Like watching anime, I am rather picky with what movie I plan to watch. But unlike anime, the exception to that rule is that if my friends invited me to watch a movie (even though I have no plans to watch it, and the movie doesn't give me a bad impression like you know, Twilight) I would join them without a second thought unless that movie they plan to watch is one that I plan to watch with my best friend.
I was supposed to watch a movie with my uni mates yesterday after my final paper, and it was gonna be Monster University. However, we weren't able to find any good seating arrangement for the timeslot that we want to watch, and that we had a tight schedule where we had dinner at a steamboat restaurant (for those who don't know, steamboat does not refer to the boat that runs on steam, it's a chinese hotpot restaurant where you put stuff in a metal pot filled with stock in the middle of the table) but that's not the point.
The point is, while I was gonna make a post on watching two movies, it ended up being me watching one movie - which was Man of Steel with my best friend today.
Man of Steel, I would say is an alright superhero movie. While not as good as the Dark Knight saga, it is good in its own rights. I was wondering how they were gonna two Clark's childhood/teenage life thing since he was.......
Oh ya, forgot to mention, there's gonna be spoilers below this sentence, so unless you've watched the movie and don't mind being spoiled, then continue reading.
Where was I again? Oh right, yeah, about his childhood and teenage life story since he was sent to Earth as a baby. In the end they went with the flashback route, and it was okay with me. I enjoyed it, since it only told us the main events of his past like being picked on but refusing to fight back, rescuing a busload of people from drowning, and letting his adopted dad die from a hurricane (instead of a heart attack like in the comics).
I was also rather curious on how Superman is gonna take down General Zod and each member of his army (Zod included) is as strong as Superman. So they went with the black hole banishing everyone out route. It seems like this is a Deus Ex Machina, but I think they had to do it, considering the massive scale of damage done by the army (this show has a very high body count in my opinion, just look at the scale of destruction done).
I do have one minor nitpick. Considering how much damage has been done to Metropolis. I would assume that it would take a loooooooooong time for it to rebuilt itself. But they way the epilogue panned out it's as if Metropolis just became back to normal in less than a year or two. But hey, comic book logic FTW?
Final Man of Steel related thoughts: I think I saw tons of reference to the movie 300 (since the director of 300 directed this movie) like the 'This is Madness' quote, and how Clark Kent looked like a Spartan before shaving and having his abs showing. Also, Lexcorp tanker, awesome. Did I mentioned Zod is now a downloadable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us, a DC universe fighting game? Also pretty cool to tie in with the movie (just like the how there were many Avengers character in Marvel Vs Capcom 3 to tie in with the Avengers movie),
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