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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:41 pm 
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It's playing on HBO even as I type these words. I figured, "Hey, let's give it another shot. It's a holiday weekend. I don't have to work on Monday. Let's give the thing another chance. Yes, I remember the stomach pains that occurred when I saw this piece of shit in the theater, but maybe it'll work for me now that some time has passed."

I only barely made it past the opening credits.

And my fucking stomach hurts again.

Bryan Singer? If you're reading this post, stay out of my line of sight for a while.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:43 pm 
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:48 pm 
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It made me angry. Superman's not that difficult a character to write correctly. You have to really try to screw it up. Everything, from his kid killing a man to the dark costume to the shoddy premise (Superman doesn't abandon!) to the stupid climax (Superman can't lift a Kryptonite island into orbit!) ... it was all bad.

Not to mention that ALL the best lines are swiped, word for word, from Superman the Movie.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:56 pm 
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Still haven't seen it.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:58 pm 
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Steve wrote:
It made me angry. Superman's not that difficult a character to write correctly. You have to really try to screw it up. Everything, from his kid killing a man to the dark costume to the shoddy premise (Superman doesn't abandon!) to the stupid climax (Superman can't lift a Kryptonite island into orbit!) ... it was all bad.

Not to mention that ALL the best lines are swiped, word for word, from Superman the Movie.

Split infinitive aside, IAWTP.

I hate this effing movie.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:58 pm 
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:58 pm 
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I liked it.


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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:00 pm 
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(Wait for it)

Then you are a complete asshole.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:01 pm 
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Frank L. Sisko wrote:
Steve wrote:
It made me angry. Superman's not that difficult a character to write correctly. You have to really try to screw it up. Everything, from his kid killing a man to the dark costume to the shoddy premise (Superman doesn't abandon!) to the stupid climax (Superman can't lift a Kryptonite island into orbit!) ... it was all bad.

Not to mention that ALL the best lines are swiped, word for word, from Superman the Movie.


Split infinitive aside, IAWTP.

I hate this effing movie.

Saw it twice and liked it both times. And here's why the above post is wrong :D

The costume was fine.

Superman didn't abandon anyone. If you're talking about going into space, he didn't know it was going to take that long. If you're talking about the kid, he didn't know about the kid, and once he did, he wasn't going to mess with Lois' relationship with Richard, a much more realistic relationship than one with Superman, since he has too many obligations.

Everyone acts like he lifted the island full of Kryptonite and everything was fine. That's not what happened. He lifted it, grew weaker as he was doing it (and as the island began crumbling and exposing more Kryptonite), and he fell to the Earth and nearly died.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:06 pm 
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I liked it too. A flawed gem.

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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:08 pm 
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Here's why Matt is wrong:

Frank and Steve are right.

And no one's brought up Super-Stalker yet.

I have never walked out of a movie as angry at a movie as I did when I left the theatre after watching SUPERMAN RETURNS.


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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:08 pm 
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Steve wrote:
(Superman can't lift a Kryptonite island into orbit!)he best lines are swiped, word for word, from Superman the Movie.

They said in the movie that the crystals took on the properties of the minerals around it (the earth), so when the Kryptonite became exposed, it wiped him out.

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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:09 pm 
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Uncle Twitchy wrote:
And no one's brought up Super-Stalker yet.


Yep, that was a bad call.

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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:10 pm 
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Matt, Hugh, and Gohnny:

You are all high. This movie is horrendously bad.

Please leave my thread.


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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:20 pm 
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Banned? (CHOKE)

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:20 pm 
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Sorry, Frisko, but I'll have to agree with Gohnny on this one.

Like almost all super-hero movies, the stuff they got right, they got very very right, and the stuff they got wrong they got very very wrong. There never seems to be much middle ground with these movies.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:24 pm 
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I tend to be very forgiving about adaptations. As long as I have some fun or there are some good thrills or something, I'm in. I'm sort of a "broad strokes" kind of guy when it comes to fidelity to the source material.

And with that said, Superman Returns was pure garbage. GARBAGE. It was one excellent plane-rescue scene and a bunch of whatthehellweretheythinking? It wasn't even a could-have-been like the highly-flawed-but-watchable Daredevil (so close, and all the more disapointing for it), it was just rotten garbage.

Just terrible. All that money ... wasted.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:26 pm 
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What did they get right?


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 Post subject: Here's How Much I Hate SUPERMAN RETURNS
PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:28 pm 
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Ian Sokoliwski wrote:
Still haven't seen it.

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Same here
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:31 pm 
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I'll even go as far to say that liked it a lot better than Spidey 3 (ducks brickbats).

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:35 pm 
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Gohnny wrote:
I'll even go as far to say that liked it a lot better than Spidey 3 (ducks brickbats).


I liked FF:RoSS more than Superman Returns, Spidey-3, and X-men III.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:37 pm 
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TS Garp wrote:
Gohnny wrote:
I'll even go as far to say that liked it a lot better than Spidey 3 (ducks brickbats).


I liked FF:RoSS more than Superman Returns, Spidey-3, and X-men III.
Saw none of them, nor the first FF movie either.
Nor Ghost Rider or the Punisher.

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