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nickthegun 24 Jun 2013 16:27:49 87,711 posts
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Pfft. Looks like no one appreciates a good sub-terranian rave other than me...

BinaryBob101 24 Jun 2013 16:28:05 27,756 posts
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nickthegun wrote:
I think, like Matrix Revolutions made you think Matrix Reloaded wasnt as bad as you first thought, The Man Of Steel actually makes Superman Returns look better in retrospect.

This can't be right, MoS IS a better film than Returns. Everything about it is better. IMO.

evilashchris 24 Jun 2013 16:29:49 7,785 posts
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Shannon and co. make the original Zod trio look like a downs syndrome bee gees.

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nickthegun wrote:
Pfft. Looks like no one appreciates a good sub-terranian rave other than me...

Gay rave.

nickthegun 24 Jun 2013 16:31:54 87,711 posts
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BinaryBob101 wrote:

nickthegun wrote:
I think, like Matrix Revolutions made you think Matrix Reloaded wasnt as bad as you first thought, The Man Of Steel actually makes Superman Returns look better in retrospect.
This can't be right, MoS IS a better film than Returns. Everything about it is better. IMO.

Its a better superhero film in that theres a bad guy vs a good guy and things explode but I dont think its necessarily a better superman movie and it kind of makes you look back on SR as having a lightness of touch thats completely missing from a film that punches you in the face for 90 solid minutes.

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:32:08

I thought Shannon was very good, and definitely the highlight of the film.

No better than Stamp mind you, just different.

nickthegun 24 Jun 2013 16:32:10 87,711 posts
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kalel wrote:

nickthegun wrote:
Pfft. Looks like no one appreciates a good sub-terranian rave other than me...
Gay rave.

Racist

nickthegun 24 Jun 2013 16:33:16 87,711 posts
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I said it in the film review thread but I genuinely dont think Stamp did anything other than stand there and deliver dialogue. If he has to move more than a few feet, its always an incredibly unconvincing stunt double.

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:35:23

Returns sort of "got" Superman better than MoS, but only vicariously by being an homage to the original.

So for the example, the plane crash in Returns was more Supermanny than anything in MoS, but that was purely because it was an homage to the helicopter crash in the original.

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:35:54

nickthegun wrote:
I said it in the film review thread but I genuinely dont think Stamp did anything other than stand there and deliver dialogue. If he has to move more than a few feet, its always an incredibly unconvincing stunt double.

But he stands there and delivers it so well!

nickthegun 24 Jun 2013 16:36:09 87,711 posts
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The good thing about seeing Lexcorp debris all over the place is that, thankfully, it would appear hes going to be portrayed as billionaire tyrant lex luthor, rather than homicidal estate agent lex luthor.

evilashchris 24 Jun 2013 16:40:55 7,785 posts
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If they don't cast Clancy Brown as the next Luthor I'm going to lose my shit.

BinaryBob101 24 Jun 2013 16:42:26 27,756 posts
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I dunno, I thought the oil rig scene was pretty damn Supermanny, the only thing missing was the suit.

At least the next Luthor has something to be pissed off about.

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:43:13

Trouble is Clancy Brown is kind of similar to Shannon.

I like Brian Cranston for it.

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:43:34

BinaryBob101 wrote:
I dunno, I thought the oil rig scene was pretty damn Supermanny, the only thing missing was the suit.

At least the next Luthor has something to be pissed off about.

Yes, the oil rig was great. It needed much more of that.

BinaryBob101 24 Jun 2013 16:43:58 27,756 posts
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I think they'll cast younger than both of those.

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:46:21

Fassbender?

I guess he's Magneto.

nickthegun 24 Jun 2013 16:46:27 87,711 posts
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I think it was caught between two stools, ultimately. They were probably aware that people couldnt give a single fuck about supermans origin story being told again, but they seem to of felt they had to deliver it to put him into context for the universe they seem to be trying to build, so they made a reasonably decent, if fleeting tale of a a young man finding his way in the world followed by two hours of things exploding.

evilashchris 24 Jun 2013 16:49:46 7,785 posts
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Yeah, I loved it

Deleted user 24 June 2013 16:51:35

There was also a fairly long and boring section in-between the two sections you've described, and that's the bit that most worries me about the all-important second viewing.

mrpon 24 Jun 2013 16:52:15 37,367 posts
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Ryan Gosling, staring menacingly into the distance.

beastmaster 24 Jun 2013 16:55:33 22,373 posts
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Getting Mike Myers as Luthor would be an improvement over the whole of the casting of Man Of Steel. I really didn't like it that much at all :-)

I'll recast this film sometime later. I'd keep Shannon as Zod but I'd cover Snyder in Kryptonite and drop him into a nuclear reactor.

Kay 24 Jun 2013 16:56:49 21,321 posts
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B0rked_Gamer wrote:
Oh and I must mention how utterly brilliant Terence Stamp is as General Zod. I think we can all agree Michael Shannon is a terrific actor but in my opinion he lacked charisma and dare I say it screen presence and looked a bit out of his depth for some reason.

Every time he was on screen, all I could see was a super-angry Sheldon Cooper.

Not that he wasn't good, mind.

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