And Marlon Brando totally earned his paycheck for it, too.
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(for those young ones here, Marlon Brando was paid the then outrageous sum of $3.7 million plus significant points on the movie for his 10 minutes screentime - a paycheck which caused no small clucking of tongues at the time)
They even re-used Marlon Brando for the new film. And I thought that was the best thing about it. :o
The inability to spell goes back to the D.C. comics days? Okay, then I have to let that complaint go. In the world of Superman, that is canon and one cannot argue with canon.
Brando was good. Ned Beatty was better. 
I used my handy-dandy remote to 4x times scan through the wretched "can you read my mind? " sequence. However, I did recall that she falls at some point and made sure I watched that in realtime because it is intriguing in terms of 'ole Supe’s powers.
Is it his touch that makes things around him as light as he is? Does that explain how he catches Lois Lane in the air as she falls from the helicopter, then catches the helicopter with his arm outstretched moments later? Does Lois not feel suddenly light, almost helium-filled? Are his powers so great that he can manage the helicopter by grasping it’s landing strut without having the chopper crack loose from his grasp because of the structural stresses on the aircraft from hanging FROM it’s landing strut?
And, if this is the case, then his other feats don’t make much sense. He helps land Air Force One because it has lightning blow its engine off ( easily the most bullshit moment. I believed a man could fly. I did. I could NOT believe that Air Force One was the only plane in the entire sky not using the universally used skin transmission device to allow a lightning strike to travel along the skin of the aircraft and exit out from small metal rods that leave a plane pointing backwards, and down and away at an angle. Aside from that, if Supe could hold the helicopter that way, or hold Lois by his fingertips as they did their Flight Of Romantic Fancy ( FORF ), then why did he have to fly into the torn-out hollow where the engine USED to be? Why didn’t he just reach out and hold the broken edge of the wingtip in his hand and assist the plane in that manner?
If the ability to remain airborne was transmitted by touch and not angular support, most of his amazing stuff from later on in the film falls apart a bit. I am thinking that Richard Donner directed “Superman: The Movie”, but Agnes Nixon directed the FORF sequence.
Huh. When I saw the 1978 release, I saw the little girl waving to Clark, but I didn’t see the full scene with her mom scoffing at her until it was on TV in 1981 or whenever. Thought it was unnecessary when I did see it, in fact. At least the mom could have just said “Lois” instead of hitting the audience over the head with it.
I love Gene Hackman as Lex. “When I was six years old, my father said to me–”
“Get out!”
“Ha ha. Before that. He said, 'Son, stocks will rise and fall. Utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good. But they will always need land, and they will pay through the nose to get it.” I like Kevin Spacey in most things, but in SR, he did not even come close to filling Hackman’s Bruno Maglis.
Another aspect I like is the ordinary citizens’ reaction to Supes. Like the exchange between the cop who was presented with the human-fly thief, and his lieutenant’s 180 from chuckling to astounded when he sees Superman flying away. And the kids on the schoolbus that almost falls off the Golden Gate Bridge. And the piece de resistance: the late-working guy in the office building who hears a noise, looks over his shoulder, then says, “Nah!” and goes back to what he’d been doing.
Also, I don’t think poor spelling necessarily makes someone dumb, or even illiterate. The impression I got from Kidder’s Lois was that she had so much going on, she just didn’t have time to sweat perfect spelling. There are plenty of people who are good at what they do in aggregate, so much so that small shortcomings are forgivable.
It was Jimmy Olsen, in various issues of Superman Family around that time, who was a lousy speller.
I had indeed forgotten the “Can you read my mind?” bit and shall endeavor to restore that blessed gap.
It was shot at the same time- they were meant to accompany each other. Jor-El banishes Zod and his cronies to the Forbidden Zone at the start of the first film, they escape in the second and seek revenge. Donner was fired as director of Superman II for some reason and replaced with A Hard Day’s Night director Richard Lester, who added some humorous scenes which don’t really go with the tone of the movie (The KFC cashier running out to give change to a man being blown away in a windstorm, the “Tilt” joke, etc.) Warner Bros. allowed Donner to re-edit the film, and his version (alongside Lester’s as well as the other three Superman films) will be released on new special-edition DVDs Tuesday alongside Superman Returns (as well as a boxed set featuring all six movies plus bonuses, including a reprint Superman comic book and a replica Daily Planet announcing Superman’s return).
The ending of the first movie was actually the ending of the second movie :eek:
Supes kissed you?
Cite? I searched that page for the word “Superman” (TLDR), but nothin’.
BTW, I just ordered the restored 4-disc set for the video store I work in.
Ahhh. That was a joke. That sequence is so oogley poogley mushy gushy, that I ( in a lame attempt at humor ) attributed it to the Queen of Soap Operas.
My favorite, as much as it says about me as a person, is the little girl who gets smacked by her mother for telling lies about a flying man. Makes me laugh every time, and I always feel horrible for it.
I laughed too.
Oddly, I felt no guilt. Look, I mean seriously- it’s an OFF CAMERA sound effect done for a laugh. I do not strike my kids, do not advocate striking kids, etc. I’m a pacifist.
It’s a movie. It was funny.
I never felt guilt until my sister-in-law looked at me with true horror in her face when I giggled like a loon at that scene.
But my sister-in-law’s something of a tightass. I will not feel guilty again.