LitleWiggle
Since: Feb, 2013
03/28/2013 00:00:00
While I agree it doesn't oppose the argument well (I actually somewhat agree with the Elite that they should be allowed to kill certain people), I didn't have much of a problem with it because I knew from the comic that it wasn't really trying to be a debate. The entire point was Superman beating down the Elite, as revenge for all the Take That's contained in the Authority.
fenrisulfur
Since: Nov, 2010
03/28/2013 00:00:00
That's a good point I haven't seen that argument anywhere else, but it makes sense with the story we got.
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LitleWiggle
Since: Feb, 2013
03/28/2013 00:00:00
I remember hearing (I may be wrong) the writer of the original comic admitting that he wasnt making it a reasonable debate, but that he'd grown tired of the Authority pissing all over super heroes that don't kill.
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Good, Could be a lot more Subtle
We see the Elite kill a dog at the beginning. Yeah they're the bad guys. We also have a jump at around the 45 minute mark from the Elite being antiheroes to being bad. While you have an interesting dilemma, essentially how far is too far, but the big issue is what I just said. We don't get a lot of time to deal with it, and so the subtlety gets thrown out the window. What do we get? Lots of Speeches. They actually aren't that bad, and to tell the truth, the final fight between Superman and Black is good. Black is horrified that Superman killed his team, and Superman states that they were killers and now they can't kill anyone else. That's Black's rationale. That's the best way to sum up the argument. When Black pleads for his life, we see exactly how this whole "cut out the disease" thing plays out. That fight scene should have been the whole movie, because that fight sums Supes's argument up better than the rest of the film. I enjoyed it, but it's far from perfect.