The Death of Superman Cinema message board: What Happened?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Superman
bozo_500 — 10 years ago(August 18, 2015 06:22 AM)
anyone visit the Superman Cinema message board (aka the fortress of solitude board)? originally it was part of a Superman Cinema site which was the go to site for Superman film fans from the late 90s to maybe the mid 00s when it ended but the forum was kept on. I never requested to join as it seemed abit too much of a clique (so I only had access to the superman forum, not the diner) but it was on my fave list to check out for news about SR/MOS, the Reeve DVDs/products (found out all about all the II Donner cut, lost IV footage etc from the SC site/forum), and general reeve talk by uberfans, along with some fun stuff 'Mr Thau try to do it. please' (you'll know what I mean if you use to visit there).
anyway there was some kind of war that took place in the forums over MOS - some hated it, some didn't. but it got so savage and brutal that it went nuclear they finally really did itthey blew it up! the maniacs! (I think thered been disagreements over SR before but with MOS it finished the board) It was a shame when Gandy closed the actual Superman Cinema site way back when, but the forums destruction was bad as theres no other forum that has that Reeve-centric theme to it. Now I just occasionally check out Superman homepage, Caped Wonder etc for news, and also theres a blog Supermania that's good for Reeve stuff. (and of course the imdb Superman I-IV boards)
the SC message board was a fun thingbut now its like krypton post destruction..that place is a graveyardATP is all thats left..(hes like Routh Superman travelling around the ruins in his little crystal ship trying to piece together what happened)
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Joel_S — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 05:39 PM)
I hear you man.
That place was a regular hang out of mine from about 2000-2007. I both posted there, and was also many times a lurker or guest. I was not part of the clique there, especially the U.K. clique. I don't want to say who I was, but I was a low profile board member in the early 2000s, then around 2004 or so I just became a lurker. I never got into a fight with anyone, though I remember back in the early 2000s some of us started a bad flame war with a Lois&Clark board and a lady named Zoomway. Ahh, those were the days. Anyway, Superman Cinema was fun but like you said really cliquish, I enjoyed being a lurker after that, and eventually I started a new handle and never posted again.
I miss it. I had no idea the place shut down due to a fight over MOS. I remember arguments over Superman Returns, around 2006 and 2007 was when I was last really making daily visits to that place. Once the Richard Donner cut (the holy grail for that place) became a reality, I think I started to lose interest. But I liked having that place around. Yes, it was the one really heavy duty Christopher Reeve centric Superman message board around, and it was great interacting with people who grew up in late 70s, 80s and 90s during the time when Chris Reeve as Superman was appreciated. By the late 90s and post 2000, there was a growing resentment to the Chris Reeve movies as being too old and dated by the younger then teenage crowd, so it was nice to find a bunch of (at the time we were 20 somethings) similar aged group of people who shared our love of Chris Reeve as Superman, even if the high school and middle school kids loved X-Men 2000 or Blade instead of a over 20 year old movie. -
HellboundHero — 9 years ago(April 07, 2016 11:15 PM)
I feel like Superman Cinema is a lot of the reason Superman Returns, the Donner cut, and the release of the deleted footage from Superman IV even happened. It showed the interest in the Reeve Superman series and may have been the reason Singer and Warner Bros. went with the idea of connecting Returns to the Donner movies instead of going ahead with some of the wild revisions to the mythos that Jon Peters, Tim Burton, McG, Bret Ratner, and JJ Abrams came up with over the years.
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bozo_500 — 9 years ago(April 10, 2016 02:22 AM)
thanks for the responses guys. its good to know others are lamenting losing that place,.
I feel like Superman Cinema is a lot of the reason Superman Returns, the Donner cut, and the release of the deleted footage from Superman IV even happened. It showed the interest in the Reeve Superman series and may have been the reason Singer and Warner Bros. went with the idea of connecting Returns to the Donner movies instead of going ahead with some of the wild revisions to the mythos that Jon Peters, Tim Burton, McG, Bret Ratner, and JJ Abrams came up with over the years.
yeah you might be right about that. the site did seem quite influential in garnering attention about the Reeve movies in the general media (in particular the DC of II which was like the 'holy grail'). I remember in the 00 years building up to the Donner Cut of II there were quite a few articles in magazine and newspapers about it (the DC of II got to be quite a thing on the internet back then and the media were starting to take notice of this mysterious alternate version of SII that was supposed to be far superior to the original Lester cut.. esp in the wake of Reeve and Brandos deaths in 2004 and the new movie that was going to be a sequel.) and in these articles there would often be some comments from the guy behind SupermanCinema -Dharmesh/Gandy (the magazine people had obviously reached out to him for some comments). of course when it was released I seem to recall there being abit of a backlash on the site about how it was put together (I don't think anyone on the forum was happy with it..i mean everyone obviously liked seeing the lost scenes, but some stuff was abit ridiculous like the ending time travel again). similarly I recall when SR came out he went on Radio 1 and trashed it saying it was boring and too much of a remake of STM etc - (this is back when most reviews for SR were positive. I think that created a big divide on the board at the time -some hated it/others loved it. and then the same happened with MOS - leading to the forums destruction)
btw ive noticed the board has picked up alittle now in light off BvS
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bozo_500 — 1 year ago(January 17, 2025 10:00 PM)
Looks like someone has gone and found the green crystal to reactivate the boards, The forums back up!
https://fortressofsolitude.proboards.com/thread/6513/thread-on-filmboard-boards-destruction