Man of Steel

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Tue, 06/25/2013 - 14:59 -- Bob Gibbons

By Bob Gibbons 

Man of SteelThe budget for this film was $225 million. I wonder if any of it was spent on the script?  The trailers had convinced me it would be my favorite super-hero movie of the summer – a bit dark, introspective, with the right combination of visual effects and human emotion. The trailers lied.  The movie itself is choppy, contrived, sometimes hokey with a plot that takes at least half the movie to gain any traction and then still keeps winding back on itself. The one question it does answer conclusively:  What is the most complex and costly way to stage any sequence? There’s a lot of money foolishly spent, right up there on the screen. But, we can learn several things from a movie like this:  a) Henry Cavill looks sensational without his shirt; in the next Superman movie, he should just wear the cape and tights; b) perhaps the reason Clark Kent returns home so often to see his mother is that she is played by Diane Lane; c) more people wanted to go to Earth with Kal-El, until they heard they would land in Kansas and have to live with Kevin Costner; and d) if you’re not going to have any humor in a movie, try not to have any chemistry between the lead characters either. In a pivotal scene, Superman tells Lois Lane that ‘S’ stands for ‘hope.’  This proves that he cannot spell and so he must find something else to do that doesn’t require a good education. He decides to save the planet. That takes much, much longer than I expected.

 

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