It had some grim moments, but it had some optimistic ones too. My favorite scenes are where Superman learns to fly, and I could have done with more scenes like that where he just enjoys what he can do. Overall, I thought it was generally pitched pretty well when it comes to tone. I really enjoyed it. My main gripe is having Superman kill Zod at the end. I didn't enjoy seeing the writers put the character in that corner. At least they had the good sense to have him clearly anguished over what he'd done.138 Scourge wrote:Anderson, I'm kind of surprised you liked Man of Steel. Admittedly, I haven't seen it, but it looked so damn grim from the previews and whatnot.
Hal is my favorite, by far. I like John and Kyle, can't usually stand Guy Gardner, and don't have much of an opinion about Simon Baz other than "why does he exist when we already have four human GLs?" He seems redundant.Onslaught Six wrote:I can agree that I'd have been more interested in a John Stewart movie. I always liked the fact that he was a straight-laced military man, which made him a perfect fit for the Lantern Corps. If I were doing it, I would have cast Reynolds as Kyle Raynor, and skipped over Hal Jordan entirely, but I was never really a fan of Hal to begin with. Just seemed like, to me, every other Green Lantern was more interesting. (Who could play Guy Gardner?)
If we get a Hal movie, I'll go see it. If not, I'll probably skip it. I suspect we will. DC seems to view the Silver Age characters as the default versions that most people know, despite having decades of success with other versions. So Barry Allen is the Flash, Barbara Gordon is Batgirl, and I'd be surprised if they don't produce another Hal Jordan GL movie. But I could be wrong.
There's honestly very little that I didn't like about Man of Steel.I could write a novel on what I didn't like about MoS, and a short paragraph about what I did like.