[Night Hammer]

i cant really see Cage as superman, the Burton thing woulda been awesome though

[BlackDove]

Burton's good for Batman to a point, but not for Superman.

And Cage as Superman? Kind of too old and bald, don't you tihnk?

[IceFire]

Nice...could be good.  Superman was never my favorite but seems interesting enough.  I just saw Batman Begins a few days ago...superb movie.  X-Men was good but X2 came into its own.  I haven't seen some of the other comic book adaptations as I've heard they were not as good.

There are hits and misses and we'll see if this is a hit or not.

[ZylonBane]

This was originally going to be directed by Tim Burton, with Nicholas Cage as Superman. That would have kicked ass.

Sorry, looks like you misspelled "sucked ass" there. Tim Burton's Superman would have been a random, unfocused, self-indulgent mess, just like Batman. The only thing that salvaged Batman was the production design and Jack Nicholson's "I know this script is stupid so I may as well chew the hell out of the scenery" performance.

Did you know that Burton (and his producer) had decided that Superman wasn't going to fly in his film? Yeah. Chew on that for a while.

[Black Wolf]

The original Superman couldn't fly, nor was he affected by Kryptonite. Both were actually added by radio serials a few years after the comics first started. (Kryptonite was actually invented because Superman's voice actor wanted a week off, so they just got some dude to do some random moaning as superman got weaker and weaker thanks to kryptonite, while someone else saved the day).

Also, for the record, Sin City was a comic book adaptation. So yeah. All sucking arse, I think not.

[ZylonBane]

[colour=lookatmelookatme]The original Superman couldn't fly, nor was he affected by Kryptonite.[/colour]

The original Coca-Cola had cocaine in it. What's your point?

[BlackDove]

The original Superman couldn't fly, nor was he affected by Kryptonite. Both were actually added by radio serials a few years after the comics first started. (Kryptonite was actually invented because Superman's voice actor wanted a week off, so they just got some dude to do some random moaning as superman got weaker and weaker thanks to kryptonite, while someone else saved the day).

Also, for the record, Sin City was a comic book adaptation. So yeah. All sucking arse, I think not.

You do realise that there is no original "Superman" - right? Siegel was alive up until 1996 and partook in almost every incarnation of his creation.

There is only the primitive idiotic first concept and then the one later improved on and built on by as much reason and logic allowed it.

[an0n]

The original Coca-Cola had cocaine in it. What's your point?

"**** was better in the 50's"?

[Ford Prefect]

Superman is dumb, and I'm glad Tim Burton's genius was not wasted on him.

[ZylonBane]

Yeah, isn't it so much better that his genius was wasted on Planet of the Apes and Corpse Bride?

[Janos]

Yeah, isn't it so much better that his genius was wasted on Planet of the Apes and Corpse Bride?

Or Big Fish or Sleepy Hollow or Batman Returns.

Burton's style is suitable for certain areas, but I agree that he probably wouldn't have been the best guy to direct a Supermensch Scout Boy Man Krypton movie. His style is too different.

[Mongoose]

Looks like it has some potential.  Was that Anthony Hopkins doing the voiceover?

[BlackDove]

Marlon Brando from the 1978 movie.

[Grey Wolf]

The original Superman couldn't fly, nor was he affected by Kryptonite. Both were actually added by radio serials a few years after the comics first started. (Kryptonite was actually invented because Superman's voice actor wanted a week off, so they just got some dude to do some random moaning as superman got weaker and weaker thanks to kryptonite, while someone else saved the day).

Also, for the record, Sin City was a comic book adaptation. So yeah. All sucking arse, I think not.

You do realise that there is no original "Superman" - right? Siegel was alive up until 1996 and partook in almost every incarnation of his creation.

There is only the primitive idiotic first concept and then the one later improved on and built on by as much reason and logic allowed it.

Not quite. There were years in the middle where Siegel had no effect on it, and his name was in fact purged from the comic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel

[BlackDove]

M-hm, still doesn't change the fact that he was involved in the original incarnation as well as the current popular one (his last incarnation really).

[Grey Wolf]

And that really sums up most of his participation, with the exception of a bit in the middle of the Silver Age.

On an interesting side note, the ability to fly was actually added for the original Fleischmann (sp?) cartoons, as the jumping was deemed to not be exciting enough.