I knew SR would be brought up. Clearly, a long, expensive movie reviving the Superman franchise and directed by X-Men director Singer should have been a big moneyspinner.
But if you watch the movie, it doesn't look like a $270m product. A lot of money was wasted - a $10m, 10-minute, completed sequence showing Superman exploring the remnants of his planet was cut out by Singer; money was spent buying land and growing a field of corn for childhood flashback sequences that were unnecessary to the thrust of the narrative; and a lot of other money is said to have been frittered away. There was therefore no money left for the proposed climactic action scenes of a tidal wave crashing into Metropolis and Superman lifting a train out of the way of the water.
What's left on screen in the released film is a ponderous and almost boring film where the action is either poor or absent. There is no 'wow' factor leaping out from the screen, no sense of dynamism or energy.
It should be noted that there are long periods between action in Pirates, but when the action comes, it does not in any way disappoint: it's so staggering and flawless that it's hard to imagine how some of the scenes and FX were done, such is the merging of real and unreal.
Transformers is an example of money well spent and one suspects it was down to the expertise and experience of Spielberg in getting as much dollar on screen as possible.
FF:RoTSS had SOME good scenes and SOME good action... but it all sped past in such a way that it becomes insubstantial and forgettable, the camera never staying too long on anything. Just when the audience was getting ready to gasp and drop their jaws, we were hurried on to something else, like a guided tour where the tourguide is rushing too much. The same can be said of X3... though X3 is a better-made movie than FF:RoTSS (but X3 is still far from what it should have been, mainly because of its runtime which skipped over characters and events too quickly).
The dialogue was better. The sets were better, but the feel of the 1st movie just was not there. Everyone on these boards knows I'm as huge a FF, and Thing fan as there is on these boards. The Thing was practually non existant in the 2nd movie. He had 1 good scene with Johnny, then disapeared for the rest of the movie. The whole Reed bachelor party scene was too long, and totaly added nothing to the story. It was a total waste of time. It took precious minutes away from other things that could have been put in its place. The scene where Sue was on fire was the best scene in the movie in my opinion. 
t: I laughed my rear off, and so did everyone else.
Wow! Do you come up with your own material cause that was so funny! 
