Bryan Singer Owns His Mistakes On Superman Returns

I don’t think one needs to necessarily know about transmedia as much as know that the ancillary platforms exists to follow the stories there.

“For more on the movie, read these comics, which tell you what happened to so and so before the movie began”.

It’s not that much different from novelizations of screenplays, which tend to have scenes that didn’t appear in the movie because they were caught for time.

Is there a novelization of SR? If there was, I have no doubt that it would include all the deleted scenes and additional information that didn’t make it into the movie.

I thought that the film was fine, except for three aspects:

1) The main plot was a rehash of the first film.
2) The pacing was awful (could have shaved off a good twenty minutes from the film).
3) The actress who played Lois Lane was under-whelming.

Personally, I didn’t mind the kid, or how he came about. To me, Superman probably didn’t think it was possible for him and Lois to have a kid due to genetic differences, so accidents can happen. It makes him HUMAN. But I did like the idea that once he knew what was going on, he took responsibility. As for Richard White: I never got the impression that Lois tricked him into raising Superman’s kid, but that Richard, in love with Lois, decided to be a father-figure to Lois’ kid. It happens all the time. Plus, Richard was likable, which was a refreshing thing. But I can understand Superman purists for not liking the film, since it is a radical departure from their “safe expectations” of the Superman mythos.

DSW

superman as absentee dad?
nuff said.

I didn’t say that the movie needed help, I pointed out that the movie came with four prequel comics that expanded on the story, mainly what occured prior to the start of the movie.

I don’t recall the minutia of the issues. I do remember that there is a scene set atop the Daily Planet building that shows how Lois and Richard met after Superman left. I don’t recall how long it was after he lift but it was long enough for her to believe that the baby was Richard’s son.

Yeah but her line ” I waited for you.” to Superman is a lie.

He’s Superman, he does six impossible things before breakfast. Then again, I would hope he would have better things to do than check on Lois’ cell division.

Exactly. People get their panties in a twist because he “stalked” Lois, but then complain that he didn’t X-ray her womb to make sure she wasn’t pregnant before he left for six years.

Should Superman go around x-raying women’s private parts after he sleeps with them?

After reading a bunch of these comment I’d have to say a lot of these arguments have a strong and valid point. However, as a die hard Superman fan I think the problem with the film was simply two things. 1. The general public (since everyone knows Superman) were lost in the film timeline (its being a prequel) 2. The world threat which Superman was here to save the day lacked resonance with today. In older films in the presence of cold war this was relevant. Superman needed to fight a villain more contemporary ( even if that was the machinations of lovable Lex Luthor).