re: The OFFICIAL Man of Steel Discussion and ***SPOILERS*** Thread

The origin was better told in the Conner version, but I like how it showed having powers can be a problem

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OMLandshark

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My comrade and brother from another mother.

Good to see you back from banland.

Really looking forward to your thoughts on this one. I really loved it and thought it fricking delivered. This was the Superman movie we've been waiting decades for and it's one where he actually fights with the gloves off. This is one occasion where the critics are way off on a movie and expecting something different.

By the way, I think DC really has a good opportunity to make some decent money by making an animated prequel featuring Krypton, Jor-El and Lara, and General Zod and Faora and the events that led up to Kal-El's departure and then Krypton's death. Krypton in this movie is vastly different from Donner's block of ice Krypton and it's a lot more livelier and advanced. There's enough source material out there to do one. It would be something; a comic book movie without the superhero and it could work. They're already doing great things with their animated flicks, why not do one on something like this?

Oh something just occurred to me, why Lois might not recognize Clark. Remember that one scene where they kissed? Remember superman power where with a kiss he can erase your memories?

That's right.

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In many storylines, Lex's problem with Supes is that Superman is an outsider/non-human. Basically, how could humanity trust some alien to be its savior. It could be rooted in jealousy because Lex had to work hard for his power while Superman was simply born with them.

If done right, the sequel could be excellent. I doubt we'll see the level of destruction that we saw in Man of Steel. Based on the hidden LuthorCorp stuff in MoS, Lex is probably going to be the billionaire CEO instead of the Gene Hackman version where he was some underground scientist. Lex could hold a grudge against Superman for the destruction in Metropolis and make it where the public turns on Superman.

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I think if they want to make this lex more sinster but in a good way, they should make lex gather up the families of those that hated superman and blame him for the invasion and slowly test the man of steel reaction time through crime and other disasters.

I think the destruction should be bigger to really push superman mentally to the limits making him be everywhere at once and even if he say one person another is dying someplace else.

Bout to watch it again with some friends


And its a 10:15 showing AND THERES STILL A BABY IN HERE SOMEHOW

Like what the frick

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AND THERES STILL A BABY IN HERE SOMEHOW

Like what the frick

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This happened a while back when I saw Star Trek for a second time.

Man, frick those people. That's one of the top five most inconsiderate douchey things you can do to strangers around you. Inconsiderate douchenozzle a-holes. You should get thrown out of the theater for pulling that crap.

When are people going to learn the following?

You are not supposed to bring babies and little kids to grown arse adult movies that wouldn't even interest them and/or is too violent and graphic for them. Hell, don't bring them to the movies at all.

People are fricking idiots. :SMMFH:

Don't bring the babies and little kids or don't come at all.

Sidenote, here's who I hate in no certain order, at the movies: babies and kids, cellphones, talking, frequent pissers, that guy next to me who absolutely must have his third coke of the movie, high schoolers, and the person with their feet on my chair.

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A BABY IN HERE

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I think the AMC at MoL specifically prohibits infant/young kid at late night showings.

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Sidenote, here's who I hate in no certain order, at the movies: babies and kids, cellphones, talking, frequent pissers, that guy next to me who absolutely must have his third coke of the movie, high schoolers, and the person with their feet on my chair.

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:scans for the words black people:

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I really loved it and thought it fricking delivered. This was the Superman movie we've been waiting decades for and it's one where he actually fights with the gloves off. This is one occasion where the critics are way off on a movie and expecting something different.

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I agree. I really have no idea what more the critics could want. It's a great summer action blockbuster with a pretty good story. I mean, what the frick do they want from Superman? Schindler's List?

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Dude...she recognized him.

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I don't see how anyone ever disputed this. It was obvious she recognized him.

Finally saw it.

Lets get to it....

I thought it was great

I did think it was kinda rushed from the scene when he first gets in the scout ship and then starts flying around in his new suit. But im the kinda guy that loves back story.

There could be 3 hours of explaining his past to him and only 20 minutes of action and i would've been okay with it. I know thats weird, but thats me.

I thought Shannon was great as THIS version of Zod. He was a broken man with a single purpose so its understandable that his rage would take over every now and then.

Terrence Stamp on the otherhand approached things like he was a god, which is why he always so calm and collected.Shannon never even considered this. He just wanted to save Krypton.

I thought Henry Cavill was great as the Superman of the new generation. I also found he looked alot like Reeve at times, especially when he was staring up into the world machine's gravity lazer thing. I also enjoyed how he was a brawler when he fought but it was clear that Zod and his cronies had fight training.

Some things i noticed/theories:

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A little bit of humor i picked up. When supes and zod are fighting on top of a construction site in the final scene right before zod shakes off his suit and shows superman that he can fly, Zod punches Superman into a construction tower. The tower has a safety sign on it that says "No Accidents in 130 Days", well as soon as Superman hits the sign the numbers fall off and it changes to "No Accidents in 0 Days". I thought that was humorous.

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Im in agreement with the poster that anyone who was in that pod 18,000 years ago SHOULD be dead by now. I'm going to assume that even under a yellow sun, kryptonians age, albeit much slower.

I actually expected them to go in sort of a Prometheus direction with this and say that Kryptonians are the ancestors of humans (which would explain the physical similarities when it comes to looks), but I think that wouldve just opened a whole nother can of worms that wouldve made the movie way too complex

But I could see this revisited in future versions. Or I could see it as a brainiac or supergirl character that was in the pod but I think they wouldve been frozen in the ice because, again, I dont see how they survive for 18,000 years even at a slower aging rate.

OK, im done for now, TLDR, wutevs, loved that shite