a beautiful and unique snowflake. a true anomaly. its imperfections are his.

Η φάση είναι πως όλοι πλέον φωνάζουν για τα reboots και τα origin stories που βλέπουμε και ξαναβλέπουμε σε ήρωες που ξέρουμε.
Εδώ ο Singer κάνει ένα σίκουελ στον Superman του Reeve, πιστό όχι μόνο στο πνεύμα και ύφος των παλιότερων ταινιών αλλά και στον ίδιο το μύθο του Σούπερμαν.
Οκ, δείτε Μπατμαν.

Well, Superman returned...

Why can't he just go away?

Fucking Dull.

In which we see Brandon Routh get ruined by two things:

1. The script was dull -- and sometimes insulting. (sorry, there is no way Superman could lift an island made of Kryptonite, no matter how much he wanted to)

2. Routh was forced to play Reeve-as-Superman. He didn't get to put his own stamp on the role, if he even had one to bring. He's like an understudy brought in to replace the star.

(also, fuck cute kids -- I don't want them in my movie)

A flawed film, but also an unfairly maligned one.

This was the first movie I saw returning from a two month trek across Europe. I fell asleep roughly 30 minutes in and blamed it on the jet lag. I waited a week, got back into a proper sleep rhythm, went to see it refreshed and anxious, and promptly feel asleep 30 minutes into the movie.

Jeez this was boring. I think I really liked this when I saw it opening day. I was 22. Seven years has honed my sense of criticism and changed what I need in a film experience. And just doesn't give me what I need.

Also, Kate Bosworth. Sheesh. Who thought a 23 year old Lois Lane was a good idea?

Inert, and Bosworth has the charisma and screen presence of a light rain. But Singer is trying, and tonally this is closer to what I want to see in a Superman film than Snyder's take.

I'm just hoping Man of Steel is better than this.

Έχει ωριμάσει υπέροχα με τον χρόνο αυτό τελικά. Ενω τις πρώτες 2 φορές που το είχα δει είχα κάποια θέματα, τώρα εκτιμώ το πόσο "just" έχει πιάσει ακριβώς αυτά τα στοιχεία που κάνουν τον Σούπερμαν τόσο ξεχωριστό και έχει κάνει update το κλίμα και το fun των κλασσικών ταινιών. Ποιος ξέρει πως θα ήταν ένα fresh start από τον Singer;

Still the dull looking, draggy, wrong-headed failure I remembered.

I ask any one to defend the opening scene where the dying old lady signs her fortune away to Lex Luthor saying he had shown her "pleasures she had never known". It's as dumb, lazy and awful as anything I have ever seen.

Rips off Superman the Movie even more that I recalled. Lifting whole ideas and pages of dialogue.

Really liked Routh and Spacey but their scenes are such groaners it defeats all their good intentions and talent.

The stuff with Lois' kid is terrible. Just TERRIBLE.

It's just a wrong headed "what the fuck were you thinking?" pile of relentless mediocrity.

So bad I almost switched over to Failure to Launch. And that's the only movie I ever walked on in a movie theater.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.