What are your complaints? What would you do differently? *SPOILERS*

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Crowe's hand gestures while guiding Lois through the ship were a little hammy.

 

[stillanerd]

This review I saw on Youtube actually made a very interesting suggestion, aside from having the film begin with Kal-El's ship crashing on Kent's farm and showing all the Krypton scenes in flashback when Clark encounters Jor-El in the ship. He suggests that rather than having Jonathan Kent die in the tornado, Clark decides to save his dad anyway and, in doing so, makes everyone believe he gets killed. Then when he comes back home to his parents, he realizes that he now has to leave Smallville in order to avoid having all kinds of questions being asked and bringing all kinds of problems for his adoptive parents. Thus this gives a perfect explanation for why we see Clark wandering from place to place and helping people anonymously at the beginning of the film.

 

[KalMart]

Crowe's hand gestures while guiding Lois through the ship were a little hammy.

I too found that really funny...like almost Austin Powers funny. I was waiting for him to try and fake her out a bit.

 

[Iron_Madrigal]

I too found that really funny...like almost Austin Powers funny. I was waiting for him to try and fake her out a bit.

Me too. I thought it would have been better without them.

 

[Iron_Madrigal]

It's not really a logical moment, though. It wasn't supposed to be, not for the most part. You don't go after a dog because you weigh the logic of leaving your family behind with the potential of saving a dog. You go after a dog because you have an emotional reaction to the fact that the dog is trapped in the car. The scene isn't supposed to make Jonathan look 100% right in his actions. It's supposed to show how much Clark trusted him in the end.

No, it is a logical moment. Who would risk leaving their family behind, risk leaving behind the most powerful being on earth whom they're mentoring, and their wife AND their farm, which is probably their means of income for a dog? It's silly and makes Pa Kent look suicidal and irresponsible.

 

[KalMart]

Me too. I thought it would have been better without them.

There was something a bit goofy in general with the JorEl cyber-force-ghost...like the way he first showed up as almost a hide n' seek. But overall, I'd have preferred to see more of him actually on Krypton than as much as we did later in the film.

 

[Iron_Madrigal]

There was something a bit goofy in general with the JorEl cyber-force-ghost...like the way he first showed up as almost a hide n' seek. But overall, I'd have preferred to see more of him actually on Krypton than as much as we did later in the film.

Russel Crowe gotta eat

 

[Sundancer]

dp...

 

[KalMart]

Russel Crowe gotta eat

I think he would have gotten paid fine for just a day's worth.



If anything, he could use more dieting though.

 

[Iron_Madrigal]

I think he would have gotten paid fine for just a day's worth.



If anything, he could use more dieting though.

I thought he looked good. He shed some lbs later on during shooting for the underwater scene.

 

[Caode]

I'm not sure if anyone else has posted this alternate thought yet but firstly I'll say I thought the film was, while definitely flawed in places, mostly solid. I can think of a few simple aspects of the story I would've wanted to have seen handled or executed differently but there's only one major, and it is major element to the story that I think didn't pan out as it should have.

Clark donning 'The Suit'

The problem I had with this was there was no real drama to it, he just put's on the suit and off he goes flying, I know it's him accepting his Kryptonian heritage and accepting who he really is in a way, and what his biological father believed he was capable of....

However I would've had Clark at first reluctant to just suit up like he did... I would've waited until the threat of Zod had arrived, like Clark in the film end's up hearing from the priest, he would have to 'take a leap of faith' no matter what he ends up deciding to do... If he had been a bit reluctant at first to so readily accept his true heritage and to an extent his destiny and take that leap of faith and become who he was supposed to be at that point in the story and then don the suit to reveal himself to the world and to Zod... I think maybe then there could've been a little more drama to it.

I've probably done an awful job of trying to explain my general problem with that aspect of the story and how I would've approached it differently but you can probably get the general idea of it.

 

[dnno1]

Source: http://hurricane.methaz.org/tracking/mos_oped.pdf

 

[Comics N' Toons]

I would have featured Jimmy Olsen and had LEX in the background. METROPOLIS is Lex's city. Wouldn't he have made a loud vocal appearance with 2 aliens destroying parts of the city in their operatic fighting?

 

[Caode]

Yeah but he probably just spun the earth in a reverse rotation thus turned back time to a point where no one knew the Kryptonians had appeared and dispatched of them before they made themselves known to the world, thus negating any possible damage that would have occurred during his Metropolis showdown.


Either that or.... he's out with a hard hat and a shovel as we speak.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

Yeah but he probably just spun the earth in a reverse rotation thus turned back time to a point where no one knew the Kryptonians had appeared and dispatched of them before they made themselves known to the world, thus negating any possible damage that would have occurred during his Metropolis showdown.


Either that or.... he's out with a hard hat and a shovel as we speak.

Either way, it made the story very mythic and operatic!

 

[dnno1]

I would have featured Jimmy Olsen and had LEX in the background. METROPOLIS is Lex's city. Wouldn't he have made a loud vocal appearance with 2 aliens destroying parts of the city in their operatic fighting?

Those two may come later.

 

[Caode]

Either way, it made the story very mythic and operatic!

Indeed it did.

 

[Iron_Madrigal]

Source: http://hurricane.methaz.org/tracking/mos_oped.pdf

And there were two times Supes could have avoided added damage.

1. Send the scout ship towards the ocean.

2. Keep Zod in space, instead of slamming him down into another building, killing god knows how many more people.

Actually, make that three.

3. Not sending Zod through a gas station when they were threatening his mom... Not only that, I don't understand why the Kryptonians didn't take his mom for leverage. Supes left her alone with them. Pretty stupid.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

Yeah but he probably just spun the earth in a reverse rotation thus turned back time to a point where no one knew the Kryptonians had appeared and dispatched of them before they made themselves known to the world, thus negating any possible damage that would have occurred during his Metropolis showdown.


Either that or.... he's out with a hard hat and a shovel as we speak.

Those two may come later.

It would have been nice to see in a 2 minute cameo, Lex on the phone in his office at LexCorp yelling about Superman and Zod destroying his trucks.

 

[Caode]

It would have been nice to see in a 2 minute cameo, Lex on the phone in his office at LexCorp yelling about Superman and Zod destroying his trucks.

"What does the...uh..insurance cover us for?"

 

[Comics N' Toons]

"What does the...uh..insurance cover us for?"

Exactly. They could have even had him in shadow or silhouette with just his voice and possibly even have him yell at Mercy Graves for some reason. A perfect setup for him in MOS 2

 

[Caode]

Exactly. They could have even had him in shadow or silhouette with just his voice and possibly even have him yell at Mercy Graves for some reason. A perfect setup for him in MOS 2

It's probably been mentioned here a million time's before but the destruction will probably be the most logical way of incorporating Lex in to the sequel - I can see him playing a huge part in the 'rebuilding' of Metropolis.

 

[ConnorKon-El]

I appreciated the non-linear structure of the film. But in doing flashbacks like that, it is a bit jarring. It takes a bit for the audience to get used to it. My biggest issue is how the film flashes over Clark's childhood so quickly. I still can't believe by the 45 min mark we see Clark in the suit.
Basically what i would have done is just add a few more scenes into Clark's childhood, show more of Johnathan in particular. Holy crap i was surprised how little Costner was in the film.

 

[Comics N' Toons]

It's probably been mentioned here a million time's before but the destruction will probably be the most logical way of incorporating Lex in to the sequel - I can see him playing a huge part in the 'rebuilding' of Metropolis.

That's a good point. The "destruction" could also serve as a reason why LEX doesn't trust Superman as well.

 

[KalMart]

I thought he looked good. He shed some lbs later on during shooting for the underwater scene.

He did seem a little trimmer than when he was cast...but maybe there was some CG involved too.