TheRetroCritic

I look back at good old Man Of Steel .

Jamie and I talk about Man Of Steel back when it was first released on the 6th episode of podcast The Big Rewind . Jamie liked it, I didn't: who do you agree with? You can find The Big Rewind on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud and Player FM.

I try to find 10 cool things about Bryan Singer's Superman Returns because someone had to do it at some point, right? WROOOONG!

Yaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!

Yes. It's exactly what you're thinking.

Just something silly I cooked up to entertain y'all over the weekend :P

In this sixth episode, fellow film buff Jamie and I discuss movie news, review a recent release ( Man Of Steel , this time) and rewind back to more retro cinematic topics. Guess what song was being sung during the "I Shat Myself" segment in EPISODE 5 and get a shout-out in the next episode! You can send your answers here: bigrewindpodcast@gmail.com @TheRetroCritic retrocriticblog.blogspot.com youtube.com/Cablogula youtube.com/TheRetroCritic

I play Superman: The Man Of Steel on the Sega Master System and rant along. You can read my full review of the game HERE , over at 1MoreCastle.com .

SPOILER WARNING F***. That'll teach me to get really excited about a blockbuster. Alright, how do I put this without pissing you guys off... Superman Returns was better. Woops... Sorry. I can't think of a film I was more looking forward to than Man Of Steel this year. On paper: there's no way it could have gone wrong. You had a brilliant cast, kick-ass trailers, some great writers behind it, Christopher Nolan as producer, Zack Snyder: a director known for making great-looking movies... But it all led to this: quite possibly the most charmless Superman movie to date. The film opens on the most Avatar -like Krypton you'll ever see (with touches of Dune thrown in for camp value) as we follow Jor-El (Russell Crowe) who is busy worrying about the fact that the entire planet is about to explode, though he doesn't seem too bothered about leaving the dying world himself, or getting his wife to safety somehow. Jor-El also happens to be at the heart of a

Here's the thing about Superman Returns : It's not THAT bad. I wouldn't even call it "bad", it's just... misguided, really. Instead of reinventing Superman for a new generation, here's a film which decides to pay homage to those old Christopher Reeve movies, the only Superman movies we've ever seen. Was that really necessary? No. That was a bad idea to begin with: not original, not ground-breaking, not different. As a slick retread and as a sort-of sequel to Superman II , however, it just about works. You've got Kevin Spacey taking on Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor role and doing a really good job, though he's only a tad more threatening than Hackman was back in the day. The film looks good, the classic Superman theme is still there, the action sequences (all TWO of them), as rare and far between as they may be, are really well done and Bryan Singer's direction is slick and stylish. That said, there's a serious problem when

Here's the new Man Of Steel trailer. Still lookin' good ;)