http://www.minewastaller.com/2006/07/22/superman-returns/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.minewastaller.com/2006/07/22/superman-returns/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Review: Superman Returns at Is there food? Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:45:19 +0000 http://www.minewastaller.com/2006/07/22/superman-returns/#comment-9 […] Which is the other problem: nobody wanted, or perhaps dared, to reboot the original franchise. Christopher Reeve’s truly iconic portrayal of Superman has a fiercely guarded place in people’s hearts. As an example, my wife refuses to see Superman Returns, disgusted as she is that this new film has been allowed to exist. Singer and co. are either obsessed with Richard Donner’s original film to the point of mimickery (as some reviewers suggest) or are so incapable of escaping the weight of Superman’s cinematic legacy that they feel unable to change things by too great an extent. The classic score remains, Marlon Brando’s lines of dialogue are featured heavily, and the opening titles are created to resemble those of 1978. Albeit with a large dose of CGI in the background. […] […] Which is the other problem: nobody wanted, or perhaps dared, to reboot the original franchise. Christopher Reeve’s truly iconic portrayal of Superman has a fiercely guarded place in people’s hearts. As an example, my wife refuses to see Superman Returns, disgusted as she is that this new film has been allowed to exist. Singer and co. are either obsessed with Richard Donner’s original film to the point of mimickery (as some reviewers suggest) or are so incapable of escaping the weight of Superman’s cinematic legacy that they feel unable to change things by too great an extent. The classic score remains, Marlon Brando’s lines of dialogue are featured heavily, and the opening titles are created to resemble those of 1978. Albeit with a large dose of CGI in the background. […]

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