re: Superman Was Too Powerful to be Interesting in Man of Steel

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Yeah, I said as much last night that Man of Steel was a rough copy that still needed a lot of ironing out and smoother. The problem is what do you cut and what do you put in there to replace it?

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I liked it. As a Superman fan, I was okay with the killing, too, because it was a nod to us longtime fans the agonizing that he had over killing Zod and it was, precisely to save innocents. Still should have found a way around it, but if Superman is going to kill - that was the way to do it.

I was okay with Adams, but she overshadowed Superman to a degree - part of it was her acting is just flat out better than Cavill and they put Lois in too many scenes, doing too much stuff. Ditto for artificially intelligent Jor-El phantom ghost (whatever), but I guess that's the price you pay for getting Russell Crowe to do it.

I mean, Sean Bean would have taken the money and died in the Prologue (or Act I - not clear on the structure there) - and maybe made a little recorded speech to Kal-El later.

I mean other than Watchmen (and I had zero investment in the characters prior to watching the movie), The Joker Movie (TDK) and Avengers, MoS is a rare comic book movie I didn't say, "Meh." or worse since the first Chris Reeves Superman movie - and I've been reading comics for over 40 years.