Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300, Dawn of the Dead) attempts to reboot the Superman movie franchise with Man of Steel. We haven’t had a great or even good Superman movie in a very long time and Snyder promised to deliver. I think I have to start out by saying I liked Watchmen, 300 and Dawn of the Dead a lot, those are the only Zack Snyder movies I’ve seen. On top of that Superman is my favorite super hero of all time. I think the fact that I like Superman so much is a good percentage of why I hated this movie so much. First the cast, which was mostly good. Henry Cavill, a guy that I’ve seen in nothing did a serviceable Superman, he wasn’t good, he wasn’t bad he was there. He looked good in the part but didn’t WOW me as Superman, as far as Clark Kent, more on that later. Amy Adams was Lois Lane, I love Amy Adams so much, she was a solid Lois Lane, not best ever but she was a quality Lane. Michael Shannon is a guy that is one of my favorite actors right now was a good Zod, again he didn’t WOW me in the part but he wasn’t bad. Diane Lane was a solid Martha Kent. Russell Crowe was Jor-El and Kevin Costner was Jonathan Kent, both were pretty underwhelming in these parts. I think I hated the way Jonathan Kent was written more than I did Costner played him. They made Pa Kent a fearful stupid hick without any of the down home country wisdom. Laurence Fishburne was Perry White I like Fishburne but it’s a big thumbs down on that one. The movie was over two and a half hours; there was no need for it to be that fucking long, especially since the first hour and a half was insanely boring. The CGI in the movie for the most part looked cartoony and bad, some of it was very good but bad CGI is always really bad. There are a ton of things that are so far wrong as far as the comic goes it’s insane. I don’t think anyone involved with this movie has ever read a Superman comic, the two things that stuck out the most for me were the fact that Lois just finds out who Superman is right from the start, hell reporter Clark Kent doesn’t even show up until the end. And Superman is a fucking murder in this movie. He’s not neck snapping Hal Jordon, he’s Superman, he doesn’t kill people so what the fuck was that?? The action scenes in the movie were awesome but they were far from enough to keep me from deeming this the worst Superman movie ever made.
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Some people say Frank Miller has lost his ability to do a great comic, I’m one of those people that tend to agree and Holy Terror is a prime example of that. It seems to be Batman and Catwoman go to Sin City and it’s attacked by terrorists, but nowhere near as cool as that sounds. This was clearly meant to be a Batman story because the main hero ‘The Fixer’ is basically Batman, with a shittier internal dialog and then there’s also poor Catwoman rip-off. The rips aren’t the worst thing about the book, or even the pretty lame story, it’s the dialog. The real Holy Terror is the words printed in this thing, I felt embarrassed reading this, it seemed like it was written by a fifth grader. There’s really not one positive thing I can say about this graphic novel, and that’s a real shame because I use to really like Frank Miller’s work. Legendary Comics put it out if you simply have to check it out, but remember, you’ve been warned.
