Gibbons: "Superman needs re-imagining"

Not at all. I thought the post I quoted was just rubbish. "Stop trying to texture his personality", and "Back to the primary colours"?? What a load of rot. You might just as well say that about any superhero from any comics stable.

Superman Returns, if I can step outside of my own enjoyment of it, was very flawed, and I agree there ought to be a movement away from the Donner movies. I loved it, but it was too reverend and never going to win the hearts of a new generation with it's one foot in the 70's approach.

None of this means the character is dead or lacking depth. We just need a better approach to him.
 
For me, Superman has always looked dated and always will. That sort of Marvel super-hero, in the spandex and pants belongs to a bygone era, no matter how hard they try and make it seem contemporary it never will.
 
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Superman is DC, not Marvel.

Actually my biggest issue with Supes is that he is too powerful, having powers is one thing, being damn near invincible is quite another, and makes it very difficult to devise stories around him that would work on the big screen, in a film narrative.

Donner pulled it off wonderfully, but those films were made in a less cynical age. Comic books went through a huge evolution in the 1980s (Dark Knight Returns

Personally, I think Death's Head would make for a fantastic movie character, but he is very much a cult character so sadly its unlikely.
 
I just think it's the stupidest concept which doesn't really work in this day an age..."Oh I'll just take my glasses off, grease my hair and wear spandex and no-one can tell its ME CLARK KENT!!" :rolleyes:

I'm sorry I can suspend disbelief but it just doesn't work.
 
I always feel it's not what you do but the way that you do it. On paper, it's a very silly, 50's sounding thing, but actually in the hanRAB of the right director it can be made believable. The whole idea of a bumbling Clark Kent was created by Christopher Reeve because he felt the same as you, that the old fashioned way didn't work. There had to be a physical separation between the two characters or the audience won't go for it. I think he was spot on with that (though it was a gamble at the time for both actor and director) and it worked for him and made the character his own.

Now we just need a new approach to it from a new director.
 
i hated superman returns in cinema,felt it was boring

but loved it on dvd rewatch last year

i also echo the call to keep routh
 
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