Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Man of Steel and Onegai Twins: Why They're Both Terrible

I saw the midnight showing of DC's latest motion picture atrocity, The Man of Steel. Now, background information on my history with Superman: I never loved him. Call me a cheap floozy if you want, but Supes is anything but respectful. His movies are boring and his comics tend to be garbage. But, hey! At least he's not as bad as Elektra, right?!


I can hear you now, "Come on man! You're not even giving the movie a chance! It's a new start!" You're right! It's unfair of me to judge the movie based off of all the dumb Superman things of the past. So, when I entered that theater at about 11pm, I left my hangups at the door. I was excited! Then I got dealt a whole load of shit. Shitty cinematography, shitty romance and shitty plot all together. Want elaboration? Ok.

-Every other scene of the movie they have to ZOOM. Superman jumps in the air to fly away and they ZOOM IN on him while he's in the air, then they switch to him landing and then ZOOM IN on him as he lands. There is so much fucking zoom in this movie it is retarded. Why the fuck do we need so much zoom? We can see him flying away. We know he's flying far away. We get it. Also, the cameras were super shakey at times. I know it's supposed to be a "it's like it's real" type of thing, but holy fuck, buy a tripod guys.

-Lois Lane and Clark share 0 romantic scenes together, and then they're all of a sudden holding hands and kissing and shit. The only real interaction they had previous to the love is Clark asking Lois not to reveal his alien identity. "Don't tell anyone I'm an alien please." "Ok." "We lovers now." I can understand the idea that someone can grow fond of another after being saved by them, but by that logic, Superman and Pete Ross should have been lovers first!

-The plot itself is shakey. General Zod and his crew are sentenced to the Phantom Zone, where they'll be safe, while Krypton gets ready to blow up. So, instead of just leaving the treasonous Zod and crew on Krypton to burn and hide themselves in the Phantom Zone, they allow their whole race to die out and allow the great criminals to run free? Pffft. Or, when Zod demands Superman (by the name of Kal-El), why do they demand Lois Lane's presence? How do they have any knowledge of her? It's never explained. The whole movie shows off poor writing and plot holes big enough to land a Boeing 787.

Now, you're probably wondering, "where does Onegai Twins fit into this?" An honorable question! Considering that, from a normal point of view, they're nothing alike.


Onegai Twins (Please Twins) is about this dude Maiku. He has a twin. But, in youth, he and his twin were separated. Then one day two girls show up claiming to be his twin because they were each given the same picture of them with their twin from their foster parents. The story then becomes an ecchi romantic comedy about finding out which is really his twin sister and which one will be his future lover. Now, when you investigate this picture of the twins, you can notice the girl's hair under the hat and guess the sister by hair color. Except you can't, because neither one has that same hair color.

You're still saying, "Come on Truth! Where's the similarity!" Well here it is.

Baby penis.

Both fucking love to wag baby penis in your face. At the begining of Man of Steel, you see young Superman's penis and you see it again during an unneeded flashback. And, Onegai Twins uses a picture of nude baby twins in a kiddy pool as a plot device, which they repeat showing you close ups of. Both spend too much time on baby penis and not enough time on plot.

But, hey, if you don't believe me that Superman sucks, here's this: