1978 Directed by Richard Donner
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane − who's in love with Superman. Clark must summon his superhero alter ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Christopher Reeve Marlon Brando Margot Kidder Gene Hackman Ned Beatty Jackie Cooper Glenn Ford Trevor Howard Jack O'Halloran Valerie Perrine Maria Schell Terence Stamp Phyllis Thaxter Susannah York Jeff East Marc McClure Sarah Douglas Harry Andrews Vass Anderson John Hollis James Garbutt Michael Gover David Neal Penelope Lee John Stuart Alan Cullen Lee Quigley Aaron Smolinski Diane Sherry Case Show All…
Watched this to get in the Holiday mood with some friends. We all had a lovely time.
It's been about two or so years since I viewed this for the first time and I still find new things to appreciate about it after each new viewing around the season.
From the score, to the actors, to the direction, to even the dated mid seventies visuals, everything feels like a genuine sense of care was put into creating the best possible creation of this character for the big screen.
This movie is absolutely wonderful and it makes me sad that most tend to dismiss it due to some of it's more dated elements along with some (admittedly glaring) issues, but whatever, I guess that's life.
P.S: I could watch an entire movie based around Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, and Valerie Perrine's characters.
During a discussion with friends about Man of Steel the other day, it quickly grew into a discussion about all Superman films. More specifically: Superman the Movie, Superman Returns and Man of Steel. We compared highs and lows and kept coming back to the same question: Why don't the latter two work as well? The answer is very simple. Because Richard Donner is a better storyteller than Bryan Singer or Zack Snyder.
Neither Singer nor Snyder has demonstrated a consistent grasp of combining visual and story elements throughout their careers. Their projects skew heavily towards one or the other (primarily one for Snyder). Donner, despite a clunk project here and there, has always had command of all necessary elements to…
Jor-El: [bidding his son farewell, as Lara looks on] You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you... even in the face of our death. The richness of our lives shall be yours. All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel... all this, and more, I... I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you, all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father the son. This is all I... all I can send you, Kal-El.
SUPERMAN
With these lines, we open this cinematic…
This is my dad's favorite film he even brought my mom to see it on their first date, 30 years later when this was on TV my mom admitted to all of us that it was a pretty shitty date because my dad was so transfixed by the movie he didn't pay any attention to her at all, what a nerd!!
After the disaster that was The Man of Steel, my wife and I decided to cleanse our palettes with a dose of the 1978 Christopher Reeve classic.
Leapin’ Lizards they went all out with this one. An A list cast as second bananas, behind the scenes names like Geoffery Unsworth ( Cinematographer on 2001: A Space Odyssey ), 7 Second units filming simultaneously. A larger budget for credits than most entire film budgets of the day. Hmm, sounds remarkably like Man of Steel.
The cost of this one, $55M, in 2014 adjusted dollars $198M is pretty much in line with the Man of Steel budget. In this case money well spent. Why, because it’s funny and touching and wonderfully stylish…
As I'm sure you're aware based on my past write-ups on superhero films, I take them somewhat serious. I think they're a fascinating reflection of the times they were created in; at best functioning as a meaningful vessel for audiences to contemplate things like morality, justice and humanity; at worst they usually are pretty entertaining. Superman, arguably the oldest superhero, is a fascinating character to dive into; to explore from multiple perspectives and if anyone would like to dig into that, I'd be more than happy to in the comment section.
Richard Donner's Superman confidently approaches the Superman character from a whimsical, tongue in cheek angle. This, to me, is its greatest failing, because the depths it reaches in the…
When you look at characters who have the ability to do anything, they need something that can tear down their spirits. Luckily, that's what happens to Superman in the film. So I'm going to go over his character ark. In the first act, Clark knows he has abilities, but he doesn't know the extent of them. And because of that, he couldn't save his father. Than, with the help of Jor-El, he learns all about his powers. BUT, he follows a lot of rules that his father told him how to act with humans. And he is also told that he may not change human history. And when the same thing that happens to his father happens to Lois, he…
Wow, this is the one that pretty much started it all. Let's get right into it.
Superman, directed by Richard Donner, somehow manages to hold up extremely well despite the vast catalogue of superhero movies that were made after the original 1978 movie. Christopher Reeve's portrayal of Superman is amazing. He's charming, charismatic, and most importantly, he wants to save other people. He will do everything in his power to save the lives of innocent civilians unlike Henry Cavill's Superman who destroys an IHOP full of innocent people just to defeat the bad guy. Sadly, there probably won't be a portrayal of Superman this great because of the dark and gritty direction that DC is headed towards now. Also, Superman:…
Director's Cut: A-
"We all have our little faults. Mine's in California."
A one of a kind rising in hope, intellectual storytelling, and magical devotions, Superman remains as one of the most influential and inspiring superhero films of out time through its brilliant telling of aspirations within a single man full of compassion and learning ambitions which Christopher Reeve embodies perfectly as the special effects along with the music remain stunning for Richard Donner knew exactly what the people wanted to see in Superman and he excitingly delivered. Superman (Director's Cut) contains 8 new minutes of footage absent from its theatrical release which doesn't create much of a different film, nor does it change much, but the new scenes provide some delighting thrills.
Rewatching after reading a lot of mentions of it in stories about Wonder Woman and remembering all over how much I love Donner's movie. Considering that it's a mash of at least four different movie styles, there's no way that it should work and somehow it all fits together.
if someone had just told me that gene hackman was lex luthor I would have watched this years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will always be my favourite superhero film, and Christopher Reeve will always be my Superman.
Tempted to give this five stars for John Williams' score alone. The cinematography is dreamlike, with a wheat field shot that must've made Terrence Malick cream his pants. Very dated in many ways, but downright novelistic in its refreshingly patient (by today's standards) pacing, which makes sense given that it's written by Mario Puzo. It's a good hour and ten minutes before Superman makes his debut. Batman Begins and Wonder Woman owe their plot structures and more to this movie, and that's why they're among the best superhero movies ever made. The wonky time travel stuff in the climax still irks me, and it's often quite goofy, but it's a product of its time, and far more artistic than most comic book movies of late. Christopher Reeve will forever be the quintessential Superman. His Clark Kent is a fascinating performance within a performance.
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