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It was really something as a kid seeing Superman III, because my parents were pretty strict about not watching age-inappropriate stuff with me early on, so I had no idea who Richard Pryor was, no mechanism to understand why Superman wasn’t the star of his own movie. As an adult obviously I’m...

As a little kid, the first Superman movie was almost boring to me - it probably didn’t help that I saw it from my parents’ taped-off-TV copy of the three hour TV cut that has tons of unnecessary footage (poor Otis must spend 45 minutes walking around Metropolis at one point), plus commercials...

IV has the “it ran on TV a million times when I was a kid” appeal that never ran out for me. It’s objectively awful but I don’t care.

I liked II more than I as a kid, I totally get that. I didn’t have the attention span to appreciate Donner’s pacing, particularly in the Smallville sequence, but the zippy pace and cartoonish tone of Lester’s sequel (along with superpowered heroes and villains facing off) was a perfect match for...