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> > Luthor never came back, so where the blue flipping blazes did the crystals come from? Foul foul foul.
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> Lois tells Jimmy to go play the piano. Shortly after, Jimmy shoves said piano into thug guy. Shortly after, other thugs report to Lex that unfortunate thug is now under said piano. So this part happens before Lex leaves.

Alright, I forgot about the thugs coming back and seeing the piano. Fine. I'll let the crystal thing go.


> I *was* slightly miffed that the giant city of kryptocrystal was diluted enough to not cause as much harm to Superman as expected.

But not this. This was the whole point, and the thing I had the biggest problem with.

Luthor: "Crystals take on the properties of their surroundings" (or whatever it was he said) so when the big Crystal Island grew, it should have all been at least slightly kryptonic.

Superman lands on the island, promptly loses his invulnerability, and other powers, and gets his butt kicked by three rent-a-thugs.

Ten minutes later, he dives under the surface, and lifts the whole FLIPPING THING out of the water.

That's just bad storytelling, and laziness on the part of the screenwriters. Everyone hails Singer cause he did a fairly decent job with the first two X-Men movies, but this was just crap.

Not the whole movie. There were parts of the movie I was actually enjoying. I particularly liked the "That's a bird." "That's a plane." "No, look! it's-" bit.

But as the destruction mounted in the last third of the movie and things just grew more and more implausible, even in the fantastic context of the movie (I'm thinking specifically of Supes's heat vision destroying all the falling glass, but not incinerating part of the building behind it; his superfreezebreath extending all the way through the entire sewer system of New York (apparently Entropy has no effect on Superman), and, of course, the blatant self-contradiction of the Kryptonite Isle), I grew less enchanted and more irritated with the pure laziness of the writing.

Besides, you'd think Lex Luthor would have at least a satellite cell phone or something on the helicopter to get him off the island.

-Rifty