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Yes...JBelliot with a negative article. How suprising...not really. and its not even a review either
Superman Returns The Ultimate Superman Returns Review Thread
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Okay, in all honesty, how the hell do these so-called critics think Superman is suppose to react when he's gone for 5 years and then learns that the love of his life is not only engaged but has a child by another man?
Seriously, no matter if he's Kryptonian, he was raised by good parents who taught him about love and loss. The guy comes back, hoping to possible see his love, and then finds out she's got a new life of her own, without him.
I'd be devastated too...
I'd rather Superman has feelings instead of a two-dimensional macho character...
Nobody was going this route when Chris Reeve played the role. He was an emotionally torn character as well.....
Seriously, no matter if he's Kryptonian, he was raised by good parents who taught him about love and loss. The guy comes back, hoping to possible see his love, and then finds out she's got a new life of her own, without him.
I'd be devastated too...
I'd rather Superman has feelings instead of a two-dimensional macho character...
Nobody was going this route when Chris Reeve played the role. He was an emotionally torn character as well.....
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ALL THESE POSITIVE REVIEWS ARE AWESOME NEWS, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE FILM, GO SUPES!
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Wilde said:
AWESOME
This is the Hollywood Reporter first report 
http://reporter.blogs.com/risky/2006/06/superman_return.html
Probably it isn't new.
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Superman Returns Preview
23710325 Warner Bros. has finally started screening Superman Returns. They have nothing to worry about, even if it did cost $200-million plus. The movie is terrific (its first showings are on Tuesday June 27th at 10 PM before its Wednesday opening). Filmmaker Bryan Singer sold Warners on his radical Superman concept and he delivers it. He brought his hard-won knowledge from directing the X-Men series to reinventing this franchise, and clearly understands this universe.
Returns builds on director Richard Donner's 1978 Superman (Donner and Singer talked; this film uses footage of Marlon Brando as Jor-El). The conceit is that Superman (a boyishly sweet Brandon Routh, who isn't as funny as Christopher Reeve) has been away for five years, exploring what's left of his exploded home planet Krypton. Some things have changed when he gets back. His Mom (Eva Marie Saint) is now a widow, and while eager-to-please Clark Kent easily gets his old job back from editor Perry White (Frank Langella) at the Metropolis Daily Planet, star reporter Lois Lane (a brunette Kate Bosworth) has a child with White's nephew Richard (X-Men's James Marsden), but she hasn't gotten around to marrying him. Could she still be carrying a torch for Superman? Freed from prison, Lex Luthor (a deliciously evil Kevin Spacey) tricks a dying widow (Noel Neill, TV's original Lois Lane) into leaving him all her money, so that he can get back to his mission: destroy Superman. It all falls into place nicely—although you'd think the folks at the Daily Planet would put two and two together when the remarkably similar Clark and Superman both return on the same day.
What makes the movie so expensive is the scale of the effects. This Superman can not only fly and hover in space (like a grown-up version of the baby from 2001: A Space Odyssey) as he listens to the multiple tragedies going on in the world, he can also do things (in CG form) that the comic book Superman did, like hurtling through flaming tunnels and lifting plummeting airplanes with jaw-dropping ease.
But Singer is also adept at the quieter moments. The action set pieces all serve the story, though, which is not only an epic fantasy adventure but a sad romance about an alien outsider who will never really belong. (Read the LAT's John Horn on "How Gay is Superman?", along with Singer's denial.) This Superman is as lonely (if not as virile) as John Wayne.
In THR Online's long interview with Bryan Singer, the director explains how his Superman is different:
The one thing I could say (about that) is the romantic nature of this film. This is different than my 'X-Men' films. This is not to dissuade any of the male audience or any of the action filmgoers, who'll have plenty of that, but it could be also called my first chick flick. It's a kind of modern romance in a way played out by very nostalgic characters.
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http://reporter.blogs.com/risky/2006/06/superman_return.html
Probably it isn't new.
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Superman Returns Preview
23710325 Warner Bros. has finally started screening Superman Returns. They have nothing to worry about, even if it did cost $200-million plus. The movie is terrific (its first showings are on Tuesday June 27th at 10 PM before its Wednesday opening). Filmmaker Bryan Singer sold Warners on his radical Superman concept and he delivers it. He brought his hard-won knowledge from directing the X-Men series to reinventing this franchise, and clearly understands this universe.
Returns builds on director Richard Donner's 1978 Superman (Donner and Singer talked; this film uses footage of Marlon Brando as Jor-El). The conceit is that Superman (a boyishly sweet Brandon Routh, who isn't as funny as Christopher Reeve) has been away for five years, exploring what's left of his exploded home planet Krypton. Some things have changed when he gets back. His Mom (Eva Marie Saint) is now a widow, and while eager-to-please Clark Kent easily gets his old job back from editor Perry White (Frank Langella) at the Metropolis Daily Planet, star reporter Lois Lane (a brunette Kate Bosworth) has a child with White's nephew Richard (X-Men's James Marsden), but she hasn't gotten around to marrying him. Could she still be carrying a torch for Superman? Freed from prison, Lex Luthor (a deliciously evil Kevin Spacey) tricks a dying widow (Noel Neill, TV's original Lois Lane) into leaving him all her money, so that he can get back to his mission: destroy Superman. It all falls into place nicely—although you'd think the folks at the Daily Planet would put two and two together when the remarkably similar Clark and Superman both return on the same day.
What makes the movie so expensive is the scale of the effects. This Superman can not only fly and hover in space (like a grown-up version of the baby from 2001: A Space Odyssey) as he listens to the multiple tragedies going on in the world, he can also do things (in CG form) that the comic book Superman did, like hurtling through flaming tunnels and lifting plummeting airplanes with jaw-dropping ease.
But Singer is also adept at the quieter moments. The action set pieces all serve the story, though, which is not only an epic fantasy adventure but a sad romance about an alien outsider who will never really belong. (Read the LAT's John Horn on "How Gay is Superman?", along with Singer's denial.) This Superman is as lonely (if not as virile) as John Wayne.
In THR Online's long interview with Bryan Singer, the director explains how his Superman is different:
The one thing I could say (about that) is the romantic nature of this film. This is different than my 'X-Men' films. This is not to dissuade any of the male audience or any of the action filmgoers, who'll have plenty of that, but it could be also called my first chick flick. It's a kind of modern romance in a way played out by very nostalgic characters.
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Superman has always been about Lois Lane and not just super-powered, heroic feats. Some of these columnists (though not many of them, thankfully) talk absolute ****.
Bloody good job there's an emotional element to the story. A film like this can really benefit from attracting a lot of females and not just adolescent jocks who think XXX is the greatest film ever made.
Besides, Routh saves a plummeting aircraft, lifts a small continent and bounces a bullet off his eyeball. Big girl's blouse? Like fu*k!
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Bloody good job there's an emotional element to the story. A film like this can really benefit from attracting a lot of females and not just adolescent jocks who think XXX is the greatest film ever made.
Besides, Routh saves a plummeting aircraft, lifts a small continent and bounces a bullet off his eyeball. Big girl's blouse? Like fu*k!
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That´s nothing compared to what the Star Wars freaks did... They basically invaded the Spider-Man boards in the week of release to call the movie crap and a flop, and when it had that bigass record opening they claimed it was going to drop 70% and SW EP II was going to open even higher... Great things come to those who wait, hehe...Ita-KalEl said:In the boxofficemojo forum POTC2 supporters still don't believe to that great reviews
They are arguing that they are stupid "fanboys" reviews without any relevance, and that SR will be beaten by POTC2, Cars and X3.
LOL That situation is incredibly funny. I can't wait for the "tomatoemeter" and the box office results. They will eat their words
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I know, I know... But for the Spider-Man fans it had a taste of revenge, everybody was saying AOTC was going to be the champ of that summer... Spidey´s huge success was a bit surprising at the time.Tzigone said:
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superman is more thenlikely not doing 300 million. it should get 250 and if wom s good enough 275 million. thats utterly huge for a non sequel in todays box office. trackings 88 million gives it around a 225 million finsh at this point. the sequelwill be 350 million+
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