1. Metropolis Has Been Destroyed Beyond Repair - Man of Steel
Zack Snyder's latest Superman reboot, Man of Steel, set out to find the answer to the question: "How many large-scale, CGI-addled battles can we get away with before the audience begins to get bored?" Not all that many, it turns out. Henry Cavill stars as Clark Kent, who arrives on Earth as a baby when his home planet of Krypton is destroyed, and we watch as he grows up to realise his true identity as Superman. He's forced to do that, of course, because the evil General Zod (also from Krypton) has arrived on Earth and is planning to wipe it clean by terraforming it. Which leads us into a never-ending array of massive, world-destroying battles, where by Metropolis - Superman's New York stand-in - is continually pummelled into submission, as Superman and Zod punch each other through every skyscraper and street until there's nothing left. The damage is catastrophic; by the end of the movie, Metropolis has been all but destroyed entirely. And yet, during the closing scene of the movie, everybody seems to be back at work at the Daily Planet like the city had just succumbed to a minor earthquake. It's smiles all round! What the movie fails to acknowledge (and what you might find yourself wondering as the credits roll) is: Metropolis was the target of 750 billion of dollars worth of damage. Going by the on-screen devastation, there's no way a human being could come back into this place anytime soon. We're talking decades of repair-work. Zack Snyder either needs to acknowledge that we're moving cities in the next movie, or come up with a good reason as to how it got fixed so fast. Of course, he skims on this massively disturbing implication by... well, refusing to look it directly in the eye. Like this article? What have we missed? Let us know in the comments section below.
