@manwhohaseverything: That's the thing with these movies. I would have thought there would be a lot of deaths as well especially with just the location of when the world eater went off but then the BVS trailer only said dozens which they could just be talking about that single building but even that seems really low for a building that large. So maybe they'll show a better representation of how people were getting out of the city in BVS. If you wanna explain I'd love to hear it don't really "need" it but hey it's always nice to hear about things you missed that other people picked up on in films.
Well, for beginners when the Daily Planet folks are leaving their building, we don't see too many folks in the streets, not many on-lookers so to speak. So, I'ma summing they already left. We do, for a split second see a throng of folks in the streets heading away from what I think is the downtown area. I can't imagine they ere just going home to take the afternoon off from work. When Superman and Zod have their last go round, there's people in a train station..I assume they were leaving and the folks still there were waiting for the next train. (with a mass evacuation, not everyone can be lucky enough to catch the first train out.) I also noted that the buildings they crashed into at the end seemed largely empty. No screams from inside or anything like that. IIRC they have a scene where they show them flying into an office space and no one is there. It just felt to me like the city and been largely evacuated. Now, they could've made that clear with about a ten-second scene of someone announcing an evacuation, and they didn't. To me, those type of complaints about MOS..(and some of the shoddy editing that didn't accurately reflect the passage of time..they got too artsy-fartsy at times) are the legit complaints against the film. The 'destruction porn" complaints..not so much. But that's just my opinion. I do agree "dozens" is way too low. As David Goyer (the screenwriter) said:
One of the things we were hoping to depict is that Superman is not a god. We say he’s a god-like figure but he’s not omnipotent. Even in the comic books he cannot save everyone. I think people die [in Metropolis]. Clearly hundreds if not thousands of people have died while the gravity machines are going off. There were probably even people who died in Smallville.
When you’re dealing with a threat like this, there will be collateral damage. This is something that hadn’t been depicted in comic book films is what it would be like if these powerful figures did clash, if The Hulk and Thor fought, people would probably die. Particularly in this case where Zod and the Kryptonians really don’t care if people die. I think people died and I’m sure that upsets some people.
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