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'Man of Steel' (Superman) Reviews
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| June 14, 2013
Posted on 06/14/2013 8:02:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
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The movie opened today. Here are some reviews:
Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic
E Online: Man of Steel Reviews Are In-Superman Flies High With Critics
Yahoo: First Reviews Are In: Is 'Man of Steel' Too Dark, Too Big, Too Much?
The Independent (UK): Man of Steel: Reviews round-up - S is for Serious not Superman as Henry Cavill dons the tights
CBS News: "Man of Steel" critics' reviews: Film wallows in sorrow more than soars
New York Post: Supes soars to new heights in 'Man of Steel'
Fox News: 'Man of Steel' review: Special effects overkill, thin story ground latest Superman
IGN: Superman's reborn in grand fashion.
The Guardian: Man of Steel - review
Forbes: Review: 'Man Of Steel' Fails To Take Flight
USA Today: 'Man of Steel' leaves destruction in superhero quest
The Hollywood Reporter: Man of Steel: Film Review
Total Film: Man Of Steel
Digital Trends: Review: 'Man Of Steel' is an epic, angsty Superman reboot
Screen Crush: 'Man of Steel' Review
Digital Spy: 'Man of Steel' review: Henry Cavill soars in new Superman movie
The Washington Post: 'Man of Steel': Henry Cavill stars as Superman in this bombastic reboot
The New York Times: Movie Review: 'Man of Steel' (video)
Los Angeles Times: Review: In 'Man of Steel,' Henry Cavill soars over an erratic plot
IMDb: User Reviews
IMDb: External Reviews
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:02:47 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: EveningStar
Fox News interviewed a lady from Rotten Tomatoes about the weekend box office and she was perplexed about the number of negative reviews. She loved the movie.
IMO, the
Superman character is so ingrained into society that everyone has their own opinion as to how he should be portrayed. It's doubtful you'd ever get universal praise or criticism, not matter how good or bad a movie about him might be.
Remember, some folks loved
Superman Returns.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:10:07 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: EveningStar
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:10:25 PM PDT
by
ak267
(THORIUM....ENERGY OF THE FUTURE!!!!)
To: EveningStar
I’m going to see it tomorrow. I have two friends who’ve already seen it and they gave it very good marks.
It seems that most of the critics who have panned it wanted it to be more like Richard Donner’s “Superman.” Well, that was a very good film. But it has already been done, and “Superman Returns” showed us what happens when you try to make it again.
To: EveningStar
I just saw it. Not bad at all. MILES better than previous Superman movies, which were mostly unwatchable. Some of the fight scenes had too many fast action closeups, but all in all a good movie. It took decades but technology can finally do justice to superhero movies.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:12:24 PM PDT
by
jdsteel
(Give me freedom, not more government.)
To: EveningStar
Saw it tonight. Loved it.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:14:22 PM PDT
by
Personal Responsibility
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
To: Bratch
I liked Superman Returns, but I hated Broadway Lex Luthor. I was convinced that Kevin Spacey was going to break out in a song.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:16:24 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: EveningStar
Any gay scenes...like the James Bond movie?
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:17:48 PM PDT
by
BobL
(To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
To: GrootheWanderer
A guy I work with saw this movie and gave it a hearty thumbs up. I might just have to go see it.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:20:57 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Jonty30
If only Marlon Brandon were still around!
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:22:27 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: EveningStar
Comments from last night's premiere postings on another thread...
All in all my wife & I liked it - really good story and character development actually, and good casting - especially Superman. I liked it a lot more than expected.
However, for a 2:28 minute movie they could have cut out at least 28 minutes of gratuitous property and building smashing and explosions, still had tons of such action left, and the movie would have lost nothing.
I swear if they'd smashed another couple dozen buildings more than the couple thousand they smashed throughout the movie, I would have lost it. Toward the end when they got tired of trashing all the cities on Earth and decided to take the fighting into orbit and start smashing satellites, I almost started laughing.
Regardless, a good movie overall and probably the best Superman movie yet. I'd recommend it.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:22:39 PM PDT
by
MCH
To: EveningStar
Best Superman movie ever!
To: BobL
FWIW, the Superman books introduced one of the first gay characters in comics back in the 1980's.
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:32:04 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; skinkinthegrass; ...
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posted on
06/14/2013 8:32:49 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
To: Perdogg
“’Man of Steel’ is really the Obama story ‘cause it’s about a guy who’s not from here & has the power to see & hear everything you’re doing.”
-Jeff Dunham
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posted on
06/14/2013 9:12:30 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: EveningStar
I saw it this afternoon.
All these good reviews surprise me.
If a good movie is all about effects and choreography, and wall to wall fist fighting then the movie was great.
Plotwise it totally bombed
There was hardly ANY character development
There was 10 times more alien technology than there was Superman saving the day.
Too many flashbacks to cover early years.
WAY too much collateral damage. NO WAY all those buildings fall without killing thousands of people. Virtually nothing left of the city which Superman didn’t seem to mind punching holes in. Where did all the people go??? the city looked like a nuke hit it, but no dead people on the streets.
WAY too much emphasis on Zod and this new element of Kryptonians being a bunch of test tube breeders.
I was totally disappointed in it overall.
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posted on
06/14/2013 9:31:03 PM PDT
by
Safrguns
(PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
Loved it. Loved the character development but really loved the Christian imagery.
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posted on
06/14/2013 10:03:01 PM PDT
by
Frapster
(Forgive the typos... They know not why they are there.)
To: Ruger1099
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posted on
06/14/2013 10:04:03 PM PDT
by
diamond6
(Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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