tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post1353552506490387213..comments2024-03-24T02:21:43.001-07:00Comments on Things THEY Don't Want You To Know: What I Think About When I Think About Superman (Overthinking Stuff)Brianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-12143278521254275512013-07-16T12:33:18.670-06:002013-07-16T12:33:18.670-06:00I'm kind of commenting as I go because:
1. I d...I'm kind of commenting as I go because:<br />1. I don't think I'll actually have time to read all of this right now<br />2. I'll forget my comments if I don't.<br /><br />My biggest issue with Nolan's Superman, as I said in my review of it, is that he relies too much (completely) on our outside knowledge of Superman to make the movie work. Except, if you look at the movie without any of that outside knowledge, the movie falls apart. It's a failure -as a movie- and only works within the context of pop culture knowledge, which is flawed, so it doesn't even work on that level.<br />(Nolan is full of himself and incapable of telling a good story anymore. If he ever was. The only excellent movie he did was based on a book.)<br /><br />I'm pretty sure Smallvile dealt with the whole sensory overload thing. He also destroys things on accident with his heat vision in the show. In all actuality MoS seemed like a sequel to Smallville above all else.<br />Also, Daredevil deals with that stuff in his movie, both as a boy and the fact that he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank as an adult.<br /><br />I don't think people are more sensitive. In the generational rotation, we are in the "protective" stage where we try to protect our kids from -everything- that could be remotely negative, hence kids' sports teams where there are no losers. The kids aren't fooled, just the parents fooling themselves.<br /><br />Okay, well, that's all I have time for, at the moment. I'll have to come back later for the other half.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-20693382803350313422013-06-30T19:05:55.712-06:002013-06-30T19:05:55.712-06:00As for the elements thing, it's not a problem ...As for the elements thing, it's not a problem unless you're trying to be realistic. They went for realism in TMOS, so they should've done it right.<br /><br />It's like "Law & Order" vs. "Night Court." I expect the former to get the law right, but not the latter. TMOS tried to have a realistic explanation for everything. So why not actually understand how the periodic table of elements works?<br /><br />Scarlet Knight feels more StarWarsian. I wouldn't fret it.Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-9593014182035511112013-06-30T16:36:34.767-06:002013-06-30T16:36:34.767-06:00I agree about the Pa Kent death. I think the thin...I agree about the Pa Kent death. I think the thing is that the moviemakers didn't have a clear theme in mind. Not that you have to have one, but if you're going to make a movie with such an obvious attempt at a message, you ought to think through what the message is.<br /><br />Brianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-81813734653334341292013-06-30T15:28:32.946-06:002013-06-30T15:28:32.946-06:00This article is so long I need to make notes as I ...This article is so long I need to make notes as I read:<br /><br />You know, from a special on History or A&E about Superman, the super breath thing is actually one of his most realistic powers. I guess because the idea is that if his body is so super strong his breath would be stronger than ours. Even the freeze breath would make sense like how we blow on hot things like soup or coffee or something to cool them; if you have super lungs then you could make the temperature much colder like freeze breath.<br /><br />Your points about Zod make sense. I mean if you get superpowers from the planet’s atmosphere, why would you want to change that to not have superpowers? Especially if you’re a military general.<br /><br />I haven’t watched the Christopher Reeve movies in a while. I know in Superman Returns they show young Clark discovering he can hover and run fast and stuff, but not really about the hearing and stuff. They did deal with that in the TV series “Smallville” where one episode Clark would realize he could hear all sorts of stuff and another he accidentally started fires when his heat vision would randomly kick in. I only watched a couple seasons of that so there was probably more.<br /><br />Hurm, that junk science about elements is what happens in my superhero story, which is how Emma ends up with the weird black thing in her office. D’oh!<br /><br />I think a good theory is Superman puts is hands out to ward off bugs. I mean imagine how those splatter on your face and costume when you’re going Mach 17 or whatever he does?<br /><br />Of course the best theory about Superman’s power is most were invented in the 30s and 40s when no one gave a crap about trying to explain everything realistically. I’m not sure when we started to do that. Maybe it was once the Web became a thing and everyone could go look things up in seconds and then rag about it on a message board.<br /><br />I think the movie’s idea is Zod and the others were able to master their powers faster because they were products of all the Kryptonian breeding and schooling systems, which are probably far more advanced than Ma and Pa Kent’s farm and the Smallville Public School system. But it does raise the question of why Clark’s senses didn’t kick right away. It makes more sense in X-Men that the mutation kicks in with puberty what with the hormonal changes and all that but for it to happen in grade school wouldn’t make sense unless maybe he has super-puberty too that kicks in earlier?<br /><br />Kryptonians’s “evolution” was obviously pretty lame as their planet went blooey because they were too dumb to do anything about it. Which really you can make the case Superman stands for both science and faith because it was science that allowed Kal-El to be sent to Earth. Though really Jor-El’s relationship to science seems conflicted because he was a scientist and used it to save his son but he rejected science to create his son because he distrusted the eugenics programs. So it seems a little muddled, pretty much like the whole movie.<br /><br />I thought the way Pa Kent died was so idiotic. It was much better in “All-Star Superman” and maybe some other comics where he dies from a heart attack, which demonstrated that even with all his powers, Superman couldn’t save everyone. I think that would have been a better message than him standing there while his father dies. But his father kind of deserved it for being such an idiot as to run INTO a tornado to save a dog. I mean I loved my pets when I had them but if it were between me or the pets, me wins every time.<br /><br />PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.com