Movie Matinee
Superfilms!
I was asked for my thoughts on the new Superman movie Man of Steel.
I could have just done that, but after watching the first three
Christopher Reeve movies with a few friends recently, I feel the need
to talk about the new movie in reference to the old. The reason for
that: I feel much of the criticism of the new film is due to referring
to what has gone before.
Man of Steel (2013)
Finally
to the point of all of this. If you couldn't tell already, I think that
Superman could due with a cinematic course correction. When Looking back at the other films, aside from a nostalgic desire to say they're great, they aren't so much: plots are dicey, character development is weak, and, aside from Reeve, the other characters just aren't particularly interesting. So I felt, going into Man of Steel that the filmmakers needed to completely forget what had been done on film before.
And they pretty much did.
And they pretty much did.
