Does this movie really have that big of a budget? Until a trailer proves me wrong, I actually have a feeling that it'll be almost completely devoid of much any action. Is the villian anything but Kevin Spacey walking around with a piece of Kryptonite? I don't want to sound like BKB, but if they've already got this sucker rated and still are struggling to show anything at all to make the film look enticing, then it only makes sense that alarm bells would be going off.

Yes, and I've also seen The Usual Suspects. But up against fucking Superman, he looks like he'll get whooped the moment he drops the Kryptonite. I'm not opposed to Lex Luthor, but some physical foe definitely would've been appreciated.

The money shot that seemed to excite him the most was someone shooting Superman with a "minigun." I'm not saying that the film is going to look like it was made by Lars von Triers, but my expectations still aren't very high.

The Footage Wasn't That Great...
by JuicyBusey March 16th, 2006
10:57:49 PM CST
I'm at Showest as well, and have been taking the time to go to all the events and see all the movies. Next to the MI3 stuff, I was looking forward to the Superman footage the most. Unfortuneately, it was a huge letdown. I'm a big Sups geek, but I was extremely disappointed with what I saw, and a lot of other people were underwhelmed by it too. From what I was able to gather, the story of Superman Returns is as follows: Sometime after the original Superman movies (I'm assuming Superman II), Sups disappears. Apparently, he got back into his Crystal spaceship and went for a joyride or something. He crashes back at the Kent farm where Ma Kent finds him and takes her wayward son back in. She convinces Clark to go back to his life as a reporter. Clark goes back to Metropolis and the Daily Planet to find things haven't changed, except for the fact that Lois Lane is now a mom. But he gets his job back around the same time as he decides to be Superman again, and the Daily Planet is buzzing at his return. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor leads a team of people back to the Fortress of Solitude, which he had last seen in Episode II of the original Donner films. He learns all about Superman, and steals a crystal which can grow another fortress-like thing. Luthor steals all the Kryptonian Technology he can from the Fortress, and builds an evil underwater fortress of solitude (which somehow morphs into black crystals laced with Kryptonite). It looks like all his weapons are based off the black/kryptonite crystals. Anyway, Lex returns to Metropolis hell-bent on destroying Superman, so the first thing he does is kidnap Lois and her new bratty kid, just so he can reveal his evil plan to them for using the Kryptonian technology to kill billions of people. Superman runs around trying to stop Lex's evil cronies, finds out Lois is kidnapped, and flies off to save her. Somehow, the plane Lex and Lois were in gets damaged and starts to crash. Superman chases after it to keep it from crashing. That's about where the trailer ended, but I'm guessing Superman goes on to save the day, Lois breaks up with her fiance, the kid is really Clark's lovechild, and Lex is thrown in jail for his evil ways. It's everything you've seen happen before in a Superman movie, only with better special effects. It doesn't seem to have the epic scope that a Superman movie should have. I will say the best part of the footage that was screened was Kevin Spacey as Luthor. But from what I saw of all the other stuff, I can pretty much say with certainty that Superman Returns, while not being a terrible movie, will disappoint.

The money shot that seemed to excite him the most was someone shooting Superman with a "minigun." I'm not saying that the film is going to look like it was made by Lars von Triers, but my expectations still aren't very high.

dude th last cut was just over 150 minutes, and its still being edited.

rots was 144 minutes.i dont see hwo its that long, really.

also its been announced this film is going to have 2 sound tracks-one score, and one of a mix of pop and punk singles from the movie. w.b. really seems to have committed to the marketing for this flick.

They are blowing their chances at promotion. A new trailer should have been released long time ago and it just ins't coming. Last minute marketing blitz will help, but this film won't be huge.

a few people asked me during showest what my take was on superman and i said the exact same thing. It's april and the general audience have at most seen a few magazine covers, a couple of columns on major online publications (by major, i mean stuff like CNN, not superherohype), posters at cinemas and one teaser ad that didn't show anything. the showest footage could have sold a lot of people on this film and should have been released back in feb.

everyone unanimously agreed. then we celebrated by sacrifcing a virgin. I'll miss tonymontana.

They are blowing their chances at promotion. A new trailer should have been released long time ago and it just ins't coming. Last minute marketing blitz will help, but this film won't be huge.