RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Superman Returns. In theaters now.

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Im Not Mister Mxypltk said:
Just watched it.

What I didn't like:
- The acting of the kid annoyed me. His voice, mostly.
- Lois bothered me too. Not because she didn't act well, but because she's so different from Margot Kidder's interpretation. Everyone else plays the Donner version of the characters (of course they should: it's a sequel), so her character feels out of place. She did a decent job portraying Lois Lane, it's just not the Lois I like.
- Jimmy, on the opposite, was too much like the Donner version. That kind of personality doesn't work very well anymore. This is the 40's version of the character. It barely worked in the 70's, and it doesn't work at all now.
- Perry didn't stand out much, but I actually liked that. I can't stand the way they try to give relevance to Perry in the comics. He's just their boss, not their father or their best friend.
- I was expecting a resolution of some sort for Richard's plot. In fact, I just assumed he would be dealt with. At one point, I thought "Fuck, they're gonna kill him and end it at that." But instead, it didn't end. The scene with Superman and the kid was extremely nice, but I wanted something more earth-shaking for the end... like, Lois admitting she knows Clark is Superman and leaving Richard for him. OR deciding to stay with Richard, whatever, as long as something happens there.
- Also, I love the idea of the kid, but he's basically a non-character in this movie. There's a lot of potential there they didn't use. If they simply didn't have space to develop him (and that's understandable), they should have just made him even younger and therefore unable to think or say much. Problem solved.
- Clark: I hoped Clark's relationship with Lois would go somewhere. I don't have a big problem with Clark being downplayed, given that in this version he's an act, but I kinda hoped they'd turn the classic triangle on its feet. As I said before, I wish Lois would have admitted she knows Superman is Clark. Watching Superman II last week and thinking about how silly the super-memory-erasing kiss is, I thought: "what if it didn't really erase her memory? what if she did that herself as a way to protect her mind?" Watching Lois accept the truth and deal with it would make a powerful scene. I thought this might happen when I noticed that she never mentioned the fact that both Clark and Superman left for five years at the exact same time. It's believable that the rest of the people in the Daily Planet wouldn't notice, because Clark's a nobody, but Lois has a relationship with both characters! "A-ha," I thought, "she's just lying to herself to hide from the truth!" But nope, it looks like she's just dumb.

What I liked:
- Everything else. Fucking amazing movie. The best Superman movie so far, in my opinion.

Oh, so it didn't do well? Well, consider this: The DaVinci Code did well. Case closed.

Let's not forget that the Donner films are incredibly flawed. Turning back the rotation of the planet? Memory erasing kiss? Lex's silly schemes? OTIS?! Superman II has a very loose plot. None of this stops those movies from being classics. The same goes for Superman Returns. In the hypothetical case that there are no more sequels (or that they suck), I think in 20 years Superman Returns will be seen as the definitive Superman movie. Most of the stuff people complain about here won't matter by then. How much it sold will be a piece of trivia.

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