I don't care if it wasn't exactly like Wrath of Khan.

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Clark letting his Dad die when he could have hid his powers during a freaking tornado. SUPERMAN KILLING! SUPERMAN letting his 2 hometowns be destroyed instead of fleeing to a safer location to fight. Obi-Wan...err Jor El riding a CG dragon with the Clone Wars... err the Krpyton civil war raging in the background. Krypton using the Matrix for birthing purposes. The dude from Law and Order looking constapated the whole film.

Pa Kent's death was dumb as hell. It made no logical sense. Clark could have easily used his powers, with the choas happening around, it could have easily been covered up or dismissed. It just doesn't work, in contrast the reason Pa Kents death in the original Donner film works is because it is from a natural cause it there is no way Clark could save him and it served as a humbling experience and taught him that as powerful as he is, he can't save everyone and there are things that even he can't change. That lesson is very important one. All Pa Kent's death accomplished here was to still more fear and guilt in Clark.

As far as Clark killing Zod goes...I can understand why a lot of Supeman fan's are going to have a big problem with it but from a writing perspective Goyer did set it up properly and really at the point in which it occurs, Clark really had no other choice and we do get a proper pay-off in his reaction to having done it. He is upset and horrified at having comitted what amounts to genocide at the end of the day. Because of that reaction, he'll probably never kill again. I was more upset over the films lack of concern over the lives that would have been lost as collateral damage due to Superman's fights against Zod and crew. At no point did we see Superman making even the slightest effort to take the battle elsewhere, even at the end of the film there's no mention at all of any kind of the civilian deaths that would absolutely have occured due to slugfest. That's were the movie really lost me because after what had occured, realistically Superman would have been been at least been held partly accountable for what had happened just due to his being there. I just don't buy that the world would be ready to embrace him, they'd really be telling him: "Ya, you may have saved us but your presense is what drew those psycho's to us in the first place, so could you kindly get the fuck off our planet and take your space cooties with you, thank you very much".