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Finally got around to watching Superman Returns. Wow. Acting decent (I don't buy Bosworth at all, but Marsden was depressingly earnest), effects interesting, but God, what an awful script, and they managed to make it...boring. Bad premises, uninspired execution...no, won't be watching that again. Hell, it's making me miss the last two Reeve movies, and those were...not good.
It doesn't help that I dug out my copy of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? last night. For the non-comic-geeks, before Superman's history got "rebooted" in 1986, they wrote one last "imaginary story" using his continuity which spanned back to 1935, a two-issue story drawn by consummate Superman artist Curt Swan and written by some guy called Alan Moore. It's the perfect coda to the old Superman, really -- bittersweet but apropos, many long-time characters meeting their ends, but never losing track of what makes Superman what he is. Certainly didn't get that from Superman Returns -- too much focus on the soap opera, on chemistry I couldn't find anywhere on the screen. Disappointing.
It doesn't help that I dug out my copy of Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? last night. For the non-comic-geeks, before Superman's history got "rebooted" in 1986, they wrote one last "imaginary story" using his continuity which spanned back to 1935, a two-issue story drawn by consummate Superman artist Curt Swan and written by some guy called Alan Moore. It's the perfect coda to the old Superman, really -- bittersweet but apropos, many long-time characters meeting their ends, but never losing track of what makes Superman what he is. Certainly didn't get that from Superman Returns -- too much focus on the soap opera, on chemistry I couldn't find anywhere on the screen. Disappointing.