[Nate]

Saw Man of Steel last night. I went in with sufficiently low expectations that I actually quite enjoyed it. Here are my thoughts.

Henry Cavill is a hottie.

The early structure of the film is a bit too similar to Batman Begins for my liking. Protagonist runs away from home, escapes in to the world. Finds reasons to return. We find out about early life through flashbacks. Etc.

The ending seems to be drawing on the unfortunate tradition of The Avengers (and maybe also some of the Transformers movies, but I've only seen the first one) in that to create a sense of scale and significant risk they smash a large portion of a city. And the good guy(s) do just as much damage as the antagonists. And very few people are seen to actually die, despite the difficulty of evacuating a building in a short amount of time, let alone an entire city. And afterwards no-one addresses the massive cleanup and rebuilding, not to mention effects on the economy due to a large number of businesses being totally destroyed. Basically what I'm saying is that it's becoming a cliche and completely destroys any sort of dramatic tension for me - I find I don't care about anyone in the city and just sit there bored while the special affects are thrown at me.


But everything before the action moved to Metropolis was quite good.