Originally posted by: greencapt
Interesting. I *hated* 'Unbreakable (my one word review- 'Unwatchable'). Mainly this was due to my dislike of M. Night Ramalamadingdong's self-indulgent plotting and pacing which I feel he uses to cover up 'stories' which all revolve around one small idea, usually revealing in his 'surprise' endings. Maybe its just me- maybe the world needs more films with 15 minute shots of people walking down the stairs.
As for 'Hulk' I only recently saw it but would only rate it about 2 1/2 skulls out of 5. Well shot visually for the most part but I feel it suffers from too many chefs- Lee who may or may not have known the characters wanted to do one type of film. This kind of story works just fine in comics where you can have all sorts of specials and 'What If?'s or various single issues. The studio on the other hand wanted another 'Spider-Man', etc and there are *so* many scenes in the films which just scream to me 'studio interference' and I'm sure it was a constant battle... and when it comes down to it the studio pays the bills so they're allowed to do that. Many films mess around with the source material and I'm cool with that as long as it benefits and/or improves the story (ie Raimi decides not to make Peter Parker a scientific genius so the audience can relate to him a bit more, and therefore a non-genius would have had a hard time inventing webshooters- so they become organic to the spider bite).
I think I've reached a point with the new Superman film that I just don't care. None of the supposed plot elements sound all that interesting to me and none of the pictures released scream 'Superman' to me. I hope Routh is a great actor but to me he appears to have the same slack-jawed expression in every image. 'Duh I'm, uh, Superman right? Oh yeah- I'm wearing this suit.'
I'll probably not make any big effort to see this film. I wish that Singer would have just tried to make it his own instead of trying to make it a 'sequel' to Superman II.
Interesting. I *hated* 'Unbreakable (my one word review- 'Unwatchable'). Mainly this was due to my dislike of M. Night Ramalamadingdong's self-indulgent plotting and pacing which I feel he uses to cover up 'stories' which all revolve around one small idea, usually revealing in his 'surprise' endings. Maybe its just me- maybe the world needs more films with 15 minute shots of people walking down the stairs.
As for 'Hulk' I only recently saw it but would only rate it about 2 1/2 skulls out of 5. Well shot visually for the most part but I feel it suffers from too many chefs- Lee who may or may not have known the characters wanted to do one type of film. This kind of story works just fine in comics where you can have all sorts of specials and 'What If?'s or various single issues. The studio on the other hand wanted another 'Spider-Man', etc and there are *so* many scenes in the films which just scream to me 'studio interference' and I'm sure it was a constant battle... and when it comes down to it the studio pays the bills so they're allowed to do that. Many films mess around with the source material and I'm cool with that as long as it benefits and/or improves the story (ie Raimi decides not to make Peter Parker a scientific genius so the audience can relate to him a bit more, and therefore a non-genius would have had a hard time inventing webshooters- so they become organic to the spider bite).
I think I've reached a point with the new Superman film that I just don't care. None of the supposed plot elements sound all that interesting to me and none of the pictures released scream 'Superman' to me. I hope Routh is a great actor but to me he appears to have the same slack-jawed expression in every image. 'Duh I'm, uh, Superman right? Oh yeah- I'm wearing this suit.'
I'll probably not make any big effort to see this film. I wish that Singer would have just tried to make it his own instead of trying to make it a 'sequel' to Superman II.
1) I too have some difficulty M. Night Syama-insert-rest-of-name-here films. So far though the one film of his that I really hate is The Village - he didn't even wait till the end to reveal his big surprise. Funny how people went from calling M. Night the new Spielberg to calling Peter Jackson the new Spielberg...
2) Brandon Routh looks like he escaped from the set of a Power Rangers spin off. He doesn't look old enough to be "returning" from this six year absence that the filmmakers are boasting about.
3) I completely agree with you - Singer should have tried making his own Superman film instead of some kind of semi-sequel to the first two Superman films. Cutting loose from the earlier films was one of Batman Begins greatest strengths, that it wasn't just a rehash of stuff done by Burton and Schumacher, and it would benefit Superman even more, considering how badly the franchise went down in the first place.