So Saturday night I was involved in a mini reunion of Centennial College International Business Management people and we decided to go see the new Superman movie, Man of Steele. I'm going to say this right off the bat, I am a Marvel fan, the first comic book series I read on a regular basis was X-Men, I loved the first X-Men movie, and I'm a huge fan of the current Avenger stuff going on. So I know I'm a bit bias when it comes to Marvel vs DC. However I'm a fan of the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, except Dark Knight Rises, that was just terrible. So after seeing the trailer and a few other clips from the movie on YouTube to me it looked like it had promise, boy was I wrong!
I know I'm not a fan of Superman pretty much at all, but I love really good action movies, especially good comic movies. But this was just a complete disaster. The beginning of the movie takes place where it should on Krypton, but it's the weirdest looking Krypton I've ever seen. Weird future teck that seems to run on the principle of pixels, flying beasts that show up when you shout for them even if there's an air battle going on and then there's the clone babies, so weird! Instead of just having a plot about Superman coming to earth, and starting to battle crime or some other kind of origin story, but there's this added plot line that was defiantly not in the comic at all. Now I don't want to go into plot details, cause even with bad movies people get mad at spoilers, so I'll just give the general problems. The pacing was so bad! There were huge parts of the movie that was just exposition, and when the final battle scene came around it seemed like the director realized that there was no action in the movie, other than at the beginning, so there was so much action crammed into the end of the movie that it made the whole battle pointless. Also there seems to be a lack of safety concerns by anyone in the states in this movie, hey bunch of aliens getting into a bare knuckles fight that when one of them gets thrown into a building it collapses, so you know all the normal people go hide in the front stores of the buildings that are later demolished, oh yeah and the Army doesn't give a shit about their own citizens and just helps blow up the whole town. For that matter the Army isn't allowed to operate on it's own soil in the states, there was no discussion about that in the movie at all, and I'm Canadian and noticing that.
I already have a long standing beef with 'people' in movies, especially in big cities, who see a big alien aircraft, or in the case of the Avengers, giant flying alien creatures, and all the people just stand there and stare at it! I'm sorry but if I see a giant aircraft, alien or otherwise, that shouldn't be there, there's maybe a few minutes of staring and then there's 'holy crap! RUN!!' That's what your reaction is to seeing something dangerous that SHOULDN'T be there!!!!! In this movie it was even worst, it wasn't just innocent by standers, but characters that clearly were going to survive for at least this movie, are just standing in the building staring at the big thing that is destroying their city, and they don't leave the building even after watching this thing crush other buildings until the building across the street falls over! Also these same people who hang out in a building till the building across the street falls over, one of them gets stuck under some rubble and the other people have to help her out, cause of course it's the woman who gets trapped, they just barely survive the 'gravity' thing and then they decide to stick around and continue to watch the battle when they should have gotten the HELL out of there!!
Now onto the the sexism. Like I mentioned there were characters that ran out of the building, two guys and a girl and the only one who gets stuck is the girl, that was not the only thing. First when Superman is born his father holds him up and looks at him like he's the most magnificent thing ever, which I understand that part, however we never see him hand the kid to the woman who started off the movie screaming in pain as she pushed the little one out of her body! Plus there's a moment of doubt from Superman's movie about sending him away, which is understandable, but it's totally a 'I'm a woman who's lost reason' kind of scene with the man being completely rational about the situation. On top of that there's a whole 'father's are the only ones who raise the kids' mentality through out the entire movie. There's one moment where Superman defends his mom, but he leaves her there and doesn't get her to safety or anything or make sure she's alright until after he has a big moment with some soldiers first. And one of the last scenes of course is a girl who's in the army smiling cause 'she think he's kind of hot'. I'm not even going touch on the relationship between Superman and Lois Lane cause they start off with Lois Lane being an amazing Pulitzer prize winning tough reporter who goes after the story no matter what and within a few minutes of meeting him, and him rescuing her she's reduced to an obsessed fan.
One more little note, apparently Metropolis is made out of glass, like the entire city is JUST glass.
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