AICN's Moriarty Reviews Superman Script. OMG!
POSTED BY: LivingImpaired
UPDATED: Friday, September 27, 2002 04:47
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Three words: Oh. My. GOD. I can't think of anyting else to add. Here's the link:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13350
You have to read it to believe it, and I wish that is wasn't true....
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No. F
king. Way.
This has got to be a hoax. Nobody can be that out of touch. Nobody can be that stupid.
--- Joe
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Quote:
Originally posted by mojoeca:
No. F
This has got to be a hoax. Nobody can be that out of touch. Nobody can be that stupid.
--- Joe
Uh, well, we're not really talking about people here, now are we? We're dealing with Movie executives. And yes, they can be that stupid.
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Well, AICN isn't exactly a reliable source. Does anyone remember their ridiculous review of the Batman : Year One script? I'll believe this crap when it's coming from a site that has a shred of credibility.
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This isn't going to get made.
If by some freak chance it does, it won't make any money.
Everyone knows the story. Everyone wants the story. This is just silly and stupid and somebody's mushroom trip stoned vision of something they never really knew.
I'm not going to get upset, and I don't think anyone else should either, because it ain't gonna happen.
Pandora
and if it does, well... it shouldn't be in the theaters too long.
"Computer games don't affect kids negatively; I mean if Pac-Man affected us
as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc.
1988
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It'll never get made, of course. But even if it did, why should anybody be shocked? I can't count the number of movie adaptations done by people who had no understanding of the original material. I'm sure that somewhere out there, some budding film mogul is putting together this can't-miss project: LORD OF THE RINGS IV: FRODO MEETS JASON!
JOSH, WHERE'S MY CHECK???!!!
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Ok, the fact that Krypton doesn't explode, I can forgive. The various character and character meeting re-writes I can also forgive (Lois and Clark's meeting, and Jimmy's affeminance). I can look past the horrible prophecy thing... hell, I can even sorta kinda a little forgive the Jor-El having visited Martha and Jonathan story.
But that's about as far as I can stretch (and that's pretty damn far). Superman dies and is ressurected and that's not even the plot of the film! A character cannot go through that as a plot device... it has to be *the* plot.
And the massive re-writes of Lex Luthor... I can look past the CIA scientist thing... but to have him be Kryptoninan is simply absurd!
There were parts of the review that I *really* liked (some of the re-write aspects are a bit interesting, even. The beginning, with Superman getting his ass kicked, sounds very cool... and a morally tortured Superman is definately the way to go in this film) and I really want them committed to film. But the *horrid* *horrid* *horrid* plot aspects the film takes once it gets back to real-time are just unforgivable!
My thoughts are that the second half of the script is fake... perhaps a stunt pulled by Warner Bros. I may be the only one, but, aside from the kung-fu and Krypton crap, the first half of the script sounds damn cool to me (perhaps if I didn't have confidence in JJ Abrahm's ability i would think otherwise).
Anyway, I will hope beyond hope that the script is either partially fake or will be rewritten. I will not go to see this film if the Kryptonian Luthor is ever even partially realised.
--Dylan Palmer, Pretentious Bastard at Large--
"Oh my god, I'm a hack!" - Joss Whedon
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Well, some of this stuff might make sense - if you take into consideration that Keanu Reeves will be playing the part..
Whoa! No Way ! Dude!
Way... Way...
Whoa!
Yeah, the thing that would be really really really hilarious would be to see Superman
saying "Whoa..." all the damn time.
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