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b_b  ·  4211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Man of Steel: The Dark Knight-ification of Superman (Anyone See this?)

To me, it was the worst, because all this movie was was 2 hours of cgi and explosions interrupted by 30 min of inane 'story' that did nothing but contradict and ruin everything about Superman. As a stand alone movie I would maybe give it a C-, but it's not a stand alone. It's fucking Superman. There are mythologies at stake here. A writer and director are free to take some liberties, sure, but this isn't a stand alone. There at least needs to be some reverence for the long standing Superman mythology. Otherwise, Superman can be anything; anyone can make a movie and call the main character Superman, apparantly. It doesn't make it real.

To me, there are bad movies that you kind of just shrug your shoulders and say, "that sucked." Then there are movies where you are angry you spent $10 to see. This hit the next, quite rare, level where I was actually so pissed off that I can never have that 2 and a half hours of my life back.

In the last two weeks I've been to the theater 4 times; saw this piece of shit, After Earth, The Internship, and The Purge. It's a sad state of affairs that the Purge was by far the best of these movies.