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I saw Man Of Steel today! Four spoilery thoughts beneath the cut:
1) I really really wish that we’d get a superhero film where the hero’s mother was his guiding figure instead of existing just to give birth and then die. See also: the Batman films and the new Spider-Mans. (But not the old Spider-Mans! Hooray!) Not that I didn’t enjoy the stuff with Russell Crowe but what about Lara, Superman’s mother? Can’t she be a ghosty-echoey thing too?
2) I really dig this version of Perry White (having paid him no attention at all before…) I really liked that he stayed behind to help that girl when he could have run to relative safety. And I wondered if he was gonna die then but he lived! Yay!
3) I spotted the trucks marked “Lexcorp”. And in Smallville, a shop marked “Sullivan”, which has gotta be a reference to Chloe.
4) Good grief this film had the highest body-count of any superhero film I’ve ever seen? Not counting the named characters (Jonathan Kent, Jor-El, Lara, Zod, Zod’s henchwoman whose name I forgot…) there was everyone on Krypton plus a ton of soldiers plus thousands and thousands of people in New York Metropolis. Eeeep.