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I liked everything about the movie. It's a new Superman for new times. I think everyone is trying to hold on to the old one. They want him saving cats from trees and spending the first hour trying to hook up with Lois. When what happened at the end happened it did catch me off guard a bit but at the end of Super Man 2 he kind of did the same thing in a way.
It was a GREAT movie!!!!!!!!!
I though it was a mediocre movie, with decent acting, amazing action, and amazing special effects.
I felt the movie was far too long for what they showed. They could have easily cut 30 minutes worth of content from the movie and it would have been significantly better.
The build up is snails-pace slow. It was nice to see Kyrpton envisioned in the movie although the sequence felt very Star Wars. It also made no sense how some of the characters were being portrayed given the rules of Krypton's predetermined career paths (Scientist beats up War General trained all his life in combat).
The part that brings the movie down; however, is watching Superman's journey from child, to teen, to adult in flashbacks. It's just completely pointless IMO, due to the sheer amount of screen time this part gets. To make matters worse is the fact that the sections tying the flashbacks together have absolutely NO DIALOG OR ANYTHING TO PROGRESS THE STORY. It's literally an hour of Superman on a hitchhiking / walking journey with constant flashbacks. It could have easily been cut in half and no one would have missed it. It's fine to throw in a couple of flashbacks, but there were SEVERAL and combined with the non-story progression makes the first hour and a half the low points of the movie. Worst of all the flashbacks were ALWAYS either 1 of 3 sequences.
Slight spoilers:
1. Superman saves someones life, yet somehow the people just don't have enough desire to find this boy/teen/man capable of god-like feats, and just saved their life.
2. Super-kid, uses his powers to save someone, and is lectured by his father on why he needs to keep his powers a secret and just let the people die instead of saving them (I'm not kidding)
3. Super-kid/man is bullied and provoked by some random person, but instead of thrashing them he holds it in, and breaks something (which is expected, but don't show this over and over again).
If they had done more chopping and editing of the first 30 - 40 minutes after the Krypton event then the movie would have been a solid 8/10 or 4/5.
But I have to give it a 7/10 or 3/5. It's a good movie and it's enjoyable it just doesn't compare to other movies like The Dark Knight, The Avengers, Iron Man (which was long as well, but well paced and told a story, not just random scenes with no dialog), or even Thor.
But it does action significantly better than any of them, and if you're looking for what a Superman fight should be or a Dragonball Z fight then this is it, hand down.
I thought the movie was good. But the more I think about it the more I see that it deviates from the classic Superman character. That is always bad.
The Dark Knight got Batman and even moreso, the Joker perfectly. MoS changes both Superman and Lois Lane.