I don't get the fascination people have with comparing the movies, one was slightly more humorous and the culmination of several movies while Man Of Steel was darker and the beginning.
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Re: Superman Man Of Steel
I don't get people's obsession with city destruction in a movie about a dude who can fly....Comment
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Jordan Mychal Lemos
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It's suspension of disbelief. It's looking for something to criticize to me. It's a fantasy world, so I think complaining that he did property damage in a fake city that had already been decimated by a giant gravity gun while fighting the superpowered leader of an extraterrestrial force that had just been sent to a different dimension is beyond nitpicking.
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Jordan Mychal Lemos
@crypticjordan
Do this today: Instead of $%*#!@& on a game you're not going to play or movie you're not going to watch, say something good about a piece of media you're excited about.
Do the same thing tomorrow. And the next. Now do it forever.Comment
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Re: Superman Man Of Steel
Wasn't a big fan. Zod appeared way too early in the movie and he didn't have that villain feel that most Superhero movie villains have. Bane, Joker, etc.....Him and his minions used guns and space ships, yet they seemed to have had the same powers as Superman. I would've liked to see him mess with mankind on a more personal level like Zod did in the old movies.
The space ships reminded me way too much of StarShip Troopers. I wasn't feeling that at all.
The final scene between Zod and Superman takes place in the middle of the city and the only people in the area were Lois Lane and her coworkers. No military, police, fireman,etc......
And a huge flaw was how Colonel Nathan Hardy (Christopher Meloni) is first at the spaceship site when Lois Lane first appears, then he is flying a helicopter later on in the movie shooting at Superman and Zod's minions and then he is flying the plane into the spaceship. This guy was in every military scene.Comment
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Still doesn't correlate.
What does suspension of belief have to do with destroying cities?
Suspension of belief is accepting a man can fly.
Suspension of belief is not seeing cities destroyed. That stuff happens all the time.
I think we are talking about two different things.
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It's clear to me that there are two groups of movie viewers in regards to realism.
And one group doesn't understand why the group I'm in can say something is unrealistic in a Science fiction movie.
I get why they say this. It's fake. Therefore how can you complain when something else is fake in a fake movie.
But that's not the point. And I'm making this point again knowing it doesn't matter. All stories have rules. They just do. It's how you allow yourself to accept the fake in it.
By saying there are no rules, you're saying you will accept watching a Harry Potter movie that has Superman suddenly appear and save the day.
Regardless of how ridiculous a concept that is, no matter how fake Harry Potter is, it's still unrealistic to have Superman suddenly appear in his story.
Anyway, I never felt that Man Of Steel had unrealistic moments. I simply didn't like that Superman was willing to destroy a city and threaten the lives of people while claiming to be a savior of those people.
It's not unrealistic. It just doesn't make a lot of sense, is all I'm saying.
Sent from my mobile device."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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In fact, I think the story becomes incredibly more compelling if Superman is fighting enemies while grasping the above concept that he doesn't want to cause harm to humans or their homes.
I hate to do it but its one thing Spider-Man gets right. He will stop fighting to save others. He considers the impact his fights might have on his city.
If Superman were fighting Zod and refusing to "hurt" him by throwing him threw buildings or blowing up gas stations, I would be on the edge of my seat.
Here's Zod willing to do whatever it takes to defeat Superman, and here's Superman trying to stop a comparably strong enemy using less because he will not use buildings to damage his foe.
That's a real conflict.
Instead we got superhero fight porn.
Sent from my mobile device."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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