Superman Returns when does superman returns take place?

[CGHulk]

You are telling me people will watch this movie that plays like some kind of sequel to a previous superman film, and uses not only dialogue, but makes visual and verbal referrences to the reeve films, and without a hint of doubt, they'll think it's a fresh completely new franchise on its own, like spider-man not having anything to do with the tv movies or the japanese spider-man. Frankly that's really just unbelievable... That's like saying people went to episode 1 and thought, "HEY THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STAR WARS DURR.." come on... agree to disagree then?

Exactly, i couldn't of said it better myself!