Better film: Man of Steel vs. Black Panther

Better movie: Man of Steel.
- Oscar-caliber cinematography and visual effects. Legit top tier cinematography.
- As NemeBro mentioned, Snyder put together some truly phenomenal action set-pieces. I agree, the best in a superhero film yet barring something like the big team-up fight on Titan in Infinity War and Quicksilver's mansion rescue in X-Men: Apoc.
- Clark's character arc: an overwhelmed farmboy that is trying to find what his place is in this world and isn't at the level of a veteran, seasoned Superman yet. This results in him making the decision to kill Zod to save others, which I liked for the in-universe Supes that Snyder and co. created for Man of Steel. Where they took the character by the time of Justice League was garbage, but I liked the foundation with which they started.

Scores are a wash: Hans Zimmer's "Flight" is a phenomenal track, and all of MoS's score is an epic delight, but Ludwig Göransson's score sounded great as well and really captured the themes and feel of the world of Wakanda ("Killmonger" or Killmonger's Theme is a new classic villain theme for a killer with swagger).

Which movie will I remember more: Black Panther, due to my wife and I being huge fans of the MCU and Chadwick Boseman's performance as T'Challa in Civil War. We saw it opening night at our favorite theater in OKC after a nice Valentine's dinner, so ol BP will always have a special place in my heart. It also has a far far far far superior villain in Killmonger (right there with Thanos and Bushmaster as the MCU's best antagonists) when compared to lose-every-fight Zod.

Michael Shannon's Zod would kneel before Terence Stamp's Zod every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

It was a good fight scene in terms of CGI, but in terms of the fighting itself, IE skill. it looked like 5 years olds fighting.

BP is the better film.

I'm also one of those seemingly rare people who found MoS to be enjoyable/decent.

Originally posted by Silent Master
It was a good fight scene in terms of CGI, but in terms of the fighting itself, IE skill. it looked like 5 years olds fighting.

Panther is the better movie, though I think MoS had substantially better action scenes.

My vote goes to Man of Steel. As I found it has better action, cinematography, soundtrack, and excellent visual effects as compare to Black Panther.

Michael Shannon was the only enjoyable part of MoS.

I give it to Black Panther.

Black panthers action scence were boring as hell

I enjoyed MOS...

When I saw BP in Civil War I was hyped about the solo movie.

BP is one of the most disappointing movies ever for me...

The overhype just makes it worse...

I really enjoyed BP personally.

Wasnt your typical superhero film, was addressing sociopolitical issues at its heart, which gave the villain some depth.

Andy Serkis as Klaw was great albeit short lived. And the James Bond esque action sequence was great Imo.

Would not surprise me at all for BP to get Oscar buzz. Even though films like Infinity War (and even Venom) were much more comic booky fun.

Originally posted by Silent Master
It was a good fight scene in terms of CGI, but in terms of the fighting itself, IE skill. it looked like 5 years olds fighting.

Krypton: we can build advanced spaceships that can cross galaxies!

Also Krypton: one of our scientists is able to hold his own against a man we bred specifically for combat.

There was good world building in both tbh. But we got more of that in BP.

Black Panther is a solid film, but it is so f*cking overrated.

IMO MoS and BP suffer from opposite problems.

BP has great story, pacing, characters, setting and was more enjoyable. But had meh action sequences (w/c to me is a good chunk of why I watch superhero movies in the first place).

MoS has meh story, pacing, character, setting and was like suffering thru a 2 hour migraine so as to get to the great fight sequences it had (ppl say the liberal use of CGI detracted from it but I’m a big enough fan of action to look past that).

Originally posted by Surtur
Krypton: we can build advanced spaceships that can cross galaxies!

Also Krypton: one of our scientists is able to hold his own against a man we bred specifically for combat.

I wonder if they made the prisoner ships penis-shaped to humiliate prisoners. I mean there is something to be said about a penis rocket being launched into a black hole.