Man of Steel (SPOILERS)

[krec9]

Re: The Man of Steel

I never read an IM comic and yet I found IM3 to still be pretty bad.

IM comics are pretty phony. I find the third to be the worst of the three.

 

[spindrift]

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What drives me nuts are the multiple reviews for the same publications. I don't care if they are three different critics, how many reviews of the same film does Salon.com ****ing need?

It is what it is...just don't get caught up in the negative review avalanche.....guess anything now that isn't Marvel is inferior to alot of "critics"

 

[jye4ever]

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Have you looked at the soundtrack titles?

Nope, afraid of spoilers.

 

[JefftheCollector]

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It is what it is...just don't get caught up in the negative review avalanche.....guess anything now that isn't Marvel is inferior to alot of "critics"

I'm going tomorrow evening to see MoS and wait to reserve judgement on the film. A lot of bias towards DC films as of late, TDKR and now MoS. I'm sorry but Marvel movies are just popcorn fluff, especially IM3 which is awful in its own right.

 

[krec9]

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I'm going tomorrow evening to see MoS and wait to reserve judgement on the film. A lot of bias towards DC films as of late, TDKR and now MoS. I'm sorry but Marvel movies are just popcorn fluff, especially IM3 which is awful in its own right.

The dc films of now are more serious marvel imo are more action comedy.

 

[JefftheCollector]

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The dc films of now are more serious marvel imo are more action comedy.

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

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Going tonight to see this. So excited. Can't wait to see this!

 

[a-dev]

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I'm going tomorrow evening to see MoS and wait to reserve judgement on the film. A lot of bias towards DC films as of late, TDKR and now MoS. I'm sorry but Marvel movies are just popcorn fluff, especially IM3 which is awful in its own right.

No bias there I'm sure.

 

[jye4ever]

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No bias there I'm sure.

 

[JefftheCollector]

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No bias there I'm sure.

Well I look at how the marvel universe is being constructed in the films and lets face it, it's action-comedy like Krec9 said. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy some of the marvel movies that have been released.

 

[thenammagazine]

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No bias there I'm sure.

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[JAWS]

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Well I look at how the marvel universe is being constructed in the films and lets face it, it's action-comedy like Krec9 said. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy some of the marvel movies that have been released.

Just because there is Humor I would not call it action/Comedy.

That is like saying because I laughed a lot while watching Raiders of the Lost Ark then that makes it an action Comedy.

I think of MIB as an Action comedy or even Bad Boys where the Humor is front and center and then there is some action.

Marvel films are action first... humor second. Sort of like the comics themselves.

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

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I would not call the Marvel movies fluff. They do not deal in the weighty tones, that the Nolan Batman films do, but that doesn't make them worse. Nolan was trying to accomplish something entirely different than what the Marvel films were going for. both were successful in those aims. Avengers was far more fun than any of the Batman films. But the Batman films lend themselves better to debates and philosophical discussions.

My take, life can't be all fun and games, but it shouldn't be all work and seriousness either. Each has a place on my shlef.

 

[JAWS]

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I would not call the Marvel movies fluff. They do not deal in the weighty tones, that the Nolan Batman films do, but that doesn't make them worse. Nolan was trying to accomplish something entirely different than what the Marvel films were going for. both were successful in those aims. Avengers was far more fun than any of the Batman films. But the Batman films lend themselves better to debates and philosophical discussions.

My take, life can't be all fun and games, but it shouldn't be all work and seriousness either. Each has a place on my shlef.

 

[JAWS]

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I hope regardless of ho MoS turns out that this does not become some sort of DC movies vs Marvel Movies.

Personally I am a Marvel guy. I prefer the marvel Universe. Having said that 3 of my top 5 superhero films are DC movies.

 

[krec9]

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I hope regardless of ho MoS turns out that this does not become some sort of DC movies vs Marvel Movies.

Personally I am a Marvel guy. I prefer the marvel Universe. Having said that 3 of my top 5 superhero films are DC movies.

Its always been Dc vs Marvel always will be .

 

[JefftheCollector]

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I would not call the Marvel movies fluff. They do not deal in the weighty tones, that the Nolan Batman films do, but that doesn't make them worse. Nolan was trying to accomplish something entirely different than what the Marvel films were going for. both were successful in those aims. Avengers was far more fun than any of the Batman films. But the Batman films lend themselves better to debates and philosophical discussions.

My take, life can't be all fun and games, but it shouldn't be all work and seriousness either. Each has a place on my shlef.

 

[Rorywan]

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I loved The Avengers, but I would certainly call it tonally comedic. Most of the best show stopping sequences in it were witty and comedy based. Hulk smash? Loki being beaten to a pulp by Hulk? Thors comments about his brother, almost every word RDJ uttered. Etc, etc. That was one of its biggest strengths. I didn't feel like anyone was in any real danger, it was that light, which is why Coulsons death work so perfectly, no one was expecting it. Comedy doesn't need to equate to silliness, which it avoided brilliantly. Verisimilitude.

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

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I hope regardless of ho MoS turns out that this does not become some sort of DC movies vs Marvel Movies.

Personally I am a Marvel guy. I prefer the marvel Universe. Having said that 3 of my top 5 superhero films are DC movies.

It will. It's annoying in the comics, and now that average joe movie goer has gotten involved it's only going to get worse.

I'm a die hard DC guy. But I read some Marvel too. I want MoS to be good because i want a good Superman film, and i want to see Justice League. The only Marvel movie I am admitedly against is Guardian of the Galaxy. And that has to do with A movie with a talking Raccoon getting a movie over better characters like Black Panther, Iron Fist, Luke Cage. But that's my issue, and i don't comment on the film other than to say i have 0 interest in it.

 

[tomandshell]

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I don't think Thor or Captain America or Incredible Hulk were action comedies. RDJ plays it for laughs, and the Iron Man movies have had more humor than the other Marvel films.

Also, just because a movie has a serious tone and little humor doesn't make it more substantial. You can be very serious when you show Superman fighting a giant alien tentacle machine, but it's still comic book popcorn action brought to life. It's not Shakespeare just because Superman didn't drop a Tony Stark one-liner and there was a dark cloud in the sky. A serious tone itself doesn't create substance out of nothing. If you're not careful, you can come off as pretentious. Marvel is never pretentious, but the new DC can get dangerously close.