I don't want to see more destruction. It's not necessary, I want to see Superman given a real beatdown, even if it takes Kryptonite to do so, because the scene where Superman is given a beating in Superman Returns has more emotional resonance than the fights in Man of Steel.
Dude, this is just my opinion, if you liked that scene, that's totally your call.
But for me, that was one of the biggest reasons I hated SR. I mean, when did Superman get stupid enough to land on a Kryptonite island (this is a guy who can see through walls and across vast distances, and in various other spectra besides visible light) and he lands on an island that is made of the one substance that makes him vulnerable......at that point I thought "oh for F#$S's sake !" when did Superman become a moron, and such a *****?
Watching Luthor's goons kick the **** out of Supes, just made me mad.
And is there some emotional payoff, where Supes rounds them up and gives them a bit of a thrashing, NO ! At least in Superman The movie, where Luthor gets all kryptonite on him and chucks him in the pool, Supes drags his
mad-scientist ass to jail.
. This is a guy who's the son of the greatest scientist of a highly advanced race ? That film put me off Bryan Singer, because his treatment of the character took away the character's balls.
When Cavill gets up and tells the General that he'll never control him, in that moment Superman had more balls than in all of SR.
So yes, there was emotional resonance, ****ing anger , at seeing a beloved fictional character turned into the wimpiest version of himself imaginable.
It would be like a biographical film about Arnold Schwarzenegger, where Arnold in his prime is played by Zac Efron.
True, Nolan's Batman was stupid for going it alone against Bane, and gets his ass justifiably kicked....but he still has the balls to climb out of the pit and give Bane a sound beating, before saving the city.
So, all in all, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but mine is that SR was
total crap, especially because of that scene.
Sorry, rant over.
Now back to the destruction. Natural disasters are a good idea, but the
manufactured natural disaster has been done to death a bit.
As I said in the original post, I can't see much more urban destruction
than occurrred in maybe Dark Knight or Dark Knight rises, BUT, if a super bad
guy appears (and yes, this is me pulling for Bizarro again), I reckon Supes could take him on in some isolated area, and still have an epic fight scene.
- Hell, that could be an important plot point, that Supes feels some responsibility for the destruction caused by his scrap with Zod (whether that guilt is justified or not is a discussion for another thread).
Anyway, as such Supes makes sure that the smackdown happens somewhere
away from an urban area , unless Supes is shown helping clean up the damage afterwards.
Anyway, loving the posts, keep 'em coming. And for Tempest, bro, you have to wait for an MOS film with Darkseid, then the whole universe is toast !
Peace.