Superman Returns
*WARNING DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS*
DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
Just seen Superman returns and may I say, wow!
Have never been much of a Superman fan. Don't get me wrong, I do like Superman, he's a iconic hero and all that, but I enjoy stories with great and real characters and while some Superman writers pull this off there has always been this tendancy to focus more on his super powers then on his more human aspects (I know he's an alien but he was raised by humans and not wanting to get into the whole comic book lore Kryptonians are just like humans except when they're near a yellow star)
Superman Returns manages Superman's more human aspects quite nicely. I felt his isolation and the pressure of being the world's saviour (some well done Christ symbolism) and of course his love for Lois Lane - he finds it very hard to maintain his Superman image and nearly reverts to his Clark Kent persona when he's around her.
The characters felt real, and the acting was great, especially Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. I remember thinking that he was a good choice when I first found out that he had been choosen for Lex and I was right. Reg directed me to a interview with Kevin Spacey who said that he didn't watch the orginal movies when preparing for the role so he could make Lex his own character and not try to copy Gene Hackman. While Return's Lex had a lot of Spacey's own character it was very similar to Hackman's Lex.
I enjoyed Kate Bosworth's Lois Lane. Smart, sexy and indepedent (except for when Superman's around). Brandon Routh was good as Superman/Clark Kent and looked very much like Christoper Reeve's Superman (which is good since this movie is a sequel to Superman 1&2 [the good ones - the crappy 3&4 didn't happen]) There was a good chemistry between Routh and Bosworth.
Tristan Lake Leabu as Lois's son Jason didn't shit me. I will admit I don't like kids in movies - unless the movie is about kids or they're pivitol to the story in some way. I often find kids are added for the cute effect or to tone down the movie classifiction. There were a few moments at first he appeared to be cute factor but it is later revealed he is pivitol not to the story but to the characterisation of Lois and Superman. And they didn't over do his "super powers" as I feared they would.
Over all I give it 4 stars out of five.
DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
Just seen Superman returns and may I say, wow!
Have never been much of a Superman fan. Don't get me wrong, I do like Superman, he's a iconic hero and all that, but I enjoy stories with great and real characters and while some Superman writers pull this off there has always been this tendancy to focus more on his super powers then on his more human aspects (I know he's an alien but he was raised by humans and not wanting to get into the whole comic book lore Kryptonians are just like humans except when they're near a yellow star)
Superman Returns manages Superman's more human aspects quite nicely. I felt his isolation and the pressure of being the world's saviour (some well done Christ symbolism) and of course his love for Lois Lane - he finds it very hard to maintain his Superman image and nearly reverts to his Clark Kent persona when he's around her.
The characters felt real, and the acting was great, especially Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. I remember thinking that he was a good choice when I first found out that he had been choosen for Lex and I was right. Reg directed me to a interview with Kevin Spacey who said that he didn't watch the orginal movies when preparing for the role so he could make Lex his own character and not try to copy Gene Hackman. While Return's Lex had a lot of Spacey's own character it was very similar to Hackman's Lex.
I enjoyed Kate Bosworth's Lois Lane. Smart, sexy and indepedent (except for when Superman's around). Brandon Routh was good as Superman/Clark Kent and looked very much like Christoper Reeve's Superman (which is good since this movie is a sequel to Superman 1&2 [the good ones - the crappy 3&4 didn't happen]) There was a good chemistry between Routh and Bosworth.
Tristan Lake Leabu as Lois's son Jason didn't shit me. I will admit I don't like kids in movies - unless the movie is about kids or they're pivitol to the story in some way. I often find kids are added for the cute effect or to tone down the movie classifiction. There were a few moments at first he appeared to be cute factor but it is later revealed he is pivitol not to the story but to the characterisation of Lois and Superman. And they didn't over do his "super powers" as I feared they would.
Over all I give it 4 stars out of five.
posted by Renegade79 at 1:11 am
3 Comments:
Gotta agree. Wow.
I'm gonna blog about this myself so i won't say too much here.
But yeah, wow.
We'll need to get together sometime soon and have a sit down chat about it. I'll have my people call your people.
It rates as 3.2 ret'de's to 2^7 ert-qops for me. And thats something to say.
It's the building where the bad guys have that gatling gun and blow away all those cop cars before superman comes andf deflects the bullet with his eye
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