Incoherent Superman Returns Thoughts

I saw Superman Returns. It was absolutely brilliant and joins the small but exclusive ranks of my favorite superhero movies. It's very hard to make pure goodness interesting (one of the most amazing things about Lord of the Rings was that they made Frodo a character I couldn't take my eyes off), but this pulled it off. For the first time ever, I am interested in Superman (and unlike in Smallville, not just because I want him to get it on with Lex).

What I loved the most is that it was, and I know it's an odd term to use, one of the most poetic movies I've ever seen. Visual poetry, poetry of emotion. To use a cliche term, this movie soared.

( Spoilery thoughts )

Incoherent Superman Returns Thoughts

I saw Superman Returns. It was absolutely brilliant and joins the small but exclusive ranks of my favorite superhero movies. It's very hard to make pure goodness interesting (one of the most amazing things about Lord of the Rings was that they made Frodo a character I couldn't take my eyes off), but this pulled it off. For the first time ever, I am interested in Superman (and unlike in Smallville, not just because I want him to get it on with Lex).

What I loved the most is that it was, and I know it's an odd term to use, one of the most poetic movies I've ever seen. Visual poetry, poetry of emotion. To use a cliche term, this movie soared.

( Spoilery thoughts )

Incoherent Superman Returns Thoughts

I saw Superman Returns. It was absolutely brilliant and joins the small but exclusive ranks of my favorite superhero movies. It's very hard to make pure goodness interesting (one of the most amazing things about Lord of the Rings was that they made Frodo a character I couldn't take my eyes off), but this pulled it off. For the first time ever, I am interested in Superman (and unlike in Smallville, not just because I want him to get it on with Lex).

What I loved the most is that it was, and I know it's an odd term to use, one of the most poetic movies I've ever seen. Visual poetry, poetry of emotion. To use a cliche term, this movie soared.

( Spoilery thoughts )

Super Slash?

This quote from The Defamer just made me die:

Indeed, Superman would seem to be great husband material. With his highly desirable qualities of virtue, truthfulness, and good looks, Lois Lane knows better than to screw up a good thing by asking too many questions when he requests that she wear a bald cap and shout her plans for world domination during their weekly sex date.

http://defamer.com/hollywood/superman/is-superman-gay-or-just-sensitive-178461.php

Someone's been watching Smallville!

ETA: aliterati, I've misplaced my link to Jen's Lex/Clark fanfic. Care to provide?

Super Slash?

This quote from The Defamer just made me die:

Indeed, Superman would seem to be great husband material. With his highly desirable qualities of virtue, truthfulness, and good looks, Lois Lane knows better than to screw up a good thing by asking too many questions when he requests that she wear a bald cap and shout her plans for world domination during their weekly sex date.

http://defamer.com/hollywood/superman/is-superman-gay-or-just-sensitive-178461.php

Someone's been watching Smallville!

ETA: aliterati, I've misplaced my link to Jen's Lex/Clark fanfic. Care to provide?

Super Slash?

This quote from The Defamer just made me die:

Indeed, Superman would seem to be great husband material. With his highly desirable qualities of virtue, truthfulness, and good looks, Lois Lane knows better than to screw up a good thing by asking too many questions when he requests that she wear a bald cap and shout her plans for world domination during their weekly sex date.

http://defamer.com/hollywood/superman/is-superman-gay-or-just-sensitive-178461.php

Someone's been watching Smallville!

ETA: aliterati, I've misplaced my link to Jen's Lex/Clark fanfic. Care to provide?

Family Values

This post is all about family values. Sounds grandiose, doesn't it? But since I am not a politician out campagning, this post is actually about how interesting I find the non-romantic, famly relationships in TV shows which deal with them at length or show them as important.

I think it's an unusual and relatively new phenomenon (or maybe I am not watching the right shows). I mean family relationships outside of the old sitcom standby of lame father, crazy mother, bizarre children, all yoked together by the needs of situational comedy, are a bit new. What I am talking about is a serious and dramatic exploration of family possibilities that is just as complex and interesting as any romantic relationship can possibly be.

( Thoughts on Firefly, BSG, VM, and Supernatural in that context )

And to make it all ironic, it turns out I have no sibling icons, so I will use the only father-son one I have...

Family Values

This post is all about family values. Sounds grandiose, doesn't it? But since I am not a politician out campagning, this post is actually about how interesting I find the non-romantic, famly relationships in TV shows which deal with them at length or show them as important.

I think it's an unusual and relatively new phenomenon (or maybe I am not watching the right shows). I mean family relationships outside of the old sitcom standby of lame father, crazy mother, bizarre children, all yoked together by the needs of situational comedy, are a bit new. What I am talking about is a serious and dramatic exploration of family possibilities that is just as complex and interesting as any romantic relationship can possibly be.

( Thoughts on Firefly, BSG, VM, and Supernatural in that context )

And to make it all ironic, it turns out I have no sibling icons, so I will use the only father-son one I have...

Family Values

This post is all about family values. Sounds grandiose, doesn't it? But since I am not a politician out campagning, this post is actually about how interesting I find the non-romantic, famly relationships in TV shows which deal with them at length or show them as important.

I think it's an unusual and relatively new phenomenon (or maybe I am not watching the right shows). I mean family relationships outside of the old sitcom standby of lame father, crazy mother, bizarre children, all yoked together by the needs of situational comedy, are a bit new. What I am talking about is a serious and dramatic exploration of family possibilities that is just as complex and interesting as any romantic relationship can possibly be.

( Thoughts on Firefly, BSG, VM, and Supernatural in that context )

And to make it all ironic, it turns out I have no sibling icons, so I will use the only father-son one I have...