Solid Snake

That bothered me as well. The mom doesn't really matter. I'd guess that she probably had it harder than Jor in letting the kid go. You know... Cuz she gave birth to him. Maybe would mean less in the plot we've got but emotionally that probably would have added something.

RocShemp

Oh, that was posted a while back in the Batman vs Superman thread. Despite my enjoying the movie, I loved that "trailer".

PhantomStranger

The death of Clark's parents are a powerful teaching tool that no matter how great his powers, Clark can't always save his most cherished loved ones from death. It's meant to be an instructive moment in how he forms his superheroic identity as an adult, separating him from childish notions about saving every person on the planet.

Man of Steel utterly failed in this critical scene by making Clark indecisive and stupid. But today's audiences apparently want their heroes dumb and prone to lapses in moral decision-making. It "humanizes" them.

Paul_SD

Finally got around to watching this for only the second time last night.
I have to be honest- I did enjoy it a lot more this time.
Some things were still poorly thought out, and pretty much all of the film's failures are failures at the script level. The performances, production design, sp fx, etc were all competent to well above average.
I take back what I said about the visuals. I'm still not much of a fan of the over processed, hyper contrast, blue/orange look- but it's hard to deny that it looks like every penny is up on the screen.
If only the screenplay had gotten the same loving attention that all the film's visuals did, this could have been the greatest comic book/superhero movie ever made.

In fact, so much of the film struck me as so well executed this time, that it makes the relatively few missteps that more glaring and annoying. It's mostly just a matter of a few degrees that would have made a big difference.

On the subject of the Pa Kent death scene, the argument in the car, prior to JK's death, was brief but solid. It's a shame that sequence jumps the shark at the end because that tends to overshadow what was a nice character moment between the two.

Definitely don't regret dropping $20 on it.

Rex Power Colt-Robot Man

I could maybe buy that line of thinking only if later on they didn't have Ghost Dad tell him explicitly that he could "save all of them". I still maintain if Pa had been alive and saw how the world was going down the toilet and realizes that the world needed his son would have been a greater motivation for Clark to become Superman and given more depth to Pa than the caricature that was given to us.

james2025a

I totally agree. If maybe Pa Kent had been killed by Zod, or instead of the family at the end Zod was holding Pa Kent hostage and Superman can't save him that would been a better way to give both characters more depth and enforced his reasoning to always help others.

RocShemp

On the subject of the Kryptonian USB drive:

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Dragon Tattoo

I wonder if that will be posted in the thread a fourth time.

Or maybe a fifth?

Rex Power Colt-Robot Man

Hey guys! Did you see this one? Its pretty good!

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Solid Snake

Kind of MoS related but still..funny shit.

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redrum

Watched this with a bunch of fam that hadn't seen it yet, my 3rd time watching it, everyone really liked it

Scene where he is under the world engine's beam and flys through it is still probably my favorite

Paul_SD

went back ten pages and never saw this posted so....

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While I did find it a lot more entertaining the second time around, there's no escaping how much of the film is just so f%#$ing foolish verging on stupid.
But like the lead, it's swaggering and cool looking so not guilty I guess.

Mondo Kane

^I'm glad there's finally someone else out there who despises the Wilhelm.

Loved the Les Mis & Poltergeist bits at the end!

RocShemp

You are not alone.

It always takes me out of a movie when I hear it.

Solid Snake

some movies make good use of it. For what MoS was trying to do, it didn't rock it.

King Kong, Jackson's, did fine with it. SW and other films work it well but it all depends on the tone and frame of mind for the film to make proper use of it.

RocShemp

To each his own. I hate it in every movie I hear it in. The only clever use of it was in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and I still hated hearing it.

Lara Means

Since everyone's bitching about reposting old videos...

Here's a new one from Nostalgia Critic and Angry Joe.

http://youtu.be/o1AJyKJ4BCo

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Spiderbite

^They make some good points but goddamn, are they obnoxious to listen to.

RocShemp

Yeah, Nostalgia Critic works best in small doses. A 50 minute video is far too much.

Lara Means

Disagree.

RocShemp

Then we agree to disagree.

Sonic

Long but funny.

Batman: "You lasered his balls off?"

RocShemp

It bothers me however that at 38 minutes into the video Nostalgia critic claims that Zod vows to destroy Superman at any cost. What actually happens is that Zod vows to destroy the Earth and its people. There's plenty to criticize about this movie so I don't see why he had to make shit up just to lay the blame of the wanton destruction on Superman.

But I agree with his point 41 minutes into the video that they totally screw up the Zod death by basically ignoring it mere moments after we witness it. That's my problem with the movie. I enjoyed it but it could have been so much better and the way it flip-flops (particularly during those final moments) is really problematic. Great idea (Zod's demise) but poor execution (sudden nonchalant drone destruction followed by a happy ending).

Sonic

The ending wasn't the only thing that was poorly executed. About the only positive thing I can say about Man of Steel is the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer delivered. Everything else was a cluster fuck of baffling events.

Kal-El

When I was watching the special features footage over the weekend, it really boggles me they did so much color correction on the film. Seeing the BTS footage next to the movie, especially the one in the desert when Kal turns himself in for the first time and then when he gets picked up by Faora, the colors are sooo much richer and his cosume really pops out in the midst of the bland desert. But in the movie, everything's all drab and dour and muted.