While the latest Suerman movie utterly sucked, I love the Superman movies with Chris Reeve (yes, even Quest For Peace).
My problem with them, have always been the endings. Some were a little too.....easy.
The first Superman: Lois Lane dies, the U.S. is ruined, and there's rampant destruction everywhere. The solution? Pfft, just reverse time and stop it before it happens.
This also brings up some scientific concerns. YES: I KNOW IT'S JUST A MOVIE. Humor me.
But how does spinning reversing the earth's orbit actually affect the flow of time? Just because the sun would appear to going backwards, doesn't mean we should be getting younger.
And shouldn't everything on the earth go haywire, since the earth is slowed to a stop in just a few second? The earth at the equator is spinning (I think) at 2300 miles per hour. There should be animals, mountains and trees skidding across one end of the earth to the other, while the waves of the ocean monstrously rage and destroy everything.
But let's assume that Superman has some sort of power that keeps everything in earth on tact: after all, we're overlooking the fact that he can overcome gravity without any physical evidence of counter-force, that he can generate heat from his eyes with no discernable source of energy being used to do this....all that and everything else, we'll just give him that.
But here's another question: after reversing time to a couple of hours before everything went completely out of control, aren't there any natural ramifications of this? There's a couple of less hours in the year now, thanks Blue Boy, who didn't bother speeding time back up to where it should've been after bagging Lex Luthor. What did the scientists have to say about this? And since only earth experienced going back time, how does that affect earth's spot in the solar system?
The second movie: Three bad guys all equally as strong as Superman are too much for him to handle...and they've got Lois hostage. And I'll admit that the ruse the Man of Steel had to come up with was rather difficult: but after tricking and beating the bad guys, there's the problem of going back to life as usual, and the pain of having to pretend there was no relationship, or that Lois doesn't know who Clark really is.
What do ya do? pfft, lay a kiss on that babe, and all's well cuz she forgets.
Here's the problem: it's the earth's sun that gives Superman his powers. so shouldn't he be MUCH stronger than the three bad Kryptonians, since he had a head start of at least twenty five or years or so, to absorb the suns rays? How do those three just arrive, and in one day are just as strong as him? Is it because the adult Kryptonian body needs only a an hour or so to absorb enough sun to be as strong as Superman?
Secondly, Clark had to be trained for some time to learn how to use his powers, in that Ice Fortress. How did General Zhod and his crew master flight and all that, without training?
The third movie: This one admittedly wasn't anywhere near as easy to resolve as the others, so I wont linger long on this one. Except....
1) He fights an evil clone of himself, which is eventually killed by smashing him or something, with heavy machinary. Now, I realize that he was split in two, possibly halving the powers of both the good and bad Superman. But would a crane or something of that nature, STILL be enough to kill flatten Superman? I doubt it, but I can only speculate.
Here's the real science question: in the movie, he makes a diamond out of coal by using his immense strength to put enough pressure needed to make that coal into a nice shiny rock, to give to his new gal.
But assuming that one really had the strength to do that, would it happen that way? Wouldn't the coal just crumble when suddenly exposed that much pressure? Isn't it more of an issue of the time spent under immense pressure, rather than the amount of pressure itself? I dunno.
The last Superman movie with Chris Reeve: Using some stolen DNA from Supes, a super bad guy with super strenth and other powers similar to Blue Boy's, is made from an explosion in the sun, when all the the world's nuclear weapons are thrown into it. Anyway, the bad guy proves to be too strong. So whatdayado? Pfft, just move the moon and block the sunlight which gives him power. Easy.
Questions:
1) Don't these weapons of mass destruction need to be detonated? Will heat alone cause them to explode?
2) Wouldn't the immense heat of the sun, cause these nuclear weapons to explose long before even reaching the surface of the sun?
3) Should't the DNA have blown up along with the nuclear weapons? Or is Clark's DNA so strong, that nuclear explosions from thousands of nuclear weapons all going off at once don't even matter?
One final question. Superman decides that the bad guy can't operate without the sun's light to fuel him. So he moves the moon enough to block cause an eclipse on Metropolis. The issues with this are:
a) That the moon isn't one solid piece of rock, that the moon would as one solid object as shown in the movie.
b) Even if it was, the moon would have be pretty darn strong and densly packed in order for the for the moon to not have a whole ripped through it from Supes putting all the pressure on one point.
c) The movie shows a "side view" of superman pushing the the moon. In actuality, there is no "side" of the moon. If someone was on the moon watching Superman pushing, it should apear as if Superman was doing a handstand, pushing "downward"....right? Unless the observer was on a hill or mountain, and it apeared that Superman was pushing into a rock formation: but even then, there would be rock below him, and the observer would not percieve as Superman being on the "side" of the moon.
d) Shouldn't the oceans be raging out of control from having that which causes the tides suddenly moved a few hundred thousand miles?
e) Since Superman never moves the moon back into the place it should be at, what are the long-term ramifications?
f) The bad guy IMMEDIATELY loses power once the sun is blocked, and can no longer move. Shouldn't it take time for that to happen? Or does he need continual sunlight? If so, wouldn't a single could be enough to stop him? Or during the epic fight between Supes and the badguy, wouldn't the ground be a safe refuge for him Blue Boy, since it would be detrimental if a building or billboard came between the badguy and sunlight? I dunno.
I need something better to do than think about this stuff.
My problem with them, have always been the endings. Some were a little too.....easy.
The first Superman: Lois Lane dies, the U.S. is ruined, and there's rampant destruction everywhere. The solution? Pfft, just reverse time and stop it before it happens.
This also brings up some scientific concerns. YES: I KNOW IT'S JUST A MOVIE. Humor me.
But how does spinning reversing the earth's orbit actually affect the flow of time? Just because the sun would appear to going backwards, doesn't mean we should be getting younger.
And shouldn't everything on the earth go haywire, since the earth is slowed to a stop in just a few second? The earth at the equator is spinning (I think) at 2300 miles per hour. There should be animals, mountains and trees skidding across one end of the earth to the other, while the waves of the ocean monstrously rage and destroy everything.
But let's assume that Superman has some sort of power that keeps everything in earth on tact: after all, we're overlooking the fact that he can overcome gravity without any physical evidence of counter-force, that he can generate heat from his eyes with no discernable source of energy being used to do this....all that and everything else, we'll just give him that.
But here's another question: after reversing time to a couple of hours before everything went completely out of control, aren't there any natural ramifications of this? There's a couple of less hours in the year now, thanks Blue Boy, who didn't bother speeding time back up to where it should've been after bagging Lex Luthor. What did the scientists have to say about this? And since only earth experienced going back time, how does that affect earth's spot in the solar system?
The second movie: Three bad guys all equally as strong as Superman are too much for him to handle...and they've got Lois hostage. And I'll admit that the ruse the Man of Steel had to come up with was rather difficult: but after tricking and beating the bad guys, there's the problem of going back to life as usual, and the pain of having to pretend there was no relationship, or that Lois doesn't know who Clark really is.
What do ya do? pfft, lay a kiss on that babe, and all's well cuz she forgets.
Here's the problem: it's the earth's sun that gives Superman his powers. so shouldn't he be MUCH stronger than the three bad Kryptonians, since he had a head start of at least twenty five or years or so, to absorb the suns rays? How do those three just arrive, and in one day are just as strong as him? Is it because the adult Kryptonian body needs only a an hour or so to absorb enough sun to be as strong as Superman?
Secondly, Clark had to be trained for some time to learn how to use his powers, in that Ice Fortress. How did General Zhod and his crew master flight and all that, without training?
The third movie: This one admittedly wasn't anywhere near as easy to resolve as the others, so I wont linger long on this one. Except....
1) He fights an evil clone of himself, which is eventually killed by smashing him or something, with heavy machinary. Now, I realize that he was split in two, possibly halving the powers of both the good and bad Superman. But would a crane or something of that nature, STILL be enough to kill flatten Superman? I doubt it, but I can only speculate.
Here's the real science question: in the movie, he makes a diamond out of coal by using his immense strength to put enough pressure needed to make that coal into a nice shiny rock, to give to his new gal.
But assuming that one really had the strength to do that, would it happen that way? Wouldn't the coal just crumble when suddenly exposed that much pressure? Isn't it more of an issue of the time spent under immense pressure, rather than the amount of pressure itself? I dunno.
The last Superman movie with Chris Reeve: Using some stolen DNA from Supes, a super bad guy with super strenth and other powers similar to Blue Boy's, is made from an explosion in the sun, when all the the world's nuclear weapons are thrown into it. Anyway, the bad guy proves to be too strong. So whatdayado? Pfft, just move the moon and block the sunlight which gives him power. Easy.
Questions:
1) Don't these weapons of mass destruction need to be detonated? Will heat alone cause them to explode?
2) Wouldn't the immense heat of the sun, cause these nuclear weapons to explose long before even reaching the surface of the sun?
3) Should't the DNA have blown up along with the nuclear weapons? Or is Clark's DNA so strong, that nuclear explosions from thousands of nuclear weapons all going off at once don't even matter?
One final question. Superman decides that the bad guy can't operate without the sun's light to fuel him. So he moves the moon enough to block cause an eclipse on Metropolis. The issues with this are:
a) That the moon isn't one solid piece of rock, that the moon would as one solid object as shown in the movie.
b) Even if it was, the moon would have be pretty darn strong and densly packed in order for the for the moon to not have a whole ripped through it from Supes putting all the pressure on one point.
c) The movie shows a "side view" of superman pushing the the moon. In actuality, there is no "side" of the moon. If someone was on the moon watching Superman pushing, it should apear as if Superman was doing a handstand, pushing "downward"....right? Unless the observer was on a hill or mountain, and it apeared that Superman was pushing into a rock formation: but even then, there would be rock below him, and the observer would not percieve as Superman being on the "side" of the moon.
d) Shouldn't the oceans be raging out of control from having that which causes the tides suddenly moved a few hundred thousand miles?
e) Since Superman never moves the moon back into the place it should be at, what are the long-term ramifications?
f) The bad guy IMMEDIATELY loses power once the sun is blocked, and can no longer move. Shouldn't it take time for that to happen? Or does he need continual sunlight? If so, wouldn't a single could be enough to stop him? Or during the epic fight between Supes and the badguy, wouldn't the ground be a safe refuge for him Blue Boy, since it would be detrimental if a building or billboard came between the badguy and sunlight? I dunno.
I need something better to do than think about this stuff.
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