Today, some of my friends and I went to see the fabled Superman Returns. Superman is part of American culture and whether you are a fan or not, it's like Spiderman and Harry Potter - you simply have to go see it! Now, everyone who'd seen the movie before told me that it was somewhere between bad and decent. I heard the same thing about Da Vinci Code. Maybe all the new movie goers are becoming like Kluge (German guy who thought films should break stereotypes and be enlightening) and expect something out of the ordinary from today's films. Me? I don't. I should perhaps clarify and mention that I do hate those films and TV shows in which the predictability factor is so high that it wants to make me cut myself because I can predict every line of dialogue and action, but films like Superman offer a limited amount of certainty - that the good guys will win and the bad guys will lose - without making it boring to watch.

Anyway, first of all… Genre: Action Comedy. Films like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Superman Returns define this exciting new Action Comedy realm which has some cool stunts but is also hilarious the first time you watch au cinéma. I don't think I ever stopped grinning or laughing throughout the movie and perhaps the only slightly disturbing part was when Superman gets fatally stabbed in the back with a sharp shard of Kryptonite. Lex Luther was amazingly played from the beginning to the end - the villain with a sense of humour. I also don't think listening to nay-sayers is a good idea on this one. Even if it did have some shortcomings with respect to the script (I'm not saying this; some of my friends) and even though it might not be something I'll end up watching multiple times like the Lord of the Rings series, it is certainly something you want to watch at least once and something that you should watch at the theatres and not as a screen rip off BitTorrent.

I just got the soundtrack for Superman Returns off the iTunes Music Store, which, by the way, is awesome. There's just nothing better than the instant gratification that you get with iTunes Music Store instead of having to wait an eternity for, like LimeWire or BitTorrent or something, not to mention living in the fear of being caught by the RIAA or MPAA and that P2P connections are usually throttled in any sensible place anyway. Also, if you're smart and know the right people (okay, so not politicians or anything, but just people in touch with Apple), you can get free iTunes Music Store gift cards all the time. I've downloaded tens of songs off iTunes Music Store but have paid for only, like three.

In finale, Superman is a well-made film which entertains and has an excellent soundtrack based upon the original Superman soundtrack. I highly recommend watching it (in cinema).

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