This film is awful.
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Cortese01 — 14 years ago(September 17, 2011 05:30 AM)
I'm a big fan of Reeve's Superman, but I feel the movies has it's weird moments. Like when the kid falls into Niagara Falls and Superman saves him and he says ''Again again'', or when his mother says ''Boy you're gonna get it'', who says that after watching their kid fall like that lol. It was kind of the retarded mother's fault too for not watching him.
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anannya_sen — 14 years ago(September 20, 2011 06:29 PM)
The whole Niagara falls setup was done by Lester I believe. The same man who had full control and gave us S3.
I personally like much of his humour, although I'm not sure it's suited to a Superman film, but we had silly moments in 1 too, like when the little girl tells her mother about Superman and she gets told to stop telling lies. You can hear a slap in the background.
The kid was an idiot and if he's playing around OUTSIDE the rail, he's probably mentally retarded, ergo, him saying 'again, again' could make sense. His mother, on the other hand, seems to be too busy eating candy floss (I think) to care about her son, so she doesn't really seem like a role model type of mother to me.
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uruseiranma — 14 years ago(November 20, 2011 12:25 PM)
I think I saw the theatrical cut a long long time ago. However, watching it for the first time in ages last night, I felt it was 'sanitized' in a number of places. So many people when they talk about superior '2' movies would often talk about 'Superman II' and 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.' Alot of people even talk alot about General Zod, though when it came to him and the Kryptonian Criminals, I was figuring they'd have been doing much more damage or destruction. I guess my thinking was, if they care very little for humanity, there'd be more bodies littered along the ground.
Plus really: Zod is going to let someone with a mile-a-minute-mouth like Luthor live?
Given where movies 3 & 4 went, the theatrical cut definitely feels like there's traces of the filmmaking machinery beginning to malfunction.
Is it me, or did part of that fight on the streets just turn into 'product placement central?'
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riverwalk — 13 years ago(October 28, 2012 07:39 PM)
''Alot of people even talk alot about General Zod, though when it came to him and the Kryptonian Criminals, I was figuring they'd have been doing much more damage or destruction. I guess my thinking was, if they care very little for humanity, there'd be more bodies littered along the ground.''
you gotta remember the film was aimed at kids so they could not really go round butchering people and have it looking like a concentration camp,considering there would be many kids in the audience there was only so far they could take the movie. -
jankovic — 13 years ago(June 22, 2012 04:48 AM)
Watched it yesterday, this movie is bad even for 1970's, can't understand how can anybody consider this a good movie. Stupid situations, Looney Toons have more reason then this Superman franchise. His fight for American way of living is horrible, i can't express how horrible is that use of Superman for Cold war propaganda. Now we have Captain America, but this character have a good explanation. Maybe 21st century audience evolved in the past 30-40 years.
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glentom1 — 13 years ago(July 23, 2012 01:40 PM)
I agree! Saying it is awful is a compliment, it absolutely stinks! It wasn't that the acting was awful, it was that there was no acting.
And the plot is absurd. While it fed off the commonly known elements of the Superman genre, everything in-between was vacuous.
For example, take the mighty struggle between Superman and the other 3 in the streets. There were such corny scenes, like the camera zooming in on an ice cream cone with the ice cream being blown clear off its cone! And the guy trying to make a phone call in the middle of cars blowing up, and the power of the 3 blowing was sooooo darn strong it literally blew him 6 feet down the sidewalk, while he mightily tried in vain to continue his chit chat! It wasnt even comical, it was just stupid!
And when the 3 others were trying to communicate about how to vanquish Superman at the beginning of the fight, their voices were all dubbed, it was just so cheesy! It is hard to categorize a movie this stupendously awful. It just makes one mad for being so stupid to have watched the whole thing.
The directing, producing, writing, and special effects were so bad! And for those in this thread who say yeah but that was over 30 years ago, when technology was not what it is today, I say that is no excuse. I have seen movies from the 1930's that far exceed this movie's expertise. I can only think that the producers decided that no matter how lazy they were, that people would go watch it, and that was all that mattered.
With that said, the first half hour of the first movie in this series I give a 10 out of 10 stars. It had everything! Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, and it introduced admirably one of the best comic book stories of all time. After that 30 minutes it was all down hill, with each sequel getting worse and worse, on all levels. I think the only reason some folks defend these movies is because of their respect and love and sympathy for Christopher Reeve.
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HellboundHero — 13 years ago(October 01, 2012 03:10 AM)
I think the only reason some folks defend these movies is because of their respect and love and sympathy for Christopher Reeve.
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Roy_Batty_Nexus6 — 13 years ago(July 25, 2012 11:02 AM)
The scene in downtown Metropolis when he's fighting them had me in stitches! Who wrote the script?! The lines that the extras were coming out with were hilarious.
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