Superman - he's up, up, and sorta coasting...

So the deal is done. I just got back from the 10:15 showing at Tinsel Town, and it was quite interesting. My companion for the screening was Ryan (yes Rob, he's still alive, and he says Hi!). Luckily, we guessed right and few kids were there.

First, tons of previews and commercials (why am I paying $8.50 a ticket with all the subsidies from those, again???) instead of the old slide shows with muzak. The weird thing was that the volume was CRAZY low. To the point where I called the front desk and asked if there was a problem, but no, that's just the "new thing."

Anyway, after Ryan commented about a Spider Man 3 trailer, and I said it was way too early for that, they showed... (wait for it...) yup, the SM3 trailer. Lots with the black organic uniform and Venom (is that Brock - I dunno, I don't read comics). Looked VERY BADASS. Was awesome to see the suit start to melt onto Peter. I wonder how they'll play it, as the original comics (thanks Google!) say that he got the uniform on another planet. Hmm...

ANYWAY... Back to SR:

The movie was interesting... Exact same start/end titles and musical scores. That was cool, and tied it back to S1 and S2. Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor was RIGHT THE HELL ON. 'Nuff said. The plot was OK, but there was too much romance to it. The Lois with a kid thing was a bit iffy. I have to say the actress who played Lois (who was in Blue Crush, that chick-surfer movie I want to see) did a good job. Also commendable was Supes himself. He did a great job of differentiating Clark from SM acting-wise. While the ending was a bit deus-ex-machina, it was still a good movie.

To my shock, this was neither horrible nor mind-blowing. I'd give it a 7-8/10.