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.

When reading about Hitler's lemming-like girlfriends, I always wondered how much Eva Braun knew about his track record. Then again, I suppose turning Der Fuhrer down wasn't exactly a safe course of action...

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

Ooh. Interesting. I liked the books when I was in high school, though they lost their shine for me after a while. Mostly because, as with most gaming books, you can kind of hear the dice rolling in the background, but also because they were rather simple and shallow (though still better than most D&D novels). Still, I think that's a quality that will lend itself well to an animated movie. ANd they had decent plots, so that will be good, too.

Now I'm thinking "The Goebbels Children" would be a good band name....

(The six Goebbels children were murdered by Ms. Goebbels so they "would not have to live in a world without National Socialism" - i.e. Naziism.)

eta: Or maybe "The Goebbels Bunch."

We're whitefonting history now? Heh.

Loved Downfall. And I did sit there screaming at the tv "You are all fucking psychos!" quite a bit.

We're whitefonting history now? Heh.

Well, in case someone wants to see Downfall but hasn't yet and is unfamiliar with that bit of history....

It reminds me of when folks were cut-tagging plotpoints from Troy on LJ. Although, to be fair, the movie did screw around with the Homeric version of events more than a little. Still, it made me giggle.

I liked Superman way more than I expected. I am not sure Routh can actually act, but his limitations worked for this role. I loved Posey and Spacey and the snark. I don't thik I have ever seen the Jimmy Olsen actor before, but I thought he nailed it without being too much of caricature. I even liked Bosworth which I wasn't expecting.

There were lots of logical lapses, but one choice I liked a lot was that there was very little talking during the action sequences. People are trying to stay alive, and don't make long speeches or profess true love or describe epiphanies. That felt real to me.

Olsen and White were both very good, although I suspect Langella could do that character in his sleep. Spacey felt more like a collection of oh-so-clever ticks, but for all that, I didn't feel he was that clever. And I was a little thrown by a departure from the Lex with whom I was familiar, who was astute and powerful in his own right, and didn't have monumentally stupid plans like the one shown here. But putting the crystal in a kryptonite core was sheer genius.

Speaking of crystals, didn't a bunch go down/up with the ship? Poor Kal El--he's still robbed. Visually, I'd have liked a distinction between the growing crystals and the info crystals. Too many times I was flinching thinking that either the crystals left in the piano room or the ones that Parker dropped from the helicopter were going to cause more trouble.

Huh. Just remembered that the kid killed a guy. Therapy!

The friend I saw it with suggested that it'd be cool if Lois had been putting kryptonite in the kid's albuterol to prevent him from going all Super.

We also wondered about the timeline--ignoring the potential complications of Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, White Jr. must know the kid's not his, right? Even if he doesn't know whose.