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MAN OF STEEL is a godawful movie


"The superbeing from MOS who wallows in angst, who chooses to let his father die for nothing and who, in the film's interminable finale, zips around battling Kryptonian villains amidst falling skyscrapers utterly indifferent to--and, in fact, helping cause--hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of deaths is no more Superman than he is Justin Bieber. He's the anti-Superman, a fundamental negation of the character. It's almost impossible to overstate this: No one involved in the production of MAN OF STEEL had the slightest interest in making a Superman movie and they didn't..."
https://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2015/04/man-of-steel-2013-dumb-darkness.html

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Valid points

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Snyder didn’t like traditional superheroes and didn’t care about the source material.

His goal was to deconstruct them and tear them down.

His own words: https://youtu.be/cqtk8AINMpE?t=366

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The father dying is bizarre.

However, I have been a comics fan my whole life and when I read them as kid they were very dramatic. That's why we have the films we do today. They were epic stories.

Everything doesn't work out for superheroes and so stories are reflective of life.

There's a lot of Japanese stories like that about heroes. When, you put yourself out there you invite danger and tragedy. So, Superman destroying the city to fight people he attracted is a good message.

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