Rating: - Best Superman movie!
This is by far my most favorite superman movie. I've been waiting for 16 years for this "Making of Superman 3" to go on sale officially. I bought this dvd from amazon as soon as it got out and I don't regret it. The picture Quality of the main film seems better on this deluxe edition and the quality of picture on the documentary is superb. In additional scenes there is actually just one scene involving superman, and all the others revolve around richard pryor. Still for any Superman 3 fan this dvd is obligatory.
Rating: - The ruining of the franchise
When Richard Lester took over directing Superman II after Richard Donner quit/got fired he put in a lot of stupid campy scenes especially with the fight between Superman and the Villains, this ruined Superman II for me. Richard Lester directs this the 3rd movie and screws it up making a movie that is totally unwatchable to me.
The First big mistake is he makes Richard Pryor the star and Superman more of a co-star and thusly making Superman III a comedy and doesn't even try to take itself seriously. It is very campy and is insulting to Richard Donner who never wanted Superman to end up this way.
He also gets rid of Lois Lane only having her in the very beginning and end of the movie, her role feels like a cameo. This is a HUGE mistake since Supermans love interest is always suppose to be Lois Lane, he gave up his powers for her in the second movie and practically forgets all about her in the 3rd. I read that they did this because Margot Kidder spoke publicly about not liking Richard Lester and the Salkinds, well she was right, Richard Lester is an idiot.
He made the villain a selfish rich man who just didn't feel like he had enough in the world and needed to take away from everyone else. He was no where near as interesting as Lex Luther.
I do appreciate when directors or studios decide to change the flow of a franchise to better it but this ruined it. It went against everything Richard Donner set up in the first movie and forgot the movies main character is Superman and not Richard Pryor. I hate Richard Lester for doing this, if Richard Donner had continued the series (wich he states he wanted to do) this never would have happened and there would have been more GOOD Superman Movies with Christopher Reeve that we could have enjoyed.
Rating: - It's not great but better than Superman 4 at least
I'm basically giving Superman 3 *** stars because of the late great Christopher Reeves. A group of rich snobs use red krpytonite to turn Superman bad. Christopher Reeves pulls it off being good and bad in the same movie pretty well. Otherwise this was a pretty disapointing addition in the series next to Superman 1 and 2. Richard Pryor is funny here even if the film shouldn't of tried to be funny. Plus instead of Lex Luther we get 3 snobby people who do nothing for the film. Lois Lane is even a side character in this one. Annette O'Toole (Clark's mom in Smallville) has more screen time here as Clark's High School crush Lana Lang.
I missed Lois here but she was wasted when there was more of her in Superman 4 anyway. I mean that just uses her for a silly scene where Superman has to think of how to date Lois as Superman and another woman as Clark at the same time. So this isn't a great Superman movie but at least it wasn't too much of a soap opera that was hard to take seriously like Superman 4 was either. Although yes this is hard to take seriously at times but it does get a good performance out of Christopher Reeves at least. Plus eventhough it's goofy it has it's entertaining points. It also at least doesn't have a guy named Nuclear Man.
Rating: - Deluxe Edition?
I like Superman III because of Christopher Reeve. I think this is his best Superman/Clark Kent performance. Clark going back to Smallville is great. But for a Deluxe Edition DVD the audio sucks. Why couldn't they give this movie 5.1 Surround? There's no bass, and this takes away from a movie watching experience. And with todays technology, they could have erased the flying cable... it's still visable in 3 or four scenes. The DVD extras are great. I give this movie 3 stars because of Christopher Reeve. WB please give this film 5.1 audio and color correction for the cables. It would make the film better.
Rating: - I would give it zero stars...if I could.
Well a lot of people have voiced their distaste of this movie so I can not add much to the many things that are wrong with this movie except to say that it is not Superman.
Superman stands for something good and decent and honorable and this film had none of it.
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