I have to disagree, I liked the Snyder version of Superman, because what he actually showed is the true damage Kryptonians would wreck upon our world should they fight. Also, Zacks take on a Superman raised in today's world is accurate.
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Not on purpose, but it may be the best of a series of bad choices that lay ahead of him. Like killing Zod, he may not have wanted to do it, but the choices left before hin were even worse.
At one point Zod pushes an oil tanker at him and instead of easily stopping it with his finger he casually jumps over it and it blows up yet another building.
Why he's up against someone who isn't his level. But up against a kryptonian who operates at his level. Superman can't hold back, or he'd be killed. Like what happened against that awful adaptation of Doomsday
Yes, and my thing is even with that argument he still doesn't save...anyone specifically? He just stops Zod, but never seems to stop and save any singular civilian.
Where's the bit where he saves a kid? Where's the part where he becomes a beacon? Nowhere.
Yeah, this is my thing, I don't think the movie takes more than 1-2 minutes to show Superman actually...saving people? Most of the film is him fighting kryptonians and causing the biggest disaster in Metropolis' history.
You did see in the movie how fast Kryptonians can move? Superman would be constantly trying to save people and in turn having the city getting wreck around him instead of dealing with the actual threat
If the movie at least showed him trying and failing to do that, that'd be more interesting! The way the action actually plays out, he's treating the city like a set piece. A lot of comics also do this, but those comics kinda suck for that reason!
A Superman raised in today's world would probably be a rapist and really into Trump because it turns out most men in America are at least one of those things. Just because it's accurate to reality doesn't mean it's interesting or enjoyable to see in a movie.
Eh, to me Superman is SUPPOSED to be a fantastic alcharacter. No one would love him the way superman is loved in the comics if he did that every time he fought. Plus killing Zod seemed dark for it's own sake, rather than part of the character.
By today's standards Zacks take is fantastic. Harking back to a 70s and 80s version, doesn't really connect with the youth of today. Its a different time. Also, He Had to kill Zod, Zod was never going to stop, unless he was killed
Because why introduce the phantom zone, krytponite, use whatever on the ship caused them to be vulnerable again, anything else to offer a possible solution? Nah. Right to the kill on the first outing.
Like, on onee of the movies they say 'Is the world's love affair with the man in the sky over?' and I'm like WHAT love affair, no one in their right mind would consider him a hero after causing like...six 9/11s. That's just not my superman, though you're welcome to like what you like.
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Maybe Snyder should have adapted Irredeemable or Supreme Power.
Superman is supposed to give a fuck.
That is his whole point he is careful, always careful, always worried he is gonna break something or kill someone.
Where's the bit where he saves a kid? Where's the part where he becomes a beacon? Nowhere.
No one looks up to him hopefully the whole film.
Chekov's gun, what's that?