Superman Returns
Very similar to my feelings on the recent X-Men movie. Not a bad movie, but nothing spectacular.
This movie was supposed to have a loose basis on the previous Superman movies. I admit I've only seen bits and pieces of thsoe, never the entirety in one sitting. This felt completely different than those.
It was slightly darker and deeper. This can be good. Spiderman is a fantastic movie because he shows vulnerability and humanity. Maybe that's hard to do with Superman because he's not human? But he has emotion. Superman has deep personal conflicts, mostly involving Lois. Lois has some of those, too, involving Superman and Cyclops, I mean her husband Richard. And Lex? He was kind of lame. I love Spacey and think he could be great as Lex but the character was written so blandly. He didn't seem neither evil nor genius enough. And he was just so boring.
The movie itself is very well made. It was beautiful to watch. Very smooth. Good effects. Superman spent a lot of time picking things up (or catching them) and putting them down - airplanes, cars, giant metallic globes. Was this to show off their technological prowess in movie making? I was impressed with Brandon Routh's portrayal of Superman. I didn't realize his voice was that deep. He had the clean cut lines of Christopher Reeves. I can't really tell you if he can act because he didn't have a whole lot to say. And the plot? Meh. Wasn't a very interesting conflict.
I wanted more with Superman (show me he can act, plus he's the main character). I wanted more of the kid (he was funny and cute). I wanted to read Lois's article (I think a nice little narration of the article as he goes about saving people would have been awesome).
It was good but I felt unsatisfied again.
3 of 5.
This movie was supposed to have a loose basis on the previous Superman movies. I admit I've only seen bits and pieces of thsoe, never the entirety in one sitting. This felt completely different than those.
It was slightly darker and deeper. This can be good. Spiderman is a fantastic movie because he shows vulnerability and humanity. Maybe that's hard to do with Superman because he's not human? But he has emotion. Superman has deep personal conflicts, mostly involving Lois. Lois has some of those, too, involving Superman and Cyclops, I mean her husband Richard. And Lex? He was kind of lame. I love Spacey and think he could be great as Lex but the character was written so blandly. He didn't seem neither evil nor genius enough. And he was just so boring.
The movie itself is very well made. It was beautiful to watch. Very smooth. Good effects. Superman spent a lot of time picking things up (or catching them) and putting them down - airplanes, cars, giant metallic globes. Was this to show off their technological prowess in movie making? I was impressed with Brandon Routh's portrayal of Superman. I didn't realize his voice was that deep. He had the clean cut lines of Christopher Reeves. I can't really tell you if he can act because he didn't have a whole lot to say. And the plot? Meh. Wasn't a very interesting conflict.
I wanted more with Superman (show me he can act, plus he's the main character). I wanted more of the kid (he was funny and cute). I wanted to read Lois's article (I think a nice little narration of the article as he goes about saving people would have been awesome).
It was good but I felt unsatisfied again.
3 of 5.
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