Superman Returns - full trailer

[Dr Mordrid]

QT7 required;

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/supermanreturns/trailer2/

Lex looks PISSED

Dr. Mordrid

[GuchiGuh]

*scratches head*

hmmm.....not so sure if I want to go and see this now. Didn't really like that trailer.

[Dr Mordrid]

Why?

Dr. Mordrid

[GuchiGuh]

Not sure either.
Didn't appeal to me for some reason. I think the special effects put me off.
The bald guy looks like a good actor thou!

[Dr Mordrid]

That "bald guy" playing Lex Luthor is Kevin Spacey, one of the best in the business; The Usual Suspects, Se7en, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, L. A. Confidential, American Beauty, Glengarry Glen Ross etc. etc.



Dr. Mordrid

[lecter]

That was quite shocking to find out, the picture looks nothing like him

[schmosef]

Is it just me or does QT crash A LOT when you try to play "HD" content?

[Dr Mordrid]

Not here....

Dr. Mordrid

[schmosef]

I just watched the trailer.

I'm confused.

I take it that in the story it's going to say that he was around for a while then disappeared? Then came back and found out he'd impregnated Lois Lane?

Is this following some modern story from the comics or is this completely new?

[schmosef]

Not here....

Dr. Mordrid

I have a Parhelia AGP running my middle screen (2048x1536x32) and a G450 PCI running my left (1024x768x32) and right (1280x1024x32) screens. Maybe QT isn't playing well with my setup.

[Dr Mordrid]

Dunno why the playback problem. Mine work fine.

Partially following a plotline from the comics;

Following the run-in with Zod & company Superman goes on a mission to find other Kryptonians and to check out its solar system. Unfortunately he does this with no notice and when he returns several years have passed.

On his return the world and Lois have moved on. Lois is in a relationship with Richard White (Perrys son; James Marsden/Cyclops) and has had a son (whose? watch the movie ). Meanwhile Luthor is out of jail and plotting revenge while Sups has to prove to himself, Lois and the world that he's still needed.

Speculation: why would he leave for such a long flight with no notice? Could be in haste he forgot/ignored the effects of time dialation: such a flight at high speed would to him take a few days while on Earth years would pass.

Its called "the twin paradox" and involves three inertial time frames;

1. the home twin
2. the departing twin
3. the returning twin.

It doesn't make any difference that the last two are physically the same twin - they still define different inertial time frames.

The home twin stays on Earth while the second rockets away at 60% light speed. Time dilation is 80%. Twin 2 lets 4 years pass then returns, again at 60% light speed and taking another 4 years.

Because of relativistic effects the home twin thinks 10 years have passed, but twin 2 has only experienced an 8 year passage. The higher the speed achieved by the traveler the greater the disparity.

Dr. Mordrid

[Marshmallowman]

Well then he could do what he did in one of the previous movies, and go back in time by going faster than light

[Wombat]

Yeah, crashed here, I tried to get the 1080 trailer2.

[KRSESQ]

If Superman is limited to sub-lightspeed, then in order to be gone two years he would only be able to search <1 light year from Earth. If he's travelling superluminally, then his search could well last two years. Rude of him to just split like that.

(Gonna have to move to my XP machine to watch the trailer.)

Kevin

[Dr Mordrid]

Believe he's gone 5-6 years Earth time....

Dr. Mordrid