tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post3075742007627892859..comments2024-03-26T19:52:25.909-04:00Comments on PT Dilloway: Monday Review: Man of SteelPT Dillowayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-73565878144707404522013-07-17T03:48:11.898-04:002013-07-17T03:48:11.898-04:00My thoughts echoed yours almost completely. I walk...My thoughts echoed yours almost completely. I walked away thinking, "Wow, I didn't know that a movie could have this much action and be so boring." I also felt the same way about Man of Steel as I felt about Green Lantern: the characters were spot on, the script and plot was fairly awful.<br /><br />Dwayne Johnston (<a href="http://www.profish-n-sea.com" rel="nofollow">Seward Fishing</a>)Dwayne Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717313748329845452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-41730432590800269972013-06-18T12:42:53.228-04:002013-06-18T12:42:53.228-04:002.5 stars?! This movie had been very polarizing fo...2.5 stars?! This movie had been very polarizing for critics. The Phantom Zone thing isn't a huge plot hole since the place were they sent them is a desolate wasteland. Still, I'll have a review on Friday and we can see if we agree. :)Maurice Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15338165486757095191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-40612722725806131972013-06-18T03:45:03.393-04:002013-06-18T03:45:03.393-04:00Hopefully now that they have gotten their origin s...Hopefully now that they have gotten their origin story out of the way, the series can pick up some steam from here. Good review Pat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-91203992371943809132013-06-17T14:59:52.349-04:002013-06-17T14:59:52.349-04:00I noticed that too. I suppose the presence of Lex...I noticed that too. I suppose the presence of LexCorp means it will be the evil business mogul version of Lex Luthor from the 80s and Smallville and not the evil mad scientist one from earlier comics, which really that does jive with a Nolan-type Superman universe.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-36810315579981778982013-06-17T14:52:34.855-04:002013-06-17T14:52:34.855-04:00The Jesus symbolism was a little too obvious. I li...The Jesus symbolism was a little too obvious. I like more subtle images.<br /><br />You're right, it was pretty much Independence Day. It was fun, but a little dark. But I was pretty disappointed with the last reboot. At least Superman wasn't a wimpy crybaby in this one.<br /><br />I assume Lex Luthor will be in the next one, as there was an allusion to that in one of the fight scenes. A big truck with LEX LUTHOR on the side made it pretty obvious.Jay Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04757777693161610861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-32475418862518701482013-06-17T13:51:42.482-04:002013-06-17T13:51:42.482-04:00Superman doesn't go to the bathroom; that'...Superman doesn't go to the bathroom; that's how super he is. He just holds it. But that's a good question about the cape. At least, it makes sense that Spider-Man can have his costume under his clothes. Batman doesn't try to wear a cape under his clothes.<br /><br />I liked the opening of the movie with the stuff on Krypton and that there was an actual background for Zod. However, at the end of the movie, since they really skipped over introducing us to Clark in more than a cursory manner, I felt it was really about Zod, and I didn't go to see a movie about Zod even if Michael Shannon did do an excellent job.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-37548753248996576682013-06-17T13:51:37.551-04:002013-06-17T13:51:37.551-04:00First, glasses on someone's face generally mak...First, glasses on someone's face generally make you focus on the glasses rather than the face itself, which is how Superman hides in plain sight, and why you don't need "face blindness" as Slate or IO9 or someone recently proposed because everyone just watched "Arrested Development" and now knows that's a thing. A common trick among spies is to give you something big to focus on on the face -- a scar, moustache, glasses, etc. -- to get you to ignore the rest of the (nonchangeable) face. <br /><br />As for Jesus being 33, so far almost nobody has commented on how Superman decides what he should do by going and talking to a priest (with Jesus LITERALLY looking over his shoulder, via stained-glass window) and the moviemakers followed that up with a quote about how Krypton represents evolution and evolution always wins, only IT DOESN'T, in the end, right? Superman-as-Jesus, or vice versa, I thought might have been the theme of the first part of the movie. More on that maybe in my own thoughts on it later.<br /><br />Anyway, I liked it, as I've said. More than you did, apparently, but I thought the "Superman Is An Alien" twist was a good way to bring a bit of dimensionality (?) to Superman, without making him all dark all the time, only they did that, a little, too.<br /><br />As for how he hides his cape, I thought the comics had a way to do that, but let me give a few quick ideas of my own that may or may not be memories dredged up from years ago:<br /><br />Don't they have stuff that is able to be twisted, turned, etc., but then is superhard when zapped with electricity? They do: http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=71054.<br /><br />So his cape could be liquid, contained in the collar of his shirt. Unveil the suit, send a tiny current of electricity through it, and zappo! you've got a cape. <br /><br />That's my number one choice, and if they did that it would be cool because when a villain grabs him by the cape, another charge would liquify it and he'd be free, which eliminates the cape liability commented on in "The Incredibles."<br /><br />Number two option has to do with having his suit crammed into a microcase, like those little towels you get that you unfold and they're actual full-sized washcloths. That's less satisfying for me, because it also requires that Superman find a place to change or that he change so fast that nobody can see him do it, and having him able to move that fast is annoying.<br /><br />I'm with Michael on the damage: I was watching it and at one point thought "This would take hundreds of trillions of dollars to clean up." <br /><br />9/11 cleanup cost $1.3 billion. Sandy cleanup was a relatively cheap $177,000,000 at least at first, but Planet Money had higher costs, I think. However, much of the lowered cost of cleanup after a hurricane is that building codes protect buildings. They don't do much for superpowered people fighting, and I thought it looked like a four-or-five block area, at least, was leveled, which means not only do you have to rebuild about a 1/2-mile square block of city from the ground up, but all those people died.<br /><br />I guess we should just hope that the fight took place on a Sunday and those were mainly office buildings, so that only the cleaning crews or some people who were behind on their work were killed. "Hope" being sarcastic, there.Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-60362635509649406432013-06-17T11:41:00.413-04:002013-06-17T11:41:00.413-04:00I am not that well versed in Superman lore, but it...I am not that well versed in Superman lore, but it does sound like as plausible an explanation as any.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-25490883615597267962013-06-17T11:32:23.343-04:002013-06-17T11:32:23.343-04:00I didn't really enjoy the film. I guess I didn...I didn't really enjoy the film. I guess I didn't like how dark it was. It kind of left me feeling "meh" when I left because there was nothing inspiring about it. Thousands of people died, billions of dollars in damage was done, skyscrapers fell like Legos.<br /><br />I thought the stakes were too high in this one.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3651058317830668643.post-44309326856154314642013-06-17T11:23:57.991-04:002013-06-17T11:23:57.991-04:00I saw Superman yesterday and I'd give it a sol...I saw Superman yesterday and I'd give it a solid "B' grade. I did miss the vintage 1930s quality of the Christopher Reeve Superman beginning. And this picture had far too many special effects at the expense of character development.<br /><br />Question: I know this is your field of expertise so you might know. Wasn't there an explanation as to why people can't recognize Clark Kent as Superman? The glasses wouldn't hide his identity but I thought I read that Superman can contort the muscles in his face so, as Clark Kent, he looks different. Can you confirm this?stephen Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17659054447637207734noreply@blogger.com