10 Movies That Suffered Undeserved Fan Backlash
8. Man Of Steel
The DCEU seems to finally be getting itself on the right track after a tumultuous couple of years, with films like Aquaman and Shazam. This is especially good, considering that for a while it seem like the DCEU was going to be the redheaded stepchild compared to golden boy Marvel. And with films like Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad, and Justice League, it's almost hard to remember that back in 2015, we thought Man Of Steel was as bad as it could get. How naive we were.
While not the best Superman movie out there, it has quite a lot going for it that most DC fans took for granted, because what was wrong with it was so glaring and impossible to ignore, and that we didn't have any idea at the time just how bad things were going to get.
Nowadays, after Martha, the mustache fiasco, and the laundry list of bad decisions named Suicide Squad, the backlash against Man Of Steel seems almost petty by comparison. The acting was phenomenal, every role was correctly cast, the effects still look great by 2019 standards, and the ideas that the movie played with - even though it could've explored them a bit more cleverly - were fascinating to consider.
it's still nowhere close to beating the '78 classic, but art doesn't exist in a vacuum, so maybe a light reevaluation of Man Of Steel is in order.