Posted on 06/28/2006 4:41:44 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
So Lois Lane is a single mother . . . and a slut. That's the most disturbing part of "Superman Returns," heavily marketed to kids and in theaters tonight.
Or is that "Lois and Her Feelings," co-starring Supe? That's what this dull, 2-hour 33-minute long latest rendition in the Superman series seemed like.
A better version would have been more relevant. It's great that new Superman Brandon Routh saluted America's troops as "the real Super Heroes," a tie-in with Warner Brothers Pictures' effort to send a million plus postcards of support to troops overseas.
But put your money where your mouth is. In World War II, Superman's comic book inventors had him fighting the Nazis. Today, they won't dare show him fighting contemporary Nazis--Islamofascists. Lex Luthor working with Al-Qaeda terrorists, with both evil forces getting defeated--that would have been dynamic and exciting, a great plot. But, unfortunately, too politically incorrect, current, and exciting for the Hollywood culturatti.
Some have asked whether Superman is still relevant post-9/11. He would be . . . if he was fighting the post-9/11 enemy and being a man while doing so.
Instead, we got a dumbed down, girlie-man version of Superman in "Superman Returns." Like every sensitive, slacker metrosexual, Supe's gone off for five years to "discover himself." In the meantime, the dullest Lois Lane ever has a child out of wedlock. Nice message to send to your kids who will be begging to see this. No smoking lectures by Superman and plugs for tofu sandwiches got a lot of play though. Script-writers were more concerned with that kind of health than the splendid problems single motherhood brings.
In what is more reminiscent of a Maury Povich "Who's the Daddy?" show than a Superman plot, Lois apparently slept around and thinks the cutesy kid--very annoying and distracting in the film--is her fiance's child, not that of the other guy she was simultaneously sleeping with--the Man of Steel.
Hard to still call him that, because in this film he's far less muscular. Even the formerly bright red of his cape is now a muted, dingy brownish-burgundy. All masculinity is toned down, in favor of the testosterone of career woman Lois, who doesn't believe in marriage. Too busy riding the space shuttle.
That hardly makes her spectacular. Kate Bosworth has nothing on Margot Kidder (aside from her far-left wackoism) or even Terry Hatcher. Their renditions of Ms. Lane were far superior. Bosworth's is as ho-hum as the lady at the supermarket looking for her Clairol fix. The only thing that seems apropos is Lane's Pulitzer Prize for her "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." It's the work of unethical journalism--a "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" by a jilted lover against her boyfriend.
In the real world's Daily Planet a/k/a The New York Times, the "Pulitzer-level" stuff is "Why Al-Qaeda is Less Dangerous to the World Than President Bush."
And by the way, there's no Internet in this movie--a glaring absence when Lois' editor is lecturing about what sells newspapers. Uh, nothing sells newspapers these days. They're in rapid decline.
There are no memorable lines like the ones Margot Kidder's Lois uttered to Christopher Reeve's Supe: "You've got me? Who's got you?"
More like, who's got this movie?
With a $300 million budget, Warner Brothers must have a hit with this film. There's so much marketing hype and so many product tie-ins, it will be hard for it to fail. And with newcomer Brandon Routh's spot on impersonation of Christopher Reeve playing Clark Kent/Supe, he's not as difficult to adjust to as Bosworth's Lois. His imitation invites the comparison, and he doesn't live up to it. Christopher Reeve can smile from the grave that he died undefeated champion of Superman portrayals.
"Supe Returns" writers also paid too much attention to the accuracy of minute and unimportant details, such as the fact that Kryptonite was found in Addis Ababa. But who cares about those things?
Is that more important than the messages projected to America's kids--especially girls who may want to emulate Lois Lane? And is it more important than an exciting, believable, and relevant plot? Hardly.
Still, aside from it's dullness and the poor examples it sets for kids, "Superman Returns" is a fun, escapist film.
But nothing to write home--or even, Krypton--about.
It was at the end of the movie before the Bride told Bill about finding out that she was pregnant during the Lisa Wong assignment.
Kill Bill is a good movie.
Magento was always the head of the brotherhood of evil mutants.
If he joined the Xmen in the 1990s that was long after Stanley Leiber had any say.
It is revisionist history to say the decades of comics never happened and years of television and cartoons never happened and even movies that starred the same actor in the title role NEVER HAPPENED.
Lois Lane is a slut.
The director who made the movie claims that he pitched Xmen to the actor he cast as Magneto by saying it was about Gay Politics.
Now that doesn't mean that he put his agenda into Superman but this film is hardly a "conservative epic". Maybe you are reading things into characters actions.
Possibly. They wrote a number of pulp fiction stories about this premise in the 1920s. I think in one he was a villain. I think in another there was a planet of people with super powers. Some editor (who was also a famous sf writer) advised them to put their super man on a planet of normal men.
The question remains if Lex Luthor would ever give billions of dollars to "charitable trust foundations".
Murphy Brown lives.
"If you dont go see it your missing the point or never got the point in the first place."
Nope, haven't seen it and probably won't. The fact that it was made by a flamin liberal made me doubt it from the start. The fact they admit to taking this american icon and dumbing it down is offensive.
There is no point I'm missing. Hollywood has made yet another rerun because they lack the creativity to make anything original Americans will watch.
Aaaaah, another fine screed from the wanna-be Coulter.
Why does anyone take anything this hysterical idiot writes seriously? Come on.
Nothing I have ever posted could lead anyone to think that I do not believe the world needs a Savior. In fact we already have a Savior, we just need to accept Him, Jesus Christ.
I don't know, it might have been in the late '80s or early '90s. I have an X-Men #1 (from one of their "let's start over" years) and Magneto was head of the Brotherhood, but a lot of the interpersonal dynamics and dialogue indicated that he had been a member of the X-Men for a little while, or, at the very least, a strong ally. Even the animated series played on that dynamic for a time.
So did I for some reason.
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Dana Delany was a great Lois.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Hi, Rastus:
Dana Delaney still is a great Lois Lane. Her voice was featured as Lois Lane's in the most recent Warner Brothers' animated offering "Brainiac Attacks".
The only character's voice to be changed (for the worse, in my opinion) was Lex Luthor's. Warner went with Powers Boothe, instead of keeping Clancy Brown. Whose voice has always seemed very meancing, even when it's not supposed to be.
They also dumbed down Luthor's role to that of occasional Comic Relief, which is just plain wrong!
Jack.
I saw that in the store, but every review I've read said it's to be avoided at all costs. I understand it plays for free on Cartoon Network, so perhaps I'll watch it there and see.
I like remakes and took some time out to see Superman Returns. I included your comment above because after seeing the movie, I think the use of the word rerun is fitting. Apart from the nifty CGI effects, this movie seemed flat like I've seen it before. It was a rerun. For $300,000,000.00 a much more creative story could have been developed.
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