This weekend has been spent firstly gardening - replanting the shallow tray with succulents, and the terracotta pot with annuals - then building a new case for the TV box sets
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I can't believe one of our top film magazines gave it five stars!
The comic book Lois (who is in love with Clark and backed off for a while because she couldn't cope with Superman before actually marrying him at a time when he had lost his powers) would have kicked this one into next week. She's fought alongside not just Superman but many other characters - including taking a guest star lead in Birds of Prey. Anyone who can try to vamp Bruce Wayne for info (Hush) has chuzpah in spades. Nor - and this, very oddly, does makes me cross - would she have worn dull brown to a big award ceremony just to fit in with the muted colour scale the film was using. Lois has usually been well-served by the screen - in the early cartoons, in the first two Superman movies and in Lois and Clark (based on one of the best comic book periods) and, to some extent, Smallville. Pity it is not so here.
She didn't act like the mother of a small boy, either, come to that.
As for Lex - I'm very fond of both the recentish small screen versions, though he was perhaps too sympathetic in both. Here, he just isn't clever enough or, for that matter, tough enough. This is the man who, in the comics (in The Outsiders) was tortured by the Joker for hours, and laughed in his face. Who was elected President. Who cloned Superman but inserted his own DNA into the boy.
Here he is reduced to seducing old women and threatening to eat dogs. Cor!
The comic book Lois (who is in love with Clark and backed off for a while because she couldn't cope with Superman before actually marrying him at a time when he had lost his powers) would have kicked this one into next week. She's fought alongside not just Superman but many other characters - including taking a guest star lead in Birds of Prey. Anyone who can try to vamp Bruce Wayne for info (Hush) has chuzpah in spades. Nor - and this, very oddly, does makes me cross - would she have worn dull brown to a big award ceremony just to fit in with the muted colour scale the film was using. Lois has usually been well-served by the screen - in the early cartoons, in the first two Superman movies and in Lois and Clark (based on one of the best comic book periods) and, to some extent, Smallville. Pity it is not so here.
She didn't act like the mother of a small boy, either, come to that.
As for Lex - I'm very fond of both the recentish small screen versions, though he was perhaps too sympathetic in both. Here, he just isn't clever enough or, for that matter, tough enough. This is the man who, in the comics (in The Outsiders) was tortured by the Joker for hours, and laughed in his face. Who was elected President. Who cloned Superman but inserted his own DNA into the boy.
Here he is reduced to seducing old women and threatening to eat dogs. Cor!
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