Man of Steel

[yoco]

Release Date: June 14, 2013
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: David S. Goyer
Starring: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, Russell Crowe
Genre: Action, Adventure

Henry Cavill plays Superman in director Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel." The film also stars Amy Adams as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Laurence Fishburne as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Diane Lane and Kevin Costner.

Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Michael Shannon, and Faora, Zod's evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman's native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman's mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman's father, Jor-El, portrayed by Russell Crowe. Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.

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Trailer #2

[yoco]

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[SealLion]

Me and a couple of friends from work are going to see this on the week-end. From all accounts I've heard, it should be a decent film. I read the synopsis a bit and I think I liked what I read. There is definitly a bit of variation involved. Most notably in the beginning. Also, to see some of the high tech/cgi inserted into the film as opposed to the original one from the late 70's, would also be nice to see. Looking forward to a 3D version.

[hellman]

Fanstastic... LOved the movie though it was not upto my expections but worth watching 8/10

[SealLion]

Fanstastic... LOved the movie though it was not upto my expections but worth watching 8/10

I'm curious hellman. How did it not meet your expectations? In what way? What did you expect from the movie, if I might ask? Were you thinking that there'd be more drama, for example. Or more combative scenes? More cgi?

[slikrapid]

Also, to see some of the high tech/cgi inserted into the film as opposed to the original one from the late 70's,

as i recall, the first 2-3 superman movies (even the remake) were highly entertaining, having achieved a good balance between fantasy & reality, keeping the necessary comic-book elements & not taking themselves very seriously - even with the dated visuals, they probably won't be matched regarding the aforementioned more important movie qualities, ie. no amount of bleeding-edge CGI extravaganza can act as a substitute for good old entertainment/story/character & proper feel of a movie, thus a rough assessment:

Superman (1978) very good
Superman II (1980) very good
Superman III (1983) good/very good
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) weak/bearable
Superman Returns (2006) surprisingly good considering the ridiculousness of 'Smallville' as an expected role-model for the movie (good/very good)
Man of Steel (2013) the prognosis is not encouraging (see below for details)
Man of Steel 2 (201x) noes!

but, alas, judging from these observations, its yet another contrived/perverted version of what once got established as the 'original superman character' (similar to what already happened to batman or partially to the new bond version):

Spoiler imdb comments:

Defiles everything that Superman stands for.... sad... pathetic

Guys... I'll be honest here... This movie does not do justice to Superman. I mean, for a person who doesn't know anything about Superman except that he flies around in a blue suit, will find the movie exceptionally good. But for a person who has ever tried to read Superman or watched Superman stuff before, this movie is going to be a disappointment.

The movie doesn't portray what Superman stands for. For the last 75 years, Superman has been a pacifist. He JUST DOESN'T KILL...NO MATTER WHAT.. HE JUST DOESN'T KILL....

SPOILER ALERT:
1. The movie shows that the blue suit was given to Superman by Jor-El. But this hasn't appeared in any version of Superman so far. In fact, its Martha Kent, who gave the suit to him.

2. Clark finds the suit on an abandoned Kryptonian Scout Ship. Now the point to be noted is... the ice around the ship was found to be over 3000 years old... So the ship must have landed there over 3000 years ago... While Clark's age is shown to be only 33 years... Does that mean Jor-El sent a ship to Earth 3000 years ago, with a suit that he wanted to give as a gift to his son 3000 years later???

3. Jonathan Kent didn't die in a tornado... he died of a heart attack in all versions of Superman ever published...

4. The Genetic data of all kryptonians was never a part of Superman's body cells.. In fact, there were only a handful of survivors which escaped in the bottled city of Kandor.

5. Clark Kent grows up on Earth and spends 33 years of his life adjusting to his powers... Zod does that in minutes??????

6. The much awaited Superman's Rippled Shield of the house of El which was much advertised... I didn't see in on Superman's suit... I saw it at the end-credits...

7. Superman goes super-sonic??? Blasphemy.... He is the guy who can travel faster than the speed of light... and they only manage to make him go super-sonic???

8. Superman never lets innocent civilians get hurt... NEVER... He will give up his own life to protect them... Yet in the entire fight sequence he never tries to take the fight away from Metropolis. Instead he keeps on ramming Zod into buildings and brings down half the city...killing God know how many...

9. Helicopter sequence... Superman saves the guy who fell from the Helicopter which has gone out of control... But he lets the pilot and remaining crew perish and crash to the ground.

10. Superman coughs up in smoke... as shown in the movie itself... when he was a kid... he saved a bus from drowning... and then saved Pete Ross too... He is able to hold his breath under water... In the oil- rig scene... he stays under water when the oil rig explodes... When he takes flight for the first time he goes in the orbit in the outer space... all of that... and amidst a little smoke... he stars coughing like he has contracted Tuberculosis???

11. Superman collapses and "BLEEDS" from the mouth when he enters Zod's ship... Dude.. seriously... Kryptonite makes him weak... and he becomes like an ordinary human in presence of a Red Sun like Krypton had... But never does he BLEED...

12. And the best one of all of them... Zod is trying to kill a few people with his heat vision... Superman has Zod in a vice and he is holding Zod's head... perfectly capable of directing Zod's heat vision wherever he pleases... or he could have covered up Zod's eyes with his hand... But instead... He chose to break his neck... Wow Superman... way to stand by everything to symbolized for the last 75 years...

Believe me when I say this... the movie was good.. but it just wasn't Superman... it was some random guy in a blue suit who flies around killing people.

a side note: seems my top 10 fantasy movies is missing this classic (at least parts 1 & 2), what a mistake-a to make-a!

[hellman]

@seal - I have watched all d superman movies so far.. N the thing is i was expecting something new ,fresh n extraordinary out of this.. whatever changes they made isn't interesting.. from general point of movie it is just awesome.. from superman movie point of movie it is a bit disappointment.. however i still recommend u to hit the theater. its still worth watching ... special effects n animation is done beautifully but could've been better

[yoco]

Saw it last night! I must admit I find movie really awesome! Not the biggest superman fan, but this was nicely done! Recommend watching!


9/10

[fuzzy]

As always slikrapid dots the i, or people on imdb do. Watched the primere in the cinema and I was a bit let down. I understand they wanted to bring something fresh to the series but I do not think this is the way to do it. The thing I like with the latest Marvel movies compared to the DC ones is that they understood that the whole comic-book multiverse has much so offer that they do not need to create new spin-offs based on that.
So yeah, the movie has overall great effects, with some exceptions here and there. They tried to bring in a lot of DC history in just a few minutes of screen time and it didn't go that well. Half-way through the movie I was waiting for Lex to appear but that didn't happen. Instead they jumped through the years and up popped Zod. And the ending, ahh, come on! He snapped his neck - seriously ?! Zod was always a bad-ass in the Superman universe and it ended with snapping his neck.
In any case, it's not a bad superhero movie, but it would have been better if it had no relation to the actual Superman universe portrayed by DC.
And by the way, I still expect to see a movie with Tony Stark when I'm reading the title. I guess it's just me!