Re: Superman Returns - Why I Felt Unsatisfied (Major Spoilers)
- From: Alric Knebel <alric@[cableone.net]>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:36:16 -0500
Ar Q wrote:
"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...
2) LL gets the old lady's signature, apparently on a will, and gets her
money?
Now, wait just a darn minute - these things have to be witnessed, all
legal and
proper like, and there were a hoarde of, we can safely assume, potential
heirs
or at least people that could be expected to be in a will, banging down
the
door... and all of a sudden LL has all this money, without a several-year
court
fight???? I don't think 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
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...
4) That space shuttle is to be launched off the back of the 747 that
normally
carries it between Edwards and the Cape, but is full of regular people
like it
was an airline flight? No _FREAKIN_ way that NASA would subject any more
people to such a danger than was absolutely necessary.
5) Superman setting the 747 down in Yankee Stadium by the nose? It shows
him
just kind of letting it fall over - its real doubtful that he could have
applied that much torque to the nose of the plane to have held it up for a
soft
touchdown, without the framework buckling at that point - so it would have
come
down with a huge "thud" and a contact at such speed that those inside
would
likely have been squished... OK, its in the script, and Superman would
have
gotten _under_ the plane to let it down properly, but that was hard to do
for
the cameras, so I'll give 'em this one...
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
a
single point out on the end, or near-end of a wing? Was he surprised? He
shouldn't have been, and he _should_ have been _under_ the plane and
simply
slowed it to a nice, soft landing...
7) Electromagnetic pulse knocks out the power to _everything_? Yes, it
would... if you could generate one without a nuclear weapon. But then, it
just
comes back? Noooo.... EMP _DESTROYS_ things like solid state electronics.
There would be no restoration of functionality of cars, airplanes, etc.
until
they were repaired by replacing the burned out electronics.
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? And who's he going to sell a
big
rock to, anyway?
9) The formation of Lex Luthor's big island was rapid and violent - a
sudden
land upheaval. So? We had a sudden land upheaval about a year and a half
ago,
in the south Pacific, that created a tidal wave that killed - what? -
several
hundred thousand? So, where was the tidal wave / tsunami? New York
should
have been submerged, but the surf wasn't even up. What's up with that?
Alright, that's all that glaringly stood out to me in the movie, while I
sat
there and tried to ignore it, and pretend I didn't know any of this
stuff...
but it was pretty impossible, really, and until just today, I couldn't
really
figure out why I was unsatisfied, until I put 2 and 2 together, and
realized
that all these things that I know were either impossible or extremely
unlikely
pretty much spoiled my enjoyment of the film. Won't be seeing it again.
Bummer, since, when they're really good, I like to see 'em a couple-3
times...
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.
That little review of yours made no sense. You idiot. It was all over the place. You probably didn't see the movie right, and you didn't SEE how much had actually been developed, no doubt because you were squirming on that stick up your ass I mentioned earlier. Maybe by the time it comes out on DVD, you'll have the problem removed.
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