Christopher Reeve will most likely always be my favorite Superman, probably for the same reason Adam West is my favorite Batman*, it's not because of how they carry the characters or the scenarios that get involved in, but because of the respect and admiration they give to there repective roles.
They become something more than just a comic book character. They are role-models, somebody you can take good morals from. They encapsulate what DC Comics were about from the beginning, Larger than Life characters that gave the average man inspiration. That's especially true of Superman the larger-than-life character who with his infinite power could easily conquer the whole world, run it as he sees fit and be corrupted by the simple joys of power. But despite all he could possibly take, he remains humble and simple. Defending good wherever he can, never taking advantage of anybody and often paying a personal price for it. A Story of Hope!
Although I have to admit Superman does let Temptation take control of him for a bit in the movie, with his love for Lois Lane. But even that doesn't last long as he reverts back to what he was and even at the end of the movie sacrifices his ultimate happiness to ensure the will-being of Lois Lane.
I love that Gene Hackman still gets top billing even though Christopher Reeve is far more popular at this point within the Superman movies. Lex Luthor really doesn't have that much to do besides discovering the Fortress of Solitude and escaping prison (which isn't much compared to his last film). I'm pretty sure Zod at some point would have found out where Superman lived on his own.
What happened to Miss Teschmacher she was with Luthor in the beginning and then somewhere around the halfway mark she just disappears.
So it's your standard affair, three criminals break into the Crystal Empire kill one guard steal a magical red Crystal and break it. I have no idea why General Zod broke the red Crystal or what the red Crystal even did but it's kind of Injustice towards the people of Krypton will not be tolerated by the Kryptonian Politburo.
Immediately (and I do mean immediately) the three criminals are apprehended and on trial. All of in the span of about a minute, it is from this point on that they are banished to ''The Phantom Zone'' which essentially means they get stuck inside a big old square and go out floating into space. Not the most secure way to deal with your criminals but you know those kryptonians; ''lock them up Frawley the key and God will figure it out for himself.''
The character of Clark Kent has always been interested in the Superman movies, he's kind of a hybrid of the old thinking and new. old Clark Kent was a mask, a phony he only existed as a distraction to make sure people didn't know who Superman really was. Where as modern Clark Kent is the real man, he grew up as Clark Kent with his loving family and became Superman ''I personally prefer the new interpretation.''
I'm a bit of an apologetic person when it comes to the identity of Clark Kent working so well to disguise him from being Superman. The first movie does a really good job of this, even showing a scene or Christopher Reeve changeing his posture swooping his hair and puting on glasses to show the transformation in real time. But in the second movie he seems to be doing everything in his power to show the world that he is in fact Superman. He lets himself get hit by a taxi, makes a lot of noise when fighting a truck driver at the end of the film and even purposely lets his finger gets crushed by an orange squeezer.
Hey Superman when you were flying to the Amazon to pick flowers for Lois Lane did you not hear or see anything about the three supervillains that came from the Moon and are now trying to conquer the world? Well of course he didn't, he was Lovestruck he had a very particular goal in mind which lead to a funny scene later of Superman coming to his house with a bag full of groceries, flowers and wine in hand.
There's a great scene or General Zod standing on the moon talking to his underlings one of which is holding the flags of the Soviet Union and the United States in his hands. It's a great image really shows the power they possess, even the superpowers of the Earth can't stop The Immortal demigods.
Still really weird that they don't have Marlon Brando. I know they can't use his image and all. he wouldn't go back into the filming but it's just so strange there he is prominent in the first movie and then gone.
Kind of forgot to talk about the rest of the film. It doesn't matter everybody scene Superman 2 and if you haven't you've probably seen enough commercials or parodies of it. the whole point of my ''film summary'' series isn't actually about film summary it's usually just my ramblings about a particular film that occasionally go off and do other things.
Thereby giving me an excuse to watch a movie, then feel like I'm doing something productive with it afterwards even if nobody actually reads these. which I presume is the case most of the time.
*(I feel remiss if I didn't mention Kevin Conroy)
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