Friendly Star Trek Discussions Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:37 am  
  SearchSearch   FAQFAQ   Log inLog in   
Superman Returns (2006)
View: previous topic :: next topic

stv-archives.com Forum Index -> Scifi, Fantasy, and Drama This topic is locked: you cannot edit posts or make replies.   This forum is locked: you cannot post, reply to, or edit topics.
Author Message
borgslayer
Rear Admiral


Joined: 27 Aug 2003
Posts: 2646
Location: Las Vegas

PostTue Apr 05, 2005 11:55 pm    Superman Returns (2006)

Quote:

In this semi-sequel to the first two "Superman" films, the classic hero returns to Earth after having been missing for six long years. What he finds astounds him - the world he knew has changed for the worse. In his absence, the forces of evil have regrouped like never before. Even Lex Luthor, once an outcast, has risen to the heights of power in Metropolis. And when an old enemy from Krypton reappears, Superman must fight his neverending battle like never before, amidst a world that has forgotten what it's like to have a hero.

Credited cast:
Stephan Bender .... Young Clark Kent
Kate Bosworth .... Lois Lane
Sam Huntington .... Jimmy Olsen
James Karen .... Ben Hubbard
Hugh Laurie .... Perry White
James Marsden .... Richard White
Noel Neill
Kal Penn .... Stanford
Brandon Routh .... Superman/Clark Kent
Eva Marie Saint .... Martha Kent
Kevin Spacey .... Lex Luthor

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348150/


I dont like the choice for lois lane and superman. I would have prefered Dean Cain to continue to play superman.


View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address  
Reply with quote Back to top
spacemonkey
Lieutenant


Joined: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 149
Location: AUSTRALIA

PostWed Apr 06, 2005 9:54 am    Re: Superman Returns (2006)

borgslayer wrote:

I dont like the choice for lois lane and superman. I would have prefered Dean Cain to continue to play superman.



dont we all..



-------signature-------

Chakotay: you�re not alone, Kathryn.
Janeway: a few years ago, I didn�t even know your name. Today I cant imagine a day without you.
* * * * * *
7: u will be assimilated.
Neelix: not now, maybe later.

View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website MSN Messenger 
Reply with quote Back to top
Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus


Joined: 17 Jun 2001
Posts: 27256
Location: United States of America

PostWed Apr 06, 2005 2:00 pm    

Add me to that list.


-------signature-------

Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with our scars


View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
John Connor
Admiral of the Terran Empire


Joined: 07 Sep 2002
Posts: 15657
Location: I.S.S Emperor

PostSat Apr 09, 2005 6:32 pm    

Yes, it would be pretty good if Dean Cain. But, anything other info?

View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger 
Reply with quote Back to top
borgslayer
Rear Admiral


Joined: 27 Aug 2003
Posts: 2646
Location: Las Vegas

PostSat Apr 09, 2005 8:23 pm    

The fact that they used Kevin Spacey for Lex Luthor is just terrible. I would have preferred Willem Dafoe or Alex Baldwin.

Brandon Routh as Superman



Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane



Not even close to being a lois lane.


View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address  
Reply with quote Back to top
borgslayer
Rear Admiral


Joined: 27 Aug 2003
Posts: 2646
Location: Las Vegas

PostSat Jun 17, 2006 6:12 pm    

I think this movie is going to be a hit at the box office.

View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address  
Reply with quote Back to top
Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative


Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified

PostSat Jun 17, 2006 7:08 pm    

Perhaps. I'm planning on seeing it, though I'm not much of a "fan" of Superman (not saying I don't like him; I'm just not a fan)


-------signature-------

"Rights are only as good as the willingness of some to exercise responsibility for those rights- Fmr. Colorado Senate Pres. John Andrews

View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
IntrepidIsMe
Pimp Handed


Joined: 14 Jun 2002
Posts: 13057
Location: New York

PostSat Jun 17, 2006 8:49 pm    

Kevin Spacey is always good at playing evil characters, I'm sure he'll be fine.


-------signature-------

"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."

-Wuthering Heights

View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger 
Reply with quote Back to top
Lord Borg
Fleet Admiral


Joined: 27 May 2003
Posts: 11214
Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan

PostSat Jun 17, 2006 8:59 pm    

I'll be seeing this, I thought Kevin Spacey was a cool choice.

View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
Leo Wyatt
Sweetest Angel


Joined: 25 Feb 2004
Posts: 19045
Location: Investigating A Crime Scene. What did Quark do this time?

PostSat Jun 17, 2006 10:28 pm    

They should have gotten Dean Caine... He is so cool and the best.

View user's profile Send private message AIM Address MSN Messenger 
Reply with quote Back to top
Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus


Joined: 17 Jun 2001
Posts: 27256
Location: United States of America

PostMon Jun 26, 2006 9:33 pm    

I'm not going to watch it. I read the book, and... sheesh. I hated it.
I'm a Superman fan, and this movie just totally will suck, IMO.



-------signature-------

Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with our scars


View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
Siege
Commander


Joined: 31 Oct 2004
Posts: 447

PostSat Jul 01, 2006 6:15 pm    

I saw it opening night, and I don't think words can be possibly used to describe just how spectacular the film was.

The opening of the film was touching and spectacular. And the moment we got into the opening credit sequence (which brought a huge smile to my face), I knew right away the film was going to be something special.

The acting was all top notch-- I believed every character in the film. Kevin Spacey was the man as Luthor! Finally, in a Superman film we actually have an evil Lex Luthor, and not merely something to be used as comic-relief (though, there was a healthy amount of that, but not in an over-the-top way).

The Superman action scenes were just spectacular; it's a very rare occasion when something I see in a film actually excites me, and every time I (and most of the audience) heard the classic theme begin to play during the film, anticipation forn what was to come went through the roof.

I understand what Bryan Singer meant when he called Superman Returns a "love story", as it was just that. The Lois/Superman romance was handled extremely well, in a believable, emotional, touching way.

I honestly have nothing bad to say about the film, I loved every minute of it. And even though I'm not that huge of a Superman fan, this is, in my opinion, the greatest comic-based film to ever be released. DC comics should be proud, as this film is a triumph even grander than Batman Begins-- which is saying alot.


View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
Untitled
Commander


Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned

PostMon Jul 03, 2006 1:15 am    

I am so sick of all of these comic book movies. This and Spiderman are the ones I really can't stand.

View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
Siege
Commander


Joined: 31 Oct 2004
Posts: 447

PostMon Jul 03, 2006 5:50 am    

Untitled wrote:
I am so sick of all of these comic book movies. This and Spiderman are the ones I really can't stand.


Your loss.


View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative


Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified

PostSun Jul 09, 2006 7:14 pm    

We'll be seeing it soon, hopefully (I really want to see it), but I gotta say, the commercial for it with the newspaper guy saying "Does he still stand for truth, justice - all that stuff?" is a big turn-off for me. I don't get why it's so hard to say "the American Way" anymore. Anyways, I look forward to seeing it, most definitely. I've heard nothing but good things about it.


-------signature-------

"Rights are only as good as the willingness of some to exercise responsibility for those rights- Fmr. Colorado Senate Pres. John Andrews

View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
Siege
Commander


Joined: 31 Oct 2004
Posts: 447

PostMon Jul 10, 2006 3:56 pm    

Republican_Man wrote:
We'll be seeing it soon, hopefully (I really want to see it), but I gotta say, the commercial for it with the newspaper guy saying "Does he still stand for truth, justice - all that stuff?" is a big turn-off for me.


Perry White.


View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England

PostMon Jul 10, 2006 4:33 pm    

Eeew... Louis Lane looks like a Blue Peter presenter!

I don't want to see this. I'd rather watch smallville.


View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
lionhead
Rear Admiral


Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 4020
Location: The Delta Quadrant (or not...)

PostWed Jul 12, 2006 6:55 pm    

I just saw it. I liked it. Toughi would have expected more from Lex Luthor. Kevin did a good job though.


Missed out on a lot of action. Even though there where things that can only happen in a Superman movie.



-------signature-------

Never explain comedy or satire or the ironic comment. Those who get it, get it. Those who don't, never will. -Michael Moore

View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
Hitchhiker
Rear Admiral


Joined: 11 Aug 2004
Posts: 3514
Location: Ontario, Canada

PostThu Jul 13, 2006 11:01 am    

This is my opinion.
I wrote:
There is only one word that can describe Superman Returns: iconic.

That's what Superman is to people; an icon for all that is good. And I think that Superman Returns captures that in its purest form. I went into the movie expecting it to be great; not excellent, but okay. I came out from an awesome experience that left me nearly breathless. It was way better than I expected.

Spoilers are ahead.

The best parts of the movie were by far the parts that showed Superman's humanity. That was really the true conflict; summarized by Lois Lane's article "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman". But the world does need Superman, and as this film shows, Superman needs the world.

Both Viv and I expected Lois' fianc�, Richard, to be a jerk. We expected him to be overbearing, arrogant, over-compensating in the face of Superman's return to Lois' life...and we could not have been more wrong. When I think back to everything that happens to Richard over the course of the film, he emerges as a mature character. He knows his wife still loves Superman (even if she doesn't at first), and I think he realizes the truth about her son's father. Yet he shows humanity's best side when he follows Lois back to the Krypton continent to rescue Superman. And it was quite big of him to let Lois go into the hospital to see Superman near the end of the film.

Lex Luthor? Boy that man has a complex. Throughout the movie he is obsessed with Superman--it's comic, in a way, and I think that this was a good choice because it helps contrast the ruthlessness that he displays at times. He can be a very cold character, for example when Kitty asks if billions of people will really die, or when he stabs Superman. So the comedic, almost Saturday-cartoon villain obsession he has with defeating his arch-foe helps lighten that.

Superman's "defeat" and return? Awesome. The movie would not have been the same if Superman just beat Lex Luthor easily, nor would it have been the same if Lex Luthor weakened Superman, left him for dead, and then Superman mysteriously returned. But the ending was a combination of those that had one important element: we humans. In the end, it isn't the world who needs Superman, it is Superman who needs the world. Lois saves him once, and then after he foils Luthor's plot nearly at the cost of his life, she saves him again, in a different way--you need to watch it to see it. I cried during those scenes with Superman and the hospital and...

It is definitely worth the money to go see it. Oh, and the music! The opening credits were a trip of a lifetime. Honestly, if someone had pulled me out of that theatre after just those credits, I would have been a happy man. To hear that theme pumped out through the movie theatre speakers, to feel that electric charge running through my body, that's why Superman Returns was so great. It captured lightning in a bottle.

This is the only movie for which I have considered purchasing the soundtrack (not counting miniseries). HMV is sold out right now but gets more in next week...


View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address MSN Messenger 
Reply with quote Back to top
Untitled
Commander


Joined: 02 Jul 2006
Posts: 396
Location: abandoned

PostThu Jul 13, 2006 1:28 pm    

Hitchhiker wrote:
HMV is sold out right now but gets more in next week...

I wana go there. the biggest cd store around here is Borders. Do they have forign cds?


View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
Hitchhiker
Rear Admiral


Joined: 11 Aug 2004
Posts: 3514
Location: Ontario, Canada

PostThu Jul 13, 2006 5:51 pm    

Untitled wrote:
Hitchhiker wrote:
HMV is sold out right now but gets more in next week...

I wana go there. the biggest cd store around here is Borders. Do they have forign cds?

I have no clue. I honestly am lost as to how they organise things. I just asked the guy if he had "the Superman soundtrack".


View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address MSN Messenger 
Reply with quote Back to top
Lord Borg
Fleet Admiral


Joined: 27 May 2003
Posts: 11214
Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan

PostThu Jul 13, 2006 10:22 pm    

At least I'm not alone, I love going there due to the Volume of Books, but to LOOK for a section/title....man,....

View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
Otter
Fleet Admiral


Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 12895
Location: England

PostFri Jul 14, 2006 8:06 am    

puttin aside the new film, which I wonna see btw.. I think Dean Cain was tops as the man of steel.

View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
AlwaysBorg
Junior Cadet


Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Posts: 15
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

PostSat Jul 15, 2006 7:06 pm    

I just have returned to see the movie and is a great movie, emotive...just great.

View user's profile Send private message  
Reply with quote Back to top
Republican_Man
STV's Premier Conservative


Joined: 26 Mar 2004
Posts: 14823
Location: Classified

PostSat Jul 15, 2006 7:41 pm    

I just returned from the movie as well and I'm at a loss for words. All I can say is "Excellent" right now. It was really good.
My only complaint is when the Daily Planet Chief says (and it's in the commercials, so not a spoiler), "Truth, justice, all that stuff." I was disgusted by that and it stuck out like a sore thumb.



-------signature-------

"Rights are only as good as the willingness of some to exercise responsibility for those rights- Fmr. Colorado Senate Pres. John Andrews

View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website  
Reply with quote Back to top
Display posts from previous:   
Goto Page 1, 2  Next
This topic is locked: you cannot edit posts or make replies.   This forum is locked: you cannot post, reply to, or edit topics.



Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group
Star Trek �, in all its various forms, are trademarks & copyrights of Paramount Pictures
This site has no official connection with Star Trek or Paramount Pictures
Site content/Site design elements owned by Morphy and is meant to only be an archive/Tribute to STV.com