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[Matrix]

edit- some new footage in clip

http://homepage.mac.com/jawhite20/superman-itunes.mov

 

[ManaByte]

New clip up on itunes *spoiler I guess*

http://homepage.mac.com/jawhite20/superman-itunes.mov

Not new. Been out for a while. At least the first half.

 

[Matrix]

Not new. Been out for a while. At least the first half.

Yea well part is new

I hadnt seen all of it.

 

[Matrix]

Thats also the last clip I'm watching till the movie comes out,no more for me

Also ....

"Singer May Add More 3-D Footage to 'Superman Returns'
Director Bryan Singer may add footage to the IMAX version of Superman Returns to take advantage of the 3-D process being employed in the giant-screen prints. (About 20 minutes of scenes are in 3-D.) Singer told today's (Tuesday) Los Angeles Times that he is considering restoring some footage at the beginning of the film showing Superman on the gutted planet Krypton. The Times observed that all of the 3-D scenes were created digitally in post production and that some persons attending a Los Angeles screening "were put off by a distracting blurring effect that crops up when the action crosses the screen at high speed." Nevertheless, the newspaper commented, some sequences "have an undeniable gee-whiz factor."

 

[Kenobi]

I watched the clip, and it left a smile on my face...this shall be the last clip that I shall watch as well!

 

[DMczaf]

Theres a bunch of Superman Returns stuff on XBL. Trailers and videos.

 

[bionic77]

I am a huge fan of the first movie and the HD trailer left me pretty pumped. I have pretty high expectations. I am so glad they are using the music from the original too.

 

[Matrix]

Theres a bunch of Superman Returns stuff on XBL. Trailers and videos.

*drools*

I want gamerpics and themes

 

[krypt0nian]

*drools*

I want gamerpics and themes

Your words to LIVE's ears. My gamertag is lastsonkrypt0n and I have to use a PDZ gamerpic as it's the most krypt0nian looking thing out there right now.

 

[Matrix]

Your words to LIVE's ears. My gamertag is lastsonkrypt0n and I have to use a PDZ gamerpic as it's the most krypt0nian looking thing out there right now.

:lol

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Your words to LIVE's ears. My gamertag is lastsonkrypt0n and I have to use a PDZ gamerpic as it's the most krypt0nian looking thing out there right now.

i betcha if alex luthor got a hold of it, he'd do a bang up job of it.

 

[krypt0nian]

i betcha if alex luthor got a hold of it, he'd do a bang up job of it.

That bastard is dead. Dead, ya here!?

 

[Stuggernaut]

92% on Rotten...

The one rotten review is funny to read ;P

 

[reaver18]

I still think the movie looks stupid but that's mainly because superman looks like a douchebag in today's society.

 

[Matrix]

I still think the movie looks stupid but that's mainly because superman looks like a douchebag in today's society.

:\

 

[ManaByte]

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=steadyleak&id=5053

Scroll down or do a CTRL+F for Superman Returns:

Superman Returns. You want a film that divides people before the film even peeks into theaters? Here’s your baby. In a year of utter boredom, where what is supposed to be the most glorious installment in a very healthy franchise makes a ton of money but garners no real emotion from pundits on either side (X-Men: The Last Stand, which had plenty of discussion and debate from viewers but little in the way of suspense), it’s about time we had a firecracker of a topic. Already, folks who run sites like mine are dealing with a variety of pressures from the oddest sources (advertising companies, independent reps) to do or say or cover one thing or another. Stuff I’ve never seen happen before. Loads of planted reviews both dramatically positive or violently negative. Threats over whether to cover the flick and how. Emails, oh the emails. It was this situation that made me wonder how different things will be a year from today. What the relationship between sites like this and the studios. With each other. Some stuff has been broken between some sites that can’t be fixed. There’s allegiances to studios that defy logic and blacklists by studios that defy it stronger.

I’ll say this flat out. Don’t trust a goddamn single one of the Superman Returns reviews on the web. Not a one. Make it your new barometer. Disregard the message board frivolity and ignore the blogs and their take on it. See the movie and then go back and read the far-flung text on the subject. Perhaps you’ll see what I mean. I’m not saying the studio (Warner Bros. in this case) is up to no good. They have their own work to do: making a hugely expensive film wrought in many dead development processes come out and come out with big numbers. They’re in the business of making movies and making movies that make money. I just think this film in particular has changed the way this little corner of the film business happens. Some folks may have overstepped their bounds. Others may have felt no bounds ever existed.

Silly me, I watched it from the cheap seats and have no idea what to make of it.

Just don’t put much weight into the reviews, even the tag team one myself, Devin, and Russ are doing. Some true colors may show themselves and we’ll all feel better on the tail end.

And Superman Returns? I’m sure it’ll end up making plenty of money. I think it’s also the beginning of the next age of online film criticism but I’ve been wrong before. I thought Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was going to make a mint. I thought Napoleon Dynamite was a pile of ass no one would want to see.

 

[Willco]

That doesn't sound too positive to me!

 

[ManaByte]

That doesn't sound too positive to me!

He's basically saying reviews are being planted, bought, or threatened out of reviewers.

 

[Willco]

He's basically saying reviews are being planted, bought, or threatened out of reviewers.

Considering almost all of the reviews have been positive - again - this does not sound very good.

 

[acousticvan]

wow

 

[Matrix]

I'll get my ticket and judge for myself.I remember the good old days when I was young and didnt bother reading reviews about movies on the internet.

 

[master_shake_05]

I'll get my ticket and judge for myself.I remember the good old days when I was young and didnt bother reading reviews about movies on the internet.

Just wait for peer reactions, that's what I always do

 

[Matrix]

:lol couldnt help but post this....

http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Superman+Returns/movie/12076/featured-review/

WHAT....THE....SHIT...
"Richard Donner, who directed the first large-scale Christopher Reeve edition in 1978, was followed for Supermans 2 and 3 by the infinitely more talented Richard Lester"

 

[DMczaf]

Donner wishes he had the vision of Lester.

 

[Matrix]

what the shit

""On some level it's preferable that director Bryan Singer stays out of the material's way to the extent that he does, but after a distended two-and-a-half hours I was longing for the homo hauteur to let fly with his patented queer-release sledgehammer (in such ample use during the eye-candy X-Men pictures) and whack me hard upside the cremaster. " - Slant Magazine, two stars"

 

[Kabuki Waq]

wow the IGN review basically Confirms everyone's fears

 

[LM4sure]

yep. it stinks. it's going down fast on rt! w00t!!!

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

post it.

 

[karasu]

I knew these reviews were too good to be true

 

[weepy]

I knew these reviews were too good to be true

Are they really?

 

[Dan]

what the shit

""On some level it's preferable that director Bryan Singer stays out of the material's way to the extent that he does, but after a distended two-and-a-half hours I was longing for the homo hauteur to let fly with his patented queer-release sledgehammer (in such ample use during the eye-candy X-Men pictures) and whack me hard upside the cremaster. " - Slant Magazine, two stars"

Man, you could write a whole book about the repressed homophobia that emerges from reviews of Singer's work.

 

[LM4sure]

79% on rt now. Wow! It's falling fast!!

"Drab looking, underwhelming and inferior to all four of the Superman films that starred Christopher Reeve...But at least it's better than Supergirl."

-- Chuck O'Leary, FULVUEDRIVE-IN.COM

Not lookin too hot! :lol

 

[teiresias]

Wow, the IGN review makes Bosworth/Lois sound like an absolute disaster. That's not Lois' characterization I'm hearing there.

While on the note of TV and for lack of a better terminology, the kid is involved in what can be called a jump-the-shark moment, but you'll have to witness this for yourself.

Willco am cry!!!!

 

[effzee]

i dont get it..the ign review says 3.5 stars which is pretty good on a scale of 5 stars yet the review reads like it would be like a 2 star movie.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

seems over.

 

[Matrix]

Yea I'm really going to take the opinion of a guy who says Singer is a hack and X-2 sucks.Not to mention that the dude missed the camp of the original movies and liked Superman 3 and 4, who even with Reeve sucked ass.

Man some of you haters are bizzare

Falling fast? 4 negative reviews? A ton of positive ones havent even been posted on the site.

There could be 150 positive reviews and 5 negatives and some of you would only agree with the negative ones without seeing it.

 

[karasu]

Not to mention that the dude missed the camp of the original movies and liked Superman 3 and 4, who even with Reeve sucked ass.
.

Not exactly.

Yes, that's right. Singer's film is even a step below the poorly-conceived Superman III (1983) and the cheesy Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). But hey, at least it's better than Supergirl (1984).

 

[Kabuki Waq]

its just that the usual big movie(ex. starwars ep 2) supporters are the ones giving the movie good reviews.


This bares almost an exact resemblence to how the ep2 -ep3 hype started.

 

[DMczaf]

WTF @ 2 of the 4 rotten reviews

http://worldfilm.about.com/od/independentfilm/a/supermanvsgitmo_2.htm

Superman has been suspected of being a fascist since long before the character even existed--just ask Friedrich Nietzsche. Frank Miller, creator of the milestone comic book The Dark Knight Returns, showed the Man of Steel as a dangerously self-righteous Übermensch. If we needed any more proof, The Road to Guantanamo reveals that power doesn't ennoble, it corrupts--and that's why Superman Returns is a lie. It doesn't matter how much we want to imagine ourselves as god-like heroes hovering above the globe, ready to answer every distant cry for help. For millions around the world, the real face of the last remaining superpower are blindfolded men in hoods and handcuffs getting dragged past barbed-wire fences on the way to interrogation and torture. "I'm always around," Superman promises Lois Lane, but to anybody who has seen The Road to Guantanamo, it sounds like a threat.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2327

On some level it's preferable that director Bryan Singer stays out of the material's way to the extent that he does, but after a distended two-and-a-half hours I was longing for the homo hauteur to let fly with his patented queer-release sledgehammer (in such ample use during the eye-candy X-Men pictures) and whack me hard upside the cremaster.

:lol

 

[Matrix]

Not exactly.

He said he missed the camp from the movies and then said it was worse than Superman 3 and 4,again this man is a tard and I dont have to see Superman returns to know that.

Who actually liked the camp from the Superman movies ?

Plus again he said Singer was a hack,give me a break.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Who actually liked the camp from the Superman movies ?

since you think the the old superman movies hold up you must like camp to a fair degree.

and if superman returns is worse than superman 4 than....OUCH!

 

[Matrix]

since you think the the old superman movies hold up you must like camp to a fair degree.

and if superman returns is worse than superman 4 than....OUCH!

He's the only reviewer that feels that way,saying its worse than 3 and 4,but you all tend to believe his word because well its negative ! :lol

I liked some of Clarks goofy shit,but I told you I hated Otis and some of the other camp shit.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

He's the only reviewer that feels that way,saying its worse than 3 and 4,but you all tend to believe his word because well its negative ! :lol

its not negative its fair and balanced

 

[Matrix]

its not negative its fair and balanced

:lol :lol

 

[Matrix]

btw I was glancing over the review again and he wrote that Lois is married...WRONG!

 

[LM4sure]

Falling fast? 4 negative reviews? A ton of positive ones havent even been posted on the .

Well, to be fair, it was at 100% a few days ago. It has fallen 21% in a short period of time. Generally, scores tend to go down on rt after the movie is released. I would expect a 65% score after all is said and done.

 

[Ichirou]

Noooooo...I'm sad. Don't phunk with my heart, Bryan Singer. I really want this movie to be great.

 

[Matrix]

Well, to be fair, it was at 100% a few days ago. It has fallen 21% in a short period of time. Generally, scores tend to go down on rt after the movie is released. I would expect a 65% score after all is said and done.

I think you will be wrong when all said and done.

I'm more positive about this then I was about

Spoiler

the piano scene in the movie

.

 

[RaijinFY]

Insane spin...

 

[jett]

Is the "piano scene" really that bad?(whatever it is) Only thing I hear around here is PIANO PIANO PIANO PIANO. Whatever haters.