Let's just shitcan the whole Superman franchise altogether. Everybody should be happy with Christopher Reeve and Terence Stamp as the bad guy and Marlon Brando as the dad.
I concur. I wish Hollywood would stop remaking stuff from my youth (i.e., birth through age fourteen or so) and *fucking it up*. (Except I did kinda like the S & H movie.)
I wasn't too impressed with him either (nobody can replace Christopher Reeve), but then I saw him on some awards thing actually speaking, and there's something about him, I dunno. Maybe he won't be as bad as we're expecting. Or I'm just really, really naive.
BUT KATE BOSWORTH AS LOIS LANE OMG SOMEONE SHOULD BE KILLED FOR THAT DECISION!
After listening to Kevin Smith talk about the pre-pre-production of this movie, I have zero hope it will be any good. Plus, this guy looks like they said, "Get us someone who looks like Christopher Reeve trying to look like Superman!" So it's like a copy of a copy, and that busted down Xerox just looks like some guy with his underwear on over his mother's tights.
To me he looks like some vaguely disturbing cross between Christopher Reeve and Dean Cain.
Lois and Clark was probably my favorite version of Superman, and Dean Cain appealed to me a lot more than Christopher Reeve ever did in the role (although I liked him in other things, and my slight dislike may have been a holdover from my "formative years" when he played a bad guy on one of my mom's daily soap fixes).
I keep seeing trailer-y bits, and yeah all the "formative" stuff they're showing is comic-iconic, I guess, but still the various "superpowers!" scenes look so lifted from the first Christopher Reeve movie and/or Smallville that it makes me twitch.
Also--you're right, the new gut isn't so much to look at.
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Date: 2006-03-31 04:04 pm (UTC)Me too
Date: 2006-03-31 05:43 pm (UTC)Re: Me too
Date: 2006-03-31 09:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-31 05:48 pm (UTC)BUT KATE BOSWORTH AS LOIS LANE OMG SOMEONE SHOULD BE KILLED FOR THAT DECISION!(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-31 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-31 06:38 pm (UTC)Lois and Clark was probably my favorite version of Superman, and Dean Cain appealed to me a lot more than Christopher Reeve ever did in the role (although I liked him in other things, and my slight dislike may have been a holdover from my "formative years" when he played a bad guy on one of my mom's daily soap fixes).
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Date: 2006-03-31 06:34 pm (UTC)Verily, it is true. You cannot hope to compete with the throbbing man-boobies of the late great Mr. Reeve.
YP,
Th.
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Date: 2006-03-31 06:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-01 12:35 am (UTC)Also--you're right, the new gut isn't so much to look at.
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Date: 2006-04-01 12:36 am (UTC)