Superman Returns: Director's Cut Campaign

I am in the enormous minority of people that actually enjoyed this movie.

I've always said that it was good, but it should have been great.

I don't think that this cut is going to be any better. The movie was lame & it will always be lame.

People complain about two things typically when talking about Superman Returns.

a. Superman is the father to a bastard child.
b. The movie is a rehash of Superman: The Movie

Neither of these things bother me.

Can I petition for this movie to just be 'cut' in general? I hope Singer gets back with the X-men. Maybe he'd have more control over the characters.

I loved this movie from beginning to end. I still don't see why people dont like it...?

I also liked the movie. I certainly thought it could have been better, but by no means did I come away thinking it "sucked". Sure Bosworth was a less than adequate Lois, the whole bastard son thing was a bit too far off the beaten mythos, and he didn't litterally throw down with another super powered baddie, but aside from that the rest of the movie was alright. Brandon Routh was perfect for the role. There still was an adequate amount of action even though it wasn't of the mano'a'mano type. Overall I think it was just ok, but should have been better. That to me means that the entire concept deserves to be revisited, not scrapped. Routh should without a doubt be brought back in ANY future film in this franchise. I'd get another actress to play Lois, try to find a decent way to undo that Superman's son mess, and bring on Doomsday.

Plan "B" would be to reboot it using Routh.

kenny38606, I have more complaints than just "a" and "b". I have the same sentiments as teabag. I want to see an ALL NEW Superman and that includes excluding ROUTH! I HATE with a seething hatred, Singerman's Superman.

@WARNOODLE-

The acting was terrible:
-BRANDON ROUTH could have been replaced with a cardboard cutout.
-KATE BOSWORTH showed NONE of the qualities of Lois Lane that we all know (i.e. extremely confident, courage, wiseass, a bit quirky...)
-KEVIN SPACEY while normally a fantastic actor managed to make super-genius Lex Luthor look like a moron, not the future President (which i believe to be the script and directors' fault given Spaceys' track record).


The plot sucked:
-Real Estate? An uninhabitable Kryptonite Continent that Superman won't be able to live on? The man responsible for nearly every technological advancement in that "universe" launches an untested crystal wrapped in Kryptonite into the ocean.....that's his plan for world domination?


The storyline was ridiculous:
-Why the world doesn't need Superman? Superman has a son? Superman is an absentee Dad? Superman is a creepy peeping tom? Superman can lift a Kryptonite infused island? Superman can't stop himself from getting stabbed?


Plus:
-no action
-horrible script


That's why i didn't like it, i'd love to hear why you did...

The film was a pile of steaming hot kak!

I actually liked it. It wasn't great but it was watchable.

There were elements in the film that were very well done, but so much of it wasn't that it was so hard to watch and even have it tie into the original movies.

And for godsakes! hasn't Lex Luther been done to death! move on with another villain good lord!

I am also in that minority Weakmusic! I loved it..despite admitting that some things should have been done differently. A directors cot would be nice:)

@LEEE-

I'm with TEA, you'll never see either of them on the big screen as SUPES.


.....but i personally wouldn't mind WELLING. ;-)

haha, well Talontd that just goes to show you that taste is all relative. You say Routh gave a bad performance? I say he has more talent in his little finger that smell the fart Welling has in his entire whiny body. Sure Returns had its faults, what doesn't? I just liked it for what it was. I loved the original and Im glad Singer decided to pay homage to it..maybe he was a bit too reverential, but it worked for me. I also like the story and the performances(minus Bosworth) but some more action would have been nice..didn't ruin the movie. I think if Singer had the chance to do a sequel then he would have turned everything up to 11. He was just trying to establish new groundwork to build from so he was probably a bit subdued.

Exactly @ ROR!!

The only way this would work is if superman actually threw a punch. The thing that makes me laugh is singer said he would go all wraith of khan on the second one. So I am just curious on what he would of done with the film.

LEE: Not sure about Routh...I think that a new actor is needed to seperate the next movie from the awful Superman Returns!

Another thing, comic fans/fanboys(whatever you want to call us!) may be in a minority liking Returns, but critically you will be hard pushed to find a review of the movie that isn't glowing! Now I know what your gonna say, "What do critics know" right? Well, they know good movies thats what! Or at least, they are supposed to know. In fact I find that critics are generally HARDER on these types of movies than the fans are. I just always found that interesting.

the daredevil directors cut was amazing compared to the original so its possible that this could be better.