10 Unpopular Movie Opinions (And How To Justify Them)

6. Man Of Steel Is The Best Superman Movie

For inexplicable reasons the Internet has a real hate-boner for Man of Steel, despite the fact that it's in many areas the DCEU's strongest movie - if not as consistent or crowd-pleasing as Wonder Woman - and, yes, even a superior offering to Richard Donner's iconic 1978 Superman.

Though the high-charm stylings of Donner's film are still imminently watchable today, Zack Snyder does a wonderful job updating Superman's story for the modern era, ditching the tights for a sleeker, sexier suit and giving us a statuesque hero who truly appears to be moulded in the image of a God.

Snyder takes a lot of risks and they (mostly) pay off: the opening Krypton sequence, the harsh pragmatism of Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner), the almost exhaustingly lengthy final battle, and the ballsy choice to have Superman (Henry Cavill) be forced to kill Zod (Michael Shannon).

Just because stuffy fans rigidly clinging to dusty ideas of what Superman "should" be couldn't handle the ruthless modernism of Snyder's Superman doesn't mean it was the wrong call.

The earnestness of Donner's Superman wouldn't have been appropriate for our bleaker, post-9/11 reality - something evidenced by the general public's utter lack of interest in the goofy Superman Returns - and by presenting a sad, brutal reinvention in 2013, Snyder firmly captured the zeitgeist.

That's not to say the movie isn't without its excesses and off moments, but tonally, stylistically and thematically, it's a bold, operatic movie which makes Donner's film seem like a quaint school play by comparison.