Superman Reboot (Man of Steel)

[jedijeff]

I saw this movie today, and both myself and my wife really enjoyed it. I found it had a lot of action and also a lot of heartfelt moments as well. Very well cast in my opinion, and I felt Henry Cavill really captured Superman for me. I saw it in 3D, and it was fine, but the 3D felt a bit lite, so I suspect if someone saw it in 2D they would not miss much in that aspect.

[spoiler]I liked how they handled the back story on this with flash backs. I found that they were all meaningful and helped out round out Superman and who he is. For me I usually don't care for origin parts in stories as I just feel it slows things down, so I liked how they approached this. I also liked how they caught up with Superman, well into his adulthood, and somewhat of a drifter. Gave him a real world feeling to me.

There was a lot of action in this, pretty much leveled Metropolis, and it looked impressive. I guess a nit pick for me, was at times it seemed a bit repetitive. It seemed superman would attack Zods army again and again with pretty much the same results. As well, Zod's army was pretty much invincible to human weapons, but they would keep firing at them and doing nothing. I guess one could argue what else could the humans do anyways with what they had.

The final battle between Superman and Zod was pretty impressive, and they sure went pretty much every place a super hero and villain could go. I thought they captured Supermans anguish as the end with what he had to do with Zod. Really captured Superman for me and how he looks out for humans.

Nice little bit at the end as well between Superman and the General, where the military has an alliance with Superman, but still keeping tabs on him, and he is not going to just follow their orders. Should make for an interesting relationship in followup movies.[/spoiler]

[ChrisMC]

Yeah, I've been quizzing everybody I know who's seen the movie...and they all loved it. Waiting to see what Rico thinks after he sees it, but the critics are dead wrong on this one. So say we all.

[bevs_plaything]

Saw the movie today and loved it!!  :)

[WillEagle]

The wife and I both really enjoyed the movie. I didn't like as well as the new Star Trek but boy the fight scenes were amazing. Very well done!                                                    [spoiler]I liked the way they did the back story but I don't remember in any Superman book that I read where Pa Kent died from a tornado. I didn't think I would like the drifter part based on the previews but it was well done. I'm a big baseball fan so I thought the part where he was wearing a Royals t shirt was pretty cool. The end fight was awesome. When Superman started to rise up from where he was laying and flew into Zod was really cool. I was really wondering what Superman was going to do with Zod when he deafeated him. Well I soon found out. Kinda surprised but what else could he had done. A prison wouldn't hold him. Also how much did IHop have to pay for them to feature it in the movie. And to have a major fight inside it. That had to cost a fortune!!![/spoiler]

[Rico]

Saw this today with my younger son and enjoyed it quite a bit.  I've always said Superman/Clark is one of the toughest comic characters to bring to life and I think they did a really good job.  The casting was nearly perfect I thought.  Henry Cavill made a great Superman and Amy Adams as Lois was awesome.  I have a few little issues and some things I wish they had done a bit different that I will talk more about next weekend on the podcast, but overall this is a really good Superman movie.

[batmite]

Good movie.. I liked it.. not much more to say that hasn't already been said. Go See it!!

[fatfather_2005]

ok, i haven't seen it yet, but i am so confused, lol y'all all like it, i have seen others who don't. i guess i will just have toi see it for myself and decide.

[ChrisMC]

ok, i haven't seen it yet, but i am so confused, lol y'all all like it, i have seen others who don't. i guess i will just have toi see it for myself and decide.

Well, we can be split on movies here...you should see it for sure.

Crazy/Unreal rumor of the day: Man of Steel Sequel in 2014 (?) and Justice league in 2015. I doubt they could do a turnaround on this so fast when it took them 2 years to finish this one. But, hopefully the BO success is lighting a fire at Warners/DC.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/16/report-man-of-steel-sequel-in-2014-justice-league-in-2015/

[Geekyfanboy]

ok, i haven't seen it yet, but i am so confused, lol y'all all like it, i have seen others who don't. i guess i will just have toi see it for myself and decide.

Well, we can be split on movies here...you should see it for sure.

Crazy/Unreal rumor of the day: Man of Steel Sequel in 2014 (?) and Justice league in 2015. I doubt they could do a turnaround on this so fast when it took them 2 years to finish this one. But, hopefully the BO success is lighting a fire at Warners/DC.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/16/report-man-of-steel-sequel-in-2014-justice-league-in-2015/

I would imagine they would want to do one more origin story of another superhero before they do Justice League movie. I mean we know Christan Bale is not coming back as Batman.. but maybe Joseph Gordon-Levitt will take on the cape crusader for Justice League. They need to do a Flash or Wonder Woman origin story first IMO.

[ChrisMC]

I want Bruce Wayne as Bats, and so does DC. If its not Bale I would expect a re-Bat-boot.

[Bryancd]

I'm back from a 3D matinee! Very much enjoyed the movie, with some reservation....

[spoiler]I very much liked the initial scenes on Krypton. I think they did a good job setting up the backstory, although I felt Russell Crowe was a bit bland and one note. To be honest, it was all a bit muddles as to what everyones motivations were, but it moved along and was visually interesting. Clearly the art department folks are fans of Gieger, which I appreciate. I also felt the use of flashback interspersed with present day a very economical form of exposition and I think the scenes with you Clark and the Kent family are the strongest in the movie and the one's with the most real emotion and heart. Kevin Kostner and Diane Lane "Steel" the show. :) And I really liked the two young actors playing Clark Kent, perhaps more so then Caville, I will get to that. I kind of wish in retrospect the film makers had been a  bit more brave and make this more of an origin story. I don't mean recreate the TV series Smallville, which I never watched, but I really enjoyed watching young Clark struggle and the quiet strength of his father.

Instead we get right to it. In the ship, meet Dad, in the suit, hello world! The scenes in the Fortress of Solitude ship and learning to fly were really fun, I very much enjoyed that. The action set pieces certainly were something, I was amazed at how much crap they destroyed. And can someone, anyone explain to me why in these superhero movies we have to show the Army trying to fight with limited weapons when they clearly know they won't work? Watching a squad of soldiers with rifles trying to take out the super bad chick, who I really liked, she was great, is just dumb but every one of these films does it. The stuff in Metropolis was exciting, I actually liked Fishburn trying to save his employee and then waiting with her to die, nice touch. A lot of fans are complaining about how Superman destroys what's left of the city while fighting Zod but really Zod had trashed the place and likely killed tens of thousands already, so I didn;t ut that on him. And the choice he had at the end to kill Zod or save the family I felt was appropriate and in character.

I hate to say it because I think she is a nice actress, but Amy Adams Lois Lane was really one note. I don't blame her, but she never came across as a credible journalist or hard ass or love interest for Clark, that felt VERY forced. And speaking of one note, or maybe two, the score and music. Two notes played in repetition going up the scale with kettle war drums pounding. Can we PLEASE have someone write a decent score for a film! What is with the drums and repetition of cues?! STAR TREK is the same way and so was Batman. It works once, maybe twice, but by the end of the film it looses all gravitas. And gravitas is a good word for our new Superman. He's not as unlikeable and brooding as the new Bruce Wayne, but Henry Caville never had an opportunity to really shine. He was so dour and monotone. Christopher Reeev could convey emotion and still have a little twinkle in his eye. This guy lacks that, hopefully in the sequel he will have more opportunities to smile a bit more.

But all in all I had a lot of fun. I will say this, I am OVER the INTO DARKNESS trend in movies. Enough already. I just can't help but think with a John Williams fanfare and a little more humor, this film could have really been great. [/spoiler]

[Bryancd]

One more thing..

[spoiler]This movie was a BSG/Matrix Reloaded, Revolution reunion party! And seriously, are the Matrix movies old enough now that we can blatantly rip them off?[/spoiler]

[Rico]

Interesting comments Bryan even if I don't agree with some of the stuff you said.  I've followed Superman in comics and in all of his TV and film appearances and while I enjoyed the film too, my reservations are in other areas than the things you bring up.  But I'm saving most of my comments for the podcast next weekend with Chris.

[Geekyfanboy]

Just got back from the second view of Man of Steel.. took my Dad for a bleated Father's Day.. loved it the first time.. loved it even more the second time around.. planning a third viewing soon... maybe in IMAX.

[Bryancd]

All right, Superfans, answer me this...

[spoiler]What's with all the fan rage over Superman killing Zod. He threw Zod down a bottomless chasm in Superman 2 and no one seemed to care.[/spoiler]