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I'm taking a full grade away from Man of Steel

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I'd read All Star Superman a few years back, but All Star and Birthright were on sale at Comixology at the time of Man of Steel's release. I picked them both up, but only just got around to actually reading them.

I did not realize how poorly MoS tried to imitate pieces of these two masterpieces, and I now understand why people were saying the movie was derivative and copy/paste. I picked up on the parts they copied, poorly, from other major pictures, but didn't realize how poorly they attempted to copy these comics. No wonder Mark Waid is appalled by Man of Steel, they copied lines from his work, but without anything that actually gave those lines meaning. 🙁

I've seen Man of Steel twice, trying to really like it too. One would think this wouldn't be that hard to translate to the big screen, given the wealth of amazing material available to them.

Maybe Spielberg is right about the coming motion picture crash.
 
The gist I got from the reviews I watched was this isn't a Superman movie. It's a Michael Bay film with a guy dressed as Superman.
 
Unfortunately DC heroes are hard to get right because they are OP. I love Green Lantern (Guy gardner over Hal jordan)...but even i think thry are OP despite their weaknesses.

Batman - a man who is OP due to his training, wealth and gadgets
Superman - a man that is OP because of solar radiation
Green lantern - a man that is OP because of his power ring
Cyborg - a man that is OP due to his cybernetic enhancements
The flash - a man who is OP because of his speed (infinite mass punch anyone)

As much as it pains me to say this, but for the most part, Marvel comics are easier to translate to films because there are too few characters that aee that OP...Hulk, Magneto, and Thor being the primary OP characters which so far have translated well into films
 
nephilim2k said:
Unfortunately DC heroes are hard to get right because they are OP. I love Green Lantern (Guy gardner over Hal jordan)...but even i think thry are OP despite their weaknesses.

Batman - a man who is OP due to his training, wealth and gadgets
Superman - a man that is OP because of solar radiation
Green lantern - a man that is OP because of his power ring
Cyborg - a man that is OP due to his cybernetic enhancements
The flash - a man who is OP because of his speed (infinite mass punch anyone)

As much as it pains me to say this, but for the most part, Marvel comics are easier to translate to films because there are too few characters that aee that OP...Hulk, Magneto, and Thor being the primary OP characters which so far have translated well into films
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Batman is just a man who has dedication, heart and training. he can be beat. nothing really special about him.

The res ti agree with. I think that is why batman is still the most popular out of DC comics.
 
I thought Man of Steel sucked. I would prefer DC stick to animated movies than real life since they can't pull those off. I would pay good money for a big budget animated movie (not 3D but hand drawn).
 
waggy said:
Batman is just a man who has dedication, heart and training. he can be beat. nothing really special about him.

The res ti agree with. I think that is why batman is still the most popular out of DC comics.
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yeah... other than Batman (and some lesser known, C/B-list titles), DC superheroes are really just gods.
 
nephilim2k said:
Unfortunately DC heroes are hard to get right because they are OP. I love Green Lantern (Guy gardner over Hal jordan)...but even i think thry are OP despite their weaknesses.

Batman - a man who is OP due to his training, wealth and gadgets
Superman - a man that is OP because of solar radiation
Green lantern - a man that is OP because of his power ring
Cyborg - a man that is OP due to his cybernetic enhancements
The flash - a man who is OP because of his speed (infinite mass punch anyone)

As much as it pains me to say this, but for the most part, Marvel comics are easier to translate to films because there are too few characters that aee that OP...Hulk, Magneto, and Thor being the primary OP characters which so far have translated well into films
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I can't figure out what OP means in your post.
 
Heh, I actually find Batman to be the most boring "superhero" around, mostly because he isnt even one
That he even wins any fight at all is pure plot device due to him being popular...
Lets face it, in the "real world" (Yeah I know) Batman would get raped by any other character in DC universe

But yeah, I enjoy Marvel movies a lot more in general... Avengers is still THE superhero movie, and I cant wait to see how they will handle the sequel
 
waggy said:
lol though that is a good series. i have to admit one of the better CD ones i have read in a long time.

i always wondered WHAT IF superman got tired of all the BS and really decided to do something about it.
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Superman: Red Son is worth reading.

(baby Superman is shipped off from Krypton a few hours late, leading him to land in Soviet Russia instead of Kansas)

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loki8481 said:
Superman: Red Son is worth reading.

(baby Superman is shipped off from Krypton a few hours late, leading him to land in Soviet Russia instead of Kansas)

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yeah that's another good one.

they need one where superman is raised by criminals and not the kents. but knowing DC he will be lex's brother (who is good) and fight.
 
I won't watch this movie. The reviews made it seem like a thirty hour "superhero origin" grind movie piece of shit, like so many of them today. So many of these superhero movies are connected in nothing but brand; they don't share any story continuity or actors. Nothing more than whoring their brand out.
 
nephilim2k said:
As much as it pains me to say this, but for the most part, Marvel comics are easier to translate to films because there are too few characters that aee that OP...Hulk, Magneto, and Thor being the primary OP characters which so far have translated well into films
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You missed Iron Man...seriously, a very mortal guy who relies on his intelligence and baller attitude to make it happen.
 
Iron man is not anywhere near the same level of strength as thor, hulk or magneto....magneto has the ability to manipulate any metal so before stark could get close he would crush him in his suit...as for hulk and thorbuster suits...they didnt even last 2 hits from respective characters they were meant to bust....whilst op for other bad guys...still a breeze for those guys. Magneyo can also lift mjollnir if thor is unconcious through his ability to manipulate anything metal...he just cant wield it the same way thor can and it seriously drains his energy

Iron man is a genius (3 doctorates and keeps wanting to learn more...guy is seriously smart) but smarts dont defeat OP bad guys like hulk and thor do....hell even the thing could bust up iron man without issue...but he got owned badly by absorbing man....and absorbing man got ruined by hulk.
 
Ironman and Magneto fought once, but the writers wanked out some "carbon nanotube" BS to explain why Magneto's powers couldn't affect him.

but all comics are guilty of stuff like that (eg: one issue, Superman is struggling to lift a car... next issue, he's literally moving the planet)
 
I'm taking a full grade away from Man of Steel
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I am quite certain they are happy to have traded the grade for your money, not once, but twice. 😉
 
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