That New Superman Movie... My Thoughts
Wednesday, June 28
Well... I saw it.
I got goosebumps on several occasions. I liked the intro credits for the most part paying homage to the original Donner film. Computers are great, especially for making me believe a man can fly. Many great scenes of him being "Super". Um, that poor James Marsden got the short end of the stick twice this year for playing the part of "guy who gets pasted over for the other, more popular dude" role. Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
Stuff that I thought were going to bother me... such as Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor being like Gene Hackman's... it wasn't campy and I rather liked his interpretation. The evil plot... not bad. When I heard it was along the lines of the first movie with property and all, I was worried.
The acting wasn't bad either, as I have read in many reviews. I did infact like Brandon Routh as Kal-el. As I also enjoyed Sam Huntington as Jim Olsen.
However...
The love between Lois and Clark wasn't there, even though a nice chunk of the film is supposed to be about just that. Yeah... I wasn't feeling it. Nor did I really like the whole kid thing. Perhaps if it were in the comics I wouldn't have had a problem with it... I don't know. But it didn't sit right with me.
Here's what I'm thinking about it. Kryptonite... the one thing that can kill Superman (besides a nice punch in the face) was introduced in the Superman Radio show... not the comics. And the whole Lois & Clark: The Adventures of Superman wedding happened around the same time as it did in the comics (I believe the comics beat them to it, but both were going to happen eventually).
My point? Will this latest development take a turn of previous events and become a comic book reality? What's Bryan Singer up too? It's hard for me to say one thing negative about the movie because it doesn't follow the comic because I also like the TV hit Smallvile and it too takes liberties into the world of Superman.
So, I loved it and hated it. For what it's worth, it's a good movie. Fair enough.
For the sequel... Doomsday. Come on!
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I got goosebumps on several occasions. I liked the intro credits for the most part paying homage to the original Donner film. Computers are great, especially for making me believe a man can fly. Many great scenes of him being "Super". Um, that poor James Marsden got the short end of the stick twice this year for playing the part of "guy who gets pasted over for the other, more popular dude" role. Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
Stuff that I thought were going to bother me... such as Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor being like Gene Hackman's... it wasn't campy and I rather liked his interpretation. The evil plot... not bad. When I heard it was along the lines of the first movie with property and all, I was worried.
The acting wasn't bad either, as I have read in many reviews. I did infact like Brandon Routh as Kal-el. As I also enjoyed Sam Huntington as Jim Olsen.
However...
The love between Lois and Clark wasn't there, even though a nice chunk of the film is supposed to be about just that. Yeah... I wasn't feeling it. Nor did I really like the whole kid thing. Perhaps if it were in the comics I wouldn't have had a problem with it... I don't know. But it didn't sit right with me.
Here's what I'm thinking about it. Kryptonite... the one thing that can kill Superman (besides a nice punch in the face) was introduced in the Superman Radio show... not the comics. And the whole Lois & Clark: The Adventures of Superman wedding happened around the same time as it did in the comics (I believe the comics beat them to it, but both were going to happen eventually).
My point? Will this latest development take a turn of previous events and become a comic book reality? What's Bryan Singer up too? It's hard for me to say one thing negative about the movie because it doesn't follow the comic because I also like the TV hit Smallvile and it too takes liberties into the world of Superman.
So, I loved it and hated it. For what it's worth, it's a good movie. Fair enough.
For the sequel... Doomsday. Come on!
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