- Stop the presses! – Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in the upcoming “Superman” reboot. Great choice. And let’s hope director Zack Snyder takes a lesson or two from his terrible new film “Sucker Punch” and puts the focus on the Man of Steel, not just the CGI.
- No no shirt, no problem – Matthew McConaughey’s crowd pleasing legal thriller “The Lincoln Lawyer” dropped only 17 percent in its second weekend of release. The film lets the oft-shirtless actor flex his acting muscles, not just his pecs, and people seem to be responding.
- Who needs a famous surname? – Director Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie, appears to take another step out from behind his daddy’s shadow with his second feature, “Source Code.” The sci-fi film, opening April 1, is getting love letter reviews so far. The sci-fi genre sure could use a reliable auteur right about now.
- Oh Captain my captain – Have you seen the new trailer for “Captain America: The First Avenger?” It made me forget all about the film’s anti-patriotic nonsense.
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Adams is a great choice for that role, and ditto on the CGI. If Snyder wants to make a good film, and I suspect he does, he’ll focus more on a character driven narrative with CGI to help tell the story. It doesn’t need to be the focus, but rather a tool to advance the plot.
Somehow I think he knows this already.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, the animated DC Universe is the standard by which all other interpretations are judged. So we’ll be comparing Adams to Dana Delaney, not Margot Kidder. Seriously, though, how is it that nobody involved in Superman Returns ever read Larry Niven’s essay “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”? It rules out that whole “deadbeat dad” plot rather handily.
As for Duncan Jones, it’s great he’s not trading on his dad’s name and all, but what science fiction needs isn’t “auteurs”, but writers. Oh, and also space—last year’s Hugo awards didn’t involve a single story set in space, and that’s just pathetic. Lord knows Cameron’s an utter hack, but at least Avatar had some decent spaceships and alien animals in with the utter joke that is the Na’vi (and the economically impossible plot—it is absolutely impossible that it’s cheaper to schlepp 5 light-years to get Unobtainium than it is to synthesize it, since it’s naturally occurring).
/geek rant
Right, Tom in AZ. It’s what always irked me about aliens coming to Earth to eat all the humans/harvest their blood/etc etc.
You eat one human and think, “Yum!” and then take a couple more back to your home planet to synthesis Man Meat. Why incur the expensive cost of capture, caging and feeding a boat-load of humans for a 50 light year schlep back to your world?
Don’t they have something local like wheat-gluten or tofu to use instead of importing whiney, grumpy, and smelly humans?
I hope Snyder has satisfied his need to visit the extreme side of the spectrum (great CGI, horrible story) with Sucker Punch, and try to return with more decent story (and great CGI) for Man of Steel.