Man of Steel - upon further review...

With the exception of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, all of those films are better than Man of Steel.

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I remain baffled at the low rating for this movie on RT

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Because it just wasn't very good. Entertaining, sure...but very disappointing.

Critics don't know anything even though they have probably seen 100x more movies than you and have actual educational experience in critical analysis. But keep fighting the good fight, brother.

This is one movie where the critics knew that Man of Steel was going to be quite different from the Donner universe but still couldn't quite handle the departure from the Donner films into something so completely different that MoS was. The critics were expecting something at least similar to the Donner films and Snyder/Nolan never intended to give them that. Hence the low rating.

Part of the reason why Man of Steel was like this is they listened to the fanboys who drive the comic book genre who supremely hated Superman Returns and acted accordingly by realizing that a different, new and fresh take on Supes was in order. Without fanboys, the comic book genre wouldn't exist or just be barely on life support.

I dug MOS. I definitely preferred it to all the movies listed in the article.

At least critics liked it better than Ghostbusters 2

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this puts the whole thing in perspective and shows why MOS' RT rating is complete bullshite.

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Ah numerical ratings, while they COULD be useful they are generally full of crap because people have no idea why they are rating something, or what it should mean.

MoS is probably rated about right, it's a good movie, not great. Slightly above average.

The problem is that most of these films have inflated ratings due to terrible ideas of what a rating should mean.

If 50% was an actually Average film, MoS is about right, most of the films on that list should be around 50%. Therefore, it's not about MoS being underrated, most criticisms were on point for a change, but other ratings being far too high.

Edit: That version of Hulk should be significantly higher. Ang Lee's vision, although slightly flawed, was unique. Revenge of the Sith is about right.

I never expected them to frick up Superman as much as they did. Just baffling.

I liked it. I saw it after it had been out a month and was not expecting TDK, but an entertaining flic and it delivered entertainment for me.

I haven't seen this movie yet. Something always comes up, I'm really looking forward to sitting down alone and checking it out this coming week.

Just hope it does jusitce to Superman.

I saw Man of Steel once. I'm glad I saw it, and it was a decent movie.

But. . . 2 things: 1. I don't really have an interest in seeing it again (versus, say, Batman Begins, which I immediately wanted to watch again and again), and 2. I have no interest in seeing a sequel to it. It wasn't a good enough movie to make me invest in a trilogy.

ETA: Actually, with as many superhero movies as are being made today, I should say infinity-ogy. There is no end to them.