Sunday, October 27, 2013
WARNING: SUPER NERD TL;DR RANT
Would it have been SO HARD to have the first third of the flick be from Lois's POV, doing investigative reporting based on an accidental lead (with some action beats here and there in the vein of 'holy shit, what was that!?' (maybe 'told' in flashbacks from interviewees, throw in some fun urban myth- style embellishments)), and then have Supes show up in an awesome reveal with an 'oh, eff, yeah!' entrance marked by that John Williams score we all know and love kicking off the remaining two acts (something along the lines of the classic Superman Saves Lois Because Lois Put Her Badass Self Into A Position To Be Rescued On Purpose In Order To Force Superman's Hand sort of deal)? Hell, you could even have Lois save the day at the last minute by being a good old fashioned human and Supes being all, 'oh, yeah, I didn't even think of that' which brings his humanity issues to light. And how about a 30- minute less run time that leaves us wanting more? Oh, and you could open the thing with maybe three minutes of the destruction of Krypton instead of ten minutes of Star Wars prequel trilogy rip offs (hey, those troop carriers were pretty cool, let's use those, but put wings on them! And remember that lizard thing Obi Wan rode? Let's use that, too, but put wings on it! That 'around the survivors a perimeter make' bit was pretty cool, let's throw that in there! Also, let's combine The Matrix with the Gungan City that eventually leads to this awesome line: 'We had a child. A BOY child' and then we'll show that uncircumcised boy child!). I know it sounds stupid, but by limiting the origin story THAT EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS and introducing Superman a little later, you open up the possibility of a sequel that deals with Superman's humanity issues (which is about the only thing that makes him interesting) while further exploring Krypton's destruction and then you could introduce a movie version of Brainiac. Instead, what we're probably going to get is two brooding costumed jerks with daddy issues going after Lex Fucking Luthor after fighting each other first then realizing that Lex is the real problem when Bruce Wayne figures out his business rival Lex Fucking Luthor created Brainiac or some shit and the best we can hope for is that at some point Bats will spot the Super heiney and bark 'CLARK! I can see you've been doing SQUATS' ala Batdad. .
Anyway, Man of Steel super sucked and my idea is better.
/SUPER NERD RANT
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