10 Ridiculous Movie Premises Everybody Fell For
8. Superman Has No Choice But To Surrender To Zod - Man Of Steel (2013)
You're probably tired of hearing about how bad Man Of Steel is, both as a movie and as a Superman movie. I'm certainly tired of saying it, so lets not have this be about that.
When General Zod and his lackeys arrive in orbit around Earth, they send a sinister ultimatum out to every TV, radio, telephone and computer on earth, in every language on Earth (because aliens are magic), demanding that Kal-El be turned over, or turn himself over. He has twenty-four hours, or it's Chinese burn time, maybe a noogie or two: possibly even the dreaded rear admiral. Our hero is trapped, hopeless. What to do?
He goes to see a priest, essentially to talk to himself with someone else there, and then decides to turn himself in to humanity and let them choose what to do with him, since its their world under threat. They, of course, hand him over to Zod.
The guys at How It Should Have Ended have this covered, really: but to summarise the gaping hole at the heart of this film, it's ridiculous that Kal-El, faced for the first time by beings of his own race who appear not to have his well-being close to their hearts, and who threaten the planet his mum lives on, wouldn't think to go and consult the sentient Kryptonian AI that says its his real dad for advice. Had he done so, they had a whole day to devise an alternative plan, one which would have removed the threat to the planet, and might not have required him to have fistfights with an undisclosed number of elite soldiers that are faster than speeding bullets, more powerful than locomotives, and able to fly through tall buildings with a single bound.