>>82596099>It was my first line in this thread anon. It wasn't after anything.It was definitely after what that anon said, seeing as it was a response there.
>My point here is that is only true if you refer to the final fight as simply the 4 minute punch up, of which contained 3 pivotal non-fight scenes.That's what was brought up.
>is the 9/11 imagery not THE sign of human destruction in the american mind?Perhaps. It does absolutely nothing for me, and it's heavily oversaturated these days. Furthermore, it still lacks any emotional connection.
>He was getting belted the entire time and turned it on descent from the space station, landing in a neck hold.Rewatch the fight. He and Zod are evenly matched pretty much the whole way through, until Supes gets him in a magic headlock.
>In that time we witness the city being obliterated.In a tensionless fight scene where the protagonist appears to struggle not even slightly and there is no focus on anything else that would generate tension. The destruction of the city is just collateral, it's treated like an afterthought in the film.
That whole fight would be infinitely superior, and would actually work like you claim it does, if it simply had Superman get hurt and be put at a disadvantage because he's constantly having to shield people from Zod. No point in the fight is pivotal, by the way, because no point swings it one way or another. Even after Zod gets flight, the first thing that happens is Zod gets punched the fuck up by Superman.
Things as simple as Zod unleashing his heat vision liberally, and Supes taking the blast to save people - this would have injected some tension into the scene, and some personal threat into Zod (who, until this scene, has personally accomplished almost nothing. In his very first confrontation with Supes he gets creamed and has to be bailed out by his underlings).
