Saw this movie in the theater on its opening night. Unless you were there, you can't imagine how magical it was to see this on the big screen (back when theaters really were BIG and not divided up into 12 smaller theaters) and when C, G, and I were just three letters of the alphabet. Leading up to opening night, the advertisements were all about "you will believe that a man can fly". The flying scenes were just light years beyond any other special effects (outside of Star Wars which came out the year before). Just a magical experience.
In 75, there was Jaws. In 77, Close Encounters and Star Wars. 78 came Superman. 79 saw Alien, Star Trek the Motion Picture and The Black Hole. Raiders of the Lost Ark in 81. What a great time for film.
The first feature film to use CGI as well as the composition of live-action film with CGI was Vertigo (1958), which used CGI in the opening credits of the film. The first feature film to make use of CGI with live action in the storyline of the film was the 1973 film Westworld - google
same, but I was 5 years old.. the next day we went and bought , under Roos a bed sheets I had everything super man even have pictures of me in them falling asleep
Fun trivia. When Clark is running next to the train, and the little kid (Lois Lane) tries to get her mom's attention, the women playing the mom was the original Lois Lane from the 50's TV series.
Well, aaactually, the first TV Lois was Phyllis Coates. She was replaced by Noel Neill, whom you see here, and who also had played Lois (with a much more 1940s hairdo!) in the Superman movie serials starring Kirk Alyn…who plays the little girl's father in this scene. One of a few sly nods to the real-world Superman history, including Clark being bemused by the open-style phone booth, a gag which is nowadays pretty opaque.
The ad catch-phrase for the film was, 'You'll believe a man can fly.' But the real line should have been, 'You'll believe that Superman can pass himself off as Clark Kent.' Christopher Reeve's dual portrayal was a master class in acting. Facial expressions, body language…perfection.
Finally Got And Watched The 3 Hrs 8 Minutes Tv Version 👍😊 Had Seen Theatrical Version Many Times and The Special Edition Version A Few Times -Quite A Different Movie With All That Extra Footage 😊
Raised The Bar Too But It's About Story Not Always Spectacle! Christopher Reeve and The Other Actors + John Williams Score Make This Film Sore Above All Others 😊
It was such a joy to watch this with you and seeing with through "new eyes". I ... love ... this movie. I remember my father telling me back in the summer of 1978 about a "Superman movie" coming out soon. Even at 11 years old, I recall being cynical enough to say to him that I thought they would mess it all up. Still, in December of that year, Dad took us kids to see it in one of the last remaining single-theater cinemas in town. It had a huge lobby with an incredible and classy chandelier and everything. We snuck in coolers of iced tea and hoagies, and even a cassette recorder as well, to capture the audio from the movie... all my Dad's idea, by the way. We were all AWESTRUCK at the spectacle that was "Superman: The Movie", and it was made extra sweet by my father's childlike wonder and glee at seeing his favorite superhero come to life in such a literally perfect way. I played that tape until the player itself finally stopped working. It's funny to have such an emotional attachment to a film as I do to this one. While it is a fantastic work of art to be sure, in my heart I know that the real reason is the eternal connection to my Dad that it gives me whenever I see it. For this reason above all, "Superman: The Movie", will always hold a special place in my heart that is more than just the love of a great film, far more indeed. It is the connection it gives me to the very first Superman I ever knew and loved, who I was so very blessed to call ... "Dad".
@donaldcordner1936 Those are lovely memories! It's also a great movie to see with your father in that fatherhood was one of the themes of the movie. Superman's two fathers were powerful mentors for him. I suspect, BTW, that you also have a Philadelphia connection with your Dad. Yo! :)
Fun Fact: Chris Reeve was quite thin when he won the role. David Prowse (the bodybuilder who wore the Darth Vader costume in the Star Wars trilogy) bulked him up.
Apparently on the first day Prowse made CR lift until he got to a weight he couldn't manage. Prowse then looked at CR and said "right, that's your starting point"
It has been said many times that this movie is the gold standard for all over superhero films that came after it, just like it was with the original character in 1938.
The movie that introduced me to the characters and comics. This is the same movie that made me believe that a man can fly and Christopher Reeve was brilliant as Superman. *THE OG!* 🦸♂️
There will never be a better Superman! This was the movie when I was a kid. The people from Star wars worked on the special effects for this movie. Christopher Reeve pulled off the dual identity he based his clark kent on the old cary grant comedy movies.
I remember seeing this movie in theaters in early 1979 when I was 15. Great memories. I remember getting chills when the music started and the credits were rolling. Chris Reeve will always be the No.1 Superman . Fun fact: the mother of young Lois on the train scene is none other than Noel Neal who starred in the 1950s tv 📺 series with George Reeves .
Every time I get ready to re-watch this movie and think it's going to be cheesy and dated I am always proven wrong. The actual response I get is a sense of wonder that I felt as a kid when I saw this movie for the first time in 1978. The adult side of me is in awe of the vision that the movie makers had back then to bring this comic book world to life and made it so epic. They have managed to make one of my favorite childhood character movies into a timeless classic.
The Kryptonian suits were covered with the material movie screens were made from. Light was projected on them which made them glow. The same technique was used for the lightsabers in the first Star Wars a year before.
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Thanks to all three of you!!! 🦸🏻 My mother and I love this one. And we both met *Margot* *Kidder* in 1984, while she was shooting a miniseries in our small town. My mother met her in a doctor's waiting room; I met her in a convenience store.
Ladies I thoroughly enjoyed your take on Superman and I hope you'll also watch Superman II together, which delves into several of your observations in depth. Two points of Superman Trivia: Clark Kent's glasses are forged out of the crystal in his spaceship. Like Superman, the crystal is super strong and allows Clark to discretely use his heat vision (without melting his glasses while wearing them) in the event of an emergency. Also, Superman is subconsciously using his powers of super-hypnotism when he wears them in the presence of other people. If he is addressing you in his guise of Clark Kent--while wearing those Kryptonian-crystal glasses--he is subtly hypnotizing you into disassociating him from Superman. That's why no one easily recognizes Clark as Superman wearing a pair of glasses! Also, The reason there's so much Kryptonite on Earth is because his spaceship was equipped with a version of warp drive, propelling him at hyperlight speed to Earth, but also opening a tunnel through the fabric of space-time behind him. That opening served as an unintentional tunnel through space, allowing tons and tons of fragmented Kryptonite to follow Superman in his wake, all the way to Earth and scatter itself across all the continents---a boon to all Superman's future enemies who would stop at nothing to obtain a chunk of Kryptonite to use against him! Superman himself unwittingly brought his greatest and most deadly enemy to Earth with him! Again, thank you for this and please give us your reactions to Superman II ! Peace!
This wasn’t the first Superman movie. There were two 1930s movie serials with Kirk Alyn. Then, there was a 1951 ‘Superman and the Mole Men’ with George Reeves, ushering in a tv series. When this was in development, the intent was to make it look convincing. The tagline was ‘You will believe a man can fly’.
You have to remember they invented techniques in this movie that didn't exist and current effects are based on. Christopher Reeve was a pilot and he used his arms in flight as it would be aerodynamic as correct as possible. So the arms were controlling direction etc.
23:10: Fun Fact: The chest Luthor hid the Kryptonite in is the EXACT same chest Ben Kenobi kept Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber as he gives it to Luke in Star Wars.
Hey y'all beautiful ladies, fun fact, the man and woman on the train with the little girl who saw Clark running was Lois Lane and Jimmy Olson from the tv show Superman in the 50's 😊
The mirror is just a cinematic device for dramatizing an old concept of Superman lore: The Phantom Zone. The Kryptonians were too humane to impose the death penalty on their criminals. Nor did they imprison them in what we call prisons or penitentiaries. Jor-El--Superman's father and Krypton's greatest scientist--discovered a parallel universe, a "Phantom Zone" and devised a means of sending matter and even people into the zone and retrieving them at will. He convinced the Kryptonian elders to use banishment into the Phantom Zone as a humane reform and replacement for Krypton's ancient methods of punishing their criminals. No one ever considered the prospect of Krypton's destruction while leaving the imprisoned inmates unintentionally stranded in the Zone for all eternity...
Really adorable family, but the blonde girl caught me. She feels the movie and really suffers for the characters. She's a very sentive woman. Thanks. I enjoyed your reactions ;)
My first ever film 🎥 at the cinema with my parent's. But a re-release at Christmas 🎄 1980 when I was 5 years old. Then in April 1981 the release of Superman 2. Then I saw a re-release of Star Wars my first time seeing it when it came out for two weeks in 1981. Then as me and my dad were leaving the cinema 🎥 a huge standee in the lobby. A film coming out that August. Raiders Of The Lost Ark. My dad went that will be the next movie we see. Christmas 1981 I saw the re-release of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind as well. Amazing times at the cinema!
This was not the first Superman movie but this was the first Superman movie to take him seriously. Indeed the effort was made to have all the characters except Superman be serious. All the Lex Luthor stuff had to be toned WAY down because it got too dark. This movie started the superhero blockbuster. You talked a lot about Star Wars and special effects. It's important to note that ILM (Industrial light and Magic, the special effects company started by George Lucas) did the special effects on both movies. The tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly." There was even public discussion about kids hurting themselves trying to fly imitating the movie. I'm glad this movie will last forever. We need you, Superman. In this age of cynicism, now more than ever.
Fun fact: Little girl Lois Lane riding in the train with her mother through Smallville as Clark races the train scene. The mother that plays little Lois's mom is none other than Noel Neill. Yep. Noel Neill played Lois Lane in the old black and white Superman serials with Kirk Alyn as Superman, and she played Lois Lane again in the Adventures of Superman from the second season on with George Reeves as Superman! Phyllis Coates played Lois Lane in the first season. -OG
The effects may seem a bit cheesy to modern eyes, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that my 11 year old brain was blown away. One of the few movies I've seen in my life that had a standing ovation at the end. Avengers Endgame was another, as was both Alien and Aliens.
The 'Fortress of Solitude' description of the arctic construct that you recognized was actually kind of adapted (OK, some would say 'ripped off', probably not unfairly) by the 1940s Superman comics from the 1930s pulp-magazine hero, Doc Savage, who had a Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the arctic five years before Superman used the term. In our modern and more sophisticated age, of course, we just call such things 'man caves'.
Wasn’t Grandma around when that movie came out? It wasn’t exactly an underground movie. It had Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman, the biggest stars of that time.
Superman creators Jerry Siegle and Joe Shuster based Superman's disguise on silent movie star Harold Lloyd who was never recognized in public without his glasses.
saw this in theaters. The next day I had bedsheets I had underwear all superman had them for many years, the bedsheets, nice and silky..lol I was only five years old when I saw it on release but I absolutely love this version of superman. The first two movies are awesome.... I even have pictures of me sleeping upside down in my underwear and the shirt.. I was a very cute , unfortunately, I don't talk to my sisters anymore. 1 of them has lots of photo albums.. maybe one day I'll catch up get it all scanned ,,,even have a bunch of pictures of me sitting on a 16 ft great white shark on the beach back in the 80s.. we were all close siblings like you are mom was the glue that held everything together when she passed in 2018 everybody. they all got greedy with each other, and I couldn't deal with it anymore. We just split assets and went our separate ways. not a day goes by I don't think about them all. I'm sure they think about me, but there's a lot of pain from dealing with deaths. My one sister reached out to me the other day , in an email, because we haven't seen each other since 2018 or talk to each other so she was just happy to hear I was still alive. You know the pandemic and everything , but I still haven't talk to her on the phone. not sure if I'm absolutely ready to do it seeing you guys together reminds me of family how we used to be, please don't let it happen to you and your siblings.. the bad part I don't get to see my nieces and nephews that I helped raise. this is the way things are no control over that.. I have a little bit of animosity, while my mother was dying, I was taking care of her every day till she took her last breath I was actually in the room with her, the only one.. I even told them all three of my sisters to let them know that she's gonna die tonight you just know it's coming. ..None of them came. it was an honor to take care of her im her only son my duty, but a little part of me is resentful for them not showing up.. just a little bit I don't really hold it. above their head. But yeah, I'm still dealing with the PTSD. of those three months of taking care of her 24 seven, at home.. I've seen things that no one should actually witness especially your own mother.. but yeah, the dying process definitely took a long time. This is a little bit of therapy for me talking about it, letting it out... so yes, please don't get that way with your siblings and family. Try to stay together whatever you can. I'm sure eventually things will work out. It's just seems to be taking a long time. It's already going on seven years.
I’ve got the 3rd generation iPods they have pros about them and cons about, pros are supreme sound. Cons can hear every little sounds including people walking upstairs in your video. 😂
That mirror dimension is a prison to the phantom zone. We don't actually see what it's like in the phantom zone. Just the outer shell of the mirror representation of it. Faora and the other Kryptonian followers of Zod got sucked into it at the end of Man of Steel. So did the U.S. Army Colonel. We can only imagine what life must be like in there. The 1984 Supergirl movie does give us a bit more insight. It is a dark place with violent storms, and superpowers do not work in there. Maybe you all should give it a watch? I recommend the director's cut, which is hard to come by. -OG
The television Superman of the 50s was a great star, cut short by a suicide. Christopher Reeves built much of his acting around Superman from George Reeve, although the two were not related.
When you watch Superman 2, there are two versions, one is the theatrical cut which was done partially by Richard Donner and finished by Richard Lester, who got full director’s credit because Donner didn’t like what he did and get so fed up with WB for getting a new director that he left the franchise. Then there is the Donner cut which Richard Donner came back by Fans demand and finished what he started. Watch The Donner Cut. It is the better movie.
Watch The Series Smallville It Lasted 10 Seasons! Clark Kent's Journey To Becoming The Man Of Steel and Christopher Reeve & Margot Kidder Make Appearances During The Run Of The Show 😊
In Batman v Superman, a James Olsen did die. However, director Zack Snyder said that he is not the same Jimmy Olsen that we know from the Daily Planet. That was a CIA agent who hid a tracking device in his camera 📷. He's not actually a photographer. This was a misdirect. The Daily Planet, however, does employ a Jenny Olsen. A young female reporter. I know. It's not Jimmy Olsen. But Perry White isn't white anymore either. At least not in Man of Steel. Lol. -OG
Watching this movie eventually in my watchlist! Movies coming up soon: Ice Age Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Bartok the Magnificent The Mask of Zorro Tangled the Series The Aristocats Vuk the Little Fox The Fox and the Hound The Fox and the Hound II Brother Bear Brother Bear 2 Tangled Ever After Pinocchio Mail to the Chief Fun and Fancy Free Air Bud Oliver and Company The Secret of NIMH The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad Cats Don’t Dance The Legend of Zorro Superman Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Since you ladies are smitten with Chris Reeves, you need to react to Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour as a stage actress who Chris travels back in time to meet and court Jane’s character. Romance/ sci-fi. I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. Great job on this reaction, keep up. The good work.
Back when movies were colorful and a joy to the eyes, before everything became desaturated cyan, grey, and urine yellow to look "edgy." Before leading men were forbidden from smiling. Before literally everything on screen exploded, when sparky women were simply sparky women and not punished and brutalized for the crime of being sparky before the credits rolled. When leading ladies could dress normally instead of looking like porn. (Even Miss Teschmacher wore too much for today's films.) Before CGI made everything look plasticky and fake. Before snark, sarcasm, and irony stood in for emotional depth and elbowed sincerity and earnestness out of the picture. Before breast implants, mean-spiritedness, and tongue shoved charm and actual kind-hearted sexual tension off the screen. Even in the 70s, people wondered how anyone could pull off such a "corny" character. It was the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam Cold War age of disillusion, and it turns out you can indeed do sincerity, trustworthiness, and honesty just by doing it 100% and meaning it. No one had any idea how it could be done until they saw Reeve do it.
Regarding your comment about this film having a "decent budget", it may interest you to know that Superman was in fact the most expensive movie ever filmed at the time. It was shot concurrently with Superman II, on a combined budget of $55 million. Not a huge amount by today's standards, but at the time, yeah, it was the most ambitious and most expensive film ever.
Greetings from India and Happy New Year and a belated Merry Christmas. Love your channel and its content. I was wondering if you guys would react to Spotlight(2015), Manchester by the Sea(2016), and The Woodsman(2004), as your next three movies? Masterpieces you wont regret viewing.Thank you and may you attain all the success and prosperity that you desire in your life this year and in the following years. All the best and thank you once again.
Ironic that Christopher Reeves is Superman in 1978 twenty years after George Reeves Superman TV show ended in 1958.Wonder if they are related in any way?
Loved your reaction to this iconic movie. If you ladies have not seen it I would HIGHLY recommend the TV show "Superman and Lois", it is fairly new and only has 3 seasons at this point. Tyler Hoechlin is second in my eyes as Superman And Clark Kent only to Christopher Reeve.
Honestly, I think Supes would be more pragmatic than what we saw in the climax. The first missile is meant to kill an entire US state (one of the most populous ones) while the second missile is headed for a single city. He knows that it's unlikely that he'll intercept both in time, so shouldn't the missile headed for the California fault line be a priority considering there are more lives at stake?
The way i look at it is the hand guides the direction of the flight. Two hands when he's going faster forward, right hand down to turn right, left hand down to turn left
1. Lois, "Do you like pink?" Answer: What straight guy and some chicks don't? 2. I worked in a movie theater when this came out and it was a great place to bring your girlfriend. (Especially since mine didn't have to pay for it). 3. Loose lips sink ships😠 4. We lost Ottis/Ned Beaty recently.😇 5. I wasn't the only High School boy to have a crush on Valerie Perrine😍😋 6. It might be just me, but Lois seems to be a bit of a bimbo. 7. Robin Williams 😇 was one of Reeves' best friends and was at his bedside until he passed. 8. The next one is even better but the third one that Richard Pryor (who was in it) said in an interview on Johnny Carson, when he was supposed to be promoting, it that it sucked.
Finally you watch a real Superman movie not the Dceu crap. Zack Snyder Superman is not Superman. Henry Cavil is a nice guy but he got screwed by Nolan and Snyder who know nothing about Superman or what he suppose to represent which is optimism and inspiration. Zack Snyder Superman is an abomination. This movie is the first modern superhero movie that started the all superhero genre. You should also see Superman 2 the theatrical version not the Donner Cut which is incomplete and completely ruin the first movie. Christopher Reeve Rip is the gold standard of playing both Superman and Clark Kent no one else ever come close.
No he is not an abomination and only a real superman fan knows that if you only like Christopher Reeve and you're obviously just a superman movie fan. I do agree that Henry is a good superman and that chrisopher Reeve, though, is much better. To call the movie crap is an utter idiocy.
Agreed regarding Snyder. I ended up cheering on Zod and Zaora in Man of Steel. Terrible movie. I disagree about Superman II. I much prefer the Donner Cut.
1948 was actually the first Superman movie with Kirk Alyn. He did 2 movies. 1948 Superman, 1950 Atom Man vs. Superman. George Reeves took over in 1951 in Mole Men. 1952 George Reeves started the TV series The Adventures of Superman for 7 seasons.
There Will never be a better Superman then Christopher Reeve never
Cavil came close
What about Henry Cavill? He's doing ok with the role.
Exactly 💯
Saw this movie in the theater on its opening night. Unless you were there, you can't imagine how magical it was to see this on the big screen (back when theaters really were BIG and not divided up into 12 smaller theaters) and when C, G, and I were just three letters of the alphabet. Leading up to opening night, the advertisements were all about "you will believe that a man can fly". The flying scenes were just light years beyond any other special effects (outside of Star Wars which came out the year before). Just a magical experience.
In 75, there was Jaws. In 77, Close Encounters and Star Wars. 78 came Superman. 79 saw Alien, Star Trek the Motion Picture and The Black Hole. Raiders of the Lost Ark in 81. What a great time for film.
The first feature film to use CGI as well as the composition of live-action film with CGI was Vertigo (1958), which used CGI in the opening credits of the film. The first feature film to make use of CGI with live action in the storyline of the film was the 1973 film Westworld - google
same, but I was 5 years old.. the next day we went and bought , under Roos a bed sheets I had everything super man even have pictures of me in them falling asleep
You're right.
Just curious. Are you using the term “light years” as a measurement of distance or time?
Fun trivia. When Clark is running next to the train, and the little kid (Lois Lane) tries to get her mom's attention, the women playing the mom was the original Lois Lane from the 50's TV series.
And the guy sitting opposite them is the original 1940's superman
Well, aaactually, the first TV Lois was Phyllis Coates. She was replaced by Noel Neill, whom you see here, and who also had played Lois (with a much more 1940s hairdo!) in the Superman movie serials starring Kirk Alyn…who plays the little girl's father in this scene. One of a few sly nods to the real-world Superman history, including Clark being bemused by the open-style phone booth, a gag which is nowadays pretty opaque.
The ad catch-phrase for the film was, 'You'll believe a man can fly.' But the real line should have been, 'You'll believe that Superman can pass himself off as Clark Kent.' Christopher Reeve's dual portrayal was a master class in acting. Facial expressions, body language…perfection.
The only one Superman Christopher Reeve forever.
90s animated series Superman was great too
In the Director’s Cut, the little girl on the train is Lois Lane, and her parents are played by the first live-action Superman and Lois.
Finally Got And Watched The 3 Hrs 8 Minutes Tv Version 👍😊 Had Seen Theatrical Version Many Times and The Special Edition Version A Few Times -Quite A Different Movie With All That Extra Footage 😊
Saw this when it came out and instantly fell in love with Christopher Reeve. He is still the only Superman in my eyes.
The movie that set the standard for the superhero genre!
Raised The Bar Too But It's About Story Not Always Spectacle! Christopher Reeve and The Other Actors + John Williams Score Make This Film Sore Above All Others 😊
I couldn't remember if this was first or not and then Flash Gordon was 2nd.
It was such a joy to watch this with you and seeing with through "new eyes". I ... love ... this movie. I remember my father telling me back in the summer of 1978 about a "Superman movie" coming out soon. Even at 11 years old, I recall being cynical enough to say to him that I thought they would mess it all up. Still, in December of that year, Dad took us kids to see it in one of the last remaining single-theater cinemas in town. It had a huge lobby with an incredible and classy chandelier and everything. We snuck in coolers of iced tea and hoagies, and even a cassette recorder as well, to capture the audio from the movie... all my Dad's idea, by the way. We were all AWESTRUCK at the spectacle that was "Superman: The Movie", and it was made extra sweet by my father's childlike wonder and glee at seeing his favorite superhero come to life in such a literally perfect way. I played that tape until the player itself finally stopped working. It's funny to have such an emotional attachment to a film as I do to this one. While it is a fantastic work of art to be sure, in my heart I know that the real reason is the eternal connection to my Dad that it gives me whenever I see it. For this reason above all, "Superman: The Movie", will always hold a special place in my heart that is more than just the love of a great film, far more indeed. It is the connection it gives me to the very first Superman I ever knew and loved, who I was so very blessed to call ... "Dad".
@donaldcordner1936 Those are lovely memories! It's also a great movie to see with your father in that fatherhood was one of the themes of the movie. Superman's two fathers were powerful mentors for him. I suspect, BTW, that you also have a Philadelphia connection with your Dad. Yo! :)
Precious history. I love to read them. It's my favourite movie tlo and I love all Margot Kidder's work.
R.I.P To A Great Actor Christopher Reeve, Still Miss You Always 😢 & Great Reaction Ladies
13:41: Fun Fact: The actor who played the jewel thief climbing the building later played Bruce Wayne’s parents in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) 🦇
...Both of them? That's talent!
Fun Fact: Chris Reeve was quite thin when he won the role. David Prowse (the bodybuilder who wore the Darth Vader costume in the Star Wars trilogy) bulked him up.
Apparently on the first day Prowse made CR lift until he got to a weight he couldn't manage. Prowse then looked at CR and said "right, that's your starting point"
It has been said many times that this movie is the gold standard for all over superhero films that came after it, just like it was with the original character in 1938.
The movie that introduced me to the characters and comics. This is the same movie that made me believe that a man can fly and Christopher Reeve was brilliant as Superman. *THE OG!* 🦸♂️
There will never be a better Superman! This was the movie when I was a kid. The people from Star wars worked on the special effects for this movie. Christopher Reeve pulled off the dual identity he based his clark kent on the old cary grant comedy movies.
EXCELLENT score composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by The London Symphony Orchestra.
Still the greatest superhero movie ever made!
It was the second full length Superman movie.
I remember seeing this movie in theaters in early 1979 when I was 15. Great memories. I remember getting chills when the music started and the credits were rolling. Chris Reeve will always be the No.1 Superman . Fun fact: the mother of young Lois on the train scene is none other than Noel Neal who starred in the 1950s tv 📺 series with George Reeves .
Every time I get ready to re-watch this movie and think it's going to be cheesy and dated I am always proven wrong. The actual response I get is a sense of wonder that I felt as a kid when I saw this movie for the first time in 1978. The adult side of me is in awe of the vision that the movie makers had back then to bring this comic book world to life and made it so epic. They have managed to make one of my favorite childhood character movies into a timeless classic.
Christopher Reeve Superman is Best Superman ⚡🌎✔
I was 6. This was magical! It still is!
The Kryptonian suits were covered with the material movie screens were made from. Light was projected on them which made them glow.
The same technique was used for the lightsabers in the first Star Wars a year before.
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Notes: Hmm. This is the first time that I gave Jor-El the benefit of a doubt, about not knowing how his brother saved Argo City when he told Kal-El that he was the sole survivor. Previously I let my knowledge of what was happening off stage and behind the scenes, block the idea. 🤔
At basically around the same time, we got both "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Superman: The Movie". The former is a part of the television series that preceded it, while at first glance, the latter's title may seem to inform us that it too shares continuity with the previous series. However, it was meant to let us know that it isn't part of the old series! Hence the emphasis! (However, ugh, some software seems to prefer to write it as "Superman" (1978) now!) But in retrospect, it may be a "DC" tradition? There's the series "Batman" and "Batman: The Movie" and though actress Lee Meriwether replaced actress Julie Newmar, it does share continuity with the television series! 😅
At the time, television series inspired by movies, rebooted the story by starting over. Examples include "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" & "Alice". "M*A*S*H" & "M*A*S*H". "Logan's Run" & "Logan's Run". "The Waltons Thanksgiving" & "The Waltons".
Meanwhile "Matt Helm" & "Planet of the Apes" were being coy or vague about being connected to the movies or not. 🤔
"The Adventures of Superman" starring George Reeves, is the television series that Christopher Reeve's movies aren't a part of. But George's is a continuation of the movie that came out before.
But note that they share a multiverse! 🎉
Before the movie we had the Superman tv show, with an excellent Superman as well. They both exuded strength and masculinity effortlessly.
Thanks to all three of you!!! 🦸🏻 My mother and I love this one. And we both met *Margot* *Kidder* in 1984, while she was shooting a miniseries in our small town. My mother met her in a doctor's waiting room; I met her in a convenience store.
When young Clark Kent was racing the train, the little girl watching him through binoculars was a young Lois Lane.
When Clark was running with the train, he was on a harness rig with overhead wires.
Ladies I thoroughly enjoyed your take on Superman and I hope you'll also watch Superman II together, which delves into several of your observations in depth.
Two points of Superman Trivia:
Clark Kent's glasses are forged out of the crystal in his spaceship. Like Superman, the crystal is super strong and allows Clark to discretely use his heat vision (without melting his glasses while wearing them) in the event of an emergency.
Also, Superman is subconsciously using his powers of super-hypnotism when he wears them in the presence of other people. If he is addressing you in his guise of Clark Kent--while wearing those Kryptonian-crystal glasses--he is subtly hypnotizing you into disassociating him from Superman. That's why no one easily recognizes Clark as Superman wearing a pair of glasses!
Also,
The reason there's so much Kryptonite on Earth is because his spaceship was equipped with a version of warp drive, propelling him at hyperlight speed to Earth, but also opening a tunnel through the fabric of space-time behind him. That opening served as an unintentional tunnel through space, allowing tons and tons of fragmented Kryptonite to follow Superman in his wake, all the way to Earth and scatter itself across all the continents---a boon to all Superman's future enemies who would stop at nothing to obtain a chunk of Kryptonite to use against him! Superman himself unwittingly brought his greatest and most deadly enemy to Earth with him!
Again, thank you for this and please give us your reactions to Superman II ! Peace!
I didn't know that. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. ;)
This is my favorite Superman movie.
This wasn’t the first Superman movie. There were two 1930s movie serials with Kirk Alyn. Then, there was a 1951 ‘Superman and the Mole Men’ with George Reeves, ushering in a tv series. When this was in development, the intent was to make it look convincing. The tagline was ‘You will believe a man can fly’.
You have to remember they invented techniques in this movie that didn't exist and current effects are based on. Christopher Reeve was a pilot and he used his arms in flight as it would be aerodynamic as correct as possible. So the arms were controlling direction etc.
The greatest super movie of all time
For many including myself this is the Gold Standard movie by which all others that follow are judged and all have fell short.
23:10: Fun Fact: The chest Luthor hid the Kryptonite in is the EXACT same chest Ben Kenobi kept Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber as he gives it to Luke in Star Wars.
Hey y'all beautiful ladies, fun fact, the man and woman on the train with the little girl who saw Clark running was Lois Lane and Jimmy Olson from the tv show Superman in the 50's 😊
and the little girl on the train was a younger Lois Lane herself, as revealed in the Extended Cut
@@loganbigmo Yeah, I wish they watched the extended cut. I hope they watch the extended cut of 2 (then the Donner cut).
Superman does bring Lois to the fortress of solitude in "SUPERMAN 2" after she finds out Clark Kent is Superman.
The mirror is just a cinematic device for dramatizing an old concept of Superman lore: The Phantom Zone. The Kryptonians were too humane to impose the death penalty on their criminals. Nor did they imprison them in what we call prisons or penitentiaries. Jor-El--Superman's father and Krypton's greatest scientist--discovered a parallel universe, a "Phantom Zone" and devised a means of sending matter and even people into the zone and retrieving them at will. He convinced the Kryptonian elders to use banishment into the Phantom Zone as a humane reform and replacement for Krypton's ancient methods of punishing their criminals. No one ever considered the prospect of Krypton's destruction while leaving the imprisoned inmates unintentionally stranded in the Zone for all eternity...
Zod and the other two do indeed return in Superman 2, with much bigger roles. That's why it's my favorite Superman movie. 🙂
Christopher Reeve was a pilot, so he knew how to move to make the flying believable.
Really adorable family, but the blonde girl caught me. She feels the movie and really suffers for the characters. She's a very sentive woman. Thanks. I enjoyed your reactions ;)
You can’t be expecting me to believe these women never saw Superman
A young Louis Lane on the train and how Clark waves at her is classic ❤
My first ever film 🎥 at the cinema with my parent's. But a re-release at Christmas 🎄 1980 when I was 5 years old. Then in April 1981 the release of Superman 2. Then I saw a re-release of Star Wars my first time seeing it when it came out for two weeks in 1981. Then as me and my dad were leaving the cinema 🎥 a huge standee in the lobby. A film coming out that August. Raiders Of The Lost Ark. My dad went that will be the next movie we see. Christmas 1981 I saw the re-release of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind as well. Amazing times at the cinema!
I remember watching this in a movie theater in Puerto Rico when I was five. Lois’s death horrified me, lol.
This was not the first Superman movie but this was the first Superman movie to take him seriously. Indeed the effort was made to have all the characters except Superman be serious. All the Lex Luthor stuff had to be toned WAY down because it got too dark. This movie started the superhero blockbuster.
You talked a lot about Star Wars and special effects. It's important to note that ILM (Industrial light and Magic, the special effects company started by George Lucas) did the special effects on both movies. The tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly." There was even public discussion about kids hurting themselves trying to fly imitating the movie.
I'm glad this movie will last forever. We need you, Superman. In this age of cynicism, now more than ever.
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I saw the movie 🍿🎥 on Prime Video!
A good Superman animated movie that is a bit dark is Superman vs The Elite.
Fun fact: Little girl Lois Lane riding in the train with her mother through Smallville as Clark races the train scene. The mother that plays little Lois's mom is none other than Noel Neill.
Yep. Noel Neill played Lois Lane in the old black and white Superman serials with Kirk Alyn as Superman, and she played Lois Lane again in the Adventures of Superman from the second season on with George Reeves as Superman! Phyllis Coates played Lois Lane in the first season. -OG
The effects may seem a bit cheesy to modern eyes, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that my 11 year old brain was blown away. One of the few movies I've seen in my life that had a standing ovation at the end. Avengers Endgame was another, as was both Alien and Aliens.
17:04 - "Your bush is in the way". LOL!
The 'Fortress of Solitude' description of the arctic construct that you recognized was actually kind of adapted (OK, some would say 'ripped off', probably not unfairly) by the 1940s Superman comics from the 1930s pulp-magazine hero, Doc Savage, who had a Fortress of Solitude somewhere in the arctic five years before Superman used the term.
In our modern and more sophisticated age, of course, we just call such things 'man caves'.
Bush is in the way 😂
Ah the first modern superhero movie. *Bends the knee to Chris Reeves*. I was 10 years old when I saw this first run in the theatre.
Wasn’t Grandma around when that movie came out? It wasn’t exactly an underground movie. It had Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman, the biggest stars of that time.
Superman creators Jerry Siegle and Joe Shuster based Superman's disguise on silent movie star Harold Lloyd who was never recognized in public without his glasses.
saw this in theaters. The next day I had bedsheets I had underwear all superman had them for many years, the bedsheets, nice and silky..lol I was only five years old when I saw it on release but I absolutely love this version of superman. The first two movies are awesome.... I even have pictures of me sleeping upside down in my underwear and the shirt.. I was a very cute , unfortunately, I don't talk to my sisters anymore. 1 of them has lots of photo albums.. maybe one day I'll catch up get it all scanned ,,,even have a bunch of pictures of me sitting on a 16 ft great white shark on the beach back in the 80s.. we were all close siblings like you are mom was the glue that held everything together when she passed in 2018 everybody. they all got greedy with each other, and I couldn't deal with it anymore. We just split assets and went our separate ways. not a day goes by I don't think about them all. I'm sure they think about me, but there's a lot of pain from dealing with deaths. My one sister reached out to me the other day , in an email, because we haven't seen each other since 2018 or talk to each other so she was just happy to hear I was still alive. You know the pandemic and everything , but I still haven't talk to her on the phone. not sure if I'm absolutely ready to do it seeing you guys together reminds me of family how we used to be, please don't let it happen to you and your siblings.. the bad part I don't get to see my nieces and nephews that I helped raise. this is the way things are no control over that.. I have a little bit of animosity, while my mother was dying, I was taking care of her every day till she took her last breath I was actually in the room with her, the only one.. I even told them all three of my sisters to let them know that she's gonna die tonight you just know it's coming. ..None of them came. it was an honor to take care of her im her only son my duty, but a little part of me is resentful for them not showing up.. just a little bit I don't really hold it. above their head. But yeah, I'm still dealing with the PTSD. of those three months of taking care of her 24 seven, at home.. I've seen things that no one should actually witness especially your own mother.. but yeah, the dying process definitely took a long time. This is a little bit of therapy for me talking about it, letting it out... so yes, please don't get that way with your siblings and family. Try to stay together whatever you can. I'm sure eventually things will work out. It's just seems to be taking a long time. It's already going on seven years.
I love this movie i feel superman is in good hands with David corenswet taking over the role now
I recommend Checking out Superman II both the theatrical version and the Richard Donner cut. Two different versions of the same movie.
It's a bird
It's a plane
It's storm akima!
Mom understood the assignment 😄
I’ve got the 3rd generation iPods they have pros about them and cons about, pros are supreme sound. Cons can hear every little sounds including people walking upstairs in your video. 😂
That mirror dimension is a prison to the phantom zone. We don't actually see what it's like in the phantom zone. Just the outer shell of the mirror representation of it. Faora and the other Kryptonian followers of Zod got sucked into it at the end of Man of Steel. So did the U.S. Army Colonel.
We can only imagine what life must be like in there. The 1984 Supergirl movie does give us a bit more insight. It is a dark place with violent storms, and superpowers do not work in there. Maybe you all should give it a watch?
I recommend the director's cut, which is hard to come by. -OG
The television Superman of the 50s was a great star, cut short by a suicide. Christopher Reeves built much of his acting around Superman from George Reeve, although the two were not related.
*Reeve
3D? Nope But Would've Been Extra Cool If It Had Been So😊
Sadly, both Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando died in the same year, and baby Kal-El died at a young age of a drug overdose. 🥀🥀🥀
Hope you ladies watch 'Superman II' - the theatrical version x
Classic!!!!!!!!!
When you watch Superman 2, there are two versions, one is the theatrical cut which was done partially by Richard Donner and finished by Richard Lester, who got full director’s credit because Donner didn’t like what he did and get so fed up with WB for getting a new director that he left the franchise. Then there is the Donner cut which Richard Donner came back by Fans demand and finished what he started. Watch The Donner Cut. It is the better movie.
Watch The Series Smallville It
Lasted 10 Seasons!
Clark Kent's Journey To Becoming The Man Of Steel and Christopher Reeve & Margot Kidder Make Appearances During The Run
Of The Show 😊
I like how Mom has come out of her shell over the course of the channel. :-)
In Batman v Superman, a James Olsen did die. However, director Zack Snyder said that he is not the same Jimmy Olsen that we know from the Daily Planet. That was a CIA agent who hid a tracking device in his camera 📷. He's not actually a photographer. This was a misdirect.
The Daily Planet, however, does employ a Jenny Olsen. A young female reporter. I know. It's not Jimmy Olsen. But Perry White isn't white anymore either. At least not in Man of Steel. Lol. -OG
Watching this movie eventually in my watchlist! Movies coming up soon:
Ice Age
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Bartok the Magnificent
The Mask of Zorro
Tangled the Series
The Aristocats
Vuk the Little Fox
The Fox and the Hound
The Fox and the Hound II
Brother Bear
Brother Bear 2
Tangled Ever After
Pinocchio
Mail to the Chief
Fun and Fancy Free
Air Bud
Oliver and Company
The Secret of NIMH
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Cats Don’t Dance
The Legend of Zorro
Superman
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Since you ladies are smitten with Chris Reeves, you need to react to Somewhere in Time with Jane Seymour as a stage actress who Chris travels back in time to meet and court Jane’s character. Romance/ sci-fi. I’m pretty sure you’ll like it. Great job on this reaction, keep up. The good work.
*Reeve
Loved your review girls
Back when movies were colorful and a joy to the eyes, before everything became desaturated cyan, grey, and urine yellow to look "edgy." Before leading men were forbidden from smiling. Before literally everything on screen exploded, when sparky women were simply sparky women and not punished and brutalized for the crime of being sparky before the credits rolled. When leading ladies could dress normally instead of looking like porn. (Even Miss Teschmacher wore too much for today's films.) Before CGI made everything look plasticky and fake. Before snark, sarcasm, and irony stood in for emotional depth and elbowed sincerity and earnestness out of the picture. Before breast implants, mean-spiritedness, and tongue shoved charm and actual kind-hearted sexual tension off the screen.
Even in the 70s, people wondered how anyone could pull off such a "corny" character. It was the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam Cold War age of disillusion, and it turns out you can indeed do sincerity, trustworthiness, and honesty just by doing it 100% and meaning it. No one had any idea how it could be done until they saw Reeve do it.
Superman’s other weaknesses are
Magic, for example Shazam’s Lightning
Red Sun radiation
Extreme Electrocity
Regarding your comment about this film having a "decent budget", it may interest you to know that Superman was in fact the most expensive movie ever filmed at the time. It was shot concurrently with Superman II, on a combined budget of $55 million. Not a huge amount by today's standards, but at the time, yeah, it was the most ambitious and most expensive film ever.
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Marlon Brando as Jor el is amazing to me.
Ironic that Christopher Reeves is Superman in 1978 twenty years after George Reeves Superman TV show ended in 1958.Wonder if they are related in any way?
No Christopher REEVE and George REEVES are not related. The latter's real name is George Brewer
There are TWO versions of Superman II. I prefer the Richard Donner Director’s Cut.
PLEASE watch the Richard Donner cut of SUPERMAN II instead of the original release.
opening credit were much longer back then and often times more exciting depends on the movie
Loved your reaction to this iconic movie. If you ladies have not seen it I would HIGHLY recommend the TV show "Superman and Lois", it is fairly new and only has 3 seasons at this point. Tyler Hoechlin is second in my eyes as Superman And Clark Kent only to Christopher Reeve.
Honestly, I think Supes would be more pragmatic than what we saw in the climax. The first missile is meant to kill an entire US state (one of the most populous ones) while the second missile is headed for a single city. He knows that it's unlikely that he'll intercept both in time, so shouldn't the missile headed for the California fault line be a priority considering there are more lives at stake?
He gave his word. He's Superman.
California wasn't one of the most populous states. It was THE most populous state.
Superman is the most honorable man on Earth. A promise is a promise and a promise is sacred for Superman.
If You girls liked this, you’d would love Smallville
17:08 😂🤣
The actor Terence Stamp who plays Zod, he was the voice of Jor El on Smallville
Why did you skip the epic transformation during the helicopter scene?
You Storm? I'd always thought you were more fannish. as you've attended con's in cosplay.
what happened to your old channel? u had so many subscribers.
Oh Come on!!!
The way i look at it is the hand guides the direction of the flight. Two hands when he's going faster forward, right hand down to turn right, left hand down to turn left
Relax, baby. It'only a movie.
React to *Superman ll* please 😎
Skipping the comic book intro?
i tried,....
those bad ppl follow with those lies,....
gota fix it here
You guys keep inserting your faces, full screen, over the best parts of the film.
Christopher Reeve ruined the role for everyone else. He is the real Superman.
1. Lois, "Do you like pink?" Answer: What straight guy and some chicks don't?
2. I worked in a movie theater when this came out and it was a great place to bring your girlfriend. (Especially since mine didn't have to pay for it).
3. Loose lips sink ships😠
4. We lost Ottis/Ned Beaty recently.😇
5. I wasn't the only High School boy to have a crush on Valerie Perrine😍😋
6. It might be just me, but Lois seems to be a bit of a bimbo.
7. Robin Williams 😇 was one of Reeves' best friends and was at his bedside until he passed.
8. The next one is even better but the third one that Richard Pryor (who was in it) said in an interview on Johnny Carson, when he was supposed to be promoting, it that it sucked.
Finally you watch a real Superman movie not the Dceu crap. Zack Snyder Superman is not Superman. Henry Cavil is a nice guy but he got screwed by Nolan and Snyder who know nothing about Superman or what he suppose to represent which is optimism and inspiration. Zack Snyder Superman is an abomination. This movie is the first modern superhero movie that started the all superhero genre. You should also see Superman 2 the theatrical version not the Donner Cut which is incomplete and completely ruin the first movie. Christopher Reeve Rip is the gold standard of playing both Superman and Clark Kent no one else ever come close.
No he is not an abomination and only a real superman fan knows that if you only like Christopher Reeve and you're obviously just a superman movie fan. I do agree that Henry is a good superman and that chrisopher Reeve, though, is much better. To call the movie crap is an utter idiocy.
Agreed regarding Snyder. I ended up cheering on Zod and Zaora in Man of Steel. Terrible movie. I disagree about Superman II. I much prefer the Donner Cut.
1948 was actually the first Superman movie with Kirk Alyn. He did 2 movies. 1948 Superman, 1950 Atom Man vs. Superman. George Reeves took over in 1951 in Mole Men. 1952 George Reeves started the TV series The Adventures of Superman for 7 seasons.
@@jlhanlon1980YES, IT IS.