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Superman (1978) (Patreon)

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2025-08-14 12:00:08
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Jeff K.

Now if either of you guys needs a good cry, check out the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. (But if you're gonna be watching any more of the Reeve Superman films, wait until after that, of course, because the doc obviously has stuff from the later movies.)

Onno Smits

FYI George: This says "Patreon Version" but it's the Youtube version.

jmundt33a

For as great as he was, Brando did NOT care about this movie. Reeve was very prickly about it.

jmundt33a

And Gunn pointing out refugee status made some people lose their…mud. You must be watching the Director’s Cut. The theatrical cut did not have the Lois Lane moment. The conversation with Jor-El after the first saves also are not in the Theatrical cut either.

jmundt33a

Worst superhero—Batman from The Dark Knight Returns. Brutal gang lord with group of unfinished adult soldiers When Frank Miller went crazy, he went completely crazy.

jmundt33a

The originator. Third best Superman and Clark Kent of all time. Fifth best Lois Lane, but still excellent.

Chris Rivard

If you’re going to talk about how Brando is one of the greatest of all time, you absolutely should watch his acting masterpiece: On the Waterfront (1954), possibly one of the greatest films of all time.

ChristianK

Will you guys react to the new Superman coming out tomorrow on digital?🥹

Onikaze

I think both Perry White and JJ Jameson are more general newsman stereotypes than one explicitly based off the other.

Brent bmc_comix

Dark knight returns is a comic/literally masterpiece! (Dark Knight Strikes Again I'll give you. Lol) ;)

jmundt33a

Maybe the adaptation for strikes again was mistitled. But if it was faithful—it winds up being great art in service of an awful story.

Roddrick Smith

I think Jubilee has the lamest powers but I love her character. So I don’t know if that counts?

Clipped

Who’s a better Superman than Reeve???

Stugotz

i didnt know he could morph his face, that's a new one

Stugotz

I just realized, Superman never uses his heat vision or his super breath in this movie.

Joe Concepts

Right. And Perry White is just grumpy; not an almost-villain like JJJ.

SnabbKassa

"How big are you?" she asked as a serious journalist only.

Nate Gavin

I'm only glad they didn't graduate to Level 2: Skin Tone, Level 3: Gender, Level 4: Species

Robert Cooper

There's a thing about the kryptonite scene that always bothers me -- I feel like Superman experiencing pain for the first time in his life would have a more emotional reaction. I think George's interpretation of the time thing HAS to be correct, because the only thing that makes sense is that for a moment there are two Supermen: one saving NJ and everyone else, and one saving Lois.

Jef Etters

To answer 2 of George’s questions. The Kryptonian outfits are so bright because they’re made out of movie screen material, like lightabers were around this time. Secondly, I always took Lois rhyming in her head to be a writer writing a poem. It makes sense to me that she would process this unbelievable experience by instinctively reverting to what she does: create/write.

Marko T.

I hope that release is not just US thing and it gets released everywhere.

Elroy

Pls watch the 2025 Superman it’s coming out soon 🙏🫡

Chase Lonnergan

Metropolis is in Delaware. Just across the harbor from Gotham, which is in New Jersey.

jmundt33a

I got two different names. Better Superman Tyler Hoechlin Better Clark—Dean Cain. Before that crackpot went nuts, he helped Deb Levine blaze a trail that thankfully, Gunn has chosen to follow.

Stugotz

I just looked it up and apparently one of Superman's powers back in the day was shape shifting. There's an instance where he turned into a lion and another one where he turned into a big fat guy. Some of his other powers were super ventriloquism and super weaving! They sure gave him some ridiculous powers back in the day 😂

David Szoke

They didn't hear it and spoke over it but when the cat is saved and the mother tells the girl off you hear her get slapped.

John

Exactly... as Superman went back in time, the Earth APPEARED to be rotating backwards, and then he went forward in time to just the point he needed so that he could rescue Lois. Lois mentioning the earthquake, gas station explosion, falling telephone poles, and dam break meant that the 2nd missile still hit its mark... but this time, while original timeline Superman was saving people all over the west coast, the time-traveling Superman was able to stop the fissure that had killed Lois, so the car never fell in.

Twiska Brand

To be fair, it's not that he reversed the turn of the earth and thus reversed time; it's that he went so fast he reversed time, which reversed the earth's turn. It's a visual to show that time is turning back, same as the reverse footage of a dam breaking.

R. Chang

People say that, but it doesn't make sense and is clearly an after-the-fact justification. When he stops, the world keeps going backwards and then he has to go back in the other direction to get it going forwards again. Just accept that it's a goofy moment in a goofy (in a good way) movie.

Lanny Fisher

“Can You Read My Mind?” is the name of the John Williams piece that plays while Lois is narrating her “Can You Read My Mind” poetry. Her poetry is not lyrics that fit with the piece, but the music is the theme for Lois and her poem and the scene. My high school music class played this piece, and we had the “Can You Read My Mind?” sheet music in front of us.

Jeff K.

I had never really thought about it until George brought that up, but that's exactly the way that the Flash travels through time, as well, so it would totally make sense.

R. Chang

What do you mean? They're literally the lyrics to the song. I have sheet music with the lyrics printed on it. There are multiple recordings out there. Maureen McGovern probably had the biggest one.

sarCC

Definitely a great one to watch after Superman II!

sarCC

Hopefully after they watch Superman II

Lanny Fisher

I stand corrected. There is a YouTube video with those lyrics.

WastedPo

Simone and George: If you end up doing Superman 2, please do the original Theatrical cut. (Some people will insist on the "Donner Cut," but that's a pretty incomplete movie in my opinion. I also think it introduces more problems than it supposedly fixes. )

Jeff K.

Yeah, I've tried watching the Donner Cut and I understand why some people like it, but it's literally adding in scenes that were not completed so it's a little jarring.

Jeff K.

The fact that people were so up in arms when Gunn said that Superman is about an immigrant is bonkers, given that... the character was literally created to represent the immigrant experience in America.

Data Cable

Perry White is a legitimate journalist. JJJ is a muck-raker.

Onikaze

I was addressing the stereotypes they were pointing to as being a copy of one to the other, Fast talking and cigar in mouth . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Data Cable

Lex Luthor's business tycoon characterization started after the DC-Universe-Rewriting event "Crisis on Infinite Earths" in 1986. Before that, he was basically a mad scientist trope. Otis reprogrammed the Army missile, and Teschmacher reprogrammed the Navy missile. It was a the Army "bird" Clark stopped, and since Otis bungled two of the numbers, Hackensack may not have been Lex's originally-intended target, but it was sufficiently distant enough to serve as a distraction.

Han

Loved the reaction, as usual. This here is a bit of grim movie trivia, admittedly, but it goes to just how breathtaking the visual effects in this movie were back in 1978 for film audiences. The special effects were so revolutionary (building off the breakthroughs developed by George Lucas' team in the first Star Wars) that some kids actually believed a man could fly -- just as the poster teased -- and died. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/12/archives/boy-who-tried-to-fly-like-superman-dies.html#:~:text=Jack%20Fortmeyer%2C%20a%20fireman%20who,apartment%20at%20445%20Fountain%20Avenue.

Gary Poussard

Yeah it looks like they watched the extended tv cut for Superman The Movie.

Jomero

Christopher Reeve will always be my Superman and I don't think any actor could ever top him. It's unfortunate that there was a lot of greed and shady things behind the scenes that caused the downfall of the Reeve era movies. But the first one, that is 100% Richard Donner is the best. The second one is mostly good, but it was also mostly Donner (he was fired halfway through shooting it because of said greedy and shady dealings.... Gene Hackman even quit over that firing and they had to get a body and voice double for several of his scenes).

Bombaatu

If you want more Superman, check out Superman II (The Richard Donner cut) and Smallville. That last one would also solve your 'we need a long series' problem, in that it ran 10 seasons.

jmundt33a

That particular howling has been weird.

SnabbKassa

and it seems to have trains to Buffalo, Syracuse, etc.

SnabbKassa

Retroreflective materials had only then recently been invented in Finland. It looks *novel*, but the cameras range of photosensitivity just make everything else, like the actor's faces, look too dark.

ChristianK

If you guys are starting like a Superman cineBINGE ;) then the order I would recommend is:doing Superman 2 next, then Superman Returns, and since you guys already watched man of steel I'd say skip ahead to Batman v Superman, and ending with Superman 2025. Edit: Also the Christopher Reeve documentary Super/Man before watching the new movie :)

Jose Robles

Lets add the Christoper Reeves documentary

ChristianK

Absolutely it almost escaped my mind!

Peter Hudson

George, you heard her; you gotta start rhyming more XD

dasgrove

Let’s be clear: Superman flew backward around the world and rewound time. That’s what the comic book said.

Skyruff Creative

What Lex Luther is reflects his time. Originally he was a mad scientist, later a CEO type then eventually a politician. When this movie was made, real-estate tycoons were again a thing, thus Lex is one of them.

jmundt33a

Oh…if only you picked a quality series. Damn.

WastedPo

To expand on this. I think if you ever decide to watch the Donner Cut, it should only be done AFTER seeing the Theatrical Cut. The Donner Cut feels more like a "bonus feature" to me. It's an interesting "what might have been" but it really doesn't co-exist well with the original movie. (I can't go into detail why.) ... With the Theatrical Version of Superman 2, you not only get the better movie (my opinion), but you're watching the movie that generations knew as "Superman 2," rather than some relatively-recent, specialty version of the story. Also, the Donner cut excises a couple of my favorite scenes from the Theatrical Version, including a great character moment. (Again, keeping it vague.)

Nate Gavin

Lol thanks for that. Guess during those times there were a lot less rail guards then. Just like Snowflame was a product of the 80s!

Badger

Underwear Man-Tickling the terror into the jockey shorts of criminals everywhere.. Now that's a lame Super Hero!

Brandon Meng

Pausing to say the lamest superhero movie is the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern.

Matrim

Simone, was that a gorram Game Changers reference?

Forkbeard83

this was Reeve's first film. its kind of wild that Superman actors seem to be unkowns, but Batman actors are more established.

Matrim

Nah, it’s not even the lamest DC superhero movie. That would be Steel, followed closely by Catwoman.

Marko T.

I think they should just watch the new movie as soon as it hits streaming. Its a reboot and reacting to new movies when they come out get a lot of views.

Jason Pratt

That’s because you had already seen the theatrical cut. I think the Donner cut is fine if you want to supplement your viewing, but I think it’s a bad idea to see it in lieu of seeing the original.

Gryff

This man is bringing up movies so bad we collectively forgot about them

Matrim

Metropolis is canonically in Delaware, though I can’t remember how long ago that was established. And the reason he can carry things that shouldn’t be supportable (like Lois by just her hand) is tactile telekinesis (though I think this has changed before). It’s also how he can carry things that should just collapse under their own weight or that his hands should just punch right through.

Mike Kay

The YouTube thumbnails never disappoint.. hahaha I love them *almost* as much as Simone's random intros. <3

Robert Cooper

Hot take: Steel is somehow better than Jonah Hex.

JBK405

This film is not without is flaws, but it is definitely my favorite of all the Superman films because it is EARNEST. It never once laughs at itself or the audience, or does something to show it's not like "those other" comicbook movies. It says "Superman is REAL and it is WONDERFUL!" So many later attempts to make a "serious" comicbook movie miss the mark.

Matrim

Never saw that one, so I can’t comment.

JD Nevesytrof

No, it only looks like he's going back in the other direction, in actuality he's slowing to a stop ;)

PIG

I loved this movie when I was 6 thru 10. I guess it just didn't stick for me like other childhood movies.

Gootz

Any chance on watching Superman Returns (2006)? It’s a favourite of mine and has one of the best superman set pieces ever imo.

Wally

For Halloween, I recommend the Horror flying caped crusader killer "Brightburn", produced by James Gunn.

KENontheFRONTIER

The newest one from James Gunn comes close in the earnest department, but even more like a comic book than any of them to be honest

Jeff K.

Terence Stamp (Zod) just passed away. Y'all should absolutely carry on with the next movie in his memory, hopefully.

Adam Vialpando

That movie was so shallow and boring. Which makes sense since the only involvement James Gunn had with it was his name on the poster.

Wally

Thank goodness opinions are subjective and are not facts. Feel free to not like it, it's ok if you don't. I know there are others who would disagree with you. Guess what? That's ok also.

Matt Blanchette

They will bow down before him. No matter that it take an eternity!

Patrick - Excelsior

This is not the first Superman movie. The first was in 1948. The was also a TV series starring George Reeves as Superman and Noel Neill as Lois Lane. Noel Neill has a cameo in this movie as the woman in the train as teen age Clark runs by. The Character she is playing is supposed to be the mother of Lois Lane in this movie and in fact the little girl that wakes her up in Lois. The poem Lois recites while flying with Superman are the words to the Superman song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxZpEjg1h_U Simone was right, when flying with people Superman can extend a field of protection and or force around them. Otherwise as he flew their clothes would be destroyed, their skin burned by friction. It also protects his civilian clothing when he moves super fast. It also allows him to distribute the force of his strength over a greater area, Otherwise when he lifts things he would just tear off chunks or go right thru them. Like when he pushed the California fault back together.

Mysterious Science Fiction Fan

Hawkgirl first appeared in Flash Comics #1 in January 1940. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Hard to see how she was "Marvelized." Try watching the animated JUSTICE LEAGUE television series, particularly JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED. Made 2004-2006, still the best representation of the actual comics Justice League in movies or television. Guy Gardner's first appearance was in Green Lantern #59, published in March 1968. He's always an asshole, that's his point: to be the one asshole Green Lantern. (As opposed to Earth's Hal Jordan and John Stewart and Kyle Rayner, and all the 1597 other Green Lanterns in the galaxy. The bowl haircut is intentionally deeply stupid. It's just one way it's obvious that Guy is an idiot. Always, in every appearance ever anywhere. But he's still a good guy. Just an asshole good guy.

Angela D. Mitchell

Yeah, they are literally the lyrics to the song "Can You Read My Mind?" which was originally supposed to play during that sequence, but at the last minute, Donner didn't like it, so they did Lois speaking the lyrics. I can kind of go both ways on that -- it's a pretty song, but it might have also been too syrupy, whereas Lois just speaking the lyrics is weird but kind of more interesting.

Angela D. Mitchell

That's a really wonderful reason for Lois to speak the lyrics -- that she's a writer processing this amazing situation. I totally love that and that's what I'm going to believe from now on.

Angela D. Mitchell

And great acting. Part of the reason Superman works so beautifully and still holds up is that the actors are terrific and most of all that Christopher Reeve is just incredible in the part. He's so believable and sincere (and funny, as Clark) that he sells the most important part -- that he is Superman.

Angela D. Mitchell

Huh? I gotta disagree. Nobody was a better Superman -- or Clark Kent -- than Reeve (much less, a psychopathic 2-bit TV overactor). And I would actually argue that Reeve's Clark was even more brilliant than his Superman because his physical comedy is so flawless. But hey, diff'rent strokes.

jmundt33a

Angela—Who Dean Cain is now, who he became is not what he put onscreen as Clark. Some people bury it, some go round the twist. Feels like it started as a combination of chasing the fame high and CTE. But his was the most human and grounded Clark for a long LONG time and provided the template for Tyler and David. Reeve was a brilliant actor and had solid physical comedy. I’ve seen both Deathtrap and Noises Off. but the physical comedy didn’t humanize his Clark for me. It felt like what it was. An act. That Kal-El is caring and idealistic but distinctly alien. Cain’s Clark summarized himself thusly: “Superman is what I can do. Clark Kent is who I am.” I embraced this, and it’s how I still see the character at his best three decades later.

Bobby Glanton

I know this reaction is a year old and I doubt they have time to read a years worth of comments, and its probably already been addressed, but Ill put this here anyway just for gits and shiggles. The reason Lois is speaking those lines during the flight is because they're actually the lyrics to the movie's love theme, "Can You Read My Mind." Instead of having someone sing the song, the filmmakers had Lois say the lyrics as her inner thoughts while the music plays. It was just a creative way of blending the love theme into the scene.