I agree that Routh was disturbing-looking, but it somehow worked for me. It played off the alien thing very well.

This, for me. I really wasn't expecting to like him at all, but somehow his performance really worked for me. The scene in the Planet offices when his glasses fall off and he stares at Lois for a moment...wow. Total gut-punch moment there.

Quickly followed, of course, by a moment where I wondered where all of his suits came from, and if the janitor ever complained about constantly having to clean them off the bottom of the elevator shaft.

Ha! I had your second thought as well, Jess.

I saw where the emotional moments were, I just didn't feel most of them. I think Parker Posey's character got to me more than anyone else's.

When his glasses fell off, all I could think of was how lousy a disguise that was, if they came off that easily. As for suits, I wondered how the medics (who I supposed hooked up monitors to him for their own peace of mind, since he's a fricking alien, and who knows what healthy looks like? STAR labs, how we miss ye) got his suit off in a way that let him put it back on so tidily. Unless he was wearing a backup. I didn't check for the wound tear.

I was very much in the WHY are you taking him to a hospital? Ok, sure, no where else to go (although I'd go with a sunny field somewhere), but for the love of Krypton, what possible good are the doctors in the ER going to be able to do for him? camp. It confused me, so logic and the movie had already parted company before I got to that bit, ita.

Animated Dragonlance movies well - at least one - is coming.

I chalk up to the authorities don't know any better. I felt it was a sort of "We have no idea what to do, so we're just going to do the best we can" thing. The various superhero movies tend to ignore the rest of their respective comic universes. So no other heroes, no Star Labs etc.

Still, I was sitting there watching the movie going "Open the damn window and let some sunlight in."

Animated Dragonlance movies well - at least one - is coming.

This part of the article doesn't exactly overwhelm me with confidence:

Helmed by Meugniot (the animated X-Men TV series) and written by Strayton (Cleopatra 2525, Xena: Warrior Princess),

Still, I was sitting there watching the movie going

At the very least, Lois should have known to pull the shades up.

Saw Downfall over the weekend. (It's the movie about Hitler's last days in the bunker, told largely from the POV of his secretary.) Damn, but I don't think I've ever seen a movie with half the suicides as this one. Very well made and acted. But there were many times I just wanted to yell at the TV, "You people are all insane."

Considering in every bit of trouble I've ever been in in my life, some kind soul wanted to take me to the hospital whether there was anything medical at issue, or not that part of Superman would feel like life, to me.