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Just wondering about the appeal of Superman in the UK. As a child and even today the Man Of Steel is an American icon. The series "Smallville", about Superman as a boy/young adult is a huge success in the States.

We have our own version, dontchaknow, Quite Spiffing Chappy---none of this running around with one's undies on over one's trousers. Full City uniform of bowler, dark jacket, pin-stripe trousers and trusty brolly. And unlike that Batman cove he doesn't pollute the atmosphere with the exhaust fumes from an obvious penis-substitute motor car; he has a rather spiffing season ticket to London transport.

Judging by the amount of pages devoted to Smallville in our own sci-fi mags (Starburst, SFX etc), it must be fairly successful over here. Never seen it myself, and frankly don't want to. If I see another picture of that smug baldy bastard playing young Lex Luthor, I might just go US Postal!

samllville is actually rather good and has made me rethink the character as a whole, its afact that good guys can seem to be boring compared to the baddies or anti heroes.

Episode recently aired where clark (young supes) opens the ship he arrived in and finds out he was sent to earth because his parents knew he would be as a god among men and it seems with the intention of him ruling the planet. check out the dark knight returns for further portrayal of this idea.. superman as the ultimate goverment superweapon (and him getting a good slapping form batman)

now birds of prey the smallville style bat thing thats just very very poor.....



British superheroes? judge Dredd it says something about us i think ( or would like to)cynical/questioning nation.. though still we get led by the nose by super Tony and his super friend (bushman)



blimey what a nerd tirade!!

Superman 1 the movie is dedicated to my great uncle Geoffrey Unsworth who was one of the best cinematographers we ever produced in limeyland.

Unsworth was a genius whose contribution to cinema cannot be under-estimated.

shouldn't that be over-estimated?

Whatever---I'm just awake!

Anyone with A Matter Of Life And Death and 2001 in his CV had much to be proud of.

half awake? i believe you... lol

the extremely great jack cardiff was cinematographer on 'amolad', of course - as was the case with those other peerless powell & pressburger productions 'the life and death of colonel blimp', 'black narcissus' and 'the red shoes'.

of geoffrey unsworth's work, i only have the magnificent 'a night to remember' sitting in my dvd collection (sooo much better than you-know-what). it does indeed look fantastic - and not a cgi in sight!

2001 is one of my all time fave's but the current version is so poorly presented (i'm talking extras, not the picture itself), that i'm still waiting on a release that does it justice.

btw, i didn't mean to be pedantic about the over/under query. i just had one of those moments when the more i kept looking at it, the less i could figure out the correct wording. and i'm not even half asleep!

A Night To Remember.
The Kenneth Moore film about the Titanic right?
That was a brilliant film and one of the best of it's type. Pure class.
As for Smallville, I hate the whole MTV-let's-remake-everything-cos-we-have-fuck-all-talent brigade.

There was a plan to make a new Superman film called Superman Reborn with Nicholas Cage as the lead. Thankfully it fell through and he has pissed off to do something else, but it'll be made soon enough.
They are desperate to ride the comic book wave at the moment.
I got X2 the other day but have yet to watch it but if it is anything like the first film I will be well pissed off. I loved The X Men comics.
The Hulk is almost upon us and anyone who has seen the trailer will know how shite it's gonna be.
I think the best of the comic books has been Spider Man.
One of my childhood heroes!