I don't feel bad mentioning this since the movie's been out a few weeks now, but if you haven't seen Superman Returns you may want to skip this entry.
Sitting in the theater as the John Williams music soared and the Superman titles shot across the screen, I felt like I was a kid again--complete deja vu. And though the new movie is fantastic, there is one 3-minute scene toward the end that nearly ruined the whole thing for me.
In this scene, Superman is dragged by his face along the ground, kicked in the stomach, pulled to his feet by his hair, and then repeatedly kicked, punched, and beaten. The scene was completely jarring--not the cartoonish Tarantino-esque violence I expected, but just brutual and gratuitous fury. It was hard enough for me to watch, but thinking about the kids in the theater, I was cringing. Several friends mentioned being taken aback by the scene as well. I'm actually surprised the scene made it into the movie in its current state.
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