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Man of Steel (2013)

Directed by Zack Snyder

Science Fiction | Action

Most recently watched by schofizzy, CaptainBigTime, noahphex, seanCduregger, EWilliams79, lordofthemovies, GMOM65, Drew73, danielt, sleestakk

Overview

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Rated PG-13 | Length 143 minutes

Actors

Henry Cavill | Amy Adams | Russell Crowe | Michael Shannon | Kevin Costner | Laurence Fishburne | Diane Lane | Ayelet Zurer | Christopher Meloni | Richard Schiff | Antje Traue | Jadin Gould | Harry Lennix | Dylan Sprayberry | Cooper Timberline | Richard Cetrone | Mackenzie Gray | Julian Richings | Mary Black | Samantha Jo | Michael Kelly | Rebecca Buller | Christina Wren | David Lewis | Tahmoh Penikett | Doug Abrahams | Brad Kelly | David Paetkau | Elizabeth Thai | Ian Rozylo | Alessandro Juliani | Kwesi Ameyaw | Mike Dopud | Jack Foley | Robert Gerdisch | Ryan Mitchell | Alexa Gengelbach | Stephanie Kraft Song | Caroline Thomas | Coburn Goss | Lesley Bevan | Chad Krowchuk | Ian Tracey | Carmen Lavigne | Howard Siegel | Heidi Kettering | Justin Butler | Jacqueline Scislowski | Danny Coonley | Sally Elling | Joseph Cranford | Clint Carleton | Mark Gibbon | Stuart Ambrose | Tom Nagel | Jackson Berlin | George Canyon | Kyle Riefsnyder | Aaron Smolinski | Carla Gugino | Bruce Bohne | Rowen Kahn | Robert Moloney | Sean Campbell | Aaron Pearl | Rebecca Spence | Joe Minoso | Brian King | Madison Moran | Gabe Darley | Bridgett Newton | Revard Dufresne | Apollonia Vanova | Dan Aho | Ronald W. Gibbs | Chris Palermo | Edmundo Raul Sanchez | Nicholas W. von Zill | Allison Crowe | Nick Touchie | Eileen Touchie | Malcolm Scott | Rondel Reynoldson | Johnny Otto | Autumn Snyder

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Viewing Notes

Superman has never been my thing in terms of comic book heroes. Not that I dislike him, but I always felt kind of ambivalent towards him. I really felt the same way about the movie. I enjoyed the way the back story was laid out, the editing, and the acting, but the overall movie left me feeling pretty non-commital.

I was particularly bothered by the wholesale destruction of Metropolis and Smallville. It was explosion porn with complete disregard for human life, which goes against what Superman has always stood for. I had the same issue with Star Trek Into Darkness, but here it feels more against character.

It also reminded me of the third Gamera movie in the trilogy that came out in the ‘90s, whose opening scenes show the wanton destruction and loss of life caused by Gamera, a good kaiju, fighting a monster. He may be ‘good’ but he still causes huge amounts of human suffering, property damage and loss of life. Is that what Superman is now?

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