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Jan 7, 2014 - 7:46 AM
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MikeP
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Hey, both movies were troubled, however MOS tips the scale by including what might be the single worst performance in a major studio film - or hey, ANY film - in years, Michael Shannon's eye rolling, mugging, scenery chomping, not-even-good-enough-for-LifetimeTV take as General Zod:
I mean come on... this was embarrassingly bad, folks. From the moment he first appeared onscreen it was like he was playing in some secret in-joke movie, all that gnashing of teeth. There was lots of things about MOS that sucked, but, Shannon was scary bad .
On the bright side and back on topic... I have worked out a fine trade to obtain LLL's Superman Returns score, so by week's end it will be mine 
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I have very mixed feelings about Man of Steel. But I thought Zod was terrific. He never played him as a villain. He actually played him as a man who thought he was good against extraordinary odds. (But he was, of course, a monster.)
Superman Returns was so close to being the best Superman ever. It’s just so uneven. But from the time that Luthor grows the island to the end of the movie is just amazing. And Ottman’s score is the second best Superman score ever. (IMHO, of course.)
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I like IV second-best among Superman scores.
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I have very mixed feelings about Man of Steel. But I thought Zod was terrific. He never played him as a villain. He actually played him as a man who thought he was good against extraordinary odds. (But he was, of course, a monster.)
Superman Returns was so close to being the best Superman ever. It’s just so uneven. But from the time that Luthor grows the island to the end of the movie is just amazing. And Ottman’s score is the second best Superman score ever. (IMHO, of course.)
Seriously?
That whole plot about Lex making a kryptonite island is RIDICULOUS and makes no sense! How does he expect to sell the thing? Its all frigging rock! And lex has just made himself the worlds most wanted man by causing so much disaster.He wont be selling anything anytime soon.
Why does Superman not realise that his powers are gone when he lands on the island?
Why is it that ten minutes later he is able to lift the same entire MOUNTAIN of kryptonite? In the original film, just being within spitting distance of a small chunk of the stuff made him go all weak at the knees.
As for Ottmans score being the best since the original? Please.Alexander Courages score to Superman 4 is how you adapt Williams themes and make a great score.I listen to it even more often than the original.Ottmans score is just overbearing choir.
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Love the score, but again, someone has to douche all over Gracenote:
Superman Returns (Lala Land) (Limited 3000) [Disc 1]
Track 14: "Bank Job§** [§ contains Superman Themes by John Williams/** contains previously unreleased material]"
The whole album was submitted like this. Fricking seriously?? God.... Yeah, first world problems and all that, but editing this crap out of iTunes is worse than typing it up from scratch myself...
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No, I mean all this extra information in each track. Why aren't the titles enough? or how about, don't pollute CGGB with personal library preferences?
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Actually I started a discussion about a month or 2 ago about my frustrations with Gracenotes!!! (But can't seem to find it now.)
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I hate it when GraceNotes gives you two choices to identify an album. If you pick the one that's done badly and you'll have to laboriously correct every track, there's seemingly no way to go back and pick the other one.
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ZapBrannigan: Re: I hate it when GraceNotes gives you two choices to identify an album. If you pick the one that's done badly and you'll have to laboriously correct every track, there's seemingly no way to go back and pick the other one.
Since I buy a lot of classical music, that happens to me all the time, and, as you wrote, if you choose the wrong one you can't go back, which is very frustrating AND annoying.
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