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Superman Returns (2006)
Hooray for Superman
I just got back from seeing this with my kids in IMAX 3d and we loved this film. It really was a relief for me because with the kind of violent films out these days this was something I didn't mind my kids seeing. The scenes between Lois Lane and Superman were tastefully and so respectfully done. It brought me back to the days of a gentleman showing how to treat a lady in great films of the past and was something I wanted my kids to see. I thought that was a particularly classy and endearing element of the film that makes it so unique and uplifting in these uncertain times. I can't understand how people could not like this film. I've never seen the original Superman of the 70s so maybe that's why. I viewed this movie at face value full well knowing this is after all based on an imaginary character but isn't that why we go to see these movies in the first place? It really is about escapism and spending 2 and a half hours in another world completely unlike our own. I certainly wasn't critiquing this film in my mind the same way I would let's say United 93. It didn't feel too long or drawn out to me or my kids at all. Then again maybe we weren't trying to dig too deep for something else other than a feel good fantasy film. In that sense this film passed the test with flying colors.
Batman Begins (2005)
Are you kidding me??
This movie is in the top 80 of best films?? Obviously a bunch of little kids are putting in multiple 10 votes for this film. It was nowhere near the top 80. Katie Holmes was so dreadful I couldn't believe she was in this film. Christian Bale did not make s good Batman either compared to the previous actors who played the character. Let's be honest people. This movie was a joke. There was much about the plot that didn't make sense, the villain, the universe that was previously created by previous Batman movies should not have been ignored and discarded to start over with this mish mash, and what exactly the villains were plotting. It was, as one previous post eloquently put it, in a jumbled ill-conceived mess. But a movie that lots of little kids really liked because it appealed to their short attention spans and small minds.
