Two Degrees of "Superman Returns"

Tonight Richard and I are off to see the 10pm screening of Superman Returns and not the midnight one. Because somehow waiting in line for a 10pm show seems less pathetic than waiting in line for a midnight one. (Or at least that is what I’m telling myself.) So those of you (about 25% of you who responded to this week’s QOW) who were “embarrassed that I was heading to the midnight show” no longer need to feel that way (riiiight?).

And speaking of the Question of the Week, another 25% of you said you have made out with an extra from the movie. Which is rather alarming to me, because I would have figured I was the only one who did that.
Seriously. I wonder if the same guy I made out with is getting around.

Last year when I was in New Zealand I met an American actor in an Auckland bar who told me he was on his way back to the States after finishing up filming for the Superman movie in Australia. I didn’t believe his story for several reasons: 1) at the time I didn’t know they were filming the next Superman movie; 2) I didn’t believe that they would be filming it in Australia, of all places; and 3) when I asked him who was playing Superman, he said it was an “unknown” American actor (up to that point I thought Nicholas Cage was going to be the next Superman). So essentially I thought this guy was a total bullshitter.

But I pashed on him anyway for the following reasons, all of which are necessary conditions for me to make out with a total stranger: 1) he was cute; 2) he thought I was cute; 3) I was single; 4) I was on vacation; and 5) I was never going to see him again. [It also helped that I was a bit tipsy as the bartender kept feeding me free rum and Cokes (my favorite kind) because I told him I was from Oregon and he was wearing a shirt with "Oregon" printed on it and he'd never met anyone from Oregon before. But I digress...]

So besides being very excited to see the movie because I am a Superman fan and the movie is getting great reviews, there is a small part of me that will be looking to see if this guy is really in the movie and not just a liar. (He is supposed to be playing “one of Clark Kent’s boyhood friends” -- and before you ask, Yes, this guy was well above legal age. And No, I don't remember his name.)

So I figure if this guy is in the movie, than that makes me, like, two degrees from Bryan Singer of Brandon Routh. It's like I was practically in the movie myself.

Anyway, enough about that. A full review to appear tomorrow.