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David Goyer’s deal with the studio is part of a "huge 3-picture deal he signed at Warner Bros for Man Of Steel, the sequel, and Justice League with Superman."

Steve

Jun 11 2013, 10:37 AM

I think that sounds good, it needs to be focused on him.

Superman Returns had way too many scenes of Lois and her boyfriend/husband and her son and they were nearly all pointless.

Everyone knows the story of Clark and Lois it doesn't need to be given another hour of detail right away...

Pelador

Jun 14 2013, 08:10 PM

I saw it earlier in REAL3D at the cinema. There wasn't any 3D that really flew out of the screen at you but it was there, just subtle enough to give the film an extra dimension rather than making the audience flinch.

I will start with things that I didn't like

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The main thing that bothered me about this film was light reflecting off the camera. I don't know if this was deliberate or not but I thought it looked really terrible and it ruined the immersion of the film.

Secondly whenever Superman flied through in the air it looked really fake. It looked great when he was floating but whenever it showed him moving at speed it looked awful.

Thirdly I personally found a lot of the dialogue to be pretty poor and it made the characters feel two dimensional to me at times. I think the script might have been a bit on the amateurish side.

Fourthly the music that kept playing over and over started to get on my nerves about half way through the film.

Fifthly there was a scene where some aircraft attempted to take out some Kryptonians and failed, leading to their demise. So Instead of perhaps withdrawing to reassess the situation, they send in some infantry. Not even tanks, foot soldiers. After a hand full of aircraft had just been taken out by a single being in front of everyone, they send in infantry.

In the same scene, one downed airman from a crashed helicopter tries to shoot a Kryptonian with his assault rifle. The bullets have no effect. So does he give up and wait for his inevitable end? No he grabs a smaller sub machine gun and tries again. Still no effect. Does he get the message? Does he f***. He pulls out his handgun and tries yet again to harm the bullet proof alien. Oh but wait, he's still not done. Realising that she is bullet proof he pulls out his knife and challenges her with that.

A short time later, the antagonist is threatening Superman's step mother. So he fly charges him through several buildings and vehicles and stuff to protect her. Except what about all the people who would have just been caught up in that scuffle? There were enough explosions and collapsing rubble to harm at least one person.

Near the end of the film, Superman has the antagonist Zod in a headlock. Zod activates his laser eyes to try and burn three nearby civilians. So Superman's all like NOOOOOOO and snaps his neck. But... Superman can fly. He didn't need to do that at all. He could have just lifted Zod into the air.

Lastly Kevin Kostner

Well that's a few bad things about the film. I wish could remember exact lines of dialogue too because it was pretty bad at times.

Anyway on with the good.

Krypton looks awesome

Russel Crowe's fight with Zod is fantastic.

Russel Crowe kicks a lot of a*** in the prologue scenes.

The man playing Zod is the best actor in the film by far.

The fight scenes were all great

The way the female Kryptonian beat up those soldiers looked really cool.

I liked the designs of the Kryptonian ships.

Most of the special effects were fantastic

I really liked the costume designs

So I think that means I can give it a good 7/10. It wasn't anything mind blowing and it definitely had a fair degree of flaws but it was still a good film none the less.