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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] Anyone else catch Richard Branson among the shuttle crew? That was a nice touch. When I first saw the film, I admit, I was riding the nostalgia train. The performances, the style of dress, and principly the music took me back to a simpler time. A bumbling Clark, The Daily Planet, a real honest and upright good guy, and a deceitful and clever villian took me right back to popping that ragged VHS into my parents' monstrosity of a player. A subsequent viewing helped me to enjoy it in its own right. I don't think it's a great film, but there is an awful lot to enjoy. I [i]liked[/i] the cape and the smaller, protruding S. The effects were for the most part terrific and little touches like the dogs and the sequence with Lex's train set were just brilliant. I found Superman's first public reappearance with the shuttle to be very stirring (not quite the riders of Rohan charging, but stirring). So my big problem was that while the climax certainly had some exciting action, and drama, it just didn't quite ignite the way earlier sequences had. I think part of it was a basic problem with Lex Luthor. By telegraphing his intent with the giant continent of Kryptonite it defused the brilliance of his plan. We weren't really all that surprised when he sucessfully decks the man in the cape. By letting the audience in on the plan ahead of time, it lessens the impact of that moment and instead of duping Superman, it makes our hero sort of a dope. I guess I 'm a fan of the idea that although Lex Luthor isn't faster than a speeding bullet, etc, he is really, REALLY intelligent, and that's why and how he is a threat to the man with the S on his chest. I like that Superman caught Lex's foot at one point, and I felt like maybe he ought to have been able to put up a little more of a fight before getting stomped and Krypto-shivved. Add to that the Lois Lane housefamily turning about to rescue their rescuer, great for Superboy and triangle-tension, but it made our protagonist's triumph seem a lot less triumphant. I really enjoyed the sequence with him getting sunned up and then diving into magma and lifting the nacent Krypto-continent into space, and the coma and the denouement was nice. So it certainly had some problems, but I still thought it was a fine film and really there was so much to enjoy that I was willing to overlook some story and continuity/physics problems. (I never even thought about the relativity issues with his 5 year round trip to the remnants of Krypton. I must have left my Star Trek in my other pants) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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