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Anyone else find this movie terrible

posted 14 years ago by Lord_Of_Stripperfell
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I mean, this movie just felt so stupidly written. Some things in the movie just did not make sense. I mean, for example, why in a maximum security prison do they allow Lex to build a robot!?!

Most of the characters in this on also felt terribly written. Like the 2 time traveling people, and the kryptonian astronauts. The main characters were written a bit better, but it wasn't enough to compensate for the other writing flaws in the movie.

When i saw how many positive reviews this movie got i was shocked, so maybe im missing something, but this felt worse than Superman Returns

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[–] cuong1981 14 years ago

I agree, i was was surprised when i saw all the good reviews for it. the plot was so rushed and I like the backgrounds a lot but my wife and I thought the character designs were horrible. (though I did like the tone/themes of the movie)

I figured out that the movie was tryin to take the plot from a long running comic series so that makes a lot of sense on why the plot was really rushed.

I wished that they made this into a trilogy or just wrote out the lesser plot points. I mean, i could've watched the Bar-El and Lilo as a whole movie and be happy with that.

This is the first time in awhile an animated comic movie hasn't lived up to expectations so I can't complain too much though. I love the whole comic book animated movie movement and will support it as long as the quality holds up.

I wouldn't say it's worse than Superman Returns, at least they got the tone right in this one.

[–] MannyElias 14 years ago

I'm going have to agree with you guys on this. I just finished watching this last night and the whole movie just felt rushed. I mean it's introducing multiple characters, presumably like one of you said as a take on the history of the comic series, just for the sake of having them in the movie. The end result just seem like a giant pot luck with no logical cohesive storyline. The two Kryptonian astronauts story line didn't add anything to the development of the plot at all. You can just delete that part and still have the same movie, albeit a shorter movie.

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[–] Spyte 13 years ago

I think terrible is a bit of an exageration but like 'Red Hood' I find the story superficial and on the whole unconvicning. The animated movies do seem to be trailing off with heady/pretentious ideas but insubstantial stories, this one is all over the place in tone, littered with contrivances that are either banal or naive.. it was a dissapointment, but not so much as the word terrible conveys imo.

[–] skillz4realz 13 years ago

For this movie it seems that they assumed everyone had already read the comic series it was based on. If you haven't, and I'd guess that most viewers have not, then I can totally understand someone not liking it.

I watched it with my girlfriend, who typically enjoys animated comic movies, but this one just bored her. It's not her fault, or the film's creators, it's just that if you haven't read the All-Star Superman series, it will be hard to accept and enjoy this.

It is a superb adaptation of the comics, but confusing for those who have not read them. But this story is widely considered to be the best Superman story of all.

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[–] Spyte 13 years ago

Ultimately Film imo is a different medium to the written page, which is a different medium to a novel, which different again to tv or radio etc etc, when something is imagined from one medium to the other it has to exploit the medium to best effect by playing to its strengths and compensating for its weaknesses, but here, very much like 'red hood' I think too much is taken for granted and it just failed to come to life and lacked any resonance on screen.

Even as a comicbook fan I just never felt engaged or involved by what was happening here, I never cared for or believed in any of the characters so it just came across overly contrived and quite ponderous in parts. It may well work as a reminder of the effect the comic had but it didn't deliver anything of its own if that memory was distant or absent.

[–] ramelramelramel 13 years ago

I don't get why Luthor was allowed to live this long. Why wasn't he just shot in the head a long time ago, LOL! :D