Returned
Bird, plane, whatever!
Back online. Nice to be here. Rented Superman Returns last night. Watched about an hour of it. Went to bed. Took it back to the video shop this morning. Well worth the $270 million Warner Bros spent on it! Aside from Kevin Spacey, slumming it like a total mercenary, and Parker Posey as his sidekick, there was no personality on the screen! Kate Bosworth? Brandon Routh? The chap who played Jimmy Olsen? Even Frank Langella was so lugubrious he almost slid off the telly. I'm sorry, but these people just sucked the life out of the story. I was raised on the high comic-book camp of the Christopher Reeve series. It may have all been a bit Fairy-Liquid-bottle-and-string, but it was colourful and enticing. This, with all its digital effects and gloomy pallour, was a massive comedown. (And from Bryan Singer, too.) Yes, the bit where Superman rescued the stricken airliner was quite exciting, but this was just a set piece, and I couldn't be bothered to wait for the next one. Superman Returned.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 10:26 AM
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Spot on review really. Not much else happened after the airplane was rescued. I watched it whilst on a flight to New Zealand. I realised that I had been watching for over an hour and nothing of any interest had happened.
One thing I did like was the way Superman hovered, it reminded me of the Vic Reeves Masterchef sketch.
Have to agree, I found it incredibly tedious. I watched it all the way through to see if it got any better - unsurprisingly it didn't.
When I'm on my deathbed I'll be wondering why the hell I watched Superman Returns all the way through and didn't use that portion of my life more constructively.
"Superman Returned". Nice.
Nice to see you back Andrew. Have you any thoughts on the new Spiderman film?
I agree there was no personality on screen. I did think Spacey camped it up, but then so did Gene Hackman in the original. Kate Bosworth was nothing like the Louis Lane character. So although some nice effects, all in all quite a bland film. Spiderman 2 has to be my favourite superhero movie.
Kate Bosworth wasn't feisty enough to be a top newspaper reporter. I thought Mr Routh was okay but... yeah, if you saw Dick Donner's Superman - The Movie as a kid, this just didn't compare.
The fun wasn't there. It was just dull. Really, it needed an Otis!
Oh, and the bit where he floats outside Lois' house spying on her with his x-ray vision was just creepy. Super-stalker.
And... when LL pulls the shard of kryponite out of his back as the float plane is flying back to Metropolis, wouldn't her ditching it in the sea have been an incredibly bad idea?
I saw it in 3-D in Canada last autumn because Hollywoodland was full, and despite myself I quite liked it, but there was a kid and his grandmother talking at normal volume throughout and the 3-D glasses were an unnecesary distraction. I'm in no hurry to see it again.
Oh and last week I saw That's Me In The Corner at the airport and by the time we got to Baltimore I'd read it. A thumping good browse.
Some interesting magazine stuff - love it when you don't get on with someone, they always get a rather cool write-up.
Did I hear BBC4 are making it into a TV series with Matt Willis as you, Andrew?
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