What Happened to Superman III?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Find out what happened to Superman III in this movie review from Joblo. Discover whether Christopher Reeve's portrayal is the best Superman to dawn the tights and if the movie is considered good or bad.
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Who else was freaked out when Annie turned into a cyborg?
Most terrifying thing I'd ever seen at that time.
So messed up! Saw it in the theater and my brother who was 4 had to go sit on my mom’s lap.
Gave me nightmares as a kid.
That and watership down freaked the hell out of me when I was younger.
@@AndrewMoriarty-fl4kfOptimus Prime's death, unquestionably.
Maybe I was just the right age, but superman 3 is the one I remember the most. I know all the parts so it must have been my favorite.
As a kid and even rewatching this as an adult, I still like the film honestly. I guess it's the generation that matters, because many movies I see nowadays at 42 years old don't seem that great.
Nothing but remakes nowadays
Superman 3 wasn't really that bad?
Yes it was. In fact it was worse. Much worse.
@@goonerlee Nah, now The Quest for Peace was ridiculous.
@@jarmelo2006yep, part 4 was an abomination. Superman 3 still holds up today. I mean, how could anyone not like any movie with Richard Pryor???
@@crazyralph6386 Yeah. 😂.
Especially the Superman vs Superman scene
Personally, I enjoy this movie, I think there's a lot to like about it, but I still must ask: how do you cast Richard Pryor, one of the greatest comedians to ever live, in a Superman flick, and not have him play either Toyman or Mr. Mxyzptlk?! There's missed opportunities and then there's... this.
I dunno, there’s a lot to like about this movie. Reeve is still amazing, the chemical plant sequence, Lana Lang, Webster, the Superman vs. Superman fight, the giant supercomputer set is awesome, RoboVera, the Atari made video game sequence, and even Richard Pryor has a lot of funny moments. The only truly TERRIBLE Superman movie is Part 4.
Computer woman part was ahead of its time imo
FRANK LANGELLA AND ALLAN ALDA would have been great villain choices!!!
that pronunciation of our favorite 5th dimensional imp....also Dudley would've been great
Loved this movie as a kid. Watched it over and over. I understand it's a horrible movie but I can't stop loving it because of the nostalgia and memories I have because of it.
Evil Superman vs Clark still holds up pretty well in my opinion!
Always thought it was a pretty original idea that the FAKE KRYPTONITE made him evil.
Superman 3 a guilty pleasure movie, 100 time better than Superman 4
One of my all-time favourite films.
How to traumatise Gen-X? Oh just have Annie Ross get sucked into a Super Computer and turned into a robot - no biggie. I couldn't watch that scene again until I was in my late 20s after seeing it when I was seven!
Sad to think that Pamela Stevenson-Connelly is the last remaining main cast member left :(
Happy memories
I love this movie!
Evil Superman was intense. "C'MAHN!!"
Crazy unrelated but I had heard about that guy's real life story and it was so tragic yet amazing at the same time R.I.P. 😢😭😞
Role's, considered, "cursed," apparently.
"That guy"???
@@liokaizer1662Christopher Reeve really, unquestionably.
The first Superman movie was in theatres I think, at the same time as Star Wars; then I distinctly remember in-person seeing Superman III in theatres when Star Wars Return of the Jedi was in theaters. I went to see Return of the Jedi at the theater, and noticed Superman III was also playing as well, wishing I could have seen it then also..
So what you’re saying is that Warner Brothers has been screwing over Superman and it’s Directors for a long time?
I saw it in the theater when I was 13.
Atari also re-used sound effects from their Pac-Man port in the computer scene
Well, that would be the movie’s sound editor who did that, not Atari. But those sound effects got used every time a video game appeared in a movie. Kinda like the Wilhelm scream.
@@GregsGameRoom that’s interesting. Are there any other movies you’ve heard them in?
Known as one of the first movies to have too much studio interference , during the 70s Directors and the rest of the creative team were left alone to make a film.
Heaven's Gate responsible, unfortunately.
As kid i was so excited for it, Had zero clue as to what the story was about but went with hell i like Pryor, but then that ending horrified me.
I loved it as a kid. Mustve watched it a million times.
I like this film
Same
Clark going back to Smallville to rekindle with Lana, and the junkyard scene, (where Reeve REALLY showed his intense acting chops)were the two elements that should have been the key moments. Everything else scrapped. But the "evil Superman" plotline wasn't that bad, and had a lot of potential. It was just executed wrong. Robert Vaughn was just plain lame. There could have been a small covert committee, or small elite group determined to get rid of Superman, and develop the Kryptonite to use the evil Superman for their own purposes. Get the comedic Richard Pryor storyline the heck outta there. THis is my idea of the way things "should" or might have gone, and would have been a better script. And finally, bring on Steven Spielberg as director, as the icing on the cake, which would have been unbelievable, giving it an exciting epic look and feel.
I also have very fond memories of Superman 4. I don’t care if people hate it, that the FX were useless etc.
It's the 1st one of the 4 i went to see on the big screen. I remember my mum taking me on the bus because she didn't have her own car. The cinema was a grand old 1930s super cinema which still stands today, but hopelessly derelict.
I can almost smell the excessive cigarette smoke the the 1980s bus and cinema 😂
You're A Better Man Than I, that film absolutely made, The, Salkinds, look like, The, Coen Brothers, by comparison, and, the sickest part is, the, whole, unedited, film wasn't really appreciably better, just, longer.
@matthewdaley746 how old were you when you watched it though? I was 6 and it was amazing.
Sometimes we (adults) forget who the target audience is/was
@@matthewnicholas6365Alas, unfortunately, considerably, older-period.
Apparently Smallville airport has a daily flight to Metropolis
I can tell you exactly what happened with Superman 3. The producers didn't treat Superman with any kind of respect. They saw it as silly kids stuff, so once they had gotten rid of Richard Donner (RIP), they saw themselves as able to make the Superman film THEY, not the audience, wanted. And so we got the garbage that they had the gull to call Superman 3, but I and many others just call crap.
The same thing happened with, Lethal Weapon, Joel Silver thought Shane Black hadn't, "paid his dues," and, when everybody was talking about his perfect script, his jealousy reached unhealthy levels, he butchered his script for, Lethal Weapon 2, because it would have, meant, no more sequels, as a result, a perfect duology became, a modern classic, an obscenely overrated sequel, (yeah, I said it, and, I'm standing by it), and, two atrocities, Shane Black had a similar experience with, TLBS, he finally took a break, before a resurgence, while, Joel Silver quickly drifted into irrelevance, he's been exposed as a total hack that lucked into, Lethal Weapon, and, Die Hard, and, truly, that's that.
Why did they get rid of Donner?
@Barbarian646 See above, The, Salkinds, wanted a, yes-man, and, Richard Donner, unquestionably, didn't fit the bill, it's also why James Cameron destroyed the careers of, Michael Biehn, and, Ed Harris, and, why Bill Paxton replaced them, unfortunately, that relationship was, ultimately, cut short.
@matthewdaley746 Aahhhh I see......I never uunderstood why Bien disappeared after T2
@matthewdaley746 yeah, apparently they are some scenes from LW2 that were brutal but didn't make the cut. LW3 was crap, too much comedy
Thought it was great as a kid, until Vera turned into the TX from Terminator 3! Gave me nightmares to no end.
The fight between Evil Superman and Clark in the junkyard, the supercomputer finale, and Lana were my favorite moments.
The fight was the only good thing about the whole thing. Donner should of directed it
*have not of
You’re all washed up Kent!!!
@BodyOpt I always wonder if these people try typing would've and should've and just go with the autofill. My devices autocorrect to it without typing the apostrophe. I don't believe these people were never corrected that it's short for "have" and not "of," they know what they're doing, they just insist on doing things their way and shouldn't be trusted.
I remember watching this and saying to myself that Superman has gone off the deep end. Then I saw Superman 4 and thought part 3 wasn't that bad😂
Executive Meddling absolutely, brutal.
Exactly, this one’s a masterpiece next to #4!!!
@@BodyOptEver Diminishing Returns, unquestionably.
What happened to Superman 4? One word...CANNON.
SuperMan IV: The Quest for Cash…. Erm I mean Peace 😏
I like that movie now. Didn't for most of my life. But that era of movies isn't coming back and if you liked the first 3, it's nice to get just one more that looks like it's from that era. Ninja Turtles 3 is the first movie that changed my mind about it in this way. What I mean is, these aren't good movies, but they're not boring, and if I had the choice to wipe them from existence I would not. My rating is "I'm glad Superman 4 exists."
@tommyhatcher3399 I agree. It's nice to re-watch old sequels that maybe at the time seemed like trash. But with the benefit of time are now like new watching a new movie but 40 years later. This recently happened to me with the Pink Floyd album Animals. I'd never really given it a full listen. But suddenly it's like a new release to me, and it's awesome
Golan-Globus….they got greedy …Chuck Norris and ninja movies not good enough
RIP Christopher, Richard and Margot 😢🙏🙏🙏
Jackie Cooper, Annie Ross, Robert Vaughn, all gone too. Although all had much, much better innings.
AND Richard Pryor!
@@ladkatta they said Richard......
Christopher Reeve scared the shit out of me when he got pissed off during the junkyard fight
What an actor!
Besides scaring younger kids when the woman got wrapped up in those wires and made a robot. I will never forget that part.
Besides....what?
@@AnyBodyWannaPeanut Add it onto the title of the video
You dont know it but your sentence is a fragment or something else that makes no sense.
@@Shorty_Lickens Have you seen the English in here? Please. Just move on
@@virgil3241 Please, clean the smegma from my foreskin.
It was way better than Superman 4 and Superman vs. Clark in the junkyard was awesome
Says truly nothing, absolutely.
Ngl I love the drinking scene between Brad and Pryor
Comedy gold brother
“Sling! Singapore sling!”
@@GregsGameRoom “There’s vokkkaa in it now, buddy”
Every scene with Brad rules.
Nobody puts vodka in a Singapore Sling.
As a kid, I didn’t question anything about this movie. But as an adult, one starts noticing things, like Margot Kidder barely being in the movie, Richard Pryor practically being the star of the movie, Robert Vaughn just being another Lex Luthor, that whole comedic opening etc. But one also notices other things, like Clark Kent being himself when he’s back in Smallville. Christopher Reeve is such a good actor.
facts samehere!!!! 💯🦸🏻
I love this movie.
I like it, saw it as a kid and had a great time
We care ✊
Richard Donner and Tom mankiewicz had nothing to do with Superman 3, they had plans on what they would have done if they had Superman 3, but they were never involved so that information in the video is factually incorrect.
"Congratulations, old buddy. You're gonna go down in history as the man who killed Superman."
“Uhhh… no!”
Forever Immortalized in office space
Superman 3 is one of my favourite Supermen movies.
Dudley Moore as Mxyzptlk wouldn't have been a bad casting choice under different circumstances, imo.
Ironically the best scene in this film is as good as any scene of all the films
Superman III (1983)
Box Office: $801.3 million
Nope
@jamesanderson6373 It's only Inflation.
Remove the zero
I still remember being so excited to see this and then during the opening credits I just sat there in horror. I was 11.
YEP, then Wonder Woman 1984 basically did the same thing.
Evil Superman: (Grabbing Clark Kent) “You always wanted to fly Kent, now’s your chance…(Throws Kent)……….Fight in the junkyard….
I was 4 or 5 years old when I saw this movie in theaters, the cyborg lady at the end freaked me out and I loved it. Today as an adult, it certainly isn't as good as the first two, but part 4 The Quest For Peace was definitely the worst of all four films.
I mean, OK, I can see how much there is to dislike about Superman III but I always loved it. Vera becoming a cyborg haunted me as a kid, and Robert Vaughan does a good job despite what he is presented with. Even Lorelei Ambrosia has some potential, since her ditzy blonde persona is shown to be a cover, albeit only very briefly shown in one scene. But OK, also in the scene were Vera tries to confuse her in the supercomputer and Lorelei simply says "In other words: push this red button." And it has Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang, I mean, c'mon! So, yes, I do like the movie but hearing about the original Salkind plans for Superman 3 and 4 also sounded interesting. I think the El family are Kryptonian nobility so them being a bit distant cousins wouldn't be too weird, all things considered. But yeah, thanks, JoBlo!
I liked Superman 3, of course Superman II is the best one of the series.....
Egos ruined everything, unfortunately.
The original story idea sounded much better, but it’s all in execution, so I don’t know how that would have turned out compared to this movie
That Return of the Jedi shot WAS NOT in the 1983 version of the film
“They did it in Superman III” 😂
My favorite moment in Office Space.
The only III reasons to watch SUPERMAN III:
1. Scenes with Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang
2. Evil Superman fighting Clark Kent in the junkyard.
3. Annie possessed by the computer and turning into a cyborg robot.
That's it.
4. Brad.
Hmm, think this film has far more to offer than that. The opening fire sequence is awesome. ALL of the EVIL Supes stuff is great to watch. Even the bowling alley and Tower of Pisa scenes have a charm and humour to them.
You forgot a couple more reasons: Lorelei Ambrosia.
All good points
I have always really liked Superman 3. It isn't as good as the first two but it's still great in my opinion. Now part 4 is a piece of dung.
Superman: III was the Batman & Robin of the 80's.
Had this on VHS as a kid, recorded off TV. Watched it a ton and always loved it.
Superman 3 is definitely a 5/10 movie, not a total Trainwreck but definitely a painfully mediocre entry with some redeeming qualities
TQFP irreparable disaster, unquestionably.
@@matthewdaley746no question, that movie is a stinker
@@adamcade604Insult to stinkers, unquestionably.
It's 'Mix-Oh-Plix'
I know Superman III is cheesy...but I love it!
Am I the only one that found Superman 3 the most entertaining of the 4. I mean, Superman getting drunk was epic!
It's not a terrible movie
It's better than 4 and at least there's a different villian situation.
All of these movies are pretty light and have very family friendly feel.
The Bizarro rendition is actually quite well done for what they had to work with.
Robert Vaughn's talentless, seriously.
@matthewdaley746 oh come on. His character here is not deep but this is NOT a deep story.
@@Stryker20008Gene Hackman's better, unquestionably.
I will always rail against popular opinion with Superman III - I bloody love it. There, I said it. ❤
Forget to say Richard prior 's character was going to be Braniac, human Identity in one version of the story and he was secrecy in love with supergirl too
Both keys... at the SAME TIME??
The cyborgs were so scary to me as a child! Freaked me the hell out! Nightmare fuel to an 8 year old!
“Review’s a bit fuzzy.”
Superman 3 is a masterpiece.
Ah, hang on, I’m just comparing it to number 4. Still though…it is worth watching for Kent vs evil Supes!! Reeve played that perfectly.
Richard Pryor happened and the elimination of Donner.
A movie that tries to be too damn funny(Richard Lester)...and ends up getting REALLY creepy. the Superman fight in the junkyard being the only redeeming moment
Gene Hackman's absence, obvious-definite-enormously.
I'm not American and I didn't grow up watching these movies so I don't care.
@@ii-mp1spYour inalienable right, unquestionably.
Love this film!
You are kidding.. this movie was great.........
TQFP absolutely disastrous, unquestionably.
I like superman 3 because of Prior
The producers didn't understand their audience or their character, and likely were antagonist towards it and them.
Real quick in which Christopher reeve superman movie 1-4 did Lewis lane figure out superman was Clark Kent?
LOIS NOT LEWIS LOL
Lois figured out Superman was Clark in Superman 2 - while they are in Niagara Falls on assignment.
The first one. She scratched her chin after Superman saved her and thought it was weird Clark wasn’t there.
Is the tv version anywhere
When it doesn't have the hype opening credits like the other 2 films, you knew it was fucked from the start.
Tonal, whiplash, seriously, ruinous.
I do recall from the cartoons, the name being pronounced phonetically as mitzelplix. 😎
I loved Superman III
Is that a deleted scene with Helen Slater and Reeves? Or an edit? I gotta know.
EXACTLY what I was thinking! C'mon someone.... answers we need ANSWERS!
This was the first Superman movie I watched as a kid, back then I didn't know it had prequels which I watched much later when I grew up, but I loved this movie and still is my favorite Superman movie. I also like part 1 and 2, and didn't even know that part 3 was hated so much! That I found out through UA-cam, the reason why people don't like it, which makes sense, nevertheless it is still one of my favorites also because of nostalgic reasons.
While this movie was an utter disaster, because of those evil Superman moments, Christopher Reeve managed to effectively portray nearly the entire human spectrum in just these three Superman movies!
Plastic Molded seats ! Lol !! Way funnier now
I was a kid when I saw this movie and I couldn't disagree more. This film was by far my favourite movie. It had comedy, talked about computers in a futuristic way..., The big failure was Superman 4, and Superman 2 was a bit too depressive.
Bruh, I watched this movie again just recently and I absolutely loved how chaotic it was. Evil Superman was EVERYTHING. When he blew out the Olympic torch I swear I yelled at my tv “WHAT A DICK!!!”
The situation with Kidder is emblematic of the problem with Lois. You either make her the full on love interest, like with Snyder, and the various TV shows, or keep up will they/won't they, along with will she find out Superman is Clark (if they maintain that idea) and that just doesn't last. Also, I don't know why Kidder was cast initially, because in the mid- to late 70s she did exude a certain sex appeal, (See Amityville Horror) but she seemed to age really quickly and almost seemed forgotten with the swap for Lana Lang. Man, why'd they have to give Lois and Lana alliterative names with the same letter? 😂
I love this movie. Is it a great "Superman" movie? No lol. Is it a fun movie? Hell yeah.
Memorable scenes here as a kid.
Superman turning Evil
Superman fighting Clark Kent
Cyborg Lady
I've tried to jump on the bandwagon and hate this movie.
I just can't.
Such a freakin' banger.
BTW MXYZPTLK for many years was pronounced Mix-sill-plick. Later changed to Mix-yes-spit (for the newer animated series with Gilbert Gottfried). Superman says Mix-sill-plick then is corrected by MXYZPTLK to say Mix-yes-spit. Every series says it different I guess? ua-cam.com/video/jbp-GjvOSzQ/v-deo.html
S-III is no doubt flawed, but the junk yard fight felt lore defining and the cyborg conversion was downright sinister. Oh and Pamela Stephenson sure was easy on the eyes.
Superman 3 plays out exactly like the comic books. I always thoroughly enjoy myself when watching it. Miles ahead of part 4 anyway.
This is actually my second favorite of the 4. Sure, it's bad, but I didn't care as a kid and still don't care. I'd watch it for the Clark Kent vs Dark Superman battle any day.
As 80s kid. That woman turning into robot traumatized my childhood.😢
😅😅😅
Still 10 times better then superman 4,,,
I actually enjoyed superman 3
I actually do love this one...
Idcwas, that cyborg scene at the end was pretty awesome.
It’s pronounced “MITS-ul-plix”