Wow, it's been awhile since I blogged. We actually went to see Man of Steel early last week while we were out of town, and it was the first time I've ever been to a drive-in theater. The experience was awesome. The movie was .... not.
First, the good side:
-- Amy Adams made a decent Lois Lane. Smart-alecky, adventurous, principled journalist.
-- Laurence Fishburn would have made a great Perry White... If he'd had more than five minutes of screen time.
-- They didn't force Superman into stupid glasses and pretend like nobody could tell who that was.
-- That was the most convincing Jor-El I've ever seen (Russell Crowe's character); perhaps because it's the most OF Jor-El I've ever seen.
-- The character of Zod made sense. Disgruntled general trying to change the system.
Less than good side:
They forgot to develop any of the other characters. I know nothing about this Clark Kent aside from he's passive-aggressive and likes to run around shirtless. Seriously, Henry Cavill, I know you trained hard to get the physique for the part, but I didn't need to see the abs in excruciating detail... repeatedly. Couldn't you and the writers have trained for, I don't know, character and plot development instead? I know Star Trek (2009) was good, but it wasn't good for the three-pronged ships, the improbable usage of black holes as a weapon, and a villain in unlikely armor trying to get revenge.
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