Fourth

Before anyone asks, I will NOT be going to see Superman this weekend - its opening today in the UK, you see.

To clarify - I am a huge fan of the original Superman movie.  I think Christopher Reeve was a criminally under-rated actor, and over-looked talent.  To anyone who brings up the age old question of how no-one notices that Superman and Clark Kent look exactly the same, I point them in the direction of the movie.  Quite simply, Christopher Reeve makes them two completely different people; from the way they talk, they way they act, even the way they carry themselves.  The movie has been around so long that its entirely too easy to forget just how good it actually is.  I implore everyone to go out and buy it at the next chance they have, and who cares if the clerk thinks youre just jumping on the bandwagon.  Spotty little gimp probably doesnt even know who Christopher Reeve was.

The other reason I wont be seeing the movie is that Ive never been a big fan of Superman.  This might seem strange, given the previous paragraph, and Ive struggled to reconcile the two in the past.  I can count on one hand the number of Superman graphic novels/trade paperbacks that Ive read, and most of those I picked up in the library.  Actual issues of Superman comics I have read will not be any higher number, trust me. 
Probably the main reason for this is money.  Growing up, we never had a lot of money (cue the violins please) so it was rare that I was able to indulge in comics.  Even if I did, the penetration of US comic books in the UK high street still had a long way to go, so issues of Superman were few and far between still. No doubt they were out there, and I could have found them had I spent a modicum of time looking in Glasgow or Edinburgh, but I didnt.  So there.
At some later date, I intend to look a bit deeper into the Superman mythos - something which has been done to death elsewhere, but still, Ill be doing it anyway.  In short though, I think theres something too American  Supes for him to really grow on me.

And no, that doesnt mean Im anti-US or an Americanophobe. (I like the sound of that, regardless of its grammatical accuracy)

So, to recap, I will not be seeing Superman Returns this weekend.  Nor, I suspect, will I be doing much of anything else that involves leaving the house over the weekend, as my girlfriend somehow managed to wrench/tear/pull a muscle in her neck/shoulder/back (Im still hazy on the details) in bed on Wednesday night (no sniggering at the back please) so she is essentially incapacitated, and as she has the only driving licence between the pair of us, our weekend adventures will be rather curtailed I think.

On the bright side, Ive just finished upgrading her PC with a new graphics card and extra RAM so that she can run WoW without it grinding to a halt whenever she takes a Bat anywhere, or enters the Undercity.  Hopefully her shoulder can handle the strain of her mad ganking skillz.