I tell you what, the *Mariner* won't take ten years to whip Clark Kent into shape

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At risk of being a bit too fannish, I'm going to spam you with some more movie stuff no one probably cares about. Kevin Costner as Pa Kent in the new Superman movie. That is just shockingly good casting there, since Costner has spent the last decade pretty much being Jonathan Kent. As disinterested as I am in watching, say, Swing Vote or The Postman, it's good to know there's someone out there rooting for aw-shucks cornfed Americana, and that's exactly what any Smallville scene needs to work. Echoes of how Batman Begins took Thomas Wayne and actually gave his inevitable death some traumatic impact...

I gotta say, between this, Nolan's involvement, and the shortlist for Lois (even though no one's been cast, it's good to know no one's thinking, say, Blake Lively for a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist), I'm kinda getting excited about Superman again.