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Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special on man of steel the new superman reboot directed

by zach schneider and joining me in the slate studio are brian louder and forest wickman you

are both staff writers primarily for slate's browbeat culture blog yes and uh you both saw

superman the other night sorry we're calling it superman for short man of steel man of steel you guys

saw it in 2d right right? Not 3D?

That's right. Yep. I don't think you missed that much. The 3D did not seem to add a lot to the mix.

But so before we get started on spoiling, let's just get a quick reaction from both of you.

Pro or con, would you send your friends to this movie? I found it extremely technically

impressive, like overwhelmingly technically impressive in terms of the sound, the effects, the design.

I thought the acting was pretty good. But I still had a hard time getting caught up in it just because there weren't very many relatable human characters.

So it just sort of felt like I was getting pummeled with excess, and I felt mixed about that.

Yeah, I agree.

The pummeling, it's hard to get past the pummeling, and we'll get to that in a moment in superhero movies and how do they differentiate themselves, you know, now that it's become such a summer staple.

But so, Brian, you had a somewhat more positive reaction.

Yeah, I guess I went in just sort of not liking superhero movies very much in general.

The past couple years where we've seen a whole glut of them, I've never been really that into it.

And this was the first one where I've ever really been invested in what was going on.

No, it wasn't like a perfect movie and it wasn't, I agree with Forrest said the characters are not exactly human.

But I guess maybe I liked the pummeling.

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