First, I really enjoy your podcast guys. Really.
Second, On the occasion of your recent (DVD release oriented) follow-up mention of your review of Brian Singer's Superman Returns; I regret to inform you that not only were you both wrong, you may both be certifiably insane and or blind on this point. If that seems overly harsh, allow me to put it this way:
Your reviews essentially boiled down to an assessment of how successfully two relatively unknown screenwriters and one moderately talented but semi-hack director were able to make alterations and improvements to the time-tested presentation of thee most popular and successful fictional character in modern history.
I'd write that out again for emphasis, but quite frankly it just plain makes my head hurt.
For reasons I can only ascribe to acute ahistorical amnesia, the two of you seem to regard 1978 (i.e. the wake of Munich, Watergate, our pullout from Vietnam, Nixon's resignation, the Khmer Rouge and the Iranian revolution) as a kinder gentler time akin to the black-n-white TV-land from Pleasentville, when literally nothing could be further from the truth. And, Superman: the Movie acknowledges as much.
Or don't either of you remember Lois laughing outright when Superman tells her that he's there to fight for "truth, justice and the American way"?
While it has many virtues as an action film, Brian Singer's Superman Returns suffers primarily from the fatal same flaw as the Roland Emmerich Godzilla . . . A title charter who isn't actually in the movie.
In short: Superman doesn't drink Budweiser, loiter about soaking up adoration or stalk his ex-girlfriend. He does however fight for "truth, justice and the American way." A phrase, I might add that in no way refers to his concerns being restricted to those of a certain nationality, but rather to ideals. You know, those Common Sense kind of ideas that really need to be fought for.
Again, I really do enjoy generally your podcast guys. Really.
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