Paul_Scott
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in this post Michael Bay / Matrix/bullet-time cinematic landscape, the first Superman has just as much if not more fascination for me.
i love to see actors perform in a scene where the camera holds
for longer than just a reaction shot.
i love to see several characters in the same scene playing off of each other and truly inhabiting their environment.
i love the 'old school' effects, as rickety as they can be sometimes, because when they get too precise, as seems to happen so often with cgi, they lose a little soul and personality.
i love the delicious amorality and supreme vanity of Hackmans Luthor.
i love the earnestness and sincerity of Reeves Kent.
i still adore Kidders portrayal of Lois, and as photographed and lit by Unsworth, she looks just fine.
neither Kidder or even Reeves make for the genetically perfect comic book incarnations, imo, but the play the roles here with so much heart and conviction, that i'm always sold.
toss in one of Williams greatest film scores (and thats saying something) and its still smashing entertainment to me.
there was once a time when i never expected any film other comic-book based film to overtake this one, which has enormous nostalgic appeal for me (my step-father succumbed to cancer a few weeks before this was released so the film had an enormous resonance for me at an early age) , yet i have to admit, what Singer has done with the first two X-men movies is just as comparable.
in fact, i think they work far better as a 1-2 punch than Superman I & II do (i was always let down by tackiness of II).
i love to see actors perform in a scene where the camera holds
for longer than just a reaction shot.
i love to see several characters in the same scene playing off of each other and truly inhabiting their environment.
i love the 'old school' effects, as rickety as they can be sometimes, because when they get too precise, as seems to happen so often with cgi, they lose a little soul and personality.
i love the delicious amorality and supreme vanity of Hackmans Luthor.
i love the earnestness and sincerity of Reeves Kent.
i still adore Kidders portrayal of Lois, and as photographed and lit by Unsworth, she looks just fine.
neither Kidder or even Reeves make for the genetically perfect comic book incarnations, imo, but the play the roles here with so much heart and conviction, that i'm always sold.
toss in one of Williams greatest film scores (and thats saying something) and its still smashing entertainment to me.
there was once a time when i never expected any film other comic-book based film to overtake this one, which has enormous nostalgic appeal for me (my step-father succumbed to cancer a few weeks before this was released so the film had an enormous resonance for me at an early age) , yet i have to admit, what Singer has done with the first two X-men movies is just as comparable.
in fact, i think they work far better as a 1-2 punch than Superman I & II do (i was always let down by tackiness of II).