Mike Is Way Too Excited About Superman Returns
I want to take a moment this morning and confess my undying love for Bryan Singer and his two headed writing team. They made my dream of good X-Men movies come to life a few years ago and then, just yesterday I witnessed an event that I have been waiting for since 1987. (When last Superman movie, the lame-ass Superman IV came out. Luckily, I was only 6 and I didn’t know how bad it sucked, I just knew I like Superman.) Last night I saw Superman Returns and I loved every second of it. The effects were great and for once, the new effects actually helped the movie instead of just making exploding planets explode bigger. Today’s effects allowed the flying to look more “realistic” if that makes any sense. Also, unlike the 80’s movies, the writers didn’t get bored and just slap in weird extra powers: Since when can Superman make holograms of himself? Don’t get me started on the plastic-wrap S thing in Superman II! My biggest fear with this movie was whether or not the acting would suck and all though I don’t see any oscars being handed out to the cast I was pleasntly surprised by all the acting. Spacy was good as usual, but Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth were both good, although there were a few times when I felt that Routh was acting like Christopher Reeve playing Superman and not just playing Superman himself. I can’t fault the guy for that though, Reeve was perfect and the fact that the writers added in some of the lines that were in the 80’s movies made it hard at times to not seem like Reeve’s little brother. It was a very small price to pay for the inclusion of some of the great lines from the latter movies. (like “I hope this experience didn’t scare you away from flying…its still, statistically speaking, the safest was to travel.”) All in all this is the exact way I would have wanted Superman to return to the big screen…well I wouldn’t have done ONE thing that they did, but I don’t want to get into that for people that aren’t insane and go to see the movie by themselves on the day it was released.
Can I put my order in for at least 2 more of these movies with the original cast and crew before the studios get a hold of it and bring back Nuclear Man?
[Afterthought] Ebert wasn’t a fan. I see all of his points, and I full on agree with most of them, but I didn’t think that they added up to be that big of a problem.