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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6146087" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>I liked the revisions to the origin story, but there were a LOT of failings and missed opportunities in the story as it developed further.</p><p></p><p>[spoiler]The ending was a very tediously choreographed fight. It was highly unimaginative and as endless as the slugfest between Nada and Frank in <em>They Live</em>. It was like 20 minutes of nothing more than Supes and Nod tossing each other into buildings. This time they go in one side and out the other. This time they go in and come back out the same hole. This time they go in at an upward angle. This building is brick. The next one is glass. Then there's one that's not finished... Seriously? _I_ can write better fights than that and I'm a talentless amateur without even enough experience to call myself a wannabe.</p><p></p><p>In the beginning he's still a kid being told by his Earthly dad to keep his abilities secret. When it comes to saving a bus full of his classmates and dad tells him again it was a bad idea. Clark asks if he should have stood idle and WATCHED them die. That should have been a VERY pivotal moment. It SHOULD have been made the pivotal conflict of the entire movie - raised by Kent to live in fear and in secret, but then told by Jor El that he should be the most conspicuous man on the planet leading humans to be greater by all being BETTER. But the scene passes with a non-committal shrug and the interesting conflict that up to that point had been utilized very well in the story, was allowed to be entirely forgotten and supplanted by a dull, alien-invasion, save-the-earth SFX spectacle.[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>You can argue about plot holes if you like. I enjoyed the 143 minutes well enough I suppose and I retain hopes that a sequel will do MUCH better, but this movie lost its grip on me fast enough not to care about about plot holes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6146087, member: 32740"] I liked the revisions to the origin story, but there were a LOT of failings and missed opportunities in the story as it developed further. [spoiler]The ending was a very tediously choreographed fight. It was highly unimaginative and as endless as the slugfest between Nada and Frank in [I]They Live[/I]. It was like 20 minutes of nothing more than Supes and Nod tossing each other into buildings. This time they go in one side and out the other. This time they go in and come back out the same hole. This time they go in at an upward angle. This building is brick. The next one is glass. Then there's one that's not finished... Seriously? _I_ can write better fights than that and I'm a talentless amateur without even enough experience to call myself a wannabe. In the beginning he's still a kid being told by his Earthly dad to keep his abilities secret. When it comes to saving a bus full of his classmates and dad tells him again it was a bad idea. Clark asks if he should have stood idle and WATCHED them die. That should have been a VERY pivotal moment. It SHOULD have been made the pivotal conflict of the entire movie - raised by Kent to live in fear and in secret, but then told by Jor El that he should be the most conspicuous man on the planet leading humans to be greater by all being BETTER. But the scene passes with a non-committal shrug and the interesting conflict that up to that point had been utilized very well in the story, was allowed to be entirely forgotten and supplanted by a dull, alien-invasion, save-the-earth SFX spectacle.[/spoiler] You can argue about plot holes if you like. I enjoyed the 143 minutes well enough I suppose and I retain hopes that a sequel will do MUCH better, but this movie lost its grip on me fast enough not to care about about plot holes. [/QUOTE]
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