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Usual21
Footballguy
playin4beer
Footballguy
I don't follow RT's reviews very much.. so I just went to the site and punched in a few of my favorites to see what they were reviewed at...
Man Of Steel looks like it fits perfectly compared to what the others were rated..
Man Of Steel looks like it fits perfectly compared to what the others were rated..
shadyridr
Footballguy
No, which is why I wont take him. Meant for when it comes on DVDYou think he can sit still for 2 1/2 hours?good for a 4 yr old?
Reason I ask is my son is obsessed with superheroes (all of them) but hes kind of scared of the movies so I generally dont let him watch them.
thanks, sounds awesome then!I would say no. LOTS of violent action.
good for a 4 yr old?
Reason I ask is my son is obsessed with superheroes (all of them) but hes kind of scared of the movies so I generally dont let him watch them.
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NCCommish
Footballguy
Well that was a complete load of crap. Can we get the keys to someone else already?GordonGekko said:You mean a regular 4 year old from a normal family?good for a 4 yr old?
Or a 4 year old spawned from a die hard Yankee fan who is clinically depressed and who has a wife who doesn't respect him enough to stop getting fatter and fatter, while she blames him for all her life failings and cuts him off from sex, pointing her Cheeto dust covered index finger at him?
Don't be "That Guy" No, not the doormat since you've already got tread marks on your back. But "That Guy" who ruins the movie for everyone else with your screaming and/crying and/or whining child.
Back when I lived in NY, used tampons like you made me want to be a Red Sox fan.
*****
Aggregate film reviews are only useful for horror movies and documentaries. Horror films because they are the cheapest type of film to make, so there are so many of them and so many follow the same conventions ( how many times are you going to see a Texas Chainsaw theme or a haunted house with new tenants theme?) Documentaries because the quality tends to be so bipolar, either a documentary is very very good, or sadly, very very bad.
Most noted movie reviewers have editors and are part of a larger staff of journalists. Who work for some type of publication in some medium. Who are typically supported by ads. The people who pay for those ads don't want to see the movie they just spent money for product placement in getting trashed. Why do you think during LeBron Jame's moronic decision that a lot of the criticism from the sports media was so muted? "Uh, it was unfortunate" No, it was mother ####### stupid. The worst self inflicted PR disaster for a celebrity in a century. Even Nike had to take a few days to figure out how to create spin control for it. But after Charles Barkley started unloading in James, he was told to stop. The same people who pay for commercials for TNT and NBA broadcasts are some of the same people who pay James big dollars to endorse him and also some of the same people associated with the league itself.
Do you think you will ever read, "Wow, that Holocaust movie was heavy handed and manipulative in nature and the script was poorly conceived, it's this a subject matter beaten to death by Hollywood?"
Trying to find an honest movie review without an agenda is like trying to find a honest article about music or a video game in magazines devoted to music and videogames respectively.
Man of Steel is not a liberal Hollywood friendly movie. There is subtext in the movie about terrorism, the military industrial complex, even immigration that will not settle well with the liberal viewpoint. But this is the same gaggle of film reviewers that would crap a brick if they saw a movie with Charlize Theron as a school teacher with no lingering problems winning the affections of the most handsome guy on the planet. I'm not a political person, but liberal bigotry has infected the mass media, all the way down to how entertainment is judged. No, no, no, you can only have the really plain girl get the super hot elusive guy or the really hot girl falling for the goofy stupid schlocky nerd.
Man of Steel is going to piss off liberal movie reviewers because of the subtext with Superman mirroring what some would feel is America's role as the "Worlds Policeman" Also liberal reviewers are going to be pissed at the concept of triage in any kind of Super Hero film period. Can you imagine Tony Stark in IM3 having to pick which 6 of the 9 people he could save from falling out of an airplane explosion? Can you imagine how that scene would derail any other aspect of Downey Jr's performance so it can be some agenda driven schlock by some furry tree hugger whore with a keyboard?
Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe are Clark Kent's Barnes and Elias ( watch Platoon sometime shadyrdr, when you aren't fapping off to Anna Kendrick in some tween movie because your wife doesn't think you are offer her much more than to fund her 15 jars of peanut butter a month habit) LIberals aren't going to like this either. Liberals pick the altruistic guy and he is right no matter what and the other guy is wrong no matter what. Liberal reviewers don't like shades of grey, where the difference between right and wrong is what the character can endure as a function of personal sacrifice. Platoon was more than a war movie, it was a story about a boy with two fathers who influenced his moral compass. Costner and Crowe are very much the lynchpins and heart of this film.
#### the reviewers. These are the same industry chuckleheads who were all afraid to say Philadelphia was basically a made for TV movie that backed it's way into an Oscar because no one then had the guts to face any lobbyist backlash for an honest review. Man Of Steel is an "event" film. For nearly an hour, you will see mayhem and destruction to rival anything you've seen on screen before. This film is not perfect, but Superman, the perfect archetype with almost limitless powers, is a difficult subject for anyone to tackle and make seem plausible. Unlike Spiderman and Batman, Superman wasn't built with built in weaknesses that exposed his humanity.
Oh, and shadyrdr, the Cheeto dust happens because she shoves them in her face by the double handful. Next time you want to dance with me son, get better shoes for it.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
If you buy $50 in gift cards from Fandango they'll give you a free ticket to Superman.
coyote5
Footballguy
You had to know right now if this movie will be appropriate for your kid to watch like a year from now when it is out on DVD? <_<No, which is why I wont take him. Meant for when it comes on DVDYou think he can sit still for 2 1/2 hours?good for a 4 yr old?
Reason I ask is my son is obsessed with superheroes (all of them) but hes kind of scared of the movies so I generally dont let him watch them.
thanks, sounds awesome then!I would say no. LOTS of violent action.
good for a 4 yr old?
Reason I ask is my son is obsessed with superheroes (all of them) but hes kind of scared of the movies so I generally dont let him watch them.
shadyridr
Footballguy
no I didnt have to know right now. just figured id ask the question. ive only taken my son to two movies in his life, Wreck it Ralph and The Croods. Next up Monsters University and Despicable Me 2. Id never take him to an adult movie cuz I wouldnt want him disrupting others. Hell, he annoys the heck outta me too lolYou had to know right now if this movie will be appropriate for your kid to watch like a year from now when it is out on DVD? <_<No, which is why I wont take him. Meant for when it comes on DVDYou think he can sit still for 2 1/2 hours?good for a 4 yr old?
Reason I ask is my son is obsessed with superheroes (all of them) but hes kind of scared of the movies so I generally dont let him watch them.
thanks, sounds awesome then!I would say no. LOTS of violent action.
good for a 4 yr old?
Reason I ask is my son is obsessed with superheroes (all of them) but hes kind of scared of the movies so I generally dont let him watch them.
playin4beer
Footballguy
Well that was a complete load of crap. Can we get the keys to someone else already?GordonGekko said:You mean a regular 4 year old from a normal family?good for a 4 yr old?
Or a 4 year old spawned from a die hard Yankee fan who is clinically depressed and who has a wife who doesn't respect him enough to stop getting fatter and fatter, while she blames him for all her life failings and cuts him off from sex, pointing her Cheeto dust covered index finger at him?
Don't be "That Guy" No, not the doormat since you've already got tread marks on your back. But "That Guy" who ruins the movie for everyone else with your screaming and/crying and/or whining child.
Back when I lived in NY, used tampons like you made me want to be a Red Sox fan.
*****
Aggregate film reviews are only useful for horror movies and documentaries. Horror films because they are the cheapest type of film to make, so there are so many of them and so many follow the same conventions ( how many times are you going to see a Texas Chainsaw theme or a haunted house with new tenants theme?) Documentaries because the quality tends to be so bipolar, either a documentary is very very good, or sadly, very very bad.
Most noted movie reviewers have editors and are part of a larger staff of journalists. Who work for some type of publication in some medium. Who are typically supported by ads. The people who pay for those ads don't want to see the movie they just spent money for product placement in getting trashed. Why do you think during LeBron Jame's moronic decision that a lot of the criticism from the sports media was so muted? "Uh, it was unfortunate" No, it was mother ####### stupid. The worst self inflicted PR disaster for a celebrity in a century. Even Nike had to take a few days to figure out how to create spin control for it. But after Charles Barkley started unloading in James, he was told to stop. The same people who pay for commercials for TNT and NBA broadcasts are some of the same people who pay James big dollars to endorse him and also some of the same people associated with the league itself.
Do you think you will ever read, "Wow, that Holocaust movie was heavy handed and manipulative in nature and the script was poorly conceived, it's this a subject matter beaten to death by Hollywood?"
Trying to find an honest movie review without an agenda is like trying to find a honest article about music or a video game in magazines devoted to music and videogames respectively.
Man of Steel is not a liberal Hollywood friendly movie. There is subtext in the movie about terrorism, the military industrial complex, even immigration that will not settle well with the liberal viewpoint. But this is the same gaggle of film reviewers that would crap a brick if they saw a movie with Charlize Theron as a school teacher with no lingering problems winning the affections of the most handsome guy on the planet. I'm not a political person, but liberal bigotry has infected the mass media, all the way down to how entertainment is judged. No, no, no, you can only have the really plain girl get the super hot elusive guy or the really hot girl falling for the goofy stupid schlocky nerd.
Man of Steel is going to piss off liberal movie reviewers because of the subtext with Superman mirroring what some would feel is America's role as the "Worlds Policeman" Also liberal reviewers are going to be pissed at the concept of triage in any kind of Super Hero film period. Can you imagine Tony Stark in IM3 having to pick which 6 of the 9 people he could save from falling out of an airplane explosion? Can you imagine how that scene would derail any other aspect of Downey Jr's performance so it can be some agenda driven schlock by some furry tree hugger whore with a keyboard?
Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe are Clark Kent's Barnes and Elias ( watch Platoon sometime shadyrdr, when you aren't fapping off to Anna Kendrick in some tween movie because your wife doesn't think you are offer her much more than to fund her 15 jars of peanut butter a month habit) LIberals aren't going to like this either. Liberals pick the altruistic guy and he is right no matter what and the other guy is wrong no matter what. Liberal reviewers don't like shades of grey, where the difference between right and wrong is what the character can endure as a function of personal sacrifice. Platoon was more than a war movie, it was a story about a boy with two fathers who influenced his moral compass. Costner and Crowe are very much the lynchpins and heart of this film.
#### the reviewers. These are the same industry chuckleheads who were all afraid to say Philadelphia was basically a made for TV movie that backed it's way into an Oscar because no one then had the guts to face any lobbyist backlash for an honest review. Man Of Steel is an "event" film. For nearly an hour, you will see mayhem and destruction to rival anything you've seen on screen before. This film is not perfect, but Superman, the perfect archetype with almost limitless powers, is a difficult subject for anyone to tackle and make seem plausible. Unlike Spiderman and Batman, Superman wasn't built with built in weaknesses that exposed his humanity.
Oh, and shadyrdr, the Cheeto dust happens because she shoves them in her face by the double handful. Next time you want to dance with me son, get better shoes for it.
I don't even bother to read the replies anymore...
shadyridr
Footballguy
simsarge
Footballguy
Well that was a complete load of crap. Can we get the keys to someone else already?GordonGekko said:You mean a regular 4 year old from a normal family?good for a 4 yr old?
Or a 4 year old spawned from a die hard Yankee fan who is clinically depressed and who has a wife who doesn't respect him enough to stop getting fatter and fatter, while she blames him for all her life failings and cuts him off from sex, pointing her Cheeto dust covered index finger at him?
Don't be "That Guy" No, not the doormat since you've already got tread marks on your back. But "That Guy" who ruins the movie for everyone else with your screaming and/crying and/or whining child.
Back when I lived in NY, used tampons like you made me want to be a Red Sox fan.
*****
Aggregate film reviews are only useful for horror movies and documentaries. Horror films because they are the cheapest type of film to make, so there are so many of them and so many follow the same conventions ( how many times are you going to see a Texas Chainsaw theme or a haunted house with new tenants theme?) Documentaries because the quality tends to be so bipolar, either a documentary is very very good, or sadly, very very bad.
Most noted movie reviewers have editors and are part of a larger staff of journalists. Who work for some type of publication in some medium. Who are typically supported by ads. The people who pay for those ads don't want to see the movie they just spent money for product placement in getting trashed. Why do you think during LeBron Jame's moronic decision that a lot of the criticism from the sports media was so muted? "Uh, it was unfortunate" No, it was mother ####### stupid. The worst self inflicted PR disaster for a celebrity in a century. Even Nike had to take a few days to figure out how to create spin control for it. But after Charles Barkley started unloading in James, he was told to stop. The same people who pay for commercials for TNT and NBA broadcasts are some of the same people who pay James big dollars to endorse him and also some of the same people associated with the league itself.
Do you think you will ever read, "Wow, that Holocaust movie was heavy handed and manipulative in nature and the script was poorly conceived, it's this a subject matter beaten to death by Hollywood?"
Trying to find an honest movie review without an agenda is like trying to find a honest article about music or a video game in magazines devoted to music and videogames respectively.
Man of Steel is not a liberal Hollywood friendly movie. There is subtext in the movie about terrorism, the military industrial complex, even immigration that will not settle well with the liberal viewpoint. But this is the same gaggle of film reviewers that would crap a brick if they saw a movie with Charlize Theron as a school teacher with no lingering problems winning the affections of the most handsome guy on the planet. I'm not a political person, but liberal bigotry has infected the mass media, all the way down to how entertainment is judged. No, no, no, you can only have the really plain girl get the super hot elusive guy or the really hot girl falling for the goofy stupid schlocky nerd.
Man of Steel is going to piss off liberal movie reviewers because of the subtext with Superman mirroring what some would feel is America's role as the "Worlds Policeman" Also liberal reviewers are going to be pissed at the concept of triage in any kind of Super Hero film period. Can you imagine Tony Stark in IM3 having to pick which 6 of the 9 people he could save from falling out of an airplane explosion? Can you imagine how that scene would derail any other aspect of Downey Jr's performance so it can be some agenda driven schlock by some furry tree hugger whore with a keyboard?
Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe are Clark Kent's Barnes and Elias ( watch Platoon sometime shadyrdr, when you aren't fapping off to Anna Kendrick in some tween movie because your wife doesn't think you are offer her much more than to fund her 15 jars of peanut butter a month habit) LIberals aren't going to like this either. Liberals pick the altruistic guy and he is right no matter what and the other guy is wrong no matter what. Liberal reviewers don't like shades of grey, where the difference between right and wrong is what the character can endure as a function of personal sacrifice. Platoon was more than a war movie, it was a story about a boy with two fathers who influenced his moral compass. Costner and Crowe are very much the lynchpins and heart of this film.
#### the reviewers. These are the same industry chuckleheads who were all afraid to say Philadelphia was basically a made for TV movie that backed it's way into an Oscar because no one then had the guts to face any lobbyist backlash for an honest review. Man Of Steel is an "event" film. For nearly an hour, you will see mayhem and destruction to rival anything you've seen on screen before. This film is not perfect, but Superman, the perfect archetype with almost limitless powers, is a difficult subject for anyone to tackle and make seem plausible. Unlike Spiderman and Batman, Superman wasn't built with built in weaknesses that exposed his humanity.
Oh, and shadyrdr, the Cheeto dust happens because she shoves them in her face by the double handful. Next time you want to dance with me son, get better shoes for it.
Somebody mail this boy a chill pill
playin4beer
Footballguy
Ignoramus
Footballguy
Thanks. I've been debating myself since mid-January on where to drop my $10.50 for a movie ticket this year. This decides it for me!
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Oh man...
babydemon90
Footballguy
Liked the LuthorCorp bit in the movie...
Ignoramus
Footballguy
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
Fantastic movie. The 2.5 hours went by really quick. I don't get this feeling after movies very often, but it was one of the movies you didn't want to end. Usually I've had enough when it's winding down.
I agree that the destruction was a little much. I'm also not a big sci-fi guy, so the spaceships didn't appeal to me. The scenes of Earth, and specifically when Clark was still finding himself, were incredible.
Well worth going to see.
I agree that the destruction was a little much. I'm also not a big sci-fi guy, so the spaceships didn't appeal to me. The scenes of Earth, and specifically when Clark was still finding himself, were incredible.
Well worth going to see.
fsufan
Footballguy
Brady Marino
Footballguy
It's better this way, people.
Abraham
Footballguy
Everyone under the age of 20?
Premier
Footballguy
Yea, they're definitely there to see Iowa cornfields and Kevin Costner playing a hayseed.
Mario Kart
Footballguy
The movie was okay. Batman Begins is a better movie. Man of Steel has a better story.
The flashbacks to when Clark did something heroic were awesome. Lois backtracking was good to.
The not so good were the fight scenes... felt too much like the Matrix. And, the product placement was much to obvious.
The tone and editing and picture were top notch though. Definitely a different twist on Superman.
The flashbacks to when Clark did something heroic were awesome. Lois backtracking was good to.
The not so good were the fight scenes... felt too much like the Matrix. And, the product placement was much to obvious.
The tone and editing and picture were top notch though. Definitely a different twist on Superman.
shadyridr
Footballguy
is this heaven?
Usual21
Footballguy
Plus the Wayne Enterprises satellite they destroy.
The Football Freak
Footballguy
It was decent, but not great. I was kind of surprised to see a Nolan produced movie be so weak on explanation. The movie lacked heart, and Cavill lacked charisma. Amy Adams was a weak Lois, and I didn't like the end of the battles for Superman. It felt like a cop out. Zod was great. Overall, 6.5 out of 10. Some people are going to love the movie for the effects, but I wanted a bit more depth. They relied too much on the source material and past movies, and just let things happen without proper support or explanation in the script.
the hairy scotsman
Footballguy
You're right about Cavill lacking charisma, but to be fair, the character lacks charisma. Amy Adams...I thought Lois was supposed to be hot. Effects & mood were great. So was Zod. He & Jor El (sp?) were the most entertaining characters in the movie. Overall it was aiiight. Too long. Overly extended fight scenes. Completely agree also on the lack of plot development.
shader
Footballguy
I disagree with about everything in this post. I've never seen this much of the backstory fleshed out In a superman movie. The only thing I tend to agree with is the Lois part. Not my favorite Lois but her role wasn't a traditional Lois role.Loved the movie. Really fun and I'd see it again.
Hang 10
Footballguy
You hoping for a rematch with nuclear man?
I hate that movie, because as a kid, I never knew his name was supposed to be Nuclear Man. Of course, I only saw the movie once when I was about 6, and always thought that since he came from the Sun, he was Sun Man, or something like that.
Mr Non Sequitur
Footballguy
$120M opening weekend possible.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
So 3d, regular IMAX, or just regular screen?
gump
Footballguy
That's above all forecasts I saw going into the weekend....bigger than IM3 also right?
shader
Footballguy
After a night to sleep on it, here are my thoughts:
I always loved Superman. It will be hard for me to ever find a better Superman and Lois than Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. But obviously we have to move on.
The ORIGIN portion of the movie greatly scared me. ANOTHER origin movie just didn't really excite me all that much. But I was blown away with how they did it. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that they did a great job handling this portion of the movie. I had a certain expectation for the first hour of the movie, and I was completely wrong in every sense. So kudos for them for that. Amazing job on the reboot.
General Zod was really good. I like how they brought such a strong villain into the mix immediately and didn't wait. In a lot of superhero movies, half the story is wasted on the origin and then the first villain is a bit weak. Wasn't the case here. Zod was a beast.
I thought Cavill was very good and very "Supermanish". He has the presence to pull it off.
This should be a great movie franchise.
I always loved Superman. It will be hard for me to ever find a better Superman and Lois than Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. But obviously we have to move on.
The ORIGIN portion of the movie greatly scared me. ANOTHER origin movie just didn't really excite me all that much. But I was blown away with how they did it. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that they did a great job handling this portion of the movie. I had a certain expectation for the first hour of the movie, and I was completely wrong in every sense. So kudos for them for that. Amazing job on the reboot.
General Zod was really good. I like how they brought such a strong villain into the mix immediately and didn't wait. In a lot of superhero movies, half the story is wasted on the origin and then the first villain is a bit weak. Wasn't the case here. Zod was a beast.
I thought Cavill was very good and very "Supermanish". He has the presence to pull it off.
This should be a great movie franchise.
Mr Non Sequitur
Footballguy
IM3 was about $175M May 3-5. Depending on how audiences react, repeat business, should clear $250M I would think for the run pretty easily, $300M perhaps.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Arsenal of Doom
Footballguy
I liked it. First half of the movie I thought was great, the second half I thought relied too much on effects and action that didn't really work for me. Overall though I thought it was a good effort, a nice mix of paying homage to how the character has been developed throughout the years and plenty of new material to work from. I look forward to seeing where they go from here.
simsarge
Footballguy
Couple of afterthoughts...Leeroy Jenkins said:
Saw it in 3D, no IMAX (gives me a brain ache). I can't say the 3D added or detracted anything that I could tell. I think most movies in 3D are going for overall depth to the movie more so than SFX (Hobbit I an exception that comes to mind) and I felt like that was the case here.
I was kind of put off by a non raven haired Lois as a so-so looker at first, but I think Amy Adams pulled it off. Depite everyone's love for Reeve as the gold standard for Superman, I never really cared for him or that iteration of the franchise that much and Margo Kidder was far from hot.
Also, I have to admit the product placements were pretty over the line and pretty distracting. Guarantee there'll come a day when some corporation besides a production company starts having naming rights to a big movie like this.
The fight scenes were definitleyl over the top, but well done and not overly long or out of the flow of the meeting. Always wondered why a superhero battle has no repercussions after trashing a big city (other than the Incredibles)
anakin
Footballguy
Dexter
Footballguy
Saw it today and liked it. I'm a comic geek and like some of you I thought okay get through the "origin" part of the movie and it'll be okay. I was wrong. I really enjoyed the origin part They spend just enough time with smallville/krypton. I thought it was well balanced. I was reminded of Avatar, Matrix during some fight scenes. Also Supes most have went to the Jacob (Twilight) school of taking his shirt off.
Amy Adams has that Jenna Fisher from the Office hotness going for her. Very cute in the, I think I could get that girl look. She also didn't Adrian the movie which was nice.
Amy Adams has that Jenna Fisher from the Office hotness going for her. Very cute in the, I think I could get that girl look. She also didn't Adrian the movie which was nice.
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