[lit-ideas] Re: Superman Returns
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:05:48 -0400
I didn't see the movie and have no desire to. The reviewer mourns days of
"real men" who could take a punch. That seems to be a longing for the old days
in the schoolyard, i.e., reflects the reviewer's own immaturity, but maybe my
leftist standards are too high. He also complains, appropriately, I think,
that the characters are too young-looking for the part. They probably are,
but that might be in large part because movies today are made with an eye
toward world, rather than U.S. consumption. Most of the world (especially the
developing world) are obsessed with youth. In a lot of the world, once you
turn 30 you enter the realm of the living dead for the rest of your living dead
life. The "truth, justice and everything that's good" speaks for itself
regarding how the U.S. is now viewed in the world.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 6/30/2006 9:31:35 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Superman Returns
A lurker sent me the following review of the subject movie:
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/?p=1659
The review pans the movie, but the responses to the review are also interesting
and put it in perspective. The reviewer takes on the whole super-hero genre
and not just Superman, but some of the responders argue convincingly that many
of the earlier movie heroes were super-heroes as well.
I have occasionally ordered some movie or series I watched as a kid and have
invariably been disappointed. I can recall going to the Saturday matinees and
seeing Serials that struck me as tremendously exciting. I ordered several of
them not so long ago and found them awful. I haven?t been impressed with any
of the modern Superman, Batman, Shadow, Phantom, Daredevil or Spiderman movies.
I have to watch all this junk because I liked the comic books when I was a
kid, but maybe I?ll skip Batman Returns. . . The animation in the Hulk was
interesting but not the acting or story line ? IMO.
Someone for reasons unclear seems to have recommended reading The Constant
Gardener. I have in the past been enough interested in a movie to read the
book it was based upon, but The Constant Gardener doesn?t fall into that
category.
Lawrence
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