"The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is a masterpiece, I promise you"
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Sunday, 23 June 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
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).
― da croupier, Monday, 24 June 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Monday, 24 June 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link
god what an ugly, charmless, confused film
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:35 (ten years ago) link
goyer and snyder answering the neverending "why can't anyone figure out how to make superman interesting again" with a resounding idgaf
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:37 (ten years ago) link
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
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 24 June 2013 08:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Monday, 24 June 2013 08:34 (ten years ago) link
MoS summed up in two words:
http://i.imgur.com/61Eoi.gif
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Monday, 24 June 2013 11:50 (ten years ago) link
it's superman though, punching people through buildings is 90% of what i'm looking for
what Superman stuff have you liked before
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/vkfUUqowQjA/mqdefault.jpg
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Monday, 24 June 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
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/
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
this movie made me think of Dune too, mostly when Michael Shannon screamed "I WILL FIND HIM! I WILL FIND HIM!"
― da croupier, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Hahahah I thought the exact same thing.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
how fucking random was it that a free-falling jor-el was saved by his trusty dragon
― da croupier, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
Watching that scene I felt like Bart and Lisa watching Poochie returning to his home planet.
"They have dragons on Krypton?""I...guess."
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
shoulda had a dragon sent to the phantom zone so zod could show up on earth with a dragon
― da croupier, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
my cut would have also had aaron paul as a streetwise jimmy olson noting that dragons were now up in this bitch
― da croupier, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
I was hoping the movie would end with hologram following Zod around annoying him until Zod killed himself.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
god, Holo-Dad, like shut up already
― Nhex, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Kal-El, the floor of this spacecraft is not a hamper...
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, June 24, 2013 12:44 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
avatar, dude.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/610470/zod_medium.gif
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
"you'll never find out where i hang my cape ps i'm from kansas"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
a reporter with gumption figured out who you are, and now you narrow it down to an underpopulated state for the gov
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
i'm amazed superman doesn't ever collide with any planes
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
the whole last act was little but plot holes IMO
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
xp tbf he did move to Metropolis by the end
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
Mass Murderer of Steel: The Game
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
lol, kyle baker!
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
Hahahah Terence Stamp's on a roll
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/original-superman-star-interrupts-man-573843
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Somehow reminded if McLuhan in Annie Hall.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
*of
Sadly, Stamp passed up a once-in-a-lifetime to order the men to "pee before Zod."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
idg how I'm supposed to play that Kyle Baker game. altho I do love Kyle baker
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
xpost lol
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
ok so i saw this and there were more things that i liked about it than i thought i would, but i did go in with like -1000 expectations
liked:- krypton prologue and all the kooky sci-fi stuff there, i thought that was pretty weird and fun- some of the flying around pinball machine action stuff- the way the ships and stuff were filmed through a heat haze
didn't like:- superman himself, what a big zero, the movie basically yawned anytime he was on screen- all the pandering jesus and church stuff- the fact that since everyone fighting was basically invulnerable the action scenes were pretty low-stakes plot-wise and were all about them just destroying property and lives- kevin costner a good fit for the role but obviously just dropped by the set for like 2 days- pa kent telling clark he should have let the bully kid die?? what the fuck?? since when does PA KENT tell superman to let a child die????- superman's scream of anguish after he kills a guy, which i hated that he did too, they might have sold it but it wasnt earned at all at all- superman should have this deep bond with his adopted planet and country, he should be more american than american, but having him sulk around for the first 20 years or whatever really weakens his identity
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
oh and:
- there's something terrible about a superman movie that's just totally joyless and humourless, i kept thinking about the scene in the original donner film where he realizes he can outrun a train and that total euphoria, it's so much more interesting than having him writhe around in super-sense-agony and mope about his powers
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
no moments of wonder like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiN0Lwvi7CA
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:30 (ten years ago) link
haha there were so many weird moments like that in the originals, gotta love em
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
definitely caught a bunch of michael bay moments in this too, like all the scenes of different ethnic groups around the world watching their TVs in awe, very armageddon
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
Ha, that's the worst! Are they standing in front of readily recognizable landmarks, like the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link
it's more like they do the old cliche of "news broadcast simultaneously jump from country to country and the language being spoken by the broadcaster transitions smoothly into the language of that country."
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Just remember watching Armageddon in the theater during that whole around the world montage and my friend leaning over to me and saying "got a Coke?"
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link