Originally posted by Lynn S. M.:
- I was concerned when I saw Lara giving birth at the start of the movie that the producers didn't seem to know their Superman comic lore; I was quickly relieved of that misapprehension, though, when they indicated that Kal-El's natural conception and birth was the exception rather than the rule.
I've always had mixed feelings about the whole birthing matrix thing. It was added to the backstory in the 80's so that Superman was technically born on Earth when Martha and Jonathan pulled him out of the spaceship. I don't think it would necessarily be a case of not knowing their Superman lore if they hadn't used it in the movie, though. Superman was around for almost 50 years before that was added to his backstory.
- 9/11 is still too fresh in my memory for me to feel comfortable being entertained by seeing buildings coming down, especially due to (admittedly extraterrestrial) terrorists.
I agree. I wonder how many people watched the destruction in the movie and
didn't at least momentarily think of 9/11.
- Metropolis seemed so thoroughly destroyed, I'm wondering how the Planet managed to be back in business apparently so soon afterward.
I wondered that, as well. Others seem to be of the opinion that a lot of time passed between the destruction and Clark starting at the Daily Planet. That's not the impression I get from the movie, though. I figured that the DP must have been on the other side of town. I was disappointed when I didn't see the globe anywhere in the skyline.
AmyPrime wrote:
One thing I didn't notice until the second viewing... most (the vast majority?) of the death and destruction was due to the World Builder, and Clark did the exact right thing to deal with that: He went to the other side of the world and destroyed the machine as quickly as possible. The fight in Smallville was mostly confined to the streets and freight yards, and the final battle with Zod was actually fairly short, and didn't involve a lot of (or any?) buildings collapsing -- condemned, probably, but with time for people to escape.
True, most of the damage to Metropolis was due to the world builder, but Superman did nothing to try to mitigate or minimize further damage. He didn't even try to take the fight out of town. He and Zod repeatedly threw each other through presumably occupied buildings. I imagine they took out a lot of load-bearing walls. I remember thinking as I watched that a lot of those buildings would collapse off screen given the damage they sustained on screen. How many people were killed because Superman didn't throw Zod out over the Atlantic to finish the fight?
Katherine Kent wrote:
3) The World Builder (which had been piggybacking on Zod's ship) - destroyed by Clark. Outcome: in shards? Or being taken by LexCorp to have all its Kryptonian technology dissected and analyzed?
Yup, and oh dear. Lex is bound to try and and get his hands on it. Although would Clark get rid of it before Lex had chance to set out any salvage operation?
Or maybe Bruce Wayne can get ahold of it first...?
