DC Cinematic Universe (Batman, Supes, Aquaman, and more)

February 25, 2016

I think a lot of people disagree with what they want superman to be. Some people who have never read the comics see him as Christopher Reeves. Some people read just the classics, the defining works of the character. Some people only read the old stuff, some the new stuff.

Superman has evolved. But it's not apparent like Batman. Batman has very clearly changed from the golden age, to the silver age, to the 80s, 90s, and 2000s and the New 52. But people don't seem to want to see that happen with Superman. They want him to stay the way he was when they read his comics or saw his movies.

I think a lot of people aren't and don't want to be understanding about Man of Steel. They don't want to accept that when he fought Zod, it was the first time he was Superman. He caused damage and destruction, and killed Zod, because he had never done that before. He didn't realize the consequences would be so severe. He's a boy from Kansas. He's never seen anything like that fight either. He's not prepared for it.

NOPE! That's just not acceptable for some people. They want Superman to be all knowing, infallible, and... Dare I say, boring.

I don't hate MoS because it's a new take on Superman or that 'it's his first day'.

I hate it because it's a dumb movie with a dumb story and the action was basically just white noise.

Zod is a terrible villain... Out of all the planets on our solar system, he picks ours for no f*cking reason.

He talks about how he doesn't want newborn Kryptonians to have to adjust to life on Earth, but he does it in literally 20 seconds in the movie.

The dubstep machine that destroys the earth... It was destroyed by the power of god, because the movie spent like 30 minutes establishing that Kryptonians have no superpowers in Kryptonian atmosphere, then Superman just forgets about that.

Then, my god... To kill Zod's ship thing, they put the plot device in the plot USB port, and it makes a black hole. Then Superman (Who, at that point, is slower than light) escapes its gravitational pull. Then, through the reoccurring divine interference, the black hole that floats about 20 feet above ground... Instead of devouring the Earth, it just disappears. It stops existing.

Oh, you can't destroy matter? Tell that to Zack f*cking Snyder who cared more about making a dumb spectacle movie over making a competent one.

The action always just boiled down to 'sh*t happening', it was barely less confusing as Transformers action scenes.

Edited February 25, 2016 by IDredMan

February 25, 2016

Zod is a brilliant villain. He's always been the bad buy for Superman, it's obvious you just don't like him for no reason. The reason he chooses Earth because he finds out that Kal-El is living there, and being face to face with Kal's father and getting humiliated because of his motives and stubborn nature, they are enemies. Kal was a threat to him, period, that's why he hunts him down and since he's on earth, he uses the planet as leverage and causes destruction at the same time.

Kryptonians don't have superpowers on Krypton because they have a red sun, yellow sun is what give them the powers, it has nothing to do with the atmosphere. That's the main reason why he's never going to move away from Earth, excluding his love and affection for the humans. Also, he barely knew about Krypton, he was on an escape pod when he was a f*cking baby when the planet exploded.

When Zod's ship blows up, it doesn't create a black hole, common sense tells you that a black hole forms when a star is dead. It's just unstable energy feeding on itself and expands to the point where it sucks everything in, but dies after. Superman can easily get out of that, but this is him in the beginning still, prime Supes is as fast as light.

MOS was not perfect, not in the slightest sense. The dialogue was not bad, but it sure as hell wasn't pretty which is one flaw. I personally think the actress who plays Lois is sh*t, period. I never gave a sh*t about her, and still cannot for the life of me. She's a lost cause. Few small stuff here and there, but MOS was very good. It's a hard project to successfully create.

Edited February 25, 2016 by MyName'sJeff

February 25, 2016