Man of Steel

[asamaic]

Hated this...

Mixed feelings. I thought Lois, Perry and Martha were true-ish to the characters. Jonathan - no. He was not Clark's dad. Supes? Mm. Not quite either.

Loved the music, thought it was a great score.

[Castor Troy]

Hands down the best Superhero movie made.

[TheBoySeggy]

Good... but not great.

Not as good as Star Trek, but it's easily banished the horrid memory of Superman Returns. I definitely anticipate that sequel though. Wasn't convinced with the relationship angle, but I guess I watch it with the Christopher Reeve originals in mind.

I should give it 1/10 because it didn't have the "traditional" Superman theme, but I'm not that cruel.

7/10

[Beate]

Dear God, what a long night this was. Arrived 6.05pm to a smallish queue. Got ID'd and told to switch phone off. Found great seats and the company of ejwrank, David, PXC and friends so the time passed chatting and going to the loo a few times. Watched it fill up to the max and were told not to keep seats for friends as there were people right now looking for spare ones. Not sure what happened to David's friend at the end and I hope the guy who was stuck in the Blackwall Tunnel with 20 minutes to go made it (sorry, overheard conversation). We were told several times to keep our phones switched off or face being ejected and the screening started almost on time at around 7.20pm (I think we had to wait for the premiere to start?) Some red carpet footage might have been nice but hey-ho. When it started, all the excited chatter died right down and it was one of the quietest screenings in a while.

Now for the film - well. I did not enjoy this nearly enough I am afraid. Yes, Cavill is pretty and Amy Adams is great as always ("Now, if we are done measuring dicks..." ) but I got so bored of all the explosions and destruction, and if I wasn't just nauseous because of my tiredness, there was a lot of shaky camera? I had to close my eyes several times, and quite frankly I have no idea what the 3D added to this film. Some things about the Superman story are just faintly ridiculous (Crowe stalking around being dead all the time, the villains being punished by being allowed to live, the method for restarting the Krypton people, and of course Superman fooling everyone by putting glasses on, I mean seriously), and there was hardly any humour in it.

I am also seriously glad that Superman grew up in Kansas because that's as American as it comes and nothing anti-American could ever come out of Kansas, right?

It's not a film I would ever want to watch again, but I do hope that Clark Kent will flourish at the Daily Planet.

6/10

[canadian_turtle]

Hated this...

Man I am SO disappointing with this adaptation! I love the Superman story as portrayed in Lois and Clark and Smallville but this movie barely took what made those versions of the story so great and instead turned it into an utterly heartless, generic and overlong sci-fi movie - just dull.

It didn't have the heart and emotion of Spider-Man, nor the humour of The Avengers. In fact, it was barely a superhero flick at all, instead it seemed to poorly mimic the new Star Trek franchise at times (lensflares and all) with the terraforming ship even being a near copy of something used in the first ST film.

The big "fight" was also faaaar too long (what was it, 30 minutes? 45?) and had me nodding off more than once.

Also, there was SO much wrong with it all!

[spoiler]- Clark finally turning into the Daily Planet reporter at the end and no-one connecting his identity to Superman?!? This may have worked vice versa but in this day and age when social media and the Internet are all consuming it's unrealistic to assume no-one snapped an image of him in his Superman outfit and used some facial recognition software to figure out who he is. Not to mention the fact that his continued existence can be perceived as a huge hazard to human safety and the FBI or whomever would've interrogated Lois until they knew everything about Clark.

- No kryptonite to hurt him but instead the Krypton atmosphere (or whatever the atmosphere in the ship was)? Pfft lame.

- The symbol on his costume is according to his father the house of Jor-El symbol for hope but it's featured also on the costume for Zod and even the Krypton flag?

- No disguise/secrets with Lois? LAME! Totally ruined their relationship.[/spoiler]
And I can go on. Utterly disappointing and a begrudging 4/10 from my end (only because Henry Cavill looked hot and Amy Adams can do no wrong in my books).

[yogi]

Hated this...

Didn't quite hate it, but didn't expect it to be so boring.

Felt like Transformers a lot of the time.

[TheBoySeggy]

quite frankly I have no idea what the 3D added to this film.

I genuinely forgot that it was in 3D.

[mathew1971]

Was ok - a little slow to get started and jumped about abit - however the fight scenes were amazing.

Manchester screening - very strict on ticket names and ID needed - shame the screen was a third empty!!!

Overall i would give the movie 7/10.

[canadian_turtle]

Hated this...

Man I am SO disappointing with this adaptation! I love the Superman story as portrayed in Lois and Clark and Smallville but this movie barely took what made those versions of the story so great and instead turned it into an utterly heartless, generic and overlong sci-fi movie - just dull.

It didn't have the heart and emotion of Spider-Man, nor the humour of The Avengers. In fact, it was barely a superhero flick at all, instead it seemed to poorly mimic the new Star Trek franchise at times (lensflares and all) with the terraforming ship even being a near copy of something used in the first ST film.

The big "fight" was also faaaar too long (what was it, 30 minutes? 45?) and had me nodding off more than once.

Also, there was SO much wrong with it all!

[spoiler]- Clark finally turning into the Daily Planet reporter at the end and no-one connecting his identity to Superman?!? This may have worked vice versa but in this day and age when social media and the Internet are all consuming it's unrealistic to assume no-one snapped an image of him in his Superman outfit and used some facial recognition software to figure out who he is. Not to mention the fact that his continued existence can be perceived as a huge hazard to human safety and the FBI or whomever would've interrogated Lois until they knew everything about Clark.

- No kryptonite to hurt him but instead the Krypton atmosphere (or whatever the atmosphere in the ship was)? Pfft lame.

- The symbol on his costume is according to his father the house of Jor-El symbol for hope but it's featured also on the costume for Zod and even the Krypton flag?

- No disguise/secrets with Lois? LAME! Totally ruined their relationship.[/spoiler]
And I can go on. Utterly disappointing and a begrudging 4/10 from my end (only because Henry Cavill looked hot and Amy Adams can do no wrong in my books).

On the upside (?) I haven't hated anything with such a passion in a very long time (fellow commuters aside...). And now I am going to try to relax and forget all about this rubbish adaptation...

[stuartboy]

Da-dada-da-da-da-dada!
What was wrong with them? Superman needs the Superman theme!
His costume looked like it was knitted by his granny. And where were his red underpants?!!
I half expected Valjean to burst into song (Les Mis).
Too much CGI and way too many explosions. 3D was effective though.
Far too jumpy back and forth - it was almost as if it had been chopped up and put back together in the wrong order in the editting suite. It would have worked just fine in chronological order.

There's gonna be a young man in 20 years time who's gonna be mortified that his wee willy appeared several times on screen. Lol. Poor boy.

This film would have almost been better if they had called him something completely different but had the same story. It was virtually a different film in all but name. Actually it DID have a different name come to think of it. Man of Steel? Ironman...Tinman...

Couldn't help but be reminded of Cliff Barnes by Zod! Was that just me?

OK - I loved it despite its few faults. A great 2 1/2 hours viewing.

9/10.