“You should hear what the fucking Clerks dude said about the Superman script!”
I kind of feel cheated now. I can’t help but think that a Superman starring Sean Penn as a violent Superman who lives in a Fortress of Solitude patrolled by polar bears so he can survive to battle a giant spider in the final act … how can it be anything other than an improvement on that Brandon Routh snoozefest?
This is why I love Kevin Smith. And why big budget Hollywood movies suck. Like so:
[via Boing Boing]
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Amey
April 28, 2009 at 7:30 pm
No Superman costume, and no flying? Didn’t Smallville do it, and pretty well at that?
As for spider, violence against various furred ones, well…
Gaurav
April 28, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Absolutely hilarious video.!!……I so wish to see superman movie like that…giant spider, polar bears, no costume, no flying, ….., would be so cool!
Gagan
April 28, 2009 at 11:11 pm
funny stuff ….we’re both from the street….Barbara streisand’s hairdresser….street cred is so important these days eh? every fucking body wants to be a gangster these days. Funny to think that someone who lucks on a lot of money and power in hollywood can do it with no literary talent. I can just imagine the dialogue if it were’nt KS there telling it like it is. ” that’s right man, solid .. from the street.. warriors. I remember one time …blah blah… put the mother fucker right down. cop car comes by not 2 minutes later. I swear dude those mother fuckers would have just thrown away the key if they had caught us…some fucking close calls, I tell you. Tell me about.. did I tell you about the time……
Lloyd's Lane
April 29, 2009 at 12:29 am
I happened to catch that Brandon Routh snoozefest just this weekend, right after Say Anything, and to keep myself from dozing off, I kept seeking out similarities in the understated togetherness the two leads shared with their lady love. (Of course, in Superman’s case, it’s a given that he was doomed to stay distant coz LL was married to someone else.) Like how the “Man” (as opposed to, er, “guy”) fleshes out (if only ever-so-slightly, in his love note) Superman’s more cryptic (Kryptic?) “I’m always around.”
Ramsu
April 29, 2009 at 1:18 am
Thank you! I really needed some Kevin Smith to brighten up my day. He may be one of the few people in the universe to be able to make the F-word sound poetic.
Getting Zack and Miri in India seems to be out of the question, so this is the next best thing.
~r
deej
April 29, 2009 at 6:00 am
never mind superman – ams u gotta see this: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_students_awardwinning_yogapromoting_supertoilet_13312.asp
saw it on BD’s fb page and cracked up!
DewdropDream
April 30, 2009 at 5:10 am
I had a good laugh over this video… super stuff!
Amrita
April 30, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Amey – no no, Smallville ka Superman can fly! He just doesn’t understand how he does it or something.
Gaurav – he should just keep the red panties and leave the blue lycra. It’d be like one of those early Dara Singh World Champion Wrestler movies except with lots of gloss!
Gagan – hahaha, the best part is that he was Babs’ hairdresser. And they wonder why hip hop sells.
LLane – oh lord, I never want to see “Brandon Routh”, “Man”, “fleshes out”, “I’ll always be around” placed so closely together again
Ramsu – always happy to oblige! Hey, they released Brokeback Mountain in India, they might still bring Zack and Miri. Which you should see btw!
DG – lolz!
3D – there’re a lot of Kevin Smith videos around actually and they’re all super funny. Check out youtube.
Amey
April 30, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Nope, The red-blue blur (that’s what they call him now) from Smallville does not know he can fly/cannot fly. The only 1-2 instances have been when he was under the influence of red kryptonite.
Amey
April 30, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Then again, you can always fly (or think you are) when you are high, right?
LLane
May 1, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Oh Amrita! In the throes of PMS are we?
Poor Routh, let’s give the guy a break (since his career clearly isn’t, the way it’s headed South and all that!). But seriously, I bristled far less at Routh’s seemingly computer-generated looks/demeanor (par for the course, I thought, since Superman is “other worldly” to begin with) than I did at Bosworth’s (Bo)toxic plasticity — that woman was so wrong for the role on so many levels (what Katie Holmes was to Batman Begins, if you will)!
But all said and done, you have a point there. I do admit that if I hadn’t read somewhere that Routh was a “real” person who plays the piano and trumpet in his (Superfluous?) spare time, I would’ve argued anyone away to the farthest corners of the planet that his onscreen persona was merely some animator’s poor attempt at adding — to a movie otherwise shot with all the darkness of the Batman franchise minus the spunk (or storyline) — a Beowulf touch!
Amrita
May 1, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Amey – lolz, is that what’s going on? Well, as long as he’s getting some kind of action, I guess.
LLane – oh, I’m the bitch from hell this week
I don’t actually remember Routh in anything else although I’m pretty sure I’ve seen him in something. And I think the talk was that he’s a good actor… but that movie was just such a pit of anti-matter it sucked every bit of life out of the room and the actors in it. Poor thing. Grendl did a better job i think!
Amey
May 1, 2009 at 4:14 pm
As for that, no, she is not getting any action since Lana left. Oh, you meant the other kind… that is plentiful.
Amey
May 1, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Make that “he”.
Amrita
May 1, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Wait, Lana? What happened to Lex? He like the Fortress of Solitude enough to give her up?
Amey
May 1, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Where you been? Lana left Lex ages (seasons?) ago. And now he is dead (really dead this time).