/Superman/
Jun. 28th, 2006 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreams...oddly enough, I liked it.
I really didn't expect to. Superman's always seemed kind of bland.
It was a fun movie, and there is something to watching people being saved from certain death. Touched on what Superman means to people, as well as just what he can do.
Addendum: I haven't seen eyes that blue since Robert Redford. Contacts. But suitable contacts.
Luthor was hammed up. He had a grandiose plan that missed a couple of practical considerations and seemed to be influenced a great deal by whims and was obsessed with our hero and had amusingly mookish sidekicks--
--so yeah, aside from not wearing purple and green all the time and not smiling like a shark on Prozac, you're basically dealing with a sanitized Joker.
The Jesus touches were nice; I didn't find them overwhelming, although Jor-El's voiceover was a little heavy-handed (also, he sounded like the narrator for Watership Down).
This sounds apathetic, and I'm really not; I'd happily watch it again, and I'm glad I saw it. It was good. It just wasn't good in any way that lends itself to deep analysis; here is a noble hero who inspires others to greatness, here is the woman he loves, here is the villain, here is what he does.
...comfortable, you know?
I really didn't expect to. Superman's always seemed kind of bland.
It was a fun movie, and there is something to watching people being saved from certain death. Touched on what Superman means to people, as well as just what he can do.
Addendum: I haven't seen eyes that blue since Robert Redford. Contacts. But suitable contacts.
Luthor was hammed up. He had a grandiose plan that missed a couple of practical considerations and seemed to be influenced a great deal by whims and was obsessed with our hero and had amusingly mookish sidekicks--
--so yeah, aside from not wearing purple and green all the time and not smiling like a shark on Prozac, you're basically dealing with a sanitized Joker.
The Jesus touches were nice; I didn't find them overwhelming, although Jor-El's voiceover was a little heavy-handed (also, he sounded like the narrator for Watership Down).
This sounds apathetic, and I'm really not; I'd happily watch it again, and I'm glad I saw it. It was good. It just wasn't good in any way that lends itself to deep analysis; here is a noble hero who inspires others to greatness, here is the woman he loves, here is the villain, here is what he does.
...comfortable, you know?
