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Regardless of that, nothing can change the fact that the very point of Superman is to help make the world a better place, and by the end of "Man Of Steel" it's certain that the world portrayed in the film would have been much better off had he and his "pals" never shown up at all. I don't care how much they promise the aftermath will be dealt with in sequels, it severely undercuts the spirit of THIS movie.
That's the fatal flaw of that and any other film proclaiming to feature Superman, is you cannot have him be the bad guy, and in this movie every bad thing happens directly because of him and his actions. Even him "saving" Metropolis killed millions of people in minutes. "Year One" this and "Inexperienced" that, I get what they were trying to portray, but they went overboard. WAY more than any comparison to the Reeve films, the thing that most hurts MoS is simply that Superman decidedly leaves everything WORSE than when he found it, and that's a big part of what hurt it for me.
I do like the movie, it's very good and visually it's amazing, but it needed some restraint. And much, much better dialog. And just a tiny bit of humor wouldn't have hurt anything, either. It looked like a Superman movie should look but in a lot of ways it just didn't feel like a Superman movie should feel.
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