Well, hmm.   I'm only eight minutes in, but I'm starting to think he didn't like it.

Just got back. Good movie.

Things I liked:

- Casting. Pretty much all the parts are perfectly cast. Kevin Costner and Michael Shannon in particular knock it out of the park.

- Direction. Snyder did a really solid job. This should prove to his detractors that he isn't a slave to style and flash.

- Nods. The little references to other DC universe characters were fun and not distracting.

Things that were meh:

- Score. I didn't hate it like a lot of you guys, but it was so goddamn repetitive. I swear Zimmer plays the same snippet of the theme about 500 times. It wasn't as oppressive as his TDKR score, though. So at least there's that.

- Opening Krypton stuff. It just didn't grab me at all. Mostly I was just confused. And since Jor-El recaps all of this to Clark later, you could cut basically all of it and lose nothing of substance.

- Lois. The movie places her in danger in ways that get increasingly harder to buy. I guess this comes with the territory of doing a Superman movie, but it stood out to me.

Things I hated with all my soul:

- The structure. That first scene of Clark flying all over the world should have been joyous. But we know so little about who he is at that point that it just comes across as arbitrary. A linear structure would have given him a much clearer arc, but it's halfway through the movie before adult Clark has any sort of character or personality attached to him. This was a major mistake in my opinion. I'd like to see a recut of the film that puts it in order, to see if the story flows better.

- The product placement. This is the first time that product placement really bothered me in a movie. I mean, did we really need a shot of Faora where a MASSIVE SEARS LOGO is taking up the entire screen behind her? There's way too much stuff like that.

All in all, though, I thought it was pretty successful, even if the plot was a little convoluted.

I completely agree. Made a comment a couple of pages back about how all these recent blockbuster movies have our heroes fail to stop millions of people dying. That's not how I would define a hero.