Still planning on seeing it, but that's pretty close to the take most others have had who reviewed it.
I agree, Christopher Reeve and Richard Donner had a bead on that character and the spirit of that character that was uniquely great. For various reasons, I don't think Hollywood is likely to recapture that any time soon, because, frankly, some of the things that really made the character, Hollywood is just ignorant of, anymore.
Also, I'm a bit put out that the score of this new movie appears to have borrowed from John Williams' original. Like.....either use his composition or do a whole different one. Don't try to change or improve a John Williams classic. That dude literally put two notes together and made Jaws a terrifying menace to generations. You can't tweak his stuff and expect it to be as good. Or, how 'bout this.....he's still alive and working.....hire him to do another score if you want to go a different way. I've heard the electric-guitar redo of this thing and.....yeah, it's the same problem as James Gunn......it's trying to capture all the elements it knows it should, but it refuses to take them on their own terms and so just kinda.....fails. It sounds ok, but it doesn't sound hopeful, optimistic, and triumphant like the Reeve movies.
