Man of Steel Issues

[Jazzy Stardust]

This is my second time seeing the movie, the first time I didn't really get to watch it because I had a horrible headache and feel asleep. Now watching it again, I see some major plot holes.

1. Why did the kryptonians send the prisoners off into the phantom zone when they knew that the planet was going to be destroyed. Why even send them off in the first place after you already had them frozen? Not only that but when the planet got destroyed they automatically unfroze and the phantom zone opened up. WTF? How does that make any sense. So your saying that they created a battery powered time warp in space? That the ice that froze them is running in synch with some kind of powered device?

Let's say they didn't know it was going to happen. These guys are so technologically advanced that they have the technology to just pick any place in the galaxy to travel to on a tablet thing and can travel at light speed. They also have machines that change whole planets atmospheres, and apparently can create concentrated time warps for prisoners. It's highly unrealistic with the technology that they had, that they didn't know they're planet was going to explode. They were even warned and nobody thought that was serious enough to check up on? Nobody else noticed that the planet was going to be destroyed? Come on now, humanity right now would be able to tell if the earth was going to destroy itself.

2. Hey I have a great idea! I found out my planet is going to be destroyed and only made a ship big enough to fit my unborn son. Are you serious? Your going to send an unborn baby to some random of a planet when you could have just made a ship with three seats? Father of the year.

3. Why did superman sit there and tell the Zod how to handle being on earth? The guy was clearly struggling and you tell him how to handle it, you could have just ended it right there. I guess he picked up his "make bad decisions" gene from his father.

The fight scenes were cool but there were just way to many stupid moments aside from these that I didn't even list.

 

[raziel777]

The only part I don't agree with is about the ship. Engineering isn't so easy. Space travel either. Maybe he didn't have the resource or the time to build a perfectly balanced 3-people ship. Just guessing.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

The only part I don't agree with is about the ship. Engineering isn't so easy. Space travel either. Maybe he didn't have the resource or the time to build a perfectly balanced 3-people ship. Just guessing.

Yeah I could see time and resources being a factor in it. But he was an engineering genius, he built the ship that the kryptonians came to earth on, and space travel seemed relatively easy at the technological state.

 

[~Hebi Terumi~]

I give you issues 1 and 3, but issue 2 isn't so much of a "Man of Steel" problem as it is a Superman mythos problem, spanning his entire comic book existence. I agree, it is kind of ridiculous that Jor-El doesn't build a larger ship to accommodate his entire family, but you know....plot.

 

[Jazzy Stardust]

I give you issues 1 and 3, but issue 2 isn't so much of a "Man of Steel" problem as it is a Superman mythos problem, spanning his entire comic book existence. I agree, it is kind of ridiculous that Jor-El doesn't build a larger ship to accommodate his entire family, but you know....plot.

True, maybe I'll replace it with the museum scene.

 

[Equalist]

Another Man of Steel hater. Bet you look pretty big to the people on Facebook.

1. Why did the kryptonians send the prisoners off into the phantom zone when they knew that the planet was going to be destroyed. Why even send them off in the first place after you already had them frozen? Not only that but when the planet got destroyed they automatically unfroze and the phantom zone opened up. WTF? How does that make any sense. So your saying that they created a battery powered time warp in space? That the ice that froze them is running in synch with some kind of powered device?

For the same reason they did in the comic books. You can't have a *****fit about Man of Steel when the comics did this the exact same way.

Let's say they didn't know it was going to happen. These guys are so technologically advanced that they have the technology to just pick any place in the galaxy to travel to on a tablet thing and can travel at light speed. They also have machines that change whole planets atmospheres, and apparently can create concentrated time warps for prisoners. It's highly unrealistic with the technology that they had, that they didn't know they're planet was going to explode.

Well yeah they actually knew the planet was going to explode. The time for when this happens varies between, comic, cartoon, movie, and television shows. Jor-El was the head scientist and he tried to convince the council that Krypton was going to explode but they didn't believe him for the same reasons people didn't believe Galileo when he said the Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa. When there is an established order or a status quo the people in those positions of power think they know better.

They were even warned and nobody thought that was serious enough to check up on? Nobody else noticed that the planet was going to be destroyed? Come on now, humanity right now would be able to tell if the earth was going to destroy itself.

That's where you're wrong. Even if scientists were to prove that the earth would blow up say by Monday, very few people would believe them. Even if geologists put together a powerpoint or Youtube video no one is going to believe them.

2. Hey I have a great idea! I found out my planet is going to be destroyed and only made a ship big enough to fit my unborn son. Are you serious? Your going to send an unborn baby to some random of a planet when you could have just made a ship with three seats? Father of the year.

Well that's kind of the plot of Superman dumbass. It's been that way since 1938.

3. Why did superman sit there and tell the Zod how to handle being on earth? The guy was clearly struggling and you tell him how to handle it, you could have just ended it right there. I guess he picked up his "make bad decisions" gene from his father.

Yeah I got nothing for that. You've managed to make one point. It's just the regurgitation of what other people have already said but I don't expect much from you anyway so you can have this one.

The fight scenes were cool but there were just way to many stupid moments aside from these that I didn't even list.

I suppose you'd be the expert on all things stupid so I won't argue.

I give you issues 1 and 3, but issue 2 isn't so much of a "Man of Steel" problem as it is a Superman mythos problem, spanning his entire comic book existence. I agree, it is kind of ridiculous that Jor-El doesn't build a larger ship to accommodate his entire family, but you know....plot.

You're a better man than me because I'm not giving this dumb nigga a damn thing. Man of Steel is more or less a shot-by-shot, panel-by-panel remake of Superman Earth One. Only idiot would criticize a movie while being ignorant of the source material.