super-nope

[davemerrill]

Wow, just read Mark Waid's review of MAN OF STEEL and it's got a spoiler in it and I'm glad I read the spoiler because it saved me spending $12.50 on the movie.

You can go read it for yourself, I won't discuss it here.

http://thrillbent.com/blog/man-of-steel-since-you-asked/

I'm not a big super hero fan by any means, but there are fundamental things that super-heroes should be, bottom-line reasons they exist, and it looks like the people handling those characters now definitely don't get it.

I was on the fence anyways; not a fan of Zack Snyder, am iffy on the whole ethics of how Warners acquired the character, and am not happy with the failure of both Warners and Marvel/Disney to adequately address their responsibilities to the creative legacy of their cash-cow intellectual properties.

So yeah, this was pretty much the third strike here. I may not ever see another super-hero movie in the theater ever again. Not that that is a problem, really. I'm a guy in my 40s; I also don't spend a lot of money on Charms Blo-Pops, baseball cards, Slurpees, or Snap 'n' Pops.

EDITED TO ADD:
There's no Jimmy Olsen? To hell with you, movie.

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[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

there's a limit as to how "realistic" they can get with the idea of people putting on masks to enforce their own personal moral codes. In real life, this means the KKK. Nolan's Batman, I think, is not going to age well.