Although I have always been a bigger fan of Marvel than DC, the one exception to that has and always will be Superman. I grew up watching Richard Donners Superman: The Movie with Christopher Reeve so many times, that I ended up completely wearing out my VHS copy of the film. Superman is one of my favorite characters, and its for all the reasons that a lot of people criticize him: his moral code, his innate goodness, his sense of justice, these are the kinds of ideals that I feel should be embraced by everyone. Unfortunately, outside of Donner, relatively few have managed to translate Supermans qualities into quality stories for film and TV. There have been numerous attempts, but they all had flaws. And when I heard that Warner Brothers was going to reboot the Superman films with a darker take more akin to Nolans Dark Knight trilogy, I immediately tensed up. I love the Dark Knight films, but Superman is not Batman. You cant do a dark and gritty take on Superman, because Superman is supposed to be a source of hope. Still, I remained cautiously optimistic. I had hoped they wouldnt go the we need to make Superman more relevant by turning him into a darker character. And with the final trailer, with the Zimmer score and the talk of Superman being an ideal, I got goosebumps. It looked like Snyder, Goyer, and Nolan would pull it off after all. Now that Ive seen the movieI was let down. Its not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination (I find it far better than Iron Man 3, for example). I enjoyed it a lot, I was glad to see some action in a Superman movie and it was refreshing to see a villain who wasnt Lex Luthor (even if it was just swapping out one oft-used villain for another oft-used villain). But the film is not without its share of mistakes. Unfortunately, these mistakes dragged what had the potential to be an epic film into just a good one.