Re: Superman Returns - Why I Felt Unsatisfied (Major Spoilers)
- From: "SpammersDie" <xx@xxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:36:35 GMT
"Dave Head" <rally2xs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, I may be the only one, but here goes...
Why do the filmmakers have to treat the audience like we all just fell off
the
turnip truck? I mean, the things that happened in the movie were so
jarringly
unreal, I couldn't stay immersed in it. I would see something, and know
there
would be _NO WAY_ it was going to ever happen, and I'm not talking about
Superman's powers. It made me angry, actually, that things were done this
sloppily. Lessee if anyone else agrees:
1) The Fortress of Solitude - Lex Luthor is smart enough to absorb the
gist of
this in... what? Practically no time flat? C'mon... OK, I might just go
along
with this, but...
This is his third visit to Superman's pad so this isn't all new to him.
It does raise a question as to why Supes doesn't have better security at his
place considering he was leaving for half a decade and it's existence had
been revealed to the world at the end of Superman II. Unless he went around
and gave an amnesia kiss to all those cops who came to arrest Luther, he
should have come back and found his Fortress transformed to a theme park or
National Monument.
3) Superman can make the trip in a rocket from Krypton to Earth and still
arrive as an infant, but it takes the adult Superman, with ability to fly
so
fast that he can turn the earth to running in the opposite direction to
turn
back time and save Lois Lane who was buried in a landslide and died, bu it
takes him 5 years to fly to Krypton and back? Again, I don't think so...
Five of his years or five years elapsed on Earth? There is this thing called
special relativity. Back in the 1978 movie, Jor-El's hologram does indicate
that he's been dead for thousands of years despite the fact that only 18
years have passed for Kal-El - it never seemed right to me that a mere
difference in Krypton/Earth time reckoning could account for that big a
disparity...
As for the time travel flight... mmm.... don't know what to say about that.
That's what happens when you try to make a serious-minded sequel to a 30
year old movie that wasn't ashamed to dive into camp - it doesn't fit.
8) Lex Luthor wants to create extra real estate, and in the process,
destroy
"billions" of people? How bone-headed is that? The reason to create
extra
real estate is to sell it to someone and make more money!!! If he kills
"billions", who's he going to sell it to?
Those billions would all have been centered in North (and Central?. I
forget) America. There's a couple other big continents on the world full of
America haters who'd probably gladly do business with the Lex-man.
Anyone else? Or do I just expect too much?
Didn't think of all that stuff during the movie - I was just wondering what
happened in Metropolis to knock *their* WTC towers down...
.
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