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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790752433
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790752433
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledPortugueseSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D1013D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 01, 2001
Running Time: 143 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1978
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
NEWLY ENHANCED ADVENTURE SPANNING THE MAN OF STEEL'S LIFE FROM HIS KRYPTON INFANCY AND MIDWEST BOYHOOD TO HIS CAREER AS DAILY PLANET REPORT CLARK KENT AND THROUGH HIS TITANIC STRUGGLE WITH ARCHNEMISIS LEX LUTHOR.
Amazon.com essential video:
Richard Donner's 1978 epic about the Man of Steel showed how a film about a superhero could be a moving and romantic experience even for people who long ago gave up comic books. Beginning on the icy planet Krypton, the story follows the baby Kal-El, whose rocket ship lands in Smallville, Kansas. He is found there by a childless couple and raised as the shy Clark Kent (the young Kent is played by Jeff East). The film is perhaps most touching in these sequences, with expanses of wheat fields blowing in the wind and with a young man who can't figure out what part in destiny his great powers are meant to play. The second half, with Reeve taking over as Clark/Superman, is bustling, enchanting (the scene in which Superman flies girlfriend Lois Lane--played by Margot Kidder--through the night sky is great date material), and funny, thanks largely to Gene Hackman's sardonic portrayal of nemesis Lex Luthor. --Tom Keogh
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I am simply astounded by the popularity of this terrible film. One would imagine that one of the most popular superhero films ever made would at least be entertaining in a base kind of way, but this film fails in nearly every way. The script is the worst I have ever seen. The Superman universe's fictional laws are constantly contradicted and broken when it fits the director's whim.
The dialogue and acting are atrocious. All of the actors (and it stars people like Reeves and Hackman, ... Read More
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The movie:
"You'll believe a man can fly." That was the advertising tagline. Well, I can't think of many instances of it, but this was one time when a movie delivered on its hype. "Superman" fires on many cylinders, but the main one, the integral one, was believability. This film is an absolute achievement in terms of tone, style, and effects. For 1978, the effects are terrific, but also the performances and the writing really gel and sell the concept to the audience.
We haven't ... Read More
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To be as honest as possible, I really did not enjoy this first chapter as much as the the other 3 Christopher Reeve Supermans.
But that said, I will try to be as fair to this movie as possible and review it in its own right. Part 1 starts off with Marlon Brando (the father of Superman / Clark Kent) on Planet Krypton having trouble with his colleagues. Marlon Brando knows that Planet Krypton is going to explode, but they will not believe him. Clark Kent / Superman is shipped to safety ... Read More
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Man, time flies........not just Superman. I say that because I vividly remember when this movie came out in the theater and the excitement it caused. This was the first Superman anyone had ever seen with modern-day special effects, and I on the big screen, so it was pretty cool, to say the least. Now,
It's still very entertaining, and the more I watch this the more I'm amused with the villain (Gene Hackman as "Lex Luthor") and the lines he delivers. He's a funny guy. Christopher Reeve, meanwhile, ... Read More
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I was lucky enough to have seen Superman in the theatres when I was a child back in the 70s, and the sense of wonder it evoked in me then is renewed every time I watch it as an adult. Its epic grandeur, its sense of gravitas, has never been equaled by any other superhero movie (I mean, Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Gene Hackman, Mario Puzo, all screen legends of the time for a film based on comics? What were they thinking!). Christopher Reeve is the quintessential Superman, incredibly handsome, incredibly ... Read More
