Even Singer Doesn't Like BJ!

Digital Spy wrote:"If I'm really honest, what I probably would have done is go back and retell the origin story with someone like Nicholas Hoult [playing Clark Kent/Superman]," he said.

"I would have done it differently from Richard Donner's original, which I love, but instead of doing a sequel I'd have started from the beginning - maybe I had that in the back of my mind and instead translated it to X-Men: First Class!"


URL- http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a314721/singer-id-cast-nicholas-hoult-as-superman.html

Apologist Puncher wrote:The guy has no loyalty whatsoever. But I do have to say, with the Apologists NOW blaming him for how horrid Singerman was, and for BJ's lack of a career, I LOVE that he has taken a shot back at them.

Fuck 'em BOTH though.

Father Finian wrote:Sweet, isn't it.

Singer, what a loyal guy to have in your corner.

thecolorsblend wrote:WOW!

Digital Spy wrote:"If I'm really honest, what I probably would have done is go back and retell the origin story with someone like Nicholas Hoult [playing Clark Kent/Superman]," he said.

道 wrote:

thecolorsblend wrote:WOW!

Digital Spy wrote:"If I'm really honest, what I probably would have done is go back and retell the origin story with someone like Nicholas Hoult [playing Clark Kent/Superman]," he said.

If he's TRULY honest, he would've stayed and finished out the X-Men movies instead of jumping ship and letting Brett bleeping Ratner slip in there. Despite the inital backlash against his scriptment, after seeing how J.J. Abrams did with Star Trek, we would've been better off if WB had taken a chance on Abrams and let him direct the Superman film. Or shit, even Matthew Vaughn, Mark Millar's "American action director" would've been good. Then we would've had a good third X-Men movie (or at least, better than The Last Stand) and a Superman reboot, and we'd be waiting for the END of the Superman trilogy right now instead of a fresh beginning.

I'd normally come up with my own name for this douche but he (?) did a fine job on his own wrote:#10 | Buttruffage on April 18, 2011 10:50pm EST
Are we going for the world record for how many mean spirited, asswaffers can post on a topic here?

I do LOVE the first post though. Hope you enjoyed your advance screening!

thecolorsblend wrote:URL- http://www.supermanhomepage.com/news.php?readmore=9624#comments

I'd normally come up with my own name for this douche but he (?) did a fine job on his own wrote:#10 | Buttruffage on April 18, 2011 10:50pm EST
Are we going for the world record for how many mean spirited, asswaffers can post on a topic here?

I do LOVE the first post though. Hope you enjoyed your advance screening!

I'm too lazy to check but one wonders what this guy has said about SV, Snyder's Superman, etc.

Pilot Scoop: Brandon Routh Cast as Michael Urie's Boyfriend in CBS Comedy Partners
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Michael Ausiello

Erstwhile Madame of Swish Brandon Routh is sweeping Ugly Betty‘s Michael Urie off his feet.

As first reported by Deadline.com, the Chuck baddie has been cast as the boyfriend of Urie’s character in Partners, CBS’ comedy pilot from from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.

The sitcom revolves around lifelong friends and business partners —architects Charlie (not yet cast), who is straight, and Louis (Urie), who is gay. Routh will play Louis’ steady boyfriend, a former alcoholic model who’s now a sober, vegan nurse.

The cast also includes One Tree Hill‘s Sophia Bush as Charlie’s fiance Ali, Elizabeth Regen as the duo’s assistant, and Lucy Davis (the UK Office) as a colleague of Ali’s.

Crooked Arrows

Critic Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Just too much
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, May 18, 2012

The high-school sports drama “Crooked Arrows” has two -- but only two -- original selling points: Its protagonists are Native Americans and the sport in question is lacrosse.

That’s something you don’t see every day.

Other than that, however, the film’s moves are taken straight out of “The Bad News Bears” playbook.

Roster of struggling but plucky players? Check. Troubled and reluctant coach seeking redemption? Check. Arrogant arch rivals seeking comeuppance? Climactic, high-stakes game? Inspirational message about the power of believing in yourself?

Check, check and check.

Making matters worse, the film suffers from acting that ranges from the amateurish to the only average. At the high end of the scale is Brandon Routh (who also is listed as one of the film’s executive producers). The washed-up “Superman Returns” star is blandly passable as the mixed-blood Joe Logan, a former high-school lacrosse hotshot turned real estate developer and manager of his reservation’s casino. When Joe’s unscrupulous boss (Tom Kemp) wants more land to expand the casino, Joe is forced to take on a coaching gig before his tribal council will consider him worthy of being granted the contract.

At the low end of the acting scale are a number of minor players (including Kemp) who seem to have been plucked from the production company’s accounting department instead of Central Casting. To call the acting stiff is an understatement.

Somewhere in between are the fresh-faced performers who make up the Crooked Arrows, the mostly Native American student-athletes whose fortunes the film follows and around whose rivalry with a squad of preppy white boys the story revolves. Chances are you’ve never heard of Tyler Hill or Aaron Printup, who portray two of the more prominent Crooked Arrows. But chances are you’ll also never hear from them again.

There are no breakout performances, and what star power the film is able to muster is low-wattage, indeed.

The lacrosse angle aside, “Crooked Arrows” seems less interested in breaking ground than in following a path that has been trod a thousand times before.

Contains some suggestive language and a flash of locker-room derriere.

Crooked Arrows: Film Review

Directed by Steve Rash, the film stars Brandon Routh as a part-Native American businessman who returns to his Indian reservation to coach high school lacrosse, as he struggles to reconcile his past and his present.

Sports movie and Native American tropes are freely intermingled in Crooked Arrows, a would-be inspirational drama chiefly memorable for providing a fresh ethnic variation on a tired genre. Predictable from first moment to last, it does at least provide a showcase for lacrosse, a sport heretofore cinematically unexploited.

In this film partly financed by the Onandaga Nation, Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) plays the central role of Joe Logan, a part Native-American who has largely forgotten his roots to become a big shot businessman desperate to build a massive casino on tribal ground.

In the sort of clichéd plot development that’s apparently taught in Screenwriting 101, former sports star Joe is forced by the reservation to accept the condition that he coach their high-school lacrosse team and help bring them to victory against the boorish white preppies with whom they’re competing.

Will Joe give up his designer duds and fancy sports car to reconnect with his ancestral heritage? Will he strike up sparks with his former high school girlfriend (Crystal Allen) who has devoted herself to teaching school on the reservation? Will he restore his sell-out reputation in the community? Will he forge a new closeness with his widowed father (Gil Birmingham) and spunky kid sister (Chelsea Ricketts) who plays for the team? Will the team of ragtag underdogs get it together under his tutelage?

The answers, not surprisingly, are yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

The screenplay’s groaningly predictable plot elements are somewhat alleviated by the spirited lacrosse action well handled by director Steve Rash. Unfortunately, the frequent introduction of quasi-spiritual mumbo jumbo—there’s much made of a bald eagle who apparently represents the spirit of Joe’s dead mother—repeatedly bogs down the action.

The perpetually bland Routh--who is actually part Native American--somehow manages to be utterly unconvincing in his mixed-race role. He does, however, frequently doff his shirt to showcase his chiseled torso, which will provide compensation for some viewers.

As if to reinforce the fact that the film seems to spring from decades past, there’s a spirited montage set to one-hit wonder Chumbawamba’s peppy “Tubthumping.” Score one for nostalgia.

Opened June 1 (Freestyle Releasing).
Production: Peck Entertainment, Branded Pictures Entertainment.
Cast: Brandon Routh, Gil Birmingham, Crystal Allen, Chelsea Ricketts, Alexandra East, Lindsay MacDonald, Tom Kemp, Lee Cunningham, Emmalyn Anderson, Kayla Ruhl.
Director: Steve Rash.
Producers: J. Todd Harris, Mitchell Peck, Adam Leff.
Executive producers: Jeffrey McCormick, Brandon Routh.
Screenwriters: Todd Baird, Brad Riddell.
Director of photography: Daniel Stoloff.
Editors: Danny Saphire, Bart Rachmil.
Production designer: Carl Sprague.
Music: Brian Ralson.
Rated PG-13, 105 min.

non_amos wrote:Expect this to perform just like his other duds. I mean, ain't it apparent by now that this guy ain't De Niro? Why does he keep torturing himself? And us!

thecolorsblend wrote:What torques me off to this very day is this ongoing perception that Routh was the single strong link in Singerman. And this comes even from Superman fans I respect. "Singer just didn't know how to direct someone of [Blandon]'s immense talents." But the fuckin guy is the exact same in every single role he plays. For everything Bryan Singer is and isn't, he's gotten some good performances out of actors. I have to give him that much. Same thing goes for Kevin Smith, Edgar Wright, Kevin Munroe and others. His co-star's often give decent enough performances (at the very least) even in movies that would've been shitty with or without Routh's participation. But he's always the same ol' plank of wood each time out.

Crooked Arrows
Release Date: May 18, 2012

Domestic Total as of Jun. 11, 2012: $1,585,381