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« on: June 16, 2013, 09:46:37 AM »
Above every other movie this year, I want it to be good. Pacific Rim will give me Giant Robots vs. Giant Monsters, so I'm okay with that either way. Star Trek Into Darkness, despite the total lack of plot or story, was still enjoyable cause it was fun & action-y. But this, this I really want to be good.
Posted on: May 27, 2013, 09:52:42 PM
So I saw Man of Steel tonight.
Now I've been reading a lot of mixed reviews of this movie. Some people like it and some people hate it. The problem of trying to restart a franchise like this is that it is always going to be compared to the original, cause many people have fond memories of Christopher Reeves as the big blue boy scout. Personally, I'm not a fan of those movies at all. While I love Reeves as Supes, I did not like the rest of the cast at all. I found Kidder annoying as Lois, I did not like Hackman as Luthor. The tone of the movie jumps all over the place, from serious to funny to goofy funny to serious to funny to nuclear disaster to absurd to Lois dying to spinning around the Earth and so on and so forth. Even so a lot of people, without jumping on how it doesn't have the levity of the first one, did not like the movie for reasons like how it had no soul or there was no character and many other reasons. Myself?
I liked it. I liked it a lot actually.
I'll admit that the story is very comic book-y. Being that it's a comic book movie though, I can easily let that slide. But all the critical reviews, all the people talking about this are trying to convey what the message of Superman is. They talk about protecting people, collateral damage, savior, and so on and so forth and a lot of the negative reviews seem to feel that it doesn't feel like Superman. To me this movie above any other, captures what I believe to be the true message of Superman.
Good parenting.
Superman, to me, is more about what both his biological & foster parents did for him. Jor-El and Lara save his life from Krypton's destruction and the Kents raise him to be who he is, and it shows in this movie. It's funny, cause one of the main things I keep reading in both the good reviews and the bad are how awesome the Kents are in this movie. And they are. And it shows. Costner and Lane do a magnificent job as Mr. & Mrs. Kent. Crowe does a pretty great job as Jor-El. And it is in that in which I got the Superman movie I've always wanted to see, complete with special effects that made me feel truly young. Not even the kick ass fight scenes, but just him flying. I came out of the theater just looking into the night sky and wishing I could do what I just saw.
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