Superman Returns!
Hey guys, Coop 4 here for my take on Superman Returns.
This is one of the coolest movies I've seen in a long time. Superman, played by Brandon Routh, returns back to earth from a 5 year trip to find his home planet Kripton to find the Earth he left with a high crime rate, in particular the city of Metropolis.
Meanwhile Lex Luther (Kevin Spacey) has sprung from jail and is planning on using Superman crystals from his home on the northpole to create a huge land mass that will displace the ocean's water flooding the US and forcing all citizens to flee to Luther's new nation with himself as master.
You'll have to go watch the movie to learn more, but I thought Routh did a good job playing both Superman and Clark Kent. The resemlence to Christopher Reeves is scary.
4 Beers!
This is one of the coolest movies I've seen in a long time. Superman, played by Brandon Routh, returns back to earth from a 5 year trip to find his home planet Kripton to find the Earth he left with a high crime rate, in particular the city of Metropolis.
Meanwhile Lex Luther (Kevin Spacey) has sprung from jail and is planning on using Superman crystals from his home on the northpole to create a huge land mass that will displace the ocean's water flooding the US and forcing all citizens to flee to Luther's new nation with himself as master.
You'll have to go watch the movie to learn more, but I thought Routh did a good job playing both Superman and Clark Kent. The resemlence to Christopher Reeves is scary.
4 Beers!
2 Comments:
Yo! I saw it last night too. I thought the same thing. Routh is a dead-ringer for Christopher Reeves. The special effects were awesome.
The opening credits got me hyped even more to see a true-blue Superman flick! It opened just like the first two movies, with the blue words with tracers on them. The music was exactly the same. It got to the point that I thought Singer almost paid too much homage to the first two Superman movies. He even went as far as to put that last scene in the end, when Supe gives that cheesy smile to the camea as he flies away into space. Still, I loved it. Smallville has been butchering the story for years. It's about time someone got it right again.
I did find out though, that I preferred Batman, X-Men, and the Spiderman movies over this one (from an action standpoint). Barring the flying sequences, it is just so ho-hum for Superman! He walks in to a barrage of bullets. He even lets one hit him in the eyeball (that was pretty cool actually). But no dynamic fight scenes. Yeah, it's cool to see him shoot lazers out of his eyes, but the only effort he has to exert is a concerned look on his face. Spiderman and Doc Ock were much more fun to watch duke-ing it out on that train... And I'd like to know some of the "how" with Superman. What I mean is that I'd like the story to give some sort of explanation beyond "He is from Krypton and he get's his power from the earth's sun".
Something like this perhaps: Superman, in speaking to Lois or whoever, could say "You see, on the surface I look like a human. We are creations of the same creator, made in his image [which would explain why Jor-El and the rest of the Kryptonians can speak english, by the way]. Where we are different is down on a molecular level. You see, back on my planet, Gravity is not the only major planetary force. There are strong, suppressive electromagnetic fields that emmanate from the core and create natural lines of flux. To be able to even move on the planet means that your body mut be able to sustain huge waves of current. The average Kryptonian doesn't even notice it. On this planet, however, my molecular structure can become to gravity what a superconductor becomes to a magnet. It took a while for me to be able to control it, but I can get the graitational field to throw me almost as fast as the speed of light. That is the limit.
I just realized that I am a massive dork...
3rdCoop out.
Yes, you are a massive dork. Still, that was a pretty cool "hypothesis," Mark. For some reason, I am just not really into comic book movies right now. I saw the latest X-Men a couple of weeks ago and, though I thought it was cool to look at an all, it left me cold. I find that I just can't suspend disbelief long enough anymore to believe in--if only for a few hours--things like heros with retractable steel claws or a woman who looks like Halle Berry who can roll her eyes back and control the weather. The cheese factor has just gotten too high for me. I think I have just reached my own sort of internal point of diminishing returns when it comes to stuff like that. I remember that I loved the first Spider-Man movie but since then I have yawned my way through "Hulk," the Spidey sequel and these X-Men movies. I'll catch this version of Superman when it comes out on Comcast, but no sooner.
I will say that, as an exception to this rule, I liked "Batman Returns" so much I wanted to shout from the rooftops. I liked it because they gave me an excuse to believe in it. This Bruce Wayne, while he kicks ass on an industrial scale, doesn't violate the laws of physics. He's basically just a badass with a lot of cool toys and a lot of emotional damage that he grapples with. That is a hell of a lot more interesting than watching a blue-clad boyscout fly around and shoot death rays out of his eyes.
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