| Posted by: Alric Knebel at May 1, 2008, 2:21 pm | | Topic: 'Superman Returns' (2006) DVD Forum: groupsrv | calvin wrote: Quote:What a terrible movie. When it wasn't copying the 1978 movie, it was throwing in everything imaginable, including the kitchen sink. There were only two good scenes in the movie, IMO: the young Kent running and jumping in the cornfield; and the brief Michaelangelo moment during the rescue of the Lane 'family' from the sinking ship. Probably John Williams was paid well for the use of his music from the 1978 movie, but he wasn't credited well. Right after the prominent words, 'music by John Ottman', if you looked fast you could see the brief, blurry words, 'Superman theme by John Williams', but actually the movie used at least four themes from the old movie: the Krypton theme, the midwest home theme, the flying love theme, and of course the main titles. It would have been nice if the main titles had used some different arrangements, but it sounded exactly like the original orchestration. In fact, if the same recording had been used we wouldn't have known the difference. Kevin Spacey provided a couple of slightly amusing evil moments, but otherwise the humor was the same tired old 'bumbling Clark' stuff. It's always a mystery when a sure-fire movie like this one doesn't surprise us with some decent writing. It's not like there would be any risk in doing so. I liked this better than any Superman movie to date. But I have to admit, I found the old ones extremely corny. The main thing is, it paved the way -- albeit there was a LONG interim before it was attempted again -- for these big-budget comic book adaptations. They were presented for the first time as something a studio could sink money into and see a huge return. But the first attempts were corny. I liked the direction of the last one, but I'd wished that Singer had abandoned all together this idea of an homage. And I liked the way the romance was made more intense. Clark loved Lois like a real man did. He seemed truly lovesick. I liked all that. As for Spacey's Lex, I thought he played it too absurd. Again he surrounds himself with idiots, and here he is, this genius. If you watch SMALLVILLE, the Lex character in there surrounds himself with other geniuses. They've yet to do the whole Superman thing right. I would suggest that the next Superman movie adopt some of SMALLVILLE's sensibilities. --
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