"… a Superman movie for people who don't like Superman" is probably the best way to describe "Man Of Steel" and I'm sorry I didn't say it first.  Well done.

I'm having a hard time with this.  NOT to diminish what I read - any attempt to find merits and reverence in Superman I will always appreciate - but "Superman Returns" was a thousand leagues away from what was acceptable in a film about Kal-El from Krypton.  The kneeling at the altar for the Donner films (I'm assuming…

Sean O'Neal aces it, as per usual.  Well written, well put.

"Man Of Steel" exists to contemporize Superman in such a bloated way that only a garishly thick and visually blunt director like Zack Snyder could direct it. The imagery is at once familiar and iconic, and is granted a poetry so aggressively majestic, that when it comes time to address plot, intention, and story,…