Going for a hat trick

July 1, 2006

We went to “Superman Returns” last night. It is an excellent movie, especially if you liked the first two Superman movies of the 70’s. This movie is a perfect Superman 3, right down to the John Williams opening theme. It gives you a chance to pretend that the series never crashed and burned with two more horrid films. You can pretend that those never happened.

Much as fans of Highlander have to do with several of those movies.

Or Star Wars. There were only three movies in that series. Don’t try to tell me otherwise.

“Superman Returns” is a film that dredges up all my happy teen movie memories, and then doesn’t spit all over them like George Lucas.

“Superman Returns also has something that I can’t seem to get enough of this weekend. Parker Posey, with a pomeranian.

The night before we went to Superman, we watched Blade 3, on TV. The Blade series is another example of a movie with two bad sequels, but Blade saved disappointing the fan base later by not starting with a good first movie. It is a series that keeps coming back, no matter how many times you stake it in the heart. And there is no drop in quality, because the bar starts low.

And “Blade Trinity”, is the sort of movie that you watch all the way to the end, because you are too damn lazy to find the remote and change the channel.

And it has Parker Posey, which means I get to sit on the couch and yell at her for selling out her indy roots by making crap like Blade, when she could have done a sequel to “Waiting for Guffman.” Or “Party Girl.” It has librarians in it. And Belly dancing. Why aren’t there more movies like that?

But I digress.

“Blade Trinity” had one good feature in two hours. It had a vampire pommeranian. Granted, it had a stupid, three-jawed special effect attached to it. The film makers didn’t realize that they’d struck gold with the whole vamp-pomeranian concept and ruined it with overkill.

This puts me at two in two days, for movies that contain both Parker and a pom.

If the dog had been a beagle or a terrier, or anything else, or the actress had been different…

But all that alliteration. And twice. If I cannot see a third, then the universe has no balance.

Does anyone have a DVD of “Best in Show”? Please tell me there’s a pomeranian. Lie if you must.

14 responses to “Going for a hat trick”

  1. corrinalaw says:

    So did they address whether Lois knows the kid is Superman’s or is she still under the influence of the amnesia kiss from Superman II and thinks she never slept with him?

    • admin says:

      Hmmmm.

      Don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone. But I think I can say that Lois never really comes clean about what she knows and what she doesn’t. She’s adamant about certain things in a way that makes her sound like she’s certain she didn’t sleep with him and wishes people would stop bugging her, or she knows she did and is a bad liar.

      And as a family, we had much fun with the fact that she was shacked up with, as James called him, “the whiniest X-Man.” Another James quote, “Oh great, Superman’s back, and now I have to stop shaving.” (Cyclops in X 3 was a sniveling, unshaven mess. And then he died.)

      I really don’t think this director is doing James Marsdan any favors, casting him as both Cyclops and Lois Lane’s live-in. He’s developing a career pattern as the nice guy who is romantically and sexually outclassed.

      I need to make a list of possible movies for this guy, because I like things to come in threes.

      Where else can he be the short end of the romantic triangle?

      • Anonymous says:

        And before I forget

        For anyone who’s never read it, here’s a link to “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” by Larry Niven.

        http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

      • corrinalaw says:

        Hmm…well, too bad they didn’t cast him in the Orlando Bloom role in “Pirates of the Carribean.” Because we all know that, really, Knightley was an idiot for not wanting to stick around on that island with Cap’n Jack and all the rum.

        • admin says:

          I’m not completely sure the Orlando Bloom character wouldn’t have been happier on the island with Captain Jack. I’m sorry, the guy’s just too pretty.

          • cherryredd says:

            I gree with you 100% on that one doublecheese. I mean look at him in Lord of the Rings with that long blond wig. Pretty. Yes, very pretty.

          • admin says:

            He’s a bit grubbier in the new pirates movie. Almost manly.

            As is Norrington. #1 son pointed out that the movie has a “love quadrangle.”

            I am the romance writer of the family. It should have been my job to notice that bit, and some of the other romantic interplay involving the compass, which slipped by me until I thought about it for a bit.

            Any action movie that involves any kind of thinking afterward, gets high marks in my book.

            On the whole, I am most satisfied with the new movie, and doing my best not to spoil it. Other than to tell everyone to stay to the end of the credits because there is a final scene which answers the most important question I was asking at the end.

  2. corrinalaw says:

    So did they address whether Lois knows the kid is Superman’s or is she still under the influence of the amnesia kiss from Superman II and thinks she never slept with him?

    • admin says:

      Hmmmm.

      Don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone. But I think I can say that Lois never really comes clean about what she knows and what she doesn’t. She’s adamant about certain things in a way that makes her sound like she’s certain she didn’t sleep with him and wishes people would stop bugging her, or she knows she did and is a bad liar.

      And as a family, we had much fun with the fact that she was shacked up with, as James called him, “the whiniest X-Man.” Another James quote, “Oh great, Superman’s back, and now I have to stop shaving.” (Cyclops in X 3 was a sniveling, unshaven mess. And then he died.)

      I really don’t think this director is doing James Marsdan any favors, casting him as both Cyclops and Lois Lane’s live-in. He’s developing a career pattern as the nice guy who is romantically and sexually outclassed.

      I need to make a list of possible movies for this guy, because I like things to come in threes.

      Where else can he be the short end of the romantic triangle?

      • Anonymous says:

        And before I forget

        For anyone who’s never read it, here’s a link to “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” by Larry Niven.

        http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

      • corrinalaw says:

        Hmm…well, too bad they didn’t cast him in the Orlando Bloom role in “Pirates of the Carribean.” Because we all know that, really, Knightley was an idiot for not wanting to stick around on that island with Cap’n Jack and all the rum.

        • admin says:

          I’m not completely sure the Orlando Bloom character wouldn’t have been happier on the island with Captain Jack. I’m sorry, the guy’s just too pretty.

          • cherryredd says:

            I gree with you 100% on that one doublecheese. I mean look at him in Lord of the Rings with that long blond wig. Pretty. Yes, very pretty.

          • admin says:

            He’s a bit grubbier in the new pirates movie. Almost manly.

            As is Norrington. #1 son pointed out that the movie has a “love quadrangle.”

            I am the romance writer of the family. It should have been my job to notice that bit, and some of the other romantic interplay involving the compass, which slipped by me until I thought about it for a bit.

            Any action movie that involves any kind of thinking afterward, gets high marks in my book.

            On the whole, I am most satisfied with the new movie, and doing my best not to spoil it. Other than to tell everyone to stay to the end of the credits because there is a final scene which answers the most important question I was asking at the end.

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