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Post by Legsy on Apr 24, 2009 16:54:41 GMT -5
See, you don't need to see "emotions" to get a joke.
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Post by adam15 on Apr 24, 2009 19:15:15 GMT -5
Lt. Dan from The Gump movie. He just added a G cuz I'm a gangsta, yo! U ain't gansta cuz you be not reprezentin' da hood like i does! U Lt. Dang as in 'dang I lost muh legs!' |
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Post by MerM on Apr 25, 2009 1:23:46 GMT -5
Yo. Ding Dong, man. Ding Dong. Ding Dong, yo.
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Post by The Phantom Menace on Apr 25, 2009 1:51:32 GMT -5
Yo. Ding Dong, man. Ding Dong. Ding Dong, yo. You ain't down with us no more. You ain't fat, you ain't fat! |
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Post by MerM on Apr 25, 2009 1:57:09 GMT -5
You ain't fat, you ain't nothing!
YOU AIN'T NOTHING!!!
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Post by stargazer01 on May 5, 2009 23:13:09 GMT -5
I found this great review on Superman Returns a few days ago, and wanted to share it here. I definitely agree with everything, 'Superman Returns' a Soaring Masterpiece Bryan Singer's touch yields another comic book triumph After a five-year journey into the deep reaches of space to find remnants of his home planet of Krypton, Superman (Brandon Routh) has arrived back on Earth to reassess his place in a world that has learned to survive without his help. Returning to his Daily Planet reporter job as alter ego Clark Kent, he discovers that the love of his life, Lois Lane (nicely played by Kate Bosworth), has a new fiance (James Marsden) and a young son. Frustrated, Superman attempts to reconcile with Lane, but their relationship is put on hold when supervillian Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) reveals his ultimate plan of destructive global repositioning (using Kryptonian crystal technology) that threatens to kill billions unless he can be stopped. "Superman Returns" will be condemned by some for audaciously cribbing from the immortal 1978 Richard Donner feature film (the production says they’re using it as a "vague history") that took the Man of Steel to the next level of worldwide popularity. I look at "Returns" as the sequel Donner's film so richly deserved but was consistently denied. Director Bryan Singer has proven himself confident and steadfast with his recent superhero adventures ("X-Men" and the flawless "X2"), but here he’s made a unapologetic valentine to the picture that helped shape his sensibilities as an emerging filmmaker, and he’s given spectacular new purpose to a character and franchise the silver screen has missed for decades now. It’s nothing short of a superhero masterpiece. The Donner tributes are sprinkled throughout the film (even the deceased Marlon Brando is resurrected briefly as Jor-El, Superman's dad), starting with opening titles that streak across the screen in the same 3-D design they did back in 1978, scored to composer John Ottman’s celebratory reworking of John Williams’s timeless theme. Ottman intermixes Williams's score in several essential places, but instead of sensing bitter thievery has taken place, Singer uses these callbacks as an emotional touchstone; shrewdly using the older music to instantly put the audience right back into the soaring feeling of flight and unabashed heroism. Also disarming is newcomer Brandon Routh, who has the regrettable challenge of filling the beloved red boots of Christopher Reeve while also embodying a Superman for a younger generation who might not know the enchantment of Donner's film. Physically a perfect match for Reeve (sometimes unsettlingly so), Routh is given a wide berth by Singer to find his own voice for the character, and the young actor couldn’t be better in the role. He captures every iconic Superman trait from bullet-swatting brawn to Smallville corn field simplicity with the same effortlessness that made Reeve a rightful legend in the genre. The same could be said of Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor. Miles away from Gene Hackman's habitually comedic reading of the role, Spacey turns Lex into an exasperated madman, blood-thirsty for revenge and seething with real-estate greed. Softened slightly by his girlfriend Kitty (Parker Posey, doing dimwit delightfully), "Returns" puts the menace back into Lex, and his final showdown with Superman is a frightful one that bangs horrifically with five long years of pent up fury. This isn't camp acting from Spacey; this is comic book villainy at its most cunning and cocksure. Much like the "X-Men" series, Singer doesn't merely take the idea of superheroes seriously; he’s willing to plunge to the depths of their darkest fears and profound human yearnings. “Returns” is surely chock full of jaw-dropping special effect set-pieces (one doozy features Supes trying to save a plummeting jet with Lois aboard from crashing into a baseball stadium), but while all the pricey eye candy fills the belly with tremendous satisfaction (the towering CGI and time warp production design here are the cat's meow), Superman's heartbreaking character arc is what ultimately drives the film. Singer and his screenwriters (Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris) take special care fleshing out Superman/Clark Kent. He’s a man who took off without a goodbye to find himself, only to discover his adopted home makes him feel even more alien when he returns. The outsider theme is touched on throughout the film as Superman comes to terms with the love he lost and the world that has figured out how to live without his helpful watch. Routh plays these difficult beats extraordinarily well, imparting Clark with a humbling deep-seated regret and Superman a critical emotional vulnerability: he can stop bullets and save millions in the blink of an eye, but the sight of Lois with a human life he's unable participate in is an emotional barrier he’s powerless to overcome. Singer isn't worried about showing the pure balletic grace of Superman's bravery, especially with a hefty technological upgrade from the 1978 film that's used to dazzling effect, but the moments that penetrate are the ones probing the isolation that matures gradually around Superman during the course of the picture. Blessed with an epic length of 150 minutes, "Returns" balances the various storylines with consideration, cutting back and forth between Lex's murderous ambitions and Superman's rocky reentry. It builds to a gargantuan boil for the climax, but Singer is sure to sustain the silent moments between the characters in the eye of the action hurricane, and unexpectedly saves the final 20 minutes of the film not for explosions and speaker-rattling victory, but for tender plot twists that take Superman further into his desire to live among human beings, and also offers a satisfying bookend to Donner's movie. I treasured the experience of watching "Superman Returns," both as a rabid fan of Richard Donner’s initial gamble and as a filmgoer starving to witness filmmakers with an actual grasp on the idea of an epic cinematic vision. Singer has struck gold here, crossing dangerous terrain to bring Superman back to life, and his efforts to remain true to the heart and to the rippling red cape have provided the overwhelming, goose bump-inducing exhilaration of watching one of the greatest films of 2006. A english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=300950&rel_no=1It's so sad to me that so many others can't see this. |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2009 16:40:07 GMT -5
I think you take it too personally that not everybody loved Superman Returns, Gazer.
The people here who love it, love it. The people who don't, don't. Posting reviews for a movie that came out three years ago isn't really gonna change anything.
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Post by stargazer01 on May 6, 2009 19:50:04 GMT -5
I think you take it too personally that not everybody loved Superman Returns, Gazer. The people here who love it, love it. The people who don't, don't. Posting reviews for a movie that came out three years ago isn't really gonna change anything. I didn't post the review to change anyone's view on the movie. I posted it because it perfectly expresses how I feel about it. I thought others here might appreciate it as well. And I thought this thread was appropriate for it. Do I take it too personal? Maybe. I can't forget that due to all the bitching and whinning from a part of the fanbase, this film is not getting a sequel. I wouldn't care a bit if all the fanboys in the world hated the movie as long as I was getting my sequel. But that's not the case. So yeah, it still makes me very sad from time to time. Can't help it. |
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Post by adam15 on May 6, 2009 20:31:54 GMT -5
It's kinda a win win thing though if a Superman Reboot comes out now. Folks likes you, stargazer, got your SR: a movie you love. And now maybe poeple like me can get our reboot!
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Post by Keith on May 6, 2009 21:00:03 GMT -5
I think folks like Stargazer and myself would not mind a reboot.. as long as Brandon Routh is still Superman.
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Post by Legsy on May 7, 2009 9:36:37 GMT -5
I think you take it too personally that not everybody loved Superman Returns, Gazer. The people here who love it, love it. The people who don't, don't. Posting reviews for a movie that came out three years ago isn't really gonna change anything. I didn't post the review to change anyone's view on the movie. I posted it because it perfectly expresses how I feel about it. I thought others here might appreciate it as well. And I thought this thread was appropriate for it. Do I take it too personal? Maybe. I can't forget that due to all the bitching and whinning from a part of the fanbase, this film is not getting a sequel. I wouldn't care a bit if all the fanboys in the world hated the movie as long as I was getting my sequel. But that's not the case. So yeah, it still makes me very sad from time to time. Can't help it. Express yourself, Star. I don't mind it one bit. |
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Post by atp on May 7, 2009 11:16:14 GMT -5
I can't forget that due to all the bitching and whinning from a part of the fanbase, this film is not getting a sequel. How would a sequel help? The Phantom Menace got sequels. Two of them. And we know how that worked out. The only thing that can help is Mr Thau please create in CGI turning back the world to 2006 and make Superman Returns be good please. |
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Post by Legsy on May 7, 2009 11:22:09 GMT -5
;D
That never gets old.
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Post by crazy_asian_man on May 7, 2009 12:02:07 GMT -5
I hear you. I'm hoping that things will actually unravel in a way that, miraculously, Singer does get a chance to do the sequel to SR.
I think growing up frustrated as heck that Donner didn't get a chance to truly finish Superman 2, unfortunately, is starting to make me used to Hollywood not recognizing a good thing enough when it has it.
That the fanboys who hated SR may be contributing to MOS probably not happening makes it even more frustrating, I'm right with you there. It's like adding insult to injury, and to is as painful as Donner not finishing SII.
Unfortunately, it follows a pattern of great sci-fi/fantasy filmmakers who wanted to finish a story, but didn't get to, for all the wrong reasons: James Cameron wanted to do Terminator 3 his way; Singer wanted to at least produce Xmen 3 if he didn't have time to direct it; Donner of course with SII; Gary Kurtz, who apparently was a more creative force for the original two Star Wars movies, wanted to do Star Wars '3'/Return of the Jedi...... and on and on. ;(
If the story was considered finished, that's one thing. But SR was meant to have another chapter to resolve a lot. ARGGGG!!!
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Post by adam15 on May 7, 2009 13:00:50 GMT -5
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Post by Legsy on May 7, 2009 15:07:17 GMT -5
Sorry if anyone thinks that I actually have something to do with SR sequel not happening. But you did Adam. You're going to go down as the man in history who killed Superman! I hope you're happy. |
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Post by crazy_asian_man on May 7, 2009 15:13:37 GMT -5
Don't worry.... I don't think any single individual on this forum has THAT much influence on WB's decisions.
No need to be sorry about feeling that this/that choice was foolish- everyone is entitled to their opinions. One opinion is no or less valid than another opinion on a movie, but hopefully a post adds fresh angles for others to view them from--- I mainly get bothered when the opinions are stated as facts, and it puts a person in a position of having to either be silent and agree or put energy into getting things back on track to a civil discussion.
A friend of mine hates the idea of Superman having a kid, I love the idea- because I felt it was executed so brilliantly--- and because it evolves the Superman character into a vulnerability that adults who either have kids or have some equivalent can feel, that changes who they are. (and by extension, makes it fascinating to see how a mythical character like Supes would evolve).
If you need Superman to be a hero to identify with who doesn't have that vulnerability, it's fine. The current (for now, as reboots seem to happen every five seconds or so in the DC universe) comix has Superman as someone who can't have kids with Lois, even if he wanted to.
Singer's strength, to me, is that he kept the heart of what's Superman there--- and gave it a giant challenge on different levels. It's easy to have certain ideals and have things be black/white when the situation is simple. When grey areas in life come up, those ideals get challenged--- and when compromising situations are imposed--- either a person can evolve or deny it.
Superman's having a kid--- and having to realize that Lois may be forever unavailable ever again, puts Superman in a compromising situation, if he is for truth (as well as Apple Pie). The resolution to that story is compelling as heck for someone who's had to see a lot of greys come into life.... so to not see that happen is extremely frustrating.
On the flip side, having Superman face (or be in) a compromising position like that may simply make him or her squirm and tarnish a simple version of the character. I have no issues with simple versions of the character that doesn't involve Superman being able to have pg-13 sex--- But I was so engrossed in Singer's version and scenario, that I really wanted to see how that storyline would have been finished under such capable hands.
Singer is far too good of a filmmaker to simply paint himself into a corner creatively. He may change his mind on things (is there a filmmaker alive who doesn't?), but the story he came up with isn't something arbitrarily thrown out to try to cash in or exploit, he was really headed in a great creative direction with it. To have the plug pulled out of it (as well as Xmen 3 from his hands, but that's another story) sucks.
I don't blame you for wanting Superman to not have unprotected sex or have kids- that's a choice anyone can have.... but there was a lot of creative gold in SR- and I wanted to see Singer finish his storylines with a sequel (that may never happen) to it.
Reboot afterwords, fine. But I want the rest of the story as it was meant to be.
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Post by Jimbo on May 7, 2009 15:15:37 GMT -5
Sorry if anyone thinks that I actually have something to do with SR sequel not happening. But you did Adam. You're going to go down as the man in history who killed Superman! I hope you're happy. Adam, we asked you NOT to kill Superman, and you couldn't even do that one. simple. thing. CAM - nothing Adam says is serious. Nothing. |
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Post by Legsy on May 7, 2009 15:37:20 GMT -5
He is a teenager, so we have to take that into account. But so is Movies and he's much wiser than Adam.
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Post by Jimbo on May 7, 2009 15:44:10 GMT -5
"Teenay-juhs, dey tink dey know everyteeng."
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Post by Legsy on May 7, 2009 15:54:29 GMT -5
Jim, don't do that. I know a little piece of you is hurting inside. You grammar police officer you.
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Post by Jimbo on May 7, 2009 16:04:11 GMT -5
That was Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, doofus.  |
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Post by Legsy on May 7, 2009 16:24:54 GMT -5
I wouldn't have known. I've never seen it.  |
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Post by The Phantom Menace on May 7, 2009 16:29:27 GMT -5
I wouldn't have known. I've never seen it.  |
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Post by Keith on May 7, 2009 16:35:38 GMT -5
Never thought I'd see the day where someone quotes The Little Mermaid in a Superman Forum. lol.
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