Superman Returns How Do You Feel About Singer NOW Thread

[Pickle-El]

Chill out on the Pat-smack....she's a very cool gal.

(even if I disagree with her on many things..no need to rub SV in her face)

 

[BlueTights]

yeah, most of the time Pat's cool, and I'm a Smallville fan myself, and love welling on the show. But it amazes me that she's basically centering all her opinions around that one actor. Like no movie by anyone could be good unless they chose him. Contrary to her signature, Tom Welling is NOT Superman. He's a model turned actor named Thomas Welling, who plays the role of a young Clark Kent on a tv show. A young man who has extraordinary powers and is deciding what to do with them and what to make of his extraordinary life. He's never even PLAYED Superman. I've got 3 comics immediately in front of me. Action #824, Superman #213, and Superman/Batman #17, and all three have different interpretations of Superman, but none is difinitive. How can you marry yourself to one single vision of Superman and still enjoy the breadth and width of his vast, epic, lifespanning story? Makes absolutely no sense to me how you can be a fan of something that has been presented in serial format for AGES, but insist that it has a definitive version.

 

[Pickle-El]

I guess I just wish EVERYONE could go into this with an open mind....trainwrecks and lowest of low expectations aside.

 

[BlueTights]

well, people having open minds is their own business. If they choose not to, nothing you can do about it.

 

[Smegger56]

I like the thought of Singer doing Superman. He virtually revitalised the comic films genre with X-Men, tho i'm gutted he's left X-Men.

But whats with this 'using the first two films as a vague history'? Why didn't he just go back and start it from scratch. Origins story and all. They're doing it with Bats. Tho i'm sure the film will be cool, starting again i would have preferred... but thats just me.

Also, Singer said he's be using the John Williams music in his film, which is a huge relief. Will he also use the superman title. You know, the way the word 'Superman' are designed?

 

[Steelsheen]

How do i feel about Singer NOW?

i feel like he's a very gifted director and has the potentials to be one of the greatest directors of all time (think Spielberg)

but if you mean how do i feel about Singer's work over this Superman film? jury's still out on that one, but i dont like the feeling that my confidence level in him for this film is not increasing as more tidbits filter out. that's usually a bad sign.

btw, you can really feel the love in this thread over the past several posts, specially on the last page. really guys, and you pride yourselves to be the matured, respected posters of SHH?....

 

[The Sage]

Sorry if it wasn't the most pleasant thing to read, but the creator of this thread has made at least two others like it, so it's a bit obnoxious.

 

[DIRECTOR]

How do i feel about Singer NOW?

i feel like he's a very gifted director and has the potentials to be one of the greatest directors of all time (think Spielberg)

but if you mean how do i feel about Singer's work over this Superman film? jury's still out on that one, but i dont like the feeling that my confidence level in him for this film is not increasing as more tidbits filter out. that's usually a bad sign.

btw, you can really feel the love in this thread over the past several posts, specially on the last page. really guys, and you pride yourselves to be the matured, respected posters of SHH?....

thanks for sharing.....here is a tissue
the thread is to express ur thoughts on Singer's decision, meaning....each time some new news comes out, you come here and tell us whether Singer made the right choice or if you think he is on the right path and how u feel about Singer "NOW", at the moment.

Sorry if it wasn't the most pleasant thing to read, but the creator of this thread has made at least two others like it, so it's a bit obnoxious.

sorry Sage, but i'm not quite sure what other threads i made here that is similar to this, next time, get ur facts straight

 

[The Sage]

sorry Sage, but i'm not quite sure what other threads i made here that is similar to this, next time, get ur facts straight

Didn't you make a thread about the Super or the Man, or started a topic of the same kind in another thread?

 

[DIRECTOR]

no, that was not me
i guess i stood out in that thread than

 

[The Sage]

Yes you did.

 

[DIRECTOR]

no, i did a search on all the threads that i made in this forum, and my last one was about Topher Grace being Jimmy Olsen debunked

 

[ETHERSPIN]

geez.. why the assumption that penn has to play a comical character!! silly me.. "comic" actors cant do serious and serious cant do comical.. geez imagine if say.. deniro was cast in a comedy.. that would never work... ohh wait...

 

[DIRECTOR]

Deniro is different, he has a different comical style. Penn's role is a henchman, which is not exactly anybody can picture him as.

 

[The Guard]

How do I feel? Now having read the script, I'm not worried at all.

Oh, wait, that was SUPERMAN LIVES. My mistake. Carry on.

Is he joking?

 

[Margomuljo]

Also, Singer said he's be using the John Williams music in his film, which is a huge relief. Will he also use the superman title. You know, the way the word 'Superman' are designed?

I hope Singer use the Superman title like Salkind's Superman (crystal/glasses?) with some modification i.e. Coloured Glasses (yellow fir front and red for whole side maybe?). Keep the John Williams music in Superman Returns.

 

[superfever]

How do I feel? Now having read the script, I'm not worried at all.

Oh, wait, that was SUPERMAN LIVES. My mistake. Carry on.

Is he joking?

you happy with superman lives??? this is outrageous!!!

 

[Smegger56]

I just gotta know, why not start from scratch with supes. What Donner did was wonderful, but thats in the past. Why not make his own mark. Obviously keep the suit and the music, and the title.

 

[Steelsheen]

thanks for sharing.....here is a tissue
the thread is to express ur thoughts on Singer's decision, meaning....each time some new news comes out, you come here and tell us whether Singer made the right choice or if you think he is on the right path and how u feel about Singer "NOW", at the moment.

well since you put it that way...

i feel he's too far up Donner's ass in trying to live up to the glory that was the first Superman films to realize that he can make this film his own. i feel that there is no clear direction, no clear definition of what this Superman film is supposed to be. its like a half-baked, half-hearted attempt to breath life into a franchise that got stuck in development hell a little too long for its own good.

btw, you said that we come to this thread for the purpose of "each time some new news comes out, you come here and tell us whether Singer made the right choice or if you think he is on the right path". dude, isnt that the purpose of all threads in this forum?

dont mean to be sarcastic, but then i didnt start it.

 

[S_H_F_4839]

I have faith in singer because he did good work with x-men, and I have faith in Routh as superman, because he has shone me he can pick unknowns, considering how jackman was as wolverine, I seem to be one of the only ones a little iffy about spacey, I like the casting of bosworth, and the casting of perry white, I am not sure about a few of the other's. I think this will be good, but hopefully if it doesn't do as well then the sequel will pull an x2 and completely wipe the floor with the first one.

For those that question my logic for being iffy on spacey, its because I just see the way he was in Austin Powers 3, him playing doctor evil in speildbergs movie in the movie, that stands out and keeps me wondering a little, my original pic for luthor would have been billy zane, but thats just me. I still have hope for this but I am worried.

 

[David33]

I mean to me after Supes and Lex his casting sucks I mean come on this guy is suppose to be one of Lex's bad guys

OH yea I am shaking right now.

I agree with you here.I find the casting of Penn awful.....

 

[The Sage]

well since you put it that way...

i feel he's too far up Donner's ass in trying to live up to the glory that was the first Superman films to realize that he can make this film his own. i feel that there is no clear direction, no clear definition of what this Superman film is supposed to be. its like a half-baked, half-hearted attempt to breath life into a franchise that got stuck in development hell a little too long for its own good.

btw, you said that we come to this thread for the purpose of "each time some new news comes out, you come here and tell us whether Singer made the right choice or if you think he is on the right path". dude, isnt that the purpose of all threads in this forum?

dont mean to be sarcastic, but then i didnt start it.

I was gonna explain how the movie isn't gonna be a continuation of Donner's stuff, but Bluetights put it more delicately.

well, as I've stated before, and will repeat in just a moment so that it can be ignored again, the connections to the Donner film(s) and Smallville are only "allowed" connections, not explicit. Singer's allowing *gasp!* the viewer to make the connection on their own. Basically, he's not stepping on their toes, or trying not to. If you've never seen either of them, you can still enjoy the **** outta this film. If you've seen them and loved them, they can serve to you, in your heart and home, as a prequel to this film. I don't know how to make that any clearer. He's not negating things from those previous versions of parts of the tale. Now, you're probably gonna have to suspend a little disbelief in holding on to both this new kid and Wellign as young Clark, but ****, it's a flying man who shoots fire from his eyes. . . either suspend your disbelief or don't.

More....

sorry is I seemed snippy, wasn't trying to be.

and there's no one saying the new supes films won't be a maxiseries.
Okay, have you read Batman Hush?! It was a self-contained year long story in Batman, a story that didn't have any specific prequels to it, yet it DID reference things like Batgirl's injury, Jason's death, etc. It wasn't a sequel to those, but they were a part of it's past. It also introduced NEW flashback elements to Bruce's Childhood. Think of Supes like that. this is a new Superman story arc being created, and there are elements of past issues that might be coming up, but the story is all it's own.

 

[The Singularity]

In nomine patri, filius et spiritus sancti...

 

[pimpernel]

In nomine patri, filius et spiritus sancti...

The power of Singer compels thee.

 

[The Sage]

Not exactly a Latin speaker gentlemen, what does that mean?