SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Fuck, where to start?
Goyer's ass should be canned asap. The script for MoS was so ridiculously lazy. I keep mulling it over, and no character actually had any sort of development in the film. It's a Superman origin story where we don't even see Clark become Superman. There is no character arc there. No natural progression. Superman doesn't even feel like a character in this shitty movie. It's like Goyer and company seemed to have a bunch of dot-pointed story ideas and instead of writing a script, decided to cut from one idea to the other without any sort of narrative momentum or sense of character purpose.
It's also amazing how long the prologue takes to set up what ends up feeling ultimately hollow.
The deeper ideas that might be explored are brushed aside with a line here or there in order to get to the never-ending action that - while visually impressive in choreography terms, feels completely hollow and boring in narrative terms because no work has been done to make us give a shit about anything going on.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to laugh my ass off at
This film kind of seems like WB taking all the people who complained about there being lack of action in Returns and sitting them down in that donut-chair in hell from The Simpsons. 'So you like action, huh? Here! Take all the action in the world!'
This film was like the anti-Returns in every way; no scenes are given time to breathe, all characters are emotionally absent and the action is unrelenting to the point where you just look at your watch and remember the last time you were dragged to a Transformers movie in theatres. Not only that, but Zimmer's score was downright shitty. I thought he was going to do away with his old bombastic toolkit. I'm starting to believe that since his band of previously uncredited cohorts left him, Inception's 'Time' track is the only genuinely good piece of music he's put out.
The CG was hit and miss. Sometimes it looked fantastic and other times
it looks Burly Brawl bad.
And while some of the fight choreography was good (especially
, Snyder's previously impressive sense of framing was completely absent in lieu of a bunch of dirty close-ups and haphazard PUNCH INS for no goddamn reason. Seriously, some of those punch ins to close ups were downright obnoxious. And yes, I get that the idea of shaking the camera when tracking with Superman might create the impression that he's so fast it's hard to capture him, but that shit was NOT working. Dude took those slow-mo barbs to heart.
The 3D was also completely worthless. I was happy to get The Desolation of Smaug trailer in 3D, though.
Disappointmentonne.
Goyer's ass should be canned asap. The script for MoS was so ridiculously lazy. I keep mulling it over, and no character actually had any sort of development in the film. It's a Superman origin story where we don't even see Clark become Superman. There is no character arc there. No natural progression. Superman doesn't even feel like a character in this shitty movie. It's like Goyer and company seemed to have a bunch of dot-pointed story ideas and instead of writing a script, decided to cut from one idea to the other without any sort of narrative momentum or sense of character purpose.
The non-linear opening act structure may have worked for Batman Begins, but it absolutely hurts this film something fierce.
The deeper ideas that might be explored are brushed aside with a line here or there in order to get to the never-ending action that - while visually impressive in choreography terms, feels completely hollow and boring in narrative terms because no work has been done to make us give a shit about anything going on.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to laugh my ass off at
Superman crying out for Zod to spare those three people against the wall, after Superman himself has just contributed to the thousands upon thousands of deaths that have surely come from his sandbox scrap with Zod.
This film kind of seems like WB taking all the people who complained about there being lack of action in Returns and sitting them down in that donut-chair in hell from The Simpsons. 'So you like action, huh? Here! Take all the action in the world!'
This film was like the anti-Returns in every way; no scenes are given time to breathe, all characters are emotionally absent and the action is unrelenting to the point where you just look at your watch and remember the last time you were dragged to a Transformers movie in theatres. Not only that, but Zimmer's score was downright shitty. I thought he was going to do away with his old bombastic toolkit. I'm starting to believe that since his band of previously uncredited cohorts left him, Inception's 'Time' track is the only genuinely good piece of music he's put out.
The CG was hit and miss. Sometimes it looked fantastic and other times
like when he's landing after catching Lois
And while some of the fight choreography was good (especially
Faora moving about from one enemy to the next in the Smallville fight
The 3D was also completely worthless. I was happy to get The Desolation of Smaug trailer in 3D, though.
Disappointmentonne.
