FILM: SUPERMAN III

[Naïve Old Fart 13,020]

Crap.

[Pieter Boelen 1,032]

Whahaha! It's pretty silly, isn't it? Personally I found Superman IV to be better, even if that doesn't mean much.

I did very much enjoy Superman being Uber-Evil by... setting the Leaning Tower of Pisa straight. Doesn't get much nastier than that!!!

It's one of those Crossing the Moral Event Horizon things, isn't it?

[Naïve Old Fart 13,020]

Oh, dear, I didn't expect anyone to take what I said seriously, Peiter, but you are right, "Superman IV" is better...slightly. At least, it has new music by JW.

For both these films, though, the well had well and truly run dry. The care - the love - for making them had evaporated. Shame.

[Pieter Boelen 1,032]

Oh, dear, I didn't expect anyone to take what I said seriously, Peiter

Perhaps I've got to reboot my Humour System. It wasn't my intention to be serious.

[Naïve Old Fart 13,020]

Please don't appologize, Pieter. I meant it..."Superman III" is crap. I just thought that a one-word review would be funny, plus a little fatuous. No rebooting necessary!

[Pieter Boelen 1,032]

This conversation is just as hilariously silly as the movie it started with itself.

[Delorean90 47]

I can't help but think there's at least a decent Sunday afternoon Superman flick in there, though. There are fan-edits that I haven't seen, and I've wanted to try my hand at it for a while. It seems like a lot could be done to just cut out some of the most ridiculous stuff--the slapstick opening, the fall from the skyscraper with the skis, that sort of thing. It might even be surprising.

Of course, there are limits to what could be done by cutting--for starters, the supercomputer should've been Brainiac, and Evil Superman's misdeeds should've been more sinister, although I suspect that might be helped by omitting the Olympics and Pisa stuff, leaving it to his late arrival to the bridge and then meeting Lorelai and doing the favors for her and Ross. It's also a shame that the Lana plot developments were left forgotten in IV--in fact, the triangle in that film should have been with Lana. Alas...