10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Lines Of Dialogue From Man of Steel

5. Young Superman says:

€œThe world€™s just too big Mom.€

In the trailer, this line was awesome. I envisioned him confiding in his mother privately. It should have been a very tense and fleshed out scene exploring Clark€™s fears and confusion. Instead we get an awfully familiar scene of Clark running out of class in fear to be rescued by a speech from his mother. Even if it wasn't original, it could've been executed well right? Apparently not... She shows up to talk him down from his tantrum and he replies to her words with €œthe world€™s too big Mom.€ On paper, it actually reads quite nicely. In a trailer, it sounds brooding. But in the movie, again, the scene is so rushed we barely get time to ingest the weight of his words. The terribly dull delivery of the line from the child actor playing Clark doesn€™t help either. It just seems out of place and unnatural. I could recognise the emotional response Goyer was going for but all I wanted to do was laugh out loud at how over-dramatic and Hollywood the kid sounded. That€™s never a good sign.

4. Everything Jor-El€™s consciousness says to Superman when they first meet.

Jor-El: €œYou came from Krypton, a world with a much harsher environment than Earth's. Long ago, in an era of expansion, our race spread out through the stars, seeking new worlds to settle upon. This scout ship was one of thousands launched into the void. We built outposts on other planets, using great machines to reshape environments to our needs. For 100 thousand years our civilization flourished, accomplishing wonders.€

Clark Kent: €œWhat happened?€

Jor-El: €œArtificial population control was established. The outposts and space exploration were abandoned. We exhausted our natural resources. As a result, our planet's core became unstable. Eventually, our military leader, General Zod, attempted a coup, but by then it was too late. Your mother and I foresaw the coming calamity and we took certain steps to ensure your survival. This is a genesis chamber. All Kryptonians were conceived in chambers such as this. Every child was designed to perform a predetermined role in our society as a worker, a warrior, a leader, and so on. Your mother and I believed Krypton lost something precious, the element of choice, of chance. What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended? What if a child aspired to something greater? You were the embodiment of that belief Kal. Krypton's first natural birth in centuries. That's why we risked so much to save you.€

Because of how much text there is above I€™m gonna keep this entry simple. Exposition. Exposition everywhere!!! This massive mountain of text is an insult to the movie going audience. Never have I been so bombarded with information in one scene before. I mean just look at that chunk of dialogue. It€™s lazy writing at its worst.