In my latest video in a series dedicated to re-pitching famous movie concepts, I analyze where they keep losing audiences in making these SUPERMAN movies and what they miss that TV and animation have gotten right. I have decided to add a companion piece to this video and give my three hangups that have me hating SUPERMAN on Film.
1) STOP TELLING THE SAME ORGIN STORY-
I'm starting to get tired of seeing the same origin story in all of these SUPERMAN movies. I remember when JJ Abrams script for FLYBY was leaked and people flipped out because krypton didn't blow up. Now I still think it would have been a terrible movie, but at least he had the balls to do something different. My favorite take on a SUPERMAN origin was M Night Shymalan' ( yes He used to be good) UNBREAKABLE. In this story the SUPERMAN like character has to figure out that he's a super-human. Because he doesn't know what his powers are and what that means for his family, society and crime, it makes for a fresh and thought provoking take.
2) HIS COSTUME IS NOT KRYTONIAN-
I'm a little rusty with my SUPERMAN history, but I don't know when they decided SUPERMAN'S "S" was a krypton symbol and I'm not sure who thought that was a good idea. His custom is what circus strongmen used to wear and the "S" is for SUPERMAN. Its simple. Stop over-complicating it with garbage writing.
3) NO MORE LOIS AND SPACE MONSTERS-
This is something else that is being over-done to death in these movies. Villains from krypton (ZOD) are not relatable and SUPES has some awesome human villains (Metallo) I am NOT suggesting doing the Chris Nolan realism thing!!!.Look at the SPIDER-MAN movies. To the SPIDER-MAN movies credit, all the villains start off as human and then something happens to them which makes them a freak.
Also Lois gets shoehorned into all these movies and you never really understand what SUPERMAN see's in her. He can have any women and he chooses Lois? Why not let him fall for another woman in his first movie and then when she dies we can develop Lois for SUPERMAN 2.
Anyway just a few thoughts. Let me know what you think and don't forget to check out the video (link below)
http://youtu.be/UeJvkXzqX9g