Great smack in the mouth to a horrid "film"!

This movie was a major didapointment. It's like they tried to hard and the effort was written in big bold leeters all over the movie. Horrible.

Tip for Watching Smallville (Worked for me:

Smallville... hard to say if it is good or not. After the first..mabey...three seasons you have to stop looking at as Clark before he was Superman. I know that defeats the purpose, but it is the only way I have managed to see it as a good show. Smallville is just...Clark. He doesn't even seem to be that much of an alien, other than the powers, but more of an over the top do-gooder. Oh wait.. that is alien.

At least that show knows what it's trying to do, and does it right, even if they end up making Clark a whiny bitch. Instead, this movie tries so hard to be the first movie and ends up being an incomprehensible piece of shit.

Great script. Heh, I remember that part of the movie:

KEVIN SPACEY

(forgetting how to act)

WRROOONNNGGG!!!

It's kind of ambiguous about whether or not he knows--I think part of him deep down always suspected the truth. (That could be why he asked Lois about her article: "I spent the night with Superman" and if she was really in love with him.) There's a moment at the end when he's driving Lois to the hospital when she's about to visit Superman with Jason in tow; he gives her a hug and you can see in his eyes that he finally realizes Jason is not his child. (That's my theory, anyway.) It's also important that Lois and Jason visit Superman but not Richard.

That being said, this movie had some interesting aspects but it isn't about Superman in any shape or form, but a super-being who is stuck on a planet full of people who don't appreciate him. That has absolutely nothing to do with the Superman myth/comic/movie character. It's a completely different character. The only thing he has in common with other Superman renditions is his name and superpowers. That's it. It's not Kal'El or Clark Kent. It's "I'm stuck on Earth/miss my dad/no one cares about me/my son will never know me" Man. That's all there is to it, unfortunately. And there's no where they can go from there.

That's why WB has not only canned Singer but is taking his film out of the Superman film canon. Smart move on their part.