Superman (1978) Was *SUPER* FUN! - First Time Watching - Movie Reaction/Review
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- Fly on over to this reaction to a super fun and heroic filled adventure as Cameron and Isaiah sit down together and watch Superman on Max for the very first time! Christopher Reeve brought so much charisma and quirk to the role and Gene Hackman was such a good Lex! if you agree and enjoyed this reaction, show some support and leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite scene from the movie "Superman"!
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Christopher Reeve will always remain the best superman. No one else will ever compare. RIP
Exactly
He was so good the comic book version changed to be more like him. Pre 78 Superman wasn't as personally developed or consciously idealistic. This made him more than just a matinee hero that punched robbers.
I think you meant Clark. Clark Kent.
Because you're so familiar with George Reeves' work in "The Adventures of Superman?"
Christopher Reeve saved this movie from its many flaws. He plays Clark and superman with such different personalities that he somehow makes us believe that a pair of glasses can actually work as a disguise. Amazing!
The tagline for this movie was "You Will Believe a Man Can Fly." It's been over 40 years since its release, and thanks in large part to the outstanding performance of Christopher Reeve, I still believe.
Flying is easy, just miss the ground while falling.
@@Muck006 Thank you, Douglas.
Prior to this movie, I grew up with reruns of the Adventures of Superman from the 50s, so seeing realistic flying was very cool as a ten-year-old.
Same but I was 16.
The parents of little Lois on the train were Noel Neil, the original Lois Lane and Kirk Alyan, the very first live action Superman.
RIP, Christopher Reeve. Superman
RIP, Richard Donner. Director
RIP, Margot Kidder. Lois Lane
RIP, Marlon Brando. Jor-El
RIP, Ned Beatty. Otis Berg
RIP, Susannah York. Lara El
RIP Glenn Ford. Jonathan Kent
RIP, Phyllis Thaxter. Martha Kent.
RIP, Jackie Cooper, Perry White.
RIP, Tom Manckiwiez, Screenwriter.
RIP, Mario Puzo, Screenwriter.
RIP, Geoffrey Unsworth, Cinematographer
RIP, John Barry, Production Design.
They all made us believe a man can fly.
Christopher Reeve died way to early. The horse riding accident was so tragic...
You Forgot Jackie Cooper as Perry White!
@@Embur12exactly
An impressive - and rather depressing - roster you've compiled.
And Gene Hackman? God bless him, he's _still_ with us at the great age of 93 (as of last October, I believe).
ALTHOUGH - personally, I shall always wonder why they weren't able to secure the services of Telly Savalas as Lex Luthor (the man had an innately menacing aura that could have made Hackman's interpretation look like a mere snake-oil-peddling sleazeball - _and_ he was already very popular as TV's cop *Kojak,* who just happened also to be, like Luthor, a chrome-dome). 😊
@@goldenager59 got to meet Gene when I was 6 in seattle when hje waas filming a movie in early 80's! All I knew gene from was Superman..so when i saw him..i kept saying omg..its lex luthor. Gene eventually turned around and came over..smiled and said.."hey kid..shh..dont want the big guy
"Superman" finding me..shhh"...he Signed a piece of paper for me..
My favorite bit has to be when he turns into Superman when Lois is in another room, and then when she comes back he immediately turns back into Clark. What great acting!
Excellent acting. The man was brilliant
Clark Kent literally becomes Superman at that moment,with not a special effect in sight ...
20:30 "He's so nice." And that's what makes him Superman. Not his powers, but his character. He's just an all-around sweetheart.
Something I never thought about as a kid but notice now about that scene, is that he is sending half of the salary he gets from a top top newspaper of a Major city to his mother who lives in a small country town. With the cost of living being so much lower, she now gets to live her retirement years in luxury.
@@donaldseale2700 He also has the ability to squeeze a huge chunk of coal to the point that it would transform into a diamond! He could also precisely cut it into multiple diamonds with his strength, supervision, and heat vision. That's a handy backup to help Ma out if necessary.
@@donaldseale2700She could. But the Kents almost always lived modest lives. They'd likely give a lot of it to charity.
@@donaldseale2700 Spider-Man doesnt even get paid enough to support himself in the city ... let alone support Aunt May to not lose the house.
@@Muck006 That's because he's a freelancer getting paid by one of the cheapest people alive.
Superman II is my favorite of the Superman Movies with Christopher Reeve.
Both cuts? The Donner cut was odd for sure, after growing up with the theatrical release.
@@jeremiahrose4681 I’m pretty sure it is the theatrical cut ? But not even sure about that. Lol. It was always on TV. We didn’t own it in vhs…damn I’m old.
Wrath of Khan changed the "Vengeance" arc for ALL films!!
@@JayStar-yj9pu Kneel before Khan?
@@mikejankowski6321 personally, I'm not that kinda fanboy! 😱🤣
20:03 Christopher Reeves will always be Superman to me ❤
He’ll always be Christopher Reeve. Not Reeves.
He really did nail it. I guess we should give ample credit to casting too ;)
@@richardvinsen2385 Always love the hall monitors. 😊
@@cog4life I always love people who say someone is their favorite actor then misspell their name.
@@richardvinsen2385 well, see I knew that already, even before you said that. It’s ok. Some folks can’t resist. ✌🏼
Imagine seeing this in a movie theater at age six. I was in heaven. The helicopter rescue scene is still hands down my favorite superhero movie scene. The build-up, the music, the "S" reveal, then Superman appears out of the revolving door.... just perfect!... also, the tv series Smallville had an alternate universe episode where Clark was found by the Luthor family...
I was the same age when I saw it in the theatre's. It was an awesome experience for us kids who loved superheroes and comic books. Smallville was an excellent show.
This Luthor is my favourite Luthor, ruthless but full of zingers, and so annoyed with his minions
Yep, Gene Hackman killed it as Lex Luthor my favorite villain in all the Superman movies.
His intelligence, brutal evil and zinger one liners are something else.
100% Something i caiught this time around is the dead psychopathic quiet look in his eyes when Lex corrects Superman: "Planning the deaths of innocent lives? No. CAUSING the deaths of innocent lives."
No smile. No jokes. Dead eyes. He said that line as if he was saying "Add french fries not onions to my order."
Same thing when he had to tell Mrs Tushbaucher that her mother has to die by just "pointing to his watch and shaking his head 'no'"
@@slchance8839 that watch look is so… detached. Not even a sorry.
Christopher Reeve was cast after a two-year search. He was an accomplished stage actor who did NOT grow up reading comic books and was, therefore, able to portray the character with objectively.
Yep and honestly before him the comic book version of Superman wasn't that great. All the best books have been influenced by his portrayal.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I saw it as a kid when it first came out.
When you only had 4 tv channels and VCR's cost a fortune, you had the Christmas movies. You couldn't see blockbuster films otherwise. As a kid, Superman, Star Wars and Indiana Jones were Crimbo afternoon films!
Don't forget Jaws and Star Trek
Remember that Clark is an alien pretending to be Clark. Kill Bill 2 has a great explanation. Be glad that it was the Kents that found him as a child.
Bill's take on Superman is the take of a villain. Superman was raised by the Kents. While he was born Kal-el, and his power comes naturally to him, his true identity is Clark. He doesn't put on the act because he looks down on humanity. He does it to fade into the background. It frees him to be the real Clark while he dons the suit. Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same. The mild-mannered reporter is his costume.
At the time this movie was made, the more modern idea of "Clark is the person, Superman is a public persona he adopts" was about twenty years away. In terms of interpretations of the character, this movie is basically the gold standard, and the fact that it presents Clark as an act that Superman puts on is, IMO, its main weakness.
No he isn't he is Clark Kent
There are two Clark Kents
The Persona Clark Kent
To hide Superman
And the Clark Kent
His friends and family knows
Just like
Batman
Brucie Wayne
Bruce Wayne
This movie actually created the idea that the crystal from Krypton created the Fortress, and then that idea was retconned back into the comics. Before this movie, in the comics, the Fortress was just this "man cave" Superman built for himself in the Arctic; it had no direct connection to Krypton. This movie created the connection.
Ego drives a super villain to reveal his plan
True, but revealing his plan was also how Luthor tricked Superman into opening the lead box with the kryptonite.
Particularly Bond villains. I especially liked Goldfinger's presentation.
@@mikejankowski6321 There was an old SNL sketch where James Bond arrives in the villain's lair too early. The villain is annoyed and frustrated at Bond--and can't threaten him properly--because the shark tank is still empty and sharkless (they were due to arrive next week!) The alligator pit is likewise waiting for the alligator delivery, while the deadly super laser is still being assembled, and the minions are still wearing their street clothes because their 100 jumpsuits haven't been delivered yet and half of them are away being trained in a weeklong minion-training seminar...
Was going to say this. The Ego of it thinking that their plan is so full proof it can't be stopped so why not tell you the diabolical plan
Only Christopher Reeve could say the lines Superman says and not sound like a total dork. He will always be Superman to me.
The idea that the character would be utterly sincere without some sardonic undertone to it was really revolutionary in how it was approached. It was the 1970s - cynicism was the order of the day.
Aww. You skipped over one of the best pieces of acting on film when Christopher Reeve flips back and forth between Clark and Superman in Lois' apartment. He's the only one to make it believable that no one realizes they're the same person.
Just a shift in posture, vocal tone and glasses and he's 2 different people.
I saw it when it came out and I was 16. Back then it was amazing to us. We had never seen a believable flying man before. It was also supposed to pretty much be a live action comic book.
I was really hoping, out of all the bits, that they'd include that moment and their reaction to it. It's singular and perfect.
Yes, I was upset when they didn't show that scene as well, AND that they didn't include the moment when Lois actually GAVE him his name when she said "What a super man" and then she thought and said "SUPERMAN" and that is how he came to be known as "Superman" He didn't really have a name for what he had become, and that is why he signed the note "A friend."
I was born 4 years after the release of this movie but from the moment I first saw this movie I have looked up to Superman's character and moral code my entire life. This is a great movie and one I wish I could forget just so I could experience for the first time again. My wife and I regularly go to Metropolis, IL for the Superman celebration, we have some videos on our channel of the celebration.
I felt the same way after watching Pay It Forward 🥰☺️♥️
Here’s a fun fact: in the scene where young Clark is racing the train,the lady they cut to sitting next to the little girl is actress Noel Neill who was the first live action Lois Lane in the 1940s Superman movie serials. In 1953 she again played Lois this time on the Adventures of Superman television series with George Reeves as Superman. I always loved that cameo in the movie.
And the man who played young Lois' father was Kirk Alyn, who played Superman in the 1948 movie serials.
I met both at The Superman Convention in Cleveland in 1986 I shook Noel Neill's hand she's a very nice lady I almost shook Kirk Alyn's hand and get an autograph but I had to leave also I wanted to buy the big Valerie Perrine poster as Miss Teschmacher in that green swimsuit.
At age eight, in 1978 or ‘79, that opening title sequence was ASTONISHING. I was absolutely hype after that, and the movie delivered.
You are a 1970 man ?
Me too I was born in 1970.
Join the club !
When Clark jumps out the window he checks to make sure everyone in the room has their backs to him looking at the TV. FYI: Superman keeps his Clark Kent clothes in secret pouch in his cape.
People always get the scene of him reversing time wrong, he doesn’t spin the earth the other way he literally goes so fast he breaks time and space and reverses time then slows down to move forward again to a certain time. It just appears as though the earth is moving backwards to us.
I’ve got you! Who’s got you??😂😅the most memorable line!
All that's green is not kryptonite.
Good news for Scotty!
The Earth wasn't going backwards.
Time was.
Yes! Earth spinning backwards was just how it looked from Superman's point of view as he went back.
I like to imagine that going back in time allowed him to stop both missiles. But that doesn't explain why Jimmy complained about being left behind at the dam.
I always thought this is similar to how the Crew of the Enterprise went back in time in _Star Trek IV_ by doing a slingshot around the Sun at high warp
He reversed time back far enough to fix everything and then went to
Lois, that’s all. I saw this film in the theater when I was 3 and when he was thrown into the pool with the kryptonite, I guess I started crying and couldn’t stop and didn’t until I saw him fly out of the water and break through the roof. YOU GUYS MADE MY DAY BY WATCHING THIS, thank you so much! I pretended I was Superman from 3 years old to about 5th grade. Anyway, good night guys and thanks again!
No, that football Clark kicked isn't coming back down. It likely left Earth and was floating around in space somewhere.
These guys have no idea about back when all we had for our worldly connection was newspapers, magazines and a few news stations.
I read the TV guide, funny papers and Reader's Digest by age 11
37:27 Ned Beatty is such a dufus in this movie😂 Gene Hackman is a great Lex
Yes, he was.
And John Williams captured him in music so beautifully.
Lex was so casually evil it was delicious. Hackman was GREAT!
@@mikejankowski6321 my two favorites who played Lex, Hackman and Rosenbaum
I fell in love with Christopher Reeve when I first watched this movie as a young girl! He'll forever be my favorite Superman! ❤❤❤❤❤
ANOTHER GREAT MUSIC SCORE BY JOHN WILLAMS
The reason this film works so well is basically because it's a pure comic book. No message, no agenda, just pure adventure and fun. Don't overthink it. Just enjoy the ride.
No message or agenda? You mean besides toppling the bloodthirsty real estate tycoon for causing intentional damage to give him a greater value to his assets? Something we are actively dealing with today with private equity firms? You would literally have to actively not pay attention to the plot to miss this kind of shit lol
Maybe it's why the fourth Superman really went to crap.Besides the fact that the budget was chopped.. The agenda even had superman addressing the united nations.
In the sequence where Superman and Lois are flying, that "Can you read my mind?" part, you nay notice, is a poem... but it's technically also the lyrics to the love theme music playing.
There was actually a record made back then by Maureen McGovern, "Can You Read My Mind" officially setting the lyrics to the tune.
Got to love this franchise because it was just the right amount of tongue in cheek mixed with seriousness going on:)
When he said he was going north, he wasn't kidding.
"North where?" All the way. 😂
As a kid this was absolutely mind blowing to watch. Mesmerizing.
The opening credits of this film were the first time in decades that Siegel and Shuster, the actual creators of Superman, got written credit for creating him. DC Comics screwed them out of their rights and it took years of legal battles, and the help of comic book icon Neil Adams, to finally get their names back on Superman properties.
This is the best version. The longer versions have scenes that are not only superfluous but downright silly.
I disagree
I love the 3hour version
This also came out at the end of the 70s which was a very cynical time. People were really ready for an unashamedly heroic movie.
Being 13 years old was a huge plus seeing this movie at the theater when it came out. Being a big fan of Superman growing up was another big plus. As a teenager, I didn't overthink those illogical issues it brought to it. The special effects were so good for its times, and Christopher Reeves made such a believable Clark Kent, and Superman that the things that didnt really make sense was never an issue. Genes Hackman is still one of my all time favorite actors. My friends, and I saw this multiple times at the theater. What a great year for movies. Grease, Animal House, Midnight Express, Every which way but Loose with Clint Eastwood. Holloween. Close Encounters of the third kind was still playing, as well as Star Wars. Great reaction. Still my favorite Superman movie to this day. Watch 1976 King Kong if you haven't yet. Another great movie.
Christopher Reeves will always be the Best Superman!!!!!
Please please follow this up with the second one!!! It’s so good with him and Zod and other two. I think you will enjoy it A Lot.
Christopher Reeve saved this movie from its many flaws. He plays Clark and superman with such different personalities that he somehow makes us believe that a pair of glasses can actually work as a disguise. Amazing!
The one thing this movie did was end all jokes about how flimsy Clark's diguise was. The scene in Lois's apartment when Clark takes his glasses off and straightens up and suddenly its Superman in a business suit was groundbreaking during its time. As Clark, he slouched, changed his voice to be higher, stuttered... the entire performance proved that such a disguise could work.
12:34 In case you didn't catch it, this is Christopher Reeve's voice. He dubbed Jeff East's lines.
The Kents find Kal-El and his spaceship. "They're so calm!" Lois is in a life-threatening helicopter accident and panics: "You gotta calm down."
"I'm going north…" "Oh! He went to Antarctica!"
You guys are amazing.
clearly never had geography in school since they don't know that Antarctica is SOUTH.
back in 1978 it was considered pretty normal for parents to slap their kids for lying and nobody batted an eye
Oh yes. It was done in front of everyone too.
@@OverandOutChief1 yep. i was born in 74 so i know totally. in fact it was normal even up til the early90s for th emost part
Yeah, but for something like this... that would have been excessive even for the time. Sounds like the kid has a wild imagination, not really lying.
@@silikon2 maybe, but her mother though she was lying and disciplining her. nobody ever thought it was exexssive. they amplified the slap so you could hear it
Never had a face slap but DID have a few "swats on the butt", for misbehaving or being disrespectful.
It was a weird choice to make the crystal that Jor-El sends green -- since we all recognize green as the 'bad' kind of Kryptonite (it weakens or weakens to the point of death in different stories). But technically Krypton(ite) is a kind of meteorite that was once a part of planet krypton and traveled to earth.
So the crystal that Jor-El sends is technically just an 'ordinary' (ie incredibly advanced) Kryptonian Crystal, where as once the planet explodes, all of that debris became deadly Kryptonite due to radiation from the planets destruction or something like that.
Great reaction guys to this superhero classic...
There are actually 3 versions of Supeman: The Movie (1978)...
*The theatrical version at 143 minutes (this was the version that most audiences worldwide have seen. It is always very good & entertaining to watch even to this day).
*The Director's Cut Special Edition at 151 minutes (in 2001 director Richard Donner added 8 minutes back into the film that were cut from the theatrical version - due to the rushed nature of the '78 version, just to get the movie into the theaters for the release deadline at that time, there were some scenes that he always wanted to keep in the movie but were removed just to get the movie done and out. This cut is director Richard Donner's preferred definitive version of his Superman movie).
*(The Assembly Cut)/1982 ABC TV Salkind Cut at 188 minuets. (This is the version with every deleted scene and extened sequences all added back in and it ran for 2 consecutive nights on ABC).
I have all 3 version on Blu-Ray in my home movie collection. The ABC version is too long in my opinion. (it made sense for the network to air the longer version at the time - for the commerical/ad revenue. The longer a movie is, the more commercials they can show & make money off of) and a lot of scenes just weren't necessary for the film and do tend to drag on & on (and seeing them in full made sense why they were cut and/or trimmed in the first place). It is interesting to watch (at least once) to see what was removed and/or changed but other than that, the Theatrical & Richard Donner's Director Cut are the better versions of Superman, again in my opinion....However, I personally prefer Richard Donner's Director's Cut slightly over the Theatrical Cut (those extra 8 minutes really enhance the film even more for me. That is the version I often watch at home).
I hope you plan to do Supeman II (1981) next....Remember the 3 Kryptonians (General Zod, Ursa & Non) at the beginning of Supeman: The Movie (1978). They showed you them for a reason. *wink* ;-)
John Williams did the score and Superman opening is one of his best.
When this movie came out in 1978, the upbeat message was needed. America was going through a period of runaway inflation, unemployment, and weak, ineffective leaders, so our morale was pretty low. Something like this was needed.
Saw this movie in the theater on its opening night; I was in college. The special effects were just so far beyond what any of us had seen at that time - we were amazed. The theater was packed, the energy and excitement was off the charts and it was just an all-around magical experience.
I saw this three times in the cinema hen it came out, always knew it would be a classic and here we are 46 years later. Still looks really good and Chris Reeve with Margot Kidder, beautiful casting.
I was lucky to 'work' with (for) Margot Kidder at my hometown's summerstock theater, an hour north of NYC. I volunteered there all during high school. She was given a Superman Magazine that had come out with the movie by an adult fan of hers to autograph, and he opened it to the scene of Lois & Clark on the balcony. Margot laughed her ass off and said that she and Chris hated that scene with a passion. It was the first scene shot where Chris was in the Superman costume, and it was the first time he was working on wires. Per Margot, he had a HELL of a time adjusting to filming on the wires, which meant that he simply could NOT take off and land on the balcony right. So they spent some ridiculous amount of time that day trying to get the whole scene done, something like 15 hours of shooting. They were both miserable by the end of it but they went home after wrap at least happy they had the film in the can.
However, and she swore this was true: Christopher Reeves was constantly getting shuffled around by the wire attachments and as a result always had to adjust his tights between takes. No big deal, except the cinematographer noticed that Superman's pickle was A) quite noticeable through the tights (Margot swore he was hung like a horse) and B) because he kept having to adjust his costume between takes, it moved noticeably between cuts from side to side "like the pendulum on a grandfather clock". Flip-flop-flip-flop, take after take on the scenes they had shot.
That was when the costume designer had to remake the tights with special padding to hide Chris's huge... talent. And then they spent another 12 hours the next day filming the scene all over again. Audiences LOVE the balcony scene... she and Chris allegedly both hate the scene and hate watching the scene because it's nothing but frustration and painful memories for them both given how long it took to get everything filmed correctly.
(I was the 'security' on the backstage door. Basically just a 15 year old kid who sat there and told the public they couldn't go in. I was also assigned to run errands and be a gopher/concierge for any of the cast. Ask me again sometime about what it's like to not only work a summer with Bill Murray, but also for Bill to tease me mercilessly and trick me into a Dutch Oven situation after he had mexican for lunch and blew up the bathroom before the night's performance. My eyes are still watering. I was blessed to grow up where and when I did.)
Ironically, Superman has followed me in my career, in a weird way. I worked for an ad agency called TracyLocke in the early 00's as a Graphic Designer. I was part of the team that handled the retouching of Brandon Routh's images for a Pepsi campaign, and one of the things that my team needed to take care of was blurring any VPL from Routh's costume, too. A weird crossover for a later Superman.
And then later much, I ended up working as a consultant for another ad agency which is located in the Daily Planet building on 42nd street in NYC. Instantly recognizable from this film.
This was basically the first proper superhero movie. There were others before it, but this movie set the template for how to turn a comic book into a movie in a credible way and make it a believable blockbuster. That's why it feels such a pure and straightforward adaptation, this was before movies became 'meta' and ironic and needing a dark spin on the material. Batman (1989) was the superhero movie that brought that darker tone to mainstream audiences. This was also pioneering in terms of special effects and production values - the tagline was 'you'll believe a man could fly' and considering this was pre-CGI, they really did make a breakthrough in showing him fly where you couldn't see the wires. Audiences had never seen anything like this. The music of course was also a revelation, a year after composer John Williams had also made a huge contribution to Star Wars. It's worth checking out Superman II (try theatrical version, and if you like it, perhaps also try watching the alternative 'Richard Donner' cut too). Superman III is fun but not quite as good. Superman IV is pretty bad and not worth watching.
36:11 that military officer is the actor who played the military officer on the 1960s TV series sitcom, "I Dream of Jeannie" 🧞
He was also J.R Ewing on Dallas tv show…
This is a gripe, I know, but the only issue I have with this fabulous classic is the decision to make that special crystal green. It introduced so much confusion for me as a kid and still irks me now. Before I saw the movie (when I was 5) I knew kryptonite was green, and I kept thinking that crystal was hurting Clark!
Agreed.
The chest symbol is the equivalent of a coat of arms or a family crest
Humping, basement dwelling cousins wasn’t a line I woke up thinking I needed to hear today. But a classic one for your channel. Thanks guys!
The family on the train were the Lanes, as in Lois Lane was the little girl. The two adult actors were Noel Neill and Kirk Alyn. Noel was Lois Lane in The Adventures of Superman with George Reeves. Kirk was Superman in Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950). The tag line for this movie when it was released in theaters was, "You will believe a man can fly." The scene where he flew off the balcony and then showed up at the door as Clark Kent, was done in real time with no cuts.
I have to admit, you guys are much more fun than a lot of other first time watchers. You're not Riff tracks, but it's entertaining.
This movie set the bar for future superhero films. No full-feature films in the theatre for super heroes had been attempted before this. TV shows and specials, sure. But a full theatrical release? Never done before this. The second movie was written by Mario Puzo before this one, but they decided they needed to tell Superman's origin story first. And so they did. Not until 1989's Batman release would anything ever come close to those first two films in the superhero genre. Coming out not long after Star Wars, it was a crazy time! An awesome time to be a kid going to the movies!
superman got so angry at the death of lois, even physics said ''nope, i aint dealing with that. if he thinks this flying around the planet is gonna affect time in any way, well i am not the one who is gonna tell him no.''
Flying around the earth to reverse time does make a sort of sense. As you approach the speed of light, time for you slows down, so assuming you were able to exceed the speed of light time would then reverse. The earth doesnt start spinning the opposite direction, we just see it that way from Superman's perspective as he flys backwards in time.
This is the best Superman and the best Superman theme. I love how brilliantly awkward Christopher Reeve plays Clark Kent. He lets people slam doors into him. He's actually wearing thick glasses, making it hard to recognize his eyes. And I love his nasaily voice. You can totally see how and why no one in the movie ever suspects Clark to be Superman.
When Reeve is playing Superman, he is totally sincere and honest. You totally believe Reeves when he says that he stands for truth, justice and the American way. He's as cool as a cucumber and totally bada** when he needs to be. There is no reason not to believe and trust in this Superman.
Reeves isn't snapping necks or destroying whole citizens without regard for public safety.
One of the first movies we taped off the TV with our new VHS VCR…
He went into the revolving door but in the extended cut, he runs up to a "phone booth", but at the time, it wasn't more than a phone stand. A callback to the old days. Fun fact: Christopher Reeve didn't want to wear fake muscles and went into an intense workout. So the body you see is all him.
The fact that you guys are so damn wholesome elevates every reaction you do. I watch quite a few reactors but you are genuinely on your own level! Love from the UK x
This movie was as big a game changer as Star Wars. Nobody had ever seen anything like this at the time, and I think it holds up very well for being 46 years old.
I knew you guys would have fun with this! Thank you for watching the theatrical release and not the "director ignoring the film editor's decisions cut."
"That wasn't your underwear" I haven't laughed that hard in a long ass time lmao.
I am one of the lucky many who saw Superman when it originally came out in the movie theaters in 1978. I was 9 years old. I was the right age at the right time to see this movie. It was indeed magical.
Saw it with my then best friend (same age as me). The one thing we shared was our love for the movies. We were both fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we went to the movies together once a week, every week for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s. When we weren't going to the movies, we were watching more movies on his tv at his apartment.
My friend always chose the movie we would go see. I didn't mind. I loved the movie theater going experience in itself.
There was no particular reason my friend chose Superman to see that week. We tried to see every brand new movie that came out as best we could regardless of the genre (my friend loved horror, I preferred comedy) the plot and storyline, who starred in it, or critics reviews. And Superman just happened to be one of the new movies that just came out.
We liked Superman so much, after seeing it for the first time, we stayed in the theater to see it again.
Going to the movies every week with my best friend in the 1970s-1980s is among my most fondest, happiest memories of not only my childhood, but also of my entire life.
"can you imagine if it was a guy, kissing a girl..." Like a guy giving a chest massage and mouth to mouth to an unconscious car crash victim? :)
Or kissing Sleeping Beauty or Snow White?
I remember seeing this at the cinema as a kid. It was the first time I'd ever heard surround-sound. It blew my mind.
God damn, its now my headcanon that Jor-El's warnings of imminent destruction coincided with the last Kryptonian election. And the winning party's slogan was "Don't look up"
Superman repairing the fault, blocking the flood with a rockslide, becoming a railroad track rail, and yes, even reversing time, were in no way scientifically or physically possible. BUT, they were comic book accurate. He defied physics all the time in the comics. Those of us who were familiar with the Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age Superman saw these in the movie and went "Yes!!".😂
This movie is where is idea the S symbol isn't just an S but is the House of El symbol came from. In the comics before this, it was always just an S. Later, much later, someone took the idea that Superman represents hope a little too literally and made the S symbol mean "hope."
This is also the first time that Krypton is depicted as having a crystal-based technology in an ice environment. Later comics adopted this idea from the movie.
The director, Richard Donner, is a huge part of where these ideas came from. He's also why the movie was so successful. I think you'll enjoy watching the behind the scenes for this one. It's truly a remarkable story, and there's even some drama.
'We're all on the same team,' means we ALL have the capacity to do good.
The box where Obi Wan Kenobi stored Aniken’s light saber in Star Wars is the same box where Lex Luthor stored the Kryptonite. Both filmed at the same studio.
Best Luthor ever! (And he refused the bald look)
I was a kid in the 80s and I watched A LOT of movies shown on tv. Many times, I would later watch these same movies on VHS and was always confused as hell when I would NOT see scenes I remember seeing before lol
Don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but the Army Major that suggested "vigorous chest massage and mouth to mouth" at the care accident was Larry Hagman. He played Major Tony Nelson in "I Dream of Jeannie" and he played the infamous J.R. Ewing in the hit nighttime soap opera Dallas. Two things you two should check out.
when Lois is having her "out of body experience" and asking if Superman can read her thoughts........... *Lois's solioquy are the words for movie theme song by Maureen McGovern **_"CAN YOU READ MY MIND"_** ---- BUT THE SONG IS NEVER USED IN THE MOVIE, ONLY THE INSTRUMENTAL VERSION w/ Lois doing the words like reading a poem.*
Pa Kent has to die cause the moral of superman is he can't save everyone and it took kal-el along time to realise that
Reeve and Hackman both made this movie great. Gene Hackman was great in everything he did even when in a supporting role. Some of his other great performances were Bat 21 (which is based on a real story about a Colonel in USAF intelligence that was shot down in Vietnam and his rescue) and I loved how he played Avery Tolar in The Firm, totally personified that character from the book, and many others.
This is the only Superman movie I watch.
"Can you read my mind" is title of a song, by Maureen McGovern, Margot Kidder (Lois) couldn't sing so it changed to a poem. You can find the song on YT.
I saw this when I was 6 years old in 1978 in the theater...and it was as big a revelation to me as Star Wars was the previous year. I also saw that extended version on ABC as a kid. I actually like the extended version. This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Some of the extended scenes that worked, and have been restored in other versions:
-One sequence has a gauntlet that Superman has to deal with to get to Luthor's lair the first time (machine guns, flamethrowers, and extreme cold).
-When Clark is running by the train, a little girl on the train sees him...and it's Lois as a child. Traveling with little Lois on the train are Noel Neill (Lois Lane in the 1950s TV series and a couple of big screen adventures with George Reeves as Superman...no relation to Chris) and Kirk Allyn (who played Superman/Clark in movie serials in the 1940s).
- The Kryptonian Council learns of a power surge in Jor-El's quarters...and send someone to investigate, but the cataclysm happens.
- After Air Force One is rescued, Superman and Jor-El have a chat in the Fortress...actually funny, and touching.
- Also after Air Force One rescue, lots more news reports, and outside a TV shop window, Clark interacts with a guy, played by director Richard Donner.
The Superman movie that you may have seen was Superman Returns (2006) with Brandon Routh as Clark/Superman and Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. There are many scenes with Lex on a huge yacht. It also tries to function as a direct sequel to Superman II. That film was directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men,. Bohemian Rhapsody, The Usual Suspects). I loved it and wanted more, but it didn't do well enough at the box office...so, they did Man of Steel as the next attempt at a Superman film. Although there was an aborted attempt to do a different Superman film that would have been directed by Tim Burton and star Nicholas Cage...and that's a whole other story!
The screenplay went through many versions starting with Mario Puzo, right off of the success of The Godfather. When Richard Donner was brought on to direct, he brought Tom Mankiewicz, who has worked on many pictures and is Hollywood royalty as his father, Joseph was an Oscar-winning writer-director (All About Eve, Guys and Dolls, Cleopatra) and his uncle Herman was also an Oscar-winning screenwriter (Citizen Kane). Tom re-worked the script with Donner with the term "verisimilitude" as the key concept.
The screenplay was actually Superman The Movie and Superman II combined, as both were filmed at the same time, but Donner was never given a set budget or a set schedule. So, he had to stop production before finishing the second film to get the first in the theaters by the holidays in 1978. When the film was a monster success, the Salkinds who produced the films, fired Donner and brought on Richard Lester to take over Superman II, and then he helmed Superman III (which co-starred Richard Pryor, and was more a Richard Pryor comedy with Superman, than a Superman film). There are 2 cuts of Superman II...the theatrical cut and the Donner Cut. The Donner Cut was put together in 2006, using footage that was supposed to be in the second but not used, and where they didn't have footage, they used screen tests. Its kinda wonky, but I prefer the Donner Cut...although both versions are excellent!
See Superman III as well, its a lot of fun, but avoid the trainwreck that is Superman IV:The Quest For Peace (which is more heartbreaking than anything...and a long story why). Superman Returns is also excellent, and probably just suffered from bad-timing more than anything. It had the tone of the first two Superman films in a post-9/11 world...and I think some people had a problem with that.
This movie takes me back. I was a really little kid when it came out. It's definitely silly, but in all the best ways. And the music is iconic. John Williams always crushes it.
Definitely check out Superman II. The cartoon series made in the 90s is also great. Another good Christopher Reeve movie is Deathtrap (1982).
48:40 The only other time I've seen that facial expression on Superman's face and heard him scream like that, he literally tore the Joker's heart out of his chest about two seconds later. That is not a euphemism, he punched him in the chest so hard he broke into his body cavity and put the dude's heart out through another hole in his back. It was fucking brutal.
Saw it opening weekend, 8yrs old. BLEW MY MIND.
The phantom zone has completely different physics so don't worry about it
It wasn't the physics so much as the chemistry they commented on.
"Cousin-humpin' basement dwellers?!" 🤣 I'll have to remember that one!
Early Saturday Night live did a skit where Superman accidentally lands in Nazi Germany. He was called Uber Man.
Lol... I remember that. Doesn't he use his xray vision to identify a Jew?
The sketch was "What If?" They asked, what if Superman grew up in Germany instead of America. Conclusion: Germany would have easily won WW2 with the help of Überman.
I think it was a major mistake during the production of this film to make the Power Crystal Jor-El gives the baby Kal-El green in colour. Everyone confuses it with Kryptonite. The Power Crystal should have been blue, red or yellow. "Kryptonite" is radioactive pieces of the planet as a result of the sun exploding, as Lex later explains in the movie.
The movie poster was just the symbol and the tag line: You WILL believe a man can fly. The movie delivered on that promise.
I have a copy of the assembly cut. It's the version my parents originally recorded on Betamax in 1982. The ABC Sunday/Monday Night At the Movies version (it ran over 2 nights, 2 hours each night, 4 hours total with commercials.
My version has all the original commercials too, so it runs for 4 hours.
In the 90's I transferred it from Betamax to VHS, then in the 2000's from VHS to DVD.
This was the only version of Superman I knew as a kid. When I finally saw the theatrical cut as a teenager, I was like "Why did they cut out so many good parts!!!"
Lex Luthor on a boat and the son of Superman was Superman Returns with Brandon Routh as Superman and Kevin Spacey as Lex, came out in 2006. This is way older, and way better! Christopher Reeve nailed the character both as Superman and Clark Kent.
What A coincidence! I just watched Superman this week to relive old times. Glad you guys had FUN watching the movie. Not the reactions I was expecting but Cool none the less. Now you gotta see part 2.