Are we all in agreement with this? The latest installment of the DC Comics franchise was regrettably a piece of shiite. I am not going to go into all the reasons why this may have been the worst superhero flick ever, but I will just say that there was way too much wasted talent, money and time on this production. Sadly, I am never getting those two and half hours back.
The story presented in this movie was for a Black superhero, like maybe the Falcon or Black Lightning. I mean, what white gets stronger by being in the sun?!? BRYAN SINGER was director, producer and writer for the movie. He fucked up by thinking that he was really the shit. The story which had potential, was ultimately flat and lacked credibility as a Superman storyline. I am going to list a couple of joints that ruined the film for me. Don’t read this post any further if you are still going to waste your hard earned money on this supertrash.
1) Superman gets his strength from the sun and he never has to break out the SPF-100 even though dude is pasty like a muhh.
2) The characters have been modernized in that Lois Lane is a groupie video ho reporter. Superman banged out Lois Lane and she had a seed, but he doesn’t know it because he skated from Earth for five years (told you that it hould have been a Black man).
3) JAMES MARDSEN has to be BRYAN SINGER’s lover because why else would you jump from the X-Men franchise where your character gets to bang out Jean Grey to a storyline where you have to be the beard to Lois Lane and raise a child that isn’t even yours.
4) KEVIN SPACEY couldn’t save this piece of shit film either with a portrayal of Lex Luthor that lacked malevolence and comedy. It was somewhere in between the two and that’s a shame because KEVIN can bring the heat or the laughs when his writing is sharp.
5) Who the fuck is in the Quality and Assurance Deptartment at the film studio? They made sure that the telephones received the brand placement ‘AVAYA’, but Superman’s cape had no ‘S’ on it?!?
6) The worst action scenes of any superhero movie ever. No azz kicking monsters or thirty-story robots. Just a dude with his underpants on the outside of his pantyhose, unable to tell this groupie slut that he loves her.
7) BRANDON ROUTH = extra BOUTROS BOUTROS BOUTROS GREG LOUGANIS
Heh. Yeah, this movie sucked so bad that I wanted to beat the shit out of the person who paid me so I could pay to go see it.
A quarter of a billion dollars plus to make it.
.25bil?!? Someone needs to be fired because that money was spent on press hype instead of story development.
BRANDON ROUTH was definetley extra BOUTROS BOUTROS BOUTROS GREG LOUGANIS and so was the rest of the film. it simply lacked momentum. i really dont even give an F about seein another superman movie, this was so tame.
i thought that it was okay at best. supe damn near dying twice? thats a bit much. The dog eating the other dog for survival = the best thing in the entire movie.
What, a Superman movie came out?????? Well N E who, you put it best when you said he wears his underpants outside of his pantyhose. Too funny!
I never liked Superman anyway…he’s too much of a boyscout. His biggest problem is glowing green glass. Make mine Marvel anyday…or at least give me some Batman. I’d love to see what it’s like when he goes to therapy.
i kinda liked it, now granted I only went to see it cuz it was 900 degrees in my apartment and I thought five dollars was a small price to pay to cool off!
the special effects were cool
he had baby mama drama
his little boy looked like devil spawn to me..
humph! homo huh? I think my gaydar must be off!
I’m still wondering what was Parker Posey’s purpose in that flick…I can’t stand her.
^^^
Parker Posey was much better than Kate though…
I’ve always like Parker since Clock Watchers!
There were flaws but I enjoyed it.
Why leave your fortress open like that?
Why only shank Superman?
Why shows Lex’s gf 9345 times?
Etc.
I just believed that guy was Superman.
Id see part 2 if it had an actual villain to fight
while the movie did have some plot holes (mostly due to cutting 30 minutes from the movie since 3 hours was thought to have been to long. Although at 2 1/2, what is another 30 minutes…. really?) it was not that bad. I think people had toooo high of expectations, but as far as flowing well with the first two movies (ignoring 3 and 4 thank god) it did well.
1) While not stated in the original action comics, the later superman comics actually defines his powers are amplified by the rays of the yellow sun.
2) Technically Clark tapped Lois in the second movie, but still did not change the fact that he is not human, but was just a kryptonian with out powers during that time.
3) Heaven forbid James Mardsen do something else other than be cyclops… oh thats right, his character is dead in x-3 and he did not sign any continuation to be in a 4th if it is produced.
4) Spacey did an excellent job as Lex. The small things he did (like stepping backwards when in the basement when they were testing the crytals) or the way he said phrases (when he asked where the kid was and then said “I think its time for us to leave”) was classic lex and spacey made it that much funnier.
5) The whole costume was different. The missing ‘S’ didnt bother me as much as the plot hole with the crystals. The fact that they actually got physics right on this one made some of the smaller mistakes not as annoying.
6) Superman didnt face any real villans other than lex for a while in the comic. Movies 3 and 4 bombed mainly due to the super-villans, so I thought just having lex was a good point to return too. Use what works to get the ball rolling again.
7) I thought Routh did a good job. He filled the shoes of Reeves very well. Although the “love scene” was about as convincing as watching Padme and Anakin.
Things that I thought should have bothered people worse:
1) The crystals. In the comics and in the first movie, only one crystal had the power of creating the fortress. So having the story line trying to use the knowledge crystals as weapons really sucked. But, the saving grace of that plot hole is, what is going to happen with that floating island in space with the other 5 crystals on it? Maybe it could explanation for the appearance of doomsday or an actual comic book super villan in the next movie?
2) Kate Bosworth does not smoke, so getting her to act like she needed a nicotine fix was not convincing. She lacked the same annoying, go get it, kick ass attitude that Margot Kidder had during her run as Lois Lane. For example, when Superman meets her on the roof for the first time. If that was Margot Kidder’s Lois Lane, she would have ripped him apart. Kate was to apathetic during that scene to make a love triangle convincable.
Oh, and Parker Posey’s role was to replace Valerie Perrine (Ms. Teschmacher). Every character has a weakness. Lex’s weakness is always finding a dumb woman who is evil, but loves the man of steel.