Superman is so much fun! | Movie Reaction & Commentary
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Rewatching Superman (1978). Look, up in the sky! Always fun to revisit a classic I saw as a kid and realize how little I recall of it. I DEFINITELY merged 1 and 2 in my head and remember 2 better, which will make it more fun to finally see the Donner cut next week. Superman is by FAR the most idealistic superhero ever created. I'm not sure I'd really want him any other way! I hope you enjoyed my Superman movie reaction & commentary
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Original Movie: Superman (1978)
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Unlike others, I grew up thinking the movie was corny. In my twenties I revisited it, and I discovered that what I had been responding to was earnestness. This is a film that chooses to embrace a degree of innocence and wonder without cynicism or irony. I've come to cherish the film. It is full of small character details and moments of remarkable emotional impact. Reeve, Hackman and Kidder are rightly praised for their work, but I like to single out Glenn Ford for his warm and, ultimately, devastating performance in only two brief scenes as Jonathan Kent.
If you want more Superman 1, you can have it.e
I highly recommend the 3 hour extended edition!
This was the edited for broadcast TV version and the version I grew watching.
With commercials this made the movie 4 hours long so ABC cut it into 2 parts to spread it over 2 nights.
We recorded this on Betamax when I was a little kid and I watched this so much I almost wore the tape out.
Later on, when I would see the theatrical version of the movie on channels like HBO, I'd get upset because, to me, it seemed like they were chopping pieces out of the film, I didn't understand then about theatrical cuts and extended cuts.
The extended cut does make the movie feel needlessly drawn out in some places, but in other places it gives added meaning to certain scenes or even introduces new elements. In some places it's like "how could they have cut this out of theatrical?!!"
Anyway, it's really worth it!
Superman is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time, so glad you enjoyed it!!!
Best Regards!
I could never handle Lois’ death scene. Give me nightmares. She was a lot stronger and fearless in Superman II.
Classic that still holds up imo. I think too many people remember Reeve's wide-eyed optimism but not the 70's cynicism he turns out to be the antidote to. Great stuff. And yeah, chase down that super-long tv cut someday if you want more. The theatrical cut dropped a lot of fun little scenes that probably would have been kept in if the movie were made today.
*Don't be scared to criticise modern garbage ...* which applies to basically everything coming from Disney (M-She-U, Star Wars, Indiana Jones) and WB (DCU, Harry Potter) with very VERY few exceptions. There are many channels analysing the stupidity and IDEOLOGICAL PERVERSION of movies / franchises through Hollywood ... and they make good, logic-based arguments while the companies can only answer with thought-terminating clichés (which arent arguments).
I was 11 years old when this came out and the tagline for it was “You will believe a man can fly.” I absolutely did. R.I.P. Christopher Reeve
That was the tagline. I'm glad someone remembered that 🙂
There are two truly stand out moments in this film from Christopher Reeve. The first is when he transforms from Nerdy Clark Kent into Superman by simply changing his posture and lowering his voice and speaking with confidence, only to rapidly reverse it. Amazing. And the second is the rage and grief on his face as he begins his journey to turn back time after Lois' death and that yell of his. I don't think anyone has ever come quite as close as he did at being both Clark and Superman.
Absolutely spot on!! I always get teary eyed during that scene that I have scene hundreds of times
Yes! Incredible scenes that could have easily fallen flat with a lesser actor.
Superman with Christopher Reeves was the G.O.A.T. greatest of all time, he was so graceful on those wires that you look like he was truly flying. The perfect Superman, Henry Cavill a close second. Brandon Roth played a good Christopher Reeve as Superman. All very interesting
Chris! Your comments about Christopher Reeve's portrayal as Clark are very well-taken. So many reactors ask, "Gee, they're just glasses." But you notice in the scene after Superman's taken Lois flying, Clark shows up at the apartment all slumped over. He then thinks, just for a second, he'd like to let Lois know who he is; and he bolts straight up, chest out. Then he thinks twice and puts his glasses back on. Yes. you're right. It's his whole mien when he's Clark, meek and mild. Very good point.
"I'm here to fight for truth, justice and the *American* way."
Fun Fact: To obtain the musculature to convincingly play Superman, Christopher Reeve underwent a bodybuilding regime supervised by David Prowse, the man who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Difficult Actor Fact: Marlon Brando became notoriously difficult to work with in his later years (See: Apocalypse Now (1979)). He refused to memorize most of his lines in advance. In the scene where he puts infant Kal-El into the escape pod, he was actually reading his lines from the diaper of the baby. He told director Richard Donner that the only way to keep his performance fresh, and not over rehearsed, was to record the first time he read the lines. This was the only take.
Reverse Adaptation Fact: It was Marlon Brando's idea to have Jor-El wear the same "S" symbol on his clothes that Kal-El would later wear as Superman. The "S" that Marlon Brando wears on his white cloak looks the same as the one used in the television show Adventures Of Superman (1952); this was probably an homage. Since this film, the idea of the "S" symbol being a Kryptonian family crest of the House of El has been incorporated into Superman's comic books and subsequent adaptations.
One of my guilty pleasure movies is The Island of Dr. Moreau, where Marlon Brando played the title role. It's been said that MB and Val Kilmer joined forces to successfully make it the most difficult movie ever made.
I LOVE your insights! You are dead on about Reeves performance as Clark. I believe he's the only Superman who really has a solid Clark persona - not just a guy with glasses. I never realized how nuanced his character was until I saw this moment: 16:48. BRILLIANT! And, it's true, if they didn't spend so much time in the beginning - getting us to love Clark - the rest of the movies mean nothing to us.
The great John Williams did the score. He was on a roll in the 70's and 80's
The comic book at the beginning of Superman the Movie was drawn by Oliver Frey (uncredited) who drew it as a simple black ink mock up, but Richard Donner loved it immediately and used it without asking for the intended coloured version. Oliver died recently - I was at the funeral in September this year - and his funeral was televised to include all those, who couldn't attend, he'd influenced with his art and artistry that inspired so many graphic and computer game designers.
Just wanted to let you know how I appreciate you as a reactor - especially of the older (my generation) films. You get it spot on - especially your comment about the pacing. I just sat through another guy reacting to Alien and he just whinged the whole way through the first hour at how slow it was. You get the building of tension and investment in characters! I loved your comment about Christopher Reeve's acting too! Great reaction! Thanks, Chris!
I think I watched that same reactor! He had glasses, right?
I agree, he didn’t appreciate the timing or slow tension build in Alien. Some reactors just don’t get it!
@@nowthatisawesome5431 That's the one. I usually like him for his MCU reactions, but he just doesn't get the nuance of a movie - especially older movies - like Chris does!
Miss Teschmacher knew the plan - the missile heading towards Hackensack wasn't part of the original plan.
Hackensack being targeted was the result of Otis screwing up the coordinates of the first missile.
Since you were a Smallville fan growing up, you may already know this one. The voice of Jor-El in Smallville was voiced by Terence Stamp who plays General Zod in Superman and Superman 2. And jumping ahead, Lana Lang in Superman 3 was played by Annette O’Toole who was Martha Kent in Smallville. 😊
This is still my favorite and in my opinion the best Superman movie. It has such an epic scope, is beautifully shot, impeccably cast. I just adore it. So glad you're watching the Richard Donner cut of Superman II as well, which is my preferred version of the film. Can't wait to see your reaction to that one.
Christopher Reeve is, was, and forever will be Superman and I will accept no substitutes.
Lex Luther reading the interview in the paper reminds me of Gene Hackman reading the "Duck of Death" in Unforgiving.
I was 19 when this movie came out. Most of the cast was already famous. Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty and Jackie Cooper. But few had ever heard of Chris Reeve. Needless to say, the movie was a hit. And I believe what sets this Superman movie above the rest was the performances. The characters all had such strong personalities. And the dialog was brilliant. Unlike the last few Supe movies with blah acting. And all of that stuff Superman did at the end, i.e. the saving of the school bus on the bridge, replacing a broken track with his body, creating a rockslide to stop a raging river all came from the comic books,
The script was written by Tom Mankiewicz who was a frequent contributor to the James Bond movies. Bond loves stabbing the villain’s ego saying there is no way he can accomplish their master plan, goading his rival to reveal his plan to him. It doesn’t hurt that the Bond villain like Luthor, is to Egotistical to believe his plan won’t work.
That little girl on the train that Clark Kent waves to is a young Louise Lane which I'm sure you picked up on. The girl's mother (Noel Neill) played Louise Lane in the 1950's Adventures of Superman TV series, and the father (Kirk Alyn) played Superman in the 1940's/1950's movies of the time.
I am so glad you kept saying "I thought that happened in Superman 2!" because I kept thinking that throughout. Also, I never really understood what Clark Kent saw in Lois Lane. She was a driven, ambitious career woman, but she was also kind of hard and uncompromising, inconsiderate, and thoughtless. Margot Kidder did a wonderful job with her, though.
Lois is self-reliant enough to not be a codependent drag but still classically feminine enough to not be above needing saving. It's a good mix for someone like him. And I mean, he's pretty uncompromising about his beliefs himself. How those beliefs are different doesn't matter so much as Lois having a backbone.
I'm so excited you're watching Superman and Superman II. I requested this way back, Chris, and now it's here!! Great reaction as always. Thanks again. 👏👏🦸
This will always be my Superman. Dad introduced these to me as a kid, and took me to Superman IV, which doesn't compare to the original of course. But Christopher Reeve will always be my Superman like Kevin Conroy is my Batman
Your editing is so good, crisp and smooth at the same time. Fitting this movie into half an hour is a tough one but you did really good.
Really appreciate this. Thank you!
"He's more naked than I would have expected"
Indeed. The inhabitants of krypton also apparently practicise circumcision in their male infants; altough no one knows quite why)
On a more serious note, the naked boy is par for the course in 70s USA but thankfully since then parents are coming to their senses and circumcision is in its decline
I hope you'll be watching the theatrical cut of Superman II as well (so much better!).
Martha's maiden name is Clark.
I do prefer the newer versions that have Clark get his abilities during and following puberty.
The little girl on the train was young Lois Lane. Her mother was played by Noel Neill, who had played Lois Lane in the 1948 and 1950 movies with Kirk Alyn as Superman, the actor playing her father, sitting across from her on the train. Neill also played Lois in seasons 2-6 of the 1950s TV series, and Lex Luthor's sugar mama in Superman Returns (2008). The 1950s TV Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) played a bartender in the latter film.
The voice of the young Clark Kent was dubbed by Christopher Reeve. You might recognize the actor, Lance Guest, from Halloween II (1981) or The Last Starfighter (1984).
Krypton has been gone for thousands of years due to the effects of relativity on Clark's space travel.
Lois's monolog was the lyrics to the song playing in the background of the flying scene.
While I don't like everything in the Donner Superman films, I do really enjoy Reeves' portrayal of the character and how he shifts in and out of Clark. And Pa Kent's death is handled much better than Man of Steel 😅 because it truly is unstoppable and teaches Supes a valuable lesson.
Reeves is amazing. He’s two different people when he’s Clark and when he’s Superman.
He died too young! This came on tv around Christmas time in the UK.
One day I was in the tube (train), and stopped at a certain station in east London . In walked this majestic being… it was Terence Stamp! (General Zod). Train was had plenty of empty seats, but I couldn’t believe he came and sat next to me! I kept looking up at him and I looked around and no one battered an eyelid. I tried to be respectful and said hello. He nudged me and said ‘Hello you’ and asked what my name was. We chatted for about 6/7 stops (flew by). Talked about his childhood in East London and he was impressed that I knew this etc, then we exchanged how wonderful it was to chat and as I was leaving, he said “ goodbye and my name” he remembered. I was touched. I had a grin on my face for the rest of the day!
I love that story! Thanks for sharing.
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I love the older woman in the train while young Clark is running is the Lois Lane from the 50's tv series. Jimmy Olson from that TV series didnt make his cameo until Superman Returns as the Bartender.
One of the greatest movies ever made very classic Superman directed by Richard Donner starring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine and the iconic music score by John Williams. Thank you bro great reaction awesome and don't forget reacts the sequels Superman II, III, Supergirl (spin-off) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace👍👍👍👍
I miss Christopher Reeve. I saw Somewhere in Time last month and he was great in that movie too. Fell down the rabbit hole and found that he played the piano really well. Henry Cavill is a wonderful actor, but Christopher Reeve will always be my Superman. (And Adam West is my Batman).
I remember watching the Batman movie with Adam west over and over as a kid. ☺️
My mom's boss of 47 years (he died recently) literally wrote the words to Can You Read My Mind. He may have won an Oscar for it - he had a ton of Oscars on his mantlepiece. I don't know how to feel about that. He also wrote What Kind of Fool Am I which I find to be an excellent song. He probably wrote something for the OG Willy Wonka. Brits are so doggone clever.
Kudos for knowing about the Donner version of the second movie. When he had a falling out with the Salkinds, the director they brought in to finish it (Richard Lester) just made stuff up. A prime example is the disappearing stuff in the Fortress of Solitude. What superpower was that. And Zod's pointing his finger at a civilian, lifting him up in the air. It's like he was directing a live-action cartoon with no canon.
I really so wish we had donners true vision for Superman 1 and 2. Yes, the world would have still turned back time in 2, but they feel so cohesive in tone that I really like it.
I saw this when i was 13 yrs old on New Years eve. I recall forgetting i was in a theater and was transported into the DC universe for the first time.
George reeves, and Christopher Reeve are my supermen..May they R.I.P. And Noel Neill as Lois Lane who lived to be 95 years old. She played Lois Lanes mother Ella in this movie. They were on the train when little Lois saw Superman running along side it..And Phyllis Coates would later fill in the role of Ella in Lois & Clark'. Phyllis Coates is still alive at the young age of 95..Thanx for the walk down memory lane. I remember the lines wrapped around the corner waiting to see Superman on the big screen. Enjoy your weekend. Take care..xx
Yes! You are 100% correct. Christopher does the best and most convincing portrayal of Clarke Kent, that you can totally believe no one suspects he is Superman. 🥰
Fun fact, the girl on the train is a young Lois Lane, her mother played Lois on the tv show.
All those things I can do. All those powers. And I couldn't even save him.
I love the screenplay by Mario Puzo ( The Godfather). It allowed each character to be shown and understood without slapstick tropes. Lois is attractive without being a distraction. She has weird dietary habits and can't spell. Let Luthor is a ruthless villain whose main goal is real estate development. Foreshadowing Donald Trump. Christopher Reeve unstood that the character development was Clark Kent. He had to let the audience know and understand who that person is in their life. Clark is nice, does usual things like financially cares for his mother, says Swell, dresses like he is selling brushes door to door.
Hey Chris! Dude, you picked one of my favorites! This was literally the third movie I saw in a theater when I was 6 years old in 1978. I became a lifelong fn of Christopher Reeve as a result. I really like Henry Cavill and Brandon Routh...but Reeve will always be MY Superman. So...thanks for doing this one!
- 2:34 - Richard Donner was filming 1 and 2 at the same time, long before anyone else would try to do it. The reason why there is a "Donner Cut" of 2 is that at a certain point the Salkinds (who were producing the films) had demanded Donner stop filming and finish the first film for release. They never gave Donner an exact budget, and the schedule was bloated because of the massive amount of effects shots needed. When the first film was a HUGE success, they fired Donner, and hired Richard Lester to finish 2...and he promptly changed things, keeping about a third of Donner's footage, I could be wrong on that but...everyone, including the late Richard Donner are convinced that had 1 tanked at the box office, they would have forced Donner to finish the second. The Salkinds were kinda slimy. There are lots of stories about their business dealings...almost none of them are flattering!
- 5:32 - The lady next to the little girl on the train was Noel Neill, the actress who played Lois Lane in the 1950s opposite George Reeves as Superman.
- 5:53 - Yes. The young Clark was played by Jeff East. However, Christopher Reeve dubbed all of the dialogue for him. East was actually blonde, so they have him in a wig.
- 7:37 - Relativity. The distance between Krypton and Earth was traversed in about three years, which kept Kal-El small...but given the advanced tech of Krypton, it could have been several thousand light years distant from here.
- 10:18 - The plainclothes cop is actor Steve Kahan. He shows up in quite a few of Richard Donner's movies, especially as Captain Ed Murphy in the 'Lethal Weapon' series. Kahan is also Donner's cousin, and this was his film debut.
- 16:00 - The poem is actually a song, written by John Williams and Leslie Bricusse. Around the same time the movie came out, singer Maureen McGovern recorded it, and it is much, much better sung. I really dislike this part of the film. I wish they had used the McGovern version instead. Bricusse co-wrote the songs for 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', the theme song to 'Goldfinger', and many other stage and screen musicals and stand-alone songs.
The commanding officer of the first missile convoy who did mouth-to-mouth with Miss Teschmacher was Larry Hagman, who was famous for the sitcom 'I Dream of Jeannie' in the 1960s and was about to become huge as the star of the prime-time soap 'Dallas' as J.R. Ewing.
The missile tech who tried to abort the missiles was John Ratzenberger, who was in a lot of films made in England at this time. He is best known for being know-it-all postman Cliff Klaven on the sitcom 'Cheers' as well as doing many voices for the Pixar animated films. He shows up again in 'Superman II', 'The Empire Strikes Back', and a few others.
Looking forward to 'The Donner Cut'...and 'Contact'.
This movie is Hollywood gold!
Lex did not *intend* to target Hackensack. Remember Otis entered the coordinate wrong (117 vs 11/7). Otis' screw up saved Lois and millions of others.
Didn’t Eve go back in and fix the coordinates?
@@CasualNerdReactions No, Tessmacher entered the coordinates for the California missile. The key to know this is that Otis' missile was being transported and guarded by the Army and Tessmacher's missile it was the Navy.
Such a wholesome movie. It is a bit of a shame that the perceived silliness of comics plagued adaptations up until X-men and Spider-man (honorable mention to Unbreakable) but at least here the dynamic between Lois and Clark was very fittingly framed as an ode to 1930s-40s screwball comedies. Either way it is still a great movie.
Young Clark is played by an actor called Jeff (something I can't remember), and he was angry to find out that Christopher Reeve (RIP), the older Superman, replaced his voice acting. Clark is bumbling, slouching, stammering, etc... Superman doesn't. The glasses has (almost) nothing to do with his costume. Not to mention his Clark suit is larger than his Superman suit. "Can you read my mind" is actually a song sung by Maureen McGovern, Margot Kidder, however, had no singing voice.
Epic film. All Superman films should be this epic.
Oh Christopher Reeve. Theeee Superman in my opinion. He plays both parts so well. Awesome movie. It stands the test of time❤.
It was a box office and critical success making $300 million dollars ($900-$1 billion dollars today) against a $50 million dollar budget.
Before Christopher Reeve was cast s The Man of Steel, Sylvester Stallone, Warren Beatty, Jon Voight, Neil Diamond, Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Nick Nolte, Muhammad Ali, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, Patrick Wayne, Bruce (Caitlyn)Jenner, James Caan, James Brolin, Lyle Wagonner, Perry King, Charles Bronson, Jeff Bridges, Jan Michael Vincent, Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken, David Soul, and Steve McQueen were considered.
Before Margot Kidder was cast as Lois Lane, Anne Archer, Leslie Anne Warren, Shirley McLaine, Liza Minnelli, Christina Raines, Barbara Streisand, Natalie Wood, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stockard Channing, Susan Blakely, April Byron, Carrie Fisher, and Jessica Lange were considered.
Before Richard Donner directed the movie, Francis Ford Coppola, John Guillerman, Robert Aldrich, Norman Jewison, Sam Peckinpah, Guy Hamilton, William Friedkin, Richard Lester, Peter Yates, Ronald Neame, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Mark Robson were considered.
Edward Asner, Martin Balsam, Walter Matthau, Jason Robards, Laurence Tierney, Eli Eallach, and Charlton Heston were considered for Perry White.
Love when Christopher Reeve showed up in the Smallville series.
Yes! That was legendary and it was his episode when they played the theme song or the first time. 👏👏👏
In case no one else mentions it in the comments, the original end of this movie was to show the missile Superman tossed into space be the one which frees the Phantom Zone criminals - not an unrelated bomb added in by the new director Richard Lester to pad his own footage in to get the director's credit. Many people - including me - believe the unused Richard Donner footage (as used in the director's cut for II) was superior to Lester's patently more foolish story plots.
Dude, you were very amusing in this one
Such a great movie...and thanks for such a great reaction Chris!
Be sure to watch the theatrical version of Superman 2, NOT the Richard Donner cut. While the director's cut is an interesting experiment, it's really inconsistent and will be confusing because the ending is repeated.
I love you for posting this ‼️ Reeves is and was the only, the best Superman ever and may he RIP ❤️
I agree!
Loved it when you said about how we had to care about Clark Kent to care about Superman. For me, that's one of the many things they didn't understand when they were making Man of Steel. There's a lot more besides. As for the Donner cut of Superman II, I found it interesting to watch but ultimately inferior to the Lester version. Not to mention having the last scene, in the diner, actually make no sense in the context of the script. I won't spoil it, although the scene is in the Lester version, where it makes perfect sense.
I like the donner cut a smidge more than the Lester version for a handful of reasons, but you have to do some mental gymnastics to get there lol and I agree the last scene does NOT fit in the donner cut and should have been removed.
Saw at the theater still my favorite, thanks Chris!
“This is a lot more of the destruction of Krypton than I remember.”
Could be- Donner’s original S1 cut was almost three hours long and shown on television, where we get a LOT more of Krypton, space, Lex’s lair, and California destruction.
When the movie went to “08 Blu-Ray, Warner created a Special Edition, with some of the essential missing TV-cut footage.
The full TV cut is on Blu-ray from 2017
I have seen this movie dozens and dozens of times, and I never noticed that Lois said "swell" after she and Clark were held-up and pulled into the alley. Thanks for pointing this out! Loved it!
5:01 When I was a kid, I really wanted a Battlestar Galactica wastepaper bin that I had seen, but they only had the Superman one left. It had the Superman logo on one side, and this image of the kid lifting the truck on the other side. Why not an image of the actual Superman? What a weird design choice! I was less than satisfied with my parents' purchase.
I wish Glenn Ford had a bigger part in the movie. He was great as his human father.
Christopher Reeve will always be Superman for me! 🥰
One of my fave films of all-time. I saw this when it came out (I was 11) w/my dad. When Clark first changes into Superman and runs into a close-up revealing the S under his shirt the crowd ERUPTED! When he saves Lois in the helicopter EVERYONE was on their feet stomping them and cheering! I have NEVER had that kind of cinematic experience SINCE. *Goosebumps* Such an iconic turn by Christopher Lee (the ONLY Superman) and a great ensemble including Margot Kidder's feisty scatterbrained Lois Lane. The Gold Standard of all superhero films and all practical f/x! Gene Hackman having a field day as Lex Luthor is a hoot. My fave moment is when Lois has died and you see Superman's anguish zoom right into the sky - so emotional (and his memory of Jonathan's death 'All those powers; and I couldn't even save him' - oh and Martha Clark Kent - not her middle but her surname ;d) Great job Chris - glad you enjoyed this (again!) The Donner cut is great too & frankly all you need is the 1st sequel (the last 2 are terrible).
You mean Christopher Reeve.
Yeah, they put a fake nose on young Clark and overdubbed him with Chris Reeve.
Yes, different actor playing Clark as a teen, but it's still obviously Christopher Reeves' voice.
Although I love the score by John Williams (even though I love the sequel's score by Ken Thorne, with themes by John Williams), Jerry Goldsmith was originally going to score "Superman". It was that Donner/Goldsmith combo. Years later, Goldsmith scored "Supergirl", which could've been very much his ideas for "Superman".
Goldsmith is great, it’ll have to check out that score.
@@CasualNerdReactions Yes, Goldsmith is awesome. Hope you enjoy the "Supergirl" score.
The "saving a cat in a tree" scene has a bit of uncomfortableness as if you listen closely the girl goes inside, tells her mother what happens and is slapped for lying.
I kind of imagine that the mother apologised when she picked up the Daily Planet the next morning. 🦸
@@Yngvarfo I kind of imagine that Superman with his super hearing heard the whole thing and noped out.
Oh geez. Glad I missed that.
What a fun reaction! So happy you're watching the Donner cut of the second movie! In that cut, you will see the turning the world backwards: the two movies were filmed at the same time, and the turning the world backwards was supposed to originally be in the second movie, not the first! So that's the only "drawback" of the Superman II Donner cut. The improvements outweigh the one drawback and elevate what was for me always a disappointing sequel. (Gene Hackman still quit in the middle of Superman II, in protest of Donner's firing, so we can' t do anything about that!).
So how was Lois supposed to be saved in the first movie?
HEY Chris!! First, I'm all caught up now on movies I've seen that you've reacted to. There are some I haven't seen for one reason or another, but will hopefully get to one day and I'll go back and watch your reaction to them.
Second...Christopher Reeve...OMG, thy BEST Superman ever and such an amazing actor and real life human being. I'd get a Christmas card every year from him and his wife when they had started their foundation, that I had joined, after Christopher's accident. The cards continued after Christopher passed away with just Dana's name, keeping the foundation going, but unfortunately stopped after her passing. I was always excited about getting a card from them, like I was the only one ever...ya know. It was the closest I got to who I thought was a real Super Man. RIP Christopher and Dana
ANYWAY, I'm glad you went back and rewatched this and reacted to it. My first action hero!!
Just a HINT...there's a movie called Above Suspicion from 1995, where Christopher plays a paralyzed cop. The movie premiered on HBO on May 21, 1995. May 27, 1995, a week after the film's release, Reeve himself became a quadriplegic after suffering a spinal cord injury in a horse riding accident.
I can't wait to see more!!
Have a great day!
~Dawne
Amazon feat! Thanks for watching through, I’m thoroughly impressed. 👏👏
4:10 The one thing nobody understands is: WHY didnt Superman's parents join him in escaping Krypton? They do have the technology to do it ... and "the desaster" wouldnt have announced itself five minutes before it happens, so they could have built a spacecraft for each member of the family or one that is big enough for all.
tl;dr That doesnt make sense and I like logic.
Saw on its original release...when I was only/already 9 years old🎩
Amazing childhood experience!
ty for this vid. awesome reaction. Awesome movie :) wow. this movie is my childhood best movie. holy heck and i forgot about it..ty for for this.
Terrific film until the ridiculous ending. Superman 2 is the best of the series.
Saw it in the theater on Acid ( same with The Shining LOL )
I *think* Lois's "Can you read my mind" monologue is supposed to fit as lyrics to the tune that accompanies the scene. I feel a bit too awkward whenever I try to see if it fits, though. 😳😁
Hackensack wasn't an intended target. That was only a result of Otis messing up the coordinates, though Lex figured out afterwards where the wrong coordinates would send it. At least that's how I interpreted it. The missile that Miss Tessmacher (sp?) reprogrammed was the other one, which went to California as planned.
There was something to say about the "killing Lois and turning back time to save her" thing, but since you've decided to watch the Donner cut of Superman II, I think it's best to leave it until then. Let's just say that that was the first sign of Donner's conflict with the Salkinds.
If I recall correctly Margot Kidder was supposed to sing that part but she can't sing for crap so they settle for a recitation...
@@gen77c - Yeah, but if the scene is cringy now, how would it be if she actually burst out into song?
The weird monologue Lois has in the sky was due to casting. At various times they were auditioning actresses who could sing, so they had Maestro John Williams to compose a song. Their ultimate choice, Margot Kidder, couldn't sing. Consequently, rather than dropping it, they made it more like a spoken-word poem.
Various fan editors over the years have substituted it with Maestro Williams' instrumental-only version. IMHO, the music-only version works better. However, over the years a number of singers have performed the original song. A good example is here:
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Fascinating. A song might have been less awkward, but I do wish they’d dropped it.
@@CasualNerdReactions several singers have performed it over the years. Here's a good one:
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Wow. I forgot how very 70s this was.
I didn't grow up with it and I think animation is a better vehicle for superhero stuff almost always and even I was smitten. It really is so likable. Although, sorry Hackman I love ya, but his Lex Luthor is a really unintimidating villain. My only issue.
I loved the original christopher reeve superman movie. the later instalments got gradually less good, but the first one was awesome, as is the score. I first saw it as a little girl in the 80's but the effects looked great even then, im actually surprised the movie is from '78 and not newer.
Reeve is pretty dashing as superman, well cast. He has this boyish quality that the, debatably more handsome, henry cavill superman lacks. (can i have both, mommy? LOL )
Reeves indeed acts the double character with clark kent rather well, although i always felt this movie's kent was a bit over the top weak and clumsy, like no normal man who is that helpless.
Apart from lois' death shocking me a bit bcs when i saw this movie i had never seen one of the good people die so graphically with her struggling under the rocks, I love the end where he arrives too late to save lois and just gets so emotional that his love makes him capable of flying off with a heart breaking scream and turning back time. "if i must face this reality, reality will have to make room, because im not having it" Whats more romantic than that?
Classic!!!!!!
The best Superman film ^.-.^
Christopher Reeve ruined Superman... Because after this No one else can play him as incredibly as him. He embodies Superman, he BECAME Superman for generations to come and everyone else are pale imitations. He is sadly missed.
Well said.
Now you were going to be inundated by fanboys telling you to watch the Donner Cut of Superman 2. Don’t. The only thing worth watching were the Marlon Brandon scenes that were left unused when he demanded too much money… and definitely ruined the anticipation and effect Superman’s entrance in the battle with the villains.
I saw these when I was a kid, and really only did this so I could watch the dinner cut.
@@CasualNerdReactions - "Dinner cut"? 🤣 The dangers of unchecked autocorrect, I suppose.
The Donner Cut has other things going for it, too, like a a different view of the Lois and Superman romance. I think it is a good look into what might have been, but it's clearly not a finished movie. Only the best that could be done with the existing footage.
I haven't seen the Donnor cut, but my impression is that the most important improvement was cutting out some of the sillier comedy and use of Super powers that were in in the theatrical version.
@@ThreadBomb - There was that, but also some additions. The Marlon Brando scenes have been mentioned, but there are also some changes in the Clark/Lois romance. Particularly, new scenes of her attempts to expose him as Superman, some of which actually were taken from test footage. How the Kryptonians were released is also totally different, and actually ties in with Superman 1 more.
@@Yngvarfo Personally I like the terrorist sequence in the theatrical cut, as it implied or added an offscreen backstory that took place after the first movie.
The second movie probably took place maybe a couple of years after the first one. People had gotten used to Superman and his exploits. Lois' reckless actions in hiding under the elevator implied she had done similar stunts before, and Superman had rescued her before more than once, which tied to her later observation that Clark was never around when Superman showed up.
Wait'll u see "Superman II." The theatrical version.
Watch the animated Fims for more variations. Man of Steel is the only other variant. Other Super heroes whop started off as pure good, Batman 66 and if you want to see the evolution of movie effects see Batman 41, The Amazing Spider-Man 1977, Spider-Man Strikes Back 1978, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk Returns, Captain America 1979 , nick fury agent of shield, Howard the Duck, The Meteor Man, Adventures of Captain Marvel 1941, Superman and the Mole Men, wonder woman 1974, Steel, Catwoman, Justice League of America 1997 , Legends of the Superheroes, mystery men, Blank Man, Hancock, My Super ExGirlfriend , Hellboy, Swamp Thing, Masters of the Universe , Conan the Barbarian, Beast Master, The Toxic Avenger, Spawn, the Phantom, The Shadow, , The Rocketeer, sky captain and the world of tomorrow, Zoom Academy, Sky High, Sharkboy and Lava Girl, Robocop, punisher, blade, TMNT, The Mask, The Tick, Power rangers, The Green Hornet, Zorro, the Lone Ranger, Star Kid, Inspector Gadget, Dick Tracy, The Crow, Dark Man, Judge Dredd, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Guyver, Doctor Mordrid, Dr. Strange 1978, Barb Wire, Electra, Dare Devil, Tank Girl, Astro Boy, Ben Ten, Constantine, Underdog, Ghost Rider, Chronicle, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Sherlock Holms, The Vigilante, Tintin, the bat, and The Man Who Laughs these are all heroes of some sort who missed out on the hype of the MCU, Tim Burton, Spider-Man and X-Men and one film on that list is actually a hit, I just added it to show off the evolution of super heroes thing.
I think the word you're looking for to describe this movie is "campy". there are a couple of things that bother me from a logic point of view. one, a 500 Megaton bomb would have not been achieveable( the biggest detonated was a Russian bomb @ 50MT). the other is near the ending when Superman is turning the Earth. he is orbiting at 6 or 7 times a second, and is then approaching the speed of light. if that's the case, then why couldn't he have chased down both bombs?
The script is less than perfect, but you have to feel sorry for any actor who plays the part after Christopher Reeve.
I'm a old man now. I grew up with the Superman comics of the 1960s I saw this the day it came out a few days before I entered the military. This will always be my SUPERMAN and he does not KILL! All the later supermen are trash!
watch the movie my little princess 2011.
Great movie. You watch a real Superman movie not the modern abomination by Zack Snyder. Zack Snyder Superman is not Superman with all do respect to Henry Cavil who got screwed by a director who has no Idea what Superman is and what he represent. Christoper Reeve Rip is the gold standard of playing Superman no one else ever come close. You should really watch the real Superman 2 not the Donner Cut which is incomplete and ruins the first movie.
These are technically rewatches, although I’m always surprised with how little I remember. I only selected it so I could watch the donner cut, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
It always annoys me that people assume that a movie's director also wrote the script. In fact, Man of Steel was written by David Goyer, with Christopher Nolan, as an attempt to replicate the success of Nolan's Batman trilogy. Several directors were considered for the movie, but they would all have had to use that script, and have Nolan as one of the movie's producers.
@@ThreadBomb Snyder, Nolan and Goyar are all to blame of trying to make Superman into Batman. Superman is a hero not an anti hero. It is not just the stupid script. It is about the tone and the visual story which is more Snyder department . The all dark depressing realistic tone is a Nolan influence and the use of very dark colors and the horrible slow modes are the use of Snyder,