All right,
I've now seen Man of Steel
for a second time, a few days after the first, after I'd had time to
let things sink in and had thought of things to look for and pay
attention to in a second viewing, and had a further week thereafter to reflect
on it. The result is the longest blog post I've ever written on any
single subject short of my monthly round-up of thirty or so DC Comics
titles.
I
want to lead off by saying my basic assessment, which I kind of
soft-pedaled in my “First Impressions” post (link)
in case I changed my mind, is that this
movie is awesome.
I was not at all disappointed in it as I feared I might be. In
fact, I think I enjoyed it even more the second go'round, which is a
really good feeling given how long I've been looking forward to it
with a mixture of hope and dread born of my love for the character
pitted against recognition of Hollywood's ability to completely miss
the mark. As usual, this is not going to be some kind of carefully
considered “review,” but more of a “Randomly Rambling”
commentary on the things I liked, some things I didn't like so much –
there were most definitely some – and so forth. Inevitably, there
will be some repeating of points I made in the “First Impressions”
post, but here I intend to develop them quite a bit more.
Although
I'm not setting out to summarize the story, per
se,
do I really
need to warn of Spoilers
Ahead...?