Allow me to quickly
introduce myself: My name is Kara, and I live over at www.karaschatter.com . I have no
experience in the movie industry, other than watching and appreciating them. I
thought I would offer up my movie reviewing skills, or lack thereof, to The
Basement to give readers a female perspective on movies, new, old, good, and
bad.
The
husband and I took an offer of free childcare by the way of
grandparents to head to the theater and watch Man of Steel, the newest
edition to the seemingly endless versions of Superman movies.
I
will admit that while I had heard about the movie and saw trailers for
it, comic book movies aren’t usually my #1 choice, but as my husband
pointed out, it’s the type of movie you have to watch in theaters
because it’s all about the special effects. So, I agreed that Man of
Steel was the movie we would take in, and was definitely not
disappointed.
Clark
Kent/Kal-El/Superman is played by the ridiculously good-looking Henry
Cavill and his main-squeeze Lois Lane is played by the adorable Amy
Adams. Sprinkled throughout the movie are highly recognizable names and
faces that doesn’t necessarily give the film more credibility, but it
definitely made it more enjoyable, in my opinion. Diane Lane, Kevin
Costner, Laurence Fishburne, and of course, Russell Crowe, were all
there, to name a few.
Man
of Steel flashes back and forth between Clark Kent’s childhood and his
struggles to come to terms with his uniqueness and his adult life of
trying to keep his inability to avoid doing a good deed from having him
found out as some kind of freak of nature. Of course, while all of this
is going on the bad guy, General Zod (Michael Shannon), is plotting to
take over earth and slaughter the human race, in typical alien fashion.
And
then there’s the effects. In today’s films, if it’s an action movie,
your special effects better be spot-on and believable, and they
certainly were in Man of Steel. There were enough fight scenes,
explosions and intense moments to satisfy this movie goer, and they were
believable, in terms of sci-fi/comic book/action movies.
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