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thedoctor said:
The "Father and Son" theme is from the comics. No necessarily in that form, but it's there. As Peter David showed, Banner's father is a big reason for the creation of the Hulk id.



Yeah, the problem was(and I'd like to think this was something the studio was pushing for, not Lee) that they took it too literally. Banner's father was not supposed to be an actual antagonist, but a figurative one.

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thedoctor said:
I talked to one of our work studies downstairs while running some errands earlier. She saw the movie over the weekend, hasn't read the comics, nor is she very familiar with the original Donner movie, though she's aware of it. She pretty much said what I did, minus the part about copying the Donner film. She thought it looked and sounded great, but that the acting was bad and the story made little sense. She couldn't understand how Superman could lift an island that damn near killed him just a few minutes before. Or how, if he was weak enough to be kicked around by a buncha thugs and bleed earlier, when he's near death a syringe can't pierce his skin.



I didn't think the acting was that bad. Bosworth was terrible, but otherwise, I thought it was a pretty solid ensemble. As I predicted, nothing was done to alter the trend of having a useless lead female character who constantly screws up and exists purely to distract the hero.

Overall, and I might be alone on this one, I thought Routh did a pretty terrific job. He was perfect as Superman, visually and verbally. He wasn't that good as Clark Kent, but Kent was almost superfluous in the movie anyway.

The lifting of the island thing was a tad ridiculous, but, really...was it more ridiculous than turning back time by flying really fast? I guess we were supposed to believe that his recharging gave him the strength to repel the kryptonite's effects long enough to get it into orbit(and then enough strength to survive the fall back to Earth).

Frankly(and yes, I'm aware it was continuing a trend from the old film), I found that a lot more believable than a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who asks her editor how many f's are in the word "catastrophic".

In the end, I must admit, I really enjoyed this film. I wish Singer would have tried to make the film more his own, than simply an homage to Donner, but oh well.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.