There are two main reasons why i believe this the
first pertains to the actual character of superman and this is
something a lot of people don’t seem to understand. Superman and batman while simmaler in some ways are completely night
and day in there differences. What i mean by this is Bruce Wayne is
the mask batman puts on where Clark Kent takes on the persona of
superman. the film focuses on his kryptonian linage far more than the
Kansas farm boy which is what resides at the core, his powers come
from krypton but the most important and overriding factor of the
character is the kindness and strong moral compass he obtained from
his parents and more importantly his father. There is a story arc in
the superman comics (from #701 - #714) called grounded where superman
decides that he has lost touch with his human side and begins to
walk (not fly) across America helping people he meets ranging from
talking a suicidal woman off the edge of a building to cleaning the kitchen at a diner to pay
for a sandwich, as horrible as that arc was in quality it embodied
superman in spirit which is more then i can say for this movie.
my second and final point in this argument is the
biggest insult to the 75 year history of superman present in this
film and it is something that can be discernd from any 5 second clip
of the movie you pick. the film is completely and utterly joyless. do
you know how many times superman smiles in this movie? in the 143
minuet run time he smiles twice. Once when he is flying for the first
time and second when he is talking to Louis Laine. and that's not all
the colour pallet has a grey tint like when you turn down the colour
on your television only half the way. say what you will about the
Christopher Reaves superman movies but those films where bright they
were heroic, the tone of the first two films alone makes you want get
out of your seat punch the air and say "HELL YA SUPERMAN IS
AWSOME". that's the word for it heroic there is nothing heroic
about man of steal its like the entire film was directed by Eyor
from whinie the pooh..
to finish up on a brighter note I would like to
recommend some good superman stories.
there is a retelling of superman’s early years
by Grant Morrison (Amazon.co.uk)
(Comixology.com)
and an alternate take on superman set in our world
(Amazon.co.uk)
(Comixology.com)
