I am usually completely clueless about if a man is attractive or not. But even I thought he was disgustingly good looking.
There was one thing I noticed on the big screen that I probably wouldn’t have seen on TV. Anyone else catch the inappropriate footwear with the huge heels that Amy Adams was wearing in the desert? I guess your leads aren’t allowed to be a foot apart in height.
I was particularly impressed because I assume those are the shoes she ran out of her apartment in when the government came for her. I would have broken my damn legs–and she took the stairs.
Oh god, I hated The Dark Knight.
Kidding, I loved it. Don’t get me wrong, Two-Face was great, but he was in the movie for all of what, five minutes? I wish it had been more, but *TDK *was a movie about Batman and The Joker that Harvey Dent/Two-Face just happened to be in.
Too wordy. For a joke like this, short and punchy is better.
Like the movie, if it was short.
But not, I hasten to add, because I thought it was a bad movie or because I know anything to speak of about the Superman canon, much less care if the filmmakers want to violate it.
I just got destruction overload. I do get the point about showing that physical force for these offworlders is on a completely different scale from our puny Earthling ideas (and this was well if stressfully brought out by having freightloads of elite military firepower ground to powder by one pissed-off Kryptonian leaping at the ship). But it just wore me out, so when the World Organizer or whatever the thing was touched down, I gathered my bags and called it a night. I’m sure I’ll pick up the missed bits sometime, but for me it wasn’t a movie to watch all at once.
Never mind the clunky religious allegory stuff, did anybody else think that it just didn’t make sense for Clark Kent to be as old as 33? Forget that the actor who played him was still under 30 at the time of filming, I just don’t buy that Clark Kent’s been drifting around the world for fifteen years (assuming he graduated high school at 18 and embarked on his roving-rescue-worker career shortly thereafter).
Five or maybe ten years, okay. I’d believe that a twentysomething Clark Kent was still sort of fumbling around his life, uncertain of his real powers, and (presumably) had never yet kissed a girl. But by 33 it becomes a bit creepy.
I got the impression that with the possible exception of Jor-El, the population of Kyrpton were basically incapable of thinking originally. It’s not too surprising, considering that they were all genetically predestined and trained from birth to do exactly one job, that they wouldn’t be able to deal with unplanned notions like “Our atmosphere keeps us from developing superpowers” or “Our planet is going to explode.”. Even Zod wasn’t really capable of thinking outside his assigned role.
I figured that at the end of the movie, everyone knows that Clark Kent is Superman, but they have all collectively decided to play along. Do you want to be the one to possibly anger the alien demigod who just leveled half a city in a fight? If he wants to pretend to have a secret identity, it’s far safer to pretend to be fooled.
I strongly question the logic of wanting to turn a planet in which you have basically the powers of a god into a planet in which you are just a regular dude.
Would you feel like a god on a planet where everyone else was…special?
Well yes i very certainly would rather live on a planet in which i could fly and move at super speed, not to mention be nearly indestructible, as opposed to one in which i wasn’t. Even if everyone was the same.
Only Superman and Zod had enough focus to go with out the breathing mask. Sensory overload and such. The atmosphere wasn’t gonna be habitable to most others.
All the others would’ve been there all their lives like Superman. And the others didn’t exactly try very hard, I’m sure it wouldn’t have been much of a problem if Zod did it almost instantly.
I didn’t get that vibe from the girl in the bar. I got kinda the exact opposite vibe from the girl in the bar.
And, as the bit with the trucker shows, he’s pretty sure of himself when it comes to being insanely strong and tough; I figure the oil-rig stuff was just the Nth time drifter Clark confidently used his powers to save innocent lives before moving on.
Was that a result of my post or someone with a similar, twisted sense of humor?
Zod specifically mentioned that he had a special kind of focus because he was mentally strong. It wasn’t just a matter of time spent. They strongly suggested that it takes extraordinary fortitude for them to shut everything out. Which the warrior class might have, but not so much the others.
Who else was in on the coup and got Phantom Zoned? Faora’s definitely warrior class; the big dude à la Jack O’Halloran, likewise; what’s the problem?
Why did their colony on earth even die out in the first place?
“Hey this planet gives us superpowers…shouldn’t we, like, propogate our species here and have a planet of super Kriptonians?”
“…Yeah, no, I was thinking we just, you know, languish and die out instead…I’m sure some guy 20,000 years from now will pick up where we left off.”
From a hazy memory (so take it with a grain of salt), Superman was a Messiah figure coupled with the Nietchzian UberMenchen (sp?). The two creators were Jewish (again, if memory serves).
So the Superman = Jesus is more of a modern spin as opposed to the initial conception (which would be Superman = Messiah).
I haven’t actually seen this movie so I’m not sure which way the director went.
This:
Count me in the group that was distracted by how the relentless super fistfights were destroying huge amounts of property and killing lots of people. In Smallville I could accept that those downtown buildings were evacuated and so it was just property damage. But in Metropolis, every time they showed a building toppling over or being crushed I flashed back to 9/11 and couldn’t stop myself from calculating how many people were dying in that scene. “Probably a couple thousand in that skyscraper, add that to the total…”
It was distracting and took away from the enjoyment of the movie, but of course I probably wouldn’t have been thinking about that if the fight scenes were entertaining enough to keep my attention.
Which brings me to a related problem – the overly long fights, and the bane of modern action movies, the multiple dramatic endings. This movie had about five spots where the movie could have – and should have – ended after a big dramatic scene, but then we went right back into another huge fight. It just went on and on. The movie should have been at least half an hour shorter.
And the scene where Superman kills Zod. Like another poster, I thought the drama was ruined because it appeared the family was just standing there waiting to die instead of simply moving out of the way. And I also thought it incongruous that Superman could kill him by simply snapping his neck, after all that back and forth fighting.
But again, I probably shouldn’t have been distracted by those things if I were enjoying the movie overall. The length and unending destruction are probably what took me out of the movie.