Superman Returns!!!
 

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really liked that movie. Plan on seeing again atleast once this weekend!!!:D

I am a HUGE superhero fan. I will definitely be going to see this!

On A & E they had a whole retrospective of the character and all the people who played Superman (Christopher Reeve :D the man was yummy). I think it is coming on this friday night. But it is a good lead into the movie with the newest person playing Kal-el. Dana Reeve sent him something some time before she passed to sort of "pass the legacy" on to him. I hear he carries it well...

Me too!! My brother and I are huge Superman fans!

Aww that's sweet. I wanna see the movie so I can see the part where the bullet hit his eye..talk about YIKES!!!!:eek:

I can't wait either! I spent all day Saturday watching Superman cartoons on Boomerang (LOVE that channel).

yeah us (me and my 4 yo drama queen) did the same thing........

i want to see it - hopefully i'll get to see it in the theatres and not on DVD

Sorry to crash :D

I saw it yesterday and the movie is EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!


Brandon did and amazing job as Superman/Clark Kent. I'm just not feeling the same about Kate Bosworth. I just don't feel she made a really good Lois Lane, but what can you do.



I need people to see it so we can start gossiping about it.

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!

I have to call my brother so we can discuss this movie. The opening scenes in terms of cinematography were impressive.

I was wondering if this was going to be another tired remake but I am going to have to check it out since I've heard nothing but good things.

I am going to see the Superman move tomorrow. However, Batman Begins was an EXCELLENT 'remake', the best of ANY Batman movie I have seen.

The only negative thing about the movie to me is the running time......started at 9:20 but did not get out until midnight. Other than that, I have nothing bad to say about the movie.

The movie was approx. 2.5 hours long. My daughter, boyfriend and I enjoyed every minute of it. :D

I'm going to see it this afternoon. We'll see.

Interesting fact:
I rented Superman before seeing Superman Returns. The version of Superman on DVD is 154 minutes (this includes a bit of extra footage that wasn't in the original release). When I'm looking at the movie times I see that Superman Returns was also exactly 154 minutes!

I'm a nerd

I liked the movie a lot. It's even better if you watch the first one. It's actually almost a tribute in a way. A lot of the lines are revived, and Lex Luthor is the same character and makes the same references to Prometheus and "LAND" and "what did my dad tell me?"

A great way to bring Superman back I think.

My brothers friend, who is a HUGE comic book fan, didn't like the movie. His chief complaints were...

1) "Lex Luther wouldn't need to marry a rich old lady and steal her money, he's loaded in the first place"

2) "The actor who played Superman wasn't buff enough"

3) "Kate Bosworth was too wimpy/whiney as Lois Lane"

4) "Why did they cast James Marsden who is already known for one comic book franchise in Superman?" (James was Cyclops in X-Men 1-3)


It was actually quite humorous to listen to him complain about the movie. He was so into it. LOL.

My biggest issue is the fact that no one seems to get that Clark and Superman are the same (hello take off the glasses) LOL.


I definately want to see it again. I would like to see it on the IMAX, but only one theater in AZ is playing it (on IMAX) and it is a 3-D version. Otherwise I would like to see it on the Cine Capri (which is this absolutely huge screen).

Well, I saw the movie today; it was aw'right.

I was lost because he 'returned'. Since I stopped watching the old Superman movies at about 3, I am not sure how/when/why he left. Or is this just a segway without a prerequisite? Still :confused:

My feelings as well.

wow. the reviews run the gamut between good and bad. I still want to see it, though.

I talked to my guy friend who also saw the movie and he said it was more like the video game -- fight one person and then move on. I was surprised that he did not spend more time fighting with Lex Luthor to kill him once and for all.

For me, it was awesome because it bought back childhood memories of watching Superman I - IV with my brother. And the special effects and just the ideal of Superman saving the world. :)

Superman doesn't kill the bad guys. If he hadn't been on an Island of Kryptonite, he might have thrown Lex in jail, but the only law Lex had broken was stealing the meteorites (maybe kidnapping) and he already got off on a technicality.

Batman hasn't killed the bad guys for a while either. They have to get free and cause trouble again.

/Sometimes the bad guys die, but it's usually their own fault.

Oh, LOL

Don't know if you're disagree-ing or not, but the "henchmen" that died in the Superman movie died because they had to go back and get the cash and things.
The other one was an accident, but he wasn't being particularly nice either. (Not going to spoil it for you)
Comic book heros don't usually KILL the bad guy.

Nope, not disagreeing. You shed some light/enlightened me. I never knew those things about not killing the bad guy and stuff. I mainly watched Superman because he was cool and because I have a brother who was totally into Superman. :)

You'll probably enjoy it.

I thought I was sitting through a Spike Lee joint, because it was 2 and a half hours long. For me it was just a'ight too - nothing to write home about, but I did like the special effects.

But I'm hyped because during the previews, they showed a preview for Spiderman 3 due next Summer, and I can't wait!

I saw it yesterday, and I thought the special effects were very good. My mouth was open when he stopped the plane from crashing at the ball park in the first scene....the scene with the bullet and his eye, and the one where Lex stabbedd him with the kryptonite crystal and he fell off the cliff...I like Mccoyred isn't sure where he has been all this time, but I watched most of the documentary on Superman the night before and it stated that they never wanted Superman to kill anyone, and they didn't want him doing to many things that were violent to keep him honest and a hero.

To this day it still amazes me that Clark Kent wearing a pair of glasses and they don't know it's Superman...give me a break, but all in all I thought it was pretty good.

I know. Isn't it crazy!!

Yes, very:)

I agree with you about Batman Begins--"It's not who I am that defines me, it's what I do." But for some reason I still like Michael Keaton the best of all the Batmans.

Just came back from seeing Superman Returns. Started out a little slow, but boy did it pick up. He was gone for 5 years to find out more about himself. I think it was a way to segue a new Superman in. And old boy was not bad to look at, in some ways a Christopher Reeves look-alike, especially as Clark Kent. And he sounded like him, too.

Any bets on whether there will be a sequel that involves the addition of a piano-playing super hero? Don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it.

And come on folx, it's not just the glasses, its the hair style, too--Superman has the curl on his forehead. LOL.

ASU, tell your brother that Lex Luther never feels he has enough money or power. LOL

And yes the Spidey trailer looked very intriguing.

That's not true in this movie. The "little boy" knows. ;)

BTW, I saw it opening weekend, and it was GREAT!!!!!

Me too. For some reason I could never get into the sequels because he wasnt in them.

I cant wait to see this movie. I love Kevin Spacey.

I guess I should have been more specific ;), I meant adults not figuring it out.

I asked someone about why they thought Jason figured it out and this person pointed out that as a child, Jason, probably doesn't meet as many people as his parents do, which makes sense. So he is able to "see things" differently. Where you know the adults don't figure "take off the glasses", but Jason does.



Correct me if I'm wrong... So now that Lois knows the truth about Jason's paternage, she actually has no memory of what happened because Superman wiped her memory, correct?

yay superman (and what a hunk)!

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Spoiler. I think she always knew the truth. Why do you think she was so hurt those 5 years and wrote that article? And I didn't see where he wiped her memory. In fact, I bet that will be the center point of the sequel.

Re: Batman, Batman Begins was the best!

Superman:
The comic and the movies have always poked fun at the glasses/curl thing. In every movie someone sees Clark and goes.. maybe?? Followed usually by Clark doing something goofy and Lois and co. changing their minds. Who would look for a Superhero at a newspaper?

As for Lex, in this movie he'd been in jail for years and just gotten out on appeal. If his assests weren't all seized to begin with, whoever controlled them during his imprisonment probably depleted them/stole them.

some observations on lois lane:
she won a pulitzer, but wanted to know if the letter f was in catastrophe (or was she being facetious)?
she was basically battered and beat-up throughout the movie, but there were no visible bruises or scars on her pale skin?
I agree with kiml122. as much as clark kent is in lois's face she still can't put 2&2 together?

I wondered the same things. After what she went through in the airplane alone, I would have had to soak in boiling hot water filled with epsom salt and get a deep tissue massage.

I still enjoyed it because it is SUPERMAN. :D

oh, no doubt. THEN she had the nerve to dive in that icy ocean after her man! love will make you do it!

I suggest you watch the first movie. Besides seeing Christopher Reeve, you'll see where they got a lot of Lois' personality, and Clark's too. She couldn't spell in that movie either, and was always taking the sex/murder kind of stories.

This is a movie based on a comic book, folx, not real life :D If you analyze it too much you'll lose the joy of what makes movies like this fun.