I was watching some old Superman movie serials. It looked like 1940s or 1950s. It did not look like George Reeves. The writing, acting, plot, action sequences, and special effects were bad bad bad.
When Supes flew, he would convert from a live person to a cartoon and whisk around the sky. When he landed, he would convert back to a live person.
The actors’ shadows were cast on the blue screens. So, in the backgound, you might see a lawn and a building behind the actor, but overlapping the whole thing was a showdow from the actor, ruining the whole effect, not that a blue screen is the best effect anyway.
All the license plates in Metropolis were California plates. I never knew Metropolis was in California. Also, the sidewalks and streets of Metropolis were surprisingly empty for such a big city… strikingly similar to the Universal Studios lot.
At one point, the villian has Jimmy Olson on a conveyor belt, headed into a hot flaming furnace. The villian also has a handful of Kryptonite. Supes shows up and positions himself between the villian and the open furnace. The villian throws the kryptonite at Supes, and of course, Supes ducks, allowing the Kryptonite to go sailing into the furnace. Dumb.
At another point, the government is transporting a death ray from point A to point B. Of course, the transport of this dangerous weapon is published in the paper. Also, we see later that the vehicle transporting the weapon is not escorted by any security.
The best (worst) part is when the villian disguises himself as an older professor or scientist or maybe the inventor of the death ray, luring Lois into bringing him to the secret death ray machine so he can check it out and maybe steal it or something. Clark Kent gets his hands on a photo of the villian in disguise. He uses his X-ray vision on the photo and is able to see the villian’s real face through the disguise in the photo. :smack: Supes to the rescue!
In all, it was pretty awful, yet somehow more entertaining than the movie Daredevil.
