I was skeptical about this movie but it seems to carry on the feeling of the Christopher Reeves films. The new guy sounds exactly like him, and pulls of the Clark character extremely well. I am officially looking forward to this movie.
Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
Looks pretty sweet. The new guy does look the part. The new Lois doesn't look brilliant, but she'll do. I noticed the trailer's littered with a lot of Superman-pop-culture references... dunno how I feel about them, but could funny if they're all done right.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to it now. We'll be seeing it at the IMAX, I believe.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
I cant see it either, stupid quicktime garbage. But I did go to mytube and saw it, though it was low res.
Loved the old 70's superman music, and the voice of Supermans dad sounded exactly like Marlon Brando. AWESOME.
Film looks good, I'm getting hyped about this movie. As an aside, found this while looking for the trailer. Some kid pulling stunt in his college class. Thought it was funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYnZ...search=superman
But if you think like that ... he also has skin as stong as steel ... like the terminator ... and can run really fast ... just like sonic the hedge-hog ... and can shoot lazors out of his eyes like, errm, help me out here!!
I can't explain how cool that is. I thought it was a voice impersonator. I didn't know it was really Marlon Brando. I rarely get this hyped about a movie, but now I'm in the stratosphere.
Brando being in it is so cool, I don't know what to do. Freak out like some Nerdo Geek Guy and just go on and on about it I guess.
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Director Bryan Singer decided on using stock footage of Marlon Brando that was originally shot by Superman (1978) director Richard Donner for the Singer version. Brando and Christopher Reeve were once filmed interacting with one another to be used in Superman II (1980), but due to a lawsuit against the Salkinds for a percentage of the sequel, the scenes were deleted and re-shot using the mother instead.
I also watched a Larry King Live show with Kevin Spacey, the dude who plays Superman, and the director. They kept showing scenes of Superman saving this jetliner. It was the coolest thing I ever seen. Made me tear up.
And they showed a scene of Superman taking off, and about halfway up, there is a micro cloud ring explosion thing, like water vapor poofing out when he hits the sound barrier. I think that might be the coolest thing I ever seen in a movie.
No way I'm waiting for the DVD, I'm heading out to the theater for this one.
The original plan was to have Richard Donner direct Superman and Superman II at the same time. Indeed, he had completed about 80% of Superman II, then producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind, decided to replace Donner with Richard Lester. Cast and were called back for reshoots. In a seperate dispute with the Salkind's, actor Marlon Brando as Jor-El, was excised from the story completely. Although Brando shot scenes for the sequel, with Donner calling the shots, a lawsuit prevented them from being used. Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, was called back for the last of his pick-up shots, he refused, out of respect for Donner and a stand in was used. When you wath the film, anytime Hackman on screen, that's footage that Donner shot. Lester's task was to complete, not only the the remaining 20%, but in order to recieve credit from the director's guild, he had to replace much of the non Hackman stuff as well---essentially only 25% of Donner's footage remains in the film, as it is currently relesed on DVD.
I had no idea any of this happened. I knew Superman 2 was o.k., but a little hokey. I didn't know The Salkinds sacked the director and cut Brando's scenes. No wonder the other movies sucked as bad as they did.
All I can say, is I don't how long he will be in the movie, maybe only a few seconds, but this is the most awesome thing since Neo took up that pole, and started beating Agent Smiths with it.
05-03-2006 06:51 AM
