Superman Returns First screening (for the press) report

[MoviesKickAss]

I'm quite happy to now let the discussion rest.

The ones like you never are

 

[Super Kal]

sorry, Desk, but those are NOT the colors of the Fleischer cartoons. This is an oficial bust professionally made. THESE are the colors...

nice manip though...

 

[Showtime]

I was going to say? Since when did Fleischer's Superman strap on Reeve's Orangy-Red cape?

 

[Super Kal]

I was going to say? Since when did Fleischer's Superman strap on Reeve's Orangy-Red cape?

he got that pic from this source...
http://heroicimages.net/toons/misc.html

I've seen the original of that screencap, and it looks nothing like that.

 

[Eteric]

If I can get my DVD screenshot thing to work, I could take some screenies from the cartoons.

Let me try. Brb

 

[Super Kal]

if you use the VLC player, you can click "video" and press "snapshot". it'll save it to your "My Pictures" folder.

 

[Eteric]

I can't even get the DVD to play. Strange.

 

[JamalYIgle]

Oh dear, Jamal - you're obviously unaware that these old Fleischer prints have become dirty, grubby and faded over time. The colours as shown in your picture aren't the same as were seen where they were made...

I look forward to hearing what you have to say when restored versions of the Fleischer cartoons are included in the 14-DVD Superman box-set.


BTW, even if those dark colours had been used it still wouldn't have stood as anything more a one-off aberration, rather than a norm.

why do you always push me to prove you wrong?

 

[JamalYIgle]

. This is an oficial bust professionally made. THESE are the colors...

Comparing the colors, i don't see it as an issue.

 

[Super Kal]

I wasn't comparing it to Superman Returns, he put up a manip and claimed it to be the way it really looked. I just corrected him...


I would just absolutely LOVE to see the exact Fleischer suit in a live action movie one day...

 

[Eteric]

I wasn't comparing it to Superman Returns, he put up a manip and claimed it to be the way it really looked. I just corrected him...


I would just absolutely LOVE to see the exact Fleischer suit in a live action movie one day...

That would be pretty intresting, actually.

 

[Super Kal]

well, at www.kal-el.org/gallery, I've made manips of the Superman Returns suit in pure Fleischer style... you can check it out there.

 

[Tzigone]

Well the Writers did not give possible mis leading answers at "Comic Con" so Singer will have alot more going for him if some things he said turned out to be false. More People know what Singer said then what the X Writers purely due to WHERE they said it

Yeah, but your average Joe on the street doens't have a clue that Singer ever said anything - that's what I meant. General viewing audience, the masses.

 

[JamalYIgle]

double post, sorry

 

[Binker]

Source: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0606/08/index.htm

Superman Returns, transferred to film just hours earlier, was given its first screening for the press Thursday night in Los Angeles.

Executive producer Chris Lee introduced the film, noting that it had just been put to bed and that some minor tweaks -- i.e. color corrections -- still might be made.

He also asked that the press not leak spoilers -- including a major one not in the film's novelization.

After the screening, members of the press were given a preview of the 3D IMAX treatment the film is getting.

IMAX president of filmed entertainment Greg Foster said Superman Return's "DNA" was ideal for the 3D treatment. The first trailer, which was done in 3D to show director Bryan Singer, and examples of the film's coming-at-you action were shown.

"We showed this to Chris Lee, Brandon (Routh) and Kate (Bosworth) and they were jumping up and down and giving each other high fives," Foster said.

In other notes:

* Screenwriters Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty have small roles in the film.

* The film seemed to generate a positive response, with applause at the end.

* Look for much more on Superman Returns on Friday and throughout the weekend here in The Continuum.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Hope you enjoy it. I won't be seeing it.

yeah... sure you won't.

 

[ultimatefan]

The red on the suit is just one of these things I´m sick and tired of talking about. The suit works on the movie. That´s how I feel and that´s ALL I have the time or the patience to say. You want to argue over that till the end of time (and bitsch and moan over that like pre-teen boys measuring their weewees), feel free to...

 

[CGHulk]

I'm so glad that the thing about the kid will be adressed in the film, unlike the book. I was losing intrest in the movie very fast, thinking it wouldn't be adressed, now I feel better!
Here's a vidcap from my Fleischer DVD

 

[LuvSupes]

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/stephenSchaefer/

June 9, 2006 on 10:41 am
“SUPERMAN”: A MAGISTERIAL RETURN
Posted by: Stephen Schaefer

Bryan Singer’s highly-anticipated “Superman Returns” was finally unveiled for the press Thursday night in L.A. (the print was finished at Technicolor at 2:30 that afternoon) and Warner Bros. must have given a sigh of relief when they heard the genuine applause at the finish. What Singer’s done is a dandy trick: He’s honored the tradition of Superman as a quintessentially 20th-century American myth and simultaneously given the Man of Steel a home (cinematically) in the 21st century.

This Superman returns from a five-year absence to find the love of his life, Kate Bosworth’s Lois Lane, settled into domesticity with a son Jason and a lover, Daily Planet editor Perry White’s nephew Jack (James Marsden), who also works at the paper. An unmarried heroine with a kid, a woman with two very different men in her life – and, oh yes, a Pulitzer Prize – what could be more contemporary?

Even better, Singer has transformed Superman, the alien from another planet with his extraordinary powers, into a majestic, awe-inspiring figure, not a kiddie comic book guy in tights. Like Apollo come to earth, like Atlas holding the world in the great Rockefeller Center sculpture, Bryan Routh’s Superman has a gravity that enobles this entire two-and-a-half hour picture. There is one dazzling sequence early on where Superman rescues a doomed airplane whose passenger list includes Lois Lane, his estranged true love. Singer of course couldn’t know that the sequence would echo the final moments of the horrifying 9/11 “United 93” but that it does – and that it has Superman for a happy ending – gives it perhaps a greater gravitas. Here is a fantasy that like Disney’s plaintive Oscar-winning wartime song, “When You Wish Upon a Star,” speaks directly to a need for healing from the brutal realities we face daily.

Singer has cast two of the surviving cast members from the Fifties “Superman” TV series. Noel Neill, Lois Lane, plays a dying widow under Lex Luthor’s thrall and Jack Larson, Jimmy Olson, appears as a bartender serving Jimmy (Sam Huntington) and Clark Kent drink. He even wittily manages to get in the famous phrase, “It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” and “Faster than a speeding bullet.”

More importantly, Singer straddles Superman’s time zones and eras. The venerable Daily Planet, with its golden globe atop the Metropolis City landmark building, is a Thirties building with 21st century hardware, flat-screen monitors, computers and faxes. Parker Posey’s wry comic relief as Kitty, Lex Luthor’s moll, is, right down to her name, an evocation of Hollywood’s spunky, wise-cracking Forties heroine Paulette Goddard (with a bit of Jennifer Jones). There is luminous Eva Marie Saint as Ma Kent once again in a movie, if only through screen magic, with her “On the Waterfront” leading man Marlon Brandon whose work as Jor-El, the father of Superman, is recycled to positive effect.

How the public responds to “Superman Returns” when it opens at 10 PM on June 27th is anyone’s guess but Singer & Co. can be content knowing they’ve managed not only to resurrect an American icon but done it with smarts, grace and even poetry. It’s going to be hard for any superhero movie to beat the magisterial bearing Singer so emphatically summons as in one memorable shot Superman is seen suspended in space, his dusty-colored cape twirling, an ancient god come from the heavens. Fittingly, the film is dedicated “respectfully” to Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve.

 

[ultimatefan]

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/stephenSchaefer/

In the immortal words of Montgomery C. Burns... Excellent!

 

[Ita-KalEl]

It's clear that there will be even negative reviews


But it's important that the movie doesn't suck

 

[collegedudejcr01]

Bryan Routh and Marlon Brandon! LMAO! What is wrong w/ this critic?

 

[GreenLanternHam]

Ain't no stinkin fake fan review tryin to hype OR hurt the movie. this is the blog for an actual press guy from a boston herald who saw it. sweets.

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/stephenSchaefer/

June 9, 2006 on 10:41 am
“SUPERMAN”: A MAGISTERIAL RETURN
Posted by: Stephen Schaefer

Bryan Singer’s highly-anticipated “Superman Returns” was finally unveiled for the press Thursday night in L.A. (the print was finished at Technicolor at 2:30 that afternoon) and Warner Bros. must have given a sigh of relief when they heard the genuine applause at the finish. What Singer’s done is a dandy trick: He’s honored the tradition of Superman as a quintessentially 20th-century American myth and simultaneously given the Man of Steel a home (cinematically) in the 21st century.

This Superman returns from a five-year absence to find the love of his life, Kate Bosworth’s Lois Lane, settled into domesticity with a son Jason and a lover, Daily Planet editor Perry White’s nephew Jack (James Marsden), who also works at the paper. An unmarried heroine with a kid, a woman with two very different men in her life – and, oh yes, a Pulitzer Prize – what could be more contemporary?

Even better, Singer has transformed Superman, the alien from another planet with his extraordinary powers, into a majestic, awe-inspiring figure, not a kiddie comic book guy in tights. Like Apollo come to earth, like Atlas holding the world in the great Rockefeller Center sculpture, Bryan Routh’s Superman has a gravity that enobles this entire two-and-a-half hour picture. There is one dazzling sequence early on where Superman rescues a doomed airplane whose passenger list includes Lois Lane, his estranged true love. Singer of course couldn’t know that the sequence would echo the final moments of the horrifying 9/11 “United 93” but that it does – and that it has Superman for a happy ending – gives it perhaps a greater gravitas. Here is a fantasy that like Disney’s plaintive Oscar-winning wartime song, “When You Wish Upon a Star,” speaks directly to a need for healing from the brutal realities we face daily.

Singer has cast two of the surviving cast members from the Fifties “Superman” TV series. Noel Neill, Lois Lane, plays a dying widow under Lex Luthor’s thrall and Jack Larson, Jimmy Olson, appears as a bartender serving Jimmy (Sam Huntington) and Clark Kent drink. He even wittily manages to get in the famous phrase, “It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” and “Faster than a speeding bullet.”

More importantly, Singer straddles Superman’s time zones and eras. The venerable Daily Planet, with its golden globe atop the Metropolis City landmark building, is a Thirties building with 21st century hardware, flat-screen monitors, computers and faxes. Parker Posey’s wry comic relief as Kitty, Lex Luthor’s moll, is, right down to her name, an evocation of Hollywood’s spunky, wise-cracking Forties heroine Paulette Goddard (with a bit of Jennifer Jones). There is luminous Eva Marie Saint as Ma Kent once again in a movie, if only through screen magic, with her “On the Waterfront” leading man Marlon Brandon whose work as Jor-El, the father of Superman, is recycled to positive effect.

How the public responds to “Superman Returns” when it opens at 10 PM on June 27th is anyone’s guess but Singer & Co. can be content knowing they’ve managed not only to resurrect an American icon but done it with smarts, grace and even poetry. It’s going to be hard for any superhero movie to beat the magisterial bearing Singer so emphatically summons as in one memorable shot Superman is seen suspended in space, his dusty-colored cape twirling, an ancient god come from the heavens. Fittingly, the film is dedicated “respectfully” to Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve.

 

[MoviesKickAss]

It's clear that there will be even negative reviews

Even the amazing, the incredible The Last Stand (sarcs about it being amazing & incredible) got its fair share of negative reviews

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Noice.

That 9/11 comment sends chills down my body, man.