The Movie Show #36 - SUPERMAN RETURNS, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, ALIENS Vs PREDATOR!
The Movie Show #36 (MP3 - 19MB - 54min)
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July 7th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Hey guys, great show again. Really enjoyed having Scott on the show. Keep them coming. Cheers, Nathan.
July 8th, 2006 at 3:52 am
thanks Nathan. BTW folks, I just saw SUPERMAN RETURNS and it is the LAMEST ASS FILM I HAVE SEEN SINCE THE MUMMY. Oh my god, what a complete piece of crap! Jon Peters / Bryan Singer both need to be hung drawn and quartered for this turd of a film. I’ve seen wet Kleenex with more substance.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Cam, i love the show, but i thought superman returns was pretty good. i wus listenin to this show and would like to point out that u did not put the thing for studio 60 in the shownotes and would like to point out that this is the second television show by aaron sorkin in a television studio (sports night w/ felicity huffman and josua maulina). also, some more interesting inconsistencies were in superman were the conflicting time periods. it is interesting to notice that the cars in the begginning of the movies are very old (the first scene w/ lex and superman’s mother’s car), there are also many fashion statements made that would suggest that the movie occured in the 30s-40s (bowties on bartenders?), in addition, the lights on the desks of the reporters and the type of the newspaper is very old, and yet there are planes launching spaceships, a tv in every corner of the daily planet, and cmoputers. what is up with that? i love the show.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Ryan - you rock, sir, and I suck. Thank you for pointing out my omission!
Here it is: THe 6 minute Studio 60 excerpt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhLm2Xf3fk
Now, as for Superman Returns… I’m sorry, but you’re wrong. IT SUCKED. Big time. And not only for the inconsistencies you mention (which I guess could be excused as Singer’s attempt to keep it feeling “old world” but making it relevant to a contemporary audience”.
Here’s why it sucked (more coming on the next podcast):
1. Routh is a piss weak, puny-ass Superman. Grab a comic drawn in the last 20 years. Supe is built like a brick shithouse (does that term translate outside Oz?).
2. No-one cares about Clark Kent. How often does Kent appear in the comics?? Hardly ever. Why? Cuz NO-ONE FRAKKING CARES. We want Supe. We want Supe KICKING ASS. So why stack 70% of the film with Kent?? WE DON’T CARE.
3. Supe didn’t get to DO ANYTHING. Big deal - he stops a plane from crashing and lifts an island. THAT’S IT? That’s about TWO FRAMES in a comic. Where’s the rest of the movie? Where the rest of the action? There isn’t any. Shit - according to Kevin Smith (and if you haven’t watched him tell this story, here it is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk&search=kevin%20smith), even Jon Peters wanted Supe to fight a big robot spider. At least that would have been more interesting than what he gets to do in THIS movie.
4. What’s up with the kid? Holy crap. Where did they get THAT from? Supe and Lois have a kid? Get the fukkouttahere. That’s just STOOPID. It’s like they are setting up for a “Three’s A Crowd” franchise, not a superhero franchise.
5. I don’t know. Read the points above and repeat.
I’m just glad I didn’t waste $60 taking my family to see this piece of shit film in a cinema.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:27 am
i have recently watched the first two superman’s again and definetly agree that brandon routh was a bad choice for superman. after realizing how good some1 like chris reeve could make the role of superman, i have decided to agree with your interpretation of this recent superman. however, i did enjoy the bits in the first two superman’s with clark kent because reeve did them so well, and although it wus very respectful of routh to try to re-create the character of clark (clumsiness and all) he wus not successfull in any strech of the imagination. the two reasons why superman returns was good:
1) the soundtrack - how can any1 fuck up the soundtrack that john wells wrote? my blood gets pumping every time i hear it.
2) singer’s respect for the originals - i liked that he kept the same credits and soundtrack and similar ways in which actors would pay omage to the originals.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
[...] Superman, as he was originally conceived, stood for “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” (which I think meant the idealistic American way that may or may not have ever really existed, where we championed good over evil and attempted to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness–in that order–to all people in the world). How many people do you know who believe in Truth, Justice, and living life according to a broader set of values like that? Not many, I’m guessing. I think if more of us opened our lives and understanding to the greater world, and to the need for greater values, we’d find many more people who were willing to act on those values. In that sense, we’d have a nation full of Supermen… Explore posts in the same categories: Values, Pontification, Movies [...]