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.
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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…
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…
Man of Steel
The Beautiful Truth of Freedom, Love and Choice
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a…
when you think you're going to jail but they meld
you to the interior of a giant metallic penis instead.
"but what if i have to tinkle?"
you will believe a man can sigh. hopelessly torn between regurgitating a myth & telling a story. inert, dull & terribly timid. the genome of a Nolan film & none of the grace. flashback structure fatally enervates the narrative. hardly any actual *scenes,* even fewer actual characters.
Cavill is great / wasted. Adams is given a petulant and banal Lois Lane. Shannon acquits himself, and yet enjoys not a single memorable moment (his henchwoman steals the show with her Metal Gear moves).
neat design elements, i'll give it that. the thought of a sequel has me locked in the fetal position. no more, zack snyder. no more zack snyder.
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…
first watch since seeing BvS and doing a bit of a 180 on snyder's vision of superman as one of mythic, christlike alienation and callous mass-destruction, or at least accepting that his idea of him as a fantasy sci-fi variation on dr.manhattan was not a completely terrible one. after almost a decade of superhero movies drained completely of style and ambition and divorcing this from my love of the donner superman i found myself actually enjoying this. the dirty handheld look of it has risen in my estimation simply because it does lend itself to a sense of scale so many of these movies fail at, both in the attempts to ground clark in the intimate conversations he has about…
This is how you help yourself... Put on a movie you fucking love. And I really mean LOVE. Fuck the critics. Fuck the toxic ShitTok comments. Fuck what anyone says. If you love it, you're valid. If you love it, wear it as a badge and let the world know. Lose yourself in what you love. Escape reality. Let your mind run free through film. Man of Steel is my love. Always has been. Always will be.
Since its release, I've considered this my least favorite moviegoing experience ever. I am emotionally allergic to this conception of the character, and this iteration of his world. It feels like a healthy human body rejecting a diseased organ transplant.
Ma Kent growling "Go to hell" to General Zod, who is dressed like the Engineer from Alien, followed by a "Leave my mommy alone!" punch-fest was a particular low point upon revisit. That said, one whole star for Kevin Costner's brief, genuinely moving turn as Pa.
There really isn't any reason to be excited for BATMAN v SUPERMAN, is there?
