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 gorgon wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Contrasting the Man of Steel with Batman Begins allows tyou to really see it. Nolan tried hard to stay close to the themes and feel of the comics, even if he wasn't spot on. With Man of Steel, they showed they just didn't understand what made Batman good, and tried to make it more like Nolan's batman movies without understanding WHY they worked.

Well, Man of Steel WAS a Nolan movie, even if he didn't direct it. His idea, his story, and he called most of the shots, including signing off on Zod's death. Man of Steel had more nods to the source material than any representation of Supes that we've seen on screen. Most of the criticism came from people WHO DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW the source material, other than some vague idea formed by the Reeve movies and Silver Age-type material.

And this entire "Marvel good, Sony and WB bad" trope is both incredibly lazy and empty-headed. At least two-thirds of the Marvel movies have been utterly forgettable, TV-quality writing, churned out factory-style with all the flavor of unseasoned egg whites.

Iron Man : Really good
Iron Man 2 : Mediocre - which I guess would be the threshold for 'forgettable'?
Iron Man 3 : Didn't see it because of spoilers and reviews, but supposedly pretty bad

Thor : Good
Cap : Mediocre
Avengers : Good
Thor 2 : Good
Cap 2 :Really good

Guardians of the Galaxy : Really good
Avengers 2 : Haven't seen it yet, probably better than mediocre.


And I'm sorry, there really hasn't been an objectively good Supes movie, ever.

The Reeves ones were campy fun, but mostly not very good. Superman Returns was garbage and MoS had some fairly wooden acting and a complete misunderstanding of how to make action interesting. Plus they had no idea how tornadoes work.

I mean, come on...

Having looked into Karlan, yeah, they dropped the ball there. I mean not sticking 100% with the comics is one thing, but taking a superman equivalent hero in the comics, and making him a weaker than axe wielding criminal isn't really reimagining, it's making someone entirely new and slapping someone else's name on them. It's stupid and pointless.

 Bromsy wrote:
and MoS had some fairly wooden acting and a complete misunderstanding of how to make action interesting. Plus they had no idea how tornadoes work.

I mean, come on...

I do not understand. The wind is strong enough to make car flies but not strong enough that this guy has trouble standing straight?

So which villains does Supergirl usually fight then?

 angelofvengeance wrote:
So which villains does Supergirl usually fight then?

Notable opponents include:

Silver Banshee, Cyborg Superman (Zor-El), The Bizzaro version of herself, Reign, Psycho-Pirate, Brainiac, Clayface, Dollmaker, Gorilla Grodd, Harley Quinn, a selection of Darkseid's minions, Lava Girl, Killer Croc, Live Wire, Metallo, Mongul, Solomon Grundy, and the MAIN MAN, Lobo.

Other possible contenders include Giganta, Killer Frost, Bizzaro, Lex Luthor, Drax (not to be confused with Marvel's Drax), Jax-Ur, Nadira, Zora Vi-Lar. All are either earrth villians who would put up a good fight, or are known kryptonian prisoners in the phantom zone.