Superman Returns Official Rate and Review Superman Returns thread!!!

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You think I just threw romanians out there as a random joke? :) I'm from Romania.
 
LadyVader said:
You think I just threw romanians out there as a random joke? :) I'm from Romania.
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Cool!!!

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:mad: Let the hate continue!!:mad:
 
LadyVader said:
Superman's departure and his arrival are weak points of the plot.

How did he leave? Did he use his babypod? How did he get back? The ship looks like a basic chunk of Krypton.
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I think when Luthor describes being able to grow technology using the kryptonian crystals it will become clear as to how Superman got the ship
 
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Super-zero: New Man of Steel caper barely gets off the ground
By James Verniere
Boston Herald Film Critic

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieReviews/view.bg?articleid=145480&format=text

Not a bird nor a plane, “Superman Returns” is a misguided missile - a $200 million-plus tribute to a mediocre movie.

In the title role is the amiable, 26-year-old, spit-curl-and-cleft-chin-equipped Brandon Routh, who is the spitting image of Christopher Reeve (and photographs even better in the role).


Similarly, the film covers muchof the same ground as its predecessor. Director Bryan Singer’s bizarrely faithful evocation begins with the same faux 3-D credit sequence as Richard Donner’s 1978 film and John Williams’ same triumphal theme. Superman has taken a five-year hiatus from Earth, we learn. He claims to have visited Krypton’s remains. But how did he pass the rest of the time?


Did he surf the cosmos with that silver dude? Chase intergalactic fugitives with Martian Manhunter? Get it on with Amazonian Wonder Woman? Who knows? And who knows why he re-creates the crash-landing of his infancy when he returns to Smallville and his widowed, adoptive mother (Eva Marie Saint)?

Meanwhile, Superman’s bald nemesis Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey, straining to rise to Joker-ish heights) penetrates Superman’s surprisingly unfortresslike Fortress of Solitude and steals several crystals of enormous power, if not enormous interest.

We also see and hear the “crystalized” messages of Kal-El, aka Superman’s regal father Jor-El (a hideously bewigged Marlon Brando, appearing from beyond the grave). Jor-El strikes the film’s messianic theme by referring to himself as the father and Superman as his beloved son sent to Earth to serve and protect.
Cue the heavenly choirs.

Back in Metropolis at a bustling Daily Planet, Perry White (Frank Langella) orders Pulitzer Prize-winning Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth), now engaged to Perry’s nephew Richard (James Marsden of the “X-Men” films) and mother of an asthmatic little boy (a Damien Thorn-ish Tristan Lake Leabu), to rekindle her “friendship” with the big lug in the cape.


The plot involves a Dr. Evil-esque plan by Lex to kill Superman and submerge the United States under water. As usual, no one sees any connection between Kent and Superman.


“Superman Returns” recycles the props, dialogue, visual style and aerial pas de deux of the 1978 film and the resurrection scene from “E.T.” with all the pomp and cicumstance of a modern megabudget. Routh and Bosworth are easy on the eyes, but don’t have much chemistry. What’s most striking - Superboy leaping in the cornfields, the bullet stopped by an eyeball, Lex exclaiming “Bring it on!” and an evocation of United 93 - is in the trailers everyone has already seen.


The film has capable, if unoriginal special effects and is not unpleasant. It’s just kitsch with nostalgic cameos and the biggest stiff in the superhero catalogue. There is a big “surprise” you can see coming a mile away. Notably, the old standard “Heart & Soul” is played a couple of times in the film, and heart and soul are exactly what’s lacking here. But don’t worry. A 2009 sequel is already in the works.
 
lol bh already has a postive review posted 2 weeks ago.
 
Excel said:
lol bh already has a postive review posted 2 weeks ago.
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Different writer, I think that reviewer was Shaeffer.
 
ok wait a second....

the published reviews go here now? what about the SHH member reviews? should we still post here in 30 hours or will there be another thread elsewhere for that?....
 
Mr. Credible said:
why do people keep saying that Routh's imitating Reeve? i mean, they're both playing the same character, in the same movie universe, how would they not look/act similar?
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Because they aint Superman expects and they associate Reeve with Superman alone.

Thus to be playing Superman, Brandon would be playing Reeve in a sense.
 
SolidSnakeMGS said:
Totally agree...
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You know what's amazing, after all that he gave it a B-. I thought it would have been a C- at least.
 
The reason is because they really need to reach or attack the idea of 'Superman' on a whole to find signficant flaws with the film.
 
He wanted Brandon to have Chris Reeve's campy humor -_-

Cant please them all I suppose.
 
WTF did they merge official critics reviews with the rate and review user thread?

DUMB DUMB DUMB
 
Michael Corleone said:
"tribute to a mediocre movie"


lost any credibilty right there for me.
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exactly. Say what you want about Superman Returns. But STM is the definitive film and always will be. so in my book that guy needs to go fill out and ID 10 T form and get another job.
 
You guys want me to post another review from my imax 3d experience or was my first one enough?
 
DvilDog, i think there is/ will be an IMAX 3D reaction thread by the time you're ready to post it dude. if you dont see an exisitng one, then start one :D
 
see what i mean it just goes to show that its not for everyone. To me, it was the quickest 2 hours and 40 minutes of my life. but what do i know i am just 1 fan:(
 
Steelsheen said:
i think there is/ will be an IMAX 3D reaction thread by the time you're ready to post it dude. if you dont see an exisitng one, then start one :D
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sure thing steel
 
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