Superman Returns
Got the train to Birmingham to meet crazy_craig to see Superman Returns. It arrived at Snow Hill 5 minutes late (prob stuck at the signals before Tyseley (where the two lines merge). This time Craig arrived first. (little did I know then of the later signal fault). I left home after 11am and got the 11.28am, missing the 11.08am train (I could see it in the distance as I walked over the foot bridge). Usual browse around the shops minus the Bullring. Boy it was hot today.
At the film adverts and trailers (My Super Ex-Girlfriend and the Transformers annoncement Teaser) were ok. From the movietickets.com to the bit where Krypton explodes the ratio was messed up again ( ala Fantastic Four last year). It just so happens it happened to two films with music by John Ottman. What were the odds of that? Oh and Krypton pre-exploding looked like an egg!
From the main titles, the AMC appeared to of fixed it. At least it wasn't as long as they left it on FF.
After five years searching for Krypton, Clark crashes back in Smallville to be found by his adoptive mom Martha Kent.
Clark later goes back to Metropolis (located where New York City should be!), not having anywhere to live (he takes his suitcases to the Daily Planet).
Prob in a nod to the Space Shuttle program, NASA (I assume) try to launch a new design of Shuttle piggy backed on a plane (which Lois is on).
The blond woman in the glasses on board (the plane) played Mina Harker in LXG (Peta Wilson).
Also, Kitty was Parker Possy from Blade: Trinity.
Lex swindled a dying old lady called Gertrude out of her mansion and boat The Gertrude (played by Noel Neill from one of the old Superman TV series on the '50s). He may of married her and got her to sing the deeds before dying.
Lex and co went to the fortress of Soletude to steel loads of crystals. His plan was to put them in water and to grow a new land mass and let it wipe out most of North America killing "Billions".
Also in the film was Kal Penn from Son of the Mask (also shot at Fox Studios, Syndey, Austrailia). He was the dude standing in that model train set / city (he played the best friend of Tim Avery in SOTM).
Lois has moved on and has a fiancee played by James "Cyclops" Marden as Richard White. They have a son Jason (who might in fact be Superman's son!). Lois never got around to marrying him (prob waiting for Clark / Superman to return). Erm ... when did Clark / Superman sleep with and impregnate Lois????? I assume that Jason is 5 or 6 years old at least.
Jason pushed the piano killing the baddie guarding them (who was harming Lois). Before this they were playing the piano, until the baddie realised Lois had faxed a help message to the Daily Planet.
At one point after removing the new land mass, Superman was "dead". Lois and Jason visited him in hospital. Lois kissed him on the lips, Jason on his forhead. I assume that Jason with his half-Kryptonian dna woke him up.
Oh and Lex and Kitty were standed on a desert island when their helicopter ran out of fuel. Ha ha!!!!!
Jimmy wasn't that great at getting good pic's of Superman. At one point he only got a spec, while a kid got decent pic's on a camera phone! (of Superman rescueing Kitty -the diversion while Lex stole some Kryptonite rock from a musuem). Later Jimmy got descent pic's of Superman when he caught the falling Daily Planet Globe.
Lois wanted to smoke: Superman would NOT let her, he kept blowing out the lighter.
Walked back to Snow Hill to find that there had been a signal fault at Rowley Regis, causing trains to be late or cancelled (such as Dorridge which did arrive but was still cancelled) and Kidderminster (which caused Craig to wait another half hour I assume). Mine was late, but at least it wasn't cancelled (late by 15 minutes). This will mess up their punctualaity statistics.
Now we can't get the Superman march out of our heads! Plus I have it on my computer from several of my sci-fi compilation CDs.
At the film adverts and trailers (My Super Ex-Girlfriend and the Transformers annoncement Teaser) were ok. From the movietickets.com to the bit where Krypton explodes the ratio was messed up again ( ala Fantastic Four last year). It just so happens it happened to two films with music by John Ottman. What were the odds of that? Oh and Krypton pre-exploding looked like an egg!
From the main titles, the AMC appeared to of fixed it. At least it wasn't as long as they left it on FF.
After five years searching for Krypton, Clark crashes back in Smallville to be found by his adoptive mom Martha Kent.
Clark later goes back to Metropolis (located where New York City should be!), not having anywhere to live (he takes his suitcases to the Daily Planet).
Prob in a nod to the Space Shuttle program, NASA (I assume) try to launch a new design of Shuttle piggy backed on a plane (which Lois is on).
The blond woman in the glasses on board (the plane) played Mina Harker in LXG (Peta Wilson).
Also, Kitty was Parker Possy from Blade: Trinity.
Lex swindled a dying old lady called Gertrude out of her mansion and boat The Gertrude (played by Noel Neill from one of the old Superman TV series on the '50s). He may of married her and got her to sing the deeds before dying.
Lex and co went to the fortress of Soletude to steel loads of crystals. His plan was to put them in water and to grow a new land mass and let it wipe out most of North America killing "Billions".
Also in the film was Kal Penn from Son of the Mask (also shot at Fox Studios, Syndey, Austrailia). He was the dude standing in that model train set / city (he played the best friend of Tim Avery in SOTM).
Lois has moved on and has a fiancee played by James "Cyclops" Marden as Richard White. They have a son Jason (who might in fact be Superman's son!). Lois never got around to marrying him (prob waiting for Clark / Superman to return). Erm ... when did Clark / Superman sleep with and impregnate Lois????? I assume that Jason is 5 or 6 years old at least.
Jason pushed the piano killing the baddie guarding them (who was harming Lois). Before this they were playing the piano, until the baddie realised Lois had faxed a help message to the Daily Planet.
At one point after removing the new land mass, Superman was "dead". Lois and Jason visited him in hospital. Lois kissed him on the lips, Jason on his forhead. I assume that Jason with his half-Kryptonian dna woke him up.
Oh and Lex and Kitty were standed on a desert island when their helicopter ran out of fuel. Ha ha!!!!!
Jimmy wasn't that great at getting good pic's of Superman. At one point he only got a spec, while a kid got decent pic's on a camera phone! (of Superman rescueing Kitty -the diversion while Lex stole some Kryptonite rock from a musuem). Later Jimmy got descent pic's of Superman when he caught the falling Daily Planet Globe.
Lois wanted to smoke: Superman would NOT let her, he kept blowing out the lighter.
Walked back to Snow Hill to find that there had been a signal fault at Rowley Regis, causing trains to be late or cancelled (such as Dorridge which did arrive but was still cancelled) and Kidderminster (which caused Craig to wait another half hour I assume). Mine was late, but at least it wasn't cancelled (late by 15 minutes). This will mess up their punctualaity statistics.
Now we can't get the Superman march out of our heads! Plus I have it on my computer from several of my sci-fi compilation CDs.