Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 24th, 2016)

[YoNoSe]

Returns got a lot of stuff right but some crucial stuff wrong. I wish we had gotten a followup with Routh.

 

[Khev]

Returns got a lot of stuff right but some crucial stuff wrong. I wish we had gotten a followup with Routh.

Agree on both counts.

 

[RIDDICK]

Ottman's original score was very good too.



Also, SReturns was able to show Superman's loneliness without making him a massively depressed egocentric.

 

[Skywalker(OG)Kush]

For whatever reason I decided to have Superman Returns play as a background movie last weekend while my kids were off doing their thing and my 9 year old daughter came into the family room after it had been playing for maybe 10 minutes and got totally sucked in. She really enjoyed it. I kind of didn't want her to watch it because I figured STM would be the "proper" introduction to the cinematic character but apparently she remembered enough clips from MOS that she kept asking how SR fit in with it.

I thought it was interesting to see how Snyder has made Superman a bit of a one-note rescuer. When Metropolis was falling apart she kept asking, "Whoa! How is Superman going to stop THAT?? What is he going to punch?" And then she got to see him doing all his cool stuff like incinerating debris with his heat vision, cooling the exploding gas mains with his breath, grabbing ONE person out of the sky and setting them on the ground, etc.

Plus the one exchange between Kitty and Lex had her in stitches:

"Kitty what did my father always say?"

"You're losing your hair?"

"BEFORE that."

"Get out?"



Anyway it definitely still has its "issues" but I was surprised by how well it played in the present day and was reminded at how endearing Routh was as Supes. And that Williams score, damn, it just can't be topped.

I am glad your daughter liked it and you're able to find some redeeming qualities in this movie. IMO its the worst superman movie ever made. Singer's superman was a jealous peeping tom, an absentee father, an adulterer (attempted adulterer was trying his hardest to seduce lois), a depressed cry baby who only smiled when he was trying to seduce someone else's girlfriend or when he saved lois on the plan, that got his ass kicked by two mute (they had no lines) goons. The best part of this movie was the plane rescue scene & the bullet to the eye- the rest was a snorefest of epic proportions. In the end, superman fights and defeats a giant rock made of kryptonite.. Go figure.. he struggles with a plane but he can lift a Manhattan sized land mass made of kyrptonite.

 

[SuperJ300]

I am glad your daughter liked it and you're able to find some redeeming qualities in this movie. IMO its the worst superman movie ever made. Singer's superman was a jealous peeping tom, an absentee father, an adulterer (attempted adulterer was trying his hardest to seduce lois), a depressed cry baby who only smiled when he was trying to seduce someone else's girlfriend or when he saved lois on the plan, that got his ass kicked by two mute (they had no lines) goons. The best part of this movie was the plane rescue scene & the bullet to the eye- the rest was a snorefest of epic proportions. In the end, superman fights and defeats a giant rock made of kryptonite.. Go figure.. he struggles with a plane but he can lift a Manhattan sized land mass made of kyrptonite.

Why isn't Bryan Singer banned from doing superhero movies yet???

 

[Skywalker(OG)Kush]

Why isn't Bryan Singer banned from doing superhero movies yet???

Believe it or not I actually like his xmen movies, but what he did to Superman was a travesty. We're lucky we even got another superman movie after that trainwreck. What's funny to me is that critics liked SR yet it did terrible at box office and got no sequel (rightfully so). Critics didn't like man of steel or BvS but both are getting a sequel because audiences actually paid to see them and they were profitable unlike SR. There is obviously a major disconnect between critics and audiences when it comes to superman

 

[kryptonianmutie]

I really like two of Singer's four X-Men movies so maybe he would've nailed a sequel to Returns, but dead beat space dad Superman was the worst idea ever. Even worse than the weenie pods in MoS.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

 

[Skywalker(OG)Kush]

All Those flying **** pods landed safely in the warm wet landing zone, except one. After a few thrusts, the one holding general Zod exploded like a volcano spewing him into outer space..

 

[SuperJ300]

I really like two of Singer's four X-Men movies so maybe he would've nailed a sequel to Returns, but dead beat space dad Superman was the worst idea ever. Even worse than the weenie pods in MoS.

 

[Prime Clone]

I disagree though, I think what today's cynical and "sardonic" world needs is exactly an overgrown, good hearted traditional boy scout.

It may NEED one but it doesn't WANT one, which was my point.

What's funny to me is that critics liked SR yet it did terrible at box office and got no sequel (rightfully so).

It outgrossed Batman Begins, so by that logic we shouldn't have got the Dark Knight Trilogy.

 

[EVILFACE]

I bet our women would for sure approve of purchasing Hot Toys Pecker Pods.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

I bet our women would for sure approve of purchasing Hot Toys Pecker Pods.

Probably the only time my wife would demand I bought something from Hot Toys.

 

[a-dev]

I bet our women would for sure approve of purchasing Hot Toys Pecker Pods.

Wonder why Hot Toys didn't jump on the chance to make those.

 

[YoNoSe]

Bryan Singer couldn't even make the gayest Superman movie.

But I bet Jimmy Olsen went swimming.

 

[GasparZizou]

It may NEED one but it doesn't WANT one, which was my point.

Where have you been locked up the last couple of years?

Because that's EXACTLY what the world has been screaming for.

 

[Prime Clone]

Where have you been locked up the last couple of years?

Not in here, that's for sure!

 

[rushmore223]

I'm about to do it, I'm about to watch this movie.

Spoiler

Pray for me.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I bet our women would for sure approve of purchasing Hot Toys Pecker Pods.

Gives new meaning to the brand name.