Re: Superman Returns - Why I Felt Unsatisfied (Major Spoilers)
- From: Dave Head <rally2xs@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:07:39 GMT
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:28:16 +0100, ken <ken.2a7i9y@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave Head Wrote:
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
Welcome to adulthood. The more you know about REAL life the less you
will enjoy films. Sorry kid you are a grown-up now.
Izzis a kid's movie? I don't think so - I read that the audience was split
equally between those over 25 and those under, with 58% male. Do they want to
create a good story you can get immersed in, or not? They can do better, I
think.
Dave Head
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