Man of Steel Blu-Ray

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2014)

(from http://cobyscomics.blogspot.com/2013/12/man-of-steel-blu-ray.html) When I first watched Man of Steel at the theater, I was less than impressed, honestly. Maybe because it was just too big, too much to take in all in one sitting. Maybe because--even though I am by no means a die-hard Superman fan--they changed the story too much, maybe it was too hard for my brain to take in both the over-the-top fight scenes and the all new Superman origin story.
And then I got the Man of Steel on Blu-Ray, and, after watching it, I'm thinking, maybe it was done that way on purpose?? For me to keep a Blu-Ray movie I buy, it has to have one thing above all others: replayability. If I watch a movie once and feel like I've seen everything there is to see, then I'm probably I'm better off renting it from the Redbox or just waiting for it to replay on HBO or FX or something. Very few movies have earned the right to take up my very limited shelf space. Movies like Fight Club, The Matrix, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Kill Bill, The Dark Knight Trilogy, and The Amazing Spider-Man are there, of course. And now, I think, Man of Steel has earned its place.
After watching it again in the comfort of my living room, I think, maybe, I love it. I think it might be one of the best movies ever--I think it is at least the best Superman movie ever. I think I want to watch it again. There was so much there that I felt like I missed the first time. It's got me thinking maybe they changed the movie some between its original release and the Blu-Ray.
I also enjoyed some of the special features; they answered some lingering questions I had about the movie. Like, how Zod escaped from the Phantom Zone (it was because Krypton's destruction rattled the portal and knocked him loose). The "Krypton Decoded" fake documentary thing was pretty cool, too. However, I was disappointed to see the movie was so CG-heavy--even Zod's Kryptonian armor was fake! The most impressive thing that struck me during my second viewing of the movie was the parallels I was subconsciously drawing between it and my all-time favorite cartoon ever, Dragon Ball Z. I wasn't the only one to make this connection, although, most people saw Man of Steel as enabling a DBZ movie done right (unlike the one that tried and failed miserably, so miserably that I never even watched it).
It's pretty obvious, really: both Superman and Goku's home planets blow up, they both get sent to Earth as children and go on to save the world multiple times, they both have seemingly endless god-like powers, they even both have a special name from their home planet that they didn't find out until later. But the connections go further, to the point where I can't help but think Zack Snyder was directly influenced by Dragon Ball Z. And yeah, this does totally make me want a good DBZ movie, even more so than that spectacular Final Battle between Neo and Agent Smith.