Superman (1978)
(Superman: The Movie)
Country: US/GB/CAN/SW/FR
Technical: col/scope 142m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford
Synopsis:
An orphan from the planet Krypton is sent to Earth to grow up as one of us, and becomes the world's protector.
Review:
Held back for so long by the problem of getting its superhero to fly, Warners finally launched the comic book era from which we are still reeling with this inflated pudding of a movie (cf. Snyder's Man of Steel for succinctness). There are good things in it: Reeve himself is arguably the ideal Superman, certainly the perfect Clark Kent, which he astutely pitches as a Gotham City Harold Lloyd. And Williams' score is a winner. But for a film posited on effects they are still nowhere near good enough.
(Superman: The Movie)
Country: US/GB/CAN/SW/FR
Technical: col/scope 142m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford
Synopsis:
An orphan from the planet Krypton is sent to Earth to grow up as one of us, and becomes the world's protector.
Review:
Held back for so long by the problem of getting its superhero to fly, Warners finally launched the comic book era from which we are still reeling with this inflated pudding of a movie (cf. Snyder's Man of Steel for succinctness). There are good things in it: Reeve himself is arguably the ideal Superman, certainly the perfect Clark Kent, which he astutely pitches as a Gotham City Harold Lloyd. And Williams' score is a winner. But for a film posited on effects they are still nowhere near good enough.
(Superman: The Movie)
Country: US/GB/CAN/SW/FR
Technical: col/scope 142m
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford
Synopsis:
An orphan from the planet Krypton is sent to Earth to grow up as one of us, and becomes the world's protector.
Review:
Held back for so long by the problem of getting its superhero to fly, Warners finally launched the comic book era from which we are still reeling with this inflated pudding of a movie (cf. Snyder's Man of Steel for succinctness). There are good things in it: Reeve himself is arguably the ideal Superman, certainly the perfect Clark Kent, which he astutely pitches as a Gotham City Harold Lloyd. And Williams' score is a winner. But for a film posited on effects they are still nowhere near good enough.