Board Thread:DC Universe Discussion/@comment-3974095-20130611233337/@comment-1895174-20130626224258

if they cant be proud of the fact that its a comic book that they are adapting then why bother? It's not that they're ashamed it's a comic book, they just meant they didn't want to make a traditional comic book movie with this one. Also, money. i may be biased because i hate zack snyders work with a passion This is by far his best movie. Having Nolan around helped to rein in Snyder's talents. He's always been a director that can deliver a technically impressive film, but tends to falter in the storytelling department. on a related note the ending, really he has to kill zod so that family of four wont be killed, what about the hundreds of thousands who were more than likely killed in the previous carnage? I didn't see the crisis as Zod killing those four people, but the crisis was Zod wanting to wipe out the human race and those four people became a physical, visual representation of the danger Zod posed to humanity.

But how did you see it? I'm interesting in hearing someone who hasn't seen the movie analyze it. plus this ruins the dramatic tension of sequels right? oh no new bad guy is going to kill people *necksnap* not any more he isnt, thank you for giving me your money for 5 minutes worth of film. Okay, now I have to wonder if you did watch Landis' video, since Superman treating Zod differently from the rest of his rogues gallery is a major part of his video. So I'll remind you: Max Landis said: What it comes down to is that I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know one of the tenants of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people. Superman, when he's fighting you, isn't like Batman. He also isn't like Spider-Man who will bully you and make fun of his villains. You think...why do you think Spider-Man's villains all hate him so much? Maybe because has he breaks their bones he's mocking them. Batman's villains are all insane! Superman, when he goes after you is not trying to beat them, he's trying to save them from themselves. He doesn't want to have to kill them! He's freaking Superman, so he probably could do it pretty quickly. You think Lex Luthor is gonna do much with a gun or in a fist-fight with a Kryptonian? His skin is diamond hard, he can move faster than the speed of sound - you're looking at a god that walks amongst men. You really...the Parasite? Oh, I'm shaking in my boots. The Atomic Man? Oh, gosh. How are these guys going to stop Superma- They're not! They're NOT! The only...they had to create Mr. Mxyzptlk to find a character that can effectively **** with Superman. But, when he's fighting someone like Zod, that scenario of him allowing Zod to basically destroy all of Metropolis while he attempts to beat him in a punching contest? and then he's forced to kill him? I have to believe - and comic book fans, you could **** all over me because I know a lot of people are mad that he killed Zod in the movie - I have to believe Superman would kill Zod almost immediately if the alternative to Zod being dead was 150,000 people dying. You want to know why? Because he's not responsible for Zod. Superman's sense of...not entitlement but responsibility comes from the fact that he is an adult walking amongst children. Human's can't be as good as he can be. Zod, on the other hand is another adult, and if one adult in the room says 'I'm going to kill all the others,' it shouldn't be a city destroying sequence, it should be two guys fighting in space, or on the moon, he should stop him. So yeah, sequel comes around and the bad guy wants to kill some people. Landis says Superman doesn't kill that bad guy because that bad guy isn't Zod. And if it is someone like Zod, it's going to be someone like Doomsday or Darkseid that he can't defeat in a five minute fist-fight and a twist of the neck. I say he doesn't kill that bad guy because Zod's death is treated as a failure in this movie, and seeing Superman find a way to stop the next villain without resorting to killing him makes for great dramatic tension.