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Comment on Man of Steel by Rubin Safaya

Rubin Safaya — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:15:52 +0000

If you need everything explained, go read a textbook instead.

That was my point. Expository dialogue is redundant.

Comment on Man of Steel by YourARetard

YourARetard — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:40:47 +0000

I love action driven movies. Evidenced by my complete interest in CG laden action sequences. Expository dialogue, is not something that may move the plot forward, but may instead give more redundant information to which the audience has already figured out. In other words, we’re smarter than you. If you need everything explained, go read a textbook instead.

Comment on Man of Steel by Kal-El Lowe

Kal-El Lowe — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:14:49 +0000

Superman has heat ray vision that burns through anything. Can you think he could burn a hole in the truck and put the logs through?

They are in the bare room because it was heresy to have a natural child birth. They explained it in the movie with Zod and Jor’s dialogue. Since they were doing it in secret they didn’t want to be in their living room but rather in a place outside of prying eyes.

Normal earth fire didn’t burn, but superman’s eyes burned through solid steel in a matter of seconds, typical everyday fire doesn’t have that burn point. Additionally you saw that the machinery in the ship damaged him, the robot caused him to bleed. Think a Kryptonian metal edge would be the same as a razor blade.

You are talking about an alien race that an ‘S’ for us means ‘hope’ to them. Words do not translate. The same as you call a fag a cigarette in the UK and a homosexual in another country.

Now you are just trolling with Lois lane and the fat comment.

Comment on Man of Steel by Kory Stephens

Kory Stephens — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:16:58 +0000

How very intelligent……said no one

Comment on Man of Steel by James

James — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:47:11 +0000

Some of the CG shots were quite good.
Condensation as superman broke the sound barrier, atmospheric hazing, looked no different than that Challenger blow up. But CG is not dialague substitute or character development.

It was ridiculous to think that Superman could impale a semi-truck with logs, and no one in the bar would investigate the noise.
Why is it that science fiction movies always depict advanced civilizations living in caves with no furniture, as the room of Superman’s birth? Don’t advanced beings have stuff to store?
If fire didn’t burn Superman’s chest or scalp hair, what did Superman use to cut his hair?
In engineering, a codec enCODes and DECodes digital data. Somehow the plural of that got confused as codex, containing Krypton genome data.
The movie was action fighting between two superaliens on earth, with hapless humans incidental to the plot.
Lois Lane should not be fat.

Comment on Man of Steel by Titangli

Titangli — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:41:40 +0000

Quit your wining folks! Man of Steel is a good movie. I’ve seen them all since the first “Superman the movie” Don’t need all those detail about characters, we know who they are. Movies back then CGI affect and special affects are not so good. Man of Steel did what it supposed to do, it delivers and delivered. I go watch it again in 3D this time.

Comment on Man of Steel by Rubin Safaya

Rubin Safaya — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:48:48 +0000

I love dialogue-driven movies—evidenced by my complete disinterest in CG-laden action sequences, a point I made in this review. Expository dialogue, however, is dialogue that exists only to drive the plot forward—e.g. when characters announce or describe actions that are self-evident. Good dialogue, however, is oblique to the action and serves to tell us something about characters, their motivations and personalities. A great example is David Mamet’s 2004 film, SPARTAN. Roger Ebert described it as a film in which dialogue is always “at right angles to the action.”

Comment on Man of Steel by Baron B.

Baron B. — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:11:07 +0000

I’m not the type who curses on the internet, but are you fucking retarded??!!!

“The film’s expository dialogues get in the way of otherwise great images…” So the problem was that they should’ve not had so much talking and just kept to the action right? Do you think movies are supposed to be stories where characters express things or just a non-stop CGI montage? If what you want is non-stop simulated combat, I suggest UFC or pro wrestling. Moron.

Comment on Man of Steel by Rubin Safaya

Rubin Safaya — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:31:36 +0000

Somewhere in this 143 minute mess I forgot about that. Thank you. I’ve made the correction.

Comment on Man of Steel by T

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:24:33 +0000

“Without explaining how Zod discovers to which of the trillions of planets in the universe Kal-El journeyed.”

Zod explains that Clark set off a beacon when he first found the bigger ship in the ice.

Comment on The week’s DVDs begin with The Beeb: by publiczne precle

publiczne precle — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:58:14 +0000

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Comment on Star Trek: Into Darkness by Rubin Safaya

Rubin Safaya — Sat, 18 May 2013 01:55:04 +0000

I’m a Trek fan. I can’t stand George Lucas. The one film he did right was written by Larry Kasdan, Directed by Irvin Kershner and produced by Gary Kurtz… i.e. he wasn’t involved. Want to buy my 1979 pristine copy of the Star Fleet Technical Manual?

Comment on Star Trek: Into Darkness by KJ

KJ — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:56 +0000

Did your mommy not love you enough or something?

Comment on Star Trek: Into Darkness by Gordon Kirkpatrick

Gordon Kirkpatrick — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:57:43 +0000

Safaya’s review is generally on target. Here’s my concern: Several times we are left on the cliff’s edge, and then suddenly time has elapsed and all is well. We are left to fill in some very large blanks. This movie felt like four hours of film cut into a two hour movie. JJ would be better served by dropping a few explosions and adding some explanatory footage.

Comment on Star Trek: Into Darkness by JustinB

JustinB — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:45:15 +0000

Spoken like a true Star Wars fan!