Regardless of the quality of the movie, the movie "Man of Steel" (hereinafter referred to as MOS) has a more important task than the quality of the movie. It is the head shot of the Justice League. If it is dumb, it will be difficult for the Justice League to rise again. After all, 11 years of Green Lantern Squib, and Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy is very popular, but he also stated that the story is not in the same universe, and this dark style is also just with its justice The league is a little out of place. Therefore, "MOS" must achieve commercial success first, so as to pave the way and prepare for the subsequent development of the Justice League. Otherwise, the North American comic adaptation market will be completely dominated by Marvel.
From a commercial point of view, it should be said that it is quite successful so far. A rebooted work can reach the current box office results. Although it has only been released for less than a week, its box office results will not be bad. This goal is achieved, and the development of the "MOS2" project has quietly started. In addition, as Superman, a well-known cartoon character in the world, the previous movies seem to have entered the quagmire, and this movie has also brought Superman back to life.
Talk about something that has nothing to do with the quality of the movie, let's talk about the movie.
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First, pay attention to this, then it will have a lot of the previous movie. the difference. This time it should be regarded as a great subversion of the previous Superman. From taking off his red pants to abandoning the element of krypton, the element of krypton has always been the nemesis of Superman, and then to focus on depicting the contradictions and pains of Superman's inner world, and the opening cost a certain amount of money. The space has made a comprehensive display of Superman's hometown of Krypton, and it can be seen that this will be a superman movie different from the past.
In the story, the film spends a lot of space to show Superman's inner world, where his contradictions come from, and how to choose the future. The first half uses a lot of flashbacks to show the troubles Superman faced at different times in his life. In a nutshell, his identity is longing to be recognized by everyone. Although Zach also used a lot of flashbacks to advance the narrative in "Watchmen", it is obviously not as crazy as "MOS", please allow me to use the word "crazy", because there are too many flashbacks this time, the key is too fragmented, It's hard to put the stories together after reading it. Speaking of flashbacks, I still think of the large flashbacks in "The Mystery of Xia Ying". In fact, if you are telling a story, it may seem a bit cliché, but it will also be wonderful if you tell it well. This tests your ability to tell a story. Well, the use of flashbacks here is not as coherent as the large flashbacks in "Mystery of the Shadow", and "Mystery of the Shadow" reasonably expounds Bruce Wayne's motive for eventually becoming Batman, witnessing his father The murder of the mother by the gangster, the degeneration of the people of Gotham City, the rule of law has become an empty talk here and the inner fear is overcome. Similarly, in "mos", Superman also witnessed the death of his adoptive father. It should be said that there are similarities in the same way. Infectivity. From the beginning of Superman's fear of not being accepted by people, he is no longer afraid, has the courage to take responsibility, and has made necessary reasonable explanations. Among them, the biological father has a very important guiding role here. The appearance of the biological father several times will always make Superman comprehend some different meanings of life. Of course, there is also Louise, it should be said that it is the result of three-way promotion and self-determination. In short, the characterization of Superman's heart is quite good, and there is a more reasonable explanation for his motivation to no longer hide himself and become Superman. The problem with Superman is that he is afraid of being rejected by the world, but there is almost no description of how humans accept Superman. He has been unacceptable by his classmates since he was a child, and a person called a freak will not be easily accepted by humans. . Comparing a crime-fighting Batman is not acceptable to everyone, and he has no superpowers. Superman, a person with superpowers from an alien planet, is easily accepted by humans. I think that is impossible. To put it more clearly, this General Zod was also brought over by Superman, which is equivalent to fighting a war. When he arrives on earth and brings such a catastrophe to the earth, will people accept him? Saying that acceptance can only be for a while. When the foreign enemy invades and I need you, you come. And when you don't need you, you can get out. So from two perspectives, the film just better shows the struggle of Superman's inner world
Whether a movie is good or bad, the shaping of the villain is also a very important aspect, especially in the aspect of comic adaptation. The example of the Joker We all know that without Heath Ledger's wonderful portrayal of the Joker, the success of "The Black Knight" would not have been possible. And the whole movie of "Thor" can be described as lackluster, but it appeared Loki, the first base of the universe. So when the news reported that there would be no Loki in "Women's Federation 2" these days, the fans were so sad and disappointed. Successful villains always have a different kind of charm, sometimes even more than the positive characters. In "Superman Returns", although the crew invited actors like Kevin Spacey, the villain is still a highlight to talk about. In "MOS", this general zod is very good at shouting and fighting, but it does not make people feel that there is not much presence or charm at all. The line in the trailer "If you save one person, we'll kill a hundred people" is a very wonderful line. I thought I would make a fuss about this point, but in the end it only stayed on one line, although At the back end of the film, many buildings were destroyed and many people died, but the key point was that these did not form an organic connection with the character of Superman, which made people feel that the villain was more stylized. It was not until Superman stopped the zod electro-optical eye at the end that people could feel Superman's feelings for human beings. However, this one stroke is obviously not enough. The character of General Zod himself is a very simple person who wants to transform the earth into Krypton, so his realm is a little worse, he is a very pure villain, there is no clown-like moral fetters, his goal It's very clear, to put it in a nasty way, it's just a silly character. In the area of transforming the earth, the huge beam of light caused many people to enter "Independence Day" and "Women's Federation". In fact, I think more of Chicago in "Change 3", and the motivations of the villains are almost the same.
As a $225 million movie, spectacular visual effects scenes are indispensable, and visual effects have always been Zach's strength. The biggest impression of Zack is the presentation of slow motion. It should be said that Hollywood is the cleanest player in slow motion. Although others do it, they can't get that feeling. However, this time, the visual effects are not so satisfactory, there is a feeling of stacking of visual effects. The building was destroyed a lot, but we have seen it in other movies, the question is to see what new tricks you can play. The destruction of Krypton in the opening scene is a relatively bright visual effect. After all, this planet has never been shown on the screen before, so there will be a lot of freshness. The design of the machine housekeeper is more characteristic. People who feel intensive phobia should be careful enter. The 40-minute final battle made me a little tired. It was just a few tricks to fight back and forth. It was quite enjoyable to punch zod in the air, but most of the time it was quite monotonous. I don’t know if I didn’t watch it carefully, or if Zach restrained the use of slow motion this time. I didn’t feel how much slow motion the film had. As his own brand, I still hope to see more of it. The slow motion of “Watchmen” is very good. with a sense. And how zod was defeated in the end is also a bit abrupt, and there is no special feature at all. However, I am a bit harsher. Most people are satisfied with the visual effects. Maybe I have watched too many Hollywood blockbusters, and I am inevitably a little tired.
The first half of the whole movie is kind of dull, and the second half is very popcorn. Audiences who want to see the depth of the story may be disappointed, after all, Gao Ye's storytelling level is not very good. For the audience who love popcorn, after enduring the dullness of the first half, the continuous action scenes in the second half should completely release them from the dullness of the first half.
For a restarted movie, the quality of the restart is acceptable, and there is no big problem in the big frame. Comparing the restarted movies in the past two years, compared to the depiction of the inner world in "The Mystery of the Shadow", "MOS" is still To be inferior. And "ST11" belongs to the use of parallel universes, and it restarts the series very cleverly, so it can't be compared with "MOS". The previous work "Superman Returns" should be regarded as a sequel to "Superman 4". Although there are new things in it, after all, the foundation is still the elements of the original Superman. This "MOS" is a very thorough restart. I hope that the DC universe can develop smoothly after the successful restart of Superman. It is obviously too monotonous to have one Marvel.
As mentioned at the beginning, the meaning of this movie is greater than the quality of the movie itself, no matter how many shortcomings it has, it will make a good start for the Justice League after all. This is the most important thing. There are even more Easter eggs. Now we can look forward to the superheroes of DC. The success of Superman also means that "Justice League" will not be far away from us.
In the end, I still want to complain about 3D, what kind of thing, there is absolutely no need to make 3D, Zach has no action scenes specially made for 3D. Except for the logo at the beginning, the 3D feeling of the whole film is almost 0. I beg the production company to at least do some conversion work when you want to use 3D to make money. This kind of purposeless 3D should be saved in the future, and it will affect my overall evaluation of the film.
Rating: 3.5/5
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