The suit looks goofy but was better on the show because it was always darkly lit. Still better than this piece of ****
Maybe it's just me, but they could've used a CGI poop emoji and I wouldn't have given a ****. I'll be honest, I've never understood the sanctity of that character, much less the death of Superman, and, truth be told, I'm glad they got it out of the way this early, where they can't afford to further complicate things with the whole "reign of the supermen" or whatever. Honestly, though, that story, and Doomsday, for that matter, however well executed, to me, represent exactly what made '90s comics terrible, and, to tell the truth, jumpstarted all of this death and resurrection bull**** that we've seen over the years.
It wasn't the first time a characterer had died, but, up to that point, when Barry Allen kicked the bucket saving the multiverse, he stayed dead for what? 30 years, give or take, until Johns decided to have him rise up from the abyss (which, I should mention, was a good 15 years or so after the death and return of Superman). Point being, everyone talks about how extreme '90s comics were in terms of the shoulder pads and linework and giant, badass anti-heroes, but what's more extreme than killing the ******* Man of Tomorrow? Killing him with a 1-dimensional version of the Hulk (given that the most interesting thing about the Hulk is the whole Jekyll and Hyde dynamic) who is nothing more than a walking plot device, who, in the service of being "extreme" is covered in badass bone spikes to compliment his silver ponytail.
Then, of course, came the period of time where they pulled their heads out of their ***** and realized what they'd done, only to have it be revealed that he wasn't actually dead at all and that it was just some sort of medically induced space coma? All of this, of course, after Lois and Jimmy and Perry and all of Metropolis, and, hell, the world, wept for their hero while some ********* in a leather jacket, a dude with a sledgehammer and a suit of armor, an evil robot, and some weird even more convoluted **** with a dude possessed by an alien or ancient Kryptonian or whatever the **** tried to take his place? I actually applaud Snyder for not even trying to hide the fact that Superman is coming back and using his "death" as a form of actualization, rather than deconstruction.
People like to ***** about how Superman wasn't Superman in Snyder's films, and they also like to ***** about how Snyder uses Superman as some sort of allegory for Christ. Honestly, I'll judge Cavill's Superman after I've seen Justice League, as, if the latter's to be believed, he won't actually be Superman until after the resurrection. So far, you could pretty much measure the trajectory of his character arc, and, while there have been flashes of the Superman we know, I don't think we truly saw him accept that part of himself until he flew at Doomsday with the spear.
