Holden wrote:

I was dragged by my friends to this piece of Hollywood mainstream garbage and right away I knew I was in for two hours of hell. First of all, I never see movies, I only experience films. Movies are rubbish for the uncultured masses but I went to see this anyway at the insistence of my friends. To make matters worse, they were vehement about seeing it in 3D, or as I like to call it "pleb-o-vision".

As soon as the movie started, the entire audience clapped. I'm not kidding. They actually clapped at a movie screen. I thought the internet was only joking about this sort of thing but the audience clapped throughout the whole movie whenever their peabrains understood the atrociously constructed plot. It was truly an eye opening experience. I have never been surrounded by so many philistines at the same time.

The movie itself was an abomination. Man Of Steel exists purely to make money through merchandise sales and the cheap exploitation of a pre-sold franchise. The entire Superman series has always been commercialized trash that appeals to children. The very fact adults flock to see and discuss this series is revolting. Unsurprisingly, there is no artistry whatsoever in this latest installment. Things blow up, the one dimensional antagonist screams a lot and the characters (I use that term loosely) speak with the cadence of robots, including one groan inducing line by a female soldier about Superman's attractiveness. Speaking of which, most of the audience were on dates and I shudder to think what will happen when they inevitably mate; they're probably already having unprotected sex just as Superman and Lois Lane promoted.

After the end credits rolled, my friends excitedly discussed the nonsense that just occurred on screen with dissection and banter back and forth as if it were a Fellini film. I felt nothing but pity for them. They'll never understand and appreciate cinema like I do; they're doomed to be mindless drones for the rest of their lives.

I drove home by myself as they went to the local diner to further discuss the movie, as if it couldn't be explained with 20 seconds of grunting. As I sit here in retrospective, I truly wonder if the anti-intellectual have fully taken over our world.

Holden wrote:

I was dragged by my friends to this piece of Hollywood mainstream garbage and right away I knew I was in for two hours of hell. First of all, I never see movies, I only experience films. Movies are rubbish for the uncultured masses but I went to see this anyway at the insistence of my friends. To make matters worse, they were vehement about seeing it in 3D, or as I like to call it "pleb-o-vision".

As soon as the movie started, the entire audience clapped. I'm not kidding. They actually clapped at a movie screen. I thought the internet was only joking about this sort of thing but the audience clapped throughout the whole movie whenever their peabrains understood the atrociously constructed plot. It was truly an eye opening experience. I have never been surrounded by so many philistines at the same time.

The movie itself was an abomination. Man Of Steel exists purely to make money through merchandise sales and the cheap exploitation of a pre-sold franchise. The entire Superman series has always been commercialized trash that appeals to children. The very fact adults flock to see and discuss this series is revolting. Unsurprisingly, there is no artistry whatsoever in this latest installment. Things blow up, the one dimensional antagonist screams a lot and the characters (I use that term loosely) speak with the cadence of robots, including one groan inducing line by a female soldier about Superman's attractiveness. Speaking of which, most of the audience were on dates and I shudder to think what will happen when they inevitably mate; they're probably already having unprotected sex just as Superman and Lois Lane promoted.

After the end credits rolled, my friends excitedly discussed the nonsense that just occurred on screen with dissection and banter back and forth as if it were a Fellini film. I felt nothing but pity for them. They'll never understand and appreciate cinema like I do; they're doomed to be mindless drones for the rest of their lives.

I drove home by myself as they went to the local diner to further discuss the movie, as if it couldn't be explained with 20 seconds of grunting. As I sit here in retrospective, I truly wonder if the anti-intellectual have fully taken over our world.

I felt it presented the growth of Clark in an interesting way that would have felt more stale had it been told in a linear fashion...

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.

The destruction wrought on Earth by the malicious Zod is one thing, but when the newly dubbed Superman stands up to his father’s killer and Earth’s ravager, each zooming chase through the air and each blow landed wreaks horrific destruction. I found myself thinking of Gog and Magog, of Sodom and Gomorrah, of the Flood, and remembering that the term “Biblical” implies catastrophe, suggests an unfathomably large, and therefore legendary, devastation. Beware, Goyer and Nolan seem to warn, of the morally motivated conflict that you yearn to fight and win; beware of thinking in terms of realizing good or vanquishing evil on a grand, mythic scale, because when forces that hold the world in the balance do battle, even the winners are losers.

[My italics.]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/m … erego.html