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[SuperFly]

I heard on NPR the other day that SUPERMAN was originally written by a Jewish guy who parallelled the moses story in the bible to superman.

i.e. Moses was found floating in the river, superman was found by his mom & dad along a rural country hwy, etc.

[hermes.trismegistus]

[mindmetoo]

A couple problems I had:

The huge problem I had with original batman movie back in the late '80s was it wasn't about batman but it was a Jack Nicholson movie. Jack was huge back then. Seems to me the movie was about Kevin Spacey. And even then Spacey couldn't do much with the lame script.

Some thugs beat up Superman. You're like "ha ha you thugs, just wait until Superman gets back his powers! You'll pay!" You're waiting for that juicy moment and it never comes. The thugs are offed by a hunk of ice. It seems to me comics are made for skinny kids who get beaten up every day by thugs. The pay off is the thugs get a thumping at the hands of the super hero. Did the script writer miss that essential point of the lore?

Superman fights an island. And what was with the whole kryptonite in the island thing? Does superman generally know when he's around kyrptonite? Why did he fail to notice its effect this time around, other than the script writers need it to advance the plot?

The whole Jesus thing was over long. Yeah we got it at the start when his dad says he gave the world his only begotten son. Falling back to earth in a cross shape should have been enough to tip off the red necks.

Was there no Christopher Reeve dedication? I figured something would come at the start or the start of the end credits. Maybe it was at the very end. I didn't wait. Nothing about the movie compels you to sit out the full credits.

[seoulsucker]

[SuperHero]

the movie sucked. Spacey was the wrong choice for luthor, there was no script, the acting was mediocre and the movie didn't end. Worst movie since King Kong

[DHX]

I found the movie slow and boring. Apart from Kevin Spacey the casting was terrible. Both the Superman and Lois characters should have been played by different actors.

[andrew]

*****

[The Chewbacca Defense]

Just watched at the theatre in Oz.

Can't say I was too impressed (I have my reasons). However it did kill a spare 2.5 hours I had.

My opinion......don't pay to see it, but DL it and enjoy a rainy sunday afternoon with it.

That is all!

[rocklee]

OP,

Did you really watch the movie?

Spacey was terrible, everybody else was ok.

I liked it, though Singer could have done more with the plot and special effects. I guess they couldn't do a remake of the first movie because that was already a classic. Nobody was better than Hackman to play Lex, Christopher to play Superman and or Margot to play Lois. Those were big shoes to fill, so I think the new cast did a good job (except for Spacey). Personally I felt that Kevin tried to play a darker, colder Luthor who was not unlike an evil European gangster from a bond movie.

I wish we saw more of Superman's connection with planet earth, feeling the water, browsing the deserts, the mountains, stuff not found on his old planet (I think Supergirl achieved this). There also wasn't enough about his childhood life, schooling and other facts that could've been made interesting.

The soundtrack however was astonishing, beautiful.

[djsmnc]

Superman is a Jewish conspiracy to diminish respect for Jesus.

Well, I don't believe it, but it seems some people have flirted with similar ideas: http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/superman.htm

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