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Ashton Kutcher Nearly Killed Superman

by Paul Pencott

Superman Returns was rubbish, wasn’t it? Not the really cool films with Christopher Reeve where he flew around the world backwards so fast he TURNED BACK TIME and that one where he went back into that diner where he got knocked-about by those rednecks when he had no powers and ABSOLUTELY BATTERED THEM but in [...]

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WEBTHUMP! Monday 6 April 2009

by Stuart Heritage

10 – Let’s end the week the way all weeks should be ended – with a horrific gallery of botched plastic surgery – Popcrunch 9 – You know what’d make Nicolas Cage‘s Wicker Man remake better? Beethoven – Collegehumor 8 – Rule number one about buying condoms: don’t buy them online. Rule number 2: don’t [...]

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Brandon Routh Still Superman Despite Reason And Logic

by Stuart Heritage

Of all the Superman Returns criticism – about the the religious allegories and the stupid baby and, oh, everything – one fact got lost in the mix.

And that was that the Superman Returns Superman was a bit rubbish. As Superman, Brandon Routh had all the charisma of a mannequin with a polystyrene Christopher Reeve head. If anyone was ever silly enough to make a sequel to Superman Returns, then surely they’d do the decent thing and ditch Brandon Routh, right?

Wrong! According to DC Comics President Paul Levitz, Brandon Routh is definitely still on to make the Superman Returns sequel. Although it seems a bit of a wasted opportunity to bring back Brandon Routh, perhaps you can understand Levitz’s rationale once you’ve heard what the new Superman movie is going to be called – Superman Stands Around Unconvincingly. Genius.

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