Weird, the more I think about the movie, the more I want to watch it again. Not because it was the best movie, but because it's one of the few movies that came out this summer that required (in my book)a second look. Maybe my opinion of the movie will change. The thing is, the more you think about anything, you're updating the memory. And the more updated the memory becomes, the more full of errors, misconceptions and concoction it actually contains. The only way to get a valid look at this movie a second time around is to actually watch it a second time around. I will always find faults with the criticism that he should have been able to save everyone or that he killed Zod. These aren't things that are wrong with the movie, these are bold steps to a character really coming into what he is. He is at the weakest he will be at any point in his adult life during the finale of this movie. He will only become much much stronger. And at no point in the DC comics is he saving everyone. So, that is not actually a valid criticism. To me, the way I remember it, it's not that he didn't want to save everyone (he saved the entire world at the end, but we can just ignore that I guess), it's that he was incapable of even knowing what he is capable of actually doing. I mean, he didn't learn to fly till halfway through the movie, or that he was even capable of flight.
Meh, I can respect criticism of something I genuinely enjoyed, well enough. But the extent of energy placed on this film and expended criticizing it at this point borders on pure insanity. I mean, no one needed a followup video because it was easy to know where he was going with it. He was going to take his original criticisms of the movie and multiply them by 10 fold. I have criticisms of the movie myself. While the flashbacks were a pretty good way to flesh out the character without showing his childhood, there was too many of them. We needed to see the bus scene and followup, and the death of Johnathan Kent... that's it. These things would mold the character just fine because these would obviously be major events in anyone's life. The movie wasn't as humorless as it was made out to be, but it could have used more. I agree that having the character Perry White in the movie was a waste because they did nothing with him. There should have been more scenes with Lois and Clark to warrant a kiss between them. He at least should have shown up in the daily planet before she is ready to jump in his lap, so to speak. All of these things detracted from the movie for me, but the main point of Superman being Superman and being developed in a way that has not previously been explored in film was great, IMO.