Comments on: Superman http://thisfilmison.com/2009/12/18/superman/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:15:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Rob http://thisfilmison.com/2009/12/18/superman/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Rob Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:48:21 +0000 http://dev.thisfilmison.com/?p=110#comment-569 I was spot-on the right age when that came out and so I got to see it at the flix. I can't think of another film that has made me go 'wow' more. As Barton says 'He's really flying". I wouldn't put it in my own top ten but it is a great film. I was spot-on the right age when that came out and so I got to see it at the flix. I can’t think of another film that has made me go ‘wow’ more. As Barton says ‘He’s really flying”. I wouldn’t put it in my own top ten but it is a great film.

]]> By: Barton Young http://thisfilmison.com/2009/12/18/superman/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Barton Young Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:09:22 +0000 http://dev.thisfilmison.com/?p=110#comment-326 True. This is a brilliant film, a blockbuster that manages to be a crime film, a 50s high school flick, an eerie sci-fi apocalypso, a newsroom comedy, a romance, a disaster movie and, oh yeah, a superhero film. Hackman, Reeve & Beatty in particular pull their roles off so adeptly because they take this stuff seriously- they're straight out of a comic but fully rounded characters. The curious choice of Margot Kidder proves genuinely refreshing and Brando, Glenn Ford, Terence Stamp, Trevor Howard are just the cameos. The film's best test of its greatness is perhaps that the big moments aren't the set-pieces but the emotional depths- Mr & Mrs Kent find the baby; Superman's pain at his failure to save one he loves. And you can't see the strings. He's really flying. True. This is a brilliant film, a blockbuster that manages to be a crime film, a 50s high school flick, an eerie sci-fi apocalypso, a newsroom comedy, a romance, a disaster movie and, oh yeah, a superhero film.

Hackman, Reeve & Beatty in particular pull their roles off so adeptly because they take this stuff seriously- they’re straight out of a comic but fully rounded characters. The curious choice of Margot Kidder proves genuinely refreshing and Brando, Glenn Ford, Terence Stamp, Trevor Howard are just the cameos.

The film’s best test of its greatness is perhaps that the big moments aren’t the set-pieces but the emotional depths- Mr & Mrs Kent find the baby; Superman’s pain at his failure to save one he loves.

And you can’t see the strings. He’s really flying.

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