Review: Man of Steel

While I let Monsters University have some time to sink in on me, I'll do Man of Steel. Thor+Wolverine+Captain America+Iron Man+TDK Trilogy+Super-defined-"the tick"-like chin= Man of Steel. That is my take, I'm not in any way suggesting that Superman didn't come first and that all american superheroes don't follow the basic pattern his creators laid out, (which is actually just derivative of Hercules, fitting since the Greek demigods were the original superheroes.) because they totally are and do. I'm just saying that Man of Steel is a slightly more successful-than-Green Lantern attempt by DC to recreate the success that the Marvel movies have had in recent years. This one is a bit more blatant... not to mention the Les Mis style closeups, random shaky-cam a la the hunger games, and fairly random racking of focus. Overall not horrible acting (with the exception of Michael Shannon who didn't sell his performance as Zod even a little and basically made me want to vomit.) The movie has almost as many, if I dare, not more plot holes than the entire Transformers trilogy combined (Making TDKR seem coherent and well edited) which is the result of another horrible editing job by David Brenner who brought you failures such as: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2012, Wanted, World Trade Center, The Day After Tomorrow, Identity, Kate & Leopold, The Patriot, What Dreams May Come, Night and the City, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July, and of course, Talk Radio... Seriously how did those military guys have any idea that Zod was terraforming and trying to make earth into Krypton if he didn't even know what Krypton was? and for that matter of Superman got weaker the close he got to the terrraforming machine how is it that when he is closest he is suddenly able to fly normally and destroy a powerful peace of Kryptonian tech? That's not even bad editing, it's pure plot convenience! The movie did not impress me, and I promise it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm not a huge fan of Superman to begin with. I did love Hans Zimmer's score, though. DC needs to understand that no superhero other than Batman can feel grounded in realty and stop trying to make it that way, Marvel has been so successful because they want people to know that their movies are fiction, Marvel doesn't try to make a movie like the Dark Knight, because it would be complete shit, Marvel just lets Tony Stark be Tony Stark and blow everything up in his shiny turtle shell, because people love it. That being said I'm not sure Superman could pull it off anyway, no one has been able to successfully put Superman on film in this century, not even the director of X-Men one of the most successful modern superhero series, Brian Singer. I believe that Superman may even be too fantastical for it to be possible, and for that reason I say to Superman fans, save your money, and stick to the comics and Smallville.