{"id":611,"date":"2006-07-10T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T11:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2006-07-10T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T11:25:33","slug":"another_opinion_on_supes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/10\/another_opinion_on_supes\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Opinion on Supes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve found a new blog<\/a> that belongs to Tom Richmond, an artist for MAD<\/i> magazine. Like most young boys, I used to be infatuated with slapstick, grossness, and the general disrespect of one’s elders, so naturally I mis-spent a lot of my youth reading that silly rag; not surprisingly the movie parodies were always my favorite “articles,” and I find I can still remember punchlines from many of them.<\/p>\n


\nAnyhow, Tom worked on MAD<\/i>‘s parody of Superman Returns<\/i>, so I found his thoughts<\/a> on the actual movie interesting. He raises a point I hadn’t considered about Brandon Routh’s physicality versus what Superman is “supposed” to look like, and he ultimately ends up agreeing with me:<\/p>\n

Singer brought down the few original ideas and promising new concepts in this film with the heavy handed nodding to the \u201878 movie. As a friend of mine pointed out to me in a discussion of the film, this is more of a \u201clove letter to the Richard Donner film\u201d than it is a movie in it\u2019s own right.<\/p>\n

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Sounds like I hated it, but as I said I actually did enjoy the film. I loved the \u201878 film, so while I was disappointed and distracted by the 154 minute \u2018homage\u2019 I still got a kick out of seeing Superman on the big screen again, with 21st century effects. I hope the sequels do a little better in advancing the Superman saga rather than flying though skies we\u2019ve all flown before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Tom, that’s about where I’ve ended up a week after seeing the movie. I liked it, I didn’t love it, and I’m hoping the next one (because you know there will be) finds its own voice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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