" Patriot Games (1992)d.Phillip Noyce, 117 minutesFilm Plot SummaryEx-Marine and fifty-ish, newly-retired CIA officer John "Jack" Ryan (Harrison Ford), now an author and professor at the US Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland), lived with his family in their isolated, coastal Maryland home: medical doctor wife Dr.This was the third film with Hackman""s villain Lex Luthor.And it was the second film with a super-villain (the other wasSuperman II (1980)).Superman Returns (2006)d.Bryan Singer, 154 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe action-adventure fantasy film opened with a background foreword:On the doomed Planet Krypton, a wise scientist placed his infant son into a spacecraft and launched him to Earth.Marguerite: Hmm.Not a very romantic reason.Armand: No, I kept it as a warningagainstromance.Marguerite: How sensible! Has it made you very cynical?Armand: Yes, very.Marguerite: Is that why you""ve never taken the trouble to call on me?Armand: Perhaps.Marguerite: I""m sorry.One needs friends.Marguerite is touched by his sincerity and astonished o learn from her housekeeper Nanine (Jessie Ralph) that while she was ill, he faithfully came every day to ask how she was and to leave flowers, without being introduced.A major football sports competition (between Florida and Chicago) was being held in Baltimore, attended by both President Fowler and Cabot, as Ryan frantically rode in a helicopter to the Baltimore docks and attempted to warn them of the nuclear bomb""s presence in the city.She objected to being kidnapped: "I""d like to get off the merry-go-round." The very pushy Kyle promised her that he was really a different person than his first impression: "Once we get up in the blue, I""m a different fella, a lot different from this character.