Superman- the movie!

[elli]

After watching this, I know why the movie hasn't really stuck with me from last viewing.
IMO, Smallville is soooo much better. OK, it's a TV show, so everything is more fleshed out, but it just didn't work that well fro me.

My main thing is Lex. He is simply a diabolic devil. There is no reason for what he does except that he can. Why the hell is he hiding anyways and why would be have the two stupidest people working for him. And how in ghell could he know about the Kryptonite. ack.

I dunno. MR and TW are so much better than this. More interesting. Same goes for the Kents. and I'm not only talking acting here. Maybe it's just not my generation but it's the whole look of the film. I just couldn't identify that much.

Comments

[lexalot.livejournal.com]

I can understand your disinterest. If I had not seen the movie when I was a child, I would be much less impressed by it, but alas I am a Superman fan from birth, and Christopher Reeve was The Man of Steel. I was never too impressed with Lois, but I liked her anyway. I was a little kid rooting for the hero to get the girl.
The first movie is a lot less cool than the second, which is Niagara Falls, Lois finding out, Clark sacrificing his powers, triple threats in the form of Kryptonian criminals, and all that good stuff. They all have their campy value, but they are considered classics.
The highlight of the third one for me was the emergence of Bad Superman which paved the way for Red Clark on SV, and then in the fourth, I liked the romance and the (however campy) race to save the world from itself message.
I love SV so much, it's hard for me not to say that it is so much better than the movies, but the films have a special place in my heart, and especially, their lead star :)

That's my opinion. I understand what you mean, and I think it is kind of necessary to have been exposed to the films in their own time to fully appreciate them--I mean, back then, no one had ever really flown in a film before, as they say in the behind-the-scenes features, so these are classics, albeit dated classics, but classics nonetheless. I guess it's the same way the original Star Wars trilogy looks compared with the prequels.