Putrid drivel

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2014)

I despair, I really do... Admittedly, I am not exactly the target audience for movies like this. I can't really get past the fact that I'm watching a bunch of men in their 40s dressed up in plastic costumes.
But this.... this atrocity embodies everything that's wrong with mainstream cinema. Why bother writing compelling characters for me to care about when you can simply tell me how to feel with flighty cinematography and saccharine music? Why leave anything to the imagination when you can hammer me with hyperbolic dialogue? Why worry about anything when you have a $225 million budget and can dazzle us mindless zombies with two and a half hours of CGI?
It's a travesty. I can generally accept movies for what they are, but Man of Steel has the feel of a movie that thinks it's genuinely moving, profound, important, and this is what is most insulting about watching it. Films like this have zero respect for their audience's intelligence.
Utter, utter piff.