'Meh' of Steel
After months and months (and months) of waiting, the day had finally arrived!
Man of steel!
Everything was set. I was excited and Darren was wearing his underwear over his trousers.
I finally got to see the film at the Suncoast pre-screening and to be honest I thought it was OK, average at best.
Now before all you die-hard fans decide to crucify me for having an opinion on the film, I just felt that I had my high expectations dashed by action scenes that seemed like they were something out of a Michael Bay wet dream (the massive city fight close to the end of the film seemed like something out of Transformers III).
Also, Superman seemed a little overly serious. It seemed like everything about his life was completely sad. In fact on the whole the only real laugh in the cinema arrived close to the end of the film when a female army officer in the film was stunned at how apparently good-looking superman was.
Was I expecting a comedy? No, but I was just a tad disappointed in the above mentioned things from the film. Other than that the film was OK.
But altogether, the Breakfast Stack fans and the atmosphere in the cinema was brilliant and made it a worthwhile experience.
No this is not a movie review but rather a brief opinion piece on the film; on the whole I thought it was ‘meh'.
Were you one of the 300 ECR listeners invited to the pre-release screening? What did you think of the film?
- Samson Oduntan
See more photos from the pre-release screening here
(Above: Darren Maule with an audience member)
(Above: A few audience members were chosen to stand a chance to win an incredible grand prize)
