Rock Sexton
Superhero
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It doesn't so much matter whether you bought it. It's right there in the structure of the film.
The focus of this movie was on Krypton, Earth as a whole, how the two people related, and Superman as a character.
They developed Krypton. They developed a rookie Superman. They developed the ideas about Superman's interaction with Earth and the First Contact elements with the Kryptonians.
Had they not done so, they would have had the time to develop Metropolis, The Daily Planet, and other concepts more related to a fully formed Superman. It's a question of what the filmmaker's chose to focus on, not an inability to handle storytelling and theme.
Sorry .... not true.
At the end of the day there was the problem of "balance" when it came to the depictions. They half-arsed a pivotal transition in Superman's relationship to the human race. It started with a simple scene of nobility when he turns himself in. It's at that stage in the movie where Supes (fully costumed and already shown to have gotten in touch with his true powers) SHOULD begin to show us the admirable traits he's known for. He doesn't. Instead what they show us is a backyard brawler.
You can't just pontificate like that, give us the scene with the pastor, and then be relegated to an interstellar MMA fight.
That's when the movie started unwinding for me. I just couldn't take it and it got progressively worse as the fight was brought to Metropolis after some cornball events putting Lois Lane in possession of the answer to getting rid of the Krptonians. It was exhausting to watch.
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