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Proper grammar and spelling is important, but not the most important thing in writing. It is the substance of the work that is important.

For someone who wants to be respected as a professional writer, proper grammar and spelling are at least a prerequisite.

As another poster rightly noted, getting his Kryptonian name and his adoptive father's name wrong doesn't help us take the writer seriously. I had passed on those two gaffes, as I had not seen the movie, and allowed for the possibility that the writers employed a name change. It would not have been the first time.

I am more lenient with those who are simply posting here on the fly (including myself). The writer here is taking an authoritative tone on a site that should be held to a higher and more formal standard. Frankly, I am not convinced that the author really understands the Superman character in its various incarnations. As I was a Superman comic book collector in my youth, I am well familiar with both the Golden and Silver Age versions.

I am glad to hear that the movie is not profane. I am also glad that they FINALLY dropped Marlon Brando's Jor-El.

I am suspicious of anyone allusions that seem to make Superman into a Christ figure. Siegel and Shuster were Jewish, and had no such intention. I don't want a human, ANY human, to be made into a Christ-figure, be it Superman or Anakin Skywalker.

But the analogy is pretty hard to avoid. Substitute the name “Messiah” for “Christ” (same word, one Hebrew and the other Greek) and the origins in the minds of two Jewish guys from Cleveland becomes a bit more understandable.