>>213725257 (OP)
Just saw this. WTF. This was a children movie. Obviously capeshit isn't some super serious adult genre, but most would aim at the whole family or like 10 year olds and up. But this one was straight up a children movie. The kind of thing you take your little brother to watch. I can't recall the last time I saw so much expository dialogue in a movie, to the point characters would literally talk about what was just explained with actions. It's baffling that this movie did so well in America, and carried not by little kids, but millennial men. You truly are a nation of man children. Pacing was a mess. Themes barely developed. Painfully unfunny quipping. Absurd plot and universe that didn't even make an attempt to show real human reactions to what was going on. Disingenuous new sincerity coded appeal to earnesty that wasn't earned. Undeveloped characters. And so on and so on. Can't believe American niggas were saying this was on par with Batman Begins as first installment. And that one is far from perfect. It still has here and there those typically corny dialogues you find in all Nolan movies where the characters spell out what they are thinking and make you wish Nolan had a bit more trust in the audience. But while in Nolan's movies this happens a few times, here the entire movie is written like this. It reads like a first draft full of placeholders for dialogues that never got reworked into something with more substance.
But somehow it was still somewhat entertaining. The Superman guy was charming too. I'll give it that. 4/10 from an adult perspective. 7/10 as a kids movie.
