Re: Superman Returns - Why I Felt Unsatisfied (Major Spoilers)
- From: "Ar Q" <ArthurQ283@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:48:51 GMT
"Dave Head" <rally2xs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, I may be the only one, but here goes...the
Why do the filmmakers have to treat the audience like we all just fell off
turnip truck? I mean, the things that happened in the movie were sojarringly
unreal, I couldn't stay immersed in it. I would see something, and knowthere
would be _NO WAY_ it was going to ever happen, and I'm not talking aboutgist of
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
this in... what? Practically no time flat? C'mon... OK, I might just goalong
with this, but...money?
2) LL gets the old lady's signature, apparently on a will, and gets her
Now, wait just a darn minute - these things have to be witnessed, alllegal and
proper like, and there were a hoarde of, we can safely assume, potentialheirs
or at least people that could be expected to be in a will, banging downthe
door... and all of a sudden LL has all this money, without a several-yearcourt
fight???? I don't think so...so
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
fast that he can turn the earth to running in the opposite direction toturn
back time and save Lois Lane who was buried in a landslide and died, bu itnormally
takes him 5 years to fly to Krypton and back? Again, I don't think so...
4) That space shuttle is to be launched off the back of the 747 that
carries it between Edwards and the Cape, but is full of regular peoplelike it
was an airline flight? No _FREAKIN_ way that NASA would subject any morehim
people to such a danger than was absolutely necessary.
5) Superman setting the 747 down in Yankee Stadium by the nose? It shows
just kind of letting it fall over - its real doubtful that he could havesoft
applied that much torque to the nose of the plane to have held it up for a
touchdown, without the framework buckling at that point - so it would havecome
down with a huge "thud" and a contact at such speed that those insidewould
likely have been squished... OK, its in the script, and Superman wouldhave
gotten _under_ the plane to let it down properly, but that was hard to dofor
the cameras, so I'll give 'em this one...a
6) On the way down, when Superman is trying to arrest the descent of the
airliner, he grabs a wing? He grabs it at its extremity? Why? The wing
breaks off... yeah, no kidding - when you try to apply that much force to
single point out on the end, or near-end of a wing? Was he surprised? Hesimply
shouldn't have been, and he _should_ have been _under_ the plane and
slowed it to a nice, soft landing...just
7) Electromagnetic pulse knocks out the power to _everything_? Yes, it
would... if you could generate one without a nuclear weapon. But then, it
comes back? Noooo.... EMP _DESTROYS_ things like solid state electronics.until
There would be no restoration of functionality of cars, airplanes, etc.
they were repaired by replacing the burned out electronics.destroy
8) Lex Luthor wants to create extra real estate, and in the process,
"billions" of people? How bone-headed is that? The reason to createextra
real estate is to sell it to someone and make more money!!! If he killsbig
"billions", who's he going to sell it to? And who's he going to sell a
rock to, anyway?sudden
9) The formation of Lex Luthor's big island was rapid and violent - a
land upheaval. So? We had a sudden land upheaval about a year and a halfago,
in the south Pacific, that created a tidal wave that killed - what? -several
hundred thousand? So, where was the tidal wave / tsunami? New Yorkshould
have been submerged, but the surf wasn't even up. What's up with that?sat
Alright, that's all that glaringly stood out to me in the movie, while I
there and tried to ignore it, and pretend I didn't know any of thisstuff...
but it was pretty impossible, really, and until just today, I couldn'treally
figure out why I was unsatisfied, until I put 2 and 2 together, andrealized
that all these things that I know were either impossible or extremelyunlikely
pretty much spoiled my enjoyment of the film. Won't be seeing it again.times...
Bummer, since, when they're really good, I like to see 'em a couple-3
Anyone else? Or do I just expect too much?
Dave Head
Too many cooks in the kitchen is not a good thing. There are many things
going on but not one of them is well developed on this very lengthy film. It
is probably WB's fault that they want to keep things already done before
Singer's. Still, the director should stick with one theme and he really
didn't. I wish Superman Returns is a movie about sorrow, about love lost
then found. It has that framework built but it barely scratch the surface.
Instead, the movie flies aimless to every possible direction. Every time it
seems that something exciting was about to happen, they just pulled it away.
In the end, Singer really struggles to get a proper conclusion to fit what
the audience get through. The climatic scene is probably from his experience
that being a gay man, he once got kicked by bunches of bullies. There are
enough actions but it doesn't seem right.
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