Superman Returns

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

I saw this movie this afternoon, and I have to say, it was terrible. My biggest problem is that it doesn't retain any of the kitsch that made the original movies entertaining. The acting was bad, the plot was laughable, and the dialogue was boring. There wasn't even anything interesting in the way of special effects.

Sometimes, these factors don't get in the way of me enjoying a movie, but this was at just the level of bad that it wasn't even interesting to watch at a masochistic level. A two and one half hour yawn.

Oh, what's going to happen next? He's going to lift something really big again? OK, that was neat to watch the first twenty times.

I agree, this movie was a total dud.

Boring through and through. There was no story. NONE. With the biggest premise of the movie (Superman leaving for 5 years) glossed over completely, there was no steam to push anything forward. Lois asks him, "where did you go?" He says, "I went to find Krypton, but it was nothing but a graveyard." Hello??? Superman leaves without telling anyone (or caring about the fate of innocent victims that he saves daily), stays in a spaceship for 5 years, nothing to eat or do, looks for a bunch of space rocks, then comes back? VERY FLIMSY PREMISE.

Then we throw in an obligitory "super hero helps in some scenario" with the bank theft scene. Except that it's a generic jail heist, an excuse to show off some dated Matrix effects, and it doesn't have an ending (can we at least see Superman beat up these guys and hand them over to the cops?).

Oh, Lex Luthor as a villain again, great. You do know that Superman's history includes hundreds of villains to chose from, right? Yeah, and we're just picking this one, where he can't really fight the bad guy hand to hand, instead he just tries to foil an insane plot that makes no sense?

The second half of the movie was visually bland, full of greys and browns when dealing with the off-shore crystal island. Okay, we've seen enough of this boring rainy crystal land, can we please see something else?

Singer seems to have an obsession with showing Superman just flying up into the sky doing some artsy fly poses while pumping up the strings, to make it seem like a beautiful shot, instead of what it really is: SELF INDULGENT MASTURBATION. Ooooh, look, Superman can fly. Yeah, well, that's freaking boring. Spiderman moved around with more excitement, and at least he made fighting crime interesting.

4 out of 10

...and that's only for the high budget special effects used sometimes (and the airplane save was cool).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

I tried to enjoy this film. It was just very boring. And never mind plotholes tieing into older movies:

Spoiler:

What gave Lex the idea that anyone would want to but a house ON A GIANT SHARD OF BARREN MAGICAL GREEN SPACE GLASS? It's not exactly prime real estate. Flimsiest evil ploy of all time.

Spoiler:

The other goofy thing is the idea that somehow he'll own this land and be able to sell it. Um... what sort of super weapon does he have at his disposal to make people actually fear him? Once the land appears, any government can just come in and kill/capture Lex. They're not going to put up with any "I own this land" shit.

There's nowhere I can't reach.