Superman Returns

[agrumer]

bugsybanana and I saw Superman Returns on Friday. This is pretty directly a sequel to the 1978 Richard Donner film, but holy crap, it’s half remake. Seriously, this thing slavishly recreates entire scenes and incorporates chunks of dialog from the original. Hey, Brian Singer, could we maybe have had more new stuff in our new movie? And what the heck was the

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[phrotus]

Ditto like whoa. I've never even been much of a Supes fan*, and I'm devouring All-Star like it's candy. Oxygen candy. In fact, I'm not sure I would mind if oxygen were actually replaced with All-Star Superman.

*(For what it's worth, thoug, I s'pose the word of a longtime Superman lovah is a better endorsement.)

[agrumer]

Oxygen candy where you only get one molecule every two months!

[batyatoon]

... being a sun-god makes him more like Samson huh?

*bewildered*

[agrumer]

You know, Samson, the guy whose Hebrew name sounds sorta like the Hebrew word for sun (and also like that of a babylonian sun god), and who has a girlfriend whose name sounds a lot like the word for night, who deprived him of his power by cutting off his hair/rays?