Two posts in one day?! Eh, what can you do...it's not like I planned on anything else interesting to happen.
Well, I just came back from watching Pixar's new movie Cars, and man I have not seen so many trailers for 3D movies in one sitting. It's like it's all the rage right now o.O
Anyway back to Cars, without giving anything away, I utterly loved this movie. Even my mum loved it, which you can tell by her not sleeping through it (which she kinda did with the last three movies we saw, heh). Actually, I love all of Pixar's movies, they've just had gem after gem, and this one was just as good. It may have played on certain cliches, but it's story was enjoyable as well as the gags; if it's one thing Pixar knows how to do, it's to keep an audience entertained while telling a story.
While I know how I felt about this movie, I can't say much about Superman Returns (finally I get to it). I went into the movie, watched it, had a decent time and came out with mixed feelings. I couldn't tell if I liked it or not; never have I been able to tell if I like a movie or not. I'm not saying the movie was bad, but I don't know if I can say it was good either.
First off, the idea and plot was good. Second off, I liked how it was delivered and how the resources were used. But really, Lex Luthor as your villain kinda gets boring; it's no wonder why people only remember him as Superman's nemesis, he's only been the movie villain for like forever. Sure he's the big bad guy and seriously has it in for the boy scout superhero, attmepting to get rid of him in more ways than one and recurs in the comics, but it would be nice to see other villains step up to the plate...like the Batman movies, you don't see the Joker coming back in every movie. Same thing goes for the X-Men movies...Magneto is their arch nemesis, but it would be nice to see other villains like Mr. Sinister.
Another thing that annoyed me about this movie is that the guys who came up with the script decided to stick their little asses in; it's like they're saying "Ooh! Look at us, we wrote this movie and it gives us automatic rights to be in it, so hah!" I know, that's a bit of a whine, but it annoys me, I wanna watch a movie, not see if there's a cameo made by the guy(s) behind it. Even Stan Lee being in movies annoys me. If you throw Woody Allen in my face, I tell you now, I have never seen a single movie of his and don't plan to. Ever.
I liked the Superman costume in this movie, but I don't like how it makes him look like he's a freak. Have you seen how long his upper torso looks? It's like dude, is there something wrong with your body? Then you realise it's the way the costume was designed...
One final thing, something that I agree wholeheartedly with Bhavna on, is that...why make a sequel in the first place? As far as I know, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace didn't leave room for a sequel. It wouldn't have killed them to make a completely brand new movie and still dedicate it to Christopher Reeve and his mother. There's something about Lois that bugs me, but I can't mention it since there are those who haven't seen the movie, but plan to when it comes out on TV.
So, those are my movie reviews and I'm going to go off to do some stuff, toodles!
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I, too, had trouble with Luthor, mostly because his plot seemed to make little sense at all.. Except for the length, however, that was my only quibble with Mr. Singer's mostly satisfactory take on the Man of Steel
*SPOILER*
I found Luthor's plot to be interesting, but I didn't really get the whole use of the two Kryptonites. Oh and at the end there was a lot of green Kryptonite poking out the pseudo-Krypton, I didn't know how Superman was able to handle it...
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