I really would go and see it on the big screen. It was amazing.
Anyone who's seen 'Man of Steel', can we talk about SPOILER-related stuff?
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Satanus
I have a confession, lost. I haven't been to a theatre in yrs. Its just a couple of hours of entertainment.
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thinking_not_believing
I didn't like the movie much. special effects were great but that's a small part of why I go see movies.in fact my favorite part was when he snapped zods neck. I thought... " I'm pretty sure good guys don't kill bad guys in comic books" note* i own zero comic books and have read maybe 1 where the thuundercats fight superman...
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okage
Superman/Doomsday:
Doomsday was a creation from a scientist who was of an ancient race found on krypton. He started out as a baby and was hurled into the hazardous wastelands of ancient krypton and would be killed by the monsters out there. The scientist retrieved the body and cloned the baby and repeated the process hundreds of times in an effort to speed up adaptation. Eventually, the creature that would be named Doomsday (by Booster Gold, I believe), adapted to anything that could hurt him to the point that he could adapt while living.
Those bone plates over his knees and shoulders were evolved while in battle. He also has bone shards guarding his eyes and sternum to prevent damage to his eyes and heart.
In the Death of Superman, they hit each other so hard that Superman was put into a death sleep while Doomsday was technically dead. With this attack, Doomsday evolved again and became biologically immortal. Cyborg Superman in the Reign of the Supermen story sensed this and launched Doomsday into outer space so that when Doomsday woke up, he would be somebody else's problem.
He was then found and brought to Apokolips so Darkseid could use him as a weapon. Unfortunately, nobody puts Baby in the corner, so Doomsday started killing people left and right on Apokolips while Cyborg (in a black and red motif now) tried to take over Apokolips. So Darkseid needed Superman's help. They couldn't kill Doomsday because of his new evolved state, so they had Waverider (still the 90's by this point) take Doomsday to the very last moment in time and they left him there.
This was the very last time Doomsday was cool and not just some nostalgia bump DC uses to get the fans from the 90's reading again.
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okage
My issue with Superman killing is that Batman in the comics is usually criticized by Superman for the lengths Bruce goes in fights with supervillains. In Batman/Superman: Supergirl, Batman was willing to destroy all of Apokolips, killing everyone on it, just to help save Supergirl, who was kidnapped by Darkseid and Granny Goodness.
Now that Superman has killed someone and Batman has killed zero people, the dynamic will be so much different between the two of them.
And really!? A Krypton scouting ship and they couldn't use a plot device where Clark learns about the Phantom Zone to later trap Zod in the PZ? It would have been a dramatic scene where it sucks everyone from Krypton in and Superman fights with all he has to avoid being trapped. Just a massive CGI black hole with debris and rendered Kryptonian soldiers being thrown into it.
And they pick an anti-climactic "snap."
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DATA-DOG
I noticed something really weird. It could be my imagination. Then again I am the type of guy who finds the hidden sex messages in disney movies and saw the penis tower on the first Little Mermaid box. I also heard some hidden audio in Ratatoullie, although I have yet to " re-find it". I heard it at the theater. I swore that someone behind me was talking ( my pet peeve ) so I turn around and there was no one. I kept hearing it and realized it was coming through the speakers.. anyway
Here is what I think I saw. I watched the movie twice. The second time I purposely looked very carefully for this wierd thing. The scene where Kal-el fights the World Engine is the one. He get's thrown underneath the machine, right into the Gravity beam. As he is getting ready to fly up and destroy the machine his image is warped and obscured by the gravity field. There is an instance where his face morphs into Christopher Reeves face! I swear that I did not imagine it! I can't find any mention of it on the net. Has anyone seen that in the film? It only lasts for 1 or 2 seconds.
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Vidiot
My kids and I loved it (much more than the old Chris Reeve movies, I might add).
Pretty sure I saw the family alive after Zod's neck was snapped. And who says that being forced to kill Zod isn't the reason (in this continuity, at least) that Superman develops such an aversion to killing?
I liked how the US military and Superman were uneasy with one another, yet tentatively willing to put it aside and defend the world; it felt plausible. Really, when you think about it, the only way anybody on Earth would accept an extra-terrestrial champion in the post-9-11 world would be if humanity's entire existence were on the line, i.e. defending the planet against an invasion and extinction-level event orchestrated by his own people.
Which is, when you boil it down, precisely what he did.
The Wayne Industries satellite was a cool cameo.
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minimus
I saw it yesterday. From 1 to 5 stars, I'd give it no more than a 3. It was too redundant in the destruction scenes.
Plus, I always viewed Superman as a superhero that prevented death and destruction.
I liked the earlier Clark scenes with his dads.
I'm glad I saw it but it was over the top.
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minimus
Oh, and about snapping Zod's neck, I thought to myself, that's all Superman had to do?? He should've done that before Metropolis went down.
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minimus
Oh, and about snapping Zod's neck, I thought to myself, that's all Superman had to do?? He should've done that before Metropolis went down.