Superman (1978) - Patreon Version
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movie runtime: 02:31:28
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SbE
2025-08-26 10:00:37 +0000 UTCHe won an Oscar for "Cabaret". Quite rightly, too.
Matt Blanchette
2025-08-25 23:14:21 +0000 UTCGeoffrey Unsworth was a great Cinematographer probably best known for his work on 2001 one of my personal favourites he worked on was Zardoz
rictus grin
2025-08-24 15:37:04 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/EwN2nZSYBG4?si=gDwLjM7wKjCJGEBt You were right George. It was written as a song, “Can You Read My Mind?”
Nick Stark
2025-08-23 09:52:18 +0000 UTCIn case nobody else mentioned it.....Superman isn't reversing time for the whole world. He is actually travelling back in time himself. This ability was actually in the comic books. Just FYI.
Marcus Hicks
2025-08-22 07:53:47 +0000 UTCOnce you get done watching the first 2 Superman films, I highly recommend you watch Smallville from the early 2000's. The first couple of seasons are a bit slow, but it gradually starts to incorporate more and more of the DCEU....and as a fan of the original film, I found it to be a fantastic portrayal of the teen to early adult years of Clark Kent.
Marcus Hicks
2025-08-22 02:53:53 +0000 UTCFYI: If a calf muscle cramps up like that, you have to stand up and force your foot to go flat on the ground, once you do that it should get rid of the extreme pain, but will probably be sore for a bit.
McShades
2025-08-19 03:55:34 +0000 UTCEnglish is his second language; we all get these things wrong, sometimes, even if its our first. And George is a fucking GENIUS compared to me.
Matt Blanchette
2025-08-18 23:19:20 +0000 UTCIt’s a bodybuilding regimen, George, not a bodybuilding regime.
Deadly Ramon
2025-08-18 11:25:29 +0000 UTCRIP. So many great roles
Dustin Duvall
2025-08-18 00:39:40 +0000 UTCTerence Stamp (General Zod) has died: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/17/entertainment/terence-stamp-dead-obituary-intl-cmd
REDR58
2025-08-17 17:00:18 +0000 UTCWhile the location of Metropolis has moved around in different versions of the DC universe, the most common location is on the east coast of Delaware just south of Dover. Across Metropolis (Delaware) Bay is Gotham City, in southern New Jersey. https://www.reddit.com/r/Delaware/comments/1lwrw7l/metropolis_is_in_de/
Bruce Woodcock
2025-08-17 05:07:43 +0000 UTCI haven't really watched this movie since I was little. I may have seen it once in my twenties. But I still never realized the amount of adult humor in it. The whole interview on the balcony scene is so much racier than I ever realized. It was great to revisit this with you guys. It was a pretty goofy criminal syndicate with Lex, Otis, and Miss Tessmacher. Gene Hackman made it great though. Superman II is truly worth the watch! I like this one slightly better, but as a sequel, it's very good. 3 and 4 fall off quite a bit though.
Marty McGee
2025-08-16 22:50:33 +0000 UTCOkay, your Special Edition was 2h31m28s. My copy was 3h08m34s. I had to pause you a ton to let mine play out, and there were some things flipped around, though, interestingly, sometimes I'd just let both play, they'd do different things, and then sync back up. Yours was so much better. There was so much fat in my copy. Like he walks for way longer to get to the Fortress of Solitude, and then you see him lean in—just his head—and look around, very unsure, for like 30 seconds, with me going "Uh, in or out, dude. Just come in already!" When the Kents drove away with him from his pod's crash site, it stayed on that crane view for probably 20 more seconds, as some light in the craft slowly faded out. It felt really weird to just be sitting there forever, looking at the crash with the Kents already a mile out of frame. He drowned for longer with the Kryptonite necklace. The crash sequence to stop the missile truck was much longer, and they made a point of showing them pushing on her chest and going in for mouth-to-mouth, and some more buffoonery. The bumbling lackey spent way more time trying to set the numbers on the missile on the truck. Almost none of the extra 37 minutes felt necessary. There were a couple of things that were funny, though, like I think after he saved Jimmy from falling off the dam, and they flew up a bit, your copy cut to another place, while in mine, Jimmy brought the camera up to his face, and Superman, who was hugging him from behind, paused and lifted him up a bit more, and said "Go ahead", and Jimmy took a picture of the crumbling dam from that good vantage point. It was goofy, right in the middle of state-wide chaos. There were extra things, too, like when all the world was falling apart, there was a whole little town with tall houses all shaking, and people jumping out of windows, and they went back to them later for more shots. Your copy skipped that entire set, and a few others throughout the film, but you missed nothing worthwhile.
Gary Fixler
2025-08-16 15:54:49 +0000 UTCI just had my first in a long time severe leg cramp that woke me up, and messed me up all day. It must be contagious, through the power of suggestion. Thanks a lot George!
Gary Fixler
2025-08-16 15:41:11 +0000 UTCI've heard that magnesium supplements do wonders for leg cramps.
LazyArtist
2025-08-16 10:04:36 +0000 UTCI have gotten calf cramps all my life, and most of the time it has been in bed. I have found that if it doesn't go away quickly, I have had success by getting that foot on the floor and rolling it back and forth till it loosens up. This pretty farm land is brought to you by Alberta. My mom was pretty weepy when I moved out when I was 21... the whole 150 feet away. Oh this is the Special/Extended Edition. There have been some good things added, and I guess it was good they removed the little girl from being slapped for telling "lies". The heavier the plane, the more engines are needed, but yeah most commercial jets can fly just fine on fewer engines. Metropolis in Delaware, with Gotham across the way in New Jersey. Great job identifying that it was initially a song George. No one should rhyme, unless you are committing a crime. Lex Luther is about growing his money and power, but yeah, this Lex was a bit too comical for my taste. Still my favorite Superman movie, though the new one is a close 2nd. Superman at one point was given the power Tactile Telekinesis, which is how he can lift objects that structurally should fall apart due to the normal laws of physics... and maybe not kill people with the sudden stop when catching them from falling.
David Lonewolf Wright
2025-08-16 05:43:11 +0000 UTCI can't share my pain, I NEED my pain!
JD Nevesytrof
2025-08-16 04:22:36 +0000 UTCSimone doesn't want us to rhyme, but it's something I do all the time 😭
Gary Fixler
2025-08-15 09:17:04 +0000 UTCNever realized John Ratzenberger was in this film, too. https://www.reddit.com/r/No_Small_Parts/comments/1hz4v63/john_ratzenberger_in_superman_1978/#lightbox
Gary Fixler
2025-08-15 09:09:07 +0000 UTCI grew up having a VHS tape with all the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons from the 1940s which I watched many times over before watching the live action Christopher Reeves Superman. I highly recommend watching a few of those because it really gives you context for what has been canonized and how they were able to update and modernize Superman for the late 70s/early 80s. This movie might seem very goofy and camp to our contemporary eyes now but at the time this was the most grounded and realistic take on Superman or any comic book character until Batman 1980.
The Real Andrew Kim
2025-08-15 07:52:53 +0000 UTCThere is a proper place and time for all of us to face a rhyme. And if you cannot take the rhyming, the maybe it was just off in it's timing.
Vwlss Nvwls
2025-08-15 07:52:32 +0000 UTCI love when ppl try to be diplomatic about the poem in the moment 😂😂😂
LazyBoy Stays Up Late Watchin Video Tapes
2025-08-15 06:48:04 +0000 UTCI saw this movie in the theater with my mother, after having been sick in bed for a week. My mother came home early from work just to take me to see this, and I was in awe the whole time. I was only about 9 years old, and this was the most amazing thing I had seen. By far one of my very favorite movie memories, and I always enjoy watching it to this day.
Vwlss Nvwls
2025-08-15 05:22:45 +0000 UTCHere's some very useful advice on leg cramps I received from an elderly lady a few years ago -- shockingly useful actually. I was an athlete, I knew how to handle cramps, had my routines etc. etc. And then a single conversation changed my whole perspective: when you experience calf cramps at night, and you are lying there hating life and fighting them, do something crazy I would never have thought of: swing your legs over the side of the bed, put your feet flat on the ground, and stand up. Then walk. It sounds crazy. Terrifying, like the last thing you would ever want to do or risk. But shockingly it is about 100% effective. I never knew. It might be a survival adaptation or something. But somehow, someway, as soon as you have your feet flat on the floor and stand up, the cramp unlocks. I've never had one that lasts more than 30 seconds or so since learning the trick.
Cc Decc
2025-08-14 20:06:00 +0000 UTCHighly recommend you watch Superman 2 and then stop the series there. Unfortunately Superman 3 and 4 are real letdowns and it’s not a good way to go out with Christopher Reeve as Superman.
REDR58
2025-08-14 19:59:18 +0000 UTC
