2. No Need To Worry About Realism
Nolan tries too hard to make his movies realistic but ALSO contain larger than life characters. This balance sometimes worked, but other times came off as hokey. As much as I love
Batman Begins, enjoying the scenes with Bruce training with Ras Al Ghul out in the Tibetan mountains requires an extreme suspension of disbelief. And the whole The League Of Shadows sacked Rome and burned London to the ground thing was borderline ludicrous. And again, this was nowhere near as bad as the prison pit from TDKR, as well as essentially Banes entire maniacal plot. In general, villains like Ras Al Ghul and Bane seemed too out of control to reasonably exist in Nolans world (the Joker gets a pass). The beautiful thing about Man of Steel, is that we won't have to worry about realism at all. Snyder is going to give us heroes who are actually super and villains who have actual powers. This will immediately allow us to accept any out of control plot scenarios that might be thrown at us. If General Zod wants to blow up Metropolis (he probably will), it wont be nearly as hard to swallow as Bane rigging a nuclear bomb to take out Gotham. Why? Because Zod has super powers, end of story. Nuclear disasters and knock down drag out super-brawls are not only accepted in Superman, theyre expected. This immediately alleviates the filmmakers need to maintain some kind of level of realism and allows them to plunge Superman directly into comic book awesomeness. But keep in mind, this will be no Avengers movie. The Marvel films are a lot of fun, but they are nowhere near the calibre of Nolans Batman films. Man of Steel has the potential to mint both sides of the comic book coin. Admittedly, all of the impressions weve gotten from Man of Steel so far indicate that it will indeed be realistic and grounded. Thats great, but there are different levels of realism, and this one needs a balance. With Nolans careful guidance and Goyers studious scripting, they can ground the movie in the kind of human drama that will make it serious and relatable, while Snyder will be able to pump in the kind of sheer action-adrenaline and comic book fun that made the Marvel movies so invigorating. If that balance is struck, we may get a movie that isnt afraid to be a comic book, but takes full advantage of the label.