Saw it today in 3D. I loved the first half of the film but was kind of bored by the second half. Endless loud violence isn't my thing, and it was so repetitive. Once you've seen one superguy drive another through a building so that that building falls down 4 or 5 times you really don't need to see it again. And ultimately Superman's moral character didn't add up. All the time he was smashing up buildings, blowing up gas tanks, destroying invading space ships, he didn't seem to care at all how many people got killed, innocent people in some cases, then when it came to the final showdown he struggled to kill the person behind it all who had killed his own father.
For me it was the same problem I had with Iron Man 3. Watching 45 minutes of two unnaturally strong guys hitting shit out of each other is just boring, and when they don't care how many innocents are killed along the way, or we aren't supposed to care, well I just cant go there.
So half of the film I really loved, and half of it I found too long, repetitive and indulgent. Here's a quote from a press review which kind of sums up how I feel:-
All enquiries into humanity and responsibility are drowned out by long, noisy, computer-generated fight scenes which marry Nolan's taste for doom and gloom with Snyder's taste for over-the-top action. The result is a depressingly apocalyptic spectacle. It's all very well to include the time-honoured image of Lois Lane (Amy Adams) falling from a great height and being caught by Superman, but when we've just witnessed city-wide devastation that would have killed thousands of innocent civilians, it doesn't seem like such a victory.
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For me it was the same problem I had with Iron Man 3. Watching 45 minutes of two unnaturally strong guys hitting shit out of each other is just boring, and when they don't care how many innocents are killed along the way, or we aren't supposed to care, well I just cant go there.
So half of the film I really loved, and half of it I found too long, repetitive and indulgent. Here's a quote from a press review which kind of sums up how I feel:-
Quote:
All enquiries into humanity and responsibility are drowned out by long, noisy, computer-generated fight scenes which marry Nolan's taste for doom and gloom with Snyder's taste for over-the-top action. The result is a depressingly apocalyptic spectacle. It's all very well to include the time-honoured image of Lois Lane (Amy Adams) falling from a great height and being caught by Superman, but when we've just witnessed city-wide devastation that would have killed thousands of innocent civilians, it doesn't seem like such a victory.