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Originally Posted by Sure-Oz
Seems mixed ...I've heard the first 45 min is epic and the rest is pretty damn good. Hurry up weekend!
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I guess it depends on your definition of "epic". If you're a comic book nerd interested in a Krypton backstory, it's the first half-hour. If you're more interested in battles, it's the last half-hour. If you're more interested in the story about how a small alien boy grows up and introduces himself to a tentatively frightened humanity, it's all the stuff in the middle. I'm not sure I'd describe any of it as "epic", although the last half-hour's a good fight. I don't know why so many critics dislike the "typical" last act; if you ask me, the fact that Superman is so powerful and rarely faces much to hold him back is what makes the character a bit boring, so watching him go toe-to-toe with equals works for me.
I like the film better this morning. I want to see it again (which I didn't want to do with "Iron Man 3"). I like how they handle Clark/Lois (or, more to the point, how they didn't handle it). I like how they handle Clark's growing-up with flashback scenes. I like how they didn't go the typical route with his story, as Snyder tweaked things and eliminated things, mainly altering how Clark and Lois meet, how much she knows about him and how she finds her information out, how Clark and his dad get along, how his dad kicks the bucket, what serves as Clark's "Fortress Of Solitude" in terms of educating him, and what weakens Superman (spoiler--no Kryptonite, per se, but something that does the same thing and seems like a better explanation). I like how Snyder handled the interaction between a powerful alien hiding on Earth and the people on Earth who would both fear that and seek, out of fear, to control or stop it. (This film doesn't have the sappily adoring public of Donner's "Superman" films.) I even like how Crowe handled Jor-El. But, again, it's just a slightly bad film because of the pacing and direction; it's the kind of film where I'm not sure the crowd is going to make much noise, and will shuffle out quietly, neither of those things being good things that bear promise for a film's success. "Iron Man 3" sits at $395M; "Star Trek Into Darkness" sits at $202M; if someone put a gun to my head and said "pick a number" I'd say $300M domestic.