That guy on the pay phone
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Passport-To-Pimlico — 12 years ago(August 06, 2013 03:43 AM)
That gets knocked over and continues to talk as if nothing happened. Did Richard Lester actually think that was funny?
Not every superhero movie has to be utterly pofaced.
I was four when I first watched Superman 1 & 2 and loved the humour in them - Especially the phonebox scenes.
Richard Lester's humour sensebilities may not be as classic as The Marx Brothers or as witty as Woody Allen, but he's more like a Blake Edwards or Stanley Kramer. Big, broad, silly jokes - And it's perfectly suited to a series of silly superhero movies like Superman.
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michaelsmith30 — 12 years ago(August 30, 2013 11:29 PM)
Lester improvised all the silly incidents during the tornado scene, like the guy on the skates and the husband and wife's wig flying off. Too much of that beep showed up in Superman III, and that was part of the problem.
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Darthmauler_megaa — 12 years ago(November 08, 2013 06:49 AM)
You all bashing the movie just because of a few funny scenes that weren't funny to you guys?
I agree, I don't understand why people overreact to that so much. They're just a couple of scenes, they hardly dominate the movie. There has always been an audience for physical comedy (not just children but adults too).
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Vegard_the_Viking — 12 years ago(November 08, 2013 08:28 AM)
I found them funny. Just because they're silly and absurd doesn't mean it can't net you a few laughs. Also, the movie is from 1980. That's 33 years back. Call me crazy, but I think comedy has changed since then.
In my opinion, it's gotten worse.
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Bourne1886 — 10 years ago(July 15, 2015 03:03 PM)
It's just absurd though! Completely ridiculous. I watched the DC and it's far superior. Lester was taking the Michael and being disrespectful. Donner didn't include all that in his cut which makes for a far better movie as the scene is serious not a laugh. It just ridicules the whole thing.