Friday, June 30, 2006
yeah, yeah, I know...
...these things always take longer than you think (or hope) they will. In any case, the novelette is almost done, and I'm taking a summer break for the next week. After that I should be back to posting some entries on a more regular basis.
In the meanwhile, Superman Returns seems to be the geek water cooler topic du jour. I caught it the other night and...well, it's a handsomely mounted film, and if you liked the original '70s Donner films then you'll probably enjoy it a lot. Myself, I always found the Donner films to be both goofy and self-important at the same time, and Superman Returns has a similar dissonance. The entire Luthor plot is rendered utterly silly by their attempts to mirror Gene Hackman's interpretation from the originals (though there is an excellent speech that Kevin Spacey delivers about Prometheus that gives a hint as to how the character could have been done). That said, it isn't a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, just not my taste; but then, neither are the Spider-Man movies. Worth a watch at the very least.
(My favorite superhero films? Almost anything from the Dini/Timm DC animated universe. Batman Returns/Begins. X2. Blade I/II . Incredibles. And...hmmm. There really aren't that many good superhero movies, are there?)