Half in the Bag Episode 55: Man of Steel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2013
- Mike, Jay, and their new friend Rich Evans (a different Rich Evans or something) discuss the latest iteration of Superman, this one being too cool and "real" to actually be called Superman. Also, Mr. Plinkett receives some distressing news that may lead to him losing his house! Is this the end of Half in the Bag??!! (spoiler: it isn't)
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“Look up in the sky! Its a bird, its a plane”
“Its Superman! Run for your lives!”
How would the people know its Superman? man of steel was the first contact.
@@bricktop9486 right over your head huh?
"it's... coming right at us, run for your lives"!
@@moshpit1012 As they should be.
"Press the Wonderwoman button!!"
Ten years later and this version of General Zod is still running around. Madness.
Terrence Stamp is a bit old to don his shiny black disco costume again. But I'd enjoy hearing him give commands again.
lol so true 😂
"Superman destroyed businesses. Superman destroyed lives" - Don Beverage
Underrated Comment
Coronavirus pushed the "Whopper Button".
@Man on phone Brain-dead take
@@h4ih4i Spot-on take. BLM and Antifa are shitty, violent socialist movements headed up by college trust-fund brats co-opting race relations to further their censorious, dystopian set of demands.
Black Lives DO matter. BLM just doesn't actually believe that at all.
@@filmgeekstudios4393 dad?
19:00 Mike asks what superman's mother's name is...little did he know that would be an important question later in the DCEU
Why did you say that naaaaaame? 🤜🏼
Lara?
Ma-el was a pretty good guess
MAAAAARTHAAA
"What was I supposed to do, just let them die?"
"Maybe."
BRAVO
+nextgreat screenwriter
"ridley directed this"
I'm trying to come up with some kind of witty response to your comment, but... you're just... wrong. I feel like I shouldn't even put forth the effort when clearly you don't know what your talking about or care enough to do a fucking 5-second google search.
Hack Snyder directed this movie, not Ridley Scott.
that line killed me
Yeah, Goyer has come in for a drubbing by people who either don't know or don't remember his role in other projects, while Snyder had serious potential, but this movie showed refusal to accept its subject
+imsad I can guarantee you that given the social context, there is absolutely no reason why a "present day" 2013 Superman movie had to be more cynical & depressing than one from 1978 of all godforsaken years
To give context here, 1978's top news stories were Ted Bundy, the Hillside Strangler and the Jonestown Massacre, and Hollywood still managed to put out a cheerful, successful Superman movie
Lois Lane: What does the S stand for?
Red Letter Media: "Schlock"
Superman: On My planet it stands for Hope.
Lois: Hope doesn’t start with an S
Superman: Shut up, I’m Superman.
Succ
Superman: Oh? It stands for, erm....Sitter!
Yeah, Sitter, heh!
Originally I was gonna have intials for "Baby Sitter", but then I would have gone around with a big "BS", and hehe, you can understand why I didn't go with that.
"Shit"
Tshi
Richard Donner on Superman 1978
“You take the material seriously but don’t take yourself too seriously”
I think I love you.
Richard Donners Mantra on Superman - Verisimlitude !
See the problem is Zack Snyder is too dumb to not constantly take himself too seriously.
That moment when you have more emotional attachment to Plinkett losing his house than any character in man of steel 😂
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
You're sooooooooooooo right!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
+Reinaldo Pereira Elisei You know, if you are being sarcastic, you aren't being very clear.
Telling me to kill myself over a single comment on the internet? Hmmmmmm............................... nah. Fuck off. Grow up, get a life, and stop being a cancer to society.
There should have been a side plot where we learn George Lucas is paying to have the highway built.
Man I thought you were sitting down on yr chair
the papa kent scene is the funniest scene in cinematic history.
"Dad! I'll save you!"
"no"
He had seen a first cut of the film
I would have done it anyway cause people should be heading towards a ditch, not under a bridge
I was so confused the first time I witnessed that goofy ass shit
I want to see the Jonathan Kent prequel tv series where he has to murder dozens of people in cold blood in order to keep Clark's secret and where he raves on week after week about Clark's important place in the universe.
+Bill Holt With some fancy editing work, you could probably turn Mr. Brooks into exactly that.
I think I love you.
Captain McDog someone please commission this show...
@@onkelpappkov2666 that was beautiful
@@onkelpappkov2666 Bravo! that was just great! and better than man of steel
"The world's too big, mom..." "Then make it small" I think he took that literally and proceeded to destroy half the planet
He really took that to heart.
What a stupid fucking trailer line. What does it even mean?
All Pa Kent knows is that Clark is an alien who is very physically strong. Unless he can see the future, why does he keep going on and on about his destiny, how he's fated to do great things, he'll change the world?
As far as he knows, Clark will just be a very strong farm worker.
Pa Kent was talking less about destiny and more about Clark needing to discover his purpose.
Godzilla saved the city with less collateral damage than Superman.
***** he did stop, he posted like 2 comments
***** pfffhahaha, I'm not spamming you, you fucking child. You still never replied to the clip that shows superman being a fucking douche, you just literally went "LALALA I CANT SEE IT IM RIGHT UR WRONG"
Eh no the city was mostly evacuated. The damage was done to the buildings not the people.
The fact that we can even draw comparisons of Superman to Godzilla is a problem.
***** ........Maybe he thought he would be entertained? It seems the only thing Superman did well in this movie was destroy things......
......
including my enjoyment.
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICANS WHO GOT IN THE WAY (RIP)
@@fusionfountain ill 2nd that motion, this was vastly underrated.
This is so underrated
This is actually the best comment I’ve seen in a long time.
Best comment
Never let the like counter change. Everytime it goes up, downvote to keep the perfect number
it’s so refreshing to see a crack user, a middle aged bisexual, and a union construction worker all peacefully discussing art so eloquently
Can you call Man of Steel “art”?
You shouldn't talk about Rich Evans that way. He is the epitome of art.
Enough about Jay, what about the rest of them?
Which one is which?
@@louiebinousky3699 In the final battle in metropolis superman must have wrecked at least one art gallery so i would suggest the quantity of art is in the negative...
When I want a good laugh, I pop this movie in, and go right to the Zod fight. I laugh like the Joker in the Suicide Squad trailer when Zod kicks that gas truck towards Superman, and Superman gently hops over it, letting it destroy the building behind him.
"You're a monster, Zod... and I'm gonna stop you!"
muccmaster Oh please the shit was stupid. Zod kicked the shit, and Superman leaped over it. No concern at all if people were in the building. I can see if he tried to stop it and it blew up. That's different. He didn't even give a shit.
Then Cavill turns around casually on the green-screen set and looks behind him, so that in the finished movie, Superman looks like he's thinking, "Huh... Did I pay my gas bill?"
+muccmaster You expect people to praise a movie merely for having a couple short scenes that failed to actually evoke laughter at how shitty they were. You're also really upset about this for someone who had nothing to do with making this piece of shit movie. Isn't it enough that it made money? You need people to tell you it's good when it's not on top of that?
Nothing wrong with that scene though.
Superman's charm is that he's a boy scout. I know a lot of people don't like that, but personally I love it. This movie tried to make Superman something he's not; dark and gritty.
If making Superman dark and gritty had been an organic, creative change to his character and films, I might have been a little more receptive to it. But the only reason MOS was the way it was is because the Dark Knight made a billion dollars and DC wants to make more. So every film they make is now going to be miserable, regardless of whether or not the source material supports it. It's cold blooded marketing at its worst.
Superman's greatest vulnerability is not kryptonite, but rather his essential morality. "Man of Steel" made Superman an aloof, uncaring action guy. Superman actually gives a damn. "Man of Steel" has no concept of the character.
***** Exactly. The movie's darkness is shallow at best, just like its attempts at being morally complex. There's really no substance to it.
i agree, especially with them going with the superman v batman thing. His character wouldn't contrast very well with batman
you mean the one who wear red underwear? save cat from tree, and eat grandma cookie?
that's the same reason over decade many did not respect superman. He's not act like a Superhero, he is a "boyscout" why do i watch a movie about boyscout? exactly!
Mike was so proud of that 'DANANANANA 9/11' joke
That joke is when I realized Mike is legitimately a genius.
Also the way they cut the shot right after to not show any reaction! Absolutely hilarious!
23:17 (Just so I can replay that part over and over)
It made me laugh 😂🤣
I'm so proud of that joke.
I laughed when the school bus was flooding and Clark just kinda walks out of it to pick it up, when everyone else in the bus could’ve exited the same way he did through the emergency exit
Yeah so stupid. Because all kids cannot think and froze in situation.
I’m sure the hardcore fans will come up with some excuse to nurture their delusions 😂
My favorite bit in this movie was when Zod throws a gas truck at Superman and instead of catching it or stopping it in some way, Superman side-steps it and lets it destroy the building behind him.
@Kryptoskillet there's a thing called "property damage", and theres also a thing called "ruining people's livelihoods". superman should be party to neither when he can help it. in this instance, he absolutely could
@Kryptoskillet That's might be true, but it's not exactly heroic seeing Superman side step something that he could've caught to prevent utter destruction of human property. Feels more like a move from Pacific Rim or Godzilla monster fights.
@@henrymartinvo not to mention we get taxed for citywide repairs and the 12 million dollar satellite that superman trashed in the end which ofc were funded by taxes...
@Kryptoskillet Oh, so it was just a pointless explosion then? Thanks for clearing that up 😂
A Building vs a whole planet.. hmm
There's one scene that defines how they missed the mark entirely for conveying the meaning of Superman, Pa Kent's death. In the old film, they both walking home and decided to have a race to the front door. Pa Kent has a heart attack on the way there, and Clark is so caught up in the moment he doesn't notice it, but he's not using any of his powers to win the race. It illustrate's beautifully how Superman is always Clark Kent, a human, just with these powers, not some freaky Dragonball Z alien.
Funny you mention DBZ since Toriyama completely ripped off Superman and other media lol
@@docmarten8269 toriyama is a fucking disaster
@@docmarten8269 And then Invincible ripped off DBZ
"We didn't like the underwear on the outside because it was a holdover from victorian strongmen and looked silly, so we went with an allover unitard instead
We decided the best way to modernize superman was to make him a walking 9/11.
To be fair, a 7-11 being in the background of every shot in a small town is pretty accurate
The beautiful thing about the Superman story is that he doesn't become a hero because of his unimaginable powers, he becomes a hero because he was raised by a loving mother and father.
Snyder completely missed that, man.
I thought Snyder's Kents are very loving.
Snyder and one of the DC executives (name starts with a G, forget) can't stand the idea that someone that powerful could just be a good man, it's not "realistic." So they did the "he's a 'god'/terrorist" thing.
@@jbbrolic Citation?
@@zhengyingli You want to believe that because you drool at the muscles and explosions. There’s nothing wrong with that, but don’t make things up pal
@@CursedWheelieBin What did I make up?
It's ironic that they said Man of Steel should've been a Hulk movie when in The Avengers, Hulk actually went out of his way to protect people from being killed by the attacking aliens.
Hulk just smashed he didn't save no one you dummy
Bar Kelly He means the ang lee Hulk, or at least he should.
blah blah That was part of the stupidity of the Avengers is at the end apparently he did have control over the Hulk the whole time, but yet he put the whole ship in jeopardy because he couldn't control it. It was dumb.
blah blah It is still stupid. Hulk is Marvel's worst hero. Like Superman is DC's worst hero. Hulk is literally Marvel's Superman.
blah blah I take back what I said about the Hulk. Jeremy Renner was the worst thing in the Avengers movies. He is a awful actor.
"He thrown Zod through steel, metal, stone, brick, concrete, and glass and he then just snapped his fucking neck?!" - my father who is a lifelong Superman comic book fan
Superman's arms, aided by the momentum of Zod's head turn, were simply stronger than steel, metal, stone, brick, concrete and glass.
@@zhengyingli lmao
You cut diamonds with diamonds. Not that hard to understand.
At least he didn't negate Zods powers and then push him into a hole to die. That would have been horrible.
@@conchobar his point was why did he wait that long lol. He destroyed the entire city and then he killed him
All of this foreshadowed BvS perfectly.
Luminious Beings NYC if that's the reason why this shit happened then it's the worst mkve ever. Sure, let ruin a movie not making any sense just to build up the worst and rushed crossover ever.
Luminious Beings NYC yea it was one shit movie foreshadowing a second shit movie
Do not hate this good movie because you have to hate it. BTW BVS is pretty shitty.
This is the best review channel on TH-cam. I've binged every episode. I hate every film now! Except Boyhood. It's a masterpiece. Did you know that it took 12 years to film?
Every single frame is so dense.
You hate citizen kane?
That kid was basically 12 years a slave.
*throws chair* *kicks dog*
LET'S KEEP TALKING ABOUT HOW FUCKING AMAZING BOYHOOD IS
*foams at the mouth* *convulses*
Steven I LIKES BOYHOOD BUT THEN I SAW THEIR REVIEW OF IT AND NOW I HATEEE ITTTTT!?!!?!?!!!!!
Man of Steel is one of those movies that I didn't like while I was watching it, but didn't start to hate it until I had time to think about it and realize how bad it was. The pacing was every flavor of crazy you can imagine, it's action is dizzying and nauseating until it becomes numbing, and not one character in the film is at all relatable, likable, or even resembles a human for that matter.
Felt the same way after reading this retarted ass comment
Duncan Van Ooyen I actually hated it when watching it. The only thing it had going for it was fight scenes and the only one they didn't fuck up was the final one between Superman and Zod because they weren't talking the whole way through it like a cheap anime
LMAO you wanted a movie about an Alien who can fly & shoot heat from his eyes "RELATABLE" 😂😂😂😂 can you relate to Batman...? Of course you can...
Bar Kelly Sir. Some people try to follow common courtesy.
***** do you know how to spell Dienda?
Holy shit. Man of Steel was a Hulk movie. I had to pause the video to reflect quietly on the profundity of that statement. With a bit of tweaking this could have been the best Hulk movie yet, rather than the worst Superman movie ever. All the destruction would make sense, and Hulk killing the villain would be more interesting and more fitting because the Hulk, as a character, has always been about the line between man and monster. Shit I want to see that movie now.
More like a Dragonball Z movie
darkcarnage1234
Except in the last Dragonball Z movie, the city was left unscathed. Even when Goku is in SS God mode for the first time while fighting the God of Destruction come to destroy Earth, he avoids all the buildings and keeps the fight either in the air or underground.
John Beaird finally someone who didn't love Battle of Gods, seriously mosts people seem to be in denial about how terrible it was.
***** Hulk hasn't got shit on Superman in terms of destruction. We should be joining THAT guy in the sun.
Yet, rather than although, therefor
That quote from Zack Snyder at 15:47 "let's let the audience participate in the experience of being Superman without breaking the things that make him Superman".
Mate, you broke just about everything that makes Superman, Superman.
I've binged like a million hours of rlm this week and have come to the conclusion that nothing makes Mike laugh harder than 9/11
And that says a lot about how much trust one should place in the opinions of these morons, don't you agree?
Haha
And nothing 9/11s harder than Rich Evans.
Fast forward to now, and it turns out the elderly are the secret. See "Black Spine Junka 3" where his brain melts, and the Batman & Robin commentary track where the story about Bill Finger makes him laugh like an actual demon.
Superman reminds me of Dr. Manhattan in this movie. He seemed really elevated and uncaring about individual human lives.
***** remember that time superman flew through all of the buildings in metropolis so that he could punch Zod's face and caused like fifteen 9/11's?
so caring
***** I noticed that you have yet to say anything about the above clip I included.
Jonathon has even infiltrated half in the bag now. I've watched this review a year and a half ago and this kid finally infected this video now
***** he's never shown to have cared out of his own free will.... with both space dad and pa kent banging it on his head to care and do some shit, that it his destiny
***** you ever had a parent tell you to do something and you end up doing the exact opposite... that's probably what ol kal was doing there considering was at the start of puberty.... yea
Superman always seemed pretty human to me. An adopted human playfully, joyfully running around saving his adoptive race. You can sprinkle in other stuff, but polite boy from Kansas with superpowers is the main thing.
It's really weird how a cheesy low-budget CW show like Smallville could get the character and the tone right, and huge budget movies fail so miserably.
I can't believe this video is now 10 years old...
Its been 7 years and this is still my hands down favorite episode.
Mine too!
I know right! I didn't even realise where 40 minutes went!! This episode was more entertaining than the movie itself! I'm gonna watch this again.
I found this review after seeing the movie way back when this film was released. I was new to TH-cam, and I like that these guys actually communicate like adults instead of bubbly, quirky gameshow presenters like almost everybody else on this site.
So many dummies said they liked MoS simply because they’re loyal to a brand and/or they’ve made up their mind before seeing it. You see the same thing with other franchises. It’s such a weird phenomenon like mass hypnosis: the blindly loyal “fanboy” who will perform all manner of mental gymnastics to nurture their delusions 😑
I thought they got the tone just right on Man of Steel, but Batman's costume is all wrong! Why is his cape red?!
+Nathan Eskin IKR! How could you fuck up the bat symbol too!
Nathan Eskin 🤣🤣
Stained with blood
Yawn.
" Jay, you smoke crack? "
" Yeah, sure, why not"
HAHAHAH
At 3:42 (just after Mike says, "Oh, that's the front of his face", Jay perfectly imitates a villager from Minecraft.
The part where Mike starts talking about Lex Luthor’s wacky scheme to steal the Diamond is so perfectly funny in the context of Superman being an angsty mass-murderer in this movie.
It's so dense though. Every shot has so many things going on
+mitrooper What is it with Ricks?
+General Tullius Christopher Nolan only helped write the story for this.
God bless you! God bless everyone in your life!
They may have gone too far in a few places.
Since when being dense is a good thing?
Hatesh Warkio go watch the plinkett reviews for the Star Wars prequels. These are all RLM audience inside jokes.
One thing that this movie irks me is that when Jor-El was doing that power point presentation, there's a giant picture of Zod but none of his Superman's mom. Like he didn't even ask what his birth mom looks like.
Zod's line: "There's only one way out of this. Either you die or I do." tells you how shit it is.
You start a two sentence speech with "There's only one way out of this" and finish it with a list of two outcomes. It manages to be self defeating and stupid within such a small remit, it's almost impressive. Supes didn't even respond! It is the worst piece of "dialogue" in the history of film.
Great, now I feel stupid and hungry.
thats moment along with superman and lois kissing amidst the ashes of the city made me uncomfortable. But ya superman not even attempting to dissuade or plead for zod to spare people or stop was just bad script writing.
Cymrogogogoch
Also: The real Superman from the comics would find a third option. Superman is all powerful so he's not limited to just those two options.
I love how high our standards were for bad dialogue 7 years ago. Now we've got "Somehow Palpatine returned." and so many more.
Even Homelander shows more of a emotional response to normal humans then Superman in this movie
What fucking movie did you see?
@@wolfsfroth an Amazon tv series called The Boys
Simply put, I don't want to see someone horribly die in a god damn Superman movie. Such as that Kryptonian woman violently breaking a soldier's neck, explosions engulfing fleeing civilians, the world machine flattening thousands of people to a pancake. If all that happened and Superman was heartbroken, I might have dug it but instead he responds to all this horror by making out with Louis in the falling ash of the countless dead.
Then the cherry on top of that pile of corpses, is the movie won't shut the fuck up about how perfect this Superman is or how helpless we are without our benevolent alien superchrist.
Fuck off, I haven't had a more miserable movie experience since Transformers 2.
TheGoldenCaulk That's pretty much it. My favorite part of the movie is when Superman rescues the falling pilot and very matter of factly goes, "You alright?"
So you want a little babies movie, hahaha, go watch disney, this is actually more realistic in that people wouldn't be going around having a laugh as the world is under threat
cjonesabc yes.. this super man movie is more realistic
BP Lup weak sauce
Man of Steel was a great trailer
Same with the new Evil Dead.
So much potential
They could have made a great Batman Begins movie for superman origin and deconstruct properly but they fucked it up
Watching Man of Steel is like being stuck in a paint can mixer for 2 1/2 hrs as someone reads the phonebook in a serious monotone as though they were reading Scripture.
This movie gave me the best laugh i have ever had at a theater. When superman used his heat vision to destroy zod's ship with the baby embryos, a kid 2 seats in front of us yelled "Dad! Superman just killed a bunch of babies!".
Ryan Struble How did you or those kids come to the conclusion that there were any lifeforms in the genesis chamber? The very last scene they've shown of it, the chamber was empty even as it was getting destroyed.
just binged a lot of rlm videos and came across this reply lol. From what I remember the entire reason zod took the ship superman attacked him on was taken for the use of the embryo chamber that was shown to still be active / operational when clark got his suit / info from hologram jor-el. so while not "babies" they were still living organisms. As far as the kid either he thought they were still babies or just the idea of a violent, moody, dark superman scared the crap out of him. nonetheless still funny as heck seeing a kid freakout like that during a superman movie.
Even if he did not destroy the ship, it would have stayed on course and when the singularity would have been created, the ship would have got sucked into it. But since he destroyed the ship it went down far away from the clutches of the singularity. The future of krypton was already doomed and it was because of general zod
These guys explained it perfectly. It's really difficult to feel for Superman being forced to kill Zod when he spends like an hour killing a shitload of people and leveling Metropolis during their battle. This is one of those movies that requires you to turn off your brain in order to enjoy it. It's the DC version of Transformers.
For fucks sake, Superman killed only one person! Not a thousand or one hundred thousand! Where was it even shown that superman killed anyone other than Zod onscreen? And you know damn well that If anyone's responsible for all of the deaths, it's the mother fucker who's here to oh... Idk... Terraform the planet!
ShonenStevenJames um, Superman killed them by not saving them as they fell screaming out of buildings? By throwing his enemy through skyscrapers and gas stations that would not likely be empty?
bulaluigi Sorry but I have to agree you're on the wrong side of that one. When there is a world killing event in motion not even Superman has time to stop and pull every kitten out of every tree. Buildings were falling down and people were dying as soon as the World Engines started punching holes in the planet. You can't expect a guy who has been superman for, like, A DAY at that point to know exactly what to do to save every single person.
Michael Schinke No one expects Superman save everyone but it's not in his character to ignore people as they're screaming to death around him.
bulaluigi well he had people trying to kill him so he didnt have time you idiot, lets say he saves 1 person, in that time zod kills 100, best idea is to try and stop the kryptonians straight away
You fucked that town up Clarkie.
Almost every fight in Dragon Ball Z starts with "I'll fight you, but not here there are to many innocent people" then the bad guy agrees to fight elsewhere
"We can't fight here, we don't have the animation budget!"
Whereas Zod’s goal is to destroy the human race and turn earth into Krypton. So yeah no comparison at all.
More like Man of Steal cause this movie stole my money.
Ooooooh
Tsss Tssss. Home Run Cocksucka!!
fawk yeah
More like Man of Steal Data Plan, because this movie stole 4.3Gb of my precious data plan from torrenting.
The 1.5gb torrents are usually very compressed and not good quality.
Remember when Superman's Earth dad was all, "Hey kid Superman. Don't save anyone." Wasn't that a great fucking emotional scene? Remember when Superman could have EASILY saved his Earth dad's ass from a tornado and the dad was all, "No, don't save my life." Wasn't the goddamned incredible? Weren't you ENTHRALLED?
Fuck this gay planet.
Agreed.
Those were horrible scenes. He doesn't save his dad but yet some years later he saves a bunch of people in the oil rig, showing his body full of fire!!!!!!! So fucking stupid
I thought the same thing I the movie theatre, I can see what Snyder was trying to do with that scene. But he failed immensely at it. It just came off as a pointless and stupid attempt at an emotional martyr scene.
the man of steel universe is the one where superman becomes a crazy fascist dictator who lobotomizes anybody who speaks out against him, where lex luthor is a good guy who has a legitimate complaint about psychopathic aliens trying to conquer earth.
Battlecruiser Plays sooo.... Earth...3?
So Injustice basically
@@superapm9620 Red Son, actually
Justice Lord Kal-el wants to know your location...
All three
Look how theyve aged. 10 years and they finally reviewed Temple of Doom. 😅
have u ever seen Band of Brothers? It's as realistic as it can be, and it's also a true story. And still amidst all the war and destruction. Human beings still find the time to save one another while under fire. So it's not about Man of Steel being "realistic" it's Superman who has total disregard for human life. And he is not even shown having emotions about all the death around him
which, ironically, make's it unrealistic from a Psychological prospective
Not exactly. He is getting his ass kicked by zod. He loses focus. That's the problem. He has a flaw
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 First of all its nolan and not snyder. I do not think snyder was in charge of the story department. And secondly, the movie never treats this opinion as good or bad. It does not treat it at all. It should have been explored in a sequel or the movie should have been much longer. And about praise, just think why does the dark knight receive praise for joker. What are his motivations? None. Why is he doing those things?But his motivations are fleshed out in joker movie. Whatever. Your opinion buddy. Good points. But for me I do not think that was the fault of the film. These issues must have been fleshed out in a sequel. That is what pisses me off.
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 Does superman has total disregard for human life? Not really. Majority of the time zod punched him into buildings. And once he pushed him through that glass window of the skyscraper. But should not the building be empty by then? I mean really. Anyways, he is just a boy who has never been in a fistfight to fight one of the most powerful foes mankind has ever seen. What better can you except? And yeah He does save people.
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 My real problem in the movie is with amy adam's lois lane. Look I love amy adams. She is beautiful and one of the best actresses of her generation. But her only purpose in the second and third act is to be there because a handsome man needs a beautiful woman to have sex with. They simply do not know what to do with her in the later acts.
9:18 - 911 times 100? My god, that's... Ninety-one thousand one-hundred.
I think he actually say "9/11 times one-hundred" Just my two cents.
Billy Nunez the sad thing is the fact that that’s probably an accurate number of deaths in this movie.
you beat me to it by 3 years... oh well mine still stands :P
the next film will by 911 times RAND()*9000000 ...
Oh my, that's... I don't even know what that is!
No-one does!
9/1100 never forget
I didn't see MoS, but all the comments about the massive destruction he caused in the city makes me think of Alan Moore's Marvelman. At one point in the series (Which was a realistic deconstruction of the superhero genre) two powerful superhumans end up killing thousands and thousands of people in London while trying to fight one another. The battle ends when the hero snaps the villain's neck.
ThePinkMan that is literally what happens at the end of man of steel.
Yeah but i bet it was better written than this.
I still haven't seen MoS, but I have read some more issues of Marvelman, as well as other works by Alan Moore.
@@ThePinkMan Have you read the one where Marvelman fights in a illegal fight tournament called The Kumite against Tank Jux? It broke new ground.
@@ADrunkSuperman3 I respect and appreciate your comments nom de plume.
Some of the best superman stories are when he loses his powers.
23:16 - still gets me every time, even 8 years later.
Me too! It makes my eyes get blurry, I laugh so hard. 😂 It’s just not right, and I can’t get enough. It’s still crazy funny.
10 years now. At least a new Superman cartoon came out and it looks like people are enjoying, can't believe it took 10 years to do another major solo Superman project
If you think about it, most fun adventurous characters have become dark brooders. Compare The Errol Flynn "Adventures of Robin Hood" to the recent russell crowe version.
I love that the Man of Steel review ends with the pointless destruction of a building.
I'm kind of okay with them making the movie about a darker Superman as long as they talk about WHY it's darker, and make it so Clark eventually learns to become better and more like the Superman we know. Instead this movie ends with Superman threatening humankind for reasonably keeping tabs on a psychotic alien with incredible powers that just took part in the almost complete destruction of a major city. What a compelling and relatable story...
How was Metropolis almost completely destroyed and how did Superman took part in it?
Superman and Zod took down a number of buildings together. On top of that if Zod got his way the whole planet would essentially be destroyed. From the perspective of normal humans I don't think it would have looked like Superman was saving Metropolis so much as taking part in the destruction of it. Either way he had very little consideration for human casualties during his fight with Zod.
@@HereticsRight But how did Superman take part in the almost complete destruction of Metropolis? Superman didn't take out any building and Zod only brought down one during the fight. If Superman showed little consideration for human casualties, why did he keep trying to take Zod away from the city?
Superman didn't once try to take Zod away, at no point does he grab Zod and start flying away with him. And they absolutely do way, way more damage than just one building, they smash through at least 5, throwing glass and rubble all over the place. Plus they drop a satellite on the city. Plus Clark purposefully lets Zod kick a fuel truck into a building.
My point is that the US government absolutely has plenty of reasons to want to monitor Superman, and they do so in a way that is relatively unobtrusive, but Clark just destroys their equipment and threatens them. They never threaten his family, they never really do anything more than watch him.
Again, I'm fine with them trying to take Superman in a darker direction, but they have to have an arc to his character where he comes back to being Superman. Otherwise it's not really Superman, since at no point does he act like it. They might as well have just made it a different character.
"Superman didn't once try to take Zod away, at no point does he grab Zod and start flying away with him."
Not true.
At 2:02:32, Superman grabbed Zod with him, but Zod escaped Superman's grasp and threw him into Wayne Financial.
At 2:05:21, Superman tackled Zod again but Zod headbutted out of Superman's grip after 3 seconds.
At 2:05:30, Superman tried punching Zod out of the city, but Zod flew back amongst the skyscrapers.
At 2:06:20, Superman tried throwing Zod further into space, but Zod brought Superman back to Earth.
"And they absolutely do way, way more damage than just one building, they smash through at least 5, throwing glass and rubble all over the place. Plus they drop a satellite on the city."
Strawman. I'm not talking about just any damage. I was responding to this statement: "Superman and Zod took down a number of buildings together."
The only building that was brought down during the fight was Wayne Financial, and Zod was solely responsible.
"Plus they drop a satellite on the city."
Zod was the one who dropped the satellite, not the both of them. Superman actually tried stopping the satellite from falling towards Earth.
"Plus Clark purposefully lets Zod kick a fuel truck into a building."
If the truck exploded in Superman's face, he'd get knocked down, giving Zod an opening that might end the fight, thus the extinction of the human race.
'I can't wait for the sequel to this where he has to fight Lex Luthor'
*Mike pulling on his collar doing HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN'
Every time I see this episode's like/dislike bar, I have a good laugh at mad nerds.
***** Then why is the thumbs down button there for? You either like the video or not!
***** haha
***** Proper function? Its not rocket science.You like the video, you press like.You dont like the video, you press dislike.Dont make up bullshit reasons to support your opinion
***** i agree
***** I dont get it why people use the word "senseless" to descibe a fight.What the fuck are you expecting? Its a fucking fight! I didnt know that fights are supposed to be deep and have a plot
It's so dense. It's like poetry, it rhymes...
I really was shocked by how the ending used Sept 11th parallels in the ending. When the Daily Planet staff are trying to escape the destruction of the city there was a shot that was pretty much exactly like a bit 9/11 footage where dust from the TT is spreading over terrified New Yorkers.
Utterly tasteless.
I loved the "end of a sitcom" ending! Also I didn't know that building demolitions start with individually smashing each piece of furniture.
The 90's ruined Superman. He has yet to recover, having internalized his angsty mullet.
Blue Skeptic and smallville got the Boy Scout aspect pretty well
I think comic Superman was still caring and hopeful even on the edgy 90's. It was mostly Zack Snyder who wanted to make Superman into Watchmen
Keep in mind the 90s also gave us Kingdom Come, but then again it was more of a response to all the crap going on with superman comics at the time
Superman: The Animated Series was and is still godly.
@@21Cayque12 Snyder’s Superman is pretty much Doctor Manhattan without a blue dick.
Alien of Steel
From the "Visionary" Director of Watchmen & 300 as he is too embarrassed to mention Sucker Punch & Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole while being too moronic to mention his best film to date: The 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Written By: A child with markers supervised by Christopher Nolan.
Music by: The incredibly talented and genius (and no, I'm not being sarcastic) Hans Zimmer and his 50 piece ensemble of DRUMS. Just DRUMS. Oh, and every once in a while, you can hear some piano keys when something emotional is happening.
Starring: The Superman that Metropolis neither needs nor deserves, IHOP, 7-Eleven, Nokia, Budweiser, Chrysler, Sears*, Warby Parker, Blaze Comics, LexCorp, and Wayne Enterprises. With Kevin Costner as Crazy Old Man Kent.
*Martha Kent was actually wearing a Sears employee uniform in the scene where Lois goes to talk to her about Clark before Pa Kent's "the Dog Rescuer" flashback
A child with markers! That is a perfect description for the writings of David S. Goyer. I love it!
Couldn't be more accurate...
I love how much of a benchmark this movie has become for red letter media to compare to when it comes to saying how bad a superhero movie was.
I re-watched this review after what happened with the Flash. Man of Steel was one of the first movies that made me feel disappointed after leaving the theater, I was almost 19 when I saw and I can't believe how badly WB. managed this whole DC Film universe, it's been 10 years that felt like a minute but everything is worse now for DC, save for a few exceptions
@@pablocasas5906 Its funny you say that, lol, I remember being around 13 watching it for one of the first times after watching a movie thinking "wait, that kind sucked, like that was thoroughly unenjoyable."
Because as a kid, I was pretty satisfied watching whatever, but as a teen I gradually started to realize movies can be good or bad, and Man of Steel was a great example of bad lol
1978: You'll Believe A Man Can Fly
2013: You'll Believe A Man Can Fuck Up A City
@Kryptoskillet super man 2 was wayy better than MoS.. Except for the special effects tho.. Heck, they even handled the pa kent death scene better
Somebody mentioned in the comments that Superman was more like Dr Manhattan than the guy in tights from the comics. Considering that Snyder directed Watchmen that's probably not far wrong, and some fanboys have lauded this as a more realistic take on the character.
The problem with this is that Dr Manhattan showed just how destructive a real person with such incredible powers can be even when they mean well. His loose affiliation with the USA was enough to drive the USSR to the point of unleashing a nuclear holocaust, kick starting Ozymandas' absurd "alien attack" plan to avoid it.
Like Dr Manhattan, superman from Man of Steel is stand offish, cold and generally wants to be left alone. He has immense powers, yet battles with not inconsiderable personal demons, and thanks to his father, he never loses sight of his own self importance. And just like Dr Manhattan, his very presence on earth creates a constant threat fro humanity. By building this thematic bridge, intentionally or not, Snyder effectively shows that the best possible course of action for Superman is to leave earth as soon as possible and never return, so that Zod never needs to threaten the planet. This is the implication, yet Snyder never seems to see beyond the huge action set pieces to realize the effect of the story he tells.
JMWriter Thoughts Well said. Both Superman and Dr. Manhattan are both so cold and detached that the audience can't really connect with them. But with Dr. M, that's actually the point. In Man of Steel the whole story is focusing on Superman as a symbol instead of a character.
+John Lechlieter - But Superman IS a symbol. He's Carl Jung's "superman". It's right there in the name. Couldn't be more obvious.
My problem with this film is that they chose to completely ignore what makes Superman Superman, and turned him into Broodingman instead. I feel ashamed and embarrassed for Zack Snyder and whoever wrote this for so completely misunderstanding a character (symbol) that's so simple 5-year-olds can understand it. And now I feel bad for 5-year-olds because some pretentious man-child twat hijacked their hero.
"It was like a nightmare, he was reliving WW2 on screen" LOLL
Rich Evans is a gift to humanity.
Man of Steel is the best Hulk movie they ever made. Bit weird that Henry Cavill never reprised the role in the rest of the MCU though, and that DC didn't sue Marvel for making the Hulk look exactly like Superman.
I think this is the first time I've ever noticed rich drinking a beer
I think in a Stream of Previously Recorded Rich mentions he doesn't drink. Not out of any real reason, he just doesn't like alcohol.
TimedropStudios You can notice they are not even drinking for real, the bottles are empty...
+idk It's been said that his parents were cokeheads but I don't know if it's been officially confirmed.
Crocmaster McGeezax Nah, I don't think he was born a crack baby. Usually, crack babies are born addicted to crack, and I don't think Rich Evans is the type of person who has ever done crack. And crack and cocaine are different, but very similar.
Did anyone update RichWiki
Can't wait for the BvS review.
+CommanderCorson Was thinking the same thing. I'm quite literally more excited about them discussing the movie than seeing it. I am literally thinking about seeing the movie just so I can watch their review in context. lol I just don't want to spend the money or sit there for 2 and half hours without the ability to fast forward.
AtenAkaAton1 I saw it, and I'd say it's not worth it. The film is so disjointed that I still don't completely understand what happened.
canegemen tuna I feel really bad for the makers of this film, but they knew it wasn't good when before they released it. When they started pushing the R version and making excuses for the movie not being complete before it theaters I knew they had made something sub-par. I just don't think they realized how bad it is. I mean I hate these sort of block buster bullshit movies but I do feel bad when it seems the makers do care. Oh well, another shit fest created by Hollywood that'll make tons of money because of brand recognition.
canegemen tuna I don't understand what you mean by greater than 1. Please explain. I am shocked it's not making much profit though, and in a way glad, I'm tired of these shitty blockbusters that just try to appeal to everyone at its own expense and ultimately don't appeal to anyone. Then everyone makes excuses for it because they just want to be apart of a large crowd. Like the Force Awakens, the marketing campaign wasn't even about the movie being good, rather people should indulge in being apart of an event. Then everyone makes excuses for the films massive short comings. I mean I didn't hate FA, it was what I expected, I enjoyed parts, but I already forgot what it was about and I'll never watch it again. It could have been amazing but now I have no interest in the next Star Wars movie. Just tired of all the wasted potential and ideas. I guess I'll go watch Ex Machina for the 5th time.
canegemen tuna I read with advertising it went up to 400 million. I don't know how true that is, I also read it was 250 million. Thanks for explaining this to me.
I just realized the exterior of the house doesn't match the doorway of the set at all.
If you make a "Superman" movie where the people aren't saying "this guy's great he flies and saves puppies and smiles at kids" but rather are cursing his arrival as the worst thing that ever happened it's not Superman.
Might make for a darkly interesting Elseworlds story but for a supposed straight Superman adaptation? No way.
If you think that is lam Superman is then you are crazy
This movie is like my Phantom Menace: mind-bogglingly soul-destroying
***** You got the two mixed up.
@@Whoa802 Nah mate I was making a point that this movie was greatly anticipated because it had a great trailer but ultimately turned out to be a total waste of time and money
my son was on that bus. he saw what clark did
it was providence jonathan
First time I heard Rich singing the John williams theme while shouting "MY BAAABY AHHHH" I was gasping and wheezing laughing my balls off
My favourite part of the movie was when Zod was threatening Martha and Superman attacks him while leaving 2 other kryptonians standing there next to her then instead of fighting him in the wide open field with no people around that they were already in he proceeds to throw him into a gas station blowing up all the customers and staff inside and causing a huge panic in the middle of a public area
That's what happens when Superman goes into an uncontrollable rage.
Clark called him a motherfucker.
Damn Mike's acting bits never cease to amaze me. He's lofty Russel Crowe on 20th minute was excellent. He keeps doing those small acting bits in other episodes too. Love them
The worst thing to ever happen to super hero movies was that we collectively started taking them seriously.
Zack Snyder's Man of Steel: The only comic book movie that makes 9/11 look like a picnic
@Kryptoskillet And “Superman” helped him by not destroying the ship in Metropolis, he is as guilty if not maybe more.
@Kryptoskillet If he would have destroyed the ship in Metropolis, rendering the world engine useless, and also avoiding further death and destruction, he would’ve shown to be an actual hero.
And your second point confirms to me just how badly written this movie is and why you keep defending it.
@Kryptoskillet The indication the film gave me is that the Black zero is the bloody thing that starts the world engine and they are going back and forth doing their thing. So what do you think would’ve happened if the black zero was first destroyed?
And as to your second point, at least Josstice league didn’t have it’s characters being incompetent so that death and destruction could go on, so yeah, Josstice League may be more competent than Man of steel, but it’s still shit.
Star Trek Into Darkness does that too
@Kryptoskillet Did you forget what my entire point has been? Let me remind you. If “Superman” would’ve destroyed the black zero (The ship in metropolis) first, he could’ve avoided a whole lot of destruction and death by stopping the terraforming process.
I wasn't sure to watch this movie, and after watching Batman V Superman I finally did. It's the most depressing and horrifying experience I've ever experienced in a movie in a while. It should be labeled like a horror movie. It looks like made by a psychopath. Zach Snyder is in my "avoid at all costs" list now.
You should probably see requiem for a dream or the fountain
Honestly, after hearing how bad it was and finally watching it a few months ago, I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe my expectations were so low, but I enjoyed it. I didn't like the plot or dialogue, nor most of the characters, but I quite enjoyed the visuals, music, and how Superman couldn't save everyone. There is no point in saving random people on the streets when for every one person you save, 1,000 more died.
Granted, I absolutely despise Superman, so maybe I enjoyed this movie more than I should have because he wasn't anything like Superman. Ironic, huh?
I call this an over reaction by you. It's even stupid
I felt more in the last few minutes of this than in the entire "superman" film.
We need more reviews with Rich. That was great.
I thought the reason why he was called Man of Steel was because of all the steel and concrete and rubble. XD
30:24...I don't know how many times I have watched from that point but Mike's voice is iconic and utterly hilarious.
Watching this again in preparation for their BvS review. Seems a few more people are beginning to understand just how incompetent Zack Snyder really is.
+Tre B Zack Snyder is basically the same category of director like Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich.They know how to film explosions/CGI-Setpieces/fight scenes but they don't know how to make a coherent movie.
+Tre B Hack Snyder is the worst possible choice to direct superman
+doubleP agreed. All flash and no smash.
Don't forget Goyer and even Nolan who has turned out to suck as a producer.
gimpinmypants best batman ever, goes around killing people
wtf are you smoking?
dun dun dundundun 9/11
Zack Snyder has the funniest lines in the review
Each time they play the trailers it reminds me of how hyped I was for "Man of Steel" and also how unbelievably disappointed I was when I saw it.
I can't understand why the fuck some people love this film. It could have been a good film if they would have given more time for the characters but instead of that they just filled the movie with action scene after action scene after action scene...
"Can't you have fun?" "This is not Citizen Kane"
Don't even try to write that kind of comment.
***** ROFL! XD
***** Did you try to offend me or something?
>opinions
Nie b8 though.
Dude, can't you just cut loose? This isn't 2001: a Space Odyssey!
***** Nice one.
These guys NAILED it. I even liked Superman returns but this new movie was like punding a round peg into a square hole.
It's possible to get a round peg to fit and keep in a square hole, it's simply a matter of the radius of the circle vs the diagonal of the square.
So you should've said that it was like pounding a square peg into a much smaller square hole. Now that, that would never work.
+Bam Guilani shut up
dsbnh bend over.
+Bam Guilani shut up
dsbnh pucker up.
Every time I watch a half in the bag, I always want to go back and watch the reviewed movie again. Time to give man of steel another shot
There's equal amounts of promise and dog doodoo, that it makes me cry
The film is a masterpiece. I cannot comprehend the hate it has received. Give it a rewatch.
I am practically giddy with excitement over RLM's review of the Snyder cut.
They liked it. Mind blown