SUPERMAN and Other Summer Movie Pics

Still have a bad feeling about this one, and that photo doesn't make me feel any more confident...

Billb, This is the one film I am not worried about for this summer. It is Bryan Singer who is directing it and he has never made a bas movie in my opinion. He did X-men perfectly and now I am more worried about X3 then Superman returns.

I'm 51/49% on this one. 51% hopeful, 49% doubting. The risks being taken by Singer on this remind me, in some odd way, of some of the risks Burton and Schumacher took on Batman. To be blunt, those Burton/Schumacher Batman films stunk. Granted, Singer did a great job with X-Men, and has did get an unknown for Supes, which is why my hope outwieghs my doubt... still...

So many landmines with this...

I'm not so much worried about Singer's involvement, he seems to take his job very seriously. What concerns me is that Jon Peters (hack) is producing it. After reading the back story of how this film actually got befora the camera (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169526&threshold= 1&commentsort=0&tid=97&tid=186&tid=1&mode=thread&cid= 14128733) I'm worried that a lot of important decisions were made before Singer came on board.

Give the Slashdot story a read... it's quite scary...

I'm very hopeful that this movie is going to be a homerun. I doubt if ANY actor could ever erase the first time I saw Christopher Reeve in THE costume, but I'm trying to give Routh the benefit of the doubt. I really can't see Bosworth as Lois Lane; she just seems too mousy, kids-like. Is it just me, or does she still look like she's 12? I believe Spacey will be brilliant as Luthor. My problem is the costume. Superman's costume is iconic in its own right. Singer was quoted saying that a screened "S" on lycra would have looked too dated. Fine, but why change the costume as much as he did? The color change was, I think, very unnecessary. And I know the "S" has been many different sizes of the years, but it looks better when it's bigger; makes the man wearing the suit seem more powerful (I'm seeing the Alex Ross drawn Superman in my mind). The neck of the costume to too tight, making Routh look smaller I think. Reeve's custume had an open neck and it just looked better. Routh just doesn't look like he could punch a hole in a planet.

Just what I figured, he leaves the planet defenseless to go find his roots? Hello? planet destroyed that's to find? That sounds stupid on so many levels. A PG rating will be the kiss of death for this film, if there's no splatter, torture, gore and dehumanizing violence teenagers won't go see this film. And adults won't like it beacause they will feel that it rips off the original. It will have that been there that feel to it, like King Kong. The film will have moderately sucessful opening, then will drop off rapidly.

I see you know your stuff man!!! GREAT POST!
Brandon LOOOKS WEAK anyway, we are really far from Alex Ross is SUP or EVEN Jim Lee's or the really hated, long hair anti icon DAn jurgen's man o steel.

Look's weak, looks fake, but the movie will be magic.....I certainly hope. Respect Supes

Well I remember when Christopher Reeve was in the first Superman a lot of people complained that he was too young, that he didnt look like George Reeves that was an update version for the character that his uniform was too colorful that the S was too big etc.

Personally I would have rebooted the series instead of continuing a series that ended 20 years ago. People can "get" a comic movie that isn't campy these days. Play it straight. I'd start with Superman's first public appearance and go from there. Comedian Lex always just seemed so wrong.

The x-men movies don't really resonate with me just because how they've been set up (that's just ME) and who's been cast and so I'm not really feeling Mr. Singer's take on SR, mainly because, if I understand this right, this is a re-telling, an origin story, and Lex Luthor is the chosen one, the protagonist for Superman. [shrugs] Someone from another messageboard put the idea that using LL was a way to relate to Supes' humanity. Let's examine this:
1. Place of origin: Krypton
2. Birth name: Kal-el
3. Circumstances: Home world's imminent destruction, troubled scientist husband/father and wife/mother Kara(?) rescue their one and only child and is placed in a, uh, a self-contained environmental outerstellar space-travelling machine (bear with me, folks)
that nourishes the infant, and for all we know, is actually a surrogate. So, its passing down information to this babe science, history, you know, he's getting his education. What a lucky kid.
4. Space vehicle enters our galaxy, our solar system, and heads straight for USA! Hooray!
5. Crash lands on a farm field and is discovered by kindly old couple, the Kents.
But just before this eventful meeting, this alien child, is alien in more ways than one. Sure, he resembles outwardly a human being, but he's already been reared by that machine and so whatever culture, custom, regards were passed down to him by his parents via that machine,it's just innate now, even though he is shown love. Essentially, he ain't us, however, Supes' humanity is going to come through no matter who or what he's up against. Are people going to wish there was another kind of protagonist other than Lex Luthor? He's all over the place, the movies, the television series. What?!? Superman can still show his humanity while something colossaly epic threatens the citizens of earth, isn't that what anyone wants to see? I'm confused and maybe I'm wrong. [STUMPED] Help me out, here folks....