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I think that's a large part of it - for example, as long as there have been cars in movies there have been car chases in which anonymous drivers get flipped over, knocked aside, and piled-up - and sometimes it's even the "hero" who causes the damage.
Even when I was a kid, over-the-top car crash scenes would make me wonder "did the hero kill half a dozen people just there?"
I think the Collateral Damage complaint is a red herring anyway, it's not the reason the movie fails dramatically, more a symptom of larger issues. The problem is that Superman has almost no characterization in the movie, and indeed, there's almost no human characters to latch onto at all, its all either plot exposition or action sequences. If the rest of the movie worked, I don't think people would care much about the excessive destruction, but the fact that the movie feels dramatically empty and the action often lacks clear stakes (no damage to superman/zod) makes the destruction stand out as filler taking time away from missing character development, so people latch onto that as a complaint.
Bryan Cranston's Lex Luthor.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Plus, people are already going to ballgames and stuff... I guess they just reroute the traffic around that smoking crater in the center of town. Game on!
My take on Man of Steel – silly. boring. Over-blown. I’m with Teague on the lack of character development. Way too many buildings are destroyed. WAY too many people die. The music and explosions hurt my ears. Also, there's a thing called a steady-cam. Look it up.
On the upside, Henry Cavill could not be more beautiful to look at. Damn. He’s pretty much the only reason I went to see it on opening night anyway, and for him alone, I say WORTH IT. (Call me shallow, I don't care. I'm human.)
But as far as the movie itself went – meh. I probably got most excited when I recognised two actors from Battlestar Galactica in quick succession and was then totally distracted for the next ten minutes thinking about how much more interesting this movie would be if it had Starbuck in it.
And the only part I don’t like about Jake Lloyd’s reboot idea is keeping the first 20 minutes. I was bored out of my mind watching that crap (I hated Avatar anyway) and if I hadn’t paid my money mostly to see Henry Cavill in tights, I honestly might have walked out at that point. I did genuinely consider it, and I rarely walk out of movies. But if it was on TV, I'd have changed channels.
Overall, I’m not going to be recommending this to people, unless they would think Henry Cavill in tights is worth paying $17 to go and see on a huge screen. Which it is, actually...but only once. Make a better sequel, and I’ll be back. I might even go twice.
whatever that actor's name is, He'd have been a good Perry White. Just play the character as a Ironic newsman who's seen it all and nothing impresses him.
Saw it just now. Not sure yet apart from that I loved it. It's the best Superman film to date. IMHO, anyway.
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