The SRK Movie Fanatic Thread (REVIEWS, QUESTIONS, RANTS, STARS...ETC.) EVERYTHING!

“He’s Superman. Of course he punches things.” Bullshit. The best of Superman’s stuff almost invariably tends to be low on physical violence and heavy on the more fantastical stuff.

Incidentally, his comics are currently on life support because DC’s people have no idea how to write him. But at least he punches stuff in them, right?

No. As an avid comic reader, I find the Superman comics incredibly boring, even with the punching. The movie was exactly the same, except without the punching and oh boy was it boring. I agree that I enjoy the fantastical elements to Superman, and also enjoy his roles in various super teams, but we’re talking about a movie here, not a 5, 6 or 7 part story arc with lots of background lore and history.

I was a huge fan of Jarhead because it took a look at the other side (mental) of warfare instead of combat, but Superman doesn’t have this same “personal” depth in the film, so it comes off as stale rather than interesting.

I was wondering, why doesnt Disney do anything new with Mickey Mouse or any of its established characters?

was House of Mouse it?
instead of focusing on direct to video sequels of films that shouldnt have sequels they should focus on their mascot characters. Donald Duck ftw.
this wasnt really movie related but it might as well be.

I don’t think that the superhero genre, much less Superman, must necessarily include punching. The genre is fertile ground for many kinds of storytelling and action is only one of them.

I think the fact that so many people insist on boxing superheroes in like that are why we have so many bad superhero movies, not to mention why superhero comics have been so awful for a while now.

ah 2 mins until weeds s4 starts and my satellite isn’t picking up showtime for some reason :frowning:

friggin storm

i just started watching californication…so far it’s awesome

Regarding Superman Returns…the kid, and the whole growing rock thing bothered me.

The only person what was great in the movie for me was Kevin Spacey…kick ass Luthor.

s3 finally came out on dvd, we watched disk one last night. i was a little worried about this season, but the first five were good…

i have john from cincinnatti to watch this weekend, it came highly recommended…

oh, and i have to give pg a nod for all his “how i met ur mother” love - nph is effing GENIUS on that show…

slap bet

john from cincinatti is horrible…be prepared

really? man…it came pretty well recommended by someone at my work who has very comaprable tastes to mine…californication was another one on my “i have to check it out” list…

i’m honestly surprised you never got into arrested development after seeing HIMYM, very similar styles…but yeah, slep bet KILLED me…when barney throws out the three quick smacks…i lost it…

http://www.fangoria.com/fearful_feature.php?id=6750

info on descent 2

But when i hear of a Superman movie, i think back to Superman 2 when he fought those 3 kryptonian prisoners. Thats something that Superman Returns should have went for. Put some action in it where Superman fighting someone of equal strength. Hell I would’ve been satisfied if it was Luthor in a giant robot.

At least Batman Begins had equal parts action and drama.

the script is horrible, shits on everything that was good in the first one…I’m still trying to burn it out of my memory. For me, the international ending is the final word on the descent.

i couldn’t agree more. while i’m not the fan of descent that some are, i still feel the movie was fine just how the uk version ended…

ok, i have recently become obsessed with QUALITY sci-fi. any recommendations?

also, are there any really good documentaries on black holes?

westworld

the mist was a great movie

sunshine…

im outi

Roberth

with a fucked up ending :frowning:

i heard this was pretty good, but had a lot of glaring scientific inaccuracies…

btw, did anyone catch the afi ten top ten last night? i know most those lists are complete bs, but i enjoy watching them anyways. in case anyone is interested, here are the lists:
http://www.afi.com/10top10/default.html

some thoughts by catagory:

animation - i pretty much agree with their choices.

romantic comedies - ok, first off, if the apartment isn’t going to be number one, then it better be annie hall. also, how the FUCK does sleepless in seattle make the list, but the apartment does not?! also, harold and maude should be MUCH higher.

westerns - i would rearrange the whole list and drop cat ballou for magnificent seven, put high noon up to number one, drop the searchers down a spot or two.

sports - not a huge fan of sports movies, so i don’t have much input. i think rudy should replace jerry maguire, and chariots of fire should replace breaking away, but otherwise, good choices.

mystery - again, mostly agree with their choices. i figured hitchcock would be all over the list, and he was.

fantasy - some very interesting choices here…i really don’t know what to say about this list except that it was the least interesting to me.

sci-fi - 2001 at number one? ok, this list is just fine. i like some of their choices, but felt they could rearrange some of the films in the list. also, on a perosnal note, empire is better than a new hope, but they always give the credit to the first film. t2 over the first film was interesting.

gangster - ok, the top three of this list was sooooo effing predictable. i agree with it, cept i could switch number 2 and 3 without batting an eye, but it was a pretty good cross section of gangster films.

courtroom dramas - interesting choice of catagory. i predicted number one and two pretty easily. overall, not an interesting catagory.

epic - again, very predictable choices. i’m not saying i disagree with them, but i could have predicted those films in my sleep - cept maybe the placement of ten commandments, that was strange.