With my who's gong to a hospital check up tomorrow i took him to see the newest Superman Movie, I can't be bothered to rewrite what I posted on a message board.
He is for now but he's off to hospital tomorrow for a check up, so seeing it today was good for him (and me)
Now that i'm back from the movie i'll say this.
This is The Dark Knight level of greatness but it falls below because of small problems
It wasn't just forced but they clearly being lazy. I'll talk about Zod later
) and when him and Zod where in space they could go to a desert or the ocean? Yeah it depends on the angle but Zod was clearly interested in Sup's by that point, that was his aim.
Some of the above are only little grips and don't affect the quality of the film
Everything i haven't talked about, makes this film great. Is it the best start (for sequels and JL movie)? Sure. All the problems and bad plot devices or developments can be ignored if they choose And I'd be fine with that.
Michael Shannon is the friggin shit! He's better towards the end because of character development but when he kills Jor-El you see something in him snap, He hasn't got the same presence as Stamp but he is far more 3D dimensional and i put both performances at equal footing for what they wanted. "Kneel, before Zod" had no place in this movie, and i commend them leaving it out
Faora had the most presence and seeing her fight is wonderful.
Jor-El was far more subtle a performance than all, but if you just access his role the situation someone had to be calm, and i feel he wouldn't of sent his son off without Lara to back him. Ghost dad is hilarious if not jarring but it works
This may be the first Lois to not annoy me 
Costner, my gawd. Best Pa Kent ever. and Best casting EVER. Despite his death being forced, I felt the emotional impact and his sincerity even in that "maybe?" response i could tell he didn't really mean it. Ma Kent was cool too.
Fishburne is a good Perry he's like a less energetic version but just as blunt and it works.
Dialogue is great all around, i like the difference in Dialect but what stupid is that they speak english and before you say "Oh they were using translators", yeah, for Broadcasts but what about locally? I would have been nice if Faora and Lois and Sups once on the Ship spoke Kryptonian but as soon as Lois put on her breather or something we understood. You can accuse this as a gripe but I call this common sense, hell even in the Mummy Returns they did something like that.
I and my dad enjoyed this film overall despite many small problems both legit and fanboy gripes.
(Oh, BTW how come there where no shockwaves in the fights, remember the JL cartoon or the 3rd Matrix movie? This would have been perfect for it).
P.S. Soundtrack and Sound quality in general, Fabulous! Was that Cris Cornell singing in the first Flashback or so? I need to get this soundtrack 
yeah I had a lot of gripes with it too but when I think about it I like Superman too much to hate on it. Could it have been better? Sure. It was about on par with BAtman begins, maybe not quite as good, and I'm hoping the second movie is better.
It's a good start i think, it found it's footing near the end
I saw it today, too! Only problem I had with is was the corporate sponsorship was WAY obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if IHOP has Superman pancakes now. Or if in the movie, they changed the mythos so that Superman got his powers by eating pancakes!
I hope there is a sequel because then Lex Luthor could be in it, and maybe he'd have a funny sidekick like what he had in Superman Returns. I liked her.
yeah she was from the Donner films if i'm not mistaken. Luthor usually has a female companion but nowadays she's a body guard
Wow, WOW! Carefull with spoilers Ashley, I haven't seen the film.
Anyway, I hope to see the film soon. I heard pretty mixed things, with the TV Tropes board loving or liking the film and most of the TGWTG forum hating the film.
Damn, i forgot, i'll pu a spoilers warning 
It deserves much criticism but it is after all is said and done... Better than superman Returns. HA! 
I liked the action bits, but hated the character of Kal-el and most of the cast. Zod was pretty awesome. It's an awesome space alien invasion movie, but the ending, the dog, the hologram of supes dad, etc... How exactly will Lex Luthor be a bigger threat now? Overkill.
Great you mentioned that, It wasn't to much of a Superman film till the end.
Luthor would have rebuilt the city my guess is he would have taken all the Kryptonian armour tech and or material from sites and confiscation and build a powersuit (seeing how durable it was) the Phantom drive could have even made Kryptonite, unlikely but they may as well.
Zod was a character that grew in this film and by the end he was the awesome, more 3 dimentional
Yeah! Brandon Routh was a bit cardboard like.
Love to see when somebody agrees with me!! Spot on ever detail you were talking about!!
Ha, makes a change
I wish half of my complaints weren't there but that's my analysis both as a fan an movie goer.
I'll see this soon hopefully and come back here, but for now, no spoilers.
Have fun don't go in with to low of expectations it'll easily rise above them. This film isn't as bad as the naysayers are claiming but it is rife with problems, big and small.
SPOILERS
Went in with somewhat low expectations and ... yeah, I actually found most of the acting pretty bland, except for Michael Shannon becoming a rage monster near the end. That was fun. And Amy Adams got better as it went on, but her too-soft voice towards the beginning was eh. And I love Amy Adams usually, so I hope she gets better as the series goes on. At least when she ogled Superman, she didn't bore me to death. Everyone else more or less came off as forgettable to me, though, even Superman.
However, the action scenes were flipping awesome to me, and unlike what I was previously led to believe, the shaky cam was fine, and nowhere even close to Hunger Games levels of irritating. This is genuinely the first use of shaky cam and constant zooming I've liked since Bourne Ultimatum, and I loved the insane fight scenes that went into outerspace and took place in the sky, etc., though you're right, Supes causes a lot of damage when he could probably have gone elsewhere, but insane building destruction is just a thing in superhero movies, I guess.
I really hated that thing about the bus, and Pa Kent's death especially, so I agree with you there.
Anyway, I'm actually glad Snyder made this, cause he's clearly the force behind those action scenes along with SFX, and that was my favorite part. I actually really did enjoy it, but I hope now that this origin is out of the way, they can have more interesting plots and the acting can improve. It is my favorite Supes film to date, at least, and I've seen the first two Donner films ... ok, I actually might like II more, but if so, this is a close second.
Anyway, as a movie, I enjoyed it enough despite a lot of the flaws you mention. As a hype machine for possible Justice League, it got me pumped.
Oh and, I suddenly want to go to IHOP or Sears.
Yep, the Goyer scripts was very poor and the irony is instead of Snyder holding back agood script it's the otherway around.
And you are right about Superman and maybe the whole cast but again, script. Superman didn't have the charn because he was only Superman for a day and even then he was a drifter blending in so you couldn't see the man we all know he'd become, one of my favourite scenes in the first S movie was when he caught the bullet and saved Lois, that said everything about him, but in this movie his development was crawling.
Action scenes man, everuone i talked to even my brother was like "Dragon Ball Z!" thet where excellent and well shot, not as memorably as say Avengers but it was more intense and viseral
Personally i feel like buying a new phone an So-something, maybe?
Oh and my mates on a comicbook forum told me the song Chris Cornell was singing
From the 90s movie singles
I didn't even know Chris Cornell was in this, I only recognized the score. lol That's cool, though.
And I agree about the script being the problem, especially since pretty much all these people have been great elsewhere; like I said I'm a big Amy Adams fan, so it's like wtf happened to her?
And I never liked DBZ as a kid cause I always saw the talking episodes. Maybe I should go watch that Superman vs. Goku video with ItsJustSomeRandomGuy as the Supes voice.
Given I'm more of a Batman fan than Superman, I think I'll pass on this movie in theatres. Perhaps when it's on bluray or netflix. Not sure if I'd focus on the nitpicks myself but I'm not sure if I'm ready to see what this man of steel is about.
I'm a Batman fan myself, but MoS has more flaws then BB and the tone really didn't mesh with me, i like it but it's not great. If you can i would say see in cinema but not in 3D(it's good, but only the sci-fi and fights stuff really benefits and even then i barely notice).