Man of Steel

It has been a while since my last post here. Long story short it's summer here and it was just way too hot to write. And festival season started, so yeah that was also a thing. Maybe in this week I will finally finish the second part of my arrow review. Ok somewhen in the next weeks to come seems more realistic. But totally before the start of the second season, I guess. So here is the deal, yesterday I was seeing the Man of Steel and it was a good flick but there were a few thing I couldn't help but to talk about, and here I'm am.

For everyone who hasn't seen the movie already, go watch it! I guess there will be spoilers duh!

So what I really liked was the way the way the movie started. It's nothing new, we all know the story of Krypton to some extend but the visuals and Russel Crows performance as Jor-El really made it worthwhile. But the moment he is riding on this flying creature somehow reminded me of Avatar and thats not a good thing. The movie in generell had some absurd amount of CGI. That's not necessary a bad thing, if handeld proper. And I think the really did a great job in the most cases. But when thinking about the movie, there is one scene in particular where I thought: ok all the money for CGI is already gone. When Clark rescues the guys on the oil rig and busts through the metal door while burning. The fire in this scene just looked awful.

We see Clark traveling around with fake names and helping people, while always getting flashbacks of his youth and how he grew to be the person he came to be. I really though that was a nice move to do but I don't get why he is on his road trip in the first place. I don't believe he is searching for this ship because he didn't knew it existed till he found it. So he just left his mother and went rouge? Doesn't sound like the Superman I know but ok plot holes. The thing that really disturbed me was the death of Jonathan Kent. Cause for this movie they changed the circumstances of his death. In the comics I know he dies cause of an Heart attack, which shows Clark that he can't save everyone. There are things not even Superman can stop. In Man of Steel he essentially dies because Clark let's him. Yeah Mr.Kent wanted it that way but seriously there had to be another way to safe him than just standing there.

Then everything happens fast, he finds this ship, gets the costume, Lois Lane discovers his identity in something about 10 freaking seconds, unimportant side characters appear, and Zod approaches the earth. When I say unimportant side characters I mean the whole Daily Planet crew or the military dude from Law and Order SVU. Cause they adding nothing to the plot and have around 3 scenes, so I don't care for them at all. I guess they are just in this movie because it's an Superman movie. And another plot hole I couldn't get my head around. Why did Zod want Lois Lane on his ship? How the hell does he even know that she is there when they took Superman? I guess just so she could tell them all how to rebuild Clarks ship into an black hole generator or bs like that.

And then it begins. The CGI battle we deserve but probably don't need. This action sequences where just huge. As predicted from a guy like Zack Snyder it's visually spectacular. After this movie you think about the battle of NY in the Avengers as an little training field. But ,and this is a big but!, if you know Superman you know his first directive is to not hurt anyone. In all the fight scenes it's seems like he gives crap about people and their properties. I mean he is throwing things through buildings and stuff like this. This is all of course normal but he probably should trie to get them away from living people to protect them first, right? But I will give him some slack because he is new in this whole hero business.

Finally there was the End. You know where Clark killed General Zod. And I saw people on the internet really getting upset about that, cause you know Superman normally don't kills. But in order to wrap the movie up what other choice did Clark or the Directors have? Really Clark was just about strong enough to hold him down? How the hell should he take a guy like that into custody? And I truly believe that Superman would kill in such an situation. All the other people didn't deserve the hate Zod had for them. The cool thing is this could somehow explain why Superman is against killing after this story. Think about it, not that he would have accidently killed civilians while flying through buildings and stuff.

Overall this movie was really entertaining and fun. No Batman Begins, Dark Knight or Avengers but really enjoyable. If you think about Superman Returns and compare it to Man of Steel, no don't do that, just don't think about Superman Returns at all okay?! No really go see the film it is good :)