It's all the same over and over and over again... Some people thought The Black Suit deleted scene was a boring filler with Clark walking about in the ship, some people got teary-eyed just from watching that one short clip... the visuals, the atmosphere, the pacing, that look on Cavill's face (and I don't mean there's not that crazy moustache removal CGI), the symbolism where he turns away from the black suit and his face leaves the shadows and enters the light, that Snyder's visual storytelling, it was
the moment where Kal El turns into what Jor El wanted him to be, just in case people did not realize that (and yeah, they cut it out, of course, because we needed more cringy dialogues and jokes
), the music... it was just fantastic. Yet some people say it was a boring filler scene, go figure...
Same goes for BvS, some people consider it "poorly written, poorly put together, and above all, fundamentally misunderstood the characters it was handling", some people think it's the exact opposite. If you are really interested in opinions of others, go read BvS and JL threads that debate it, at this point it's superfluous to start a new discussion on this topic after all those incredibly long essays that were written already discussing the topic into quite a vast depth.
And I for one thought the characters were handled appropriately. Lex was an intelligent philanthropist businessman on the outside, such a devilish cold-hearted schemer, an egomaniac full of complexes on the inside. And of course had a problematic relationship with his father. Lex in the nutshell.
Clark was not The Superman until the very end, don't forget Man of Steel is a movie about a man who would one day become the Superman, hence the title, the character, etc., it's a 3 movie journey for him, now that's what I call a trilogy. It's one long cohesive story. From a young man who's perplexed and does not understand his place in the world to the ideal of hope. The only comparable trilogy is Nolan's TDKT, where Bruce goes from a crime fighter to the symbol he always wanted Batman to be. Plus Supes sacrifices his life for the humanity, the most Supermanish thing ever right after saving a cat from a tree.
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BvS' Bruce was a darker take on the character, it's not Nolan's retired after some years Batman, it's an older Batman who's been a vigilante for over 20 years, slowly slipping into his obsessive and damaged self. Loved every aspect of that, how the story unfolds, from the Martha trauma, through the Metropolis battle, futility of his endeavour, Lex's machinations, into his ultimate redemption.
DD was a genetically-engineered Superman's murdered.
Lois was an investigative journalist.
F************* I got baited into this again.
And the same thing applies for both movies, BvS and JL were so f***ed up by the studio. We know that the original cut of BvS was 4 hours long to tell the whole story, and even the 31 minutes of UE made a huge difference (you most probably don't want to put a 4 hour movie into the cinema but the UE should have been the theatrical version, the shorter version really damaged the movie). JL was supposed to be 3 hours long and we got only 2 hours. Plus, of course, it was heavily redone, rescored, etc.
The only thing you can raise against Snyder is, he does not think in the business terms, Watchmen, BvS, all 4 hour movies, JL nearly 3 hours, not pandering to the lowest common denominator, etc.
Omg, these debates again...
