Who saw this in cinemas back in 80/81?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Superman II
bozo_500 — 12 years ago(October 18, 2013 03:18 AM)
Who saw this back in the day? What were your memories - the anticipation of seeing it in the weeks/days before, the actually seeing it and how much a big deal was it where you were back then, the crowds, audience etc and after coming out of the cinema what were your thoughts and in the days/weeks that followed
it was my first film at the cinema - being taken to see it mustve been summer 81 (although some countries had it xmas 80) remember the poster in the lobby
http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieF-SAS)__Superman2(1).jpg
i remember there being a guy outside selling the program magazine and seeing this portrait of Reeve on the back cover (the guy is holding them in a way that i can see the back cover)
http://www.movpins.com/big/MV5BMTY5MzIwMzI0M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzk5NTUyNw/still-of-christopher-reeve-in-superman-ii.jpg
i wanted one but no one would buy one.
as for the film i think i very vaugely recall some stuff but its difficult to remember as ive seen II so many times since. i think i remember Clark getting beat up and some of the Times Sq battle scenes and end in the FOS, also the bit where Superman chooses to lose his powers and become mortal and steps into the chamber and his DNA gets stripped down and hes like a skull etc - i think i recall that as i got scared as it was very similar to the opening of the Hulk tv series at the time of which i was a huge fan of - but at the same time was very frightened of the change scenes.
but clearly remember that i wanted a program and didnt get one
A short while later I was given a Superman II fold out poster magazine which I marvelled at
http://www.supermanii.com/siiweb/sii merchandise/siizm10.html
and also a uk magazine called Superheroes Monthly which did a great SII issue with painted cover:
http://supermanii.com/siiweb/sii merchandise/Superman_II_Super_Heroes_Monthly/Superman_II_Super_Heroes_Monthly_COVER.jpg
But that program was always on my mind
in the years that followed i developed an unheathly collecting obsession and bought loads of stuff on the Superman films. i searched tirelessly for a Superman II program in comic stores but never found one
anyway flash foward to 1999 and i discover ebay - first item i buy? the Superman II cinema program circa 1981
http://www.supermanii.com/siiweb/sii merchandise/siizm4.html -
engle_james — 12 years ago(November 12, 2013 07:12 AM)
I was probably 10 years old when I saw this, in a drive-in theater, no less! It was a double-feature with Any Which Way You Can, the Clint Eastwood movie, which I remember nothing about. But Superman II was a big deal at the time, I remember seeing commercials and even print ads in the paper, which showed the three Kryptonian villains flying toward Superman. Superman was the first movie I had ever seen in the theater, so in comparison, the action in part II seemed double that of the original. It was a big deal to all the kids I was with!
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michaelward15 — 11 years ago(May 11, 2014 08:06 PM)
I remember seeing it in the theater. I think my whole family saw it together. I remember loving it. I think I liked it better than the first one at the time. I was probably in my late teens before I started liking the first one better. I also remember kind of having a thing for Ursa even though I was only 8.
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Soupful — 11 years ago(May 29, 2014 10:48 AM)
I did was age 12 and took little sister and her friends as Mum had taught-trained myself train-bus, stranger-danger to city for the movie and McDonalds was a big deal then in late 80/early 81.
All the kids loved it, the girls cared for Lois Lane as well as Superman boys too.
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superturbo4 — 11 years ago(June 19, 2014 05:50 PM)
While i clearly remember seeing Superman III moreso than Superman II and Superman The Movie as a very young little kid. I DO however vividly remember the moments of sitting in the cinema waiting for the film to start and begin and the people hollering and cheering as the curtains opened up and we saw the license for the film come up on the screen and say; "
Superman II
" with its certificate (i.e. the film was started up).
The people went nuts with cheering and whisling going on.
And throughout the film remembering key moments when.- Superman flew to Paris and saved Lois
- The 3 villains killing the Astronauts & Cosmonaut (looked so mch better on the big screen in a darken cinema screen than it does on television at home)
- Superman saves the kid in Niagra falls
- The Taxi moment with the driver calling Clark Kent a freak (got the audience laughing)
- Lex and Eve at the Fortress Of Solitude
- Clark getting beaten up at the diner
- The Metropolis fight (somewhat vaguely at the time)
- The Fortress battle
i very vaugely recall some stuff but its difficult to remember as ive seen II so many times since. i think i remember Clark getting beat up and some of the Times Sq battle scenes and end in the FOS, also the bit where Superman chooses to lose his powers and become mortal and steps into the chamber and his DNA gets stripped down and hes like a skull etc -
i think i recall that as i got scared as it was very similar to the opening of the Hulk tv series at the time of which i was a huge fan of - but at the same time was very frightened of the change scenes
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Yeah i've heard so many from my generation say the same thing about the Hulk TV series and the Banner's first change into the Hulk in the TV pilot (during the thunderstorm sequence in the rain) it really effected a generation for it to be remembered as scary to kids. Even when people act all macho and deny being scared back then, i'm like yeah whatevers cough cough ('wink').
Didn't think of Clark being stripped of his powers as the same though, it was kinda freakish i'll admit, but it was vastly different though in terms of outright scares though.
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dm7686 — 10 years ago(September 19, 2015 10:34 PM)
Yeah i also seen this at some drive in back in 81, i was 4 and a half, so i barely remember it, but i know i did go see it with my family, its very vague, bits and pieces of it, like the metropolis fight with the villians, Superman giving up his powers and the Diner scene at the end.
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millar70 — 10 years ago(March 24, 2016 11:51 PM)
I was 10 when I saw it in the movie theater. I remember it being a blast, with the crowded movie theater really into it. There was lots of cheering, especially during the fight in the city. I had a fun time, and saw it a couple of more times that summer.
I saw the first one in the theater as well and enjoyed it, though as a kid I was a little bored during the Marlon Brando scenes. Superman II was a much more consistently fun movie.
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