Criticism of a movie is fair.
What annoys me is when people try to wave the previous Superman films around to compare MOS to.
MOS is purposefully a reboot. It means that the other movies are a set of canon, but they are no longer the only canon.
Perhaps that is where a lot of the angst comes from. People were expecting, and perhaps wanting, the film to fall into line with the other films. What people were not expecting was for the film to break the mold, and to break the formula people were comfortable with.
I'm going to be very frank. I'm not the biggest Superman fan. When I was four (I'm 33 now, yikes), I insisted on a pair of Superman pajamas (complete with red cape, of course), even though the pjs were for boys. I loved Superman. But as I got older, he annoyed me. I thought the movies were kind of silly, I hated Lois and Clark. The few comics I read were a bit of a saving grace for me, but even then I still wasn't that connected with him.
I didn't even go see the last Superman film. It looked like a hot mess, and it looked old. Superman needed a new boost, and to be different.
When the preview for this film came out, and I saw Superman screaming in anguish, I knew I had to go see it. It's true there were some awkward moments of dialogue. There were a few moments of really bad editing, particularly, I thought, on Krypton. The whole Codex thing has never made sense to me in Superman, and MOS did not help me with it. In fact, I was even more confused by it. And the worst sin of all for the film were the fight sequences. They were astonishing and beautiful to watch, and holy cow, they went on for forever. Wanton destruction does not bother me, but even I got tired of watching skyscrapers getting smashed.
Overall, however, I loved the film. I loved the visuals. I loved the script, I loved the story. I loved the relationships of Clark and his parents. I loved the building up of the relationship between Lois and Clark. I thought the military reaction to Superman was perfectly done.
I don't mind people criticizing the film. But I don't appreciate people getting huffy when some of their opinions are pointed out as being flawed. Some things are a matter of subjectivity. Certain complaints are a matter of what is fact, and what isn't. When someone complains about something that is clearly not true, I do feel they need to be corrected.
Switching gears now, I did want to address one of the complaints, which is that Superman didn't save enough people in the film.
Whaaaaaat? He saved the whole world! Yes, people died. But he saved so many others. Why doesn't that count? He saved the guys from the oil rig. He saved Lois. He saved his mom. He saved the guy in the helicopter. He saved that family. He saved the world (yes, I said that, but it's worth repeating).
Why isn't that good enough for people?
In that same vein, people have complained that Superman didn't seem to care about the destruction.
Again, whaaaaaaat? He was in the middle of a battle. Just try wrestling with someone to see how easy it is to move yourself away from your surroundings. He may be Superman, but he was evenly matched, and in some ways, out matched by his opponents. To say that he could have moved the fight out of the city is a lot easier to say than to actually accomplish.
And I know the sore point on this, which is that Superman did not stop in the middle of the fight to go save people. There is NOTHING wrong with that, and is what he would have been trained to do if he was a first responder.
If you look at the footage of the Boston Marathon bombing, you'll see that the people who immediately scrambled to help the injured were not the first responders. The first responders held back (not for long), but they held back because they understand that the first thing you do is assess the situation, and deal with the threat before you run into chaos.
It's why, when you fly, they impress the importance upon you for the adults to put the oxygen masks on first, instead of on the child, which is your first protective instinct.
You have to take care of yourself first in a dangerous situation, particularly if you are a guardian of someone who is weaker or younger than yourself, because if you get taken out, who will be left?
Superman did the right thing by remaining focused on the fight. People want Superman to be perfect and to save everyone, but that's not logical. This movie was daring, and brave, and it gets a standing ovation from me, despite it's flaws, for that very reason.
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