Source: dccomics.com
8. Man of Steel
($307,995,489.64)
Last one, folks. I promise.
Man of Steel is the empty kernel from which bloomed the dead tree that is the DCEU. I will say that this one is easily the “best” of the DCEU’s non-Wonder Woman DCEU films.
Amy Adams is allowed to do things, and this is the only DCEU film to have that honor. Russell Crowe and Michael Shannon are clearly too good for this script, and they appear a little bored with being in the movie, but they’re still pretty watchable. The ending may be one of the worst decisions in superhero movie history, and is emblematic of the inability of the entire subsequent film series to know anything about how to handle its characters. But, hey.
There are no jars of urine in this movie? That’s…an improvement. The villain is an actual character with motivations and a personality? So that puts it over Suicide Squad and Justice League, right there. Henry Cavill is a good actor who’s given nothing to work with. But, yeah, remember when THIS was decried as a terrible movie? LOL, we had no idea what we were in for.
){kind=link}