Deathdrop,
Yautja,
11 years ago
*THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS, LOOK AWAY*
I do seem to be in the minority here. Everyone else I talk to seems to love it, but I hated it.
It's the first movie I've ever walked out of.
SPOILERS AND IMPOTENT NERD-RAGE BELOW:
-When Superman-fucking SUPERMAN-brutally snaps the neck of his enemy in front of an audience with little kids in it, that's the point where I'm done. Even if the rest of the movie hadn't been an overlong, confusingly plotted, ugly-looking, joyless bore, it would still have been rotten to the core because of that scene and several others.
Superman doesn't refuse to save someone because it would make his life harder, Superman doesn't crash through inhabited buildings without any regard for collateral damage, Superman doesn't look on impassively while millions die horribly, and Superman ESPECIALLY does not snap people's necks. He'd find another way. He'd save everyone. He would, in the middle of an alien invasion, take the time to pull a cat out of a tree.
Because he's Superman. He's THE superhero. He was made up to entertain kids growing up in the Great Depression. He's goofy and colorful and unrealistic, and that's OK, because he's Superman. Not Batman. Not Dirty Harry. Not Jack fucking Bauer.
Superman. Truth, Justice, and all the rest. This movie was absolutely ashamed to be about Superman, so it made a lot of loud noises and blew up a lot of buildings and threw around a lot of cheap CGI, because it had nothing else to offer.
TL;DR: Fuck this movie.