Truly Dreadful Film

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I caught this on dvd while in Iraq binged watched on leave it was one of the best t.v. shows at that time. I was later in all the myspace fan groups yeah i watched it that long ago. My 2 complaints are he never flys as super man and no tights it turns out the writers never wanted the show to be about that so stars off for that choice. I still have screen caps from the various dvds on hdds probably hundreds. I was very into it thinking he would fly for real but no. Tom welling has moved onto shows like Lucifer and Kirsten (Burden of Truth) (who I had the biggest crush on) has moved on as well but this show will always be with me. In other news Allison Mack was arrested for a number of federal offenses by the FBI she likely won't be playing anything as good as Chloe anytime soon.

In regards to the show "Smallville" it was a case of having a show off to a good start then as time passes the show slowly loses it's potentials by jumping the shark more than a few times where it just gone downhill all the way up to the final season, aleast to my prospective.If I recall the premise of the show suppose to involve a teenage Clark Kent discovering his powers and where he's is really from while in the process dealing with typical & not-so-typical issues/troubles through out his teen years as he slowly start his journey to become the future hero that he will be destined to be along with the trials that he has to endure on the way.On a personal note I watch the show from the start of season 1 all the way to the end of season 7 and there's good reasons why I stop watching before the last three seasons came along.I'll start with some good parts of the show... Clark discover/develops a new power in almost every season. Clark & Lex started off as friends before becoming future enemies. Clark slowly discovering/learning his Kryptonian heritage. Clarks learns to be a hero and uses his powers for good before taking on the mantle.Now here are some bad parts of the show (One's the made me stop watching)... The villain of the week routine, in a Superman origin show. Kryptonite effects people differently and gives them different powers depending on how the were exposed. Supporting characters frequently gets victimize by the villain of the week (While civilians also get killed by them). Too many Homages to films that were release around the time of the show's run (And a few films that came years before then) such as "The Fast and the Furious", "Hocus Pocus", "Face Off", "Twilight", "Saw", "The Bourne Identity" and even "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (In a Superman origin show). Meeting Justice League members before taking on the mantle (Bruce Wayne/Batman NOT being one of them). Meeting famous rogues gallery also before taking on the mantle. Clark already being Superman minus the costume. Jor-El (Aleast his A.I. anyways) being portray as somewhat antagonistic. Lois presented as a punching bag in a number of episodes. Clark & Lois engage before Clark toke on the mantle. Some plot moments from episodes are left unresolved. Almost every episode is center on action/suspense rather than the story (Probably just for the sake of gaining interest).I think this pretty much covers everything I feel towards "Smallville" and while I do acknowledge as well as appreciate what the show is trying to be and what it did to open the door for future DC based shows I believe that it should have stick to it's original premises through out it's run rather than going beyond that not to mention alter the Superman mythos from what was originally viewed or known for. Which was something that "Smallville" definitely blow it for me.While I don't recommended it to any hardcore Superman fans/DC Comics fans but they are still feel free to experience it themselves but just to see it as a somewhat of an else-world version of the Superman mythos rather than a unique interpretation of it.

Under the guise of an origin story of the most iconic & powerful hero in Comics; this tale of a pre-pubescent teen built like a tank & filled with angst hiding a secret that he tells everyone except his lifelong crush Lana Lang absolutely destroys the mythos of the character and ultimately, any respect I could possibly have for him.I never read any of the source material before or after watching this show so my impression of these characters are based entirely on their representation in it; Superman is supposed to represent "Truth, Justice and the American Way" (...at least, I think he is) but most of what we see is him lying to absolutely everyone around him over and over again while kind-of-but-not-really executing people with powers whenever they try to hurt the people he spends his time lying to.The biggest victim is Lana Lang - I had no idea the "American Way" of Dating involved psychologically torturing your long-time-crush by consistently lying to her (even way after she's already told you she can tell you're a liar) and letting her go while stalking her at the same time, getting into the middle of all of her attempts to build a normal life... to the point where she's driven into the arms of (conceivably) the worst person on the face of the planet.Top this with the fact he slept with her and proposed to her and NEVER told her the biggest secret he has: he was passively responsible for the death of her parents, which haunted her until she met him and he started psychologically torturing her soo much she never had time to think about them anymore.He loses his powers and basically sprints into bed with her then completely abandons her the moment he gets them back - and he NEVER tells her the entire truth!! She ends up finding out after other aliens come searching for "Kal-El" and she slowly starts piecing the story together, but it's never stated whether she figures out his connection to her parents death or just remains oblivious to it forever.After like 6 seasons she finally figures it all out, begins a relationship and becomes happy... only to be filled with Kryptonite (literally) and 'Put on a Bus' forever!! Then Mr. "I make the most noble decisions every time" instantly falls in love with some other chick, Lois!It's a lot like Romeo & Juliet... Romeo was totally in love with some other girl before he met Juliet and completely destroyed her life in like 3 days.Watching 'Smallville' as a kid absolutely made me want to be a better and more benevolent person... better than Clark Kent is anyway; I really did enjoy watching it for that "wow, what a hero!" feeling but if I spent any time thinking about it I always came up with better ways for him to deal with the situations he was in that involved less deception and manipulation.He's just a filthy liar, trying to protect himself from the thoughts in his head... even if the public reacted badly to his 'immigrant' status - what the hell could they do? Just don't tell them about the whole Kryptonite thing and you're golden!I will say some positive stuff about it soon, but I wanna complain about how shows are put on DVD... after like half a season I was soo sick of that damn theme song playing over and over every 40 minutes that I started skipping the opening scenes: fast forwarding until the theme song ended. I truly do believe that a DVD should open with the theme playing over the menu, you hit play and the episodes play - a title card pops up with credits instead of the opening sequence and all closing credits for every episode on the disc are played in a big list at the end of each disc (or in a menu). I'm just gonna skip it otherwise and I'll never know who was responsible for making it, ever.Also, no-one ever really did any schoolwork; they just went to a building called 'school' occasionally.I did love the chemistry between Clark, Lana, Pete & Chloe plus the Kent Family was really well established as a solid support network for a pathological liar to grow up in. The episodes with Christopher Reeve were standouts in my opinion as well as the ones where Red Kryptonite was used and Superman stopped lying to everyone for twenty minutes.A lot of people liked Lex Luthors portrayal in this series but I think the standout was his Father, Lionel, who remained intellectually consistent until his demise... Lex was sometimes quoting "The Art of War" and sometimes acting like a five year old who was just realizing that Teddy Bears represent something much more dangerous.I have watched the entire series like 3 times but I'd only recommend that someone else watch it once...

This entire show was all done WRONG, everything from season 1 to the end of season 10 and reflects NOTHING from the comics but a poor attempt to shadow from the real story in order to draw it out to 10 long boring unworthy seasons and make money, luring the audience into lies and deceit ...First off, Clark never new Lex like in the show. Second, Clark never knew Lois so early and this is the most annoying. Next is the casting like Lana, come on, she was so wrong for the part not to mention Tom Welling was way too old to play a 15 year old in season one and makes you cringe when after an order from his Parents you hear lines like, "Come on Dad, I'm old enough" - yes he was old. 24 year old Welling played Clark at 15 in season 1His parents were not right either, especially Daddy Kent and had this annoying overly clear speech that no Father ever would do. Everyone on the show clicked the end of the name of "Clark" and drew it out like it was some machine which took away from the meaning of heart every other show has.The script was terrible, because NO TEEN ever talks like that. The music was all wrong in an age that no one listens to indie music unless it was made in 1991 to 1998 but it was 2001 to 2010 and should have used pop, Rap and some R&B or dance music but this awful loud banging rock or sometimes rotten indie metal would do nothing for the scenes that were designed to be an added excitement.Back to the script which made it too American and the makers KNEW it was going world wide, so are we to learn that aliens call their Mothers "Mom" and just about every Kryptoian had a yank accent, wowNone of this contains spoilers as no scene was really revealed in this review but the general outline of the show like who meets who should not 'spoil' it for you but warn you to avoid and demand that this be done all over again but in 5 seasons with a focus on Clark alone with his parents right up to the point he leaves school and toying with the notion that he likes Lana but using a better actress not one who shakes her head every time she talks.The whole purpose of the story is Clark needs to get out of Smallville and be challenged with a hidden lifestyle not meet freaks every week and use his powers quite often. Opt for the more boring story lines to make it a less boring show.