The movie seemed. . .off in lots of ways to me. You and some others were saying that Winter Soldier seemed realistic, and while I didn't feel it was that exactly, I did feel that I could relate to and understand the characters and situations, and that scenes logically built on and resolved issues from previous scenes. The way MOS progressed, and ended in particular, failed in that way for me. All this death and devastation, then he kills Zod and is a huge crying mess. OK, I don't like it in a Superman movie, but I can understand it for what it is. Next thing you know, Superman is thumbing his nose at the government, and smugly telling them to back the **** off. Is that a guy who is feeling melancholy and remorse, as the previous scenes suggested he should? You can get to the point where he is optimistic, or even smug, and have the audience get behind it. But I don't think the filmmakers understood how to get from point A to point B in the way that, say, they did in Robocop, or Avengers, or Die Hard, or any number of other, better films. I said this before, but I don't think the Snyder/Goyer tag team understand dramatic storytelling about people very well, and related to that, I don't think they understand very well the dynamics of conflict, and resolution. Better if Snyder is brought in to direct action sequences, but allow someone else to do everything else.
poor Robin
