Deathdrop,
Human,
10 years ago
Also the last hour or so was just shit exploding in exactly the same way over and over and over and over and over again with tasteless 9/11 imagery to boot.
There's no "SMASH BANG POW," just this endless, relentless THUMP THUMP THUMP the whole way through. The visuals go THUMP and the sound effects go THUMP and the soundtrack is going THUMP and the entire fucking movie goes THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP in this murky, cold, soulless, colorless metallic mess. Ugliest-looking movie since 300, easily. Uglier, actually.
More to the point, though: It's a Superman movie where Superman doesn't save anyone. They use all this 9/11 imagery, they show the city getting annihilated over and over again for like 600 hours, they show people dying in their thousands... But Superman saves Lois and the soldiers, so it's fine. The good guys blow up the bad guys (via what is essentially a SUICIDE BOMBING), and Superman shows he's a good guy by submitting to the US military, and thousands of civilians die but who cares CUS WE TOTES WON LOL. There's the military, and The Enemy, and anything caught in the middle is apparently collateral damage.
I mean, Jesus Christ, this is a movie about SUPERMAN, where nobody gets rescued and Supers himself doesn't give a shit about collateral damage. Do I really need to explain how fucked up that is? He does violently snap someone's neck on-screen, though, so there's that. I'm really glad all the little kids in the audience got to see that.
I mean, I get it. If the guy in the cape who can fly didn't execute the laser beam-shooting supervillain who tried to terraform the Earth with big robot spiders, the movie MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN REALISTIC.
JESUS FUCK.