Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10355013-20130619202825/@comment-1038387-20130624100518

I'm not the world's biggest Superman fan. But what I loved most about Superman - mild mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper - we got only 2 seconds of it.

Pacing was terrible, as said above. The first hour goes nowhere. And back. Waaay too many flashbacks. And the Kents... they weren't special to me. They just weren't there. Just two people. But that's not just them. Lois... I dunno, it didn't feel right. Perry, Jenny and Lombard were pretty flat, they're only scenery. Even the trapped in the rubble thing didn't add any depth. The soldiers... they're even flatter. Did Carol Fe Carrie Farris actually have lines?

The whole duality of small-town fry in the big city vs. alien on Earth, that double fish out of water feeling, was sacrificed and what did we get in return? Deadliest Catch and Ice Road Truckers.

I also thought the voices sounded weird. Why did Jax-Ur have a German accent? Seriously, the Mad Doctor Mengele shtick has been done. Superman didn't really sound like Superman either.

The ending... Superman killing Zod... if they've gone toe-to-toe for so long and shrug everything off, how can he snap his neck as if it's nothing? This isn't Max Lord. That's what it felt like, just a bleak copy of Max Lord's death. I don't mind as much that Superman kills, I just think it was poorly executed. No pun intended.

On a side-note, I really regret adding all the none.jpgs to the disambigs. Bloody hell, how many of the Kryptonians were actually referred to by name?