Vaderisnothayden said:
Thank you for explaining where that Superman film fit in. I'd wondered. Though to me it's an entirely different canon, because that's a different Superman. Different actor hence different universe. I tried watching that new Superman film and I gave up. It was pathetic. I also thought Frank Langella was badly miscast, though not as horribly miscast as he was in Frost/Nixon.

Yeah, it should have been definitively entirely different canon from the first films. This is really what hurt the film so badly, you are marketing the thing to an entirely new generation, yet you make them take a trip to the rental store and watch two out dated movies, that would, unfortunately, very much be considered boring by today's audiences, in order for them to really get exactly what is going on in this new film. They really tried to make all the actors fit with cast from the older movies too, though very unevenly. They kind of picked and choose. The whole thing felt very half assed to me.

I loved the Reeves Superman films as a kid, but I was really looking forward to a Sups reboot for the Batman Begins generation. Too bad all we got was another turd on the vast pile Holliwood turd pile. In this era of comic book movie madness, Superman deserved a hell of a lot better than that.