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Only the Hulk could kick Superman's butt.
Maybe also The Mighty Thor ('cause he's a God, you know!).
Saul
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Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 3:50
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] SUPERMAN a bad
remake?
i saw it...would characterize the movie as watchable with a few
choice entertaining moments but not much else...spacey was very good...Reeves
had an ability to show us different emotions which routh lack's...what could
have made this movie better?...more interaction between luthor and
supreman....geeez supreman nevers lays a hand on lex,gets his but kicked in
one scene and thats about it folks...happy holidays
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Date: 07/31/2006 01:54PM
Subject:
[MOPO] SUPERMAN a bad remake?
I just
received this review from a friend... it seems oddly divergent for the
industry reviews, which have been very positive. Anyone have any comments
after having seen SUPERMAN (I haven't yet... and now I'm wondering if I
should bother)?
"First, everybody in the cast is brilliant...
somewhere
else. Dialog? Odd to imagine that in a 2.5 hour film,
there
really wasn't much dialog, which I blame on
problem two: the
director.
Bryan Singer blows as a director. Good X-Men, not
great
X-Men. Good documentary editor (A&E's Superman
story, although he
excludes all comic book references
that he swipes from: read on). The
script, co-written
by Singer, has almost nothing new past the
original
Chris Reeve film 25 years ago. In fact, some of the
same
lines are re-delivered in this redeux-doo. Hiring
the best cast is one
thing; giving them literally no
wiggle room to use their stuff is
another. Go back 25
years and marvel at the effects, then jump to 2006
and
tell everybody that the $300 million budget is all on
the screen?
Hrumph: we must've been at a smaller
screen, because nothing got past the
point of teasing
us that something better was about to happen. It
never
does. Hype revolved around Singer, his sexual
orientation,
Routh's "package", Spacey's method
acting, and anything other than what
the film was
about. Shades of Seinfeld! It's about two and a
half
hours long... that's what it's about. Hype aside, it
NEVER
delivers.
If you've seen the trailers, you've seen the movie:
no
more surprises at all. All of Singer's hype, all of
the build-up
leads one to think that you're in for a
major event. Nope. This is why it
didn't play Cannes:
it was a WB remake of the original Reeve film,
and
this Krytonian fan is mighty disappointed.
--
Marcus"
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