This is really good.  I just don't understand all the hand-wringing over the "collateral damage."  We're never shown anyone in the rubble, except that one chick that Perry White rescues.  Why does everyone assume that thousands and thousands of people are dead?  Besides, Superman isn't flying through those buildings…

"Stuff will be destroyed in slow motion for no reason, and it will look cool."

"I just want my Superman back!" — Teabagger who mistakenly went to this movie instead of Glenn Beck book signing.

"chavvy council estate dolefilth"

For my money, that movie score was John Williams's best work ever.

Aw, I've always liked the story element that Martha Kent sewed Superman's costume out of the blankets he was swaddled in when he landed in the spaceship.

I had lots of problems with about half the visuals in the film (way too much shaky handheld cameras; the fucking sudden zooms; and how everything, even in bright sunshine outside, looked cold and like it was lit with fluorescent lights), but that animated bas-relief (perfect description of it) of Krypton's history was…

I really hope they do use Brainiac, because in all my reading of the comics back in the late-1980s and early-1990s, he was basically on the sidelines, in a coma or some shit.  So I've never really known what that bad boy can do.  Everyone seems to agree that he's the proper super-powered villain to pit against…

Aquaman may finally have his day on film!

"Not only that, but he and two of his goons are beaten in close-quarters combat by Jor-El who's bred to be a fucking SCIENTIST."

The AV Club.

My biggest problem was that I didn't understand why he returned to Earth with a spaceship.  He's Superman!  Can't he fly to distant places in the galaxy on his own power?  Recently, I watched a deleted scene on Youtube, which shows Superman approaching the ruins of Krypton, and it was actually pretty cool.  It was…

Batman mostly gets dumb when he has to fight one of the sillier villains invented during the Silver Age that DC needs to renew the copyright on.  Batman is always more exciting (to me, at least) when he's catching serial killers, armed-robbery gangs, or other non-super-powered criminals that Superman can't be bothered…

"the notion that Superman was unimaginably, scarily powerful."

Kind of off-topic, but is this a good place to mention how awesome Superman's dream-conversation-scene with Zod was?  Seeing him standing on, then sinking into, that field of skulls was really riveting.

That's true.  In most states, your first murder is merely a ticketable offense (though I think in South Carolina you can be given 100 hours of community service if the first person you murder is white).

@avclub-15d496c747570c7e50bdcd422bee5576:disqus , I think your take on it really hits what bothered me about that scene: the storytelling hadn't ratcheted up the drama to that point in the right way.  There needed to be something where Zod would kill a thousand people simultaneously, with no chance for even Superman…

I kind of agree with @avclub-2cfc7c2a1eabaff9fdcc09b009e8edad:disqus  here.  Jonathan Kent was afraid for his son, but he was also trying to raise him so that he chose to be good.  Whenever Pa Kent says something like, "You have to choose what kind of a man you're going to be, Clark," it should be obvious that he…

There was a KGBeast around that same time that Batman walled up in an underground room, "Cask of Amontillado" style.  Yeah, Batman didn't kill the guy directly; he just made it impossible for the guy to access food, water, and maybe even oxygen, for all we knew.

"I honestly didn't see anything in Man of Steel that wasn't Superman. It's not my preferred version of Superman, but that was still a valid take on the character, and I enjoyed visiting it for a little
while."