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July 12th, 2008

02:56 am - Updates and....Stuff Best Quotes about the Mess that was Superman Returns: "No Singer and his homage to Donner's original. No Routh playing Christopher Reeves playing Superman. No miscast Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. No kid with superpowers. No Kevin Spacey. No Kumar. No whacky evil sidekicks in general. The Superman character is too whitebread in general for today's audiences. No one wants the boy scout superhero anymore. They want them either dark (Batman) or flawed (Iron Man). Cloning Donner's original (which was great) was the wrong move for Singer. They don't need a complete reboot for Superman, but they do need to change the direction and tone. If you are going to keep the boyscout Superman, you gotta amp up the action. Or at least go in the direction that the comics have gone in the past where Superman's boy scout attitude gets in the way of him doing good because he blindly follows the wrong leaders." "They would've stuck to the 'harsher tone' that they originally had planned for this movie. From what I understand, the world was supposed to be bordering on a state of chaos because he left. Consequently, people were pissed off at Supes for leaving, and he had to win back the trust of the masses. There were hints of that in SR, but most of it was interpersonal shit that no one cared about." "Singer and Ang Li both made the same mistake. Namely, trying to graft personal stories about fatherhood onto action films where they weren't a good fit in the first place, at the expense of the action and spectacle that both characters require. Seriously, certain characters (Batman and DC, Spiderman at Marvel) are more character driven while others (Superman and the Hulk) are more action oriented. Know your material and proceed wisely." "I really think we need to see a broken society in this flick. We need Superman as a model for the world to see." Here is some great news, the one I meant to talk about 8 billion years ago. I now have my first internship at the budding Jajo Art Gallery co-owned by one of my very few friends in High School. If things turn out right at the initial stages, this could turn to being a paid internship, making this my first job. Apologies to not showing up to the Auxiliary 2600 Meeting. I was ill that day and better that day than all of The Last Hope. Working on the PLA 15th Anniversary Flier and my own website, among other things. Still psyched for The Dark Knight. This month = The Best. -- Jordan Current Mood: accomplished

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From: rob_t_firefly Date: July 14th, 2008 01:51 pm (UTC) (Link)

Congrats!

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