I’m thinking that they didn’t want to deal with the inevitable social media vivisection that’d spur.

Here’s a new TV spot for the show, featuring some pondering on the implications of the age old “Is it a bird, is it a plane?”

I chalk it down to more half-assed storytelling leading to plot holes. Before the “title bout” Superman didn’t even know kryptonite existed. He didn’t even attempt to locate Martha (notice I didn’t use the normal accepted vernacular of mom :D) Straight up just obeyed Lex and went to find Batman. Which just leads to…

What necessity? He had no reason to believe that saying her name would have that effect on him as they never established that he knew who batman was. As a matter of fact it would have made more sense for him to say “my mom”. That would convey a real emotional reason for his actions.

Well, that explains it. This is an american movie with american idioms and american cultural references. That moment doesnt work on many levels, but one of them is that people just don’t refer to their parents like that in the united states. It’s weird and it makes the scene not work at all for an american audience.

Seriously. I think you’re onto something. It makes a sad kind of sense that someone who thinks it’s “normal” to call their parents by their first names thinks this is good film making.

No one, and I mean absolutely no one, I have ever met calls their parents by their first names. Now, I grew up in the south, but half my family live in NY, and I’ve never heard them call their parents by their first names either. Of course, that’s purely anecdotal evidence.

Most of the people I know call their parents by their first names. My best guess would be 99% of people I know do and have done so since around the age of 18.

You are a try hard and you’re wrong. Here’s just about two minutes of the fight where super man pushes Zod through buildings and allows a tanker to just roll into another one blowing it up

I’m 45 and until my mother died a year and a half ago, she was always mom. Notice how I referred to her as “my mother” in the previous sentience? Yeah, that’s how normal people talk about their parents. Referring to them by their first name? No. My parents would think I was weird, and with anyone else, they…

The “Martha” moment works exceptionally well,

No one disagrees with you on this.

Ignoring the rest of his statement in order to call out a single moment to mock it devoid of context? Yup.

you are asking to be shown everything, to be beaten over the head and to not engage in any thought while watching a movie.

Its Yttrium’s passive aggressive at first approach to defend a bad movie that devolves into comical backtracking that I find so enjoyable. And it’s never a Marvel V(s?) DC thing until he makes it a thing.

We’re not dumb. We understand its a call back. It’s still incredibly stupid storytelling.

everything is presented to you the viewer in the movie

The Joker simply should not have been in the film. He served no purpose.

Eh, Gods of Egypt was actually kind of fun in a goofy, hamfisted sort of way. I think the only reason it got so much hate was the kerfluffle over the casting. Jaime Lannister was charming as hell and Gerard Butler ate parts of a few sets and an extra or two.

While Cavill solidified his position as the worst Superman ever, Aflek was good, one of the few good things about this disaster.