You Want Superman Revamp? [Also the Man of Steel (2013) thread]

http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2013/06/18/man-of-steel/

http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2010/12/17/supervillains-and-insurance-whos-gonna-pay-for-that/

OK what i wanna know is whether they could fly on krypton or not

why would they

they rode around on dinosaurs and jabba the hut and shit

well i'm surprised to learn zod and his dudes picked it up so quickly

at times Shannon's Zod reminded me too much of his Nelson Van Alden character when he killed his partner via extreme baptism at the end of Season 1.

it's true, this was a pretty shouty movie.

climactic battle should have just been a series of ricocheting close ups

I AM ZOD! ARRRRRRRRRR

I AM SUPERMAN! ARRRRRRRRRRR

ARRRRRRRRR

ARRRRRRRRR

ARRR--

ARRR--

AR--

AR--

final three shots

1: CU of ZOD. his eyes close, his head slumps.

2. CU of SUPERMAN.
SUPERMAN: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

3. CU of Lois Lane, looking sympathetic

END

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Damage_Control_1.png/250px-Damage_Control_1.png

hope that wasn't sarcastic

While Rob Bricken is how you say uneven as a writer, I do appreciate his film summaries:

http://io9.com/the-most-important-scenes-from-man-of-steel-as-i-remem-516405346

Things/people/scenery will be punched.

Realistically that's all we can ask for.

― tsrobodo, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 13:12 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't understand what ya'll are complaining about.

http://cityarts.info/2013/06/14/serious-fun/

Jesus Christ, Armond...

And there's this film's death knell.

"The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is a masterpiece, I promise you"

I didn't hate this! Helps that I'd already been warned about the destruction porn. Liked most of the performances, and while Amy Adams was kind of whatever, I really liked the choice to make her Supes' confidante from the get-go rather than a clueless, arbitrary crush object. I hope they chicken out of Justice League and just give us a snappier sequel with Lex and a Superman who actually cares when buildings fall on people (or at least a director who doesn't show us buildings falling on people).

kinda felt the same, pretty much. really liked Amy Adams though and the angle they went with as you said

it's superman though, punching people through buildings is 90% of what i'm looking for. more 9/11 crap was unnecessary though

god what an ugly, charmless, confused film

goyer and snyder answering the neverending "why can't anyone figure out how to make superman interesting again" with a resounding idgaf

and god how is it that they drill you with the old grade-school "superman as christ figure" symbols and completely ignore that christ had at least a modicum of charisma

holy shit the script actually makes nolan's batman films sound loose by comparison

i could count exactly one point where the dialogue didn't exist for sake of totally self-serious exposition (EVEN IN BATTLE), in the barfy out-of-nowhere "all downhill from the first kiss" exchange, which sort of sounded like something picked out of one of the reeve movies, which only made the script seem more like an aching miserable little barf baby yearning for sweet death, so desperate for purpose or direction or something, oh my god someone please take away david s. goyer's pen

didn't think i'd like iron man 3 more than before but i do now

MoS summed up in two words:

http://i.imgur.com/61Eoi.gif

it's superman though, punching people through buildings is 90% of what i'm looking for

what Superman stuff have you liked before

http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/vkfUUqowQjA/mqdefault.jpg

a friend emailed this over the weekend:

http://cdn2.screenjunkies.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2010b/superman-zod.gif

first picture: yes

second picture: idgi

OK, let's go here... (makes me almost wanna see it)

If anything, Shannon’s Zod reminded me of an ultra-right Likudnik. The big, loud climax of the movie comes when Zod sends two gigantic robo-drills to terraform Earth into a New Krypton, which would of course end with the total extinction of the human race. But Zod’s not too worried about that. He all but says “can’t make Space-Zion without breaking a few eggs.”

For a character dreamed up by two Jewish boys in Cleveland as a kind of Moses-cum-Christ figure, it’s bizarre that no one’s made this connection yet. Which goes to show you just how off-the-radar the plight of the Palestinians is for both mainstream America as well as our circle of liberal film critics.

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/06/i-love-man-of-steel-and-im-not-sorry/

this movie made me think of Dune too, mostly when Michael Shannon screamed "I WILL FIND HIM! I WILL FIND HIM!"

Hahahah I thought the exact same thing.

how fucking random was it that a free-falling jor-el was saved by his trusty dragon

Watching that scene I felt like Bart and Lisa watching Poochie returning to his home planet.

"They have dragons on Krypton?"
"I...guess."

shoulda had a dragon sent to the phantom zone so zod could show up on earth with a dragon

my cut would have also had aaron paul as a streetwise jimmy olson noting that dragons were now up in this bitch

Which goes to show you just how off-the-radar the plight of the Palestinians is for both mainstream America as well as our circle of liberal film critics.

Wait until he gets to the second act of World War Z.

really kind of lolled a bit when the council asked Zod "On whose order?" and Zod replies "Mine" and ices the lady.

What did she expect him to say?

I was hoping the movie would end with hologram following Zod around annoying him until Zod killed himself.

god, Holo-Dad, like shut up already

Kal-El, the floor of this spacecraft is not a hamper...

hahaha

how fucking random was it that a free-falling jor-el was saved by his trusty dragon

― da croupier, Monday, June 24, 2013 12:44 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

avatar, dude.

idk if this has been mentioned yet, but why weren't the people of Earth still pissed at superman for drawing zod there in the first place?

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/610470/zod_medium.gif

pissed or not, what could they do about it? that's why I loled at the end where the military was sending out drones to spy on Superman. the fuck you gonna do if he is flying around playing hockey with skyscrapers? write him a sharply worded letter?

"you'll never find out where i hang my cape ps i'm from kansas"

a reporter with gumption figured out who you are, and now you narrow it down to an underpopulated state for the gov

i'm amazed superman doesn't ever collide with any planes

the whole last act was little but plot holes IMO

xp tbf he did move to Metropolis by the end