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Did you like Man of Steel?
Naa_KwaKai
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I just wanted to conduct this poll because one year later I can't quite gauge how this movie was received by mainstream audiences. I think it's safe to say the critics didn't but not sure about the public.
Did you like Man of Steel? 63 votes
Yes
65%
41 votes
No
34%
22 votes
0
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had I seen it without knowing anything about the Superman lore, I would've probably loved it. It had most things I enjoy from a summer blockbuster; bit of sci-fi, classic good vs evil characters and things going BOOM!
But... because I know the story of Superman well enough, this version strayed too much from the one most people are familiar with. While I wasn't looking for a scene by scene remake, some aspects and ideas were just too weird i.e. flying dinosaurs on Krypton?! And the Kryptonians being so technologically advanced that they can travel interstellar distances etc. but continued to mine their own world to the point that it collapsed in on itself?!?! And Jonathan Kent dying in a tornado (wtf!) when Clark could've quite easily saved him without anyone actually realising what was going on in the ongoing state of panic.
It passed a couple of hours at the cinema but I haven't watched it since, and left me a bit blasé about this new franchise really.
It really did some strange things with the Superverse that shouldn't have been done, especially what happened at the end (you know what I'm referring to), shruB agree that Jonathon Kent's demise was beyond stupid, but I don't mind films straying from the source material, in fact I welcome it.
The film itself, it looked good, great characters (villains make a superhero movie great, rather than the hero), and the fighting really gave the impression that they were super strong. A lot of people didn't like that Metropilis was in bits at the end of the film but that's what should happen when two super powered aliens are fighting each other.
But that's not Superman, right? He should have taken the fight away from the city? Too right he should have, and I think that will be a focal point of the next film. Maybe Batman will pull him to the side and tell him that.
Superman doesn't kill? same story as the above. This will be dealt with next film. It was his first outing and he has to learn all these life lessons, and he will.
And I thought Krypton was excellent. We've not seen it before so a lot of time there was welcomed.
So again, I loved it but I can see why some people didn't like it.
A couple of the above posts put it better.
If I was going to vote it would be for an ok superhero/sci-fi movie but not a great superman film.
The Batman franchise is the only superhero movies they seem to get right (Nolan/Burton's versions anyway).
Batman v Superman what a joke, but it will be a hit.
I'm interested to see the sequel though, since Batman will be in it.
That's what a Snyder film usually does to me.
Love the music especially - really fits well with the film
That's what all Snyder films do.
I like how the tv show Smallville presented a whole new take on the storyline. That was until season 8 when they stupidly tried to align it to the generic crap we've seen over and over again (daily planet, cringeworthy banter with Lois, dual identity, etc...)
It was a complete and total mess.
the last 45-1 hr was hopeless, action scene after stupid action scene
More please!