The most striking thing about Man of Steel is how grim it is compared to the previous Superman entries. Zod also wants Clark to help him Krypton-ize Earth, but of course he won't have that and sets out to stop him. While in Superman II this resulted in the world's governments being taken over and citizens ordered to "kneel before Zod," here it's a lot worse as spacecraft are deployed to the corners of the earth to give the planet a good shake-up, with buildings being sucked up and then left to fall back to the ground, leaving cities in ruins. They arrive on Earth and decide it's perfect. General Zod and his buddies meanwhile have escaped their captivity (again, why weren't they just kept on Krypton as it exploded?) and are searching for a new planet to call home. Lois then sets out to find out just who he is. A strange robot-like device ends up attacking and wounding her, so Clark tells her "I can do things that other people can't" and heals her with his heat-vision before disappearing. When Clark is drawn to it, Lois sees him and follows him from a distance.
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This turns out to be Man of Steel's equivalent of the "Fortress of Solitude" that Jor-El has set up for Clark to find and learn about his past.
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Lois Lane (Amy Adams), still a reporter for the Daily Planet, comes into the picture when she travels up North to investigate the discovery of a strange object hidden in the mountains. The closest he gets as a kid is when his school bus falls to the bottom of a river, and on the spur of the moment he lifts it back to safety, which only one other student on board sees him do but it leads to Jonathan warning him not to flaunt his abilities even to save a life. The main point here is that by the time Clark grows up, he still doesn't know where he came from and hasn't yet become Superman. Later some kids try to pick a fight with him but he just remains motionless, as he could potentially hurt them more than they deserve. There's a great scene where Clark is at school and suddenly becomes aware of his ability to see through things and hear every detail, then gets overwhelmed and runs out of class and Martha has to come and comfort him. Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane) have taken him in as their son and know there's something different about him but try to give him a normal life.
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The movie soon flashes back to Clark's younger days (where he's played by Cooper Timberline at age 9 and Dylan Sprayberry at age 13) where we see him first discover his powers. While nobody else seems to be making escape plans, Jor-El puts his son into a flying pod so that he'll have a new chance at life on Earth, saying "He'll be like a god to them." The rest of the Kryptonians perish as the planet explodes- which begs the question: Why didn't they just keep General Zod there so that he'd die with the rest of them?įrom here, the structure jumps around as we first see Kal-El (or Clark Kent, the name given to him by his Earth parents) grown up (played by Henry Cavill) working on a ship and being called "Greenhorn" by his boss. While Krypton might be better off without Zod and company, attention soon turns to its imminent self-destruction.
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While in the 1978 film that consisted of just a flat plane they were trapped in that flew through space, here they're aboard a spaceship which then gets sucked into a netherworld- at least for a while. General Zod (Michael Shannon) for example was born to be a fighter- but as before he has ambitions of taking over the planet which doesn't sit well with Krypton's council and they send him and his henchmen into the Phantom Zone. One new element is that for the past few centuries, Krypton's inhabitants haven't been born naturally (with the exception of Kal-El)- instead they're grown in an underwater "Genesis Chamber" where each one's function in life is pre-determined. While the Krypton in 1978's Superman was a world of white crystals, here it's an elaborate planet with flying CG creatures, spaceships and gadgets. It disregards any previous depictions and starts from scratch, beginning with his birth on his home planet Krypton to father Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and mother Lara Lor-Van (Ayelet Zurer). Seven years later, Warner brings us Man of Steel, which can best be described as a re-imagining of the Superman legend. After the disaster that was 1987's Superman 4 however, the Man of Steel took a break from the big screen until 2006's Superman Returns, where he had just sort of disappeared for a while and decided to come back, and Lex Luthor was still out to get him.
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So who doesn't love Superman? Although he's been featured in numerous movies and TV series over the past few decades, most will regard the movies with Christopher Reeve (at least the first two) as the definitive Superman.