So then what will he fark up?

Bad news for giant spiders, and gay robots but things are looking up for polar bear security in Antartica.

I liked the last Superman movie.

Great, no more Lex Luthor real estate schemes for awhile.

/Otisburg?!

Yep, Singer really messed up X-Men

Tickle Mittens: Bad news for giant spiders, and gay robots but things are looking up for polar bear security in Antartica.


approves.
(hot hot hotlink!)

texdent: Great, no more Lex Luthor real estate schemes for awhile.

/Otisburg?!

Despite being one of the most famous and recognized superheroes, I would defy your average non-nerd to name 5 Superman villains not named Lex Luthor. (Smallville, SAS, and Justice League has changed this equation a bit, though)

I've said it before; the best Superman story is that with him being nearly immortal, it will be torture for him to watch his closest friends and loves age and die before him, that's incredibly lonely, and the danger is that it could cause him to turn away from humanity because detachment is the only way away from the pain. Add to that the fact that humans can easily turn on him because he makes all the challenges we could overcome kind of trivial. Like, why go to Mars if he can speed ahead and meet our astronauts there? Why compete in Olympics? Why achieve anything? It's like struggling to out-do the really talented big brother, who's better than you at everything and always will be. At some point, if you're character isn't up to the challenge, you turn into a failure, you give up. And if he's not immortal, knowing he'll be gone one day must leave him very fearful as to who can protect Earth after he's gone.

animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

This!

Any Pie Left: I've said it before; the best Superman story is that with him being nearly immortal, it will be torture for him to watch his closest friends and loves age and die before him, that's incredibly lonely, and the danger is that it could cause him to turn away from humanity because detachment is the only way away from the pain. Add to that the fact that humans can easily turn on him because he makes all the challenges we could overcome kind of trivial. Like, why go to Mars if he can speed ahead and meet our astronauts there? Why compete in Olympics? Why achieve anything? It's like struggling to out-do the really talented big brother, who's better than you at everything and always will be. At some point, if you're character isn't up to the challenge, you turn into a failure, you give up. And if he's not immortal, knowing he'll be gone one day must leave him very fearful as to who can protect Earth after he's gone.

Lex Luthor couldn't have said it better himself.

Fano: Despite being one of the most famous and recognized superheroes, I would defy your average non-nerd to name 5 Superman villains not named Lex Luthor. (Smallville, SAS, and Justice League has changed this equation a bit, though)

Brainiac, Bizarro, Darkseid, Mister Mxyzptlk, and Richard Pryor?

animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

I did too. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it also wasn't the complete and total trainwreck the internet hivemind thinks it was. Finding a plot other than Lex Luthor's Land Grab Part 2 would've been nice and the entire James Marsden/Superkid storyline could have been excised, but I enjoyed it for what it was.

And let's face it: between Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Catwoman, we've got proof that it could have been a lot worse.

Fano: Any Pie Left: I've said it before; the best Superman story is that with him being nearly immortal, it will be torture for him to watch his closest friends and loves age and die before him, that's incredibly lonely, and the danger is that it could cause him to turn away from humanity because detachment is the only way away from the pain. Add to that the fact that humans can easily turn on him because he makes all the challenges we could overcome kind of trivial. Like, why go to Mars if he can speed ahead and meet our astronauts there? Why compete in Olympics? Why achieve anything? It's like struggling to out-do the really talented big brother, who's better than you at everything and always will be. At some point, if you're character isn't up to the challenge, you turn into a failure, you give up. And if he's not immortal, knowing he'll be gone one day must leave him very fearful as to who can protect Earth after he's gone.

Lex Luthor couldn't have said it better himself

Bendis can.

IMDWalrus: And let's face it: between Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Catwoman, we've got proof that it could have been a lot worse.

You forgot Elektra, and X-Men 3.

animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

Really? I thought it was pure garbage. Almost as bad as Ghost Rider, but waaaay more boring.

But I've never really liked Superman anyway. He's perfect, so I feel no pity when he is "losing". Plus he has an infinite amount of super powers. When his current powers won't help him win, they add new ones. His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

"Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

/The SNL skit with The Rock as Clark is classic.
//Wasn't ranting at you animal, just my frustrations with a weak comic book character that got too much attention/praise

Huh ... I don't mind. Chris Reeve and Dean Cain owned.

scottydoesntknow: animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

Really? I thought it was pure garbage. Almost as bad as Ghost Rider, but waaaay more boring.

But I've never really liked Superman anyway. He's perfect, so I feel no pity when he is "losing". Plus he has an infinite amount of super powers. When his current powers won't help him win, they add new ones. His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

"Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

/The SNL skit with The Rock as Clark is classic.
//Wasn't ranting at you animal, just my frustrations with a weak comic book character that got too much attention/praise

Because on Krypton, the rocks weren't radioactive to him until after the planet exploded.
/He's also weak to magic and mind control.

IMDWalrus: Fano: Despite being one of the most famous and recognized superheroes, I would defy your average non-nerd to name 5 Superman villains not named Lex Luthor. (Smallville, SAS, and Justice League has changed this equation a bit, though)

Brainiac, Bizarro, Darkseid, Mister Mxyzptlk, and Richard Pryor?

Don't forget Ducky:

scottydoesntknow: "Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

Because at first all he COULD do was leap ala the Hulk. The flying was a tv show or radio addition.

Pyynk: scottydoesntknow: "Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

Because at first all he COULD do was leap ala the Hulk. The flying was a tv show or radio addition.

Yea I know, it was more to illustrate the fact that they've continuously added powers to him to suit the comics need. He's a god, and I just can't connect with him because of that.

scottydoesntknow: animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

Really? I thought it was pure garbage. Almost as bad as Ghost Rider, but waaaay more boring.

But I've never really liked Superman anyway. He's perfect, so I feel no pity when he is "losing". Plus he has an infinite amount of super powers. When his current powers won't help him win, they add new ones. His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

"Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

/The SNL skit with The Rock as Clark is classic.
//Wasn't ranting at you animal, just my frustrations with a weak comic book character that got too much attention/praise

You just have to put Superman in the proper weight class. I used to be bored with Superman also, like in the old Superfriends stuff where he mostly forgot how many powers he had.

Then again World Made of Cardboard (new window)

Shazam! (new window)

The Diniverse makes him interesting again.

scottydoesntknow: animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

Really? I thought it was pure garbage. Almost as bad as Ghost Rider, but waaaay more boring.

But I've never really liked Superman anyway. He's perfect, so I feel no pity when he is "losing". Plus he has an infinite amount of super powers. When his current powers won't help him win, they add new ones. His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

"Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

/The SNL skit with The Rock as Clark is classic.
//Wasn't ranting at you animal, just my frustrations with a weak comic book character that got too much attention/praise

explains it pretty interestingly (new window)

actually, i like the way they explain his super disguise the best. the rest is pretty cool. even cooler if you know physics.

scottydoesntknow: "Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

Superman originally couldn't fly. At best he could run quickly and leap one-eighth of a mile. He gained the ability to fly when the story writers found his original powers too limiting. But the tagline somehow remains.


scottydoesntknow: But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

scottydoesntknow: animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

Really? I thought it was pure garbage. Almost as bad as Ghost Rider, but waaaay more boring.

But I've never really liked Superman anyway. He's perfect, so I feel no pity when he is "losing". Plus he has an infinite amount of super powers. When his current powers won't help him win, they add new ones. His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

"Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

/The SNL skit with The Rock as Clark is classic.
//Wasn't ranting at you animal, just my frustrations with a weak comic book character that got too much attention/praise

///Facepalm.

Read a book!

You Daredevil haters can suck it. Great? No. Pretty damn enjoyable? Yes.

scottydoesntknow: animal900: I liked the last Superman movie.

Really? I thought it was pure garbage. Almost as bad as Ghost Rider, but waaaay more boring.

But I've never really liked Superman anyway. He's perfect, so I feel no pity when he is "losing". Plus he has an infinite amount of super powers. When his current powers won't help him win, they add new ones. His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

"Able to leap large buildings in a single bound!" The farker can fly, why does he need to leap at all?

But the thing that pissed me off most of all (which I've voiced on FARK before), is his shiatty disguise. Seriously? You take off the damn glasses and all of the sudden it's "Where'd Clark go? Can you find him Superman?!" Just plain retarded.

/The SNL skit with The Rock as Clark is classic.
//Wasn't ranting at you animal, just my frustrations with a weak comic book character that got too much attention/praise

"You get Superman in a truck stop men's room, you won't need kryptonite to bring him to his knees." - I loved that sketch too.

JosephFinn: You Daredevil haters can suck it. Great? No. Pretty damn enjoyable? Yes.

I loved Bullseye from his first onscreen appearance.

The new DC Entertainment is full of retards and chimps who do not know how to run the comics side of things, and don't know how to translate the comics into good movies.

Sure, Blackest Night is good, but if Geoff Johns were to ever leave DC Comics, they would be screwed.

And seriously... how can they not figure out how to make a good Superman movie? Oh, wait... this was the company that wanted Nic Cage to be Superman in black leather.

And do they have to keep mining the Superman origin over and over? A Good Death of Superman trilogy would probably make fanboys and regular people flock to the theaters. Death and world without a hero in the first movie, with the end giving hints at Eradicator, Steel, Cyborg, and Superboy. Movie 2 is Reign of the Supermen. Movie three... well, hell, maybe you don't even need three movies.

But, no, we keep getting the same Superman movie remade over and over.

Stupid farking DC.

After spending half of the first movie watching crowds of people stare in wonder at the sky, I didn't feel the need to see any sequels. As much as I respect Singer as a director, I bitterly resent him handing off X-Men 3.

There's my opinion. I'm sure it matters to you.

FirstNationalBastard: The new DC Entertainment is full of retards and chimps who do not know how to run the comics side of things, and don't know how to translate the comics into good movies.

Sure, Blackest Night is good, but if Geoff Johns were to ever leave DC Comics, they would be screwed.

And seriously... how can they not figure out how to make a good Superman movie? Oh, wait... this was the company that wanted Nic Cage to be Superman in black leather.

And do they have to keep mining the Superman origin over and over? A Good Death of Superman trilogy would probably make fanboys and regular people flock to the theaters. Death and world without a hero in the first movie, with the end giving hints at Eradicator, Steel, Cyborg, and Superboy. Movie 2 is Reign of the Supermen. Movie three... well, hell, maybe you don't even need three movies.

But, no, we keep getting the same Superman movie remade over and over.

Stupid farking DC.

I submit that we quit doing origin stories as the first of a franchise. Comic book fans already know the origin, and everyone would be better served starting in media res. A New Hope didn't start with Anakin as a little boy, it started with a Star Destroyer kicking ass. For many heroes you have DECADES of material to strip for ideas.

Fano: I submit that we quit doing origin stories as the first of a franchise. Comic book fans already know the origin, and everyone would be better served starting in media res. A New Hope didn't start with Anakin as a little boy, it started with a Star Destroyer kicking ass Luke Skywalker's origin story.

Your analogy skills need some work.

IMDWalrus: Fano: I submit that we quit doing origin stories as the first of a franchise. Comic book fans already know the origin, and everyone would be better served starting in media res. A New Hope didn't start with Anakin as a little boy, it started with a Star Destroyer kicking ass Luke Skywalker's origin story.

Your analogy skills need some work.

Lucas claims all six movies are about Anakin's rise, fall, and redemption, but fair enough, you're right. So how about this:Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't start with a teenage Indy.

At least it wasn't Superman IV.

Look on the bright side (or one of many): We're spared the inevitable kid-friendly Superman+Krypto PG-fest.

I -also- liked the last Superman movie. I'm even willing to go out on a limb and state that it's probably my favorite of them all.

Goddammit. After Superman's thrilling adventures fighting a big rock in the last movie, I was eager for him to wail on a tree or get medieval on a tall building instead of just leap over it. Will I ever get a good story about kicking an inanimate object's ass again?

JosephFinn: You Daredevil haters can suck it. Great? No. Pretty damn enjoyable? Yes.

Director's Cut is FAR superior to the theatrical version.

The last superman movie was boring. If it had more action scenes such as the shuttle rescue and less emo superman. The hatred I have for the kid as well knows no bounds. Get Johns or Millar to write the script and have him face off against someone like doomsday or Metallo just someone he can have a brawl with.

/All under the animated luthor of course
//Also enjoyed daredevil (directors cut)

I wish everyone would stop whining about the last Superman movie. It wasn't great, but it could have been so much worse...

Rev. Skarekroe: I wish everyone would stop whining about the last Superman movie. It wasn't great, but it could have been so much worse...

I thought that picture was a Photoshop that had been debunked?

/But yes, even at the time, I was saying, "Nicolas Cage as Superman? Go fark yourself, Warner Brothers."

jocutus: Wrong_Intentions: Look on the bright side (or one of many): We're spared the inevitable kid-friendly Superman+Krypto PG-fest.

Aw, don't say that about Krypto! He's a good boy!

Look up the profile to Farker Pocket_Pitbull, she is the current owner of Krypto.

I would like to see them reboot to the original Superman of the comics. Limit has powers to what they were in the earliest issues. Set the movie during the Great Depression, and have him fighting mobsters and such.

RosevilleDan: I would like to see them reboot to the original Superman of the comics. Limit has powers to what they were in the earliest issues. Set the movie during the Great Depression, and have him fighting mobsters and such.

The failure of movies like The Phantom, Dick Tracy, and The Shadow tell me your interesting idea is a losing proposition.

RosevilleDan: I would like to see them reboot to the original Superman of the comics. Limit has powers to what they were in the earliest issues. Set the movie during the Great Depression, and have him fighting mobsters and such.

Right.

WB is so stupid, they want to set a Sgt. Rock movie in the future. They don't want to do a Sgt. Rock movie correctly because they claim that WW2 Movies don't make money.

If they won't do a WW2 Sgt. Rock, which sounds like it could be a decent moneymaker, you think they would take Superman back to 1938?

RosevilleDan: I would like to see them reboot to the original Superman of the comics. Limit has powers to what they were in the earliest issues. Set the movie during the Great Depression, and have him fighting mobsters and such.

Cast Jon Hamm as Superman and I'm on-board.

scottydoesntknow: His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

eh, there are multiple things found in our planet that would weaken you, given enough exposure

and this is a completely different physiology and a completely different planet we're talking about

i don't know why i'm defending this, i don't even like superman...

and i think the key to any superman movie is SUPERMAN FIGHTING BAD GUYS

do you remember superman fighting anyone in the last flick?

me neither

Grey Street: Cast Jon Hamm as Superman and I'm on-board.

Scotch, Justice, and the American Lay

lolmadillo: scottydoesntknow: His only weakness is a space rock, from his own planet. Why does kryptonite fark him up on earth, but he literally lived on it on Krypton?

eh, there are multiple things found in our planet that would weaken you, given enough exposure

and this is a completely different physiology and a completely different planet we're talking about



The chunks of Krypton that were hurled through space and became Kryptonite became radioactive and deadly to Kryptonians due to some type of sub-atomic change to the properties of the material that occured when the planet blew up.

So, he didn't live on Kryptonite. He lived on a perfectly normal planet (if you go by that version of his origin). the chunks of the planet didn't become Kryptonite until after the planet blew up.

Just give us someone besides Lex Luthor. Bizarro, Brainiac, Darkseid, anyone.

Rev. Skarekroe: I wish everyone would stop whining about the last Superman movie. It wasn't great, but it could have been so much worse...

oooooooooooooooooo man i tried really hard not to remember that photo.