admit it you've been lazing on your patio thinking its saturday cos you've no footie fixtures to keep you straight and you missed work
Id have rather been at work tbh, been busier off. More expensive since I have committed to buying a car and fence
I didn't see Superman ending as deus ex machina [for some reason this site doesn't like me saying machina and keeps changing it to machine when I'm not looking] - but I know what you mean. The dream in Dallas!
To be fair, JB, Deus Ex Machina, in plot terms, is when some new event, character, ability, or object solves a seemingly unsolvable problem in a sudden, unexpected way. Which is exactly what happened in the first Superman. I enjoyed the film but, even as a kid, I thought that part (specifically!) was a dumb idea. Reversing the spin of the world somehow reverses the flow of time? Madness. It's bad enough that some people think the rotation of earth is required for gravity to work -- one of my friends admitted they thought it did recently, and he's not really that stupid, either.
Well Superman is based on a comic where anything goes, so it seemed quite fitting that it should be a comic style ending.
Fair point, JB. If you're in a universe where our yellow Sun super-powers his Kryptonian biology, I agree that anything goes.
Nah ye cannae break the laws of physics Jim Simple as even the matrix had more reality built in and in the dark knight even the joker you'd believe these days he could easily exist
Comics are all about make believe, especially super heroes, x-ray vision, men turning themselves into stone or ice, throwing objects into space, flying .... why is spinning the earth backwards so hard to imagine? The bigger mystery to me is where do his clothes go when he spins round and round in the phone box?
Summary - mito, CCC disappointed with deus ex machina ending of Superman I film [spinning earth to turn back time] - I said Superman is a comic character so anything goes.
Yes. He's on Graham Norton show talking about his new film. Love how he just switches in and our of character voices though. Also just did Kermit the Frog doing the famous line from Taken film.
It was I who brought it up, and I'm still not having it. There's a difference between extrapolating current scientific theory to inventive extremes, and pure inane nonsense. As I said, the Greeks laughed the D E M ending off the stage 2000 years ago. Modern film makers are either stupid, or just think we'll swallow anything. A work needs to decide if it's SF or magic. If it's the former, then it has to stick to plausible scientific possibilities, and if it has a novel invention, then at least come up with a believable explanation. Imagine the effects if a world spinning at about 1000 mph was even slowed down significantly, never mind reversed. Pure bollocks.
