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Film:  Man of Steel

This movie sucks!  Ugh.

UPDATE.  From a Grantland review.

The geeks, nerds, and obsessives have so completely taken over the entertainment industry, and so thoroughly know the comic books, science fiction television, and galactic film series they're working with, that there are no new surprises left. Even when it's new, it's nostalgic.

Whether it's Batman or Star Trek or Star Wars, the audience has been there before and can't wait to go again — to find the Easter eggs hidden for only them, to bask in the filmmakers' adherence to sacred texts. This obviates any real expectation that a movie will work as a movie, that it will be a piece of commercial art that takes you to some emotional or visceral place. Certainly, a few of these movies have cleared that bar: Christopher Nolan's second and third Batman films achieve this, as do Bryan Singer's X-Men and its first sequel. J.J. Abrams's maiden Star Trek do-over went for something audacious.

My thoughts on these movies amount to PFFFFFTTTTSSSS - a big wet fart noise. I booed after the movie because a few nerds clapped and yelled out - how dare you cheer this!  To no avail, of course, the Arclight was busier than I've ever seen it.