RSS Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Ian Wilson is back with a review of Superman Returns (just in time for the release of the DVD), and lots of comic book movie news! (Be warned: there are a few Superman Returns spoilers, and possibly one for Spider-Man 3 as well.) There's also Wii talk, and a vague explanation of where we've been for the past week. [ 44:45 || 20.4 MB ] The above is from: http://www.earth-2.net/theshow/episodes/e2ts_072.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Ian, I've never heard you struggle as much as you did in your review of Superman Returns. It's like you wanted to like the film and wanted to deliver kind words about it, but... just couldn't. Your analysis of the Superman / Lois / Richard / "Superboy" plotline was spot on: Singer (or maybe Warner Bros.) clearly wanted to lay the building blocks for a new Superboy franchise, which totally killed the movie (and possibly future movies) in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 Ian, I've never heard you struggle as much as you did in your review of Superman Returns. It's like you wanted to like the film and wanted to deliver kind words about it, but... just couldn't. Basically! I don't care too much about Superman and his franchise as much as I do Batman, but I am a fan of Bryan Singer and his work and I really thought he was going to make an ace film. But he didn't. Your analysis of the Superman / Lois / Richard / "Superboy" plotline was spot on: Singer (or maybe Warner Bros.) clearly wanted to lay the building blocks for a new Superboy franchise, which totally killed the movie (and possibly future movies) in the process. I'm guessing Warner Bros. is to blame for that. They could see that Batman NEEDED a reboot so they weren't about to do a Batman origins film and then cast the youngest Malcom in the Middle boy as Robin. But Superman, for whatever reason, has always had to be a family man (or in Smallville's case, a smouldering teen) for WB writers to be able to do anything with him in the future - see Lois & Clark and this film. Sometimes I wonder why they don't get Paul Dini or one of the DC Animated writers to step up to the movie game because there's so much gold in B:TAS and JL/JLU. They certainly wouldn't strand Lex Luthor on a tiny island or have him drop Krypton crystals in the sea or completely ignore Lois Lane as a hard-nosed journalist. I'm glad my very name brings excitement! I should do more long term absences, methinks - it's not like I have any films to review at the moment after all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 (edited) I'm assuming the possible spoiler from Spider-Man 3 is [... ] It's in the trailer so it's no longer a spoiler. Yoda Edit: Jack, I edited your post because some people don't watch trailers because they spoil too much nowadays. So I thought it better to be safe than sorry. Edited December 1, 2006 by Yoda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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