Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
While I love Man of Steel while agreeing with you that the character developme.nt was kind of non existant (only few media forms actually gave Superman more than the Golden Boy personality, and this film kind of turned him into Jesus), I think the more glaring issue is that DC made the movie dark and gritty, like batman, probably out of neccesity to differentiate itself from the early Superman movies and Marvel. The result was that we had to skip right into Superman adulthood, but early enough that he doesn't know what he was doing, the point in his life that would have the least character development. He hasn't met other more experienced hereos yet, and he hasn't even really had time to be well known. The other part where he would develop his childhood to adolesence, but that was rushed and told anachronistically, so you can't see him develop there as well. The effect of origin story mixed with anachronistic character development leads to disjointed and unapparent development whatsover. But its also the best DBZ movie ever made ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). An origin story can be told anachronistically, but it has to be laser focused, really only covering one event. Going from Childhood to Superman was way to broad and only captured snippets of what together would have been good development. Also shakey cam |
The bad acting as well didn't help, some good acting in parts of the movie but overall pretty bad. The pacing was so out of place they may as well have not even displayed Clark Kent in his younger years. I don't get it, how can a group of professionals with this caliber make a project so out of touch when other movies were so marvelous? I felt literally no connection to the movie what-so-ever and I was so disappointed when watching it, especially considering the fact that I watched the Man of Steel trailer with Russell Crowe's VO almost every day in anticipation for this emotional movie. The movie turned out to be meaningless with no pacing tactics. /rant
