How I'd  tweak "Man of Steel"
Channel: firefly4f4
Date: 28/06/2013

This is a follow-up to my ramble.  I asked this question of both Steve Shives for his YHTA series, and Jason (with a D) for his Intimate Questions series, so I figured I should offer my own opinion as well.  As of publishing this video, I'm not aware of either of their opinions (well, technically I've read Steve's on facebook but I don't count that).

http://www.youtube.com/user/stevelikes2curse
http://www.youtube.com/user/dgeypscun

My goal here is to tell the same basic story, same basic plot elements, just tweaked in such a way that I might actually LIKE the film.  Keep as much of the movie as-is as possible, and shifting things to simply improve the film in my eyes.

For instance, Iron-Man 3, in case you missed it:  My main issue there is I didn't buy the villain's motivation.  Instead, eliminate Killian, and make Maya -- who is pretty useless as-is -- the main villain, as a scorned former lover of Tony's, and fold all of his scenes into her character.  It's a far more plausible motivation, gives extra conflict with Pepper, gives a strong female villain for a change.  You can keep nearly everything else the same and in my eyes that movie has now improved greatly.  I'd also make it take place at Pepper's birthday instead of Christmas, which brings the movie full circle and shows he actually remembered it this time unlike in the first film.

PS -- I have a large block of time free this weekend where I SHOULD be able to work on the next Spirit Science video -- finally!