Man of Steel SUCKED - what happened to the movies ?

I'm 33, grew up in Kansas and the then the East Coast - I grew up on HeMan, Superman, Gi-Jo, Transformers.
I have had a special place in my heart for Superman - my favorite - and I was beyond bummed at how horrible Man of Steel was. Instead of developing character and plot, they use second rate actors and a watered down plot.

To fill the gaps they just use CGI and nothing but explosions. What has happened to the movies ?!

 

I still say movies has sucked since 1996, the last two good ones were Braveheart and Titanic.... I think folks are so used to special effects they can not deliver anything more... The last movie I went out to see was king kong...I had enough of that....

 

Its like I waited 3 years or so for the new Red Dawn movie.. I didnt even bother to go see it I waited till a month ago and bought it for $2 bucks at the dollar store and yup the movie was crap and stupid..

 

Great post! Movies are getting less and less interesting to me. I thought it was because I'm getting old- I'm 49. I guess that's not it. Or perhaps it's a small part of it.

I liked 300. I'm trying to remember other movies in the past several years, can't think of any.

 

The last epic movie which is on par with the greats from 1995 and before is probably No Country for Old Men

 

LOL - Yeah Braveheart who's center piece battle - That of Stirling Bridge, had no river, had no bridge and had no Stirling. And Titanic, only the 5th remake of the same story

 

Braveheart rocked and had a love story to boot..great way to get a girlfriend to see it and never heard of Rose in the other 4 remakes or the artifact tour that followed went through the tour at the Chicago musuem of science and industry..it was powerful, I died but my wife and daughter lived...

 

Yup I have been buying the oldies. Just bought "on the water front" want to watch it again.

 

Crappy writers, directors enamored with special effects, plain leading ladies and beta male leading men...

 

In the the late 80's I used to think they could never write a good song or come up with a new beat again... I was wrong. But with movies today I think they have to go back to writing a script with a story to tell and rely less on special effects. just my thought.

 

I haven't seen it yet but I would like to. In my experience the best movies are the ones are the ones that are character driven not action. Their are plenty of good movies out there, it's just hardly any of them are great. Scary movies amount to gore, comedies are all about sex jokes, and action movies consist of bigger and bigger booms(which truthfully kind of bores me). Give me a movie where I care about the characters.

 

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Btw can you name any recent movie that has this great quote? and more....William Wallace: I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?! Young Soldier: No, we wil run and live! William Wallace: Yes!, Fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!m.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/quotes

 

Sadly I saw Battleship the big screen movie, the Asylum Films American Warship had worse special effects but a better plot and the actors largely no names tried harder and it showed. Its pathetic I find a direct to video house with a love of ripping off big name movies did better.

I find that in most cases smaller studios try harder and do better for example Idiocracy was a fun movie and the Invention of Lying and Pirate Radio and Taking Woodstock all stood out as good movies that were not blockbusters just good acting and crisp scripts can go a long way.

 

Btw can you name any recent movie that has this great quote? and more....William Wallace: I am William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny! You have come to fight as free men. And free man you are! What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?! Young Soldier: No, we wil run and live! William Wallace: Yes!, Fight and you may die. Run and you will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as young men and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!m.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/quotes[/QUOTE]

Lord of the Rings trilogy is there in terms of speeches and overall acts... I guess movies based upon historical events and literature that do not use CGI heavily are the only ones worth going to. The 80s involving mega booms and one liners are still enjoyable but, these "remakes" are getting out of hand. The cheesiness, actors and the era made the 80s movies enjoyable to watch.

 

The production company pissed off Gene Hackman. That's what happened to the movies. That and not recasting Richard Pryor.

 

Lord of the Rings trilogy is there in terms of speeches and overall acts... I guess movies based upon historical events and literature that do not use CGI heavily are the only ones worth going to. The 80s involving mega booms and one liners are still enjoyable but, these "remakes" are getting out of hand. The cheesiness, actors and the era made the 80s movies enjoyable to watch.[/QUOTE]

I never saw any of ghe lord of the rings... so I cant comment. guess I would like to read the books first and then bother to watch the movie.... did you know in the book "the running man" the end had the running man hijacked a plane and took out a skyscrapper? they didnt write that part in the movie.... the book was way better.... and we know what happen after that 1980's I think book was written..

 

I think the problem goes down to the decline of writing as an art form. it just doesn't happen the same way it used to. In the past, the effects served the story. If you wanted to have an explosion, you had to have a reason for that explosion. Now, I think producers have it backwards. They have the effects scenes and write the story to justify the effect. And I don't think it works as you cannot have a movie where you don't care about what happens to the people in that movie. Half of the movies I see, I literally do not care if the "heros" win or lose -- the settings are not interesting, the people in the settings are not real, the heros are mostly stereotypes and frankly most of them are interchangable -- so who gives a crap? At least a Western would bother to make you care that the town was in danger from bandits.

 

Good lord this thread sounds like a bunch of old men saying "Why these kids today....with their hair and their...." I am sorry you don't like the movies you are paying to see after about a quarter of it can be previewed on the internet before you ever go.

 

No its not.... we are jaded write a story or show us something new....

 

To xenophiles anything new is automatically good, even if it sucks.

 

I'm kinda surprised to see this review. A co-worker saw a preview last night and he thought it was great. Said it took about 10 min to get into it... but after that, it was awesome.

I don't necessarily like what he likes, so we'll see.

Right now, I'm chomping at the bits to see Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger. There's a billboard size poster on a bldg. near my parking lot and I drool all the way to work. LOL

Awww, man... bring it on!

 

The oldies have the advantage that quality like the film you have mentioned have had time to shine. There are still some fine films being made, they just sometimes get a little buried in the blockbusters out there

 

Honestly the Lone Ranger doesn't look that interesting to me. I have no real desire to watch it.

The one I want to see right now just came out on dvd. The Great and powerful Oz. That does look like it's pretty good.

 

What? name a movie today that can compare to giant, rebel with out a cause even the outsiders...

 

I'm a big Depp fan... and it's made by the Pirates people, so I already like it. LOL Plus, I love campy remakes of old classics. It's not like they're trying to recreate the original. Take it for what it is... a bunch of liberals pretending to be somebody else for big bucks.