You know what, Im going to again offer my opinion here, but don't come back at me with that " you haven't seen the movie yet " arguement. You know damn well that when you read spoilers and characterizations, look at pics, and watch trailers, you make a damn judgement on how that film is going to be. Just because we like Superman shouldn't make it any different. You can usually get a damn good idea on a film before it's in theaters.
Singer took the wrong approach with this film, a SEQUEL to a film almost 30 years old. Im with Game, this "requel" crap is a f^cking copout excuse that wankers on this board use. You know, Id like to say that it doesn't suprise me that Singer took this approach with the movie, and he is a good director don't get me wrong. His X-men was perfect, and he was perfect for it being a gay man, and we all know that being gay is genetic, much like mutation. Plus he didn't have alot of money to work with, which put him in the corner of making it a character driven film. Great. Singer is a good director, seems like a good guy as well, but he is no visionary like say Peter Jackson. A visionary wouldn't make a sequel to a film almost 30 years old just because he loved it as a child. Peter Jackson loved Kong as a child as well, but he retold the story of Kong, not made some 'requel" where they go back to the island 72 years later. Singer SHOULD have made his own, naturalized origin story, much like Batman Begins. Don't do what Abrams was going to do, but do your own thing. It is obvious that Singer has no love for anything Superman outside of the Donner film or the Fleischer serials, which are even more dated that Donner's film. And make no mistake, Donner's film is dated. And I don't care what that article said about how great it is, that film could be beaten by a better Superman film. Singer should have strived to achieve more than Donner's film.
And I love Kevin Spacey, but things like "Wrong", krryypptoonniteee, dancing around on the boat like an idiot....they scream camp humor. I know all you pyschiatrists here on the board think that makes him "unstable", but do you think a casual movie goer is going to think that. Do you honestly think that a casual movie goer is going to sit there with his little popcorn, his biggie drink, his sour patch kids, and say, wow that M-Fer is one psychotic dude. No, he is going to say, Gene Hackman, who's Lex sucked by the way. The "now fly" scene and the stabbing are great, but thats it. And the fact that he has a bimbo girlfriend and a goon squad reek of rehash.
Bottom Line, making a SEQUEL to the 78 film instead of doing your own, creative, visionary-like movie was a bad move. You rebuild the wheel because the wheel is old.
