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Jul. 12th, 2006 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
layangabiBack in Melbourne, and off to hack away at my thesis to get my first draft done before uni starts. I have one. more. chapter. And maybe a conclusion to go. The I'm going to re-write the hell of my no-good, bad, horrible introduction and maybe some of the first.
(The minute I get off my Superman Returns high, that is. Which is a bit difficult, considering that I've been listening to the soundtrack obsessively and I want to go see the film AGAIN, for the fourth.)
There's very little I can say about the movie that hasn't been said already: it's a beautiful film. What Bryan Singer brought to X1 and X2, he expounded on in Superman. That however isolated we believe ourselves to be, we're not. That whatever our individual hubris, we can, and are saved by our kith and kin. (And oh, God. It would the ultimate irony if Singer left after the sequel, and Brett Ratner came in to trash everything that came before. Don't do this to another franchise, Byan. Stay for the whole kit and caboodle. I'm still in mourning over X3)
And on the note of kith and kin, the next person who says Jason's addition was "unnecessary" and completely pointless will be gutted, skewed, and have their head paraded around on a spike. HELL YES, Jason was neccessary. The entire bloody film was centered on Clark's search for living family. He's denied it instead, comes home only to find even his adopted human family has changed, and that he's quite possibly no longer fits in with them, not that he's ever fully functioned as . Then to add insult to injury, he finds out Luthor took all he has left of his biological parents and that, thanks to him and Kitty, he'll never get them back. He finds what he's looking for in Jason instead, and more than that, Jason grounds him firmly in the human family Clark has had such a tenuous connection with. What part of this did you miss, exactly?
The same goes for the next person to call Clark a homewrecker (some nut on tv). How? Lois and Richard are still together by the end of the first film, he's not trying to do anything to change that. If anything, that one last flight together with Lois was an apology and a goodbye. Unless Clark does a Logan in the next film (which I can't imagine him doing---he did a Jean instead in this movie and flew back to Metropolis because if he didn't, a HELLOFALOT more people would have died)I'm hard pressed to call him one.
(The minute I get off my Superman Returns high, that is. Which is a bit difficult, considering that I've been listening to the soundtrack obsessively and I want to go see the film AGAIN, for the fourth.)
There's very little I can say about the movie that hasn't been said already: it's a beautiful film. What Bryan Singer brought to X1 and X2, he expounded on in Superman. That however isolated we believe ourselves to be, we're not. That whatever our individual hubris, we can, and are saved by our kith and kin. (And oh, God. It would the ultimate irony if Singer left after the sequel, and Brett Ratner came in to trash everything that came before. Don't do this to another franchise, Byan. Stay for the whole kit and caboodle. I'm still in mourning over X3)
And on the note of kith and kin, the next person who says Jason's addition was "unnecessary" and completely pointless will be gutted, skewed, and have their head paraded around on a spike. HELL YES, Jason was neccessary. The entire bloody film was centered on Clark's search for living family. He's denied it instead, comes home only to find even his adopted human family has changed, and that he's quite possibly no longer fits in with them, not that he's ever fully functioned as . Then to add insult to injury, he finds out Luthor took all he has left of his biological parents and that, thanks to him and Kitty, he'll never get them back. He finds what he's looking for in Jason instead, and more than that, Jason grounds him firmly in the human family Clark has had such a tenuous connection with. What part of this did you miss, exactly?
The same goes for the next person to call Clark a homewrecker (some nut on tv). How? Lois and Richard are still together by the end of the first film, he's not trying to do anything to change that. If anything, that one last flight together with Lois was an apology and a goodbye. Unless Clark does a Logan in the next film (which I can't imagine him doing---he did a Jean instead in this movie and flew back to Metropolis because if he didn't, a HELLOFALOT more people would have died)I'm hard pressed to call him one.
