5. The CGI Looks...Not Great
Can you make out quite what's going on in the above screen-grab? No? Me neither. As is a problem with so many expensive, CGI-laden blockbuster movies these days, they plan these elaborate, effects-heavy sequences yet don't seem to have put enough money aside to execute them properly. Though the choppy editing of the action sequences certainly didn't help, some of the CGI in this trailer looked downright ugly, or even worse, incomprehensible. With a $175m budget, you'd think the screen wouldn't look like it had been smeared with a giant vat of margarine, but alas, everything looks super-blurry, accentuated by the break-neck pace of the action. I never recall this being a problem with Superman Returns - which still holds up pretty well today - and for me this is the one major thing I am worried about in Man of Steel. Seeing Superman dodging fire and flying through the air punching things
should look awesome, but to me it just looks confusing and unpleasant.