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I think this was like the first movie I ever saw. I was quite an impressionable young lad, so this movie has pretty much shaped the course of my life. Not as much as Star Wars, but almost as much. There's only been like 3 years in my entire life where I wasn't into this movie (and the other ones to a lesser degree).
I'm looking at going into filmmaking and I've gotta say...this is one film that inspires me to make them. Richard Donner's just a great filmmaker. It may look like he's losing it, since I hear Timeline wasn't that great, but one dud out of a solid dozen films isn't half bad. Once, before I die, I'd love to see Superman on the big screen. I've seen it on the small screen a lot, even in 5.1 and widescreen, but not larger-than-life in a theater. I'd probably cry, piss/crap my pants, and vomit because it'd be so cool. Especially at the end, when the warden says, "This country's safe again, Superman. Thanks to you!" "No, warden. Don't thank me. We're all part of the same team. Good night!" Then he flies away, with the spotlight following him, then it cuts to the shot of him flying in space then he flies above the camera smiling at the audience. Wow. It's just like the perfect ending for a movie like that. It had the perfect opening, too, with the comic book. So many superhero movies don't seem to explore the "hero" part of the characters anymore. Spiderman's come close in both films, but they're still not close to capturing it like Superman. It's kind of sad, too, because you have more fun as a 20-something watching Superman than you do watching Spiderman as someone your own age. At least that's how I feel. I get more of a thrill from the helicopter rescue than the parade bombing by Green Goblin. Flying under the San Andreas fault and then saving the school bus and the train were more exciting than the train fight between Spidey and Doc Ock. Spiderman just seems to be relying on formula made by movies like Superman and Batman, where Superman was faster than a locomotive and leaped tall buildings in a single bound. The end of Superman II was more of the typical superhero movie we have nowadays in Spiderman and The Hulk and X-Men, where superhero make super crashes through walls and roads and windows.
Another thing I like about Superman is that it wasn't all about his use of power for the shear thrill of it. He used it for good. Spiderman's gotten better at that. In the first movie, it didn't seem like he did much of it. In Spidey 2, saving the little kids was freakin sweet. In Superman, he saved Lois twice, got a cat out of a tree, saved Air Force One, saved a schoolbus, caught several burglars, saved a train full of people, saved Jimmy Olsen, and put Lex Luthor behind bars. What did the X-Men do? "Ooooh...I can shoot a red laser out of my eyes!" "I have a metal endoskeleton with claws fused to my regular skeleton!" Wow. Truly amazing. (Yeah, right.) Really, this all stems down to DC being better than Marvel. But that's another story.
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! there's a reason there are much more marvel movies than dc movies.
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