Dear Superman, My name is Chris. I'm your biggest fan! I'm also adopted and have blue eyes. I hope I'll grow up to be just as tall as you. I do not think I will ever be as handsome. I just finished watching Man of Steel. I'm sorry to say, but I hated it!I just didn't like it as much as Superman II, which I watch on my VCR every day. The new movie makes you look mean and sad. Why is that? I prefer it when you are funny and happy. I also didn't feel like I knew you. You don't really get to have fun with y...
Why the world doesn't need a Superman...At the end of both versions of Superman II, Clark returns to the diner where a bully had beaten him up during him brief stint as a human.With his powers fully restored, Clark issues a littlepayback. It might seem out-of-place for theBoyscout to exact somerevenge, but I believe it was a crucial. It showed Superman, despite the humble, idealistic crusader for "truth, justice, and the American way" was still...just a man.Superman Returns is world-class film-making han...
You will believe a franchise can die!Superman IV swoops in for one futile attempt to restore its good name. Instead, it crashes and burns like the nuclear holocaust it attempts tolambast. Like Superman III, it mistakenlyreferences current events; attempting to imbue anti-war messages while relishing in the splendor of seeing Superman exchange bouts with his super-powered opponent. Like Superman II, part IV underwent a change in management; this time the franchise migrated toCanon Films -- a low-budget fa...
Superman versus Superman versus Richard Pryor. When I look at the poster for Superman III, I see a different tale from what was intended. I see Christopher Reeve – stoic, all-powerful – straining to curl his lips, feigning behind the heavy burden of towing co-star Richard Pryor; a far cry from his trademark grin that ended parts I and II. Superman III takes a perfectly prepared gourmet meal and tosses in some new extra ingredients that ruins the taste. After establishing a mythology, Part III tosses i...
The adventure continues....Both versions of Superman II pushes the mythology and its respected love story into a dizzying array of spectacle, comedy and tragedy. When Jor-El's three imprisoned enemies escape the Phantom Zone and threaten Earth, Superman, isalready entrenched withpersonal torments.In just two films,Superman's identityis revealed to Lois Lane.Theirromance blossoms, but Superman is unable to live the life of a normal mortal while serving as Earth's protector.Superman's quandarybeckons compa...
You will believe a man can fly!The best sequence in Superman remains his debut.After spotting Lois Lane dangling from the top of a skyscraper, Clark Kent scopes a phone booth only to discover it's bottom half is missing,ruining anyhope of secretly changing into Superman. (For Henry Cavill, his optionswill beeven more limited in the cell phone age.)Using a revolving door instead, Clarksurfaces asSuperman,skirtspast an impressed pimp and rocketsto the skyjust intime to catch Lois -- and then a helicopter.D...
The Hangover Part III represents the final stages of a drunken party. If Part I was the crazy fun and Part II was when the laughter begins turning into stages of nausea, then Part III is all of the headache. Todd Phillips cruises this third act to the finish line, but not before dumping all its creative assets onto an earlier lap. Part III not only forgets to incorporate all of its winning elements, save for a mid-ending credits sequence that will either make you appreciate the bonus Easter Egg or walk a...
If youtraceback through the officialcannon of theStar Warstimeline, you may recall that the saga concluded when Lando Calrissean swooped in and demolished the second Death Star and ridded the galaxy of a tyrant.You could argue that it was a metaphor for the turning tildes brought about by the prequels to follow.In this case, the Death Star is Star Wars, which George Lucas labored for decades to buildonly to--with one perfectly aimed shot --start a chain reaction that lead to its ultimate destruction.OK, ...
Star Trek Into Darkness slows its engines to impulse power and plays too safe to the field; refusing to steer too far off course from 50 years of cannon or even from its 2009 predecessor. Despite some original patches, it bleeds into the original. It will face the same issue I had with the first two Harry Potters in which I'll forever struggle to recall which scene belongs to which movie. (Harry fights a snake in the first one, right?) For its first three quarters, the sequel appears to eclipse the orig...
Netflix has recently announced that nearly 2,000 movies titles were being removed from its streaming library. We won't know the extent of the damage until we get conduct a queue count. I did a spot-check and noticed that the classic Star Trek episodes remained intact. In fact, I noticed some new additions, such as 1996's Big Night whose video rights were, somehow, reacquired. But many of the Warner Bros. classics were gone -- seemingly forever so the studio to trumpet their own competing streaming servic...
