This just shows why Singer and his wack pack needs to be taken off the sequel:
"But, here’s the problem… Bryan had a big thing with people not getting hurt. Even when we had to create CG debris falling off of the buildings, we had to make sure that it couldn’t be big enough to hurt anybody on the ground. He was very concerned that children watching the movie would be terrified by the violence, thus alienating a big portion of his perceived audience. What he got in return was a toothless, impotent third act. It’s pretty sad, actually."
WTF. Imagine if Donner had the whole last act of Superman tame and not showing any danger for the people that Superman wa busting ass to save. And the fact that he was flying his ass off saving people he didn't know and not being able to be there to save the person he did love. If Singer had directed that the critics would have said "No one in Cali was in danger so it does not resonate that Superman was not able to save Lois. NO ONE WAS IN DANGER SUPERMAN SO YOU SHOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT AND JUST FLOWN TO SAVE LOIS!" It is a Superhero film. Superheroes save regular people from imminent danger. Not child safe danger. GAHHHHHH you are an idiot!
and here
"I don’t know. I have to tell you that when I quit my previous job to go work on Superman…I felt like a childhood dream was coming true. If I could have even a small part of making the big blue guy fly again…well, I wanted to be right there. And, let me tell you, when I watch the movie, I do feel like some of that spirit is still in there. But, as the days passed and as we got deeper into the work, it became obvious that no matter how hard we tried, it was going to fall short – and for one reason only. Story."
and we find out the truth about the stupid corn field/young clark scene that felt so out of place to the rest of the film:
TERRY: "Structure -- the flashback, running -- why is it there? Because it looked cool?"
DING!!! HAND THAT MAN A CUPIE DOLL!!!
Yeah, like we never saw that scene before. And it didn't look that cool. It was a kid running through a cornfield and jumping onto a building. Jeeze. And the danger, as I have stated in previous posts here:
First, I think it’s difficult for the audience to make a direct connection that the damage is being caused by the island growing off the coast. It feels almost like one event that stops -- instead of a continuous threat advancing towards them. From the look of it, Superman flies back into Metropolis, saves some people from falling off things and then – viola! -- Metropolis isn’t in any danger anymore.
Bad idea.
As an audience, we don’t feel any global jeopardy anymore. The problem seems solved.
The issue is – it’s not. The island is still growing and about to flood the United States and kill “BILLLLIONS!” of people. But, where? How? I don’t see that happening. I just see a bunch of gape-jawed people looking up at the sky. Nobody’s running for their lives. Nobody’s trying to outrun the advancing wave of ocean water.
No danger to people and no sense of urgency. Singer this is a basic concept of action film filmmaking. IN order for you audience to understand the danger, and the risks that your heroes are taking, you have to show the danger to the people they are saving. Emmerich even showed people freaking out and packing up to leave town in Independace Day as they were scared about a 15 mile long UFO overhead. So why cant you show people freaking out that a big damn island is going to flood them out. Stupid. You were a good director. Now you just do too many drigs and party all night Singer.
This is a Superhero movie. The point of a superhero movie is showing him saving people in situations that no regular man can do. God Singer you suck even more now. You need to check your ego dumb ass. This film fialing is not marketing (which you were in charge of) it was you...you...you...you.\
The guy also wrote Aladin, which was a heavy money maker that year. He also wrote the abandoned version of Godzilla, which was before Emmerich and Devlin came on and threw away their story and rewrote it, which was much better than what we got. The only reason it was not made was budget. This guy has written some very successful films, so I think he has the artistic clout to judge another film.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744429/
Singer needs to be taken off the sequel NOW! And it shows that people who worked on the film, and in the industry, had the same problem with this stinking turd of a film that we did.
I just went over the The Planet and read their response to this blog...which was spot on on what is wrong with SR...and it is like someone told them their dad died. God I am so glad I stopped going there two years ago. That place is pointless except for the Excuse Crew to have a place to talk about how great this POS film is.
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