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The Wave Master posted...

Man of Steel had some good ideas, like the engineering of Zod, but then the final act pisses on 60 plus years of comic and television history by having Pa Kent step into a tornado to teach teenage Clark a lesson about how terrible and close minded humans are, then snapping Zod's neck like a damn twig.

In the absence of a phantom zone, what exactly was Clark supposed to do? Just let Zod keep killing? The moment was a pivotally emotional scene that felt far less out of place than (spoilers for another movie we all saw) Batman deciding on a loophole to justify murdering R'as in Batman Begins.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

You could also look at it from the angle that nobody is crying for Marvel recuts because most of the movies are passable, and the market is completely flooded with them, whereas DC has tried stepping it's output up, but isn't cranking out the same level of passable movies. The past few have been pretty bad, and there's some small shred of hope that DC can do good work outside of the animations.

The Justice League on some level or another has what, 30-40 years on the Avengers in some form or another in the comics archives? They can't find a cast and a director that actually gets what they're trying to make as a film?

Yeah, JL is central to their universe.

I_Abibde posted... And I wonder if Whedon will come anywhere near superhero movies again after being slagged for the Justice League debacle.

If Whedon never touched another superhero, I'd be happy. He was responsible for a lot of the stupidest shit in Avengers as well. And with him not fucking up superheroes, maybe he'd have the time to finally give us some Doctor Horrible sequels.

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