#101
Posted: 6/16/13 at 6:19pm
Well they got my money too, along with everyone else who contributed to its $125M opening weekend take.
In fairness I was happily game for the first hour and a half or so: fine pseudo-Shakespearean acting, lovely Kansas flashbacks in a Tree of Life vein, preposterous half-naked shots of a super-hairy Henry Cavill (I would have liked to see the scene where he first tries an earth-bound razor on his Kryptonian beard). Thought Amy Adams started out lovely. All well and good.
But oh Jeez that last reel was pure torture! Did no-one in all of the Warner Bros. hierarchy not feel queasy when yet another skyscraper would topple to the ground as grey dust covered the cast in a boldfaced echo to the Twin Towers' fall? Absolutely ludicrous to call this disaster-porn a fitting reboot to the honor of Superman. Shame shame shame.
In fairness I was happily game for the first hour and a half or so: fine pseudo-Shakespearean acting, lovely Kansas flashbacks in a Tree of Life vein, preposterous half-naked shots of a super-hairy Henry Cavill (I would have liked to see the scene where he first tries an earth-bound razor on his Kryptonian beard). Thought Amy Adams started out lovely. All well and good.
But oh Jeez that last reel was pure torture! Did no-one in all of the Warner Bros. hierarchy not feel queasy when yet another skyscraper would topple to the ground as grey dust covered the cast in a boldfaced echo to the Twin Towers' fall? Absolutely ludicrous to call this disaster-porn a fitting reboot to the honor of Superman. Shame shame shame.
