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<blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 6145686" data-attributes="member: 3987"><p>I had a few issues with it, the final act just didn't feel like a Superman movie, it looked like a super hero battle but it didn't feel like Superman was the hero.</p><p></p><p>[sblock]</p><p>The fights really didn't feel like Superman in a fight to me. The destruction is epic, and I think Superman only twice makes any effort to safe humans in peril (some soldiers in the first battle, no one in the final battle). In the final fight the body count must be like twelve 9/11's happening at once and at least one or more caused by Superman's actions. There were a couple of points where I thought he was going to try and move the fight to somewhere where people were less likely to get hurt, but it didn't happen. </p><p></p><p>I think that was the most disappointing aspect of the film. Avengers handled it better with Captain Amercia's actions.</p><p></p><p>So the fights and events go on for an age, with a body count that must be going into several 10's or even 100's of thousands, but Superman doesn't take it else where or make an effort to save anyone except Lois. </p><p></p><p>It was way over the top and yet also disappointing, it's like they had to out do Avengers for property damage, but the writers, dictor of Avengers remembered people lived and worked in those buildings, and so you realized that it was humanity not just the heroes were in danger, and the heroes made an effort to save them.</p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">___________________________</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">The other thing I didn't like was, his dad was always going on about Clark keeping his powers hidden, not saving people as it will draw attention to himself, even so much as to say he should have let a bus load of school children some of which would clearly have been Clark's friends die. Yet the only time we ever see Clark actually follow his dad's advice is when he lets his own father die.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">He's willing to stand there and let his own father die, but then ignores the advice he sacrificed his Dad for and saves every Tom, Dick and Harry. That's some screwed up motivations going on there. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">I thought either his dad would have admitted that no you couldn't really stand there and let the kids on the bus die, or Clark would have mentioned to Lois at his dad's grave that he vowed then never stand by and let someone die, where he could save them, but no. His human dad is a heartless git that will let a bus of school children die and yet somehow Superman grows up to be a good guy and not a villain? His mum must have been a really powerful influence for good, but we don't see any of that in the film.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">________________________________________________</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Another annoying bit, they are having a fight in the devastation around the spaceship, the destruction from the fight is even more impressive though so civilians are put at risk, but at least most civilians in that area are already dead or at least have feed the area or run for shelter. Still General Zod says something along the lines of "Did you grow up on a farm?" and Superman seems to get an idea in his head, and starts rapidly punching Zod back and back...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">and I think oh right at last he's trying to get him to a farm or at least a wide open space away from people...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">but no he's punching him through several perviously undamaged skyscrapers, towards a part of the city unaffected by the spaceship which will have more people, who won't be alert to the danger or sheltering in cover.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Dick move Superman, but then you did have a dick of a father to teach you.</span>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagpuss, post: 6145686, member: 3987"] I had a few issues with it, the final act just didn't feel like a Superman movie, it looked like a super hero battle but it didn't feel like Superman was the hero. [sblock] The fights really didn't feel like Superman in a fight to me. The destruction is epic, and I think Superman only twice makes any effort to safe humans in peril (some soldiers in the first battle, no one in the final battle). In the final fight the body count must be like twelve 9/11's happening at once and at least one or more caused by Superman's actions. There were a couple of points where I thought he was going to try and move the fight to somewhere where people were less likely to get hurt, but it didn't happen. I think that was the most disappointing aspect of the film. Avengers handled it better with Captain Amercia's actions. So the fights and events go on for an age, with a body count that must be going into several 10's or even 100's of thousands, but Superman doesn't take it else where or make an effort to save anyone except Lois. It was way over the top and yet also disappointing, it's like they had to out do Avengers for property damage, but the writers, dictor of Avengers remembered people lived and worked in those buildings, and so you realized that it was humanity not just the heroes were in danger, and the heroes made an effort to save them. [COLOR=#333333] ___________________________ The other thing I didn't like was, his dad was always going on about Clark keeping his powers hidden, not saving people as it will draw attention to himself, even so much as to say he should have let a bus load of school children some of which would clearly have been Clark's friends die. Yet the only time we ever see Clark actually follow his dad's advice is when he lets his own father die.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]He's willing to stand there and let his own father die, but then ignores the advice he sacrificed his Dad for and saves every Tom, Dick and Harry. That's some screwed up motivations going on there. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]I thought either his dad would have admitted that no you couldn't really stand there and let the kids on the bus die, or Clark would have mentioned to Lois at his dad's grave that he vowed then never stand by and let someone die, where he could save them, but no. His human dad is a heartless git that will let a bus of school children die and yet somehow Superman grows up to be a good guy and not a villain? His mum must have been a really powerful influence for good, but we don't see any of that in the film.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]________________________________________________[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Another annoying bit, they are having a fight in the devastation around the spaceship, the destruction from the fight is even more impressive though so civilians are put at risk, but at least most civilians in that area are already dead or at least have feed the area or run for shelter. Still General Zod says something along the lines of "Did you grow up on a farm?" and Superman seems to get an idea in his head, and starts rapidly punching Zod back and back...[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]and I think oh right at last he's trying to get him to a farm or at least a wide open space away from people...[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]but no he's punching him through several perviously undamaged skyscrapers, towards a part of the city unaffected by the spaceship which will have more people, who won't be alert to the danger or sheltering in cover.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Dick move Superman, but then you did have a dick of a father to teach you.[/COLOR][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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