PatsWillWin
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That was mostly pretty bad.
The Good:
1) Origin part was awesome.
2) Flashbacks with Kevin Costner was pretty cool.
3) The cast, overall, was excellent. Nice mix of great actors and "that guy"'s.
4) Zod and his crew were cool.
The Bad
1) I swear it took 90 minutes to have a fight scene. I had heard before I saw this movie that it was an action movie that knew it was an action movie. Didn't really seem that way.
2) We saw Superman or Zod Soldier get punched/thrown/hit and smash through 45 buildings as they skipped and skidded to a stop about 138 times. It was cool the first couple times, but soon became really annoying. I'm actually not even sure it was cool the first time. Thinking about it now, most of the fight scenes were incredibly unoriginal and boring. I hit you, you smash through stuff, stand up unscathed - repeat.
3) Same for falling buildings. I think I saw about 42 buildings fall.
4) The last fight scene felt like it was trying to be too "epic." This is not unlike the last Neo/Agent Smith fight. They fought in the ruins, through buildings, on a satellite, in a Grand Central Station ripoff. I'm surprised they didn't work in Stonehenge and the Eiffel Tower.
5) Lane was annoying, can't put my finger on why. Literally the only casting decision that I didn't like.
Other Things That Annoyed Me But Might Be Way Too Picky
1) The story had a lot of philosophical overtones to it about choice, destiny, "greater good," how people react to the unknown, etc. Some of it was interesting, some of it was dull and pointless. I really thought they could have played some of the good stuff up more. Zod was a soldier because he was engineered to be one, so his actions made sense. Superman was a natural born person, so he had no pre-destiny "programmed" into him, he could choose to be what he wanted, which Kevin Costner pointed out many times. Yet Superman never really seemed to make any kind of choice at all, or at least not one that he struggled with. He wasn't very sympathetic I guess, I don't know.
2) I know this is extremely stupid to complain about since the backstory to Superman is well known, but I feel like the movie could've had some kind of throwaway line explaining how there are two races that are pretty much the same (i.e. humans) on opposite sides of the universe, yet they are completely unrelated. Normally I may not think of this in a comic book movie, the this movie made several references to evolution, so it just made me think of it during the movie. This isn't even getting into how they all have similar weapons as Earthlings (i.e. rifles) and speak the same language and all that. Stupid, I know, but kept thinking about it when they brought up evolution. Did we just happened to evolve as the same thing? Oooookay.
3) "There's only one way this ends - either I die, or you die." -Zod-
Warrior training on Krypton doesn't touch upon basic math I guess, lol.
The Good:
1) Origin part was awesome.
2) Flashbacks with Kevin Costner was pretty cool.
3) The cast, overall, was excellent. Nice mix of great actors and "that guy"'s.
4) Zod and his crew were cool.
The Bad
1) I swear it took 90 minutes to have a fight scene. I had heard before I saw this movie that it was an action movie that knew it was an action movie. Didn't really seem that way.
2) We saw Superman or Zod Soldier get punched/thrown/hit and smash through 45 buildings as they skipped and skidded to a stop about 138 times. It was cool the first couple times, but soon became really annoying. I'm actually not even sure it was cool the first time. Thinking about it now, most of the fight scenes were incredibly unoriginal and boring. I hit you, you smash through stuff, stand up unscathed - repeat.
3) Same for falling buildings. I think I saw about 42 buildings fall.
4) The last fight scene felt like it was trying to be too "epic." This is not unlike the last Neo/Agent Smith fight. They fought in the ruins, through buildings, on a satellite, in a Grand Central Station ripoff. I'm surprised they didn't work in Stonehenge and the Eiffel Tower.
5) Lane was annoying, can't put my finger on why. Literally the only casting decision that I didn't like.
Other Things That Annoyed Me But Might Be Way Too Picky
1) The story had a lot of philosophical overtones to it about choice, destiny, "greater good," how people react to the unknown, etc. Some of it was interesting, some of it was dull and pointless. I really thought they could have played some of the good stuff up more. Zod was a soldier because he was engineered to be one, so his actions made sense. Superman was a natural born person, so he had no pre-destiny "programmed" into him, he could choose to be what he wanted, which Kevin Costner pointed out many times. Yet Superman never really seemed to make any kind of choice at all, or at least not one that he struggled with. He wasn't very sympathetic I guess, I don't know.
2) I know this is extremely stupid to complain about since the backstory to Superman is well known, but I feel like the movie could've had some kind of throwaway line explaining how there are two races that are pretty much the same (i.e. humans) on opposite sides of the universe, yet they are completely unrelated. Normally I may not think of this in a comic book movie, the this movie made several references to evolution, so it just made me think of it during the movie. This isn't even getting into how they all have similar weapons as Earthlings (i.e. rifles) and speak the same language and all that. Stupid, I know, but kept thinking about it when they brought up evolution. Did we just happened to evolve as the same thing? Oooookay.
3) "There's only one way this ends - either I die, or you die." -Zod-
Warrior training on Krypton doesn't touch upon basic math I guess, lol.
