Interesting trivia fact: The comic adaptation of Superman IV changed the Great Wall of China repair vision to him just fixing it at super-speed, probably because the comic book people knew how silly it was.
When I watched the video I missed that he repaired it with his vision. Thank you for pointing that out and making the scene even more funny. I don't know how I missed this movie though, I watched all the earlier movies on TV as a kid.
I love all the weird powers Superman gets in the movies. Like throwing his crest at one of the Kryptonians, or duplicating himself, or shooting beams from his hands. Craziness.
Fun facts: Reeve is the one who pushed for the film's strong anti-nuclear message. The budget got ripped out from under the production, to the point that Jon Cryer called the film "unfinished". Jon Cryer took the role of Lex in Supergirl to make up for this movie... and based on the reactions, he more or less nailed playing Lex.
Cryer was surprisingly a very good Lex, in my opinion at least. I also respect the fact that he basically just took the role because he wanted to play the part, and not for the money, because the guy's set for life after *Two and a Half Men.*
I just love the fact that when they cut that strand of Superman’s hair in the museum, the display case’s bottom is supposed to fall out because a 1000 lb weight is coming down on it. But as you can see, the bottom fell out early. And they just left that shot in. 😂
I didn’t notice it the first time I watched it so I went back in the video thinking it falls a few frames before but no it’s like 30 seconds. Guess they ran out of time to do another take or maybe they couldn’t repair it
What was the top of the case made of that it could support 1000 pounds? What was the rest of the bottom made out of that it didn't collapse when the 1000 pounds fell on it?
This movie will be special to me because my mum and I watched it together. I bought the Superman Movie Collection and she just happened to be in the room when I put it on. We had the time of our lives, laughing all the way from beginning to end because of how awful it was. Watching films with your mother is tight ❤
I just love how Christopher Reeve looks so disinterested in the rebuilding the Great Wall scene. Like, "I can't believe I agreed to do a fourth one. That check better clear..."
The scene was supposed to show Superman rebuilding the wall by hand, but they ran out of money for special effects. So those shots of Superman using his "rebuild the great wall" vision were originally just shots of him looking at stuff.
Yeah they didn't have time to do what they wanted for the scene; also Reeve only agreed to come back because they gave him a lot of creative control; the getting rid of nukes thing was actually his idea.
@@osirisatot19 i guess yet another example that being a great actor doesnt by default make you a great writer, director, spokesperson, or anything else really, this is something hollywood really needs to learn
In the longer version there was a original version of Nuclear Man that didn't turn out so good. He saw Lacy on the street and was attracted to her so when the final version sees her he remembers.
I remember seeing this film in cinemas when I was a wee youngster, and even then I thought. "Yeah this series has worn itself out." It wasn't tight anymore.
Very true. I happened to watch an old episode of ninja turtles as an adult and I was horrified by how bad it was. It's best to leave things alone and let nostalgia do its thing
Speak for yourself. At 8 years old, the great wall of China thing made no sense to me either. Also, why didn't he bury the elevator under ground on the moon?
They started making bigger budget movies instead of staying with smaller budget ones; that was the problem. There's a great doc on Cannon called "Electric Boogaloo", I think.
I still remember watching this on TV when I was home sick from school. Even as a grade school kid I thought it was weird...which is saying something for a kid who loved 80s cartoons
@Grasslander I love Transformers, GI Joe and the Turtles. But Superman would destroy them. I think original 80s Optimus Prime would last the longest based on his sheer plot armor, at best. What we do need is a CROSSOVER with all those parties. Lex Luthor and Zod hook up with Cobra Commander, Shredder and Megatron? Yes please.
I was the same. Ten years old, a HUGE Superman fan, went into the cinema with huge high hopes, but I came out of the cinema TOTALLY disappointed. My family and I all agreed it just didn't feel like a Superman film at all. And I was the TARGET AUDIENCE.
@@ChronicViper oh man recruitment propaganda is just the worst, but i still got sucked in by these jet movies from the mid 80's, its a shame the pinnacle of tech is also the death machines its embedded in lol, the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is the sexiest piece of tech ever built.
Superman: The Movie - "You will believe a man can fly." Superman IV: The Quest For Piece - "You will believe in a single piece of stock footage in front of an amateurish background."
This was the only movie I've ever walked out of, back in 1987, after the volcano corking scene. It's stunning to finally see just how much worse it actually got! You have provided the closure I never knew i wanted.
Every teenage boy fantasized about walking past a women's changing room with a broken wall and RAPIDLY fixing it so no one could see inside. It's the super power we all wanted.
105 Years since the armistice that ended the Great War, Ryan's still jumping on grenades for us all. God bless young man. You watch these things so generations after you don't have to.
If this were just one person's idea of a good movie, you would just think it's crazy. The fact that a studio approved it, and hundred's of people worked on the movie is even crazier!
In practice, the hundreds of people who work on a movie really have NO IDEA how the final movie is going to turn out. I mean, every movie looks dumb when it's being filmed, and few people know what the story is. Often, it's not until a film is edited and scored that you can really see whether it works or not. Though the clues were there that this movie was going to suck, like filming the "Metropolis" scenes in a small English town that has no skyscrapers.
4:30 so the radioactive guy created from superman's DNA that was born close to the Sun from the radiation of the nukes thrown into the Sun dies by being thrown into a power plant?
The slide shows of what we just watched are so funny! I love the not flattering faces that you put in there like when you pause a movie at the wrong moment and someone looks super weird! It’s super funny! Makes me stick around on the video for that much longer.
@@davidbosco652 Well, Helen Slater in the Supergirl outfit always makes it worth it. 😊 It was made by the Salkinds, so the budget was decent enough for some proper flying scenes. But a lot makes no sense at all. It includes Marc McClure, repeating his role as Jimmy Olsen, seemingly for no reason other than to stress that this *does* take place in the same universe as the Christopher Reeve films, but there seems to be no resemblance at all to the Krypton of those movies.
4:55 I'm not sure I can enjoy a slideshow of what I just watched if I'm still reeling from what I just watched. This was a movie? What?! Why? Who? and most importantly, How have my enemies hidden this gem from me?!
I can answer many things: This was Reeves' last Superman film, and it's so crap to the others (even III) because the series had been taken over by another studio (The Cannon Group) that was needing money bad...so they somehow thought the best way to make more would be to scrimp on a Superman movie. Its budget was too small, only 17 million, compared to Superman III's 39 million and around 55 mill for I and II. I wonder if they were going for the kiddie market, since I was a child then and nuclear war certainly a subject much discussed in school then. But it looked bad even for the kids, and none of my classmates wanted to see it. As for your enemies, I don't know, maybe they were saving up?
I've only seen this film once, when it was first released at the cinema. I'm glad to say I have barely any recollection of what happens. It's bad enough knowing that Milton Keynes was used as a location for Metropolis.
Doing a pitch meeting for what is considered to be one of the worst superhero movies of all time starring the respected and revered legends Faye Dunaway and Peter 'O' Toole is TIGHT! 🦸🏾♀️
Those Supergirl episodes that retell what happened from Luthor's perspective are quite the tour de force. My favorite Lex Luthor on screen. He was like the classic Luthor from the Comics, Evil-Iron-Man armor and all. I'll never forget when he says "Im going to give myself cancer". I wish all Lex Luthors could be as villanous.
Becoming obsessed with a random woman you've only seen a picture of once is...what happened to Joker when he saw Vicki Vale's photo. This proves that the Christopher Reeves Superman movies exist in the same universe as the Michael Keaton Batman movies.
This made me realize that writers back then thought of superhero movies as looney tunes and they didn't have to make any sense. In that way, it's quite obvious how modern superhero flops are approached in much of the same "whatever, doesn't matter" kind a way. The writers that approach their films with a more sincere and serious effort seem to succeed more.
Yes. Famously when Burton did his Batman film, he had so much trouble getting Jack Nicholson to play Joker. In the end they had to pretend that they were casting Robin Williams, in order to make Jack take it. Jack's problem was that he thought that superhero movie would be a career killer because they were so brainless, but he chose differently & the rest is history.
Another amazing Pitch Meeting. And Cryer is an amazing Luthor, in many ways surpassing Gene Hackman's performance. Which is tough to do. While surpassing Kevin Spacey's performance is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Superman's hair is so awesome, you can collect it with a brush and pan (after the pruning haircut) and put the bits in the end of an old stocking. It then makes a perfect pot scourer when doing the dishes.
Thank you for reminding this script sounds like it was written by an 8 year old that failed science and has only vaguely heard about Superman and Lex Luthor from other kids in his class
4:44 I thought you were going to say, "Pretty in Pink is shooting on the set next door. Just get Duckey; we won't even have to change his hair or costume."
Superman 3 and 4 aren't beloved. Only the first two are. For some idea as to why, look at the scenes in the first movie where we first see Superman being Superman. Saving Lois from the helicopter. Catching thieves. Saving a little girl's CAT from a friggin' TREE. This all establishes him as a fundamentally good-hearted person, who cares about ordinary people and their problems, large and small. A hero. Like Captain America. You *believe* that people can always feel safe with him around. In the three Zack Snyder movies featuring Superman, we basically never see this kindly, protective Superman. Instead we see a terrifying alien, a walking nuclear bomb. When do we ever see him helping normal people? Once, as a kid, and we're told that's a BAD thing. "Man of Steel" isn't a superhero movie; it's an alien invasion / civil war movie, where the bad aliens fight the good alien, and Earth is collateral damage. I felt *bludgeoned* at the end of that film. In "Batman v Superman", we see an entire courtroom of people burned alive while he's just sitting there looking vaguely sad. And in "Justice League", we see a re-alived Superman nearly kill the Justice League before Lois calms him down, and we learn that in the future, her death - a SINGLE human death - will cause him to snap and become a dictatorial monster. Again and again, the message Snyder seems determined to send the audience is how *fearsome* Superman is. Not someone you'd want to hold a cat, or a baby. That's not how you build a Superman mythos. Sure, there's a time and place for "dark" storylines, but you don't LEAD with that. You have to establish who he IS first. I don't blame Cavill for any of this, by the way; he's a fine actor, and I also appreciate his statements that he was striving for a realistic portrayal of the isolation and contemplative nature an alien outsider might experience living among humans. In a better writer's hands, maybe that could work; but Snyder is not a good writer. He's a sublime visual artist, but not so great at writing with heart or relatability. Fundamentally, he just doesn't get the *vibe* that a Superman film should have.
@hyloguy6847 wait a minute, didn't we see superman save a bunch of people in both films? As well as watch jor el give a whole speech about hope and being good in a bleak universe?
Mark Pillow deserved an Oscar for his outstanding portrayal of Nuclear Man. Biggest Academy Awards snub of all time ... until they ignored Hoop Dreams a few years later.
@supeslegacy sequels rushed to release are never going to get the love they deserve, despite the talents on display by luminary thespians like Ice-T. Beat Street was the far superior film, though.
Lois is basically Clark's incognito tab
😂😂😂
Earth is just Superman's save file
Nice
And yet not the weirdest power he has in this movie.
And yet Google is being sued for Incognito not being so incognito 😂
Ah yes, Superman's famed Great Wall of China Rebuilding Vision Power, one of my favorite powers of his. A classic in every sense.
Yeah, but overused in the comics. How many time can you rebuild the Great Wall of China before you realize that the Mongols aren't going to invade?
@@TheSilverpuppeteerrebuilding the Great Wall of China multiple times is TIGHT!
I got goosebumps when he used it to stop Doomsday's real estate scheme
What if I told you he also has a power that lets him shoot a tiny Superman out of his hand. This is real
There was a time period where comic book Superman could just make up powers on the fly, like shape-shifting
Interesting trivia fact: The comic adaptation of Superman IV changed the Great Wall of China repair vision to him just fixing it at super-speed, probably because the comic book people knew how silly it was.
Apparently that was supposed to be in the film too, until they severely cut the budget.
That's fantastic.
When I watched the video I missed that he repaired it with his vision. Thank you for pointing that out and making the scene even more funny. I don't know how I missed this movie though, I watched all the earlier movies on TV as a kid.
I love all the weird powers Superman gets in the movies. Like throwing his crest at one of the Kryptonians, or duplicating himself, or shooting beams from his hands. Craziness.
They made a comic of the thing we just watched!? Wow
Ryan is now the new master of suspense. That 4th "wow" had us all on the edge of our seats.
Speak for yourself! You do not know ALL of us.Also,it's spelt maSter.With an S
I paid for the whole seat but I only used the edge.
5:06 Man, that reminds me of the thing I just watched. It was a simpler time.
Things were easier back then...
Not for me. Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be...
Yes,yes,though I do feel quite old now.🙂↕️
Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to rebuild great walls with a single glance.
Superman stands for truth, justice and the keeping Mongolians out of ancient China way.
Donald Trump's three genie wishes
@@cebbi1313 What the Hell has he got to do with truth and justice.
@@MadHax-wt5tlhey shut up
"Being able to rebuild great walls with a single glance is TIGHT!!!"
I love the new "ooOOOh" "ooOOOh" catchphrase. This is the only way I will be commenting on any romantic relationship from now on.
I love that it's the "80s sitcom characters just kissed, studio audience reaction ooOOHh" but there's only one person doing it.
I love it so much
Saying "ooOOOh" is tight!
UUUW!
EWWWWWWWWWWeww >w
I live for the space between Ryan's third and forth "wow"
+1
I want to live there too. There’s plenty of space
It's so quiet and calm, and you get to hear the subtle background noise...until he breaks the tension with another, "WOW!"
@@Visethelegend
you're a genius 😂
wowowow...wow
I’m glad they were so specific about Nuclear Man’s powers, or he would be Unclear Man.
Fun facts:
Reeve is the one who pushed for the film's strong anti-nuclear message.
The budget got ripped out from under the production, to the point that Jon Cryer called the film "unfinished".
Jon Cryer took the role of Lex in Supergirl to make up for this movie... and based on the reactions, he more or less nailed playing Lex.
Cryer was surprisingly a very good Lex, in my opinion at least. I also respect the fact that he basically just took the role because he wanted to play the part, and not for the money, because the guy's set for life after *Two and a Half Men.*
"and based on the reactions, he more or less nailed playing Lex."
he did not.
By the time Cryer came onto Supergirl, he was the best part of the show
@@benjaminguzman3428 That doesn't mean he was good, though.
@@benjaminguzman3428 You're right.
I just love the fact that when they cut that strand of Superman’s hair in the museum, the display case’s bottom is supposed to fall out because a 1000 lb weight is coming down on it. But as you can see, the bottom fell out early. And they just left that shot in. 😂
This movie was the epitome of "meh, good enough"
I didn’t notice it the first time I watched it so I went back in the video thinking it falls a few frames before but no it’s like 30 seconds. Guess they ran out of time to do another take or maybe they couldn’t repair it
What was the top of the case made of that it could support 1000 pounds?
What was the rest of the bottom made out of that it didn't collapse when the 1000 pounds fell on it?
@@pvanukoff Ed Wood levels of "CUT, PRINT !"
The Cannon philosophy was "We don't have the time or budget for second takes."
This movie will be special to me because my mum and I watched it together. I bought the Superman Movie Collection and she just happened to be in the room when I put it on. We had the time of our lives, laughing all the way from beginning to end because of how awful it was.
Watching films with your mother is tight ❤
That wasn't your mother.
I can confirm - sadly, that wasn't your mother.
Well that's one thing this movie did right, making you two laugh :)
Your mom is tight!
By that I mean you both have a tight bond that is very special.
As your actual mother, that wasn't me.
I just love how Christopher Reeve looks so disinterested in the rebuilding the Great Wall scene. Like, "I can't believe I agreed to do a fourth one. That check better clear..."
I sat on a toilet and said the same thing while wiping my rear .
The scene was supposed to show Superman rebuilding the wall by hand, but they ran out of money for special effects. So those shots of Superman using his "rebuild the great wall" vision were originally just shots of him looking at stuff.
@ThreadBomb Also, the effects studio had 1 month to do 3 months' worth of VFX
Yeah they didn't have time to do what they wanted for the scene; also Reeve only agreed to come back because they gave him a lot of creative control; the getting rid of nukes thing was actually his idea.
@@osirisatot19 i guess yet another example that being a great actor doesnt by default make you a great writer, director, spokesperson, or anything else really, this is something hollywood really needs to learn
"Becoming obsessed with a random woman you've only seen a picture of once is TIGHT!" Michael Scott felt that.
So did Jack Nicholson's Joker.
In the longer version there was a original version of Nuclear Man that didn't turn out so good. He saw Lacy on the street and was attracted to her so when the final version sees her he remembers.
RIP Chair Catalog Lady
@@donfarang Thank you for getting this! 😆
So did Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time
I remember seeing this film in cinemas when I was a wee youngster, and even then I thought. "Yeah this series has worn itself out."
It wasn't tight anymore.
It's always kind of stunning to realize all the things you never questioned because you watched the movie when you were 5.
Very true. I happened to watch an old episode of ninja turtles as an adult and I was horrified by how bad it was. It's best to leave things alone and let nostalgia do its thing
@@limiv5272 Same for Super Friends, sadly.
Speak for yourself. At 8 years old, the great wall of China thing made no sense to me either. Also, why didn't he bury the elevator under ground on the moon?
@@joelavrunin347 I bet you weren't invited to many birthday parties...
almost as if it was...intentional......
....
...
...naaaaaah. couldn't be.
I saw it in the cinema back in the day. Still haven't recovered from the experience
😂😂😂😂
I'm glad I opted out after the second movie.
I’m sorry for your loss (of time and sanity) 😂
@@stargirl7646 - Thank you. Means a lot 😅😂
I honestly forgot everything about this movie, including the villain, except for Superman getting rid of the nukes.
4:22
"No no no it doesn't have any effect on any laundry detergent
"What?"
Lmao my favourite joke 😂
I busted up so hard hearing that joke lmao
I said "What" ?
Same
I don't get the reference. What is it?
@@EdgarRoock Tide laundry detergent
I LOVE you doing classic films from the 80's and 90's...
I love your mom!
Superman IV isn't exactly a classic though.
That laundry detergent joke may be the best joke in a while lol loved that
This movie is just a 90 minute presentation for why Cannon Pictures deserved to go bankrupt.
The only thing that kept them in business in the first place was a contract with Chuck Norris.
They started making bigger budget movies instead of staying with smaller budget ones; that was the problem. There's a great doc on Cannon called "Electric Boogaloo", I think.
Cannon had a lot of great ideas, but god-awful execution.
I loved this movie as a kid. Probably haven't seen it since the late 80s early 90s. I imagine it hasn't aged well...
American Ninja is the only thing I thank Cannon for
I still remember watching this on TV when I was home sick from school. Even as a grade school kid I thought it was weird...which is saying something for a kid who loved 80s cartoons
I get it. I can relate. Superman IV was a movie for me to watch if not much else was on back in the day.
Speaking of 80s cartoons, what we REALLY needed was Superman fighting Transformers. Aided by the GI Joe gang and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
@Grasslander I love Transformers, GI Joe and the Turtles.
But Superman would destroy them. I think original 80s Optimus Prime would last the longest based on his sheer plot armor, at best.
What we do need is a CROSSOVER with all those parties. Lex Luthor and Zod hook up with Cobra Commander, Shredder and Megatron? Yes please.
I was the same. Ten years old, a HUGE Superman fan, went into the cinema with huge high hopes, but I came out of the cinema TOTALLY disappointed. My family and I all agreed it just didn't feel like a Superman film at all. And I was the TARGET AUDIENCE.
@@justinb.8542 Throw in the GoBots and Zod (Kryptonian) could fight Zod (the robot dragon thing).
Finally! I requested this movie to get a pitch meeting years ago, and now that request is fulfilled. Getting your request fulfilled is tight!
Wow wow wow wow
Wow
Actually, getting your Pitch Meeting request made is super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Im still waiting on iron eagle
@@ChronicViper oh man recruitment propaganda is just the worst, but i still got sucked in by these jet movies from the mid 80's, its a shame the pinnacle of tech is also the death machines its embedded in lol, the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is the sexiest piece of tech ever built.
@@ChronicViper I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about that.
Haha I love how these pitch meetings always use volcanos as a teaching moment 🤣🤣 RG taught me about pyroclastic flow!! 🤣🤣🤣
3:32 I feel like Ryan’s secretly attacking an entire generation of social media users 😂
😂😂
Its not secretly...
4:07
"So she dies?!"
"No"
"How?"
"By living!"
I choked on my coffee hearing that exchange. 😆
So you died?
Superman: The Movie - "You will believe a man can fly."
Superman IV: The Quest For Piece - "You will believe in a single piece of stock footage in front of an amateurish background."
Piece?
@@recoveringsoul755yeah, souvenir from the Great Wall of China
Ahh yes, the great Superman IV: The Quest for PIECE."
Not to be confused with that other movie: Superman IV: The Quest for PEACE.
Superman IV
"You will believe it's just a film."
"You will not believe how bad it is."
that tides joke was....clean
Cleaning puns are... tight!
I bet you were just sitting around when this joke dawned on you
@@TheRealOne1010 :( 😭
@@shirtpostDon't you mean... TIDE!
@@jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii **risitas wheezing noises**
This was the only movie I've ever walked out of, back in 1987, after the volcano corking scene. It's stunning to finally see just how much worse it actually got! You have provided the closure I never knew i wanted.
The only movie I walked out on was the Batman with George Clooney.
@@dougmassari6977 I would have, but my kids were with me, and they were the perfect age for that movie. I...was not. lol
A Pitch Meeting for Superman IV?!
Man, I freaking LOVE you!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Tight, Tight!
2:21 I love this new running gag lol
It cracks me up everytime
Thanks for the time stamp, now I have to loop it like a DJ😁
3:08 I was anticipating the 'I'm gonna need to to get all the way off my back about it' line instead of his houses burning down bit
Lmfao
2:48 Having Great Wall of China fixing vision is TIGHT!
You know it sir!
Even as a kid I was puzzled by that...its almost as ridiculous as the ceramic shield.
I didn't even know he had that power before watching this movie!
@@theneoreformationist He doesn't that is the one and only time he's used this power.
Every teenage boy fantasized about walking past a women's changing room with a broken wall and RAPIDLY fixing it so no one could see inside. It's the super power we all wanted.
105 Years since the armistice that ended the Great War, Ryan's still jumping on grenades for us all. God bless young man. You watch these things so generations after you don't have to.
I will never get tired of the slide show of the thing I just watched. My favorite outro ever!
Yeah it’s great
Getting kissed and forgetting to do things is TI...
Wait what was I doing again?
😏
Forgetting what you were doing while doing it is TI...hmmm.. why do my lips taste like Clark Kent?🤔
@@joshhubbard-yg1tv
hol up how do you know what he tastes like?? 😧
I don't know but I think you should get yourself checked out pretty pronto-ish
2:21
If this were just one person's idea of a good movie, you would just think it's crazy. The fact that a studio approved it, and hundred's of people worked on the movie is even crazier!
A conversation held hundreds of times:
"Can we change this small part here to make it a bit better?"
"No."
I heard some of them died of terminal eye-roll.
In practice, the hundreds of people who work on a movie really have NO IDEA how the final movie is going to turn out. I mean, every movie looks dumb when it's being filmed, and few people know what the story is. Often, it's not until a film is edited and scored that you can really see whether it works or not. Though the clues were there that this movie was going to suck, like filming the "Metropolis" scenes in a small English town that has no skyscrapers.
Mass-delusion effect. Crowd-blindness. Paycheck-fever.
4:30 so the radioactive guy created from superman's DNA that was born close to the Sun from the radiation of the nukes thrown into the Sun dies by being thrown into a power plant?
Sounds reasonable to me
Cheaper to send him through a Stargate to a planet without a DHD so he becomes somebody else's problem.
@@agalah408 Tight.
Hey shut up
Yes.
The slide shows of what we just watched are so funny! I love the not flattering faces that you put in there like when you pause a movie at the wrong moment and someone looks super weird! It’s super funny! Makes me stick around on the video for that much longer.
This was worth the wait, been dealing with an injury and feeling bad and this cheered me up, so thank you!
Nice. Can't wait for Supergirl 1984.
@@davidbosco652 Well, Helen Slater in the Supergirl outfit always makes it worth it. 😊 It was made by the Salkinds, so the budget was decent enough for some proper flying scenes. But a lot makes no sense at all. It includes Marc McClure, repeating his role as Jimmy Olsen, seemingly for no reason other than to stress that this *does* take place in the same universe as the Christopher Reeve films, but there seems to be no resemblance at all to the Krypton of those movies.
4:55 I'm not sure I can enjoy a slideshow of what I just watched if I'm still reeling from what I just watched. This was a movie? What?! Why? Who? and most importantly, How have my enemies hidden this gem from me?!
If you get the boxed set it's in there.
I can answer many things: This was Reeves' last Superman film, and it's so crap to the others (even III) because the series had been taken over by another studio (The Cannon Group) that was needing money bad...so they somehow thought the best way to make more would be to scrimp on a Superman movie. Its budget was too small, only 17 million, compared to Superman III's 39 million and around 55 mill for I and II. I wonder if they were going for the kiddie market, since I was a child then and nuclear war certainly a subject much discussed in school then. But it looked bad even for the kids, and none of my classmates wanted to see it. As for your enemies, I don't know, maybe they were saving up?
YES! the quadrilogy is complete!
Up next: Man of Steel...unless he already did that and I just forgot
quintilogy, quadrilogy was a made up term to sell the alien movies dvd box set
We still need Supergirl (1984).
@ it’s only a quintilogy if there’s 5 of them
@@dskdev False. The word's been in use since (at least) 1852.
Never seen the movie but now I have, thank you Ryan for saving me so much time I can now afford to watch sponsored segments 🎉
I've only seen this film once, when it was first released at the cinema. I'm glad to say I have barely any recollection of what happens. It's bad enough knowing that Milton Keynes was used as a location for Metropolis.
Don't forget Supergirl (1984) next. It's canon!
"In order to pitch this movie, I'll need to be 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Pitch Meeting'!"
Ahh thats why they call it that
Referencing Family Guy is TIGHT!!!
Doing a pitch meeting for what is considered to be one of the worst superhero movies of all time starring the respected and revered legends Faye Dunaway and Peter 'O' Toole is TIGHT! 🦸🏾♀️
Supergirl is bad, but it's not Superman IV bad.
Supergirl is difficult to get right.
I have been waiting for this day
This is why I think his name always should have been Great-Wall-of-China-Rebuilding-Man
Aw, I was more in the park for "Uses-A-Rock-To-Plug-A-Volcano-Top-Man".
Scratched by another guy with the nails of a bag lady Man
Gwocrman?
I vaguely remember watching this movie as a kid.
I just finished watching Superman II (the Donnor cut) and was reminiscing about the time I got a copy of Superman IV...and then this video pups up.
Jesus its been so long that I saw this movie I never even realised Jon Cryer was Lex' nephew
He was a pretty good Lex in Supergirl too
At least he redeemed himself as Lex Luthor in Supergirl. Pete Davidson looks a lot like Jon.
@@sandrosliske wasn't he also Lex Luthor in one of the DC series? Either Smallville or Flash?
Who
Watching a pitch meeting one minute after being uploaded is TIGHT
Jon Cryer played an AMAZING Lex Luthor 4:50
Better than Jesse Eisenberg's version
Yeah, I was skeptical of Allen from two and a half men, but he was quite good as Lex
He's still the Luthor that most resembles the classic comics'.
That was literally the best use of the crystal that makes him feel better that could ever be❤
Ye, ye, yeah!!!!
Who knew that movies about an alien that's allergic to a certain rock could be so crazy
The problem isn't that isn't crazy. The problem is that it's brainless. A superhero film should have some level of craziness to it.
First time ever that this film has ever been entertaining or interesting!
"And that of course, creates life"
Im screaming
to be fair, jon cryer did a pretty solid job as lex in the arrowverse.
Hahaaahaha. No.
Dude can't act anything other then himself, aka a weasel.. Hence why he did so good in two and half men.
Those Supergirl episodes that retell what happened from Luthor's perspective are quite the tour de force. My favorite Lex Luthor on screen. He was like the classic Luthor from the Comics, Evil-Iron-Man armor and all. I'll never forget when he says "Im going to give myself cancer". I wish all Lex Luthors could be as villanous.
I like how things just happen in this movie. You just gotta roll with it.
How do you not mention this won’t be on TNT every Tuesday for decades
1:44 - Somebody TOTALLY lunched on clearing those 2 big bongs on that table... Amateurs. 😅
Becoming obsessed with a random woman you've only seen a picture of once is...what happened to Joker when he saw Vicki Vale's photo. This proves that the Christopher Reeves Superman movies exist in the same universe as the Michael Keaton Batman movies.
which of course is the same as our universe
Throwing every nuke into the sun is TIGHT
SUPERMAN easy! Barely an inconvenience 😁
All the Worlds Nations: ehh, we’ll just build some more
Bewm, bewm, bewm . . . BEWM!!!
But now the sun is a deadly laser!
@@mrnice4434Not anymore, there's a blanket!
1:06 Almost got close to breaking him!
I used to work with Mark Pillow. He's a really nice guy. 😁
Surprisingly, Jon Cryer was a GREAT Lex Luthor.
I'm just surfing through the comments being so happy I'm not the only one that liked Jon Cryer's Luthor 🥲
Having sudden wall rebuilding powers is TIGHT!
4:08
- Oh, so she dies?
- No.
- How?
- By living.
Meanwhile dead Louis from the Injustice universe: 🤨
This Pitching man, he has a way with words
Yup never got how she could survive in space
That music in the Slideshow of the Thing I Just Watched always puts me in a good mood. 😌🎶
lol this content brings me so much joy. Like deadass, thank you
I never understood how they cut Superman’s indestructible hair with garden pruners
in the animated series it shows Superman cuts his own hair using his laser vision and a mirror
Even as kid I was suspicious too, it held 1000lb but a pair of scissors can cut through it? 80s logic
By doin' it. Didn't you listen?
The writer already explained. It's by doing it
By doing it.
Producer guy: you have my voice
Screenwriter guy: no, you have MY voice
I see what you did there :)
Being this early for a pitch meeting is tight
Yeahyeahyeah
Clicking on UA-cam and seeing a new Pitch Meeting is tight!!!
3:30 - okay now I need a pitch meeting for Somewhere in Time xD
Everything considered, you went super easy on this film.
Almost respecting for what it is.
Barely an inconvience
Starting this 30 seconds after its release is TIGHT
@@Jffeeney3rd Beat me by this much 🤏
YaYaYa
I started this within 5 mins . That's tighttttt too
Super easy! Barely an inconvenience 😁
Oh really??@joshhubbard-yg1tv
I'd like to see you pitch more James Bond movies every now and again.
"by living"
i have never been more dead 😂
From throwing a Superman emblem cellophane to fixing The Great Wall with a "vision".
This made me realize that writers back then thought of superhero movies as looney tunes and they didn't have to make any sense.
In that way, it's quite obvious how modern superhero flops are approached in much of the same "whatever, doesn't matter" kind a way.
The writers that approach their films with a more sincere and serious effort seem to succeed more.
Yes. Famously when Burton did his Batman film, he had so much trouble getting Jack Nicholson to play Joker. In the end they had to pretend that they were casting Robin Williams, in order to make Jack take it. Jack's problem was that he thought that superhero movie would be a career killer because they were so brainless, but he chose differently & the rest is history.
you always bring joy in every video, thank you
"You'll never find her." Forgot about this line! DEAD.🤣
you can tell that the editor remove a lot of scenes in this movies leaving us with such gems.
@@Marveryn Apparently after a negative test screening, the studio's idea to fix things was to cut around 40 minutes of footage.
But the line works!
That voice dub got me I loved it
Had to think of that laundry detergent for longer than I care to admit😂
2:44 wow, I completely forgot about that specific superpower
Don't mind me, I'm just here for the slideshow at the end of the sketch.
Fun Fact: Jon Cryer says that he took the role of Lex Luthor on "Supergirl" to atone for playing Lenny here.
No offense to him. But I did not care for his portrayal of Lex Luthor.
@@MisterUnknown707I thought it was good
@@Giran_0It was okay, I guess. I'm just grateful they didn't decide to have him return as Lex for the Superman & Lois show.
Wow - I never realized the incredible amount of impossibilities and pure opposite of facts are in that movie.
Another amazing Pitch Meeting. And Cryer is an amazing Luthor, in many ways surpassing Gene Hackman's performance. Which is tough to do.
While surpassing Kevin Spacey's performance is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Superman's hair is so awesome, you can collect it with a brush and pan (after the pruning haircut) and put the bits in the end of an old stocking. It then makes a perfect pot scourer when doing the dishes.
Thank you for reminding this script sounds like it was written by an 8 year old that failed science and has only vaguely heard about Superman and Lex Luthor from other kids in his class
4:44 I thought you were going to say, "Pretty in Pink is shooting on the set next door. Just get Duckey; we won't even have to change his hair or costume."
I'm always left bewildered as to how these superrman movies were more beloved than the henry cavil's version
its as if they never watched reeve's superman movies......or maybe they just prefer a woke superman
Superman 3 and 4 aren't beloved. Only the first two are.
For some idea as to why, look at the scenes in the first movie where we first see Superman being Superman. Saving Lois from the helicopter. Catching thieves. Saving a little girl's CAT from a friggin' TREE. This all establishes him as a fundamentally good-hearted person, who cares about ordinary people and their problems, large and small. A hero. Like Captain America. You *believe* that people can always feel safe with him around.
In the three Zack Snyder movies featuring Superman, we basically never see this kindly, protective Superman. Instead we see a terrifying alien, a walking nuclear bomb. When do we ever see him helping normal people? Once, as a kid, and we're told that's a BAD thing. "Man of Steel" isn't a superhero movie; it's an alien invasion / civil war movie, where the bad aliens fight the good alien, and Earth is collateral damage. I felt *bludgeoned* at the end of that film. In "Batman v Superman", we see an entire courtroom of people burned alive while he's just sitting there looking vaguely sad. And in "Justice League", we see a re-alived Superman nearly kill the Justice League before Lois calms him down, and we learn that in the future, her death - a SINGLE human death - will cause him to snap and become a dictatorial monster. Again and again, the message Snyder seems determined to send the audience is how *fearsome* Superman is. Not someone you'd want to hold a cat, or a baby.
That's not how you build a Superman mythos. Sure, there's a time and place for "dark" storylines, but you don't LEAD with that. You have to establish who he IS first. I don't blame Cavill for any of this, by the way; he's a fine actor, and I also appreciate his statements that he was striving for a realistic portrayal of the isolation and contemplative nature an alien outsider might experience living among humans. In a better writer's hands, maybe that could work; but Snyder is not a good writer. He's a sublime visual artist, but not so great at writing with heart or relatability. Fundamentally, he just doesn't get the *vibe* that a Superman film should have.
@hyloguy6847 wait a minute, didn't we see superman save a bunch of people in both films? As well as watch jor el give a whole speech about hope and being good in a bleak universe?
Wonderful video! Thank you very much 💜
Kissing to wipe memory is less damaging than the flashy thingy in Men in Black.
God damn I chose to drink at the wrong time. “by living” 😂
One day I hope for a slideshow of all the slideshows. Until then I guess I'll just keep watching the videos or something.
I absolutely LOVE the credits scene with the recap of the thing we just watched. A fantastic addition to your skits. 😂❤
I need that music as a ringtone
Mark Pillow deserved an Oscar for his outstanding portrayal of Nuclear Man. Biggest Academy Awards snub of all time ... until they ignored Hoop Dreams a few years later.
And don't even get me started on how they completely ignored Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo
@supeslegacy sequels rushed to release are never going to get the love they deserve, despite the talents on display by luminary thespians like Ice-T.
Beat Street was the far superior film, though.
NGL as a kid, this is my favorite movie.