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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:03:38 GMT
In an homage to Salzmank and his Salzmark Watches Star Wars thread, I decided to live blog my experience watching Superman 1978 for the first time... Lets begin! Feel free to chime in and comment at any time. |
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:05:17 GMT
Opening titles flying through space.... Someone was obviously inspired by the Star Wars crawl!
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Post by Salzmank on Jan 10, 2019 0:05:38 GMT
Hooray! I’m still away on vacation, but I’ll try to chime in when I can. Hope you enjoy it.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:06:56 GMT
Iconic theme by John Williams... Though for me, it's synonymous with Seinfeld. I just keep picturing that epic montage they did before the finale set to this theme.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:07:37 GMT
Practical FX! 👍🏻👍🏻
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Post by Salzmank on Jan 10, 2019 0:07:57 GMT
Opening titles flying through space.... Someone was obviously inspired by the Star Wars crawl! And that soaring John Williams music! The producers, Salkind père et fils, later tried to reproduce this movie, titles and all, just using Santa Claus instead of Superman. It worked out about as well as you’d expect. |
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:08:01 GMT
Brando! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:09:38 GMT
Zod! Wait, isn't he the villain in movie two? That's pretty awesome for them to set this up here.
And those spinning circle thingies is a pretty cool effect.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:15:32 GMT
I love the asthetic on Krypton... The ice. The crystals. The glowing suits. It's just really sci fi-ish and it looks great.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:18:41 GMT
It's funny how similar the scenes are to Man of Steel in terms of story points and dialogue. I know it's the same origin story, but... Still. MoS was more of a remake than I thought.
Visually, this is way better. No shaky cam. No weird color timing. No random CGI dragons. The dialogue is better too.
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Post by Salzmank on Jan 10, 2019 0:20:02 GMT
Zod! Wait, isn't he the villain in movie two? That's pretty awesome for them to set this up here. And those spinning circle thingies is a pretty cool effect. Righto! Zod’s by far my favorite part of Superman II, and my only disappointment is that he and his cronies are in the (superior) first movie so briefly. And I like those spinning circles too. |
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:23:52 GMT
The production values are really good! Great sets. Great design. This prologue is superior to the MoS version in every way.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:26:21 GMT
And Krypton iiiiiiiiis outta here!
KA-BLAMO!!!!!!@!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 0:26:58 GMT
The spinning circles and the whole Zod sequence were so amazing to watch as a kid.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:27:16 GMT
I almost expected Ewoks to celebrate. The explosion, naturally, reminded me of the Death Star.
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:28:15 GMT
The spinning circles and the whole Zod sequence were so amazing to watch as a kid. I can imagine! |
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Post by Salzmank on Jan 10, 2019 0:30:10 GMT
Has anyone else heard the story that George Lucas was supposedly in the running for directing this?
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:32:14 GMT
Has anyone else heard the story that George Lucas was supposedly in the running for directing this? Really? Awesome. I never heard that before. |
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Post by Spooky Ghost Ackbar on Jan 10, 2019 0:33:30 GMT
Haha. Supes kicks the football about a hundred miles.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 0:35:37 GMT
Haha. Supes kicks the football about a hundred miles. Love these scenes! Notice who is in the train? |
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