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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2916049" data-attributes="member: 63">So this movie encourages:1. Dead-beat dads.2. Being a creepy stalker.3. Skipping out on your civic duties (not appearing in court, not paying your medical bills, and I'm pretty sure Clark didn't pay any taxes the year he up and vanished)The movie hits the right emotional notes, and if you don't think about it, it's actually kind of enjoyable. But if you lend a few minutes of thought to it, you'll see that Superman as a character has a simplistic view of a world that is amazingly complex. I feel that the movie is weaker because of its simplicity. With the 70s and 80s version of Superman, we had the faith of a child that a man could do wonders and be uncorruptible and undefeatable. But nearly thirty years later, as much as we want someone with those traits, we need to see the person at least own up to the temptations and challenges of being human.Sometimes Superman can be an interesting character -- this usually occurs when a comic writer decides to confront the moral issues being immensely more powerful than everyone else presents. In this movie, however, he's just not interesting. He has no personal conflict, except that he's hung up on his ex-girlfriend. Y'know, Supes, while you're using your X-Ray vision to violate their personal privacy, I'm sure hundreds of people around the world are dying.I don't want a Superman movie to be bleak, but I don't want it to be blind either. I honestly had expected a bit more from Bryan Singer.And I have enough time to go into how badly written the dialogue was, or how poorly-realized Lex Luthor was, how stupid he was to keep his ditz around, and all in all how pathetic the conflict was. Honestly, the only character I liked in the movie was someone not even in the Superman mythos -- Richard whatshisname, who was Lois's boyfriend. Everyone else was lame.Sigh. I need to go. I give the movie 5 out of 10.</blockquote>

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