2013 Directed by Zack Snyder
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Henry Cavill Amy Adams Michael Shannon Kevin Costner Russell Crowe Diane Lane Laurence Fishburne Antje Traue Christopher Meloni Jadin Gould Tahmoh Penikett Ayelet Zurer Richard Schiff Dylan Sprayberry Michael Kelly Carla Gugino Richard Cetrone Mackenzie Gray Julian Richings Mary Black Samantha Jo Rebecca Buller Christina Wren David Lewis Doug Abrahams Brad Kelly Alessandro Juliani Jack Foley Robert Gerdisch Show All…
Alex McDowell Vlad Bina Chris Farmer Aaron Haye Dan Hermansen Craig Jackson Helen Jarvis Kim Sinclair Chris Beach
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$225,000,000
Two Hundred And Twenty Five Million Dollars.
The budget for this turd was Two Hundred And Twenty Five MILLION dollars.
What else would this sum buy you? I checked; a random search for 2014 / 2013 favourites lists here on LB. I looked at 30 or so, and picked out what I saw as peoples favourites.
Under the Skin $16M
Boyhood $2.4M
Only Lovers Left Alive $7M
Grand Budapest Hotel $31M
Her $23M
12 Years a Slave $20M
Dallas Buyers Club $5.5M
Worlds End $28M
Upstream Color $0.1M
The Place Beyond the Pines $15M
Nabraska $12M
Inside Llewyn Davis $11M
Stoker $12M
Enemy best guess about $3M
Philomena $12M
Mud $10M
Short Term 12 $1M
Fruitvale Station $1M
The Past $11M
Spring Breakers $5M
Before Midnight $3M
Only God Forgives $5M
The Hunt $3.5M
The Act of Killing $1M
I only saw the first $200,000,000 worth of Man of Steel, as I walked out at the two hour mark.
There is a scene in Man of Steel that says it all.
In the middle of a showdown with the bad guys in downtown Metropolis with people everywhere, a flaming truck or some other huge thing is thrown towards Superman who is standing in front of a building. A building presumably filled with people.
Superman jumps out of the way.
He jumps out of the way.
Superman.
The truck goes into the building destroying I don't how many floors killing I don't know how many people. I have to ask: why didn't Superman catch the truck and throw it over the buildings out of the city to land on some out of the way field to save some lives?
That…
Despite his iconic status Superman has often struggled to adapt to life on the silver screen. Ignoring the comic book delights of the first two films, DC’s most enduring creation has failed to soar at the box office and even the Midas touch of Christopher Nolan’s guiding hand seems incapable of stopping the character’s turbulent cinematic journey. Following Bryan Singer’s lifeless and dull love letter to Donner’s original film, Warner Bros. have attempted to bring the Godly spectacle back to the franchise, and they have, at the expense of practically everything else.
Although this is very much an origin story it foregoes many of the elements people have come to associate with the character. Sure, it features the familiar moral…
20/100
Are you effing stupid?
UGHHHHHHHH. Such an overbearing, dreary piece of overwritten shit. I can maybe count on one hand the number of films that frustrate me as much as this one. So much potential crushed into thousands upon thousands of "heroic" musings and oblivious, robotic filmmaking. Even the greatest aspects - opening images of Krypton, superman vs. Zod - feel lifeless, torn away from their inherent majesty and switched with dour compositions and a fucking horrible soundtrack that makes me want to shove leaf blowers into my ear canals.
"Oh, you like this wonderful wide shot of Krypton? Guess what's even better? SMASH ZOOMS!"
- I will bet most of my arteries that that exact sentence was said…
An explosion of imagination and visual ingenuity, Man of Steel manages to feel like the future of cinema and an instant classic all at once. It follows the bare bones of the source material, then injects a strong dose of modernity and eliminates the duality between Clark Kent the journalist and Superman. The early reviews for this film are polarized for all the wrong reasons. Something that's been slowly building over the last few years has finally come to a head with reviews of this film. When it comes to big, flashy summer blockbusters, critics have taken extremely negative stances on popular films for the sake of being "above" all the noise. This isn't a film that needs to be…
You know, take away all the dialogue, leave the score, trim the runtime down from 5 fuckin hours and maaaaybe the Superman imagery could be interpreted as hopeful.
This is terrible. From the acting, music, cgi, world building, pacing, plot, action, directing it’s all awful. The director had a vision but that vision was the worst.
If Clark is The Superman, is Zod the Man of Steel? Or let us use the other name for this character in history: Stalin.
Both belong to a more evolved species, which have an allergic reaction to the world as it is, or shall we say, America.
The heightened senses and ability to see through the most surface appearances and analyze this information more rapidly and more deeply can be paralyzing. Action is impossible without being able to focus.
The battle between Stalin and The Superman, both of the same species, for the fate of the real world is the real contradiction to focus on, while the american military’s guns bounce off these more evolved characters, like paper tigers.
But it must be remembered The Superman contains all the DNA of this species, even Stalin’s, and this can never be denied.
Don't remember anything about this showing specifically besides being surprised that Superman was snappin necks like they were glowsticks. Carmike Cinemas, 7pm, 6/18/2013.
a great humble story about a steel factory worker providing for his family. great for the wife and kids!
37
It’s very flawed from a filmmaking, writing and thematic perspective. Yet I like a lot of what Snyder was going for and I do believe this could’ve been a good movie. It’s a mess, but an interesting on and that’s more than what the MCU can say as far as I’m concerned. Opening bits on Krypton are great, and god v god spectacle is great and a lot of themes Snyder *tried* incorporating had potential.
Ok, so I was sitting in my car when a man flew in front of me and screamed some slurs at a woman. This woman flew into the man and decimated a Chrispy Cream. I tried to get a closer look but it was kind of scary so I drove away.
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