Well my friend told me he thinks I'll like it so I may consider when it comes out here on the 27th. At the very least it could be a great popcorn movie.

It is pretty much a masterpiece of popcorn cinema.

regarding "Man of Steel-"

I've said as much negative stuff towards this project as anyone else here. The early previews looked pretty damn bad and the production crew did not inspire confidence.


But... I surprisingly liked this.

The cast is expertly well done; Cavill manages to find the excellent balance between all powerful hero and home-grown mama's boy. Action scenes look great (if a little fast-paced) and music is good. But the story is hollow and stumbles quite a bit. I can see how some people wouldn't care for parts of this (particularly the ending).

I'd say the closet counterpart to this is probably Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film; blending or omitting several elements of the mythos but as a result building a mostly serviceable world.

Above all, I want to see more set in this universe, which is probably the best DC could ask for right now.

Man of Steel was pretty much everything I wanted from it. I can understand why people might think the early part drags, but personally it didn't do that for me at all. Not really understanding the criticisms of a lack of chemistry between Lois and Clark either, but there we go.

Great acting all around, action that put superhero films on a new level and plenty of potential for future stories. Possibly the most I've enjoyed a superhero film since Burton's Batman films.

For the first time ever I have been truly blown away by a Superman movie. Man of Steel is an incredible action packed movie that finally showcases the power of Superman and how much damage it can do to the environment around him. The movie is not perfect, as there could have been more plot to it, but it did not forget that it was a super hero movie first and foremost. In fact, I felt there were a lot of nods taken from J Michael Straczynski's Superman Earth One books that have been release over the last few years, which are some of the greatest Superman stories I have ever read. The music while it is not the precious John Williams score everyone has praised over the last 30 years, it is well done and fully fits the mood of what is going on on the screen. Zod is done exceptionally well, especially his back story that makes him something different than just the goon he was in the Reeves movies. Amy Adams turned out to be an excellent snarky Lois and Henry Cavil was incredible as Superman. Even the guy they got to play Professor Hamilton was done well. Outside of wanting a little bit more in the plot area, there are some weird editing choices that confused me a bit, but my biggest complaint is the lack of anything after the credits. Other than that minor nitpick, this is hands down the best Superman movie ever. I just hope that whatever DC plans in the future, they do it right and not jack it up. Overall, I give the movie a solid 8/10 and is easily tied with Star Trek as the best movie of the year.

Took a chance on something else new & rented The Amazing Spider-Man last night.

Good god, that was AwfuL.

Garfield plays the character as a pretty-boy douche, Aunt May & Uncle Ben are wasted, Lizard's motivation comes out of nowhere and gets no explanation, the web-shooters actually manage to make LESS sense than organic ones, and most of the fight sequences are horribly shot.


And there's three more of these coming?! Damn.

I actually really liked the Amazing Spider-Man.

I thought Garfield was a much truer Peter Parker and Spider-Man, even if the famous Spider-Man quips started to grate really quickly. And as far as CGI goes, I thought the action looked okay, no worse than anything else out there. I felt the relationship between Gwen and Peter was stronger than anything with Peter and MJ through three whole movies and just in general this film felt like it had more soul.

But yeah, the fact they took out the famous line from the film, and yet gave Uncle Ben even more focus in the narrative than the original trilogy did, was a really odd move. I also hated how the Lizard was just a Green Goblin retread from the first film.

I actually enjoyed Amazing Spider-Man more than the Avengers. Not necessarily because it was better (although it was VERY close), but with the Avengers I expected a great film. ASM on the other hand seemed to have all the odds against it and turned out to be an excellent film. I can't wait for the sequel.

Won't deny it made some odd choices with Uncle Ben, but I really liked Sally Field as Aunt May.

I actually preferred Amazing Spider-Man over the Raimi Spidey trilogy.

I felt that May and Ben were more like characters, and not constantly spouting exposition and (De)motivators for Peter. They felt like actual people.
(Also, I liked that Aunt May wasn't in her 80's. This lady is supposed to be close in relative age to Peter's mom, right? Why is she so much older than her (Pete's mom was designed to be in her early 30s when she showed up in the comics)?)

Garfield as the hipster douche Peter was annoying, I'll give you that, though.
I like the non-Organic Web shooters because organic ones are dumb, and I thought the fights were pretty fun.

The crane sequence was still stupid as all hell, though.

I thought the Avengers was terrible and is completely overrated.

I also think the first film from Raimi's trilogy is the only truly great one out of the three. With Number Two just being a retread of the first film without the perfect casting they had with Green Goblin and although three had some incredible action the story was a real mess and the first film of the three proved it could mix up a good story and good action perfectly, it's just an all round great movie and my favourite of the four. With ASM coming second.