20 years ago today.
The 2006 CGI is kind of a video game-level hot mess for a few moments. The big closeup is something I don't like, but I get why it was there.
Weakened and dying from kryptonite poisoning, Kal picks up an island, and hefts it into space.
SR was awful across the board. I don't recall liking any of it. YMMV.
...a Kryptonite island, in fact...
It does.
Airplane sequence.
Bullet to the eyeball.
Boat rescue.
It’s a heavily flawed film, but it has some of the coolest super-action/powers moments in the character’s cinematic history.
Bullet to the eyeball.
Boat rescue.
It’s a heavily flawed film, but it has some of the coolest super-action/powers moments in the character’s cinematic history.
Which is equally gross even if painless.
I felt SUPERMAN LIFTS was a more accurate title for this one overall.....as SUPERMAN STABBED was too much a spoiler
It's not nearly one of my favorites, but it has several of the best Superman rescue sequences ever on film. The two best: the airplane catch, and Supes pulling the yacht out of the ocean to save the Whites.
Both sequences emphasize the chaos of the event Clark's faced with. The physics - "movie physics," granted - are something he has to struggle against. These objects have their engineered structural integrity compromised and are trying to destroy themselves as he's trying to hold them together just long enough...Singer repeatedly sells his power visually by framing him to show how he's dwarfed by the objects he's wrestling with. The editing is effective, and builds suspense throughout the scenes.
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It's also not in my topmost tier of Superman films but for what it is it's a pretty good return for the character after almost 20 years in the big screen wilderness. Routh is an underrated Supes, and while he does a fair interpretation of Christopher Reeve's version (damn good casting in terms of looks and vocal inflections) he also puts his own unique and very watchable stamp on the character, in much the same way Paul Wesley has done a good spin on the Shatner/Prime Timeline Kirk.
That, and the score being a pretty good update of John Williams' work.
The most elaborate Superman rescue sequence in a film so far? Yeah, it was okay.
I had a friend once who used to complain that Superman never punches anyone in Superman Returns. My response was always, "How many people does he punch in Superman The Movie?"
John Ottman's score is fantastic, right up to the final scene of the film and into the credits.
It may not be the greatest movie, but I've always liked Returns. It matches up well with the tone from the Donner movies.
The documentary on the making of the film used to be one of my favorites, until I discovered it was directed by Robert Meyer Burnett. The doc having the involvement of RMB, Bryan Singer, and Kevin Spacey is a three strikes and you're out sorta deal.
The documentary on the making of the film used to be one of my favorites, until I discovered it was directed by Robert Meyer Burnett. The doc having the involvement of RMB, Bryan Singer, and Kevin Spacey is a three strikes and you're out sorta deal.
I know what you mean, but I personally (mostly) go for art over artist. Otherwise you lose five of the X-Men movies thanks to sex pests of one kind or another.
DC Comics' Metropolis and Beyond SDCC panel, with joshua Williamson, Mark Waid, Tom King, Steohanie Williams, Jeremy Adams, Morgan Hampton, and Nicole Maines:
what a season 1 of my adventures with superman
Superman Returns is the 3rd best Superman movie, better than 3 and 4 and any of the other 21st Century efforts. In ly opinion.