Authored by: casey on Wednesday, May 03 2006 @ 07:10 PM

You know, you can't really fuck with Supe. He's the first. And in many
ways, the best.

I admit, I can still be reduced to an awestruck 5 year old by the Man of
Steel.

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"Where a beast has fangs & claws, I have talent."

-Klaus Kinski

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Authored by: DanZ on Wednesday, May 03 2006 @ 09:43 PM

I think it looks sucky, and here are my reasons:
1a - they are sticking to the goofy, silly pun format which was not the intent of the original strip. As a result, the pastiche of setups and manic bits from other movies wears thin as a veneer of tradition.
1b - Superman flies. Any movie where superman flies sucks, but those where he flies with his left fist out and his right arm at his side deserve to be left in my highschool locker. Superman doesn't fly, he leaps tall buildings in a single bound. He's superman - extra strong! He's not a fucking airplane, only mistaken for one. He's not even aerodynamic. How does he turn? Oh yeh, he WILLS himself to veer. Great. An unlovely pastiche of talents and wizardry providing an E-ticket experience for himself and his sexual partners but built with bricks of eugenics and sexual ambiguity. They should've renamed him Pat Kent.
2 - they are modernizing the context, which in itself is okay, but they are keeping that lame 70's goofiness which makes it like a bad remake w/out a reinterpretation. At least Batman Begins rejuvinated an era of that legend when the deep psychological scarring was presented as a foundational element in understanding the Bat-man, a concept present from the start but diluted by Bat-mite and the pastiche of evil apocryphal villains.
3 - The 'look' of the movie appears to be a crappy pastiche of Happy Gilmore, Look Who's Talking, Back to the Future and a cheap imitation of Spiderman. Both "Batman Begins" and "Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow" struggled mightily with a 'look' that was a tailored, contrived and packaged with cinematic invention as successfully as anything seen in The Magnificent Ambersons.
4 - With the exception of Spacey, the cast is lifeless, uninspired, flat and worthless: a pastiche of modern cinematic pandering to median taste, average complexity and sub-cerebral endocrine non-response.
5 - The trailer sucks. Trailer for trailer, the new x-men movie wins 5 oscars compared with Superbomb, whose trailer was nothing more than a pastiche of quick-cut, undirected, goofy, empty garbage. I was convinced this was a new CBS TV series until I realized I was wrong.
6 - At least Trinity died, sort of.

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Authored by: billsimmon on Thursday, May 04 2006 @ 12:48 AM

Dude, stop saying "pastiche."

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Authored by: ariari on Thursday, May 04 2006 @ 01:28 AM

Weird... today one of my teachers was talking about his brother, who runs
the editing company that got the Superman account. Apparently he's been
working nonstop on the trailer for the film since October. Every time he'd
submit something, the head woman from whatever production company is
putting out the film would call him and be like "Could you make this more
hip-hop?" and then next week "Could you make this more chick-friendly?"
Then youth-culture, then eventually I guess she actually asked him to
make it more "Red State/Blue State"! I can't really grasp what angle
they settled on in the end...

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Authored by: DanZ on Thursday, May 04 2006 @ 09:37 AM

What's wrong with "pastiche"? Coming from a guy who starts off his sentences with "Dude", that turns your request into a mighty awkward criticism of my use of language.... and kind of eyebrow raising, in a "look who's talking" kind of way. It's really so... "post-" something or other.

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Authored by: MarkS on Thursday, May 04 2006 @ 12:48 PM

Pastiche was Danz's favorite Boston Band!

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