Superman Returns: The World Doesn't Need This Film

[Occhidiangela]

You've clearly outgrown the content. Which is sad, but not in a bad way. Sometimes maturity leads directly to the destruction of a willing sense of disbelief.

Story structure problems noted; physics problems disregarded. It's a superhero movie, not a movie on the various effects of aerial disasters on the human body. Superman 93 it's not. Big, fun extravagant summer movie? Check.

Not quite. The raw violation of a core plot element in all Superman stories, all superman content, was inexcusably bad writing.

I have gotten better at detecting plot holes in internal inconsistency. I am more than happy to go with willing suspension of disbelief if the writer plays fair, or at least pretty fair. I have not outgrown the superhero genre, or the content, I have outgrown bad writing.

As to the physics problem: it was the plane's physics that I objected to, not the superheroe's secondary world super normal effects and physics. Have you read Tolkein's essay On Fairy Stories? That is what I was using as a baseline for the Secondary World comments. If you haven't, then I understand why you did not understand where I was coming from with that.

As to superhero content, I enjoyed Betman Begins and the first two X men films. (The third yes, but not as much.) Spider Man II was decent, as was Spider Man I. My dislike of those films is tied to the fact that every time Toby McGuire shows up on film, in any film, I want to vomit. Not the writer's fault I have a weak stomach for some things.

Occhi