In the newest clip from Man Of Steel, Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and General Zod (Michael Shannon) have a confrontation over Zod’s plan to overthrow Krypton’s government to “sever the degenerative bloodlines that led us to this state.” Man, I hate Kryptonian Nazis.
Though to be fair, the dethroned members of the Kryptonian Council look like this:
I kind of want to throw that guy on the ground, too, just to hear his hat jingle like a birdcage full of slinkies rolling down a hill.
So that’s at least two Zack Snyder movies now (Man Of Steel and 300) where a character says, “This is madness.” Does Snyder have a warehouse full of “This is madness” bumper stickers somewhere that he needs to unload?
Here’s another TV spot in which Superman punches a guy through a building (dude must have insulted his mom) and tells Lois Lane, “You might want to step back” before he takes flight.