This is kind of the trap of doing any reboot like this, though. For the people in this thread at least, Superman is well-established as a character and in particular he has this moral ideal of never taking a life. People are arguing that it’s a point against MoS that he breaks this, even though this is a reboot where this moral position isn’t really established. So either we are expected to accept these previously established properties of Superman, in which case they don’t need to be explained in MoS and are just taken as given, or they’re thrown out, in which case killing Zod doesn’t actually contradict anything established about this particular Superman character.
That sounds near-identical to a Spectre story from 1968 by Neal Adams. I have it in trade paperback, and if the wiki summary of Maggin’s novel is at all accurate, Adams’ story is far superior.
I’m aware that wanker originally meant masturbator, but I have also seen it used as a general insult akin to lower. The meaning of words changes over time. It’s not a matter of not understanding it; it’s just a usage different than you’re used to, but clear from context.
Zack Snyder, director of MoS defends the destruction caused in the final battle and states that it will be addressed in the new Batman vs Superman movie: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/02/man-steel-ending…-zack-snyder-makes-his-case
It’s not a usage I’ve ever seen, Skald. It did sound wrong to me, too. It’s a general insult now, not just masturbator, you’re right there. But it’s a personal pejorative only really applicable to people or anthropomorphisms.
The movie can’t be a wanker. Snyder can.
That just shows that Snyder still doesn’t get what some (many?) felt he did wrong. It wasn’t the destruction, it was Superman not caring. Have him try to move away from population centers while Zod pulls it back. But Snyder couldn’t spare 60 seconds for that.
In fact the opposite happens. Superman pulls the fight back to the City. I just wanted to have one or two token rescue scenes. Superman would risk getting beaten by Zod to save someone. he should have done it.
These are his first fights. Ever. In life. He’s new at this and he’s scrappy and he’s not up against tomato cans.
I’m totally OK with a rookie Superman who doesn’t pop out of the box fully formed. Who’s a little bit overwhelmed and trying his best and doesn’t know exactly what he should be doing while a powerful alien pummels his face.
There is the bit where Clark catches that guy who falls out of a helicopter, takes a moment to make sure he’s okay, and then a Kryptonian plows into him at ramming speed, and, yeah, okay, don’t have to tell me twice; every moment I spend on something other than incapaciting murderous supers, more innocents are at risk.
Superman fan of over 4 decades I liked MoS even though the killing at the end jarred with me a bit. Thought it was overall a different take to what I remembered from the comics.
Superman Returns I can’t actually remember ever watching, but I was never a massive fan of the Christopher Reeve superman.
