Yeah, "You'll live" is a fantastically menacing line, I always thought, but his coldness at that point bothered me. I'm guessing the filmmakers decided either (a) to conveniently tie up the Solaris thread with Superman destroying him then and there rather than allude to a rehabilitation that Superman wouldn't be around for and (b) Solaris wasn't really alive anyway. But it didn't work for me. *shrug* Of the two Morrison-created characters in All-Star Superman, Solaris seems to be the more awkward fit, and he never gets the context to fit into the narrative that longtime mythos characters like Luthor and Lois don't need. Quintum's role and nature is a bit more self-evident, so he integrates more easily.
I'm glad the flower made it in, but for me what makes that work is where it came from -- which 21st-century Superman obviously doesn't recognize. And I can understand how that might throw off the narrative and the tension. But that's part of the original story's elegance, and losing it diminishes the rest.
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Date: 2011-02-25 05:20 pm (UTC)I'm glad the flower made it in, but for me what makes that work is where it came from -- which 21st-century Superman obviously doesn't recognize. And I can understand how that might throw off the narrative and the tension. But that's part of the original story's elegance, and losing it diminishes the rest.