He also, for some reason, insisted on giving us Superman’s origin story again, as if everyone on the planet didn’t already know it. Flash forward seven years and Zack Snyder brought us his incarnation of the world’s first superhero, and he basically pissed over everything Superman as a character stood for.
In 2006 Bryan Singer made a sequel to that film but unfortunately it was more of a love letter to Donner’s movie than a film that could stand on its own, and poor Brandon Routh, who is an excellent actor, was forced to do his best Christopher Reeve impression instead of being allowed to make the role his own. The benchmark to aim for when making a Superman movie is, of course, the Richard Donner movie starring Christopher Reeve now I’m not saying that the 1978 Superman movie was perfect but to date Christopher Reeve is still the best live action portrayal of Superman/Clark Kent we’ve seen and Donner’s film was the first serious comic book movie that showed the studios you could make a lot of cash with this stuff, if done well. Man of Steel is wrought with some truly breathtaking visuals but as a Superman story, it’s a bit of a mess. Man of Steel was directed by “ visionary director” Zack Snyder and as is often the case the term “ visionary director” is to highlight the director’s unique visual style that hopefully compensates for his lack of storytelling ability. With Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice about to hit theatres worldwide I thought I’d take another look at Warner Bros’s first entry in their DC Comics Extended Universe.
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