Agreed. We see him being feared by everyone in MoS, to him being still mostly feared in BvS, while an inexplicable statue of him had been erected, with only hints at him somehow getting to be “worshiped” and trusted by the common folk...

I still love Man of Steel

Superman II is bright, fun, and optimistic?

Yes, because we all need a kill under out belt before realize that killing is bad.

The flaw that I found with Justice League (and Batman v Superman for that matter) is that by the time they bring back Superman (or kill him in the case of B v S) there’s not enough stakes. They needed at least one more film in between to establish Superman’s relationship with the world around him. Jumping from Man of…

Hey, you know what? I’ve never killed anyone. But according to you, I don’t have a good enough reason. Should I kill someone so I have a believable reason never to kill again? Will that make the world safer?

WHOA WHOA WHOA. Now think about it. Those films were from DECADES ago. Different time, different sensibility, different style. They were bright and fun and optimistic. It is like comparing an orange to a new hybrid orange type with a tart aftertaste. Maybe they don’t compare to the CGI and hyper-edited stuff of today…

I think a Supes movie needs plenty of Lois & Clark working together. The recent ones just blew through the secret identity and never showed us much day-to-day Daily Planet stuff.

Except for the part that most people on earth never kill anyone? Why on earth would you need an explanation for why a sane person doesn’t kill people? And Superman’s decision to kill Zod was absurdly contrived. The people in the path of Zod’s Heat vision could have run. Superman could have flown them up into the air.…

I grew up with those Superman movies and love them to a certain extent, but *fuck* everyone’s stupid nostalgia about how great they were. Christopher Reeve was great. The rest is over romanticized...

This last week, I watched “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Justice League” with my sons who are 6 and 8. “Ragnarok” isn’t even a Marvel heavy-hitter, like “Winter Soldier” or “Civil War,” and it’s just so much more entertaining, colorful, and light than “Justice League.” Having young, quippy Spiderman, er, Flash in “JL” helped,…

It’s honestly too bad. I’m not a fan of Man of Steel, but I tend to think of it as kind of a noble failure. It’s got some good stuff in it! There are some good ideas, and Cavill is incredibly well cast. I get why people enjoy it.

There are problems with the DC Cinematic Universe, but I submit to you that casting is not one of them. If WB (or AT&T, I guess?) is smart they will realize this.

Oh, he IS bland.

...it bodes ill for Henry Cavill’s future as Superman. I thought that he was great in the first film, and the issues with the other films (including his performance) were the fault of their conception & execution.

give Marvel a bit too much credit in the sense that this whole shared universe thing was not exactly planned from the get-go

The Zod neck snapping was what set this universe onto the wrong path.