discardia

I reread my previous post on Superman… and I think it needs some more positives.  I really did enjoy it.
The movie is cool.  Very cool.  It moves the franchise forward, and makes a great bridge between the Richard Donner movies and the future Superman movies with Brandon Routh.  It is also very entertaining.  While not an action film, it serves plenty of action, and the heart of the story really is emotional.  Having an emotional side to the Supes is a very nice development to the film character.

So don’t get me wrong.  If I have the chance, I will be seeing it again in the theater.

I really enjoyed it.   I just had hoped for a tad more.  A tad more crisis.  And it doesn’t do crisis.  It does heart.

Which is good too.  Just not what I was hoping for.  I guess if Superman is Jesus - I was looking for the Matrix cool factor.  A Jesus that kicks some butt. And he really doesn’t.  His only enemies are the world around him.  Events, catastrophes, plane crashes, meteors, kryptonite land masses, etc.  Luthor is just a plot device.  I would have enjoyed to see him holding more cards than just some crystals (which Supes loses in space?).

It feels like a plot hole at the end… the whole crystal thing from his Fortess of Solitude.  Gone?  The sum knowledge of the Kryptonian culture?  Gone?

Hmmmmm.

The gang is signed on for two more movies, so I guess we will see.  We will see.