God you guys are making such a big damn deal out of this. When I first came out of the theater I thought it was just okay. I was unhappy with a few things. I went out of the theater and at the front door there was a large group asking each other things like "what did Lex think he was going to do on a worthless piece of rock?" and "If his plan succeeded money would be no good" and "All they were doing was playing cards".
I got back to my office about 15 minutes later and quickly typed the review, then went back to work on a effects shot I was rendering while I was at the theater. I started thinking about what the crowd in front of the theater was saying and thought about it. And I started hating the movie. As I started thinking more and more about the plot holes, like the fact that if Superman left earth and came back here he woudl have been gone for double the time it took to get here as a baby, which in the laws of physicsm (and established by Jor-El in STM) was "...many thousands of your years". I got pissed off about that.
I threw in a movie while I was working and, even though it isn't the greates movie in the world, and made for 1/10th the budget SR had 5 years ago, it had much more action, and a hell of a lot more story. When the movie was done I thought about how much story was actually there. Then I looked at the other movies in my DVD collection at the office and started thinking about them, and they had a hell of a lot more story, even in a shorter running time, and look like what they cost.
So by the next day I was getting pretty upset at how much of a train wreck the film was. As the week went by I started thinking of other things wher the film failed, and how much was stolen from STM after I rewatched it the next day while working. I also saw exactly how much story and action it had with about the same running time that SR had. We go from Krypton, to Smallville, to the North Pole, the Metropolis, to California, and it told everything you needed to know about Superman. At the end you saw the story with improtant events of Superman's life, and it was a fullfilling story. Then you had him save a Lois and a helicopter, stop a cat burgler, bankrobbers, save a cat from a tree, and rescue Air Force One all in 10-15 minutes. Then you saw him chase a missle and throw one into space, and then stop all the things caused by the earthquake from the other missle. So much action and yet it still had so much story. And I started comparing it to SR and then I got really mad. So that is how it went.
Then when I saw it in IMAX (which I was forced to go) I saw all of the plot holes and really hated the movie. And without even talking to my cousin about it, after the movie, he started listing all the plot holes and problems with it. He also said "Why is it when villian;s have a superhero depowered they just don't shoot them and be done with it? Why do they have to drop them in the water? It was cool in Superman 1 as that was the first superhero film, but why don't they just shoot them? Why did he have to only stab him? Why not shoot him too?" He also had a major problem with him lifting something that minutes before in the film he was depowered standing on, especially when there were big huge things of Kryptonite coming out right next to him. He really thought they messed up on that
So I know you SR lovers are making a big deal out this because you guys can't stand people who don't liek that turd of a movie that you gusy love. But if you want to see how I feel about the film, go read my review after I fored myself to watch it on DVD in one of these threads.
