#superman returns

Having since seen both Superman the Movie and the (unfortunately bad) Richard Donner cut of Superman II…I STILL feel like I’m missing some context. I think a big thing that detracts from the film (aside from its scummy director) is the fact that this is the most comic-book time movie to ever exist; primitive camera phones co-exist alongside cars straight out of the 1940’s and old-rich opera aesthetics coexist alongside modern fashions—making for an extremely confusing aesthetic. Honestly, they would’ve been better off making it a late-70’s period piece.

I think the character who baffles me the most is Kitty Kowalski, Parker Posey’s character and Lex Luthor’s female associate. If this is supposed to be set in the same continuity as the Donner films, what happened to Eve Schumacher? I’d say WB somehow lost the rights to the character except that couldn’t be accurate because Eve is a major character in James Gunn’s Superman. The fact that Eve isn’t even given the dignity of a throwaway line about what happened to her and the film attempts to brainwash us into thinking that it’s ALWAYS been Kitty Kowalski is beyond baffling.