www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/402189-melissa-benoist-cast-as-supergirl
thoughts?
Let's hope they don't blow it like they did with Wonder Woman.
shareThey couldn't get Laura Vandervoort (Smallville's Supergirl) to join in!?
http://www.toofab.com/2015/03/03/helen-slater-melissa-benoist-supergir l-photo/
thanks for the link TMC-4 , good news
shareShe looks nothing like her.
shareat least she has blonde hair and blue eyes and same height like she should be, what else would you have wanted her to look then??
At least she they didn't get a brown eyed brunette
I take it you wanted the same facial structure as the comics or the Helen Slater version
Well, her face is kind of long and not as full as a young girl. Her physical age is about right, but she looks a little older because of her features.
SG is a stunning beauty, and Slater isn't a stunning beauty, just a moderately attractive woman. But SG really needed to be a classic model looking girl from the 20s up through the 50s. Slater looks more like an everyday kind of young woman.
I also don't think she was well directed. Slater's an excellent actress, but even though she impressed the casting director and film's director with her presence, she wasn't right for the part.
oh ok I see what you mean, yea HS is a moderately attractive woman-wouldn't say she looks like an everyday woman as some everyday women are ugly so confused bout that comment lol
what other films are you looking forward to this year
Ya kiddin' me blueghost?
First and foremost, you're trolling around, posting the same thing on about 6 different threads here and for what? You posted some time ago here and you've NO reason to do so again, especially as you have made it clear you do not care for the film itself.
Secondly, YES Helen did quite well in the film. Everybody did. They took a bohemian NYC girl and made her into quite a mighty looking Diamond.
Smoke and mirrors aside I'd say Helen is quite an attractive lady indeed. That smile of her's is right up there with Karen Allen and Audrey Hepburn.
If I had to pic an actress from 84 who physically looked like the character in the drawings, it would have been Michelle Pfeiffer. Those big blue eyes and those eyebrows. She had glamour but I just love how the team behind SG put everything together and YES I feel it worked. To each his own but don't you DARE try to say I'm wrong just because you don't think so.
As for our little newcomer Melissa Beniost. Who can say? She cetainly doesn't look like Supergirl, and I don't know why producers are going against the actual look in some of these comic explosions we're experiencing but give her some time to evolve.
A fan! I can't help but be touched
I happened to catch this film the other day, and got to thinking about it. No, it actually didn't work. I think largely because a woman who can take care of herself was a challenging notion to a lot of people of both sexes when this film came out.
And this film really didn't demonstrate that to any great degree. It showed a middle aged woman competing for the affections of "a cute" groundskeeper.
Unlike Reeve's Superman, Slater's Supergirl doesn't stop any thieves, muggers, other outlaws of any sort. She makes some bad girls pay for a prank, she does fight one monster, but really doesn't do any kind of detective work. In essence she's thrown into the plot where stuff happens to her and she has to react to it.
It's a flimsy plot trying to keep a flimsy story together.
If I had shot it, I would have explained Argo City, I would not have cast Slater, I would shown Kara Zor-El going through the same motions that Reeve's did in the first Superman film of establishing herself, all the while trying to sleuth information on what could have happened to Argo city's power source (a plot device I might have dropped).
And yeah, I would not have cast Slater. She was gung ho, did a good job acting, but she wasn't right for the part. The movie had issues. Tons of issues.
That right! I am a fan, straight up and forward.
Slater aside, it seems you'd have just as well made this be Reeves Superman in a skirt, which is exactly what the Salkinds, and Jeannot Szwarc did not want to do. We'd already seen that kind of set up so they went with something different, which was great.
"cute gardner" was not the point. Selena was after control, power, and a dim-witted but cute gardner was only a personification, for you maybe a poor personification, but still a humianized manifestation of that control and power. It was about the long run of things. It's baffles me that people didn't, and some still don't respond to that.
The real crime was the way they marketed it just like Reeves films even using Williams theme.
Well, that's true, we had seen power and strength, but we'd seen the masculine prodigal son with Reeve's film, which I thought was superb.
The producers and Swarzc simply didn't know who Supergirl, Kara Zor-El was. Yeah, I would have done a partial retread of Donner's film, but I would have shown Kara as a fully realized young woman.
Either that or, since sexism among young people was an issue at the time, make her a 15 or 16 year old with adopted parents, and show her being pulled between two worlds; the super genius cute girl who fends off boys making passes at her, all the while saving the world in her spare time.
Now that's a movie!
One of the primary issues is that neither the producers nor the director knew the character. Traditional Kara from the 50s and 60s was the girl next door. Naive like a lot of girls, but not dumb enough to not have street smarts. And as she matured and went to college, she was very thoughtful as well as determined.
Slater nailed that, but she didn't look the part, and was working with a very poor script.
Yeah, I would have shot something different...a young Kara learning about Earth with adopted parents, then going after terrorists and a super genius head terrorist who knew her weakness. But in the end she would have triumphed. That's the movie people wanted to see, not the "True Romance" thing that they put together.
I hope that helps.
by mikekaraoke23 » 2 days ago (Sun May 10 2015 14:45:47)
IMDb member since November 2004
oh ok I see what you mean, yea HS is a moderately attractive woman-wouldn't say she looks like an everyday woman as some everyday women are ugly so confused bout that comment lol
what other films are you looking forward to this year
The love triangle was silly and not needed. I will agree they should have put more effort into the story but remember they had intended on Superman and Supergirl sharing the screen but Christopher Reeve opted out so they had to do some rewriting.
shareYeah, you're right, they did. But I also think that they needed to start afresh with a new script.
shareThe approach they took actually WAS fresh. The set up was Supergirl as the Archetype figure. A character who goes on a journey, physical, emotional, and mental, all the while learning lessons about herself, and life. This is probably why, as a superhero film it may have missed the mark, but I'm really glad they went a new route.
We saw the same thing over and over again 3 times in Reeves' films, and the first time was the only real time it worked, as the series fell apart with Donner fired, Salkinds jacking with the productions etc. That said, they did go a new direction with SG and it fit perfectly with everything else that was happening at the times. Had it not been a part of the SM franchise it would have fared well. Audiences didn't take the new direction.
When will you ever learn, this feeling is all you can discern?