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capnzebbie) wrote2006-07-03 09:41 pm
capnzebbie) wrote2006-07-03 09:41 pm
the movie
Mom and I went to see Superman Returns today. There's a little bit of spoilery stuff here, so I'll cut tag.
I take back everything I've ever said or thought about Erica Durance. Well, except for the part about Lois not belonging in Smallville. That's just true.
But I would rather have a rude, abrasive, not very bright, socially inept and occasionally amusing Lois than what we were given in the movie. Whatever that non-entity was. pphhtthth.
The kid was kind of cute and interesting.
Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey did very good jobs. I can see MR's Lex Luthor evolving into Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor. I've never seen any relationship between Gene Hackman and MR--Gene Hackman's performance was too cartoonish. Kevin Spacey's performance, on the other hand, was genuinely scary at times, just as MR's is.
Parker Posey was terrific! I wish she had played Lois.
Is Brandon Routh entirely CGI? I thought he just looked computer-generated in the commercials, but now I see that he looked that way during the entire movie. Every time they showed a close-up of his face, I thought of Shrek.
Jimmy was cute with his crush on Clark. Frank Langella was just...forgettable. Which is sad, because I always like him in all his movies. He wasn't volatile enough here, though. I miss Jackie Cooper.
I liked seeing Noel Neill and Jack Larson in bit parts. Although, hearing Noel Neill say to Lex, "You showed me pleasures I'd never known" on her deathbed was a little, um...icky. But yeah, also kind of amusing in a really disturbing way (as was the thing with the dogs). Yes, I can see Lex doing that. Heh.
The violence toward Superman was a bit much, in my opinion. I don't think it was appropriate in a movie that children will see.
In short, I liked Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey, and I did not like Brandon Routh and that incredibly boring woman who was pretending to be Lois Lane.
Of course, all of this is just my opinion. My mom liked the movie. I didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would.
I take back everything I've ever said or thought about Erica Durance. Well, except for the part about Lois not belonging in Smallville. That's just true.
But I would rather have a rude, abrasive, not very bright, socially inept and occasionally amusing Lois than what we were given in the movie. Whatever that non-entity was. pphhtthth.
The kid was kind of cute and interesting.
Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey did very good jobs. I can see MR's Lex Luthor evolving into Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor. I've never seen any relationship between Gene Hackman and MR--Gene Hackman's performance was too cartoonish. Kevin Spacey's performance, on the other hand, was genuinely scary at times, just as MR's is.
Parker Posey was terrific! I wish she had played Lois.
Is Brandon Routh entirely CGI? I thought he just looked computer-generated in the commercials, but now I see that he looked that way during the entire movie. Every time they showed a close-up of his face, I thought of Shrek.
Jimmy was cute with his crush on Clark. Frank Langella was just...forgettable. Which is sad, because I always like him in all his movies. He wasn't volatile enough here, though. I miss Jackie Cooper.
I liked seeing Noel Neill and Jack Larson in bit parts. Although, hearing Noel Neill say to Lex, "You showed me pleasures I'd never known" on her deathbed was a little, um...icky. But yeah, also kind of amusing in a really disturbing way (as was the thing with the dogs). Yes, I can see Lex doing that. Heh.
The violence toward Superman was a bit much, in my opinion. I don't think it was appropriate in a movie that children will see.
In short, I liked Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey, and I did not like Brandon Routh and that incredibly boring woman who was pretending to be Lois Lane.
Of course, all of this is just my opinion. My mom liked the movie. I didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would.
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But I would rather have a rude, abrasive, not very bright, socially inept and occasionally amusing Lois than what we were given in the movie. Whatever that non-entity was. pphhtthth.
Yuh.
Parker Posey was terrific! I wish she had played Lois.
I had the same thought.
that incredibly boring woman who was pretending to be Lois Lane
Your snark is a balm to my wounds! *g*
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Kate also seemed a little to insular. Lois is alway curious about the atmo around her. This one felt like she spent a lot of time navel gazing. Absolutely none of the pep and verve of Margot Kidder. Blech.
I actually thought James Marsden was too good for this Lois. He recognized something in Clark, he respected Lois's feelings from before her relationship w/ him, he gamely threw in and helped the "other guy"
I thought Brandon was alright. Whatever.
The story...needed some tightening.
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I felt like I spent most of the movie waiting for something to happen--and yet, things were happening. It was a weird, fidgety feeling.
KB's Lois seemed to have no continuity with any other Lois, ever. It's as if becoming a mother completely sucked the intelligence and personality out of her.
She seemed like she had turned into a Reagan Era-type supermom, with the career and all the perfect parenting skills. I really think that Lois would be kind of charmingly incompetent as a mother--like the kind of mother who would love her kid to pieces, but would occasionally forget that the kid was there because she's so focused on some story she's working on. You know what I mean? So yes, I agree about the navel gazing thing--way too passive and earth motherish.
And yes, James Marsden's character was an absolute prince. He deserved better. :)