Sunday, July 02, 2006

Why the world does not need Superman movies

Did you know:

1)Superman has a illegitimate child, but the child looks fragile not as strong as his dad. And the superheroes need not be good at ethics. Our Superman kisses a married woman, but does not want to marry her,but still loves her. And lets a crime happen when a not so ugly woman is there in his laps.

2)Americans are very poor at remembering faces that is how no one recognizes that Kent is Superman even though the only difference between his face and Superman's face is the spects, or is it that Superman's producers don't know how to use make up well so that superman does not look exactly like Kent, that too when the pictures and videos of Superman are easily shown to be available to everyone in the movie.

3)You can waste away $225 million with no spectacular special effects even those which are given look like fake. The scene in which Superman stops a falling Boeing/Airbus, he just stops it at one point, and the aircraft turns by 90 degree angle but does not crash. They are simply ludicrous. A tiny man however powerful taking on planets does not give nice special effects. The spider man had nets which justified some Newtonian laws. This one will score highest on the error list.

4)What to talk of the story, did not understand it properly , how he is made of steel but still has blood, but you cannot prick him a needle. Radio active materials from Krypton hurt him but he moves around freely in the space and to his planet Krypton. How he gets well after a attack as hospitals cannot help him, sometimes he takes energy from the sun and sometimes he becomes so weak that a man can kick him.

This movie is full of absurdities and didn like any scene. To begin with went to Prasads,IMAX,Hyderabad to see the 3-D version of the movie. But the catch is it is partly 3-D and partly 2-D, the 3-D part is maybe only 1-5% of the total duration. And how do i know when to wear the 3-D glasses, they did a good job by flashing RED/GREEN lights at the required points, but that was not needed as the crowd used to burst into action mode whenever a 3-D scene came, everyone telling the other to wear the glass. No one wanted to miss the 3-D scenes for which we paid 180 Rs. and have to pay a 500 Rs. extra if the glasses are damaged.

This is one movie which has been promoted excessively by the producers and in all the languages.

CNN-IBN had to carry half hour long specials as the parent Time Warner has produced the movie. And all the special effects have been shown repeatedly on the trailers leaving nothing left for the actual movie.

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