The only thing this movie made me think about is what is Snyder's ideal of heroism in the context of Superman. I just re-watched the Doomsday animated movie and no hyperbole Superman is more heroic in 20's minutes of that than he is in two feature length Snyder films. I get the sense that Snyder thinks that it doesn't matter how a heroic act takes place, but so as long as it does "take place." In other words, he doesn't seem to discern any difference from the unwilling hero, accidental hero, conscious hero, etc. Whereas in terms of heroism (at least in the medium of film and TV), I'm of the belief that people overwhelmingly do make that distinction, and actually do care about context. It's one of those things where people have Kantian deontological views on a behavior. Essentially, the consequences of Superman's choices don't matter being that consequence is often out of one's control. What does matter is if he acted out a sense of duty and for the reason/motivation -- which Kant would say are known to us by categorical imperatives or universal laws.
We want our heroes to
want to be heroic. We want them to act out of a sense of duty. We want Superman to
want to actually be Superman. Not to go about it like it's a 9-5 that he's been schlepping to for 11 years with no raises, shytty benefits and he has to drink 3 cups of coffee to get through the workday. After two movies, I have no idea what sense of motivation Snyder's Superman operates on. He does heroic shyt, but it's always with a pained expression, dour look on his face like he'd rather be crocheting or some shyt. When the opportunity presents itself in his movies for Superman to explain his feelings or thoughts on his actions it's always fumbled. The bathtub scene with Amy Adams is a prime example when she said, "I'm not sure it's possible." For better or worse, Superman has an undeniable sense of self and his place in the world in a greater context. He knows who he his, which leads to why he's here and gives him a sense of duty. If you take that away from him, he's no longer Superman. You completely alter the ethos of the character. Thus, I'm not sure who the fukk Cavill is supposed to be playing.
You don't have to make Superman the saving cats from trees, tripping over his feet when not in costume, random fact dropping klutz. Those are purely external circumstances. However, you do have to make him actually WANT to be Superman.That's an internal thing that manifests itself externally.
We went from, "There's nobody left to help them now... the people of the world
."
To:
"I'm not sure if you can love me and still be you
."
Response?
Silence.....
Where your favorite superhero?
No help, just no help.
Look at him just running.
So he was going to beat Superman, yet can't even help them in this fight.
WW had to get off her plane to come help him.
But on the inside
WW was the best part of the movie IMO, and she had limited screentime.
Superman
