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<< We talkin' 'bout my exclusive girlfriend Gabrielle Union here?

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We're apparently not watching the same film, @avclub-097fdff1eefae7180f5ec716a83dd3a3:disqus .

Erroneous.  
MAN OF STEEL is Zack Snyder's first "superhero movie."

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These "recent blockbusters on a much smaller budget" things you covet already exist — 
PREMIUM RUSH; 
THE FOUNTAIN; 
RED EYE; 
BLOOD & BONE; 
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION; 
LOOPER; 
DRIVE, 
for examples.

That's how Batman "learned" to defeat Bane last year.

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You mean "stretched across the plot of an entire film" in the way that as a junior high schooler he chooses not to break some petty bullies' necks (instead furtively indenting a fence post with his super-fist),

Was Faora-Ul's pronouncement of immorality not convincing enough?  What about when she said that they would kill a million earthlings for every one that Kal saved?  What about when Zod repeatedly iterated that he was born to do nothing but be a military guard of Krypton, to do nothing but seek the proliferation of…

start with him as someone against kill him, drive him through desperation and emotion to break that rule, then have him forced to deal with that.

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Yeah, let's complain about there being "too much action" in the new Superman movie.