WEBVTT - Recapping Every Superman Movie 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.400 Done. 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.320 Dundun dun du do dun dun. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:11.080 Worry. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.600 Today's episode contained spoilers for all of Superman movies. Every 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.760 Superman movie ever made, that's right, starting from nineteen seventy 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:24.400 eight's Richard Donner Superman the Movie up through the Snyder 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:29.560 Verse to get us ready for the new Superman movie 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.560 by James Gunn. So be warned if you haven't seen 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:32.840 those movies, we're gonna spoiler. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:48.920 Hello. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.479 My name is Jason Conceptio and I'm Mersey Night, and 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.240 welcome back to the x ray vision of the podcast 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.320 will be dive. It's your favorite shows, movies, comics, and 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.480 pop culture coming from our podcast or bring you episodes 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:01.880 every Tuesday and Thursday. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:02.920 Plus all summer long. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.880 We're highlighting the summer's biggest movies every Friday with our 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:11.280 Popcorn pop Out series, plus news news on Saturday. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.320 In today's episode, we are recapping Superman's major film appearances 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.199 Busted than the Speeding Bullet, every single movie from nineteen 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.320 seventy eight Superman. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:28.720 To the Justice League to get us ready for the majestic, 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.640 hopeful hopefully blockbuster. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.880 Yeah, James Gunns Superman. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:39.120 Rosie, what are you? 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.000 What's your what are your thoughts on the Superman films 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.319 and what's your favorite one. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.000 Well, Okay, I grew up watching these movies, as I'm 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.480 sure you did as well. They were constantly on TV. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.200 I have lots of good memories of them. I think that. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.160 I know them all really well. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.560 And I would say objectively, I think Superman one is 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.480 probably the best one. But because I was a kid, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.280 the one that I loved was Superman three. It came 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.160 out five years before I was born. It had Richard 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:13.639 Pryor in it. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.880 It's the one that taught me about how to embezzle exactly. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.840 It's a big embezzling story. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.840 I just think that for some reason, there was something 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:28.720 about like the kind of weird computer genius, like evil Tech. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.480 I think for me, it just really created a kind 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.920 of it seemed fun. It was fun in a way 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.359 that I think we've spoken. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.240 Recently about the cinematic history of the Black Hacker, and 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.840 I think this is kind of the first one. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.119 Definitely, this is up there. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.960 And also that's another reason why I was very excited 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.680 for Ironheart. Shak A Lay continues that, but this is 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.280 definitely nineteen eighty three. I think this is the first 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.239 one because my incredible friend James F. Wright actually has 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.640 a brilliant zne abouts and uh, we kind of like, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.280 do you include a programmer like the guy in Tomine? 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:06.360 Do you include? 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.080 But this is like a true hacka hacka hacka and 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.160 obviously it's Richard Prya, so it's Richard Priya hacka. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:14.480 How fun. He's wonderful. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.480 Okay, what about you, what's your favorite? 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.239 It's probably gonna be Superman too, because, like you, these 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:22.960 were always on I've probably seen them a. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.959 Billion million zillion times. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:31.680 And for me, the the big superhero fights between. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.720 Zod and the Versa and Non and. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:41.800 Superman that occur like all throughout Metropolis with like trucks 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.800 getting thrown into buildings, it just seemed like the. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.280 Most incredible thing I'd ever seen. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.320 Yeah, I think there's some wonderful twists and turns, and 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.720 I love Gene Hackman in these worlds like this. I 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.960 think this is kind of like my first introduction to 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.240 Gene Hackman that makes Superman movies. So, uh, I just 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.560 think he does He's like he's he does a character 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.960 unlike any he's ever done four or since, and it's 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.360 really fun and wonderful. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.000 Yeah, that let's go, let's still into it. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.280 Let's start with Superman nineteen seventy. It's Superman, directed by 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.839 Richard Donner, is a film that nobody thought would be 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.039 particularly anything, but Gene Hackman signed on and that got 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.800 the film made Christopher Reeve wonderful as Clark Kenton Superman. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.799 Marlon Brando in a crazy in a from the neck 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.280 up only basically boom. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.440 He said, he for me where I needed. Don't be 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.720 bothered about it's pre zoom zoom. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.080 He's like probably filming in his underpads, you know, like 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:49.760 we are worrying Covid. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.640 And Marvel Kidder. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.240 She's the lowest laying baby. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:56.719 That's like the good stuff. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.160 So we open on Krypton. It is a crystal world 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.760 and it is falling apart. It's where we're right here. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.440 At the very very very end of Krypton, Jo l 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:11.840 Marlon Brando and beautiful like disco armor, discuts his baby 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.520 in a glowing bascinet, puts it on a space ship, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.120 shoots him out into space. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.200 The baby lands in. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.919 A smallville out in the middle of the country, and 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.640 he is discovered in his little flying saucer by Mom 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.320 pock Kent and They're like, this kid is special because 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.520 he just lifted our truck like very easily, and so 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.120 they immediately adopt the boy Clark. As he grows, he 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.800 grapples with the fact that he's so different. He's got 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.080 these powers, he's got to keep them hidden. He like 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.120 secret leads them by like running faster than a speeding locomotive, 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:56.839 and then pack Kent dies, making Clark very very sad. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.039 He discovers the glowing green crypton on crystal, which was 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.039 like hidden in the barn, and he follows. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.919 The crystal to north, far far north. He takes a 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.800 bus I know, like I like sure. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.599 I love that. That's the kind of public transport. I 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.040 dream all this, like can I take public transport to 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.279 and talk to He like all thea into the pole 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.560 and walks walks, walks, walks, walks like up a glacier. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.200 And then when he gets to a certain spot, he 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.600 throws this glow stick like out and it melts into 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.200 the water underneath underneath the ice, and it builds the 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.760 Fortress of solitude. And as it's building it, Clark has 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.159 like zero. It's so funny. They cut back a different actor, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.400 like a younger actor than Christopher Reeve. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.800 They cut back to him and. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.799 He has like no reaction to this incredible thing he's watching. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:51.760 He's like, what's going on? 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.400 It just bubbles up out of the ocean. And then 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.680 here's where I'll pause and say this. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.719 I was gonna say, let's stop, let's stop creepy. Listen. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.360 I love this movie, and I think. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.520 Formative movie. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.120 And we love, as everyone knows, practical effects. We talk 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.920 about how great practical love them and and it's it's 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.560 so wonderful when you see them balanced with good modern effects. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:18.840 You know. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:25.840 But this is a film that will make you appreciate 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.160 CG and what it's done for us. Because the Fortress 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:37.240 of Solitude building scene looks like complete fucking ship. It 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.160 looks like it's taking place like in a jacuzzi. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:50.960 Yeah, this movie is like extremely disco coded, Yes, extremely 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:51.760 disco code. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.840 It's like there's lights under a jacuzzi and then somebody 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:59.640 underneath is like pushing these plastic like crystal things up out. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.960 Of the water so that they look like they build 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:03.640 a fortress of solitude. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.880 And if you show this to any like Zoomer who 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.560 is not who is like raised on the Mandalorian, Yeah, kids, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.280 who was shocked when they rewatched twenty eight Days late 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.520 recently and we're like, well, it looks like shit, why 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.040 did they film it on this DV camera raised on 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.920 the Mandalorian And like the Infinity saga, they will watch 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.760 this scene in particular and be like, what are you 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.120 guys serious? Like will you peasant? Like, yeah, this is 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.960 what you watched. What is this poverty film that you 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.680 were showing me at the time? 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.960 I look very very informative. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:44.199 Absolute, Yes, it's not all. Not everything has aged well 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.200 as the fantastic performance of Christopher Eve and Margot Kidd 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.200 in these roles. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.280 So Clerk goes in. He talks to an AI version 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.440 of his dad, Marlon Brando, who is like, what do 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.320 you want to know? And then Marlon tells him everything 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.920 Krypton and the powers and why he picked Earth and 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.400 the Yellow Sun and all YadA. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:01.920 Yeah, you know. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.600 He puts on the suit. It just kind of like 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.640 he just kind of has it on and then flies 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.800 for the first time and he becomes Superman. He goes 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.360 to Metropolis where he gets a job at the Daily 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.600 Planet as a cub reporter, and he immediately falls in 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.959 love with Ace reporter Lois Lane an Ark and this 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:22.800 is where you're like Man Christopher Reeve. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:23.640 Wow. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.040 The way he is able to like be Clark and 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.280 be Superman and make that two distinctive characters just with 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.200 his the way he kind of hunches or straightens his 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:39.880 body is incredible. Yea, he is very bumbling, you know, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.400 in the presence of Lois. But then when she has 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.120 a helicopter accident up on the roof of the planet, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:51.400 he springs into action saves her life with the iconic line. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:52.640 Delivered by Margot Kidder. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.600 After Superman says I got you catch catches her she's falling. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.680 She goes, oh no. He says, I've got you. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.480 Don't worry, I've got you, and she says, who's got you? 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.480 And so he becomes an immediate sensation, starts doing like, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.240 you know, saving dogs and trees and doing things around 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.320 Intropolis and Daily Planet. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.480 At her, Perry White is like, I want, I want 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.200 everything you could give me a Superman. Does he sleep? 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.880 How much does he sleep? What does he even for breakfast? 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:21.760 Who does he love? 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.720 How often does he go to the bathroom? 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.520 You know, like he just wants everything. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:34.880 Meanwhile, Lex Luthor, Evil real estate villain, Time Ahead of 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.920 its time living in a beautiful, palatial subterranean layer. He 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.520 has an evil plan to nuke California off the map 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:49.120 so that his land in Nevada becomes high priced beachfront property. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.160 Now it's incredible, ridiculous plane. I don't it's a great 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.480 plan that's not a Superman kind of foils an early 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:01.000 part of the plan, causing Lex to be like, I 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.440 gotta get this guy out of the way. So he 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.640 uses like a high frequency tone to draw Superman to 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:12.679 his subterranean layer, where in deleted scenes that actually should 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.600 have been in the movie, we watched his Lex like 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:15.920 fires machine guns at. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.839 Him, and you see all the things that don't that. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.360 Don't work, flamethrowers. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.520 I can't believe they cut that scene out of the movie. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.760 But Superman gets in and he confronts Lex, and Lex 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.400 is like, well, I look at this stand on this 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.079 map of California, and I'm going to show you this 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.600 whole plan that I'm doing, and guess what, you can't 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.760 stop me because of this, and he pulls out kryptonite 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.640 that he had He discovered kryptonite would affect Superman in 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.200 this way, and he had he'd found a chunk of 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:45.960 it and he put it on a necklace, and he 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.560 pulls it out and puts it around super Kryptonite necklace 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.720 and Superman gets very very weak, and then he pushed 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:56.520 Superman into his underground swimming pool and Superman begins to 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.000 sink to the bottom of the pool and drop. But 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:05.319 because while this is going on, lexis hijacked to other missiles. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.640 They're being launched and one of them is headed to Hackensack, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:15.640 New Jersey, where miss Hesmacher, Lexi's assistant. Yes, very important 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.480 character who is in the new James Gun movie and 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:23.000 has been throughout the history of Lutha has been his 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:28.000 girlfriend slash assistant, but who always seems to land on 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.280 the side of good, and that is established ya. She's 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.480 got a soft spot for Superman, who is very handsome. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.239 So when she finds out that one of the missiles 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.040 is going to New Jersey and the other one, of course, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.920 is going to the San Andrea's Fault, she surprisingly dives 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.280 into the pool, pulls the necklace off Superman and saves him, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.120 and while he's very very weak, kisses him a little. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.800 It's on the line. It's it's on the line. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.360 I mean he's adults like he's not in a good stake, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.640 but like he let die. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.480 But you know what, she's excited. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.560 She's very excited area and she says, just promise me, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.320 you'll save my mom first. So Superman flies off. He 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.000 saves uh the New Jersey missile. First, he throws it 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.000 into space. It blows up. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.640 It's fine, He's always throwing something into space. He's gonna 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.200 be more thoughtful about that. Space is not just like 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:28.000 a different ecosystem that's never gonna interact with, like not 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.559 just your dumping grab eel musk. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:31.240 I mean, Superman, come on. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.960 He then flies to the San Andreas target and missile, 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:36.800 but he can't get it. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:37.880 He can't get there in. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.520 Time, and it triggered. It blows up, it starts triggering 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.800 the Lex earthquake, and the earthquake is like killing lots 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.720 of people, and Lois is falling into a crevice that 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.199 was created by the earthquake and she's gonna die. And Superman, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.800 seeing all this, and what's he gonna do, he decides 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.640 to fly in the reverse direction of the Earth's orbit, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:05.120 thus causing the Earth to spin backwards for a little while, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:11.079 turning back time to give himself enough time to throw 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:15.359 the missile out into space and everyone is saved, including 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.720 Lois Lane. Now before we move on to Superman too, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.800 there's a lot of questions about this. Yes, is does 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.160 is time only reversed around Earth or is it that 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.080 why around the entire Solar system? 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.960 Also how the people are, Like how did that affect 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:33.880 people on Earth? 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.160 Because I feel like physically, if. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.120 You're going so fast that you time back time, you're 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.760 probably also going to like impact some living humans. But 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.920 it's a classic moment, yeah, and also an establishing moment 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.680 of how powerful Superman. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.680 Is if if he's doing it by spinning the Earth 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.600 back the other way, wouldn't there be a moment as 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.600 the Earth is kind of slowing in, you know, in 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.640 its forward direction, and about it we all just. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:01.480 Like, yeah that we all. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.080 Just sty. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.240 Also, I want to say something that this movie establishes, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.480 aside from the fantastic eve Teshmey, who is actually created 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.240 for this movie and then went on to be in 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.320 the comics and in the continuing like Araverse and in 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.600 James Gun's upcoming Superman, but also this establishes one of 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.920 my favorite things about these movies that I think the 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.600 modern movies have not continued, and I would like to 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.240 see James Gun movie continue. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.320 Lois Lane, played. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.920 By Margot Kidder, is absolutely unhinged, like she will throw 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.640 herself off a building just to get Superman to come 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.400 and you know, get her and then like hold her to. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.160 Get the get the story, to get the story. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.280 So like I just want to say, I love unhinged 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.480 Lewis Lane, who will. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:47.600 Like throw herself off a building. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.960 But yes, Superman too, Let's get to it, because I 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.000 always remember the opening of this movie and just thinking 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:55.200 it was so cool. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.400 I mean, here's the thing about the performance. But Margot 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.760 Kidder of Lois Lane, who again wonderful. She's opened up 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.160 about I think her her as many in the late 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.680 seventies were doing dabbling into the substances, and so you 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.600 get the feeling that she was, oh baby, she was 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.360 really really excited during these films. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.200 Definitely she's loving our life. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.760 Next up Superman two Richard Donner and Richard Lester starring 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:28.320 because the Gene Hackman turned stamp who Zod and of 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:29.280 course Margot Kidder. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.680 Previously of course, we you know, we open like. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.960 In the in the immediate almost wake of cerment. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.320 During this missile into space. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:42.320 That missile which went out into space blows up, and 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.560 it just so it's like the universe is. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.600 A huge place, huge, galaxy is huge. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:57.000 But by chance the blast wave shatters this space prison 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:05.440 created on Krypton to house vicious Kryptonian war criminal General 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:13.679 Zod and his two compatriots, the nonfable non and Ursa, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:19.159 his right hand lieutenant. Back on Earth, Clark is in 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.680 Niagara Falls on assignment with Lois, and there's this very 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.919 funny thing where they have to stay at this like 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.480 Niagara Falls, like wedding overnightantic kind of hotel with a 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.639 big heartbed and a big like and a jacuzzi and 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.520 a fire pit and the in the room and all 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:40.320 this stuff, and Clark is like saving Lois during different 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.920 things during the day. And then but back at the 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:49.320 hotel room, he falls into the fire pit and and 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.639 Lois is like, oh my god, are you okay, and 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.959 he's likely don't look at it, don't look. And then 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.560 when he turns and she gets a look at him, 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.800 she realizes, wait a second, you're fine. Hold on a second. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.720 He must be superman. And he's like, he takes off 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.119 his glasses. Incredible, he takes off the glasses, stands up 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:06.840 and you're like. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.600 Oh shit, he is, so he admits it. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.880 He takes her to the Fortress of Solitude, shows her 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.119 all the stuff, all the crystals. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:15.399 Tells you about. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.760 Superman is like such a trusting guy. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.480 Like the moment he tells Lewis Lane, He's like, come 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.560 to my secret portress, Come to my secret Antarctic fortress 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.520 that was made of a disco jacuzzi, and see all 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.040 my alien history. I'm gonna tell you everything. I'm like, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:37.439 come on, Beb, come on, Beb. She's not gonna betray you, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.960 but like off jump immediately She's tell everything exactly. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:42.399 You know. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:48.760 She's kind of like the biggest The conversations around journalism 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.480 and Superman are so interesting. So he shows her all 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.080 the stuff and then he says, you know what for 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.560 us to be together, basically like I've got. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:58.360 To be a human like you. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.840 So the for watch this, and he steps into this 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.240 crystal phone booth and there's lights and there's sound and 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.760 happening inside the phone booth, and when he steps out, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.400 he's just a guy, no powers anymore. They make beautiful, 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.399 satisfying love in a white bed. I feel like if 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.520 I'm Lewis Lane and I'm like falling, I'm like keep 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.239 the super powers for the first time at least, like 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:21.760 I want to. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:22.640 I want to die. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.800 Let's not like just let's just jump into it, like yeah, like. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.480 The don't just like become a human like guse by. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.280 The way, like we have to kind of get married now, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.320 and I'm not like I'm not getting married now. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.119 And I just get married to like some brat. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:39.480 Yeah, come on, guys. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.320 Meanwhile, Zod lands on Earth and immediately he and his 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:50.040 fellows realize that they're incredibly powerful because they with their 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.880 heat eyes and they're just like, you know, cars are 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.440 crashing into them and nothing's so they're like, you know what, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.480 why don't we just take over there? Everybody's so weak here? 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.520 What do you just like take over the entire because 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.760 it was like it's meant to be because hey, power 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:07.760 us who. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.080 Runs this place? And they're like the president, they're great. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.600 They fly to watching the DC. 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.280 Get into the White House, beat up everybody, the president. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.600 They're like smacking the president around a live TV. And 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.720 then Zoon is like put the cameras on me, and 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:24.800 he put the cameras on him and He's like, hey, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.040 I run this place. I am General Zoon. I run 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.520 this place. Now, you will all kneel before. Kneel before. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.960 And Clark sees this on television in a diner where 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.080 he just got beat up by like a regular guy. 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:46.760 It's the random dude who was harassing Lois and Clark 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.920 was like, hey, you don't do that, and the guy 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.639 was like, oh yeah, watch this, and he beats the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.040 ship out of Clark and Clark realizes, fuck, I mean 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.000 I fu becomes like Lois is like wiping the blood 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:01.879 off his face with a navy He's like, damn, I 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:09.320 was hasty. One thing I appreciate about these movies and 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:15.280 movies of this era, man that was quick. There's not 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.879 like he just tides to lose his powers. But you 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.000 know what, immediately you get the scene in which he 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:22.680 realizes that was mistaken, goes back. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.560 Yeah, and it's I need like two movies to explain. 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:27.840 It's just that we don't need his number it. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.359 This doesn't need to be an entire act. You could 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.760 just like make him go back and and I really 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.399 appreciated that about this movie. So he goes back and 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.040 goes back to the fortress of Solitude and kind of 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.840 off camera becomes Supermanigan. Meanwhile, Lex loves what he's seeing 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.000 from this Zod guy, so he breaks out of jail 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:51.439 infiltrates the fortress, learns all about Superman, then goes to 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.800 see Zod and was like, hey, Zod is by the 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.960 way with his feed up like in the Oval office, 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.320 like hang out just like love, you know, running things. 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.800 And he's like, hey, Lex Luthor here and I've got 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:08.280 some incredible information for you about a guy named Superman. 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.919 He is from I believe the same planet as you, 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:14.880 and you might know him. And they're like, oh my god, 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:16.600 I know that, I know his dad. 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:17.600