Originally posted by roguemaster71
finally some people feel like me! i went and saw this crap yesterday and hated the movie after clues were being dropped that jason was the son of superman. WTF? superman should not have a friggin kid. that destroyed the whole movie. please either get a new director producer or erase this movie and say it was a dream before they destroy superman even more. i also thought that this made superman look weak especially when he basically "died".
Well, go get yourself a big hammer, a pile of sand, and pound it up your backside, if you're so upset.
I don't know how much more faithful homages they could have made, to the comics and to the first movie. But guess what? The filmmakers have artistic freedom too. This issue of having a child, this involves something not often seen in comics, where things are very much kept the same decade after decade. It's known as evolution - of character, of story.
They 've only explored Superman having offspring in alternate future stories, like Kingdom Come and DK2. In the movies, things can change, villains can actually die, people can get older. If the story of this movie is about Superman trying to find his connection to humankind - while also needing to hold them at a distance, for their own safety - this child is the answer. I will be interested to see where they go with this. Superman can't raise him, because it would acknowledge to the world who he is, and he feels the rest of humanity has to come first. We'll see...
As to making him look weak? He pulled off the greatest feat he has done yet in the movies, pushing an island bigger than Manhattan - filled with Kryptonite! - into space; and the strain nearly killed and left him comatose. Humans taking care of him while he's helpless - it's part of the rebonding he's been going through with them, since returning. If any had their doubts about the world not needing him before, they were gone after that.