1. "Welcome To The Planet."
Another great line. Man, the last few minutes of this movie work so damn well and leave you wanting more. I'm still on the fence with Supes telling the military to stay out his way, but I loved Cavill's delivery of "I'm from Kansas..." I loved seeing him walk into The Daily Planet and putting on the nerd glasses. I loved that this Lois Lane knew exactly who he was. With one line, "Welcome to the Planet," Cavill and Adam's chemistry finally clicked. Overall, Man Of Steel delivers the superhero goods. But it doesn't feel much like a Superman story. If it has a problem, it's that Goyer and Snyder are bursting with too many ideas, and they choose whatever idea is the biggest and the most dramatic for any particular scene, which leads to a lot of half-formed ideas and mixed messages. But I'll take too many ideas over too little. Like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, I think we'll be talking about this one for some time. Despite its faults and shortcomings, this is valid interpretation of Superman, one that's here to stay. I wish it had more joy, that it instilled some measure of hope, and that its intentions were clearer and more optimistic. It's not really my Superman, but that doesn't make it a bad movie. Quite the contrary, really. Agree? Disagree? Think that the author could have used the word "crotch" a few more times? Let us know!
Jeremy Wickett
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Jeremy Wickett was raised from an early age in one of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma's classier opium dens. A graduate of The University of Oklahoma, he now resides in Phoenix, Arizona - where the desert heat is oppressive enough to make him hallucinate that he's a character in Star Wars.
And of course he can speak Bocce - it's like a second language to him.
His so-called musings can be found here: http://geekemporium.blogspot.com/
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