TMOS Reviews Thread - Non Spoiler Review and Discussion

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Finally a Superman movie with some awesome fight scenes. Man of steel was pretty good
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Just saw Man of Steel. One word. WOW.
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[Man of Steel] review; IT'S A GO PEOPLE . Action packed, did not drag like I thought it would, graphics were great, love story kept to a minimum and I have to admit "Superman" was TOO YUMMY the whooooooole time... &&& of course, who can forget about the soundtrack!!!
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Just got back from a screening of Man of Steel with Adam. Good film, well worth seeing on the big screen; action-packed summer FX extravaganza...though not nearly as cerebra as I thought it'd be.

Still trying to decide how much I liked it...
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AnneFan said:
I've been wanting a Superman movie that explores the spacey/science fiction stuff in more detail. Bats is low level grit, Supes is mythology. 'Too sci-fi' is a big plus to me.
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I would label Batman as urban mythology like The Shadow whereas Superman is interplanetary mythology like John Carter.
 
Someone posted these critics scores from criticschoice



David Freedman - 80
Kimberly Holcomb - 70
Bonnie Krebs - 70
Kylie Mar - 70
Kevin Steincross - 80
Edward Symkus - 90
Stephanie Webb - 90
 
And in the film they explained that Superman's flight and powers are caused by Earth's gravity and atmosphere, along with the yellow sun. So it's sci-fi. ;)

Ah yeah, The Force is now based on unique blood cells. They explained it in Star Wars. Sci-fi. ;)

An ill bring up Doctor Who again. Considered Sci-fi but could not happen in real life. Even the Wikipedia page isn't that firm on the definition of sci-fi due to the countless ever changing sub-genres.

BTW when Mark Hamill was on the Nerdist Podcast, he referred to Star Wars as sci-fi. He even mentioned execs back in the 70's were dismissing SW because "it was too sci-fi and it was a genre for children."
 
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Wrong again... sci-fi is based on 'real science' and speculated into the far future.. like Star Trek.

Superhero movies are mostly Fantasy... where everything is totally made up of smoke... Like Star Wars.. that's fantasy as well..

There's a difference... one has the potential to come true, the other, not... one deals in 'magic' and 'whatever you can think up'... the other requires a strong foundation in 'science'... most sci-fis are written by scientists..
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Star Wars has way more science based elements than magic.

Even the fantasy elements imply spiritual forces which may or may not be real and only an Atheist would suggest any spiritual phenomena as pure fantasy.

Of course Lucas would back track and imply "the force" was only biological. But the cat was already out the bag.
 
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Had a great night saw a 3d sneak preview of man of steel with my little buddy Jacob. And for a superman movie it was pretty good. — with Erin Porter.
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:whatever:

Anyway, you're doing a great job with these reactions moviefan! I appreciate the work. Just one question, are you maybe saving them or something, because It would be interesting to see how many positive, mixed and negative reactions there were in total.
 
moviefan! said:
Someone posted these critics scores from criticschoice



David Freedman - 80
Kimberly Holcomb - 70
Bonnie Krebs - 70
Kylie Mar - 70
Kevin Steincross - 80
Edward Symkus - 90
Stephanie Webb - 90
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78 average score

I'd have to look at their averages from other popular superhero movies to know if this is good or bad.
 
G.Godfrey said:
:whatever:

Anyway, you're doing a great job with these reactions moviefan! I appreciate the work. Just one question, are you maybe saving them or something, because It would be interesting to see how many positive, mixed and negative reactions there were in total.
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Id say from all i have collected the ratio is

1 - 3 - 6

With 1 saying it was bad
3 saying it was just good
6 saying it was amazing
 
MessiahDecoy123 said:
78 average score

I'd have to look at their averages from other popular superhero movies to know if this is good or bad.
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Note: only stephanie webb of all those critics is on RT and criticschoice is still at 88/100 so they have not added the additional scores yet
 
MessiahDecoy123 said:
Star Wars has way more science based elements than magic.
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Like what?

Even the fantasy elements imply spiritual forces which may or may not be real and only an Atheist would suggest any spiritual phenomena as pure fantasy.
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Because it is.. worse, it's a delusion... but then we're going to get into a religious debate.. which I don't want to...
 
Octoberist said:
You're looking at an old text book edition. It's hard to think that fantasy includes Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Throne, Pirates of the Caribbean, and then...the out of place Star Wars.

Doctor Who is considered to be sci-fi and that probably can't 'exist'. Buck Rogers..Flash Gordon..John Carter?

There is many 'sun genres' too. Hard Sci-fi is probably what you're talking about.
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Yup, he's talking about HARD sci fi.

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moviefan! said:
Someone posted these critics scores from criticschoice



David Freedman - 80
Kimberly Holcomb - 70
Bonnie Krebs - 70
Kylie Mar - 70
Kevin Steincross - 80
Edward Symkus - 90
Stephanie Webb - 90
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Well the average score is 88/10 right now and last time I did the math (one or two of the above scores were not there yet) I concluded at least 5 critics had to vote 100 (but we don't know which ones yet - though it was 100/100 at first) for that score. It should end between 84-90 when it's done, based on other comparable films.
 
robot said:
Like what?
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I dunno, everything outside of the force? :woot:

Because it is.. worse, it's a delusion... but then we're going to get into a religious debate.. which I don't want to...
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Truly reasonable people choose agnosticism over atheism.

The truth is no mortal knows if there's a God or not.

So no, Bruce Almighty is not pure fantasy like Harry Potter.
 
Well if you go by the world of Potter, you wouldn't know if its pure fantasy would you.
 
Octoberist said:
And in the film they explained that Superman's flight and powers are caused by Earth's gravity and atmosphere, along with the yellow sun. So it's sci-fi. ;)
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Well, since we haven't seen MOS yet, it could well have Sci-Fi elements in it, considering that Goyer already said they'll try to be as 'real as possible'... so, yeah, in that regard, it may be consider a sub-sci-fi genre... but definitely not pure sci-fi....

Cause, just because you explain such and such does not make it 'sci-fi'.. it has to start with a technology, or knowlege we know as true, then postulate it to some fantastic future / extreme which is also plausible.. for instance, just saying 'the yellow sun affects this alien being' is not sci-fi...

but saying 'these aliens have denser cell structures and strong muscles because they evolved in a far bigger planet', now that's sci-fi...

And no, 'ability to fly' just because you're from a denser planet is not 'sci-fi' no matter how they try to explain it... (the closest they can come to trying to make it as sci-fi-ish as possible is if they said that since superman's cells are denser, he can somehow control their 'density' or manipulate space/time around him, and cause an anti-grav field... and that's why we see pebbles floating just before he flew for the first time in the trailers... , now, that's sort of a cop-out sci-fi-ish.. like warp drive in star trek for instance...)

Ah yeah, The Force is now based on unique blood cells. They explained it in Star Wars. Sci-fi. ;)
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Again, still fantasy... totally baseless.. midiclorins or whatever they say it is is pure fantasy...

An ill bring up Doctor Who again. Considered Sci-fi but could not happen in real life. Even the Wikipedia page isn't that firm on the definition of sci-fi due to the countless ever changing sub-genres.
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I don't watch Doctor Who, but if it deals with time machines, etc.. then those are all plausible...

BTW when Mark Hamill was on the Nerdist Podcast, he referred to Star Wars as sci-fi. He even mentioned execs back in the 70's were dismissing SW because "it was too sci-fi and it was a genre for children."
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Just because an 'actor' says it is doens't make it so... even if George Lucas says it is, also does not make it so...
 
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