I must not look at movies the way the most harshest of critics does, cause I can just about find something good with any movie. it depends on what I am expecting at the theater that can make or kill a movie for me. I have went to theaters and been completely disappointed in a movie. It has happen a few times that I would miss a movie at the theater and it would get great reviews and have a strong box office showing and I would rush out to buy the DVD because of hype and expectations and get the movie home and think to myself why did I want this movie so bad, it sucked.
In 2006 the long awaited movie "Superman Returns" came out, I thought it was a great entertaining movie but Critics, friends was not as thrilled as I was with the movie. Ok I will give you that some parts where over done. I thought that Kevin Spacey role as Lex Luthor was just a tad strained, but over all still good. Come to think of it I feel as if I just blasphemed for suggesting that Kevin Spacey ever had a bad acting role. It could be that I hate the Lex character, he just pisses me off. Maybe I just don't like the ideal of Kevin Spacey doing anything wrong. I have no problem with Kevin Spacey playing a bad guy, but I always want to join him on the dark side. I just did not like the ideal of him beating up on Superman. So maybe it was just the perception that I did not want to join him this time. I love the video game series Call of Duty, Spacey was the voice of the bad guy Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare , again I wanted to join Atlas.
But on to the movie, Bryan Singer of X-Men fame, directed the movie , Brandon Routh played a convincing Superman. I had no problem with his role as Superman. I guess people had a problem with the story line being to much of a love story with Lois Lane played by Kate Bosworth and the possibility of Superman being a father. I am not sure , but I like the story, I thought it was well crafted and very imaginative.
But moving on to 2013 Man of Steel, all you can say is WOW, Freaking awesome, yes I did like it much better then Superman Returns, but it was a different story line altogether, more action and less story but I will not kick the 2006 movie to the curb. Its just a Superman story that I like. Man of Steel was directed by Zack Snyder who has a long awesome movie list in Hollywood. Again they pick a great actor to play Superman in Henry Cavill who has a nice acting resume himself, Amy Adams plays Lois Lane. And there was no Lex Luthor this time around and I missed him. WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!?....
I don't think you can go wrong with any Superman movie or TV Show including Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993-1997 on ABC staring Dean Cain as Superman and the 2001-2001 series Smallville, staring Tom Welling as Clark Kent. Both very different series. I guess the worst ever Superman movie had to be 1983 Superman III Staring the late Christopher Reeve and Richard Pryor, it was a horrible movie. The first two movies where the best, Reeve's made a comeback in Superman IV, it was not the greatest but much improved. So I guess you can go wrong with Superman.
We can never forget George Reeves in the 1952-1958 classic series Adventures of Superman.
However , with all that said I only have two Superman movies in my collection of 400 DVD's. the 2006 Superman Returns and 2013 Man of Steel, both great Superman stories. And that is what it is all about, the story. Am I right?
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