive directions that any sequels will have to take this story and these characters.
Here’s some of what Goyer had to say on the subject of a Man of Steel sequel when I sat down with him yesterday. Check out the problem solving he’s going to have to do – and also the ideas for the follow up that he’s clearly already had.
Chris [Nolan] was very clear that the Dark Knight trilogy exists in its own finite universe. But everybody is aware that it was Warner’s intention there would be some kind of shared universe.
I believe I wrote a Lexcorp easter egg into the script and we mentioned STAR Labs at one point, which some comic book readers will be aware of. Zack slipped in the Wayne Industries satellite and I first saw that in the rough cut.
The challenge for us moving forward is how to depict Superman in a world like this, in a world where Twitter exists, in a world with social media. To me, the interesting challenge is “Could he solve hunger in the horn of Africa? What would he do with the Arab Spring? What would he do in Syria?”
Partly you could argue “How could he not intervene in something like the situation in Syria?” but the other argument is “Is it a hornet’s nest if her intervenes? Does he have the wherewithal or the knowledge to intervene in something like this?”
To me, that’s the interesting challenge. It’s easier for Batman because he just exists in this little pocket of the world, he’s not violating sovereign airspace every day.
There is musing about Lex Luthor, conversations that Zack and I have had on set, but it all depends on what happens over the next month. There are obviously those Lexcorp easter eggs in the film and clearly you can see from that, to the extent to which we can intuit things about Lex, it’s not the Gene Hackman version. This is a Bill Gates-like Lex that is probably worth 50, 60, 70 billion dollars. It’s a very different Lex.
Okay, let me warn you that from here on out we’re into something more like spoiler territory. You may prefer to click away, or just skip down now to the end of the italicised comments.
Right. So up next is what David had to say when talking about the lack of a Clark Kent disguise or alias in the film, and how easy it is for folks to recognise this version of Kal-El whenever they see him.
In our minds there are people in Smallville who know Superman’s secret as well [as Lois], Pete Ross seems to know, there’s probably a couple dozen people who know and we thought it would be interesting if they’re protective of him.
We were able to sidestep the issue of the ludicrous glasses disguise in this film but going forwards, we’re going to find ourselves in a sticky wicket. Zack and I have definitely talked about “Okay, hmm, this will be interesting.” Clearly Perry White and Steve Lombard see Lois kissing Superman at the end of the film. Perry’s not an idiot. Moving forward, he’s probably going to say to Lois “What’s up with that?” We’re definitely going to have to go through some story gymnastics.
Thanks again to Goyer for giving up a good chunk of time to talk with me. Please do come back for more from our interview over the weekend.
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I liked the movie, didn't love it. Like stunt said, the first part was good with a pretty interesting story. Then it just got to be too much, too much fighting, punching, destruction. Amy Adamsas Louis Lane was a BIG mistake.
One thing I noticed that I don't think anyone else mentioned was the similarities to Jesus. Where do I start, supermans dad who seemed like god sends him to earth to be the hope of humanity. Supermans dad was the scientist who created this "hope" for humanity. Superman was 33 years old when he actually becomes superman, same age jesus died. Supermans DNA was comprised of all the elders souls of the past, just like how Jesus lives within all of us. Supermans dad even when dead was everywhere, his consciousness as he called it was there to guide Clark and advise him/ show him the way.....like god. There is a line in the movie where the girl from Zods crew says "evolution will always win" then superman proceeds to kick her ass. The main point was like I already said, he was to become the hope of humanity and to use his skills in a good way to help people.
I know that not all of us are believers but that doesn't matter, I think anyone could recognize these similarities.
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I loved it and will be seeing it again.
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Loved the movie... didn't like Amy Adams in it (did anyone else think she was about 10-15 overweight, her face and butt looked a little too round).
Screenshot?
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MOS, I just finished reading your SUPERMAN APPRECIATION post and have to admit that I was impressed by your dedication to Supe and the story-line throughout the years. I read the Supe comic books as a kid and then stopped for a good number os years until I started collecting them once again to lock up and give to various family members.
A few family members and friends have worked on a couple of the Supe Hollywood movies and we discuss SuperHero movie making a lot when we gather together.
If you send me your email address, I'll send you Supe stuff that you will most likely cherish.
I go a bit overboard when Hollywood decides to make a SuperHero movie with some of the actors who have no right to wear a super-hero costume.
I manage to complain a lot .... especially when there was the possibility that Nicholas Cage was going to play the Superman part in a move that never got off the ground nor leap over tall buildings.
I always suggest that they use actors who look similar to what the original super-hero artist intended ..... but they always say ... "Who looks like that that can act in front of a camera?"
More on this but I gotta add the following before I sign off .....
A few years back I wrote a few posts about a friend who wore a Superman suit under his regular everyday Clark Kent suit and tie and attended school that way for a very long time.
He was a totally dedicated Superman fan who actually wanted to be Superman everyday. (He even knew the exact location of the phone booths in his neighborhood.) TRUTH!!!!
And I do recall kids who would hop into a fight in which the bully was winning while singing or humming the old Superman radio show tune.
And sadly I do recall one young kid who died after attempting to fly off a high building. I recall reading that not too long ago someplace.
So , YOU are not alone regarding your appreciation of Supe and his adventures.
But I still did not like the movie after ZOD came on board.
And I had absolutely no idea that Supe ever killed anyone in the comic book.
Yeah, I'm always just so thankful that Superman movies are made period that I defend them LOL!
I was absolutely the kid that wanted to be Superman....every sheet, towel and pillowcase was a cape for me as a kid LOL!!
Superman just resonated with me. It was the combination of seemingly limitless strength and power coupled with the combo of confidence and humility. I always chuckle at the now cliche group of folks that always say, "I don't like Superman....I'd rather be Batman....he's waaay cooler and more realistic." Yet they've never cracked a Batman book LOL. I love Batman too and they're right....he definitely ain't no Superman LOL!! People that don't like Superman are simply ignorant of what has been laid down in the comics.
I wish that I had folks in my life that had interest in superhero movies and comic books and all that.....I'm the lone nerd in a sea of yuppies ordering veggie wraps and skinny lattes while watching The Notebook or Les Miserables.
I really liked Faora in this film.....she laid the smackdown on everyone LOL.
99% of the time Superman had a no killing policy, but only in those most desperate of circumstances would he take a life....didn't happen often. Still I can recall two comic versions of Zod and 1 movie version of Zod that were all killed by Superman. The second comic version of Zod was killed when Superman snapped his neck. Can't forget Superboy Prime that has killed tons of folks actually.....heroes and villians alike.
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A realistic Superman (if he really did exist in this day and age) would probably have killed a few people every now and then, especially great threats to mankind.
He may be alien but he has human emotions as well.
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A realistic Superman (if he really did exist in this day and age) would probably have killed a few people every now and then, especially great threats to mankind.
He may be alien but he has human emotions as well.
Exactly
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Did ya see the LexCorp tanker? ;)
Also, I found that it got old with the camera zooming in, then out...or vice versa with the CGI. Ok, we get it...it's a cool thing you can do with computers now.
I found the destruction of the city pretty much over the top. People are bitching about the killing of Zod, yet we are led to believe that no one died in the collateral damage of all those buildings coming down?
No fortress of solitude?
Did you catch the Wayne Enterprises logo? ;)
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I know that if i had Supermans powers, i'd turn USA and Europe back to the glory-days, since i am a man with but a few morals these days :D
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Has anybody seen it in 3d yet? I saw the 2d version with my daughter. How is the 3d?
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Too much CGI
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Short review of the movie. Some reviews are 15+minutes.
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Fighting was good
But too much lovey emotional crap... Was like a chick flick
And Louis was ugly
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MOS saw MOS 11 hours ago......loved every second of it!!!! The vast majority of folks that dislike this film like nothing about Superman and I care nothing about their reviews. They didn't grow up with the Donner films, they don't read the books, collect the toys, collect the merch, etc......for most this is a summer popcorn movie with splosions and a dude in a Superman costume. The character means nothing to them.
For me, my first movies in theaters were Star Wars and Superman the Movie. I loved Superman the Movie and it's been my favorite movie my entire life. I collected and played with every scrap of Supes stuff I could get my hands on. Love the comic books....have a crates of books in my garage. I used to draw Superman and write my own Superman stories. Every Sunday I would take my parents' newspaper, take out the funnypaper/comics, go write to Superman, read it and then cut out the image of Superman and fly it around my house. Dressed up repeatedly as Supes for Halloween. I owned all the old Superman cartoons and vhs and now dvd. Faithfully watch Lois and Clark. Faithfully watch Smallville until they basically took Superman out of the show LOL. I can quote every line of Superman the Movie, Superman II and Superman III and Superman IV (saw this for my 12th birthday in theaters with friends). I loved Superman Returns even though everyone else hated it LOL. I still collect Superman action figures to this day....bought one this morning before I saw MOS LOL. I love the character of Superman and have my entire life. In short, I am a fan of Superman; hence my Getbig handle "Man of Steel". For me MOS was glorious and wonderful....everything I ever wanted to see Supes do on the screen.....just loved this movie.
That said, for those reviewers who are pretty much like, "Eh, MOS was a Superman movie and it was just 'meh' for me.....I don't really like Superman anyways." Those reviews are my current toilet paper LOL.
ROTFL!!!!!!!
I logged into Getbig wondering if "Man of Steel" had reviewed Man of Steel. Lo and behold, a few posts down, there it is.
I agree this is a great film, but it's more of a love letter to the hard core fans. The damsel in distress Lois Lane was almost portrayed in a politically incorrect way (which was sort of refreshing). Very masculine, secretly conservative. A lot of themes that the foppish limp wrist critics hate with a vengeance.
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is it a Marvel movie?
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is it a Marvel movie?
DC
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There are some horrible plot holes in the movie. The biggest one for me is the whole terraforming earth into krypton thing. The movie makes a clear point that krypton's atmosphere robs a kyrptonian of there powers right? So if I'm zod then why the fuck would I want to transform earth into krypton and live like a weak human instead of leaving earth how it is and live like a god of immense power? The movie gives the lame excuse "Oh the process of adapting to earth's atmosphere is to painful! " who the hell wouldn't put up with a little pain to gain incredible superpowers?
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81297
David S. Goyer Confirmed To Write JUSTICE LEAGUE For WB
Along with the news that David S. Goyer would return to work on the script for the Man of Steel sequel, Deadline have now revealed that he's also writing Justice League! "Goyers’ deal is part of a huge 3-picture deal he signed at Warner Bros for Man Of Steel, the sequel, and Justice League with Superman". We reported a rumor that claimed as much a while ago, but there had been no confirmation or debunking, and most of us assumed it was just wishful (or not depending on whether you're a fan) thinking. Also, it seems Kel from Latino Review overheard the writer admit that he's working on the movie at the Man Of Steel premiere.
Of course he may have misheard, but the Deadline info alone would seem to confirm that Goyer is indeed penning WB's Justice League flick. What do you guys think of this news?
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81511
David Goyer Reveals A Couple Of Scenes That Were Cut From MAN OF STEEL
Bleeding Cool caught up with Man Of Steel writer David S. Goyer, who spilled the beans on a couple of scenes that never made the final cut of the movie. Funnily enough, both scenes involved elements that many critics have called the finished film out on: The first had humor (they felt there wasn't enough) and the second had action (they felt there was too much). Goyer maintains that the finished movie is "relatively close" to his first script draft as far as the basic structure and characters are concerned, but here's what they decided it was better to scrap:
"There was a little scene in which Jonathan and Martha take a baby Kal to a paediatrician because he’s starting to experience these changes. They do a hearing test on him where they’re dialling up these sounds and baby Kal screams and it blows out all the windows.
It was a funny scene but after the armageddon on Krypton – originally we went from that to baby Kal to the fishing trawler – it just felt weird. We didn’t need it. Tonally it felt off.
Believe it or not there was another action scene – we didn’t film it. After Zod first announces himself [the Krpytonians] provide a demonstration of their might. They drop Faora into Shanghai and NamEk, who is the big eight foot tall guy who doesn’t speak, they drop him another foreign city.
It was another five pages of crazy Kryptonian destruction. We didn’t need it. We knew that, my god, there’s already a lot of action."
There is. There REALLY is!
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After Zod first announces himself [the Krpytonians] provide a demonstration of their might. They drop Faora into Shanghai and NamEk, who is the big eight foot tall guy who doesn’t speak, they drop him another foreign city.
LOL, I was hoping MOS would contain scenes exactly like this. "There's too much action!" Too all those that hit this button, please just remain silent on MOS, go eat your veggie paninis, drink your vitamin waters and enjoy Downtown Abby instead.
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AHAAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!! "There's too much action in MOS"..........ladyboys.
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is it a Marvel movie?
exit thread immediately
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ROTFL!!!!!!!
I logged into Getbig wondering if "Man of Steel" had reviewed Man of Steel. Lo and behold, a few posts down, there it is.
I agree this is a great film, but it's more of a love letter to the hard core fans. The damsel in distress Lois Lane was almost portrayed in a politically incorrect way (which was sort of refreshing). Very masculine, secretly conservative. A lot of themes that the foppish limp wrist critics hate with a vengeance.
I took off two days of work for this movie. Took off Friday and took the wife to see it (while daughter at daycare). Took off Monday (Father's Day gift to myself) and will go see it by myself in a 3D IMAX......huge nerd boner formed and ready.
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If they wanted to print money, just have Batman show up in Man of Steel 2.
That would probably the biggest opening day of any movie EVER.
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/159/7/3/WORLDS_FINEST_by_DARKANGEL_LEVY.jpg)
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Too much CGI
I hear a lot more people saying the same thing.
CGI was amazing when it first came out, but now people are used it and not as impressed as they once were.
The mechanical shark from Jaws seemed very real to me. I really admire the old fashioned special effects.
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If they wanted to print money, just have Batman show up in Man of Steel 2.
That would probably the biggest opening day of any movie EVER.
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/159/7/3/WORLDS_FINEST_by_DARKANGEL_LEVY.jpg)
You're dead on aligned with the fanboys!
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Yeah and what's worst the cgi wasnt even as good as it should have been. The whole aerial fight scene looked so fake. Some of the cut scenes in video games look amazing these days. My family thought the new assassins creed commercial was real. They definitely had the budget to get it on par with that.
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Yeah and what's worst the cgi wasnt even as good as it should have been. The whole aerial fight scene looked so fake. Some of the cut scenes in video games look amazing these days. My family thought the new assassins creed commercial was real. They definitely had the budget to get it on par with that.
Here's 50 million......outline tech steps to improve.......
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Here's 50 million......outline tech steps to improve.......
great pm me and I'll give you the bank wire info
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/KingLeonidas/news/?a=81634
Henry Cavill talks to Muscle & Fitness about MAN OF STEEL
Of the many collective gasps that the audience at my theatre uttered during a packed screening of Man Of Steel on Friday, the loudest was when we see Clark Kent running with no shirt on after the oil rig explosion. It was gasp-inducing for the audience for two reasons, first it is the sight of how insane the physique of an actual super human can look like, and second is the realization of the blood and sweat that Henry Cavill must have shed to achieve it. In that one gasp-inducing shot, Cavill and Snyder are able to show the indestructible, invulenerable and superhuman qualities of Clark Kent.
Cavill and his trainer Mark Twight, the founder of Gym Jones, talk to Muscle & Fitness about the grueling 11 months that went into the creation of that one shot. Below is an excerpt and some quotes and trivia gleaned from the feature.
Henry Cavill was screwed. It was another cold winter’s day on the Vancouver set of Man of Steel – the kind that makes it hard to get out of bed, hardest still to get motivated to train, and for Cavill, nearly impossible to move that damn barbell. He was on his final rep of his final set of front squats when his leg muscles froze under the stress of the 305 pounds sitting across his shoulders. He had dutifully pounded out three sets of four with the weight already, but at the bottom of the fourth rep of his fourth set, Cavill’s muscles flat out quit on him. His ass was pinned to the ground and his knees started to buckle inward. His trainer, Gym Jones founder Mark Twight, who closely monitored Cavill throughout his Man of Steel training, waited for his client to lean forward and dump the bar to the ground. Instead, Cavill did something that Twight — a man not easily impressed — would remember forever. He drove his heels into the ground and pushed, his face twisting into an expression that can only come from an outlay of supreme effort, his body working harder than at any time during his entire year of training for the role. And slowly he began to rise out of the hole, grinding his way back up, until he completed the rep. He racked the bar, lifted his head, and opened his eyes... and everything seemed different. Suddenly there was confidence, and elation. But beyond that, there was puzzlement — the eyes of man trying to process a whole new world of possibility.
---The name of Mark Twight's fitness establishment, Gym Jones, is a play on the words of the name of cult leader Jim Jones
---Snyder warned Mark Twight that Cavill had a shirtless scene in early October, then another three weeks later, so he would have to stay in peak human shape for the entire period, a big challenge that Cavill and Twight undertook
---Cavill had leaned down to 170 pounds for his hyper-cut look in Tarsem's Singh hit film, Immortals. So Twight wanted him to gain much more muscle for Man Of Steel
---At the end of a two month ramp up training period, Cavill was training twice a day and eating 5000-6000 calories a day to gain 20 pounds of muscle
---The pre-filming training schedule of 10 hours sleep and training twice a day was impossible once filming began with 14 hour days, and time to train only 2-3 days in a week or not at all. So Twight built a solid physical foundation in Cavill during 5 months of pre-traiing so that his Superman physique could be maintained even during the taxing filming schedule
---Cavill weighed around 190 for the filming of Man Of Steel. His body fat percentage was maintained at 5-7% except for the shirtless scenes for which he dropped to only 3% fat on his body
---Cavill's shirtless scenes were purposefully included to show that the physique in the Superman suit was actually his
---Cavill achieved the following personal bests
435 pounds for deadlift
245 pounds for push press
365 pounds for backsquat
10 sets of 10 reps of front squat with 225 pounds
Mark Twight and Henry Cavill on the above defining moment in Cavill's training
Mark Twight: Somehow he got his sh-t together, To see him do that, then walk around like he’s on air, to believe in himself enough to try that hard, that was one of the more impressive things that happened during the whole course of this process.
Henry cavill: It was a fantastic moment, and certainly made me feel pretty darn good. It wasn’t because of the number that I felt good. It’s because I pushed past what I thought was possible. I felt like I earned the right to try and represent Superman. I learned my limits go far beyond what my head thinks they are. Superman isn’t just about his strength or his abilities. It’s more about determination in the face of a seemingly insurmountable problem, which is exactly how 305 pounds felt when I was stuck at the bottom of that front squat.
Henry Cavill on the pressure of getting the right physique for the role
I felt enormous pressure. Mostly from myself to get it right. This isn’t something that you get wrong. The pressure mostly manifested when I started negotiating with myself during a workout. My head would be telling me to quit or to not push so hard and save energy for later sets by doing fewer reps, but then I’d remind myself that I had to get this right and I’d start blasting.
Mark Twight on the challenge of making Cavill peak for 3 weeks
Peaking a guy for a few days is one thing. What Snyder was asking for was an entirely different problem.
Mark Twight on his unbreakable 10 hours sleep a night rule that he set for Cavill
It’s like, ‘Hey, guy, you want to be f-king Superman? Then do this one other thing, which might be the most important piece of it,’If you don’t get the sleep, if you can’t recover, then we can’t continue with this training and we won’t achieve the objective. The predatory effect that a lack of sleep has on the rest of the work you do is shockingly powerful. The HGH and testosterone secretion that happens during these deep-sleep cycles is super-important.
Mark Twight on how the training affected Cavill's performance
Fitness is strength and conditioning, but also strength of character. Cheating and shortcuts produce visible insecurity. Genuine accomplishment looks and feels different. It cannot be faked. By doing physically difficult things, by changing his body of his own will, Henry changed his attitude and his bearing. He looked huge. He walked huge. His attitude broadcast his physical capability.
Mark Twight on the look they were going for with Cavill
There has never been a superhero that didn't have broad shoulders and a small waist - Henry's frame is ideal. But we had to add some meat to it. Our model for the new Superman was Steve Reeves in Hercules. I think that's a reasonable and aesthetic look.
Read more in the July 2013 issue of Muscle & Fitness.
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Yeah and what's worst the cgi wasnt even as good as it should have been. The whole aerial fight scene looked so fake. Some of the cut scenes in video games look amazing these days. My family thought the new assassins creed commercial was real. They definitely had the budget to get it on par with that.
No one has said this, but the final fight scene reminded me of the last Matrix movie with the fight between Neo and Agent Smith. A tad drawn out.
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I'll give Henry his due, he got in great fucking shape. Not too ripped, not too big. Good everyday physique. Bitches were moist in the theater.
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I wonder what his 4 brothers look like. His parents took pictures with him at the NY premiere in the slideshow:
‘Man of Steel’ star Henry Cavill knows how Clark Kent feels
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/man-of-steel-star-henry-cavill-knows-how-clark-kent-feels/#/0
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Yeah, gonna train shoulders more for sure. And TRAPS! Gotta train TRAPS.
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Great Movie and I was not Disappointed...saw it last night While the Spurs were kicking Miami's ass.... ;D....I stayed at the very end to see if there would be a sneak peek for the sequel and I didn't see shit......come on, DC comics, you know better than that.....I need superman to fight Darkseid....that would be Epic
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Question ...why did his dad killed himself? If Clark was gonna end up going out of his ways to help others anyways....
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Lots of things I didn't like.
1. Explain why/how he ended up in Kansas. The central USA theme was lame. Maybe have his little pod scan earth for folks that fit his profile and then pick a place like Kansas, at least make it seem it was chosen than just random.
2. At the end when the General asks him how does he know if Superman would protect the USA's interest he does so by saying he grew in up in Kansas. Superman is not destined to protect the USA. This was a lame point. Superman should have said, I am here to protect Mankind's interest, not just the USA.
3. Zod shouldn't have been the villain in Superman I. They needed to establish Superman as a hero fighting a fight that he didn't start. The Zod thing is odd because you are saying, Zod spent 35 years searching the galaxy for Superman and found him on earth so decided to destroy it. Otherwise if Superman was somewhere else, earth would have been safe. Hard making him a hero when he caused the issue and conflict in the first place.
4. I wish they had Superman fight inner demons and his morality a bit more than just blindly choosing to protect the world. After his dad dies Superman could have went to the dark side a bit and then after another tragedy realize this is not who he wants to be. Not just jump right in. The lure of Batman is he fights this inner battle daily, Superman as much as they tried to make him gritty was still too squeaky clean.
5. How Lois Lane was able to navigate the city at light speed.
6. The damage to earth seems irreversible. The earth former was making earth more dense to make gravity stronger, so even though the machine was stopped, it must have did some transformation that is now permanent.
7. The final fight scene was just too drawn out, especially for what we knew would happen with Superman winning.
8. So now all of this fancy alien crafts and weapons are on earth. Does this mean Luther starts to use it to make weapons?
9. No Kryptonite???
Again, it was entertaining, but not something I think I would watch again, even if HBO had it on a second time. I can watch the Second Dark Knight movie with the Joker over and over, tried to watch the Dark Knight Rises for a second time on HBO this weekend and was bored. This Superman movie seems few years too late. The whole wanting a gritty superhero is 2005. Look at Marvel and their campiness with IM, AV, THOR, CA, all campy bright colored and all big money makers.
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Lots of things I didn't like.
But just so we’re clear, the main thing your disliked about Man of Steel was Superman. You didn’t like the character before the movie debuted LOL.
1. Explain why/how he ended up in Kansas. The central USA theme was lame. Maybe have his little pod scan earth for folks that fit his profile and then pick a place like Kansas, at least make it seem it was chosen than just random.
"Truth, Justice and the American Way". America was founded by immigrants and did so on a foundation of agriculture. Superman is an immigrant who landed in a small town on a farm in the heart of the country.
2. At the end when the General asks him how does he know if Superman would protect the USA's interest he does so by saying he grew in up in Kansas. Superman is not destined to protect the USA. This was a lame point. Superman should have said, I am here to protect Mankind's interest, not just the USA.
See note above.
Superman clearly has abilities he could’ve profited from for almost his entire life on Earth, but for 33 years he kept silent, trying to find out who he was before he could step out and truly define who he was for the country that adopted him (and later the world he would reveal himself to and then protect…..he was raised in Kansas, should he have defended France first?). If we all knew our destinies before arriving at them there would be no journey of growth to define us. That’s why Superman (in this instance) is so compelling because his Kryptonian predecessors were genetically-designed for a specific destiny and knew virtually nothing else. Remove that purpose from them and they have nothing to live for (hence Zod on Earth at the end of MOS).
3. Zod shouldn't have been the villain in Superman I. They needed to establish Superman as a hero fighting a fight that he didn't start. The Zod thing is odd because you are saying, Zod spent 35 years searching the galaxy for Superman and found him on earth so decided to destroy it. Otherwise if Superman was somewhere else, earth would have been safe. Hard making him a hero when he caused the issue and conflict in the first place.
If Zod was able to free himself from the phantom zone he was imprisoned then he would search out the stars for Superman. Due to an unexpected situation he was freed and for 33 years he searched the universe because his existence was engineered solely for the preservation of Krypton….an all costs mission. Superman had the codex, Zod knew this, Zod needed the codex.
Still, Superman isn’t a hero because “he caused the issue and conflict” LOL. I call this point R E A C H I N G. I suppose newborns born with an addiction to illegal drugs should be imprisoned after they’re born because they’ve used illegal drugs in the womb. I mean, had the babies not been in the womb of the drug addict in the first place there wouldn’t be any issue or conflict.
4. I wish they had Superman fight inner demons and his morality a bit more than just blindly choosing to protect the world. After his dad dies Superman could have went to the dark side a bit and then after another tragedy realize this is not who he wants to be. Not just jump right in. The lure of Batman is he fights this inner battle daily, Superman as much as they tried to make him gritty was still too squeaky clean.
So in point #3 Superman caused the issue and conflict and this was a problem you had with the film, but in this point you don’t like the film because Superman didn’t directly choose to engage in darker issues and conflicts first? So we compare Supeman to Batman and label Superman too “squeaky clean”. Batman refuses to use guns and doesn’t kill; hence the Joker has run free killing countless numbers for years and years. Each foe (like Batman’s joker) which presents an obstacle too great to contend with Superman has killed…..two version of Zod killed in comics and Doomsday killed in comics. And Superman is a squeaky clean boyscout LOL?
5. How Lois Lane was able to navigate the city at light speed.
Been repeated over and over now. My point is this, how do we know as an audience the exact path Zod and Superman took in their last battle. It was chaos to the viewers, but how do we know that the fight didn’t start close to the train station and end up at the same station in a circle? For a Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist that has covered harsh beats in her career and knows her home city it isn’t unrealistic that she couldn’t quickly follow the action overhead and navigate her way quickly to where it appears to have stopped. Ok, I admit this point I can't fully defend here, but the opposite can be fully defended either.
6. The damage to earth seems irreversible. The earth former was making earth more dense to make gravity stronger, so even though the machine was stopped, it must have did some transformation that is now permanent.
I actually agree with this point….guess we wait and see on the next one. Well, I’ll at least be waiting for it. ;)
7. The final fight scene was just too drawn out, especially for what we knew would happen with Superman winning.
How did we know the outcome? Who knew this? I didn’t know it and I know these characters very, very well.
8. So now all of this fancy alien crafts and weapons are on earth. Does this mean Luther starts to use it to make weapons?
Yeah, I had the same thought on this point. Don’t know if Lex will use the tech since he hasn’t been fully established in this storytelling, but it does seem to open the possibility for some version of a Brainiac character of sorts.
9. No Kryptonite???
Goyer and Zack established early on that they weren’t going to introduce the “easy weakness” of kryptonite….that Superman’s weaknesses would be different in nature in this storytelling.
Again, it was entertaining, but not something I think I would watch again, even if HBO had it on a second time. I can watch the Second Dark Knight movie with the Joker over and over, tried to watch the Dark Knight Rises for a second time on HBO this weekend and was bored. This Superman movie seems few years too late. The whole wanting a gritty superhero is 2005. Look at Marvel and their campiness with IM, AV, THOR, CA, all campy bright colored and all big money makers.
Among the camp of fanboys the desire for an edgier Superman on film was ’95, ’05 and today.
The camp of Donner’s films is what today’s viewers don’t want.....it’s why Superman Returns partially failed. Avengers was established on the performance of Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man…..humor and camp. We’ve already seen a campy Superman, but we haven’t seen campy Marvel heroes until know so the formula for Marvel is working like it did for Superman almost 40 years ago. DC tried the formula again in 2006 with Returns and it was hated.
Ok, I'm off to see MOS for a second time LOL!!
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I know the Superman story going in, but Nolan wanted a grittier Superman, they thought they needed to reinvent him with "Street Cred" so people would like him. The thought is, Spiderman and Batman were huge box office successes because of their tragic back stories, they needed to give this to Superman even though how much more tragic can you get than your home planet being destroyed.
It wasn't reaching that Superman was the source of the conflict. Zod only went to earth because Superman activated the beacon. So 1. He was on earth which attracted Zod, 2. he fired off the Beacon which attracted Zod, 3. He held the codex which attracted Zod. So Superman was the #1 reason for this conflict. I just think this could have been better served in a Superman II after he established himself as the hero.
Some good parts to the movie. I loved how they just jumped forward right away and then gave snippets of the background story, would have been boring to spend 1 hour just watching sup grow up. That was a smart choice.
At the end when Superman declares his intent to protect America, it was more American than Captain America.
The Superman Returns movie a few years back was an epic failure, not because of the superman story, but just bad casting, picking Lex as the villain and just the storyline they chose.
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Great to see that most of you GetBiggers really enjoyed this latest Superman movie and even though I only thoroughly enjoyed the beginning parts of it, I gotta commend the cast and crew who made MOS.
It way beyond anything I expected to see and I will admit that Cavil was in excellent shape in that shirt's off scene, but I doubt that he was anywhere near the body-fat percentage claimed in one of the above articles (I think someone claimed 4%).
But of all the Superman actors Cavil was physically the best to pull off the role and I do hope he continues to play the part for two or three more 'episodes'.
In my humble opinion, I would enjoy seeing a more 'mello' script without all the 'crash, bang, go-down, theatrics' .... because I've seen all that stuff (great work that it is) in all the blockbuster flicks since Independence Day
I'd much rather see a SUPE story that was portrayed a bit during the first 30 minutes of this latest production.
A story showing the trials and tribulations of a kid's attempt to fall in and to be accepted by his peers, but with extreme difficulty due to the fact that he is unlike the others by far.
Show some typical high school problems. Maybe even have him get stoned a bit or inebriated. (That happened once!) Get in a bit of trouble, etc., etc.
First date, first kiss, yada yada yada .....
And continue with his entry into adulthood somewhat like they did when Supe was in that bar and when he worked on the fishing boat and when he saved the oil rig crew as himself and not as Superman.
When I thoroughly enjoy a movie, it feels like I fall into it. (Can't describe it any other way!)
And I fell into that classroom and wanted to help when he was just a kid.
I fell into that bar scene and wanted to punch that beer guy in the nose for doing what he did to Clark.
And I've been on an oil rig before but really being there was never more real than when I saw Clark arrive in the nick of time to save the day ....
OPPPss! I think SAVE THE DAY belongs to Mighty Mouse.
Sorry, Supe!!
I would have enjoyed seeing more of that part of Supe's young life and cut or clipped one or two of the very expensive battle scenes.
Here's my score ..... Suerman actor wise I give it a 9. Production wise I give it a 10, Script wise I give it a 6.
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I know the Superman story going in, but Nolan wanted a grittier Superman, they thought they needed to reinvent him with "Street Cred" so people would like him. The thought is, Spiderman and Batman were huge box office successes because of their tragic back stories, they needed to give this to Superman even though how much more tragic can you get than your home planet being destroyed.
It wasn't reaching that Superman was the source of the conflict. Zod only went to earth because Superman activated the beacon. So 1. He was on earth which attracted Zod, 2. he fired off the Beacon which attracted Zod, 3. He held the codex which attracted Zod. So Superman was the #1 reason for this conflict. I just think this could have been better served in a Superman II after he established himself as the hero.
Some good parts to the movie. I loved how they just jumped forward right away and then gave snippets of the background story, would have been boring to spend 1 hour just watching sup grow up. That was a smart choice.
At the end when Superman declares his intent to protect America, it was more American than Captain America.
The Superman Returns movie a few years back was an epic failure, not because of the superman story, but just bad casting, picking Lex as the villain and just the storyline they chose.
so far so good. as far as box office receipts are concerned....the movie cost $225 million to make which is fucking huge and so far, they're racking $135 million domestically. the overseas receipt numbers are not in yet.....I think this movie need to crack the half Billion dollar mark in other to be considered successful at this point...I think they will reach that goal
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so far so good. as far as box office receipts are concerned....the movie cost $225 million to make which is fucking huge and so far, they're racking $135 million domestically. the overseas receipt numbers are not in yet.....I think this movie need to crack the half Billion dollar mark in other to be considered successful at this point...I think they will reach that goal
Easily. Overseas money for these movies has been more than domestic. It will have another good week since there is shit worthy to see coming out unless you're a kid wanting to see Monsters University.
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Now I'm looking forward to World War Z to see what all the problem was with getting it finished.
I think the 'fast zombie' moves will make it more interesting. I read somewhere that these zombies were intended to movie like a 'hive' of ants.
HIVE???
I hope you GetBiggers will notice the participation of Legendary studios in the the big blockbusters this summer.
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I loved MOS.
For those that didn't like the movie then it's time to throw hands and get nasty and bloody. And by "throw hands and get nasty and bloody" I mean read my nerdiest, virgin-fueled retorts about why "Superman is AWESOME!!'
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There are some horrible plot holes in the movie. The biggest one for me is the whole terraforming earth into krypton thing. The movie makes a clear point that krypton's atmosphere robs a kyrptonian of there powers right? So if I'm zod then why the fuck would I want to transform earth into krypton and live like a weak human instead of leaving earth how it is and live like a god of immense power? The movie gives the lame excuse "Oh the process of adapting to earth's atmosphere is to painful! " who the hell wouldn't put up with a little pain to gain incredible superpowers?
If you harvest a planet, why would you keep the fleas around looking for your weaknesses generation after generation. it just takes one human to find a pebble of kryptonite and the rest will be mining for it overnight. there goes your reign. if i was an alien, you'd go extinct, except for a dozen or so in jars. that group wasn't bred to preserve other civilizations. i think you missed what tubes they pulled them out of. it's like star trek when the borg stopped assimilating and started talking about the universe. ::)
even if i was beyond powerful, wft would i want to walk around with a migraine headache 24x7 without an antidote. Superman had 33 yrs, they had 3 days to master the noise.
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How he shaves: Bill Nye
http://www.avclub.com/articles/bill-nye-once-again-proves-how-science-rules-to-ex,98362/
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Thank you gents, I'm going to see MOS this upcoming weekend.
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Thank you gents, I'm going to see MOS this upcoming weekend.
Enjoy Faora. She's as bad ass as Maul.
Fanboys are loving this woman. :-*
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If you harvest a planet, why would you keep the fleas around looking for your weaknesses generation after generation. it just takes one human to find a pebble of kryptonite and the rest will be mining for it overnight. there goes your reign. if i was an alien, you'd go extinct, except for a dozen or so in jars. that group wasn't bred to preserve other civilizations. i think you missed what tubes they pulled them out of. it's like star trek when the borg stopped assimilating and started talking about the universe. ::)
even if i was beyond powerful, wft would i want to walk around with a migraine headache 24x7 without an antidote. Superman had 33 yrs, they had 3 days to master the noise.
So they are smart enough to master space flight, but can't put 2 + 2 together and realize that the 'headache' is temporary just by looking at superman?
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So they are smart enough to master space flight, but can't put 2 + 2 together and realize that the 'headache' is temporary just by looking at superman?
Either you enjoyed the movie or you didn't. Those are the parameters for that universe. We can sit here and pick every piece of the movie apart. I'm cool with what I saw for the first installment. It's mush easier to create a universe around a mortal like Batman vs a God like Superman. Some people think he is too dark vs the campy Reeves' Superman. As far as the movie goes, Lois sucked ass, was out of place and didn't fit it. Everything else was a 9 out of 10.
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i never was a superman fan as a child, unrealistic, not dark and mysterious.
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I enjoyed it alot!
Mostly thanks to Faora! :D
Faora + Named VS Supes was a fun fight-sequence!
Nice action with lots of special effects. Highly entertaining and it delivered what i was expecting.
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Lots of things I didn't like.
1. Explain why/how he ended up in Kansas. The central USA theme was lame. Maybe have his little pod scan earth for folks that fit his profile and then pick a place like Kansas, at least make it seem it was chosen than just random.
2. At the end when the General asks him how does he know if Superman would protect the USA's interest he does so by saying he grew in up in Kansas. Superman is not destined to protect the USA. This was a lame point. Superman should have said, I am here to protect Mankind's interest, not just the USA.
3. Zod shouldn't have been the villain in Superman I. They needed to establish Superman as a hero fighting a fight that he didn't start. The Zod thing is odd because you are saying, Zod spent 35 years searching the galaxy for Superman and found him on earth so decided to destroy it. Otherwise if Superman was somewhere else, earth would have been safe. Hard making him a hero when he caused the issue and conflict in the first place.
4. I wish they had Superman fight inner demons and his morality a bit more than just blindly choosing to protect the world. After his dad dies Superman could have went to the dark side a bit and then after another tragedy realize this is not who he wants to be. Not just jump right in. The lure of Batman is he fights this inner battle daily, Superman as much as they tried to make him gritty was still too squeaky clean.
5. How Lois Lane was able to navigate the city at light speed.
6. The damage to earth seems irreversible. The earth former was making earth more dense to make gravity stronger, so even though the machine was stopped, it must have did some transformation that is now permanent.
7. The final fight scene was just too drawn out, especially for what we knew would happen with Superman winning.
8. So now all of this fancy alien crafts and weapons are on earth. Does this mean Luther starts to use it to make weapons?
9. No Kryptonite???
Again, it was entertaining, but not something I think I would watch again, even if HBO had it on a second time. I can watch the Second Dark Knight movie with the Joker over and over, tried to watch the Dark Knight Rises for a second time on HBO this weekend and was bored. This Superman movie seems few years too late. The whole wanting a gritty superhero is 2005. Look at Marvel and their campiness with IM, AV, THOR, CA, all campy bright colored and all big money makers.
Good point at number 2...goes to show you that Americans love immigrants so much they will make one (with no visa) their super hero/savior .
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One more thing, While Superman only cares for the US, Zoe makes sure his message/warnings go in every language and form of communication to Planet Earth... interesting.
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That's a pair of lats!
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That's a pair of lats!
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Not in that shape anymore tho! He didn't want to :D
He trained for 9 months for the role, using the Cswol-method to gain mass.
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Has anybody seen it in 3d yet? I saw the 2d version with my daughter. How is the 3d?
not worth the extra $$$.
WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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some posters on various internet sites are posting that cavill was TOO muscular and big in the role? HUH? really? something is very very wrong in our society and culture if a guy that looks like cavill did in a "SUPER" man movie is deemed too much!...
questions i have besides the fact that lois lane managed to be everywhere and not get hurt by any falling debris even as she fell temporarily from the sky! laugh! was
so all the kryptonians died, either on the ship that crashed or that female warrior faora in the crash that also killed chris meloni's character? how did that happen? i mean if superman could survive all the crap that was done to him, why would the kryptonians die from ANY ole crash? i'm confused about this.....
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so all the kryptonians died, either on the ship that crashed or that female warrior faora in the crash that also killed chris meloni's character? how did that happen? i mean if superman could survive all the crap that was done to him, why would the kryptonians die from ANY ole crash? i'm confused about this.....
Faora might return in Supes 2.. ;)
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some posters on various internet sites are posting that cavill was TOO muscular and big in the role? HUH? really? something is very very wrong in our society and culture if a guy that looks like cavill did in a "SUPER" man movie is deemed too much!...
questions i have besides the fact that lois lane managed to be everywhere and not get hurt by any falling debris even as she fell temporarily from the sky! laugh! was
so all the kryptonians died, either on the ship that crashed or that female warrior faora in the crash that also killed chris meloni's character? how did that happen? i mean if superman could survive all the crap that was done to him, why would the kryptonians die from ANY ole crash? i'm confused about this.....
The kryptonians didn't die. By using his baby ship and combining it into the earth makers field it generated a black hole of sorts that sucked them back into the phantom zone.
They kind of explained it a bit with the lame scientist who's only role was to explain a couple of scientific points.
Yes about Lois. She ended up in Grand Central Station in seconds, how she managed to get there at the end to console supe was laughable. I kind of wish Faora manhandled her a bit more and allowed Lois to get in some sort of kick. I actually like how Superman disposed of them in the original movie vs. this one. In the original he took their powers away. In this one it was brute force explosions.
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Not in that shape anymore tho! He didn't want to :D
He trained for 9 months for the role, using the Cswol-method to gain mass.
He failed on cswol; he has no gyno nor seo in the arms :D
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Faora might return in Supes 2.. ;)
If they go with Apocalypse, she is better than SuperGirl, who has no place in the universe either. A spin on Batman Superman Apocalypse would work. Faora is like the Darth Maul of MOS.
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9. No Kryptonite???
Kryptonite is worst than Lex. They already setup parameters as far as his strengthens and weaknesses go. And I damn sure don't want to see Lex running around with the stuff. If he and Batman meet in the universe, then the rock can be Batman's trump card, which I can live with.
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I'd love to see Faora in EVERY Superman-movie from now on! :D
Supes 2: Lex + Faora + Darkseid
Supes 3: Brainiac + Parasite + Faora
Supes 4: Doomsday + Faora
Supes 5: Kryptonite Metallo + Bizarro + Faora
etc :D
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If they go with Apocalypse, she is better than SuperGirl, who has no place in the universe either. A spin on Batman Superman Apocalypse would work. Faora is like the Darth Maul of MOS.
I would love to see a Supergirl/Apocaplypse storyline with a phantom zone rescued/escaped Faora trained up by a version of Granny Goodness and the Furies (as opposed to Supergirl); plus, I never considered the Faora/Darth Maul connection.....I loved her part in the movie moreso than Zod or Namek........well played!!
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Anyone have any comments on the 3d?
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I'd love to see Faora in EVERY Superman-movie from now on! :D
Supes 2: Lex + Faora + Darkseid
Supes 3: Brainiac + Parasite + Faora
Supes 4: Doomsday + Faora
etc :D
They didn't make the mistake of killing her off, so I'm thinking she returns at some point. She's a powerful character, an instant fan favorite from the movie. She made Lois Lane worthless.
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Whew!! Have an Apolcalypse trained Faora return to Earth and kill Martha Kent causing a rage-filled Kal to race to Apocalypse for a showdown.....don't know how that would work, but count me in!!
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I would love to see a Supergirl/Apocaplypse storyline with a phantom zone rescued/escaped Faora trained up by a version of Granny Goodness and the Furies (as opposed to Supergirl); plus, I never considered the Faora/Darth Maul connection.....I loved her part in the movie moreso than Zod or Namek........well played!!
When she got knocked out and was helpless along with a return to the Phantom Zone, something clicked, telling me they had future plans for her. I think they knew in the filming and development she would catch on with the fanboys. You can't use her with Doomsday, but she's perfect fit for Apocapylpse.
She's the character outside of Superman everyone is raving about.
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And the old Non from Superman 2 had the same height as our own Johnny Falcon!
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Nons replacement in Man of Steel though, Namek, is even larger, almost rivalling Cswol-size, seen on the left side
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When she got knocked out and was helpless along with a return to the Phantom Zone, something clicked, telling me they had future plans for her. I think they knew in the filming and development she would catch on with the fanboys. You can't use her with Doomsday, but she's perfect fit for Apocapylpse.
She's the character outside of Superman everyone is raving about.
100% agree...right there with ya.
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Faora the Manhater :D
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Sorry bitches, I would have sold mankind out to be personal egor.
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Kryptonite is worst than Lex. They already setup parameters as far as his strengthens and weaknesses go. And I damn sure don't want to see Lex running around with the stuff. If he and Batman meet in the universe, then the rock can be Batman's trump card, which I can live with.
Kryptonite is integral to the whole story. Doesn't even have to be the green kind. Would love to see red or gold. Maybe luther gives him red and he goes off the deep end?
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I recall there being a getbigger named Mon_of_Steel, he was quite the bottom tit.
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I recall there being a getbigger named Mon_of_Steel, he was quite the bottom tit.
Fuck you. he was/is a great man, great addition to getbig and a great human being.
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No remarks regarding Michael Shannon ???!!!.... the actor who played the part of ZOD ... a very highly respected actor in the movie world.
He appeared in BOARDWALK EMPIRE (great TV series BTW) as an FBI agent and it was difficult for me to see any difference between that character and ZOD.
I've had the opportunity to watch great actors filling various roles in front of the camera and it always amazes me when they become someone they definitely 'ain't'.
My nephew prepares for upcoming roles by 'becoming his assigned character' at home for a week or too before filming starts and his four kids (3 - 7) always ask, "When can we have our daddy back!?".
Sometimes he doesn't show up for the next four months.
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No remarks regarding Michael Shannon ???!!!.... the actor who played the part of ZOD ... a very highly respected actor in the movie world.
He appeared in BOARDWALK EMPIRE (great TV series BTW) as an FBI agent and it was difficult for me to see any difference between that character and ZOD.
I've had the opportunity to watch great actors filling various roles in front of the camera and it always amazes me when they become someone they definitely 'ain't'.
My nephew prepares for upcoming roles by 'becoming his assigned character' at home for a week or too before filming starts and his four kids (3 - 7) always ask, "When can we have our daddy back!?".
I just didn't like his voice. It was a little timid for the role. I would expect General Zod to have a deep voice like Barak Obama, something that demands attention. It didn't really in this film.
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I recall there being a getbigger named Mon_of_Steel, he was quite the bottom tit.
yes.....yes he was >:(
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No remarks regarding Michael Shannon ???!!!.... the actor who played the part of ZOD ... a very highly respected actor in the movie world.
He appeared in BOARDWALK EMPIRE (great TV series BTW) as an FBI agent and it was difficult for me to see any difference between that character and ZOD.
I've had the opportunity to watch great actors filling various roles in front of the camera and it always amazes me when they become someone they definitely 'ain't'.
My nephew prepares for upcoming roles by 'becoming his assigned character' at home for a week or too before filming starts and his four kids (3 - 7) always ask, "When can we have our daddy back!?".
Sometimes he doesn't show up for the next four months.
Think Star Wars with Maul and Sid. Who stole the show in that episode? Nothing was wrong with his performance, but...
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I think she could be the greatest villainess in comic book movies to date.
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Think Star Wars with Maul and Sid. Who stole the show in that episode? Nothing was wrong with his performance, but...
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I think she could be the greatest villainess in comic book movies to date.
HAHA, sounds like you fell in love. If only she a cock.... you'd be on the next plane to her house to propose to her.
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No remarks regarding Michael Shannon ???!!!.... the actor who played the part of ZOD ... a very highly respected actor in the movie world.
He appeared in BOARDWALK EMPIRE (great TV series BTW) as an FBI agent and it was difficult for me to see any difference between that character and ZOD.
I've had the opportunity to watch great actors filling various roles in front of the camera and it always amazes me when they become someone they definitely 'ain't'.
My nephew prepares for upcoming roles by 'becoming his assigned character' at home for a week or too before filming starts and his four kids (3 - 7) always ask, "When can we have our daddy back!?".
Sometimes he doesn't show up for the next four months.
I actually liked him as Zod. He also plays a GREAT IceMan (the story of the hitman). Has a very 'logical' tone to his voice. I do miss the english accent, so maybe a Tom Hardy (little too young) or Kenneth Branaugh (sp?) would have been nice.
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HAHA, sounds like you fell in love.
Who isn't in love with Faora? :D
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No remarks regarding Michael Shannon ???!!!.... the actor who played the part of ZOD ... a very highly respected actor in the movie world.
He appeared in BOARDWALK EMPIRE (great TV series BTW) as an FBI agent and it was difficult for me to see any difference between that character and ZOD.
I've had the opportunity to watch great actors filling various roles in front of the camera and it always amazes me when they become someone they definitely 'ain't'.
My nephew prepares for upcoming roles by 'becoming his assigned character' at home for a week or too before filming starts and his four kids (3 - 7) always ask, "When can we have our daddy back!?".
Sometimes he doesn't show up for the next four months.
And I thought Shannon did an amazing job with the role. There is still humanity and passion in Zod. Though misplaced, he's doing what his heart and his mind have told him is right...the only thing he knows how to do. He's strangely human in his pursuit of what he thinks is right.
I find what he brought to the role was just perfect. But then, there's no accounting for taste.
The end scene with him and Superman is quite possibly the greatest villain/hero ending to a movie. I can't think of better. He carried Cavill in that last scene.
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HAHA, sounds like you fell in love. If only she a cock.... you'd be on the next plane to her house to propose to her.
WTF ;D
I might just get a Faora wall poster from...
http://www.fathead.com/ (http://www.fathead.com/)
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We can all agree on that Antje was perfect casting for Faora, but what about Michael Shannon as Zod?
Would you have preferred someone else? And if so, why?
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We can all agree on that Antje was perfect casting for Faora, but what about Michael Shannon as Zod?
Would you have preferred someone else? And if so, why?
The Rock. HAHAHA, kidding.
I'm pretty sure they screen tested a lot of actors. I didn't like Russel Crowe, but that's because I just don't like him.
At least they didn't cast the Jew of the moment for that role.
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We can all agree on that Antje was perfect casting for Faora, but what about Michael Shannon as Zod?
Would you have preferred someone else? And if so, why?
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Francesco Quinn
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Wish they cast him as the big goon with zod. I think he is too big to be Zod
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Wish they cast him as the big goon with zod. I think he is too big to be Zod
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Ahah Jason Momoa as Namek would have been great!
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Ahah Jason Momoa as Namek would have been great!
If there ever was an actor born to play that role it was him.
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$40 for a t-shirt?! I guess some people might pay that.
https://www.gymjones.com/shop/product/man-of-steel-t-shirt/
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Utter Garbage, - too many flashbacks that disrupt the story, which doesn't really take place until the last half hour. If you're gunna do so many flash backs just start with a young superman and keep it linear. Obvious product placement that disrupts the flow of the movie. Several people that appear in the movie must have been friends of the director because they seem out of place and get too much camera time for not having any real role in the story. Also - like the original poster said, Lois must have had some type of teleportation device because she always manages to be atleast 10 yards away from superman at all times as he flies across the world.
5 seated calf raises out of 10 - saved by the Special effects team alone.
Go see - "this is the end" instead
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Utter Garbage, - too many flashbacks that disrupt the story, which doesn't really take place until the last half hour. If you're gunna do so many flash backs just start with a young superman and keep it linear.
Who the fuck wanted to see him grow up in Kansas for 45 mins of the movie? We've gone that route before. The flashbacks were nicely done to get past the childhood bullshit.
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The MTV Taiwan Interviewer kept asking about touching his muscles.
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81728
MAN OF STEEL: Zack Snyder Discusses The Climactic Fight, A Deleted Scene & More
As part of Empire's Man Of Steel SPOILER podcast, the director shares some very interesting details on an action sequence that never made the final cut of the movie. He also explains why they had Supes do what he did in his final battle with Zod..
While chatting to Empire, Man Of Steel director Zack Snyder speaks at length about the decision to have Superman kill General Zod in order to save a family of innocents. He reveals that in the original version of the script the character was simply once again banished to the Phantom Zone, but Snyder was adamant that Kal-El should kill Zod -- because otherwise where does his aversion to killing originate from? He also shares details of another action scene on Kryton that didn't make the final cut, in which one of Jor El's AIs takes humanoid form and battles Zod's pack of genetically engineered dogs! It's all great stuff so be sure to take a listen from the time Snyder comes in around the 50 minute mark, and then David S. Goyer chimes in too, revealing that Chris Nolan was against Zod's death at the hands of Superman at first. Plus, he once again speaks about WB's plans for a shared DC movie universe (txt after the player below).
"This is just, sort of, y’know, ground zero for (no pun intended) a greater DC universe. This is a shared universe so we’re saying yes, Lex Luthor exists in this world, Bruce Wayne exists in this world. We mentioned S.T.A.R. Labs and so the intention is if the film is well received that this would be the starting point for introducing other characters and ultimately, obviously Warner Brothers hopes there will be a Justice League film and perhaps you might start seeing other characters appearing in each other’s films. I think in some ways they’re interested in going perhaps the opposite direction that Marvel has done which may be to do a group film and then spin off."
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/LEVITIKUZsLOUNGE/news/?a=81769
So Just How Much Would All That Destruction In MAN OF STEEL To Metropolis Cost?
Ok as we all so, Metropolis was just about destroyed from Zod's weapon and also Superman vs Zod.It also destroyed and we all now it's highly likely Lex Luthor will be the one to rebuild the city. So how much should Lex make this check out towards? Let's ask scientist and "disaster expert" Charles Watson and his Watson Technical Consulting outfit have attempted to answer the question both in terms of the human toll Metropolis paid as well as the financial cost. We have this nice little poster of all the findings and info about how much damage was done. Let's take a look at that:
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This is NOT an S it is a word it means hope on our planet
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DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE.......SPOILER ALERT
I saw the movie today with my daughter and it was really good..amazing....Superma n killing Zod at the end was a shocker...everybody in the theatre went quiet and then applauded.....Zod was bad-ass....perfect in the role...and the fight scenes were so realistic, especially the damage done to the city.....Zod was unrepentant and his motivation was excellent.....
Faora was great as well..she was really hot...I know some people criticized the choice of Amy Adams as Lois, but she was hot as well and I actually got horny when she kissed
Superman...I wished that was me kissing her.....that red hair of hers was so hot!~ :P
I liked the flashbacks to his childhood.....we have to realize that not everyone knows Superman's backstory since little kids no longer read comics any more..so you have to tell how he became who he is and why he doesn't abuse his powers
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81728
MAN OF STEEL: Zack Snyder Discusses The Climactic Fight, A Deleted Scene & More
As part of Empire's Man Of Steel SPOILER podcast, the director shares some very interesting details on an action sequence that never made the final cut of the movie. He also explains why they had Supes do what he did in his final battle with Zod..
While chatting to Empire, Man Of Steel director Zack Snyder speaks at length about the decision to have Superman kill General Zod in order to save a family of innocents. He reveals that in the original version of the script the character was simply once again banished to the Phantom Zone, but Snyder was adamant that Kal-El should kill Zod -- because otherwise where does his aversion to killing originate from? He also shares details of another action scene on Kryton that didn't make the final cut, in which one of Jor El's AIs takes humanoid form and battles Zod's pack of genetically engineered dogs! It's all great stuff so be sure to take a listen from the time Snyder comes in around the 50 minute mark, and then David S. Goyer chimes in too, revealing that Chris Nolan was against Zod's death at the hands of Superman at first. Plus, he once again speaks about WB's plans for a shared DC movie universe (txt after the player below).
"This is just, sort of, y’know, ground zero for (no pun intended) a greater DC universe. This is a shared universe so we’re saying yes, Lex Luthor exists in this world, Bruce Wayne exists in this world. We mentioned S.T.A.R. Labs and so the intention is if the film is well received that this would be the starting point for introducing other characters and ultimately, obviously Warner Brothers hopes there will be a Justice League film and perhaps you might start seeing other characters appearing in each other’s films. I think in some ways they’re interested in going perhaps the opposite direction that Marvel has done which may be to do a group film and then spin off."
Cut the bullshit and introduce Batman into Superman's universe. They will need to modify his bat suit's armor similar to owlman. Bale has already agreed if Nolan stays the Producer and Consultant. The template is already there. Replace Kara with Faora. Batman Superman is bigger than the Justice and more manageable.
I hated the Avengers.
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/LEVITIKUZsLOUNGE/news/?a=81769
So Just How Much Would All That Destruction In MAN OF STEEL To Metropolis Cost?
Ok as we all so, Metropolis was just about destroyed from Zod's weapon and also Superman vs Zod.It also destroyed and we all now it's highly likely Lex Luthor will be the one to rebuild the city. So how much should Lex make this check out towards? Let's ask scientist and "disaster expert" Charles Watson and his Watson Technical Consulting outfit have attempted to answer the question both in terms of the human toll Metropolis paid as well as the financial cost. We have this nice little poster of all the findings and info about how much damage was done. Let's take a look at that:
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General zod best villan ever
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Utter Garbage, - too many flashbacks that disrupt the story, which doesn't really take place until the last half hour. If you're gunna do so many flash backs just start with a young superman and keep it linear. Obvious product placement that disrupts the flow of the movie. Several people that appear in the movie must have been friends of the director because they seem out of place and get too much camera time for not having any real role in the story. Also - like the original poster said, Lois must have had some type of teleportation device because she always manages to be atleast 10 yards away from superman at all times as he flies across the world.
5 seated calf raises out of 10 - saved by the Special effects team alone.
Go see - "this is the end" instead
The flashbacks were the big positive. I went in their thinking, fuck, going to have to sit through 1 and 1/2 hours of sup growing up before anything decent happens, similar to spiderman, but when they just jumped ahead, I was like What! yes. It made the movie speed up quicker.
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Utter Garbage, - too many flashbacks that disrupt the story, which doesn't really take place until the last half hour. If you're gunna do so many flash backs just start with a young superman and keep it linear. Obvious product placement that disrupts the flow of the movie. Several people that appear in the movie must have been friends of the director because they seem out of place and get too much camera time for not having any real role in the story. Also - like the original poster said, Lois must have had some type of teleportation device because she always manages to be atleast 10 yards away from superman at all times as he flies across the world.
5 seated calf raises out of 10 - saved by the Special effects team alone.
Go see - "this is the end" instead
I assume then you would've preferred a drawn out series of full-on origin scenes in this origin story as opposed to the fluid, quicker flashbacks that allowed for twice action in the film?
You were distracted because they flew through a Sears LOL? In Superman II Zod sent Superman into a Marlboro truck and Superman threw Zod into an enormous electric Coke sign and I was never distracted by that and it was faaaar more blatant product placement.
I've seen the movie twice now and followed the action on the final Kal/Zod fight closely. The initial battle begins in the rubble. The action then takes them across approx 2 city streets and lands then in front of the train station (the location they conclude the fight in). Then they take to the skies over the city and end up in space destroying the Wayne Enterprises satellite. They then come straight back down from space and end up landing in and concluding the battle in the same train station which was approximately where the fight begin. Perry and Lois saw the satellite debris falling to earth, but trailing away and saw Kal/Zod heading in their general direction. In the next several minutes of fighting it is then completely plausible that Lois would end up in the train station which was about two streets across from the beginning of the battle where they all were; plus, the city is part of her journalist beat and she knows the city. Any other Superman rescues of Lois were because she was with him the entire time.
"Go see - "this is the end" instead...........this tells me way more than your MOS review actually LOL.
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all that armor and jor el still got stabbed to death uber easily
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all that armor and jor el still got stabbed to death uber easily
My only question about the film was where Jor-El was able to handle Zod in hand-to-hand combat as effectively as he did, when Jor was trying to get Kal off the planet in time.
Zod was born and bred and trained for military prowess. I would think he would not have been handled by Jor-El so easily. Even if Jor-El was fighting as a man trying to protect his family...Zod should have easily overcome him with his training.
But it is a movie after all...there have to be some liberties. I'm cool with it.
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The flashbacks were the big positive. I went in their thinking, fuck, going to have to sit through 1 and 1/2 hours of sup growing up before anything decent happens, similar to spiderman, but when they just jumped ahead, I was like What! yes. It made the movie speed up quicker.
They should have just condensed it into one flash back instead of segmenting it and slowing down the story
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/KingLeonidas/news/?a=81822
Much has been made of Henry Cavill's MAN OF STEEL physique which has stunned movie-goers since the movie opened Friday. Now the man responsible for getting him into shape talks about why he accepted the challenge of turning Cavill into Superman.
Snyder said previously that he wanted Cavill to look like a "freak" and be in "crazy" shape. So he turned to his friend Mark Twight to accomplish the impossible. But he set even more challenges for Twight and his trainee.
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film was ok but superman didn't care about the consequences of his actions and the end fight was repetitive.
Cavill is perfect for the role though
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Who the fuck wanted to see him grow up in Kansas for 45 mins of the movie? We've gone that route before. The flashbacks were nicely done to get past the childhood bullshit.
Agree a 1000%
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film was ok but superman didn't care about the consequences of his actions and the end fight was repetitive.
Cavill is perfect for the role though
of course he didn't, just like when he trashed the guy's rig at the bar with telephone poles. he operates within the parameters of the REAL world. He'll save an oil rig full of men, but he'll destroy govt property or anyone, if they fuck with his mom or him. i think that's about as real as he can get. i look forward to sups and doomsday putting over 1 Million in a cemetery. 8)
i have no interest in seeing another lollipop superman.
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His trainer put him on PED
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http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20130619/b431389/
Henry Cavill's Old Yearbook Photo and Sweet Dog-Walking Past Revealed!
Can you believe that Superman used to go by the nickname "Fat Cavill"?
An old (and kinda adorable) yearbook photo Henry Cavill from his early teen years found its way online—and, to be honest, it doesn't look a whole lot like the Man of Steel star we know and drool over today.
And though we're not seeing where anyone got the "Fat Cavill" thing, the British actor has openly talked about being a victim of bullying when he was younger because of his weight.
"I was fat, I was Fat Cavill," the now-30-year-old heartthrob told Details magazine. "I bawled on the phone to my mom four times a day. I became an easy target."
By the time Cavill was 17, however, he had dropped weight for his role in The Count of Monte Cristo and was already starting to look like leading-man material.
But, as tends to be the case for many aspiring actors, he needed a few side jobs along the way—like dog-walking!
Entertainment writer Gianna Mucci revealed today that Superman AKA Cavill once walked her dog, Buddy.
"I used to walk my rescued malamute, Buddy, by the new neighborhood tapas restaurant in West Hollywood, California, each night," she wrote on Yahoo Movies . "Buddy immediately took to Henry. And I must admit, so did I, almost immediately giving him the moniker 'Hot Henry.'"
A far cry from "Fat Cavill," indeed.
Mucci recalled that Cavill had offered to help her out by walking Buddy from time to time and she had no idea that he was brink of fame—until she heard that he had auditioned to play James Bond.
"It was a whirlwind. One second I saw him nightly and considered him my friend-slash-backup dog walker, and the next he was becoming a movie star. It still doesn't seem real."
The best part of the tale? When Mucci saw Cavill on The Immortals red carpet, and realized that, regardless of his indisputable arrival on the Hollywood scene, he was still the same sweet guy she knew.
"He immediately recognized me, hugged me and asked me about Buddy. Despite all that had changed in his life, he was still the same Henry—as humble and thoughtful as ever," she wrote. "Before Henry left to do more press, he looked down, and said quietly, 'I miss Buddy.' My heart melted. He was a movie star now, yet he genuinely missed my loving dog."
Looks like the actor formerly known as "Fat Cavill" is now one of the most handsome guys in Hollywood, inside and out.
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Will they ever make a real movie out of "Crisis on Two Earths"?
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Will they ever make a real movie out of "Crisis on Two Earths"?
Here's what we know: Green Lamp doesn't work. They will have to completely reboot him, given his movie was absolutely JUNK. I don't know about Flash. A wonderwoman similar to Faora will be a slam if the right woman is placed in the lead. Based on the Avengers' movie, a guy with arrows is bullshit, so Green Arrow won't work. I think Batman will get his hands on some of the kryptonian technology and modify his bat suit and gadgets, so he ends up being similar to owlman, more futuristic batman.
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81886
James Franco Gives His Thoughts On MAN OF STEEL; While Taking A Few More Shots At TASM
On The Amazing Spider-Man:
"I too have been in comic-book films—the Spider-Man trilogy directed by Sam Raimi. I mention the director because this distinction is now necessary in the wake of the new Spider-Man series that arose even before there was time to bury the corpse of the old one and enshroud it in the haze of nostalgia. Indeed there are still young children who approach me as fans of the original (boy, it seems weird to say that) series. I don’t have a huge emotional attachment to the Spider-Man franchise as a subject, my biggest sentimental ties are to the people I worked with on those films: Sam, Toby, Kirsten, the late and great Laura Ziskin, and the hundreds of others who worked with us. I don’t really feel much distress over its being remade, for many reasons, but what is interesting to me is that it has been remade so quickly—and the reasons why. The answer is, of course, money."
On Possible Bad Feelings Between He And Cavill
“Years ago we worked on a film together called Tristan and Isolde. I played Tristan and he played my backstabbing sidekick. My hunch is that he didn’t like me very much. I don’t know this for certain, but I know that I wouldn’t have liked myself back then because I was a difficult young actor who took himself too seriously.”
His Thoughts On Man Of Steel
"So, what did we watch? A great film.....Man of Steel is great because it delivers everything it should. It made Superman cool again. It delivered great action and interesting characters with a plot that was grounded enough to make us care a little....We love these movies because they’re so big, and damn, they’re all that we have. They aren’t going away, so we just have to keep hoping that they are, at the very least, well made."
What do you guys think? Is Franco right? There's no denying that TASM was VERY similar to Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man, while arguably not really improving on any aspects. Anyway, click on the link below for Franco's thoughts in full -- including a story about how passionate Henry Cavill was about playing Superman all those years ago when working with Franco.
http://www.vice.com/read/man-of-steel-the-super-movie
Last week I was asked to attend the London premiere of Man of Steel, so after working on my forthcoming little thriller at Pinewood studios, I went over to Leicester Square to see the latest filmic take on the superhero.
Many things went through my head, both subjective and objective, or rather as a person on the inside of the film business and as an indiscriminate viewer of the film. I too have been in comic-book films—the Spider-Man trilogy directed by Sam Raimi. I mention the director because this distinction is now necessary in the wake of the new Spider-Man series that arose even before there was time to bury the corpse of the old one and enshroud it in the haze of nostalgia. Indeed there are still young children who approach me as fans of the original (boy, it seems weird to say that) series. I don’t have a huge emotional attachment to the Spider-Man franchise as a subject, my biggest sentimental ties are to the people I worked with on those films: Sam, Toby, Kirsten, the late and great Laura Ziskin, and the hundreds of others who worked with us. I don’t really feel much distress over its being remade, for many reasons, but what is interesting to me is that it has been remade so quickly—and the reasons why.
The answer is, of course, money. We are in the film business, and the studios are owned by large corporations who want to make money. And in this art form, where so much is spent and so much profit can be made, one criterion for success is inevitably the financial. And when movies become so big that they can make $200 million in one weekend like The Avengers did, everyone from studios to filmmakers are going to want to get in on making comic-book movies. And when great directors like Sam Raimi and Christopher Nolan show that equally great characters can live within special-effects-laden films, then the comic-book genre becomes legitimized and great actors will follow. But the biggest reason, we cannot forget, is money. For all involved, it’s about being able to work with the biggest toys and the best people, because the product can support paying for them. And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If you want to make a movie about a man who can fly and tear spaceships in half with his hands, then you need lots of money to make it look good. Otherwise you might as well keep the story in the comic books, where it costs much less to make superhuman feats look cool.
I was also at Leicester Square earlier this year for the premiere of my film Oz, when the red carpet was a yellow brick road, but the night I saw the new Superman, I arrived incognito: 1) because it wasn’t my film, and 2) because I don’t think Henry Cavill would have wanted to see me there. Not that we’re enemies. Years ago we worked on a film together called Tristan and Isolde. I played Tristan and he played my backstabbing sidekick. My hunch is that he didn’t like me very much. I don’t know this for certain, but I know that I wouldn’t have liked myself back then because I was a difficult young actor who took himself too seriously.
What Henry took seriously back then was Superman. He wanted to be Superman more than anything in the world. Personally, I’m not sure why. I missed the whole Superman-film phenomenon. I was more a fan of director Richard Donner’s Goonies and Lethal Weapon. I can understand the appeal the original Superman comics had for the WWII generation and its need for a hero to rid the world of evil, but in my days as a young man, this appeal was long outstripped by the cheesiness of the character’s suit and his douchey invincibility. But Henry was dying to do the Bryan Singer version of Superman that was being put together as we were shooting Tristan in Ireland and the Czech Republic in 2005. Henry was in the running but, in the end, he was passed over for Brandon Routh.
The night of the premiere I saw Henry from afar on the red carpet and knew this was the moment his whole life had been building toward. His dream had come true, and I was happy for him. It was the role he would have killed to do, with the right director (Zack Snyder: 300, Watchmen) and the right producer (Chris Nolan: The Dark Knight)—people who would keep the story and the characters focused, grounded by Chris’s regular team of David S. Goyer and Emma Thomas. If anything this was a project that must have made the people who made it very happy.
So, what did we watch? A great film. But what makes me say this? Is it the nerd revolution that has brought our public taste to the point where comic-book characters and video games are now cool? Are these huge comic-book films the way for the world at large to embrace the subjects of these forms that are traditionally relegated to the nerd niche? Yes, in a way. But in another way, we are just wowed by the money that brings them to fruition. Kids like comic-book-style heroes, teens like flashy action and sex, and therefore these films make money. Adults—the third audience—respect money. So these films are made. Again and again. And if Brandon Routh doesn’t work as Superman, or if Sam Raimi can’t agree on the villain for a fourth Spider-Man, they will just make new versions without them. Man of Steel is great because it delivers everything it should. It made Superman cool again. It delivered great action and interesting characters with a plot that was grounded enough to make us care a little.
In addition, to be fair, movies are fighting for their lives. With all the great television that is increasingly monopolizing good drama, and the video games that allow people to actively engage rather than sit back as passive viewers, movies need to offer something that these other forms can’t: big effects, 3D, and money, money, money.
But, in the end, why did I really walk away liking it? It wasn’t because of the film’s message. Maybe I sound naïve going to a film like this for a message, but images and themes are being thrown at me in 3D, so I want to know what I’m swallowing. One of the main reasons I liked it was because in this film, Superman’s S symbol stands for “hope” on the planet Krypton. Viewers discover that Superman is the symbol of hope for his dead race and simultaneously the symbol of hope for the human race. He hides his powers for the first 30 years of his life on Earth because his adopted father (Kevin Costner) believes that humans won’t be ready for him. In this way Superman is presented as a kind of Christ figure, given to Earth to save humanity. (A parallel that has been made many times before, I’m sure. Jesus Christ Superstar, anyone?) But sadly this Christ doesn’t teach any fishermen how to fish. He just does all the heavy lifting himself. If we are supposed to have hope in anything, it’s hope that Superman keeps fighting for good. If he doesn’t, we have no way of stopping him.
I guess that sounds a bit like the movie itself. We love these movies because they’re so big, and damn, they’re all that we have. They aren’t going away, so we just have to keep hoping that they are, at the very least, well made.
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And when movies become so big that they can make $200 million in one weekend like The Avengers did...
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The movie was junk. Who in their right mind would go back for a second viewing?
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of course he didn't, just like when he trashed the guy's rig at the bar with telephone poles. he operates within the parameters of the REAL world. He'll save an oil rig full of men, but he'll destroy govt property or anyone, if they fuck with his mom or him. i think that's about as real as he can get. i look forward to sups and doomsday putting over 1 Million in a cemetery. 8)
i have no interest in seeing another lollipop superman.
besides he could destroy whatever the fuck he wants with pretty much no consequences, who's going to stop him? its a big fuck you to the us government.
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His trainer put him on PED
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/KingLeonidas/news/?a=81171
Henry Cavill refused to take Steroids for MAN OF STEEL
Henry Cavill tells USA Weekend that neither would he take steroids to play Superman nor would Gym Jones train him if he did. Plus, new image from a photoshoot.
Playing a superhero isn't just laughing your way to the bank. Henry Cavill spoke to USA Weekend in detail about the immense physical effort and discipline that goes into a role like this, specially Superman, the biggest, buffest and greatest Superhero of them all.
On why it was important to him to transform his body
It was a big responsibility. It was very important to represent the character’s physicality in the right way. I was living and breathing Superman. I just wanted to do this right.
On being impressed with his own transformation
I have shrunk down to a more normal size now. You should have seen me then. I was considerably bigger. There are a couple of shots of me that I think, ‘My goodness. I was definitely a large chap.'
On avoiding steroids to achieve his physique
(Mark Twight) asked, ‘Would you like to use steroids or HGH (human growth hormone) to get to where you want to go?’ I immediately said no. And he said, ‘Good. Because if you did, I wouldn’t train you.’ To take a shortcut to get to that place is not what Superman represents. That was important to me.
On would he be ready to again train so hard for the sequel
Absolutely. Yes, it was hard work. Yes, there were points I thought I couldn’t do it. But you can do it. And I did.
You can read the rest of the article at USA Weekend.
http://www.usaweekend.com/article/20130607/ENTERTAINMENT01/306070008/Supersize-me-How-Henry-Cavill-transformed-into-the-new-Man-of-Steel
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I think putting Bale's Batman into a future Superman movie would kill the Superman franchise. It would just show you how much better Batman is. Bale's acting would dwarf Cavill. Just like how Robert Downey jr. owned the Avengers, they could have just named the movie "Tony and Friends" Putting batman into Superman you know he would steal the movie and Supe would be a sideshow.
As for a wonder woman reboot. She needs to be a cold ruthless woman and get rid of the red blue and gold costume. A tough bitch like Faora.
The green lantern. What a fucking horrible movie. They need to keep GL as a sideshow in any upcoming DC movie but on his own it doesn't work. The only thing worst would be a standalone aquaman film.
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I think putting Bale's Batman into a future Superman movie would kill the Superman franchise. It would just show you how much better Batman is. Bale's acting would dwarf Cavill. Just like how Robert Downey jr. owned the Avengers, they could have just named the movie "Tony and Friends" Putting batman into Superman you know he would steal the movie and Supe would be a sideshow.
As for a wonder woman reboot. She needs to be a cold ruthless woman and get rid of the red blue and gold costume. A tough bitch like Faora.
The green lantern. What a fucking horrible movie. They need to keep GL as a sideshow in any upcoming DC movie but on his own it doesn't work. The only thing worst would be a standalone aquaman film.
Having an eventual Wonder Woman/Faora faceoff would be fantastic, but make no mistake if forced to do it Diana would snap Faora's neck.....she's snapped necks before LOL.
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Enjoyed the movie but for me Cavill doesnt have as much screen presence as Reeves. Reeves and Zod owned every scene they were in.
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Who could do Wonder Woman justice though? Playing against someone like Antje?
Meryl Streep? Glenn Close? Whoopi Goldberg?
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I think putting Bale's Batman into a future Superman movie would kill the Superman franchise. It would just show you how much better Batman is. Bale's acting would dwarf Cavill. Just like how Robert Downey jr. owned the Avengers, they could have just named the movie "Tony and Friends" Putting batman into Superman you know he would steal the movie and Supe would be a sideshow.
As for a wonder woman reboot. She needs to be a cold ruthless woman and get rid of the red blue and gold costume. A tough bitch like Faora.
The green lantern. What a fucking horrible movie. They need to keep GL as a sideshow in any upcoming DC movie but on his own it doesn't work. The only thing worst would be a standalone aquaman film.
this is the closest thing i've seen to a wonderwoman i like, but it's animated. based on green lantern animations, you would have thunk he would have made a good live action hero. that makes me wonder about wonder woman, since she could be a joke like catwoman.
Having an eventual Wonder Woman/Faora faceoff would be fantastic, but make no mistake if forced to do it Diana would snap Faora's neck.....she's snapped necks before LOL.
i'd love that but i'm 50.50 he left faora for apocalypse, because he knows the auidence won't buy into a supergirl. and part needs a female kryptonian. as ridiculous as it seems, faora is a test tube soldier but she is a follower, so she can be influenced. i could see her tied into the dark side of batman, looking for something after the death of zod. they have some cool ass options.
faora is a better setup for this meeting. 8)
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they have some cool ass options.
Yes they do!!
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Yes they do!!
i think what people have to remember is, nolan would have re-introduced the joker in the trilogy if heath had lived. he gets that option in sups' trilogy.
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Last night, I saw Man of Steele and I thought it was a great film.
The visuals (special effects) were beautiful. The moments prior to his takeoff from the ground, where the circular revolutions would form as he clenched his fists to the ground were very indicative of the kind of power this SuperMan yielded. The ripples of white clouds that would form as he would cut through the blue skies in flight was also a very nice touch. Even as he would emit solar beams from his eyes, I like that they showed the vasodilation of small capillaries surrounding the eyes to truly bring a sense of authenticity to the actual superhuman ability.
The actor (Henry Cavill) chosen to play the role of SuperMan was excellent in his portrayal and emotional depictions. His screams alone infused emotions onto that screen that was enough to move audiences. I even felt that in certain instances he resembled Christopher Reeves enough to make that generational connection between the different age groups in the audience. Russell Crowe's acting is in a league of its own, so not much needs to be said there. Laurence Fishburne was great, as he typically is in any role given to him. I also found the Kryptonians (Zod & Fiora) to be pretty good in their acting.
The fight scenes were very good and on par with the type of fights you would see in the Avengers, Incredible Hulk, X-men and/or IronMan movies. I was glued to the screen just trying to keep up with the many exchanges SuperMan would have versus the Kryptonians.
The story line was pretty good. It appeared to me as a remake of the original (Superman-1978 film) with the 3 Kryptonians, although only two were brought to light with the ogre Kryptonian ("NON" who was originally played by Jack O'Halloran) from the late 70's Superman movie being portrayed by a Giant Kryptonian whose face we did not see.
I think that with Christopher Nolan on board, as well as Henry Cavill and his star-studded, supporting cast, this new SuperMan franchise has a great chance at doing what the Dark Knight franchise did, while possibly earning much more at Box Office.
Great movie!
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I really liked it. I've been waiting for a well made, serious Superman movie for decades. But......
Lois Lane was a fat, boring, dog.
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Last night, I saw Man of Steele and I thought it was a great film.
The visuals (special effects) were beautiful. The moments prior to his takeoff from the ground, where the circular revolutions would form as he clenched his fists to the ground were very indicative of the kind of power this SuperMan yielded. The ripples of white clouds that would form as he would cut through the blue skies in flight was also a very nice touch. Even as he would emit solar beams from his eyes, I like that they showed the vasodilation of small capillaries surrounding the eyes to truly bring a sense of authenticity to the actual superhuman ability.
The actor (Henry Cavill) chosen to play the role of SuperMan was excellent in his portrayal and emotional depictions. His screams alone infused emotions onto that screen that was enough to move audiences. I even felt that in certain instances he resembled Christopher Reeves enough to make that generational connection between the different age groups in the audience. Russell Crowe's acting is in a league of its own, so not much needs to be said there. Laurence Fishburne was great, as he typically is in any role given to him. I also found the Kryptonians (Zod & Fiora) to be pretty good in their acting.
The fight scenes were very good and on par with the type of fights you would see in the Avengers, Incredible Hulk, X-men and/or IronMan movies. I was glued to the screen just trying to keep up with the many exchanges SuperMan would have versus the Kryptonians.
The story line was pretty good. It appeared to me as a remake of the original (Superman-1978 film) with the 3 Kryptonians, although only two were brought to light with the ogre Kryptonian ("NON" who was originally played by Jack O'Halloran) from the late 70's Superman movie being portrayed by a Giant Kryptonian whose face we did not see.
I think that with Christopher Nolan on board, as well as Henry Cavill and his star-studded, supporting cast, this new SuperMan franchise has a great chance at doing what the Dark Knight franchise did, while possibly earning much more at Box Office.
Great movie!
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i know you're gay, but wtf about faora in 4:30? >:(
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there was quit a bit of chest hair peaking out of the top of the Superman suit in the neck area
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i know you're gay, but wtf about faora in 4:30? >:(
What about her?
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there was quit a bit of chest hair peaking out of the top of the Superman suit in the neck area
HAHAHA, I thought the same. I was like ??? Superman is a hairy man.
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What about her?
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what's your review of her performance, fool? i'd contend she is the best villainess ever, even better than michelle pfeiffer's catwoman.
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what's your review of her performance, fool? i'd contend she is the best villainess ever, even better than michelle pfeiffer's catwoman.
Well, she received limited screen play in my opinion.
Is she an attractive female? Sure. She isn't stunning, but certainly easy on the eyes.
Was her limited script acted out well? Absolutely.
Is she the best villainess of all time? That's highly debatable. When Rebecca Romijn played Mystique in the X-men movies, her acting and action scenes were pretty impressive. The field for female villains isn't very broad, so to make such a blanketed statement would be difficult to justify.
I think she should have gotten more screen time and a more dialogue in order to gauge her overall potential.
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what's your review of her performance, fool? i'd contend she is the best villainess ever, even better than michelle pfeiffer's catwoman.
Don't push it. Ivana Onatopp was smoking hot.
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the Batman Trilogy did a fucking Great job of bringing famous vilains in the movie to fight Bruce wayne.....if this new superman plans for sequels, I hope they bring a Magnificent Vilain to fight superman, the Great DarkSeid would be fucking awesome
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Don't push it. Ivana Onatopp was smoking hot.
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she was a Bond girl.
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she was a Bond girl.
she was still villainous
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there was quit a bit of chest hair peaking out of the top of the Superman suit in the neck area
outed
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she was still villainous
and so is the borg queen. i'm talking dc vs marvel universes.
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and so is the borg queen. i'm talking dc vs marvel universes.
In that case, yes, Marvel Villainesses suck. One thing I loved about the original Superman was when Faora lost her powers and Lois finished her off. It was a "FUCK YEAH" moment.
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If you think bale was natural for bm and henry is natural for sm then you really do buy what they are selling you
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i thought this part of the movie was fucking AWESOME!
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I like the sonic booms
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If you think bale was natural for bm and henry is natural for sm then you really do buy what they are selling you
What I never understood about Bale's batman is that Lucious knew it was Wayne but Bruce Wayne would talk to Lucious normal and Batman would use his gruff voice. Always made me laugh.
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The original Zod was the best
He battled Gordon Gekko too and won...
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/KingLeonidas/news/?a=81936
Video: Henry Cavill on why he wanted his Superman to have a hairy chest
"Sacrilege!" and "This is not Superman!" were the cries that greeted MAN OF STEEL set photos in late 2011 when photos of a bearded, super-shredded and extremely hirsute Henry Cavill leaked online. The primal beast-like appearance seemed aggressively alpha masculine compared to the gentler depictions of Superman in the earlier films and media and something more suited to Wolverine suggested many people.
MAN OF STEEL star Cavill had previously shaved his torso for the 2011 actioner Immortals to show off his muscle definition, but for MAN OF STEEL, he decided to give the razor a skip. Here's why.
It's something that I wanted to because in the comic book Death of Superman, there's this bit where his costume's ripped, and he's making the ultimate sacrifice and he's got this hairy chest and I was like "Okay, Why is the perception that because he's muscly, he must have no body hair?" And I thought why can't we just do that, like in the comic books. And so we did.
And well because, real men have chest hair!
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81910
Zack Snyder & The MAN OF STEEL Cast On The Possibility Of Seeing Doomsday In A Sequel
When Zack Snyder is asked when he thinks would be the right time to "unleash Doomsday", the director suggests that it's always a possibility now that Man Of Steel has opened the doors of the DC cinematic universe. Amy Adams thinks Doomsday would be cool (suggesting that Lex Luthor could introduce the character), but would prefer Bizarro. Michael Shannon admits that although he's heard of the "Death Of Superman", he could never get into the comic books, and Henry Cavill simply hopes it happens and thinks it'd be awesome.
I'm sure if Man Of Steel does kick off a franchise, it will only be a matter of time before Doomsday makes an appearance, but I'm not sure it would (or should) be in the second movie.
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=81910
Zack Snyder & The MAN OF STEEL Cast On The Possibility Of Seeing Doomsday In A Sequel
When Zack Snyder is asked when he thinks would be the right time to "unleash Doomsday", the director suggests that it's always a possibility now that Man Of Steel has opened the doors of the DC cinematic universe. Amy Adams thinks Doomsday would be cool (suggesting that Lex Luthor could introduce the character), but would prefer Bizarro. Michael Shannon admits that although he's heard of the "Death Of Superman", he could never get into the comic books, and Henry Cavill simply hopes it happens and thinks it'd be awesome.
I'm sure if Man Of Steel does kick off a franchise, it will only be a matter of time before Doomsday makes an appearance, but I'm not sure it would (or should) be in the second movie.
don't listen to the chick! Bizarro is not a good choice for the 2nd movie, worst than bringing in a magical creature. doomsday is potentially a two part movie, depending on how they present it. he'll need a friend for darkside. the trilogy will probably only be 3-4 movies like batman.
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remember the whore would say, Bizarro, because one of his affections was lois lane, the worst character in man of steel, so she gets an even bigger role. ::) you gotta be kidding me! ::)
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I saw the movie in 3d last night. There were a couple of action scenes where the 3d made it better, but overall I thought the 2d version was just as good.
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if they decide to bring in Doomsday, it would be best if they used him for a 3rd or 4th film. What made the Death of Superman story so powerful was that audiences thought of Superman as invincible. Doomsday challenged that notion. Man of Steel introduced us to Superman and his origin. It would be too soon to try and kill him off. Instead, they should use Braniac or Darkseid
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Can't have Doomsday in the second movie, too soon, too soon.
He needs to face a Villain that challenges his psyche in the second, like Brainiac, Lex or similar.
Then in part 3 or 4, it can be a Test of Strength again, vs Doomsday or another heavy hitter.
1:33 : General Zod has NOT read his comic-books! :D (love Michael Shannons expression there, lol)
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Can't have Doomsday in the second movie, too soon, too soon.
He needs to face a Villain that challenges his psyche in the second, like Brainiac, Lex or similar.
Then in part 3 or 4, it can be a Test of Strength again, vs Doomsday or another heavy hitter.
1:33 : General Zod has NOT read his comic-books! :D (love Michael Shannons expression there, lol)
man, i do not want to see lex, am cool with wayne and him cleaning up but that's it. unbound was dog shit. brainiac will not translate well to the silver screen. they have to go with darkside or doomsday. doomsday falls within the realm of testing his limits, which his father spoke up, definitely the ultimate test.
as i've said, i see them making doomsday into a kryptonian killer. that's where the whole world machine came from. some civilization created doomsday for a reason and that reason is to hunt kryptonian for the destruction of their world.
i just hope lex doesn't get Zod's armor. let him run for president or something and do some clean up. that's it.
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man, i do not want to see lex, am cool with wayne and him cleaning up but that's it. unbound was dog shit. brainiac will not translate well to the silver screen. they have to go with darkside or doomsday. doomsday falls within the realm of testing his limits, which his father spoke up, definitely the ultimate test.
as i've said, i see them making doomsday into a kryptonian killer. that's where the whole world machine came from. some civilization created doomsday for a reason and that reason is to hunt kryptonian for the destruction of their world.
i just hope lex doesn't get Zod's armor. let him run for president or something and do some clean up. that's it.
I actually like the storyline where Superman almost killed Lex, have Sup go into darkness and kill Lex would be awesome. Where Batman can't stop Sup from going into his dark soul as a killer. Then they can introduce Darkseid or Dooms. They need to make Lex nasty and not campy comical. Some strong smart lex actor who makes you appreciate and despise him at the same time.
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Finally saw it yesterday.
Likes:
1. Actors playing Superman and both sets of parents were good.
2. First half of the movie was better than 2nd half.
3. Female villain was much more interesting/entertaining than Zod.
Dislikes:
1. Second half of the movie reminded me of the Avengers.
2. CGI effects were overkill, especially the last 30 minutes.
3. The actors who portrayed Lois Lane and Zod were a bad choice for those characters.
4. The way Superman killed Zod was silly. They just spent 30 minutes blowing through buildings and Superman simply breaks his neck? - dumb.
It was a matinee and the theater was about 50% full. When the movie ended, I actually heard a few people say "that sucked".
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Finally saw it yesterday.ning than Zod.
Dislikes:
1. Second half of the movie reminded me of the Avengers.
2. CGI effects were overkill, especially the last 30 minutes.
3. The actors who portrayed Lois Lane and Zod were a bad choice for those characters.
4. The way Superman killed Zod was silly. They just spent 30 minutes blowing through buildings and Superman simply breaks his neck? - dumb.
For me I had some of the same dislikes, but it was a trade off to see something I've always wanted out of Superman. I was cool with Zod. Lois sucked on an epic scale.
There's another movie which ended similar to Superman killing Zod, but I can't remember it at the moment. The line "If you love these people more..." is almost identical.
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Finally saw it yesterday.
Likes:
1. Actors playing Superman and both sets of parents were good.
2. First half of the movie was better than 2nd half.
3. Female villain was much more interesting/entertaining than Zod.
Dislikes:
1. Second half of the movie reminded me of the Avengers.
2. CGI effects were overkill, especially the last 30 minutes.
3. The actors who portrayed Lois Lane and Zod were a bad choice for those characters.
4. The way Superman killed Zod was silly. They just spent 30 minutes blowing through buildings and Superman simply breaks his neck? - dumb.
It was a matinee and the theater was about 50% full. When the movie ended, I actually heard a few people say "that sucked".
i couldn't disagree with you more , Michael Shannon did a phenomenal job
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i couldn't disagree with you more , Michael Shannon did a phenomenal job
Lois was dogshit though. Why did they pick such a plain person. She was plain as plain.
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Avengers are complete crap. Some dude with a bow and arrows and what was the name of Scarlett's worthless character again? They lost me when Norton didn't play Banner. Robert is always solid.
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Better than throwing your S at people.. :D
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Lois was dogshit though. Why did they pick such a plain person. She was plain as plain.
agree, but at least she wasnt as bad as do dog face Maggie Gyllenhaal in the dark knight
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agree, but at least she wasnt as bad as do dog face Maggie Gyllenhaal in the dark knight
haha, yes another poor choice. All girlfriend roles for any superhero should be played by Megan Fox. She can be Lois Lane, Vikki Vale, MJ, Lana, whatever. Just put her in every GF role.
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Vikki Vale
She got nothing on...
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CGI effects were overkill
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I had mixed feelings about this movie, way too much devastation and complete disregard for human life by superman in the never ending showdown.
There was no brains behind it, there needs to be huge action and destruction to wow in this kind of film but superman should have tried to lure zod away to keep human casualties to a minimum.
I agree doomsday needs to be left until later and superman should die. I watched some clips of smallville that had doomsday and it was shockingly bad, they'd need to be on their A game to pull that character off on the big screen
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CGI effects were overkill
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Would you have preferred models and puppets with real explosions? :)
Or maybe some stop-motion effects instead?
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Some times too much is just well too much
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i thought amy adams as lois was decent, she looked damn good in that one scene in the daily planet, nice tight top and pants.. i guess they didn't want a SEX on a STICK female as lois. written in the comic books lois isn't a sexy voluptous woman, a attractive woman who uses her looks and just as much if not more her brains to make it at the top of a man's world/profession..
besides it would be hard to find a beautiful hot as heck woman would then be believeable in her acting to pull of pulitzer prize winning journalist..
i thought the other kryptonians died in the final battle as i was thinking " how could they die and superman still be alright?" but then one of the posters here said "no, the final explosion put them back into the phantom zone and out our galaxy into nothingness again...
yes, sometimes "less is more" in the final battle, where the city looks like a nuclear bomb hit it! i thought " how in the heck are they going to rebuild the city and clean it up, even with superman's help?" laugh! guess you aren't supposed to think such things when seing a superhero movie?!
and maggie gylenhall as the female hotness in batman? laugh! i forgot but someone was originally supposed to have played that character but dropped out at the last second? i can't think of who right now.
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oh, now i remember maggie gylenhaall took over the role from katie holmes..at least when holmes is "all done up" she could pull off the sexy hot aspect of that role.. not sure about the acting though...
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http://www.comicbooktherapy.com/scoop-what-wonderful-easter-egg-was-cut-from-man-of-steel-152468
Scoop: What Wonderful Easter Egg Was Cut From Man Of Steel?
Those of you tDianaPrincehat follow me on Twitter or know me personally know that I was amped for Man Of Steel. Years and years of anticipation for one of my favorite characters to return to the big screen had me at a fever pitch for the movie to hit. Getting me even more excited for the film, was that I had made some trusted contacts that were providing me with information about the film. Most of them were covered during my time at another site, but I have dropped a few here as well.
One of those was that Wayne Enterprises was getting a name drop in the movie. This was later confirmed by director Zack Snyder himself, and by now most have seen it in the movie. Not only was that in there, but there was lots of other little ones in there such as S.T.A.R. Labs and LexCorp.
However, there was one that I knew about that I teased on Twitter, that I wouldn’t reveal. It was a character that was due for some sort of big screen attention that I wanted people to be surprised by when they saw it. The surprised on was me, however, when I didn’t see it in the film. So I asked, and it appears as if the scene has been cut from the movie. So I have decided to write this little piece up about what it is I know.
Spoilers About Man Of Steel From This Point:
Okay, during the battle of Smallville, Supes gets walloped into a bank, and smashes a vault door. During this sequence, while in the bank, two things were cut out. The first one, which was reported on back in April, is the Mayor of Plano, IL, where the Smallville scenes were shot, had a small cameo in the film as the bank manager. But what I also heard was that there was a Diana Prince Easter Egg somewhere in the bank too.
As you probably know, Diana Prince is the alter ego of Wonder Woman. I wasn’t given the exact details of the scene, but this past April, Empire came out with their Man Of Steel issue where they said, “Look out for a particularly oh-my-god-I-can’t-believe-this-is-happening bank teller”. Based on what I have been told and what they learned, all signs point to that possibly being the reference. Also, whether or not this makes it on to the blu-ray/DVD extras, who knows. Snyder has said there was only one scene cut from the film. That all the cutting came by shortening scenes down, so this would fall into this category.
With all the Justice League talk floating around, it will be interesting to see how these character Easter Eggs will add to the cohesive universe they are trying to build. Could you just imagine Bruce Wayne telling Superman he owns him money for the satellite him a Zod destroyed? Regardless, with Man Of Steel’s box office things are looking up for DC’s cinematic universe.
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Avengers:
Kinetic Analysis Corp., one of the leading disaster-cost prediction and assessment firms in the nation, led by Chuck Watson and Sara Jupin, employed computer models used for predicting the destruction of nuclear weapons and concluded that the physical damage of the invasion would be $60 billion-$70 billion, with economic and cleanup costs hitting $90 billion. Add on the loss of thousands of lives, and KAC puts the overall price tag at $160 billion.
Man of Steel
Watson Technical Consulting analysts say the destruction of Metropolis in the movie would be comparable to the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in World War II, with 129,000 people confirmed dead, another 250,000 missing and likely dead, and another million people injured. The damage zone would be about a mile in diameter.
The monetary hit? $750 billion, with a total economic impact of $2 trillion.
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Avengers:
Kinetic Analysis Corp., one of the leading disaster-cost prediction and assessment firms in the nation, led by Chuck Watson and Sara Jupin, employed computer models used for predicting the destruction of nuclear weapons and concluded that the physical damage of the invasion would be $60 billion-$70 billion, with economic and cleanup costs hitting $90 billion. Add on the loss of thousands of lives, and KAC puts the overall price tag at $160 billion.
Man of Steel
Watson Technical Consulting analysts say the destruction of Metropolis in the movie would be comparable to the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in World War II, with 129,000 people confirmed dead, another 250,000 missing and likely dead, and another million people injured. The damage zone would be about a mile in diameter.
The monetary hit? $750 billion, with a total economic impact of $2 trillion.
All I'm reading here is MOS 1, Avengers 0
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All I'm reading here is MOS 1, Avengers 0
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CGI effects were overkill
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Exactly... people are getting saturated by this stuff. The first time CGI really wowed me was when I saw the first Ironman movie... very well done without the overkill.
Compare today's CGI movies to older model special effects movies like "Aliens". Released in 1986, the special effect are great and that movie totally stands up today.
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Pretty good..
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avengers was a steaming pile of shit..... marvel should just please stop making kiddie disney movies and stop ruining the legacy stan lee created
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man of steel was 1000 times better than avengers
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Saw it "Thursday" it was good
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-sorensen/4-complaints-of-man-of-st_b_3466388.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
4 Complaints of Man Of Steel (and Why They're Bullsh*t)
I recently watched the Donner cut of Superman 2. The original was so cheesy that even watching it when I was little made me think Superman was kind of not right for the screen. The Donner cut made it a little better, but then he flew around the world and turn back time negating the events of the movie which ultimately left the entire thing pointless, again.
In that time, Superhero movies were in their infancy, so I give them leeway because of it. But now, we are neck deep in superhero movies and their sequels, sequels to those sequels, television shows, and superhero film spin offs to television shows. Man of Steel had a lot riding on it because Superman has been kind of a letdown in popular media. They tried to reboot him with Superman Returns, but it was boring, and he just fought a mountain and stalked Lois Lane, or had to explain himself to Lois like a boyfriend who had to justify hanging out with his friends without her. Lots of complaints about Man of Steel have come up, and they're from people who should stop breathing with their mouths open.
Too Much Destruction
What a lot of critics are saying is that there is too much damage done to cities and to people in the film. If you base this on Superman 2, where the biggest thing destroyed was a bus that flew a foot off the ground into Superman, then I guess you're right. But when you read the comics, watch the cartoons, this amount of destruction is a comic norm. You think that when superheroes and supervillains fight in a city they aren't going to destroy a lot of real estate? The Avengers sort of destroyed a lot, but most of the time was just aliens riding around on their Jet-ski's with no real objective other than to be attacked by the superheroes (Not you Hawkeye or Black Widow). This movie finally showed what superheroes fighting were supposed to look like. When Superman punched he broke the sound barrier. My childhood inside was overwhelmed with how bad I've waited to see a Superman fight done right.
Not Enough Character Development
Complaints are coming in that Superman's character wasn't that developed. People who say this must have spent the first half of the film in the bathroom because they slammed their 64oz gut busting cherry squishy during the previews. The flashbacks and exposition of Clark Kent's life reinvented the backstory of him learning his powers, being taught to hone them by Jonathan Kent, and also when not to use them (Even his Jonathan saying he possibly should have let that bus of kids drown). We watch Clark act like a teenager who is defiant, go through emotional pain, and learn life lessons that lead him to the present time in the movie. It's a brilliant set up where we learn about him and the both sides of him and his family.
It Was Too Serious
Who cares? Superman can be serious. Sure, even the dark, gritty Batman series by Nolan had jabs of humor in it, but does that make them even better because of it? There were a few chuckle moments in this movie, but the seriousness overshadowed it. Again, bringing up Superman 2, that movie was full of chuckle moments. By chuckle, I mean "This movie is awful." Remember when Superman ripped off the cellophane "S" off of his chest and threw it at Zod's enforcer? That should have ruined the franchise. And then there was Superman 3 with Richard Pryor. What? Who thought that was a good idea?
(Boardroom)
Yes man -- "We need a Superman 3. Ideas?"
Exec -- "Wife and I just saw that funny black man, Richard Pryor. Put him in that."
Yes man -- "Ye...yeah, okay."
(Yes man looks over at group of writers wondering if the high-rise window is shatterproof.)
Superman Was Too Emotional
Imagine going through grade school knowing that you could beat everyone up, but you're bullied because you allow it because a punch could decapitate them. Imagine being the outsider for all of your life because you don't know your place or your purpose. Imagine on top of puberty, you can see through everything and you can't control it yet. Imagine you lose the person closest to you when you needed them the most. Oh, and you're also an alien. Would you not be an emotional mess of a person, let alone a God on a planet? This makes Superman become a stronger person emotionally, mentally, and even more physically as the movie progresses. He learns that there is no limit to his strengths and keeps overcoming his boundaries.
I suggest you go into this movie expecting what you've always wanted: A superhero movie done right with a hint of realism that brings you back to when your imagination wanted and hoped for more. That's what I got out of Man of Steel.
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I suggest you go into this movie expecting what you've always wanted: A superhero movie done right with a hint of realism that brings you back to when your imagination wanted and hoped for more. That's what I got out of Man of Steel.
That's all we ever wanted, and they came pretty close. As far as emotional, I love the expression on his face when Faora was bitching him. Remember she was a warrior, and he was just learning to fight.
I don't think you'd smile if a chick side stepped you and talked shit like this. ;D
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Avengers are complete crap. Some dude with a bow and arrows and what was the name of Scarlett's worthless character again? They lost me when Norton didn't play Banner. Robert is always solid.
Yeah!! Norton's hulk zero carb...was the best.
All I'm reading here is MOS 1, Avengers 0
Perhaps you should read again. ;)
Btw:
"Sure we do"
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i always thought it was (unintentionally?) hilarious in "the avengers" when you see all of them in that group scene during the final battle and you see "black widow" holding some handgun!!!!!!!! that was beyond funny and silly! you had THOR, almost the equivalent of superman, ironman and his suit and powers and intelligence, hulk, a massive monster of strength and speed, captain america, the ultimate human in strength and agility with fighting abilities beyond measure, and then you have "black widow" with her handgun! talk about ridiculous! she looked so "4th string"bench warmer" (and is) compared to the other avengers! they should have least given her a big ole spear or have her in a fighting martial arts stance or something to make her look at least somewhat bad and up to par with the others taking on a alien warrior species instead of standing there with some lame little handgun!
hawkeye (jeremy renner's) character was just as low as black widow....
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Yeah!! Norton's hulk zero carb...was the best.
Perhaps you should read again. ;)
Btw:
"Sure we do"
I can live with Bale blowing some green dust in MOS's face, but no fucking Lex! If one person finds it, then the WHOLE planet will be mining for it. A five year old will be able to down Superman.
BTW, Bale, Wayne Enterprise, will get Zod's armor, which MOS didn't recover. Hence, the new and improve Bat suit with alien enhanced gimmicks to boot.
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http://www.empireonline.com/features/man-of-steel-easter-eggs/p1
15 Man Of Steel Easter Eggs You May Have Missed
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11 minute featurette Sounds on Man of Steel
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=360229107433451&set=vb.221774371201106&type=2&theater
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11 minute featurette Sounds on Man of Steel
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=360229107433451&set=vb.221774371201106&type=2&theater
I heard the old school wind sound and thought it was a bit corny.
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BTW, Bale, Wayne Enterprise, will get Zod's armor, which MOS didn't recover. Hence, the new and improve Bat suit with alien enhanced gimmicks to boot.
Isn't Zods armor what STAR labs uses to create cyborg? hence the ability to shoot lasers out of his eyes?
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ernestly how can grown men watch these movies, and worse, even pay to see them????
this is for 10 yr olds
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There are no snippets after the credits... Warner Bros. (and more accurately, Christopher Nolan) don't like them.
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ernestly how can grown men watch these movies, and worse, even pay to see them????
this is for 10 yr olds
Avengers was for 10 year olds. Man of Steel is for grown folks.
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Avengers was for 10 year olds. Man of Steel is for grown folks.
doubt it, it's about a comic book character that can fly and shoot lasers
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doubt it, it's about a comic book character that can fly and shoot lasers
Just because it is using the written word as well as drawings (similar to the bible or early cave drawings) does not mean it is meant for a certain age-group.
Every age-group can benefit.
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ernestly how can grown men watch these movies, and worse, even pay to see them????
this is for 10 yr olds
Why watch 99% of the movies that come out? Other than biopics all movies are made up stories.
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Why watch 99% of the movies that come out? Other than biopics all movies are made up stories.
most movies are fucking shit
only good movies i saw were the classic "master pieces"
like them kubrick movies and mafia classics
but nothing of course beats the best movie of all time:
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The Ultimate 'Man of Steel' Easter Eggs and References Guide, Part 1
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/man-of-steel-easter-eggs/12574
The Ultimate 'Man of Steel' Easter Eggs and References Guide, Part 2
http://www.movies.com/movie-news/ultimate-lsquoman-steelrsquo-easter-eggs-references-guide-part-2/12575
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http://www.movies.com/movie-news/man-of-steel-kypton/12559
'Man of Steel' and Everything You Need to Know About the Planet Krypton
Superman’s home planet Krypton is always different depending on the continuity, yet certain aspects always remain the same. For instance, Jor-El is always the “Cassandra” character who knows that the planet is going to explode while the Kryptonian Council refuses to believe his findings. Nearly everything else about it -- including the reason for its destruction -- changes constantly. There was a time when the planet was in the same orbit as Earth, but on the other side of our sun, so until we had space travel it was technically possible and we wouldn’t have known any better. In some versions, the planet’s star would explode, or something that happened 100,000 years earlier was finally destroying the planet. For Man of Steel, David S. Goyer came up with yet another unique reason.
The ancient history of the planet changes just as frequently with each continuity, at least when it’s mentioned at all. But usually it had a harsh terrain with big freaky-looking animals. In 1994, Dan Jurgens suggested that Doomsday, the beast that actually killed Superman, was a product of a scientific experiment performed on ancient Krypton. Its creator would send it out to the planet’s surface where it would be torn apart by the violent creatures that lived there, then collect the DNA to clone him over and over again until he adapted and was able to defeat them.
In contrast, the Krypton shown in the 1978 film (see above) with Christopher Reeve appeared to be icy and made partly of crystals that grew in specific ways from their technology. The film also suggested for the first time that Superman’s “S” symbol was a family crest, which changed its meaning entirely. Even the comics wouldn’t adapt to that until about a decade ago. Then again, that film made a number of changes to Superman’s history, and many of them stuck or were used in later versions, such as the town of Smallville being specifically in Kansas instead of an unnamed state in Middle America.
In Man of Steel there are several animals shown on Krypton, such as the elephant-sized Rondor beast and flying creatures called h’raka. Jerry Ordway drew the art for the prequel comic and had this to say:
"I can tell you that I drew the h'raka differently inside the comic, from a production painting, where they looked somewhat aquatic, crossed with a dragonfly. Then by the time I drew the cover image, I had been given different reference that showed the creature as more batlike, with a pitbull face. I was a bit mad that I hadn't had that reference for the earlier page, but esthetically the earlier design of the creature evoked a more classic science fiction vibe, which I liked. The question is, I guess, 'If you were riding one of these creatures, as Jor-El does, would you prefer a bat or a flying dolphin?' I'd prefer the dolphin, as it is less threatening looking, and beautiful. A bat is just scary looking."
But the most interesting thing about Krypton was something subtle in the movie. Because it is larger and denser than Earth, it has a higher gravity, so even without the powers that our yellow sun can give to a Kryptonian, like flight or vision abilities, they are already stronger and faster. In an interview with screenwriter David S. Goyer on the set of the movie in August, 2011, he explained,
"It was always just, if this kind of really happened in the real world, even in terms of how his powers work, I mean, Zack and his team did a really interesting sort of scale of power, and they did a sort of how much fire power each of the... a 40 caliber bullet, a 50—you know, these kinds of things, like a shell grenade would work on a human versus a Kryptonian. Like, you’ll get the physics on all of that, so that like, an M-4 would knock a human back this far. An M-4 would knock a Kryptonian back this far. You know, the fire power from the A-10 Warthogs would knock a human back this far. It will knock a Kryptonian back this far. So, we sort of get all the physics on it, or Zack’s team did all the physics, so that it’s that attempt. So there are rules and science rules within this movie and this universe that things have to apply to, so it’s not just like, magically do whatever. The Kryptonians can jump yea high in our gravity kind of thing. They can punch this hard, lift this much, that sort of thing."
This goes back to the first page of Action Comics #1, which was Superman’s first appearance in 1938. Instead of flying, Superman could jump approximately one eighth of a mile, which is the equivalent of leaping a tall building in a single bound. In the book “The Physics of Superheroes” by James Kakalios, the author used real physics and compared how high and far a healthy human could jump on Earth to Superman’s leap. He concluded that Krypton’s mass would have to be roughly 15 times that of Earth just to have the right kind of gravity for the explanation given in the early comics. Similar rules exist in Man of Steel.
The society of Krypton also plays an important role. When the Superman comic book story was rebooted in 1986, writer John Byrne suggested that earlier Kryptonian society relied on clones that could be used for spare parts. By Jor-El’s time, the population rate was under specific control and the people tended to live for a very long time, so someone dying or having a child were rare events. Instead of having sex and the mother carrying the fetus for nine months, their DNA would be put together in a birthing matrix until the time came to open it. It was that “egg” that was sent to Earth, allowing the baby Kal-El to be literally born in Kansas. In an imaginary future, Superman was even elected president of the United States, which was only possible because he had been born in Kansas and not Krypton.
When Geoff Johns began heading up the comics writing team in 2008, he suggested a specific caste/guild system where certain Kryptonians were born to have specific jobs such as science, military, worker, government and so on. In the same interview with David S. Goyer, he explained,
"One of the things that we tried to do in this film was depict Krypton as a truly alien world and not something that was influenced by Flash Gordon or Alex Raymond but a truly alien world. One of the things that we decided early on with Krypton, we drilled down really deep all the various art departments in terms of figuring out the history. Some of this we pulled from comic books. Some of this, we had to fill in the gaps that didn’t exist. But, the gods, the religions, the Krypton, the different guilds and the caste systems, the language we created, a Kryptonian language. So, in all of the—when you see Krypton, there’s a lot of temples and things like that where there will be etchings in stone and all of the things that are rendered in the Kryptonian glyphs can actually be translated into things. So, we wrote each god as a sort of motto in saying each guild has a motto and saying and there’s some Easter eggs in there."
Man of Steel’s version of Krypton is not necessarily different from others, but I did notice a number of references in the scenes on the planet as well as much of the rest of the film. Be sure to come back to Movies.com on Monday for the list of all the Easter eggs and references I caught.
Krypton itself is and needs to be a very interesting and alien place, but I wouldn’t want to live there, especially when it’s about to explode.
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http://www.movies.com/movie-news/man-of-steel-kypton/12559
'Man of Steel' and Everything You Need to Know About the Planet Krypton
Superman’s home planet Krypton is always different depending on the continuity, yet certain aspects always remain the same. For instance, Jor-El is always the “Cassandra” character who knows that the planet is going to explode while the Kryptonian Council refuses to believe his findings. Nearly everything else about it -- including the reason for its destruction -- changes constantly. There was a time when the planet was in the same orbit as Earth, but on the other side of our sun, so until we had space travel it was technically possible and we wouldn’t have known any better. In some versions, the planet’s star would explode, or something that happened 100,000 years earlier was finally destroying the planet. For Man of Steel, David S. Goyer came up with yet another unique reason.
The ancient history of the planet changes just as frequently with each continuity, at least when it’s mentioned at all. But usually it had a harsh terrain with big freaky-looking animals. In 1994, Dan Jurgens suggested that Doomsday, the beast that actually killed Superman, was a product of a scientific experiment performed on ancient Krypton. Its creator would send it out to the planet’s surface where it would be torn apart by the violent creatures that lived there, then collect the DNA to clone him over and over again until he adapted and was able to defeat them.
In contrast, the Krypton shown in the 1978 film (see above) with Christopher Reeve appeared to be icy and made partly of crystals that grew in specific ways from their technology. The film also suggested for the first time that Superman’s “S” symbol was a family crest, which changed its meaning entirely. Even the comics wouldn’t adapt to that until about a decade ago. Then again, that film made a number of changes to Superman’s history, and many of them stuck or were used in later versions, such as the town of Smallville being specifically in Kansas instead of an unnamed state in Middle America.
In Man of Steel there are several animals shown on Krypton, such as the elephant-sized Rondor beast and flying creatures called h’raka. Jerry Ordway drew the art for the prequel comic and had this to say:
"I can tell you that I drew the h'raka differently inside the comic, from a production painting, where they looked somewhat aquatic, crossed with a dragonfly. Then by the time I drew the cover image, I had been given different reference that showed the creature as more batlike, with a pitbull face. I was a bit mad that I hadn't had that reference for the earlier page, but esthetically the earlier design of the creature evoked a more classic science fiction vibe, which I liked. The question is, I guess, 'If you were riding one of these creatures, as Jor-El does, would you prefer a bat or a flying dolphin?' I'd prefer the dolphin, as it is less threatening looking, and beautiful. A bat is just scary looking."
But the most interesting thing about Krypton was something subtle in the movie. Because it is larger and denser than Earth, it has a higher gravity, so even without the powers that our yellow sun can give to a Kryptonian, like flight or vision abilities, they are already stronger and faster. In an interview with screenwriter David S. Goyer on the set of the movie in August, 2011, he explained,
"It was always just, if this kind of really happened in the real world, even in terms of how his powers work, I mean, Zack and his team did a really interesting sort of scale of power, and they did a sort of how much fire power each of the... a 40 caliber bullet, a 50—you know, these kinds of things, like a shell grenade would work on a human versus a Kryptonian. Like, you’ll get the physics on all of that, so that like, an M-4 would knock a human back this far. An M-4 would knock a Kryptonian back this far. You know, the fire power from the A-10 Warthogs would knock a human back this far. It will knock a Kryptonian back this far. So, we sort of get all the physics on it, or Zack’s team did all the physics, so that it’s that attempt. So there are rules and science rules within this movie and this universe that things have to apply to, so it’s not just like, magically do whatever. The Kryptonians can jump yea high in our gravity kind of thing. They can punch this hard, lift this much, that sort of thing."
This goes back to the first page of Action Comics #1, which was Superman’s first appearance in 1938. Instead of flying, Superman could jump approximately one eighth of a mile, which is the equivalent of leaping a tall building in a single bound. In the book “The Physics of Superheroes” by James Kakalios, the author used real physics and compared how high and far a healthy human could jump on Earth to Superman’s leap. He concluded that Krypton’s mass would have to be roughly 15 times that of Earth just to have the right kind of gravity for the explanation given in the early comics. Similar rules exist in Man of Steel.
The society of Krypton also plays an important role. When the Superman comic book story was rebooted in 1986, writer John Byrne suggested that earlier Kryptonian society relied on clones that could be used for spare parts. By Jor-El’s time, the population rate was under specific control and the people tended to live for a very long time, so someone dying or having a child were rare events. Instead of having sex and the mother carrying the fetus for nine months, their DNA would be put together in a birthing matrix until the time came to open it. It was that “egg” that was sent to Earth, allowing the baby Kal-El to be literally born in Kansas. In an imaginary future, Superman was even elected president of the United States, which was only possible because he had been born in Kansas and not Krypton.
When Geoff Johns began heading up the comics writing team in 2008, he suggested a specific caste/guild system where certain Kryptonians were born to have specific jobs such as science, military, worker, government and so on. In the same interview with David S. Goyer, he explained,
"One of the things that we tried to do in this film was depict Krypton as a truly alien world and not something that was influenced by Flash Gordon or Alex Raymond but a truly alien world. One of the things that we decided early on with Krypton, we drilled down really deep all the various art departments in terms of figuring out the history. Some of this we pulled from comic books. Some of this, we had to fill in the gaps that didn’t exist. But, the gods, the religions, the Krypton, the different guilds and the caste systems, the language we created, a Kryptonian language. So, in all of the—when you see Krypton, there’s a lot of temples and things like that where there will be etchings in stone and all of the things that are rendered in the Kryptonian glyphs can actually be translated into things. So, we wrote each god as a sort of motto in saying each guild has a motto and saying and there’s some Easter eggs in there."
Man of Steel’s version of Krypton is not necessarily different from others, but I did notice a number of references in the scenes on the planet as well as much of the rest of the film. Be sure to come back to Movies.com on Monday for the list of all the Easter eggs and references I caught.
Krypton itself is and needs to be a very interesting and alien place, but I wouldn’t want to live there, especially when it’s about to explode.
Good read...thanks!
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Lex Luthor Bailout with Jon Hamm
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f26c4046b0/lex-luthor-bailout-with-jon-hamm
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Lex Luthor Bailout with Jon Hamm
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f26c4046b0/lex-luthor-bailout-with-jon-hamm
FUNNY ;D
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=81693
Will A MAN OF STEEL Sequel Hit As Early As...Next Year?!
In a piece on the recent box office success of Man of Steel, The Wall Street Journal has seemingly revealed that the sequel is being planned for release as early as NEXT YEAR. "Warner is already in development on a sequel to "Man of Steel" and is expected to fast track that for release as soon as 2014, said knowledgeable people close to the studio. In addition, it has long been developing a "Justice League" team-up movie featuring characters such as the Flash and Wonder Woman that could come out as soon as 2015." While this may seem unlikely, it's not exactly unheard of. Fast & Furious 6 came out this year and the seventh instalment of that franchise will be released in a little over a year from now. However, they would need to start work on the movie almost immediately to make this a reality, and Henry Cavill's next project is supposed to be The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Whether this is a mistake or just a sign that the studio are anxious to establish a new franchise as quickly as possible remains to be seen. We should however find out one way or the other at this year's San Diego Comic Con.
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Glad she didn't give up.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=81986
Antje Traue Was On The Verge Of Quitting Acting Before Landing Faora-Ul Role
"Man of Steel's" Antje Traue gave herself a deadline, she would either 'make it' as an actress by age 30 or leave the profession. Lucky for her, she landed the role of Faora-Ul in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot at age 29. Her performance as the genetically-engineered Kryptonian killing machine is drawing universal praise and has more than a few lips voicing a strong desire to see her character return in a "Man of Steel" sequel. In describing her preparation for the role, Traue admits to being a bit of a method actor and to that end she abstained from overly fraternizing with her co-stars to make her performance seem more cold and alien.
Looking back to an earlier point in her life, Traue says she wasn't going to make it as an actress in Germany. "They said, ‘You’re not famous enough for the lead roles, and you’re too present for the supporting roles — you’d overpower the lead," said the 'Tigress of Zod'. To that end, she sought fame elsewhere and landed the role in her very first audition for an English-language film, a lead role in 2009's Pandorum. But that initial luck was atypical, as Traue then lost out on unspecified roles in "The Hobbit", "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" and a few other films. Things had digressed to a point where Traue was working at a restaurant when the call for "Man of Steel" auditions came in. The actress was hesitant at first, fearful of another rejection. She admitted, "I was at a point where I didn’t want to do it. I was exhausted from so many rejections, and I thought, ‘How many other girls are going to go for this?’ Maybe I was aiming too high."
But as her 30th birthday loomed, Traue decided to throw one last 'all or nothing' toss of the dice. It worked, "And then everything started coming in," the actress exclaimed.
Traue can next bee seen as one of the leads in another "Warner Bros." joint venture with "Legendary Pictures", "Seventh Son".
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Very good for Antje!
Hope to see her in more (if not all) upcoming movies hereon
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Just saw it in IMAX 3D today, fucking loved it, this is how a superman movie should be. Those fight scenes were epic!!! And I love how they animated the lasers coming out of his eyes!!!!
And Lois lane in this version was actually likeable, I hated Lois lane in the original Christopher reeves movies!!!
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Saw it.
I don't get what the big appeal is. It was ok but really not worth all the hooplah
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MOS saw MOS 11 hours ago......loved every second of it!!!! The vast majority of folks that dislike this film like nothing about Superman and I care nothing about their reviews. They didn't grow up with the Donner films, they don't read the books, collect the toys, collect the merch, etc......for most this is a summer popcorn movie with splosions and a dude in a Superman costume. The character means nothing to them.
For me, my first movies in theaters were Star Wars and Superman the Movie. I loved Superman the Movie and it's been my favorite movie my entire life. I collected and played with every scrap of Supes stuff I could get my hands on. Love the comic books....have a crates of books in my garage. I used to draw Superman and write my own Superman stories. Every Sunday I would take my parents' newspaper, take out the funnypaper/comics, go write to Superman, read it and then cut out the image of Superman and fly it around my house. Dressed up repeatedly as Supes for Halloween. I owned all the old Superman cartoons and vhs and now dvd. Faithfully watch Lois and Clark. Faithfully watch Smallville until they basically took Superman out of the show LOL. I can quote every line of Superman the Movie, Superman II and Superman III and Superman IV (saw this for my 12th birthday in theaters with friends). I loved Superman Returns even though everyone else hated it LOL. I still collect Superman action figures to this day....bought one this morning before I saw MOS LOL. I love the character of Superman and have my entire life. In short, I am a fan of Superman; hence my Getbig handle "Man of Steel". For me MOS was glorious and wonderful....everything I ever wanted to see Supes do on the screen.....just loved this movie.
That said, for those reviewers who are pretty much like, "Eh, MOS was a Superman movie and it was just 'meh' for me.....I don't really like Superman anyways." Those reviews are my current toilet paper LOL.
I too really enjoyed Superman Returns, actually dragged my wife to the movies with me to watch it on our honeymoon Lol.
But this last one. WOWWWWW this was just in a league of its own. As I said in my past posts, This is what a Superman movie is supposed to be like!!!!
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Glad she didn't give up.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=81986
Antje Traue Was On The Verge Of Quitting Acting Before Landing Faora-Ul Role
"Man of Steel's" Antje Traue gave herself a deadline, she would either 'make it' as an actress by age 30 or leave the profession. Lucky for her, she landed the role of Faora-Ul in Zack Snyder's Superman reboot at age 29. Her performance as the genetically-engineered Kryptonian killing machine is drawing universal praise and has more than a few lips voicing a strong desire to see her character return in a "Man of Steel" sequel. In describing her preparation for the role, Traue admits to being a bit of a method actor and to that end she abstained from overly fraternizing with her co-stars to make her performance seem more cold and alien.
Looking back to an earlier point in her life, Traue says she wasn't going to make it as an actress in Germany. "They said, ‘You’re not famous enough for the lead roles, and you’re too present for the supporting roles — you’d overpower the lead," said the 'Tigress of Zod'. To that end, she sought fame elsewhere and landed the role in her very first audition for an English-language film, a lead role in 2009's Pandorum. But that initial luck was atypical, as Traue then lost out on unspecified roles in "The Hobbit", "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" and a few other films. Things had digressed to a point where Traue was working at a restaurant when the call for "Man of Steel" auditions came in. The actress was hesitant at first, fearful of another rejection. She admitted, "I was at a point where I didn’t want to do it. I was exhausted from so many rejections, and I thought, ‘How many other girls are going to go for this?’ Maybe I was aiming too high."
But as her 30th birthday loomed, Traue decided to throw one last 'all or nothing' toss of the dice. It worked, "And then everything started coming in," the actress exclaimed.
Traue can next bee seen as one of the leads in another "Warner Bros." joint venture with "Legendary Pictures", "Seventh Son".
Faora sidestepping a bitch. :o
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For me I had some of the same dislikes, but it was a trade off to see something I've always wanted out of Superman. I was cool with Zod. Lois sucked on an epic scale.
There's another movie which ended similar to Superman killing Zod, but I can't remember it at the moment. The line "If you love these people more..." is almost identical.
Are you referring to the Transformers movies?
I think there is a big scene between Megatron and Optimus Prime in which Megatron tells him the same thing.
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Just saw it and thought it was great.
Loved the smallville tributes Dr. Hamilton and that one Kryptonian that played a Lex Luthor clone. And also the Sullivan's Automotive.
Was NOT expecting the ending. Finally Superman kills!
Lots of action, Faora was hot, heat vision was cool.
They just did a great job.
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Lots of action, Faora was hot, heat vision was cool.
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When he pulled out that knife, I was like " yeah.... The machine gun and the pistol didn't work.... That switch blade is the solution to your problem". Lol. But I admire his determination and not giving up!
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Man of Steel posts here.
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Wired: Designing Krypton's Tech
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How Man of Steel sets up an Aquaman movie
http://moviepilot.com/stories/1013386-how-man-of-steel-sets-up-aquaman#ixzz2XD1QR39F
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=82448
Yet Another New MAN OF STEEL Featurette; "Sculptural Percussion"
http://mobscene.com/p/video/?v=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.wdcdn.net%2Fasset%2FassetId%2F1253979%2Fsize%2Fprimary%2Fts%2F1372355091%2Ftype%2Flibrary%2FMAN_OF_STEEL_SCULPTURAL_PERCUSSION.mov%3Ftoken%3D01d6d1d32b27fc0afae35288ad25a59b%26category%3Dpres%26action%3Dview
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/VoicesFromKrypton/news/?a=82782
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Waid Talks MAN OF STEEL Ending - SPOILERS GALORE!
It's the final third - particularly the ending - of Man of Steel that has caused the most controversy, and in this exclusive excerpt from an interview with writer Mark Waid he discusses that ending. Nothing but spoilers follow.
(author of the classic Superman: Birthright maxi-series that's currently celebrating its 10th anniversary - more about that at the end of this article).
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/SuperheroStation/news/?a=82603
Brand New MAN OF STEEL Easter Egg Spotted
The logo for WGBS News has been spotted. WGBS News is the primary news outlet of the Galaxy Communications conglomerate which is owned by Morgan Edge, who is known for his connections to the villain Darkseid and ownership of The Globe newspaper. Check it out in the image below.
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MAN OF STEEL Blu-ray Packaging Revealed.
The collector's edition of Man Of Steel will only have 35,000 available.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=82863
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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/VoicesFromKrypton/news/?a=82829
MAN OF STEEL Director Zack Snyder on Casting Henry Cavill - Audio Interview
In this one-on-one audio interview conducted shortly before Man of Steel opened, director Zack Snyder reflects on what it was about Henry Cavill that convinced him that he was the right man to play the last son of Krypton.