I can say that I'm glad I saw it for free. This is not a comic book movie. This is a movie about how people like older movies, and want to make them over again. Also, this is a movie that needed to be made quickly after Christopher Reeves' death, so that those of us who saw the first three (noQuestforPeace,noQuestforPeaceneverhappenedneverhappenednanananananananananana) could carry that nostalgia into the theater and forgive its multitude of flaws.
meh.
However, the Super-kid drives me freaking apeshit. From the moment I saw it, I knew it was Clark Kent's kid. Not Kal-el's, Clark Kent's. The Kryptonian super-science of Movie #2 was to have turned him completely into a human. Not a alien from another part of the galaxy whose DNA is remarkably similar to that of a human being's. A 100% match would be required to bring that kid to term successfully, even a few points of variance would have taken it off the table.
Lois only knows who the father is because of the incident on the boat, and Lex Luthor's cleverness. I'd wager she did indeed think it is Richard's kid, born premature (or perhaps even full term, the Kryptonian gestation cycle is unknown) Since she has no memory at all of the second movie (or perhaps a very skewed recollection, thanks to mystery power X), it's not a leap she could make on her own.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is no longer relevant with the retconned Superman powers (regretfully used for this movie, the only real nod to comic books other than the name of the main character and a few of the supporting cast). He no longer gets it from the decreased gravity and strange exposure to the yellow sun transforming him into the Ubermensch. Thanks to John Byrne and some spectacularly un-inspired storytelling in the late 80s, Kryptonians now have superpowers on Earth (and some other parts of space) by storing solar radiation from a certain class of star(ours)within their cells. When Jor-el's crystal whammy hit the superwimp, his cells would have become human, without the potential for big fun.
But since that clearly did not happen, it can instead be theorized that the swimmers got whammied as planned, but died before they could recover their full strength. Since half the kid's DNA is human (rant, rant, rant), the cells would need much longer exposure to the sun than baby Kal-el's did, and they kept that kid under wraps something fierce because of his supposed medical conditions (a slight special variance could account for these "birth defects" (check out the liger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger) and the tigon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon) sometime), but since we later see that they are not permanent, I point to the mother for those inherited characteristics. Or perhaps her FREAKING CIGARETTES). It may have been a year or so's store of solar power used in that piano push, and he couldn't do anything else super beside throw away his inhaler afterwards.
(rant, rant, rant)
P.S. Next time, find us someone WHO LOOKS LIKE SUPERMAN, and not like Christopher Reeves. I understand why they cast him, but he's still the wrong choice. There are much more beleivable (http://www.paulhasenyager.actorsite.com/index.html) actors who could fill those tights.
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Now that it's out
Date: 2006-07-04 05:44 pm (UTC)meh.
However, the Super-kid drives me freaking apeshit. From the moment I saw it, I knew it was Clark Kent's kid. Not Kal-el's, Clark Kent's. The Kryptonian super-science of Movie #2 was to have turned him completely into a human. Not a alien from another part of the galaxy whose DNA is remarkably similar to that of a human being's. A 100% match would be required to bring that kid to term successfully, even a few points of variance would have taken it off the table.
Lois only knows who the father is because of the incident on the boat, and Lex Luthor's cleverness. I'd wager she did indeed think it is Richard's kid, born premature (or perhaps even full term, the Kryptonian gestation cycle is unknown) Since she has no memory at all of the second movie (or perhaps a very skewed recollection, thanks to mystery power X), it's not a leap she could make on her own.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is no longer relevant with the retconned Superman powers (regretfully used for this movie, the only real nod to comic books other than the name of the main character and a few of the supporting cast). He no longer gets it from the decreased gravity and strange exposure to the yellow sun transforming him into the Ubermensch. Thanks to John Byrne and some spectacularly un-inspired storytelling in the late 80s, Kryptonians now have superpowers on Earth (and some other parts of space) by storing solar radiation from a certain class of star(ours)within their cells. When Jor-el's crystal whammy hit the superwimp, his cells would have become human, without the potential for big fun.
But since that clearly did not happen, it can instead be theorized that the swimmers got whammied as planned, but died before they could recover their full strength. Since half the kid's DNA is human (rant, rant, rant), the cells would need much longer exposure to the sun than baby Kal-el's did, and they kept that kid under wraps something fierce because of his supposed medical conditions (a slight special variance could account for these "birth defects" (check out the liger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger) and the tigon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon) sometime), but since we later see that they are not permanent, I point to the mother for those inherited characteristics. Or perhaps her FREAKING CIGARETTES). It may have been a year or so's store of solar power used in that piano push, and he couldn't do anything else super beside throw away his inhaler afterwards.
(rant, rant, rant)
P.S. Next time, find us someone WHO LOOKS LIKE SUPERMAN, and not like Christopher Reeves. I understand why they cast him, but he's still the wrong choice. There are much more beleivable (http://www.paulhasenyager.actorsite.com/index.html) actors who could fill those tights.
P.P.S that Lois Lane can sure take a punch, eh?