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Just about back at 100% after a bout of illness, ears are still all pressured up though.

So we have another trailer for Superman Returns, this one more focused on Superman (the earlier one was very Lex centric) and Lois. The music is sounding really good, I’m assuming this is the soundtrack for the movie that combines William’s score with a new twist.

The hallmark of this one however as the image above shows, is the bullet flattening on Superman’s eyeball. As well as being just plain cool, it’s a nice homage to the “eye-injury” phase of comics in the 50s, one of those lovely things that sold tons of comics in the 50s, until some cats decided that comics were making the kids into commies and banned such images with the comics code.

Still pissed that we brits need to wait 15 days after the US release for this one.

It may come as a surprise to some people, but it took me a very long time to get into Star Wars. Dunno why, I guess growing up on a diet of Marvel comics made me more biased towards earth based adventures.

Now though, I can’t get enough of these films, maybe not so much eps one and two, but 3-6 are just brilliant. the fight on the lava planet in Revenge of the Sith is visualy magnificent, in fact I can honestly say that Sith is probably the best looking film I have ever seen, from the design of the sets, props and costumes to the cg and the overall look of the film, everything just clicks in my head as being perfect.

For better or worse, all of my adult life most of my teenage years have been affected by Kevin Smith’s movies, I’ve made a good few close friends through mutual love of his films all of which I’ve enjoyed immensely.

Which is why I’m happy to see a sequel to his Evening With dvd. Smith, is a great public speaker, he instantly has the crowd hanging on his every comedically tinged word. His anecdotes are some of the best in hollywood, completely honest, matter of fact vignettes, with all the dirty parts left in for the world to see. Fantastic.

Trailer here

Now what kind of raving DC Comics fan would I be if I didn’t comment on this?

Having watched the trailer, I have to say I’m throughly psyched for this one. I know I shouldn’t be as normally that leads to disappointment, but it’s Superman dammit!

Spacey is on top from in this trailer and looks like he’s having a ball of a time channeling the manic Lex Luthor, who appears to be more psychotic than the Hackman version (who’s portrayal of Luthor was closer DC’s Stan Lee analogue Funky Flashman), in fact he reminds me a lot of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in the first Batman film.

So far I’m impressed by Routh in the titular role, he not only looks the part, but I like the little nuances, like Clark having a softer voice compared to superman’s. This coupled with what appear to be pretty high prescription glasses that distort his eyes a fair bit in the last scene of the trailer, adds a bit of credibility to the worst disguise ever.

Kate Bosworth wasn’t in the trailer enough for me form an opinion on her role. Plus her longest scene there was against a show stopping Spacey delivering a couple of what will most likely be the most quoted lines of the film with a deliciously camp inflection (it’s not always a bad thing).

Stylistically, the film looks incredible. The colours look like Alex Ross’ art, which I think was the effect that Singer was going for and he’s really succeeded. The new Genesis cameras by Panasonic used here have finally achieved a digital film that looks strikingly like 35 mm film.
The special effects look flawless. Particularly the flight scenes which just look so authentic, that it makes me glad this film was in production hell until now, when technology can truly advance on the groundbreaking effects work of the 1978 original.

Now the hard part, waiting until July 14th and not looking at spoilers in between!