Superman returns - well he can go back go there

I watched the new Superman movie and found it massively boring. Firstly I don't really think films should be 2 and half hours long in the cinema, if the film is that long they should go back to the script and cut out all the nonsense don't need. I suppose that is what you would done in the good old days but these days they should cut out some of the soap emotional waft.

I don't really like all the stuff about showing characters are sensitive souls, you should be able to that and push the script along. Thinking back to the old Superman films they didn't have much of this stuff.

Special effects seemed to have taken over films these days. Like pirates of the Caribbean (and many others) there are bits just to show off some special effects. The problem is special effects are a bit like fire works, everyone has seen them and I for one are quite bored of them. Special effects just thrown in are doubly boring. To be honest people don't really care about the quality of the special effects, by stepping into the cinema we have already agreed to leave reality at the door. Think back to films like ghostbusters and the Skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts, the special effects are rubbish by today's standards but who cares the quality of them isn't really important, its the part they play in the film. When you see Jason fighting some skeletons you are thinking bloody hell this boy is in a bit of a tight spot.

Another comment I have about the special effects in this Superman film is they are tremendously boring. Basically someone is in trouble, falling/car trapped /plan about to crash and you know that Superman is going to save them, he pops up, a bit of a struggle and saves them, boom, bam, boring. In the old supermans he was pulling some moves, like freezing lakes and melting them to put out fires, flying round the world backwards to turn back time. At least they were interesting and you wondered how Superman was going to save them.

Finally the plot seems so much a second rate citizen and unimportant to the movie that it appears and then ends quickly, no warning, no twists, no real motivation, not really a very good plan and in the end I couldn't really give a monkeys what happened I was just hoping that it would finally end.