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Superman Returns Howard Stern LOVES Superman Returns (he saw it yesterday)

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just reporting what I heard on this mornings show. I'll do my best to transcribe what was said.

Howard: Speaking of comic books, saw SUPERMAN YESTERDAY.

Robin: Yeah!

Howard: See I loved it. Couldn't tell the reaction of the crowd, I LOVED it.

Artie: Oh wait a minute, F**k I missed it, s**t.

Robin: I love Superman...

Howard: Yeah

Robin: ... and there were mo..., first of all Kate Bosworth is a WONDERFUL Lois Lane, Lois Lane is great.

Artie: Yeah wait a minute lets talk about this a little, you were gonna go to that bit but you don't have any other reaction besides that without givin anything away, I can't guage if...

Howard: Well I'm getting into it, I'm getting into a dialogue with Robin.

Artie: But I'm sayin, you were sorta like...

Howard: I didn't know what other people thought, I know I walked out and I loved it. It was 2 hours and 38 minutes long and I wish it, you know what...

Robin: You know I got in the car and didn't realize it had been that long.

Artie: So you weren't BLOWN AWAY by it.

Howard: Oh I WAS!

Artie: Oh you were? Ok I wasn't getting that from you reaction.

Robin: You know how you WANT Superman to fly? That's how he flys now. He really looks like he's flying.

Artie: ah ok.

Howard: The 2 negatives I heard were that it was it was too long and I said it wasn't long enough they shoulda gone another SEVEN HOURS.

Artie: oh Really?

Howard: I just want endless Superman.

Artie: Oh, so ya liked it that much.

Robin: But, it should concentrate on Superman DOING things. He, oh my God the action is WONDERFUL.

Artie: So you loved it too.

Robin: Yeah!

Howard: And I think Bryan Singer needs to make a second Superman now because...

Robin: ...definitely...

Howard: ... you know now we gotta move on, alotta the stuff we knew already now they gotta move on to a whole episode.

Artie: How many stars ?

Howard: Ahhh outa 5 stars?

Artie: Yeah

Howard: I'd give it, 4 and a half stars. Loved it, I loved it.

Artie: wow...

Robin: I would give it ... 4.

Howard: Yeah, somewhere between 4, 4 and a half.

Artie: Wow, I can't wait

Howard: The only criticism I might have of the whole movie is I wish there was a new supervillain, and I wish we weren't back into Lex Luthor land but...

Robin: Well that's part of the thing, it's like well "we're still at the same place" but it's really a GREAT FILM.

Artie: How are the performances, how's Spacey as Lex Luthor?

Howard: Spacey's a real good Lex Luthor. Ah I would say that this new Superman I think is terriffic.

Robin: He certainly looks good.

Howard: You know, I couldn't give a f**k what he looks like.

Robin: Oh my god that's alot of it for women, Superman is the romantic superhero ... and he he's great.

Howard: ah KATE BOSWORTH is really hot

Robin: Yeah, but she's also a great Lois Lane, you really can identify with her, if you're a woman.

Howard: She wasn't ... comic book-y at all, everybody played it really well.

Artie: Oh cool, I'm psyched then.

Howard: And I attribute that also to Bryan Singer the director who's always good with those superhero things, so yeah I loved it, I thought it was great.

Robin: Oh and Supermans superpowers are just displayed so well.

Howard: That's why the film cost about 3 hundred million to make, you know you get the feeling that the guys really Superman.

Artie: Well, in this article I read in entertainment weekly they added everything up. The money they spent on development, salaries that were paid to people like Brett Ratner who never did it, Kevin Smith who wrote a script that never got made, JJ Abrams, all totaled Warner Brothers has $363 mill invested in it.

Howard: I think they will make their money back.

Robin: ...definitely, oh...

Howard: I hope they do, because I want them to make more movies.

Robin: There are moments that it's, it's the Superman you always dreamed of.

Howard: Yeah Bryan Singer knows what he's doing, he did the first 2 X-Men and he know what he was doing with that.
 
So that means it has to make a crap load of money to get break even. 300M domestic for the least.
 
Howard's just specualting. He doesn't know how much it cost any more than we do.
 
explode7 said:
So that means it has to make a crap load of money to get break even. 300M domestic for the least.

No, it's not 300m. That was just a mistake, the film was 200m.
 
it's 300 plus INCLUDING what they spent trying to get Superman Lives off the ground. Bryan Singer spent between 200 to 240 i think. it's definitely no more than 250 he spent.

glad to see Robin liked it. i knew Howard was, since he's a Superman nut.
 
He's exaggerating and yet he might not be too off. Artie was right. By that EW article and you count up all the money spent on development of this project, the total is around 365 million. For just this specific film only, I'd say more than 200 million.

And it's not surprising Howard loved it. He's a Superman nut. That's not to discount his reaction towards it but I knew Howard would be over the moon for it.

But, I didn't think Robin would like it and she seemed to like it more than Howard....
 
howard is a big comics nut. he loved the Spider-Man movies too.
 
Howard Stern loved it, Oh, all my worries are over!

(This is a sarcastic post.)
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Howard Stern loved it, Oh, all my worries are over!

(This is a sarcastic post.)
"By the way, I was being sarcastic", Homer Simpson.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Howard Stern loved it, Oh, all my worries are over!

(This is a sarcastic post.)

I'd figure since you're obviously a Spidey fan, you'd put two and two together and let the fact that he liked the Spidey movies diminish your equally obvious pessimism about Superman Returns.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Howard Stern loved it, Oh, all my worries are over!

(This is a sarcastic post.)


I See Spidey, I never thought I would say this, but, you make me miss Oldguy. At least he was a better troll than you...
 
Canis Sapiens said:
I See Spidey, I never thought I would say this, but, you make me miss Oldguy. At least he was a better troll than you...
I'm not a troll dude, I'm just saying that I could care less what that curly haired savage liked.
 
not to be a jerk but I have to ask: why read the thread that talks about his thoughts on the film?
 
Like most of you guys, I'm glad to hear that Robin loved it, because we all new that Howard was going to love it. Anyway, good stuff.
 
SolidSnakeMGS said:
I'd figure since you're obviously a Spidey fan, you'd put two and two together and let the fact that he liked the Spidey movies diminish your equally obvious pessimism about Superman Returns.
Nah, good for him that he liked the Spider-Man movies... maybe I should re-think my opinion of said films.

Futher more, I still don't see many reasons not to be pesstimistic.

Superman still has a kid

Lois Lane is being played by a girl who looks all of 18 years old and she is the one who supposedly had this 5 year old child and is somehow a superstar journalist.

No Superpowered villians

Parker Possey

Kevin Spacey looks to be aping Hackman's Lex, which I hated.

It's a sequel to extremely dated 20+year old movies.

The Lex land deal thing seems to be the same story as the first movie.

And Singer directed the underwelming X-men movies and didn't do very well in the action department and I pretty much am very underwelmed with him as a director.

The Good things:

Er...maybe the early reviews are right?

The bad still outweighs the good.

Hope I eat crow after viewing it five or six months from now.
 
My replies are in bold.
I SEE SPIDEY said:
No Superpowered villians
super genius isn't a super power?

Parker Possey
omg...heaven forbid there's any humor in a SUPERMAN movie!

Kevin Spacey looks to be aping Hackman's Lex, which I hated.
far from it, as has been said by both Singer and Spacey, Lex Luthor HIMSELF.

The Lex land deal thing seems to be the same story as the first movie.
so...you mean to tell me that, in the first movie, Lex had a crystal and created an entire continent? wow, i must've slept through that part...

And Singer directed the underwelming X-men movies and didn't do very well in the action department
Nightcrawler's White House intrusion, Logan going berzerker on the intruders of the mansion...yeah, those action sequences were sooooo boring...:o
 
That's FREE advertisement right there for Howard.

Doesn't he have like the n#1 radio show in the country?

Or did it change now that he has satellite radio?
 
DorkyFresh said:
My replies are in bold.
Oh please, nobody is going to convince me that Singer didn't do a s**ty job on the action in both X-films, that is something that I don't even consider an opinion.
 
The $200 plus million spent on the production, does not include the last 10 years of technology (cgi and effects)the studio spent on the failed attempts which Superman Returns was partially built on. Much of technology developed on all the all failed attempts was then used on SR. Not to mention all the pre-production stuff from all the previous attempts. Some might have influenced Singer. The cost of this film really can't be quantified.
 

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