Sluggo358

I read Brian Orndorf's DVD review of Superman Returns at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=22435 and...I just want to thank Brian Orndorf for nailing all the points of what made this a great movie. All I keep reading online is people who are nitpicking this movie for the littlest things. This movie was one hell of a ride. The emotional depths that this movie reaches, especially in the final bedroom scene, are incredible.It's funny how Roger Ebert gives this movie 2 stars and gives Garfield part 2 3 STARS!!! Superman Returns is easily the best film of the summer, with Clerks 2 coming in at a close second. Again, great review and rock on.

Dr. DVD

This is one of the first movies he has reviewed that everyone agrees with him on it. I agree though, he nailed it this time around.

Hokeyboy

Why does everyone blow a nut over whatever Roger Ebert thinks? He's just one guy giving his opinion, not the alpha and omega of what's quality in movies today.

And have you seen Clerks 2 yet or are you just prophesizing?

vegasbaby

Speaking of Clerks 2 ... Did you see that picture of Rosario Dawson's mom in the newspaper? If Rosario grows old like that .... OOCH!

Rosario does have nice cans though.

Looking forward to Superman! Hopefully seeing it this weekend.

Mr. Salty

I can only speak for myself, but for me it's the disturbing drop in quality of Ebert's opinions. I don't know if it's because he's getting older, or his recent and ongoing illness, the loss of Gene Siskel to keep him on his toes or what. But I used to agree with Ebert the majority of the time, and even when I didn't he always made good points that I could respect. But these days, he genuinely seems to be out of his fucking mind.

chess

Emotional depths? Peh.

Chalk up one who gets what Ebert's talking about. It wasn't a terrible movie, but the fanboys need to get over themselves because there wasn't really much interesting going on onscreen. Oh, and the kid thing...BEYOND stupid.

Supermallet

Ebert didn't say the kid was beyond stupid. He just wished the tone were happier. Honestly, if this film had been slightly brighter and less melancholy, Ebert probably would have given it 4 stars and praised it to high heaven.

Cinemaddiction

I'm with Ebert as well. The plot was ridiculous.

As I said in the other thread, the casting was fantastic on the surface, but these characters were so montone and lacking in charisma and chemistry, I didn't feel anything for anyone, even with the heavy-handed (and all too obvious via the camera panning to the kid every 5 seconds) baby daddy drama. It had potential, IMO.

Supermallet

SINGLE104

Actually, the filmmakers make movies for the general paying audiences to enjoy, not for the critics. Movie critics are not required to pay an admission to see the movies they review, which has no effective monetary contributions for the success, or failure of movies at the box office.

Patman

But the marketing folks for movies love to use the "Two Thumbs Up!" vote in their print ads, which means they hope to profit from E&R's good reviews for use in the marketing of their films.

SINGLE104

All film critic reviews are based upon their own personal opinions, and should only be perceived as such. Everyone has different taste of movies they like, or dislike, it depends on each, and every individual.

MovieExchange

Forgive me for going fanboy, but...



As for the movie itself... I enjoyed it. I am, however, bewildered by people that absolutely tore X3 to shreds for not following X-Men continuity, but they're praising Superman Returns... which is about as far as you can get from Superman comic continuity without filming that piece of junk script that JJ Abrams wrote.

SINGLE104

Not neccessarily! Because if someone want to see a particular movie, they are going to do so, whether the film received Two Thumbs Ups from Ebert & Roper or not.

Supermallet

At least Superman was true to the previous films, something that X3 cannot claim.

To be honest, I haven't read many of the Superman comics. Just the death/rebirth stuff. I was always a Marvel reader (along with some Batman and alternative comics).

Cinemaddiction

I didn't even mean the Kryptonite, so much as I did that I mean, was that honestly what Superman was brought out of the super hero retirement home for? To which was obvious to us all ,to stop Lex Luthor from becoming an Evil Real Estate agent, and occasionally pop up on screen in the breaks of this soap opera to lift something heavy and speak no dialogue?

Give me a break.

Supermallet

Considering that the idea of Superman is inherently absurd, I see no problem with this.

Cinemaddiction

That's the thing, though. You can leave your brain at the door, and still have your intelligence insulted by this movie because some things are so outlandish and non-sensical. Apparently Singer thought it was all or nothing as far as outrageous plot devices and storylines go, thinking we'd "accept" anything that was hurled at us. The least they could have done would have been to toss a little chemistry in the mix to make up for the lack of one GRAIN of credibility.