Getting back on topic; at the weekend I went to the cinema twice, once to watch Man of Steel and then to see Behind the Candelabra.
Stephen Soderbergh's film about Liberace was easily the best, boasting a career-best performance from Michael Douglas, one of Matt Damon's finest performances, superb production design, costumes and make-up, a really good script and extent, understated direction. I'm not sure why the studios thought it was 'too gay' as there was a real cross-section of society in the cinema and everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Man of Steel had some great scenes with Kevin Costner (playing Clark Kent's father) and they were easily the best parts of the film. Where it fell down were during the action sequences which felt overlong and uninvolving because they were fights between two indestructible beings, who seemed to destroy half of Manhattan whilst they were settling their differences. These took up just about all of the final act during which I was bored.
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