gonna go see it again!!

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2013)

as a child I watched the Christopher Reeve movies, never really got into them but I thought they were OK.. then I watched the "Superman Returns" with Brandon Routh and it just left a really bad taste in my mouth.
so obviously when I saw the trailer for Man of Steel my initial thought was, no way in hell am I going to see another superman movie. (I was convinced that it would suffer the same fate as the 2006 remake.) well, I was enticed by the trailers, and saw it today after work. from start to finish it held my attention. it has been one of the best movies I have seen so far this year :) (even better than star trek) I love how they showed his home world, and just how much his bio parents struggled and sacrificed. in the other movies they showed a farmer and his wife finding and rearing a super strong baby that eventually became a nerdy Clark Kent journalist. but in this movie they chose to show superman as a troubled bullied child who was guided by his father to turn the other cheek.
I loved how they showcased the "in-between years" that shaped the choice to become superman. in other movies it was straight from the farm into the spandex but this movie was a real coming of age for superman. in other movies it was just implied that superman was moral with good values (I suspect that is because back then values were drilled into everyone's childhood, so no one really needed to be shown what morals looked like).
loved the choice to get Amy Adams to play Lois lane. she really did such a great job. actually all of the actors were awesome, Kevin Costner, Diane lane, even Russell Crow.