Comments on: Bryan Singer Says ‘Superman Returns’ Was Made For “More Of A Female Audience,” Sequel Would’ve Featured Darkseid

By: TheoC

TheoC — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:12:04 +0000

While I never Superman returns, I felt it was aiming for the right place and maybe worthy of a sequel. I didn't think this with Man of Steel, also Singer's movie felt like a Superman story, not a transformers brain fart with a man in a suit.

By: Superman Returns Rules

Superman Returns Rules — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:12:04 +0000

I speak for the few, the proud, the Superman Returns lovers. It's a terrific, underrated film that got slammed because it wasn't what the nerds wanted. In comparison with Snyder's terrible Man of Steel, it looks even better. Matt Zoller-Seitz made a terrific video essay outlining why it's secretly a success (which is what prompted me to go back and revisit it). Routh was a better Superman than Cavill (who looked the part but had zero presence).

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:12:04 +0000

boring article yawn eat a cuntflap

By: Super Salami

Super Salami — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:12:04 +0000

"moving Superman far, far away from anything at all like subtlety"

trashing Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. for taking a super-sonic (on land and FLYING through the air), super-strong, laser-shooting, ice-breathing, time-rewinding, spandex-suited, humanoid-alien Jesus allegory and complaining about it moving far and away from subtlety?

complaining about crash-zooms is one thing, complaining about superhero fiction and its lack of 'subtlety' is just egregiously symptomatic of the problems with some audiences views on the genre – it's a Hollywood blockbuster, and it must be reiterated, none of them are particularly smart films. Did you really watch Dark Knight Rises for its SUBTLE PORTRAYAL of the haves versus the have-nots? That was surely some sublime subtlety… Subtly sublime! At least Man of Steel had the balls to give us a little bit of humanity in its lead character – the reason people are so upset about the destruction of Metropolis and the killing of Zod is because it has something genuine to it; death. Whereas Iron Man exists in a world where people are never really at peril (so what's even the point of watching?)

By: genga

genga — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:12:04 +0000

That there is the issue of Superman Returns. You should have just made a 'Superman' movie for the general audience. Male AND female. Instead you made a movie about a useless Superman who spends most of the movie stalking Lois Lane like a creep. Women already have a movie like that, and it's called Twilight. We have enough of those!

By: T

Fri, 13 May 2016 08:12:04 +0000

@Ben Brock…..please spell check "dark SIDE"