attaboy said:
wilco said:
deskpro2k3 said:
wilco said:
Supermans recklessness is not really the issue. The movie is just too excessive with the damage that is done to metropolis. Its just disaster porn at its worst.
I'm completely fine with Superman punching people into buildings and doing millions in property damage, but usually even in the cartoons, you don't get the sense that much collateral damage is being done. Even in Avengers, a couple buildings got smashed up, but you could walk away from that movie believing that the bodycount was relatively low. In MoS, there is noway that 1000's of people didn't die. Thats just depressing.
One thing that could have remedied this is if we would have seen atleast a couple scenes of superman actually... you know... being a superhero. Save a couple people from falling debris, rescue some people from falling off a building... etc. We never got that, all superman did was punch people in the face. |
He saved the soldiers in the helicopter from Faora.
The Terra forming machine is what did the most damage. Not Superman fighting. Even the US Army did some damge.
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Yeah, he saved them by punching Faora in the face. When I talk about saving I mean actually helping out people without violence like Superman has often been known to do in the past.
I agree that the Terra Forming machine did most of the damage... and thats my complaint. The writers shouldn't have had such a destructive force in this first movie. There is a disconnect because after all the ridiculous amounts of property damage and lives lost, the movie trys to end on this upbeat happy note, and it just feels wrong. The movie would have actually been better off and more believable if there was no terraforming machine or atleast if they toned down its destructive force a little.
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Like how he saved those people on that oil rig or how he saved those kids on the bus? Or, like the guy before said, how he stopped in the middle of the fight and saved those guys in the crashing helicopter? Or Lois when she was falling?
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He wasn't superman yet in your first two examples, and besides I'm talking about in the midst of the huge city wide destruction. That is when I wanted to see him save people to offset the incredible amount of carnage that he was partaking in. Already explained why the crashing helicopter is not a good example. And saving lois lane is once again not what I'm talking about. He needed to be shown saving regular civilians (extras) during all this mass destruction.
For example... in a much better choreographed fight scene from spiderman 2, spiderman is frequently breaking off from the fight to save random civilians that Doc Ock is putting in danger. This adds a greater level of suspense and nice action beats to the fight that the superman zod punchfest was lacking.
