Homelander doesn’t have superman level Superspeed so he couldn’t have gone back and forth 120 times. Realistically, Superman holding up the plane would also be like a needle holding up Jelly, so Homelander was right that he couldn’t have done it. What Homelander could’ve done was to try and save a few (maybe 20 people), but they would’ve ratted him out. So what Homelander did was the most logical.
Same bro. I don't know but I really hate homelander and it makes me appreciate superman much more but still I will never see superman the same way ever again. Seeing that scene ( the homelander one) makes me hate superheroes.
absolutely loved that part! actually, classic clark kent! Lois should've immediately recognized him from that alone! but the guy had just grabbed a plane and placed on the ground... clark was the furthest thing on her mind at that moment :D
@@ranchump Yup. This was a callback to the time he saved Lois from a helicopter that had partially crashed on the rooftop of a building. She fell out first, he caught her, then the helicopter fell and he caught it with the other arm. Flew them both up to the roof of the building and gave this speech.
It is...because Superman is supposed to inspire hope and banish fear. He wants to make sure that no one is afraid to go flying again just because of one bad day.
@spencergsmith and Kevin Spacey was about as perfect a follow up to Gene Hackman as you could get. In fact, I think I prefer him to Hackman, only because he is a lot more sophisticatedly sinister. He truly portrays a real villain, while Hackman's was just a crooked businessman.
I just couldn't help but think it was a bit of a d*ck move to just fly off and leave the plane on the field. I mean, now the city has to spend time and resources to remove that bloody thing when Supes could have easily moved it for them after all the passengers were out....
I love how you can see in Superman’s face that there is nothing to show that he doubts himself. He doesn’t just believe he can save all these people, he KNOWS he can and just remains focussed on completing the task as well as he can. Now that’s a hero!
He can't do it for him sled but for the others, he will not failed them, he would not let them down not with the live of others in his hands. He will do it, he will land the plane and save them
They could've CGI'd the seats a bit better. Evidently while landing the plane, superman also replaced and bolted down all those seats that went flying to the front cause when he gets on the plane to check on the passengers, all the seats were just fine again
This film was a tribute to Silver Age Superman. The cheesily overpowered, perfect hero with unshakable morals that we all know and love. No anti-hero here. His characrer is as good-hearted and noble as it comes. Thank you, Christopher Reeves. You will always be my childhood hero.😢
agreed. i think it was a tribute film to CR & the gen Xers who adopted him b4 they started making the more dark s-man films for millennials. either way i don't think CR or henry cavill did anything this good.
Really? Wow. Only you knew that. Show me where exactly I stated that this was Christopher Reeves? I said that this film is a *tribute* to Silver Age Superman, who was played in the big screen by Christopher Reeves. Learn to read. @@BramptonProductions
@@markdias3463 It's been stated before that Superman has the ability to literally manipulate physics around him, allowing him to lift stuff like this. Kinda like how Omni-Man explains to Invincible how they're able to fly.
@@markdias3463 DC officially explained Superman's power a year or two ago when one of their head writers said he has "tactile telekinesis", meaning he creates an energy field around the the object he's touching, and presumably it's also how he wills himself to fly.
@@TheRealBorb DC writer John Byrne stated a couple years ago that Superman has "tactile telekinesis", officially explaining his power for the first time.
I love how he sees the plane collapsing and completely on fire, plummeting down to earth almost as fast as him, but he doesn’t once panic or look stressed. He remains cool and collected and does his upmost best to go after the plane, confident he can save every passenger. That’s Superman.....
Homelander: "get back! I will laser every fucking one of you!" Superman: "is everyone alright? I hope this experience hasn't put any of you off flying, statistically speaking, it is still the safest way to travel"
Bane 88, it is crazy. Superman (1980 original film) was my childhood. Watched that movie 100 times. This movie takes off where Superman II ended (and I"m glad, since I hated III-V). Anyway, I barely noticed the transition from one actor to the other.
@@d.lawrence5670 I was never a big Superman fan & not a big fan of chase scenes. A scene like this usually bored me but I LOVED THIS! Everything about this movie was great to me & I was so surprised. No clue how this was looked down upon? Man of steel just didn't not get me at all.
Voice, mannerisms, line delivery HE LITERALLY BECAME REEVE. Man would he have been proud. Not nearly enough credit goes to this film and wrapping up the epic Superman trilogy and retconning those last two abominations.
I think that was one of the problems with this movie. They wanted to recapture Me. Reves essence with Brandon. They should have give his character a more edgy personality, like the Man of Steel movie did.
@@isoroxuk Tbh when I saw him again in the suit and as Clark, comparing him directly against Tyler Hoechlin's version, his was so superior. It felt like Tyler Hoechlin was playing dress up.
The music swelling as Lois looks out the window and sees the blur of Superman flying past is by far my favorite part of this whole movie. Absolutely incredible how much emotion you can get from just several seconds
@@jamiestewart48In a moment of despair, you see a flash of red and blue--and know, in that instant, that there is no need to be afraid, because you're going to be okay. THAT is the essence of Superman.
What If Superman 3 and 4 were good sequels??? Superman 1975: Lex Luthor Superman II: General Zod Superman lll: Bizarro Superman IV: Metallo Superman Returns: Brainiac
@@fireflame62 yep, he loses his Lois much like in Kingdom Come, and wears the same outfit as in KC, with the lighter temples. i always loved the look of Superman as an older hero and his did feel convincing. Was fun to even see him in COIE as the 'Kal-L' to Tyler Hochelin's current 'Kal-El' Superman like in the comics for the event, two side by side. There were talks to bring his story back and expanded upon at HBO Max but that fell through well before James Gunn and Pete Safaran took over. Mind you, 'Elseworlds' is apparently now a brand in the DCEU films, so maybe we could get a one off streaming chapter? i'd like that. i kinda recognize him as the Reeve Supes, roughly.
This is one of the most underrated movies of all time, and Brandon Routh is a great Superman. I wish the audience got to see him as Superman in more movies.
Hugely agree. Film was victim of review bombing and influencers deciding people’s opinions on the movie for them. Anybody watching this now without hearing the bullshit slander from youtubers and shitty articles on “why it sucks”, will probably love it. Form your own opinions. This movie is super man through and through
Brandon Routh was the perfect choice to play Superman in this movie , ..... although Christopher Reeve will always be Superman, he succeeded in giving a excellent performance !!
He really was as close as you can possibly get. There is only one 6'4" Reeve that looks like that and can act like that. Going from awkward insecure doofus to Supes in a second. But Routh came damn close. It is actually a good movie. Not enough action for the dummies that need 90 minutes of CGI video game cutscenes
The issue is that they tried to play this as a sequel to the original Superman movies and tried to force Routh to be Christopher Reeves's version of Superman. If they had done something completely different and let him be Superman without fitting into the mold that Reeves created, I think he may have done more than one film.
@@Majestic_Graphics hn Reeve better Henry don’t even got tht curl in the front ts important😂 but Henry look like a buff ass bull but he’s still a solid Superman but idk I think reeves better
Fr. I vaguely remember watching this movie as a kid. It's this scene that I remember. I remember it so poorly that I though Cavill was the Superman in this scene 😂
"Statistically speaking, it´s STILL the safest way to travel". The same line he said to Lois when he saved her on that helicopter iconic scene back on the very first movie. Everyone hates this movie, but I kinda liked it.
Same. People say it’s a rehash of the original Superman movies, but is that so bad? It’s a modern recreation of Superman and it added so much cool stuff to Superman that was absent from those old movies. The great effects, the fast Superman with sonic booms, all of it were really cool. The movie was really devoid of action for the most part which isn’t great and the story kinda goes weirdo mode at the end but if it was just a bunch of scenes like this, this movie would’ve been amazing.
@@CraftyCarrot Honestly, I do wish the movie would have at least given Lex a more original scheme, but it's also far from the first time that a sequel rehashed a previous movie's plot. Terminator 2 was still about a human-shaped killing machine time traveling to erase a threat with another "person" also being sent back to stop him. Back to the Future II and III recreated every iconic moment from the first movie but in different time periods and contexts. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was once again about Indiana Jones vs a Nazi-affiliated archaeologist trying to find a Christian artifact that the Nazis want to use to win the war. Superman Returns and Star Wars: The Force Awakens are far from the first movies to rehash old plots, but fanboys overreacted like they do to everything these days.
@@axebomber2108 repeating Lex's real estate plot was a terrible decision. There are so many villains and story lines available to choose from, but they choose to go and to make a knock off version of Richard Donner's movie? How awfully disappointing - and i say that as a huge fan of those movies. Why even make a sequel to a series of movies that the general public barely remember? The vast majority of the movie going public under 20 wouldn't have even seen the originals. At the end of superman II, supes apologizes to the president for disappearing for so long( a matter of weeks at most) and promised not to let him down again, then he immediately disappears for 6 years???? I know people have issues with Man of Steel, but at least Nolan & Snyder came up with their own version of Superman.
I hated this movie because it tried to recapture Christopher Reeve instead of formenting its own identity. Its the stale wet cloth of Supermen movie. Zack Snyder's MoS had issues--for me being Characterisation. But it delivered far better. It has its own identity and it took risks for me they mostly paid off
I love how when the first wing breaks off, superman looks back to make sure it doesn't fall on anything populated really quickly. Classic superman always there for the people. 😁
Superman Returns may not have been perfect but i thought Brandon Routh really did a wonderful job in capturing the spirit and warmth of the late great Christopher Reeve and delivered a fine performance. Out of all the different actors who played Superman, Brandon Routh is not only my all time favourite but he is the most underrated who deserves much more love. He was absolutely fantastic.
@@TONYCOV881 He looks a lot like Reeve's and this movie was a sequel after Superman 2 so yeah they casted him for his similarity with Reeve You can even see some dialooand last flight scene from Superman:The Movie
Everything about this sequence is perfect, the score, the sense of speed, utter chaos all around yet Supes remains as calm as ever (and Routh 100% nailed that role).
EVERYTHING about this scene is wonderful. Him making sure the shuttle goes off on it’s destination, him removing one of the wings to make it spin a little more predictably. Picking a spot to make sure the plane lands perfectly. Getting the door and making sure everyone was alright, and even cracking a joke to break the tension and let everyone know that they’re safe, and everything is going to be okay.
Oh wait he removed the wing himself. It wasn't just broken off because the plane couldn't hold its structure when being only lifted or held from that one weak point!! So it IS comic accurate then! He DOES still have a tactile telekinesis field in this version! HELL YEAH!!!! Although if comic accurate he should have been able to remove the wing in a nanosecond or less, too. Which might be disastrous physics wise for the people within, perhaps. But he should still be able to remove it faster than he did here, I think, and still have it be safe.
I don't think he removed the wing on purpose at all as it makes no sense. You can see that he was quite SURPRISED when the wing broke and he was like "oh shit". It was said in the book that he was trying to carefully stop the plane from Spinning to get it under control when the upwards stress on the wing from falling at greater than Mach 1 on it's belly was too much for the wing to take and it broke off since wings are not designed to take the wind at such speeds coming from directly underneath like that. Then of course the other one broke because now it's falling even faster, probably like Mach 1.5 and the stress is too much for the other wing. After that it became a projectile falling probably at Mach 2 or 3 before he caught up to it and was able to begin slowing it down and bring it down gently.
That’s because the boys is much more realistic , there’s no way the front hull of the plane didn’t collapse and Superman should have broke through it. Superman would have to exert twice as much force to slow down the plane let alone stop it, the nose of the plane must have been made from Vibranium
@@JonYen69 nope, superman applies a telekinetic force on the plane so he lifts the plane in it's entirety rather than just the nose with his comparatively small surface area. The Boys universe is just one of the weakest superhero universes Plus he really is a prick for not even carrying the 2 girls their mom was begging to save. Makes me want Superman to turn him to red mist with one punch. The fucker didn't even TRY
@@SayaaNara nope, do you understand how telekinesis forces work? If he had it and was using it then the Nose of the plane would never crumple at all and the wings he was using to steer wouldn't have ripped off. You're letting your fandom blind you from reality and physics. Homelander is a prick for not even trying but what he said wasn't wrong. That plane weighs close to 400 tons and was heading towards the ground at terminal velocity, superman would have to exert close to a million pounds of force to stop the plane so realistically like Homelander said, he would of just broke through the aluminum nose of the aircraft . Imagine having a thin Needle try to hold a human body from letting it touch the ground, that needle would definitely pierce through like jelly. Now imagine that body falling from the sky at terminal velocity and having a needle coming at you with a greater amount of force, ouch!
@@JonYen69 telekinesis is fictional so there's no objectivity on how they "work." Kenetic forces with your analogy would be how real world physics apply but you disregarded my point of view entirely on Superman's lifting prowess In simple terms he made it so there's essentially 1000 Supermen lifting the plane at different points of the plane so there's not a part where momentum would force that to go splat on the ground since the hypothetical Supermen are drastically reducing each part of the plane's downward velocity and therefore force all around the entire plane at one time But since Homelander is unable to or have no knowledge of such an ability despite telekinesis being present in the Boys universe it does kinda confirm that he is just a defected Great Value Superman that has no regard for anyone's well being or is willing to put in any effort to better himself
@@theguy3129 the scene ignores the most basic things about spaceflight and physics. Knowing only a small bit about space shuttles makes it very painful to watch this even with the fact I mind, that this is Hollywood. It's just too much bullshit to handle.
@@electricpaisy6045 I mean you have to bend some laws to make a scene more of an eye candy, plenty of movies have done that and there is honestly nothing wrong with that. Secondly this is a comic book movie, it was never supposed to make completely sense in the first place.
So intense, the way they put Superman almost losing it was a masterpiece. Well filmed, great soundtrack. This movie and this actor deserved another chance.
True, but the only way to explain him supporting the fuselage is by using the idea that he can extend some kind of energy field around anything he touches.
@@Radical_Larry For the vast majority of his publication history that telekinesis is limited to touch and mainly acts as a field that stops structures from falling apart, like in the example I used above. But yes, you're bang on the money.
@@Radical_Larry you do know that the original saying was "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" right? Somewhere along the way he gained the ability to not only fly but hover AND stop falling airplanes in midair.
Man of Steel had the action, and that Oil Rig scene came close but this is still THE BEST "Superman save" in live cinematic history. Ottmans chorus and dramatic orchestra is so chilling The execution is all here.
Man I swear I’ve been saying that for years now. I love zack Snyder but too often he sacrifices practicality and urgency for “coolness” which ironically hurts a lot of his work. Man of steel was a masterpiece imo but he left way too much on the table with that film.
@@eliaskouakou7051 bro so ur gonna act like cavil didn’t stare at him like a lost puppy as he gave his minute and a half speech abt “his people “ while the freaking world is ending and people are injured and dying? On top of that u expect me to believe that Superman wouldn’t try to save anyone while he was fighting someone when people clearly need help. And in bvs he literally acts like he can’t simply say “lex has my mom hostage” instead of saying “u don’t understand!!! Blah blah blah” ? Or what abt the fact that Batman doesn’t kill him because he simply said his moms name lol when Batman already new that he was raised on earth smh... oh and who tf calls their mom by her first name 😂 apparently someone who needs to move the plot along.
Brandon was the closest to Christopher Reeve. He practically embodies him in this clip. He sounds just like him, too. Wish he would have gotten more love.
Him lowering the plane into the stadium was the first time the world saw him again since he left to find Krypton. The crowd cheering in the scene is perfect. What a triumphant return for Superman. It's a shame he only got this one film.
Isn't this supposed to be the Same Christopher Reeves Superman? If yes then it'd make no sense why he searched for Krypton. He's already supposed to know Krypton is dead from The Fortress of Solitude.
Lml I'll be honest too, when DC wasn't focused on being dark a gritty. Like I didnt like Bales Batman movies because they where dark and gritty. The world building was good, acting, and the writing is what made those movies.
@@thefurrybastard1964 i still hated the fact that after the movie premiered, they all dissed Brandon Routh like he is the main problem with the movie. Warner Bros and Bryan Singer escaped the backlash
i love this rendition of superman because he was a superman i knew growing up its not that i dont like henry cavil superman.. they have their own charm
routh was the best, he even captured reeves nerdy look and his sweet kind heard supes look, routh is "save all life" cavill is "kill everyone that is harming people even it means RISKING those innocent lives" look at superman 2, he left to minimise casualties even if it meant looking like a coward, cavill punched his own people through every building killing thousands of earth civilians but hey that's why this movie failed, being a hero doesn't take precedence no more it's the dumb action
I agree. We need more civil people like you. I look in comments in Superman videos and even down my way here, and I’ve seen one too many threads just trashing one actor to another. Taking their opinions of one’s bad/good acting as ‘facts’. It’s quite sad.
Perry Simpson this was my 1st Superman movie and I liked got me to liked Superman and wanted to learn everything about him Brandon Routh looks so much like Christopher Reeves that I thought they were father and son
JayBourne84 Brandon Routh sat down with Bryan Singer at a coffee shop and Brandon spilled coffee all over the table and the director, he got so nervous and thinking that he will not get the part but the director hired him on the spot for his “Clark Kent clumsy”
This 5 min scene is the best in my opinion, everything looks real, the shock waves , the tension of metal and everything looks so good, such a great scene, Kudos to cgi team 👍
This my favorite Superman movie and Routh is excellent as Superman; also my favorite Lois. Lois does more heroic stuff in this movie than any other Lois.
The "Safest way to travel" speech did double duty here. First, he showed the passengers that he's still a beacon of hope by letting them know they should continue to feel safe about flying. It's a very Superman-y thing to say. Second, he said it specifically for Lois; it's almost exactly what he said the first time they met. Only she and he know what was said back then, no one else would have known. That was his way of telling her that it's not (somehow) an imitator or pretender, it's actually him, and he's back.
But to be fair, she would’ve realized it regardless as in other media it’s implied that she can figure out the secret before she gets told it, and let’s be fair, not a lot of people in Metropolis who can pull that off
I know Homelander said it wasn’t realistic to save everyone & used it for his evil plan but to me at 1st it just came off as he was Too WEAK to lift a plane while flying so his tantrums xD good on ya Supes
Homelander just said that because he’s lazy. There are ways to mess with a planes aerodynamics to get it to fly in a straight path. The wing flaps are one way . The way Superman saves them here is still unrealistic but it still goes to show how much strength he would give to save those passengers. This is such a classic scene.
Two hands put together is about 100 square inches of surface area. A loaded 737 would be about 145,000 lbs. Homelander/Superman would pierce through it like a needle through a tissue when trying to lift it.
@@G82Jesse Superman's flight is from a tactile telekinesis ability, this is how he keeps things together and catches falling targets without killing them. It is how he can move planets without flying straight through them.
@@mohammedashian8094 She's definitely resilient enough to carry a half-Kryptonian baby to term when there was the risk of it kicking through her abdominal wall due to uncontrolled super-strength. Plus, who knows what side effects super-jizz had ;)
This is one of the best Superman scenes in any Superman movie. Superman Returns is pretty underrated in my opinion, and Brandon Routh is SUPER underrated as well. He played the “younger Christopher Reeves” part very well
This is the best scene from the whole movie, I loved it. The fact the this is the first time we watched Superman on the big screen, with upgraded effects, since Christopher Reeve's movies, almost made me cry in the theater. No, wait!, I did cried.
That stopping ripples in the plane was so natural.... Sometimes I wonder why dc didn't continued with the Brandon Routh as superman in justice league...
Brandon routh as superman and christian bale as batman around the 2010s Would have been awesome We could even reboot superman movie But keep Brandon routh Since the others didn't do that exceptional play I think brandon can still play superman nowadays A bit of an older version tho I mean Henry cavil has the height to play superman and in term of his physique He defends himself quite good However he is not what we would see clark kent as I mean to play superman The height plays a major role in it Because superman has to be atleast 1m90 to 1m94 Thus why many actors can't play it Despite having the looks to play kal-el And also in 3/4 of the versions he has blue eyes But we can ignore that But for the height no
WB/DC stopped the continuation of the Brandon Routh Superman because the movie didn't make "enough" bank, and it had mixed reviews. They had also planned to combine Christian Bale's Batman with this Superman to make a cinematic universe. That's why "I Am Legend" had the "Batman vs Superman" movie poster in it.
There was a plan for a Justice League movie, but the Christopher Nolan Batman movies were being made at the same time, and they were going to cast completely different guys. D.J. Cotrona was going to be Superman, and Armie Hammer was going to be Batman. I don't know about Cotrona, but, in hindsight (and not just because he was a lousy Lone Ranger), Hammer would have been a problem. Anyway, the 2008 writer's strike ended up killing the idea.
ricaard actually the best is from 1978 Superman when he’s rescues Lois and catches the helicopter. No other super hero scene comes close to that one 40 years later
realEmoSedillo Obviously not. I think he was trying to stop it spinning to the point that the plane could glide and he could help them land afterwards by holding the plane. He must’ve underestimated the pressure that the wing would snap.
This scene itself establishes what Superman is all about. It's not the powers that make him what he is, but what he stands for. Even without his powers, Clark would still be Superman and would still fight on.
One of the best modern day Superman scenes. Love that actual physics are at play with the plane as well. The wing ripping due to the G-forces and the ripple traveling down the fuselage are nice touches. Plus the triumphant trumpets playing in the background are the best.
@@mydreaminorbit9297 Yes that ripped itself apart due the stress on it after the spin changed. But the first was deliberately ripped off by Superman to get the plane more under control, since before that, it spun out of control.
Yes. i remember at the time, my friends commenting that it seemed like saving the plane was difficult for him, as though he could just put hands on the wingtip and everything would be fine. I tried to explain that he was trying not to overpower the aircrafts frame- finding a point to grab it where it wouldn't break apart.
From all Superman movies this is one of my favorite scenes... I remember watching this at the theater and my heart was pounding like crazy ...the special effects...the music.. it's still awesome !
@@leishonalexis2280 Homelander is weak compared to Superman. Homelander is stronger than every modern weapon meaning that he can survive nuclear explosions but Superman on the other hand it's far more powerful than that he once lifted over 16 quintillion tons.
the way he spiraled around the fuselage to get to the nose. even the newer movies can't seem to capture the same physics. zack snyder likes to have the camera way too close or it's framed too much like a video game
Kal AstraSastra I agree, say what you want about the movie but this part define him and the movie. And I love the part of him being revived by the sun, flying down from the sky to pick a whole island up. Awesome stuff
