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azurite(1) You know, I *liked* Mel Gibson. I liked "The Patriot" and the "Lethal Weapon" series, and tons of other movies. And then he had to suddenly decide he had enough power and influence to be a director and "send a message" --so he did "The Passion of the Christ" (okay, no biggie. It's been done before. But all in Aramaic?). After that though, he seems to have changed. He seems MORE gung-ho Catholic than he was before. And apparently it's not just about sending a one-time message and then going to practice your religion/faith (as Mel Gibson's is apparently an off-shoot of the Catholic church, except taken to a bigger extreme... this church was "founded" by Mel's father) in peace. But noooooo loony Mel's got to be Anti-Semetic. His dad's got to claim the Holocaust never happened.
...I believed Bill Clinton was innocent of his "crimes" too, and even when I wised up, I decided it wasn't such a bad thing. Okay, he's an ass for technically cheating on his wife, but seriously? It could have been worse. Getting head is hardly a reason to impeach a President. BC probably wasn't even the first President to do that: he was just the first one to get caught!
And at least he's doing something productive with his time and energy now. Mel Gibson's off getting drunk and spouting hateful things about Jews. Sure, I'm not a practicing Jew, but much of my family is, and I have a great respect for their beliefs. And HELLO, Jesus was a Jew, you big ninny! :P
(2) Baba thinks Lindsay Lohan should act her age and not her shoe size; apparently Lohan cried to "Mommy" that she wasn't feeling well, so her Mom had to take her to the hospital rather than of-legal-age-and-mindset Lohan doing it herself. My thoughts? I don't really care. I think Lohan's cute, a decent enough singer (I liked her songs from "Freaky Friday" and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"), and I bet her boobs are completely natural. :}
(3) I spent much of the weekend with Jill (my cousin)'s family-- mainly my second (and third, twice removed) cousins, Nikki, James, Nina, and Alexis. We had a scrapbooking party that was pretty successful, and we also saw "Superman Returns" yesterday afternoon at the Winnetka 21. It was surprisingly good, but as predicted, I didn't like Kate Bosworth's "Lois." Brandon Routh, on the other hand, was a surprisingly good Clark *AND* Superman.
But of course, I have to be a nitpicker. What is with superhero movies lately and their lousy costumes? Is it some sort of "new wave" fashion thing overtaking Hollywood, where superheroes have to wear stuf with tacky webbing and latex imprinting in it? Spider-Man's new costume is like that, and Superman's might as well have been made out of vinyl for all the shiny webbing embedded in the fabric. And I hated his "logo"-- it didn't seem big enough, and it was made out of plastic rather than cloth.
...Okay, so would his Kryptonian parents really have put a random iron-on embroidered patch in his space ship? Maybe not. But I always liked the idea that the patch that became such an integral symbol of who he is came from the blanket that was wrapped around him. And his cape should have been redder. :P
Talking about the movie, though, the beginning made no sense to me. Who was the guy leaving in the pick-up truck leaving the farm, if not Jonathan Kent? And why DIDN'T they have a Jonathan Kent? Was it a casting issue?
So, this movie is supposed to take place after the semi-disaster that was Superman II (1980). I remember seeing it on TV and thinking it was campy, but good. I don't remember the specifics, but the general idea was that Clark gave up his powers to be with Lois, but he realized he'd taken them for granted, especially after he got beaten to a pulp multiple times. He finally transferred his powers back into himself (Unlike the "One Year Later" comic book storyline, which is a "similar sort of rewrite" of the movie for the comicverse, he didn't "lose" his powers unwillingly-- he GAVE them up) and saved the day, but of course, Lois completely forgot he was Superman. But they HAD spent time together-- evidenced by Lois's piece "I Spent The Night With Superman."
So that answers the question "How did Jason (son of Lois Lane) come into existence?" He only shows one true example of super powers, and that's when he has an asthma attack and he blows a piano into a guy (Brutus) that was attacking his mom. He MAY have also had the strength to push open the locked kitchen door (could have been his "dad," Richard, aka Cyclops- the human hero of the movie), and maybe even push hard enough against that same door later, when the ship was sinking... but we don't know for sure. He may have also used some early form of super-sight to spot Superman in the water, but that could have been a lucky glimpse.
I found it funny that Richard caught onto Lois' lingering feelings for Superman pretty quickly, and even the Clark/Superman connection. He even suspected that Lois slept with Superman, though I don't know whether he followed through on that thought and wondered if Jason was really even his kid.
But they kind of left it open-ended, because it's not like Lois learned the truth about Clark (though I imagine she would have, had Superman been so sick from all that Kryptonite exposure that he stayed in the hospital), and it's not like she realized she had feelings for HIM, rather than/along with Superman (which disappointed me; I've always been a staunch believer that Lois should love Clark for Clark, not Superman). It's pretty clear she still loves Superman, but nothing can ever come of it, especially with her being "tied down" with Richard. And Richard is a good guy. I figured if Lois and Superman/Clark WERE to get some semblance of a happy ending, it would be because Richard died to save them. :} But he didn't, so...
Anyway, kryptonite exposure. That entire freakin' island was made up of kryptonite, right? Or was it that it sucked landmass material from nearby, creating earthquakes, tsunamis, and underwater trenches, but the "core" of the island was kryptonite? I don't understand why Superman didn't sense it sooner, and he was able to fly all the way to the island, but it wasn't until he landed and Lex started pummeling him that he realized what was going on. And being the sacrificial hero he is (many Christian allegories in the Superman films; in the later ones, they lost that mythology, which I admit, works really well with his character), he even PICKED UP the whole freakin' island, KNOWING that it was Kryptonite WITH Kryptonite EMBEDDED IN HIM. The amount of continued exposure really must have brought him close to death, so it's no surprise that he crash landed and ended up in the hospital.
But it was funny how people seemed to think that an oxygen mask might help :P
All in all, a good movie. Will it be continued, I wonder?
...I believed Bill Clinton was innocent of his "crimes" too, and even when I wised up, I decided it wasn't such a bad thing. Okay, he's an ass for technically cheating on his wife, but seriously? It could have been worse. Getting head is hardly a reason to impeach a President. BC probably wasn't even the first President to do that: he was just the first one to get caught!
And at least he's doing something productive with his time and energy now. Mel Gibson's off getting drunk and spouting hateful things about Jews. Sure, I'm not a practicing Jew, but much of my family is, and I have a great respect for their beliefs. And HELLO, Jesus was a Jew, you big ninny! :P
(2) Baba thinks Lindsay Lohan should act her age and not her shoe size; apparently Lohan cried to "Mommy" that she wasn't feeling well, so her Mom had to take her to the hospital rather than of-legal-age-and-mindset Lohan doing it herself. My thoughts? I don't really care. I think Lohan's cute, a decent enough singer (I liked her songs from "Freaky Friday" and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"), and I bet her boobs are completely natural. :}
(3) I spent much of the weekend with Jill (my cousin)'s family-- mainly my second (and third, twice removed) cousins, Nikki, James, Nina, and Alexis. We had a scrapbooking party that was pretty successful, and we also saw "Superman Returns" yesterday afternoon at the Winnetka 21. It was surprisingly good, but as predicted, I didn't like Kate Bosworth's "Lois." Brandon Routh, on the other hand, was a surprisingly good Clark *AND* Superman.
But of course, I have to be a nitpicker. What is with superhero movies lately and their lousy costumes? Is it some sort of "new wave" fashion thing overtaking Hollywood, where superheroes have to wear stuf with tacky webbing and latex imprinting in it? Spider-Man's new costume is like that, and Superman's might as well have been made out of vinyl for all the shiny webbing embedded in the fabric. And I hated his "logo"-- it didn't seem big enough, and it was made out of plastic rather than cloth.
...Okay, so would his Kryptonian parents really have put a random iron-on embroidered patch in his space ship? Maybe not. But I always liked the idea that the patch that became such an integral symbol of who he is came from the blanket that was wrapped around him. And his cape should have been redder. :P
Talking about the movie, though, the beginning made no sense to me. Who was the guy leaving in the pick-up truck leaving the farm, if not Jonathan Kent? And why DIDN'T they have a Jonathan Kent? Was it a casting issue?
So, this movie is supposed to take place after the semi-disaster that was Superman II (1980). I remember seeing it on TV and thinking it was campy, but good. I don't remember the specifics, but the general idea was that Clark gave up his powers to be with Lois, but he realized he'd taken them for granted, especially after he got beaten to a pulp multiple times. He finally transferred his powers back into himself (Unlike the "One Year Later" comic book storyline, which is a "similar sort of rewrite" of the movie for the comicverse, he didn't "lose" his powers unwillingly-- he GAVE them up) and saved the day, but of course, Lois completely forgot he was Superman. But they HAD spent time together-- evidenced by Lois's piece "I Spent The Night With Superman."
So that answers the question "How did Jason (son of Lois Lane) come into existence?" He only shows one true example of super powers, and that's when he has an asthma attack and he blows a piano into a guy (Brutus) that was attacking his mom. He MAY have also had the strength to push open the locked kitchen door (could have been his "dad," Richard, aka Cyclops- the human hero of the movie), and maybe even push hard enough against that same door later, when the ship was sinking... but we don't know for sure. He may have also used some early form of super-sight to spot Superman in the water, but that could have been a lucky glimpse.
I found it funny that Richard caught onto Lois' lingering feelings for Superman pretty quickly, and even the Clark/Superman connection. He even suspected that Lois slept with Superman, though I don't know whether he followed through on that thought and wondered if Jason was really even his kid.
But they kind of left it open-ended, because it's not like Lois learned the truth about Clark (though I imagine she would have, had Superman been so sick from all that Kryptonite exposure that he stayed in the hospital), and it's not like she realized she had feelings for HIM, rather than/along with Superman (which disappointed me; I've always been a staunch believer that Lois should love Clark for Clark, not Superman). It's pretty clear she still loves Superman, but nothing can ever come of it, especially with her being "tied down" with Richard. And Richard is a good guy. I figured if Lois and Superman/Clark WERE to get some semblance of a happy ending, it would be because Richard died to save them. :} But he didn't, so...
Anyway, kryptonite exposure. That entire freakin' island was made up of kryptonite, right? Or was it that it sucked landmass material from nearby, creating earthquakes, tsunamis, and underwater trenches, but the "core" of the island was kryptonite? I don't understand why Superman didn't sense it sooner, and he was able to fly all the way to the island, but it wasn't until he landed and Lex started pummeling him that he realized what was going on. And being the sacrificial hero he is (many Christian allegories in the Superman films; in the later ones, they lost that mythology, which I admit, works really well with his character), he even PICKED UP the whole freakin' island, KNOWING that it was Kryptonite WITH Kryptonite EMBEDDED IN HIM. The amount of continued exposure really must have brought him close to death, so it's no surprise that he crash landed and ended up in the hospital.
But it was funny how people seemed to think that an oxygen mask might help :P
All in all, a good movie. Will it be continued, I wonder?
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:07 am (UTC)Celebrities are strange animals, that's for sure.