Superman Returns One year later, and with two months to go, where do you stand?

[Superman \S/]

I'll be there first showing.

 

[SuperDaniel]

And he also said that one not need to have ever seen both those films to catch up and understand this one. So...we don't really know how much SR relies on plot points from the first two movies.

Just like you don`t need to watch X-men 1 to understand X-men 2 or Terminator 1 to understand Terminator 2 but if you did, you`d know more things about the history of the characters.

 

[skruloos]

Just like you don`t need to watch X-men 1 to understand X-men 2 or Terminator 1 to understand Terminator 2 but if you did, you`d know more things about the history of the characters.

Incorrect. It is stated in X2 that Jean started exhibiting her strange behavior after the events in X1, thus they rely on knowledge of a plotpoint from X1. Also, T2 makes specific mention of the T-100 in T1 and other references to John's father, Kyle Reese which is specific to Reese and Connor's coupling in T1. These movies are true sequels. The Star Wars movies are true sequels. Batman Returns is not a true sequel to Batman '89.

 

[Still A ThorFan]

For all of you who say you'll be there at midnight and see it 500 times, what if you don't like it?

 

[Metropolis_Man]

If they have a midnight showing around here, I'm going to try my best to be at that one. I plan on seeing it about 4 times maybe, probably with a different group of people each time. Then when it comes out at the $1 theatre, I'll probably watch it there again a few times.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

Well we will blame you.

 

[SuperDaniel]

True. Its been some time that i don`t watch both movies but its just that i know a lot of people who watched those sequels first. And seriously who never watched Superman the movie??

The way i see it it is that it is a direct sequel to these movies. Superman came from the icy krypton, marlon brando was his father, raised in Smallville, Pa Kent died, Ma Stayed with Ben Hubbard, he met, saved and fell in love with Lois and confronted Lex Luthor. In Superman II Lois and Superman had a romantic relationship and Zod Came. Thats all.

In Superman Returns this movie will feel like an origin because it will show Superman first appearence, Clark returning to the Daily Planet, Luthor was in prison and got out, so everything will be explained. The only problem rests with the kid. If the kid is Supermans, wich i believe he is, then its related to the events of Superman II.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

On DVD, unless I win free tickets or somebody wants to take me.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

On DVD, unless I win free tickets or somebody wants to take me.

like a date.

 

[Metropolis_Man]

True. Its been some time that i don`t watch both movies but its just that i know a lot of people who watched those sequels first. And seriously who never watched Superman the movie??

The way i see it it is that it is a direct sequel to these movies. Superman came from the icy krypton, marlon brando was his father, raised in Smallville, Pa Kent died, Ma Stayed with Ben Hubbard, he met, saved and fell in love with Lois and confronted Lex Luthor. In Superman II Lois and Superman had a romantic relationship and Zod Came. Thats all.

In Superman Returns this movie will feel like an origin because it will show Superman first appearence, Clark returning to the Daily Planet, Luthor was in prison and got out, so everything will be explained. The only problem rests with the kid. If the kid is Supermans, wich i believe he is, then its related to the events of Superman II.

I like what you said. It definately has that connection to the previous films, but when you said it will still feel like an origin of sorts with him returning and luthor being out of jail, I think you explained that well. It definately has that connection with the classic films, but I think its enough of a new story in its own right.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

like a date.

lol no.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

lol no.

shucks..

i was going to get frisky.

 

[Metropolis_Man]

shucks..

i was going to get frisky.

Robo.....what have we told you?

 

[Man-E-Toys]

midnight showing then most likely see it again on the weekend.

 

[Junfan]

Go find a bunch of reviews for BB (not from superhero based sites) Almost all say BB is a prequel. That played a big part in it. Plus the ending confused alot of people (they thought the refrence to The Joker leads into BATMAN 89).

Fair enough, I guess I was giving people too much credit considering the movie was called Batman Begins...

Its a comicbook film, the core audience is the same. Dont even try and say it draws a different crowd because its 'darker'.

I'm not talking "core audience" necessarily, i'm talking audience in general. Superman has an almost universal audience, I can't imagine someone not wanting to see Superman, comic fan or not, you can't honestly say the same applies to Batman or X-men (better example). Superman is the hero that transends the "comic book movie" label.

B.S... The batsuit can be done dozens of different ways in live action. They decided to stick with a crap black foam rubber suit.

I'm sure this has been beat to death somewhere else so there is no point to debate it, but I will say I can't imagine a live action movie based in reality where batman would be able to survive without some sort of "armor".

 

[Agnarr]

I'll be there at midnight IMAX. This will be the one movie that I'll see in the theater more than twice, depending on how good it is. The vague history doesn't really bother me, since they'll have a recap, comic book style, telling us everything we need to know that was pulled from the first two films.

 

[Mentok]

Then we should have a consensus about what that means... because I use it as a "whatever" attitude...

The the smiley of 1000 uses

 

[Zakk Sabbath]

Talking about anticipation for the movie got me thinking, how many of you have been waiting for this movie your whole lives? (Literally) Who is 18-19 and never got the chance to see Superman in theaters? This is gonna be my first time and I'm freakin out, it's gonna be sweet

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

Robo.....what have we told you?

That its normal to have these funny feelings in your winky.

 

[millennium movies]

I was watching some of the first blogs and saw for the first time the one entitled "the call". I was quite surprised to find out Singer helped on the King Kong movie. Boy did it seem like an awkward situation...

 

[dark_b]

I was watching some of the first blogs and saw for the first time the one entitled "the call". I was quite surprised to find out Singer helped on the King Kong movie. Boy did it seem like an awkward situation...

this was a joke blog

 

[Showtime]

I thought he really did help with the movie, although the Blog was staged?

 

[millennium movies]

I doubt he flew from Australia from his shooting shedule to go meet Jackson for a simple joke. Unless of course he already was in New Zealand to begin with, that would make alot more sense.

 

[dark_b]

I thought he really did help with the movie, although the Blog was staged?

i dont know what in the blog was true and was not.
but it looked dumb when peter was sleeping and everyone around him was filming the movie. like he would be sleeping on the set and singer would direct. and lets not forget how quiet they all had to be . not to mention all the loud sounds that were on the set and he was sleeping.

 

[millennium movies]

Well it looked very awkward at some point for Singer. The moment where he's talking to Naomi and Andy (gollum) comes in then he takes her aside to talk to her. Looked very uncomfortable and different from Singer's style of prank/jokes. But thats me