I've seen Superman Returns before years ago and didn't think much of it, but giving it another shot after immediately watching the Reeves movie is something
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I've seen Superman Returns before years ago and didn't think much of it, but giving it another shot after immediately watching the Reeves movie is something
I've seen Superman Returns before years ago and didn't think much of it, but giving it another shot after immediately watching the Reeves movie is something
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they crib so much from the Reeves movies in ways I couldn't recognize before
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the titles, the music, the Marlon Brando
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Brandon Routh literally just paraphrased a line from Superman IV
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lois describing Clark as "well, Clark" is def from one of the movies
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hilariously I think it's also from Superman IV
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kevin spacey being described as a monster was a little satisfying in the beginning
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also, Kevin Spacey is already in a completely different movie
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in both tone and plot
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whatever faults of this movie I will never lay at the feet of the cast
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i'm so happy brandon got to be superman again
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I still need to see it, but one day, lol
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even from the grave they are bilking Marlon Brando
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also, hot take, Superman IV is a horrible movie that is a lot of fun to watch
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Superman III is a million times worse
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yessss I was laughing about that yesterday when I was watching it
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I honestly thought that if they'd been able to do what they wanted to with IV it would have been decent
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I liked the subplots and even the idea of nuclear man
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it was just... cheaply made and as a result had plot holes you could drive a truck through
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poor Richard Pryor apparently was a huge fan and wanted to do something dramatic for a change
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and got that instead
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also, Kevin Spacey and Jesse Eisenberg must have gotten the same Lex wig
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because he is now wearing a long haired wavy brown wig
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there's been more action in the first hour of this movie than all 4 Reeve movies like... 8 times over
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I mean i'm sure there isn't as time goes on
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but action movies the Reeve movies are not
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the most action is probably 4? and it's hilariously awful
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and sad superhero punching
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Anand the smoking line from the first one
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I give Man of Steel shit for washing out colors, but holy crap this movie does it too
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his cape looks fucking brown
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this movie was made in 2006 but sometimes I feel like i can see blue screen around the edges of Brandon flying
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like goddamn Reeve movies were trying their best, what's their excuse?
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watching james Marsden in this
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i'm trying to figure out if it's a net positive or negative that he gave up being in X3 for this
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yes
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nope
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and that's another line from superman the first one
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I can't believe there's still an hour to this movie
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because it just feels like it's about to hit the third act
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and there's 0 reason for that to be that long
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though every evil henchman should play the piano with a child
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how much movie did this film have for a special effect that bad
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money**
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because that "sky turns green" effect was like a fan film
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that boy absolutely murdered that henchman
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I know but now he's going to have to live with murder forever
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with ask these random plot contrivances, i'm shocked metropolis isn't dead long before superman gets back
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all these*
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I feel like if there needed to be bechdel test for dudes, james Marsdens character wouldn't pass
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like he's a dude with a name but only exists to bitch about superman, it feels like
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she has a type
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though I do have to ask if Richards parents worked at the money factory and he got an amazing inheritance
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either that or newspapers in 2006 were making a lot more money than I expected
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there's 0 reason for Routh to yell "i'm still superman" when he does (which I blame on the script)
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kevin spacey is kicking the shit out of him, one of the dudes grabs his face and he starts yelling it
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I have subtitles on, so it isn't like I misheard the line
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so the first half of this movie is Reeve allusions
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the second half is blatant christ metaphors
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and that line was so bizarre it threw me
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if kitty wanted to prevent lex from making more crystal islands
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maybe dumping said crystals into the ground of the island about to fall back into the ocean
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wasn't the best idea
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also superman totally killed kal penn and those other guys
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okay so the island is going up not down but the crystals could still easily fall back into the ocean so my point still stands
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okay Routh quoting Brando to Jason is good
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definitely better than I remembered
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but there was absolutely no reason for that movie to be two and a half hours
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also, having seen the donner cut and not the theatrical cut of Superman II, I forgot that the Donner cut moves some scenes around, and this thing I was reading raises a very good point
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if this is Superman II, how can Jason be super if Clark wasn't when they did it?
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in the Donner cut, the sex is what compels him to become human, but from what i understand, it's the other way around in the theatrical cut
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aah
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I'd believe that
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I mean if Clark is giving him "the father becomes the son, the son becomes the father" Brando speech, there is absolutely no other way to take it
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even if that kid didn't murder someone with a piano