Cheerios by General Mills.
I guess it’s all up to personal taste, fair enough. Though I will point out that the cheesiness of STM is of it’s time. Superheroes weren’t taken much seriously up to that point.
When I was kid getting into comics, DC comics were cartoony and “for kids.” I went with the more serious and “adult” Marvel comics. DC eventually started getting a bit more like Marvel.
Thank you for pointing that out. The ending of SII was slapped onto “The Movie” before Donner could finish the former. Which is why his cut shouldn’t be taken as an official version.
That was definitely the start of the Modern Age (Mid to late 80’s). DC was going through some hard times in comic book sales, and writer’s like John Byrne, Marv Wolfman, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore were brought in to update the company. All of DC characters were written more weight and seriousness than ever before.
To be honest, they both suffer for having an immature view of maturity. And not the fun sort of immaturity either, the sort that makes the editors at both companies hate marriage and love killing off the characters we like.
What’s funny is that, yes, in general around 1970-1980…Marvel was more mature and had better characterization…BUT, it’s DC’s horror comics that hold up in that era (And are sought after) while Marvel’s Dracula stuff holds up (and some Man-Thing) but most of the rest is just poorly drawn and a big mess.
House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Witching Hour…all well drawn and written.
Just saw Man of Steel a few days ago for the first time, so was thinking about this. Been quite some time since I’ve seen StM, but I probably watched that (and S2) hundreds of times in the 80’s. (Also S3, and to a lesser extent S4, but no one cares about those, in retrospect)
Anyway, my thoughts on MoS are that it’s a pretty good action sci fi movie, but a pretty bad Superman movie. (Still better than Superman Returns, though.)
Some of the casting was pretty good. I actually like Crowe better as Jor-El than Brando (lets be honest, he was kinda phoning in that role) and whatsisname was surprisingly good as Superman (though not even close to Reeve’s level).
I did not care for Amy Adams as Lois, though she wasn’t absolutely awful the way the actress in Returns was. But compared to Kidder, or Teri Hatcher, or Smallville’s Erica Durance, she just didn’t come off with any weight to the role.
Larry Fishburne as Perry was weird, on a few levels, but the performance was good
The guy playing Zod, though… Wow… P.U. Absolutely awful. They guy who played Zod on Smallville blew him away and that guy wasn’t even in the league of Terrance Stamp.
Oh hey… gotta go… didn’t really get to much of what I wanted to say, but maybe I’ll come back and talk about more than the cast.
The guy who played Zod on Smallville was really big stage on a little Smallville set, wasn’t he?