As a follow-up to my incredibly
virulent defense of Ben Affleck, I thought I'd also do a post about
Man of Steel, the
recent reprequeboot of the Superman franchise. I know it's
been a while since it came out, but there was plenty of butthurt and
there still is regarding some of the plot, and I've been on a running
butthurt theme lately. Not to mention several blogs and websites this
week have featured Zack Snyder's defense of the calamitous
destruction of Metropolis in the climax of the movie.
I liked Man of Steel. At times,
I loved it. At times, I think Henry Cavill perfectly captured the
spirit of classic Superman if he was met with real-world situations.
The scene that comes to mind is when he gives himself up to the
military. Now, let me explain something about Superman, which will be
referenced several times: Superman is crazy powerful. How crazy?
Throughout all of the continuity resets DC did, he's been shown to
shrug off nuclear strikes. Before the 80's continuity reboot Crisis
on Infinite Earths (the grand-daddy of all “event” miniseries) he
was even shown moving planets around.
