Man of Steel

[Hashi Lebwohl]

*poof* Thread necromancy.

The upcoming Superman/Batman crossover movie has a new character who was recently cast: Gal Gadot...as Diana Prince.

This is Warner's way of testing the water. If she trends well with the movie audience they may green-light a Wonder Woman movie. If not, their search for the right actress continues.

[I'm Murrin]

It's much more likely to give them an excuse to say that it didn't work here so a Wonder Woman movie wouldn't work ever.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

More Man of Steel 2 news--the release date has been pushed back 10 months so the director "may more correctly capture the visual style the movie should project".

Translation: they read the script or saw some dailies and they sucked so badly they are going back to formula.

[dANdeLION]

I finally watched MoS, didn't like it much at all. I did like the casting, and it was good for a while, then the fighting began and I was terribly disappointed from there on out. Still, it was better than every other Superman movie.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

I was just thinking about something. Based on how Superman is able to deal with General Zod at the end, shouldn't the Kryptonians have been suffering broken bones and having their teeth knocked out during the earlier fights? If we scale the strength and toughness levels down to humans, two humans who get into a fist fight routinely suffer minor to major injuries like this so even when scaled up that should have been happening. This would significantly shorten the length of truly Olympian battles--fight for a little bit, throw each other around, then go in for a judo hold and *snap* goes a leg or an arm thus ending the fight.

Exactly how much force are they able to withstand? If we could get an upper limit on how much weight a typical Kryptonian could lift in Earth gravity we can get a measurement of the force required to lift that much, then a good estimate on the surface area of their fist will give us an excellent approximation on the force per unit area on a punch. If they are able to withstand that much pressure, thus taking no damage in a fight, we could then begin guessing how much force would need to be exerted in order to damage a Kryptonian.
Consider a 5 kg metal spike fired from a rail gun. If it took even as long as 1 second to attain its top velocity of 2 km/sec with a surface area on the tip of 10 cm^2, the force applied when the spike hits would be
(5 kg)(2000 m/s)/(1 s) = 10000 kg m/s^2
10 cm^2 = (1/100 m/cm)(1/100)m/cm = 0.001 m^2
(10000 kg m/s^2)/(.001 m^2) = 10,000,000 kg/(m*s^2) = 10 MPa (megapascals)
The Young's modulus (force required to shear an object) of steel is about 200 GPa and we know Kryptonians can tear steel with relative ease so their physical attacks must be in the GPa range--even a rail gun would apparently only make them mad.

Anyway....I am probably putting too much thought into it.