Anyone else see this when it came out?
I was 9 years old when it came out. My father was a big Superman fan. S I remember sitting in the theater transfixed when the musical score began. Good memory!
shareYes. I too was 9.
My parents loved it and I remember mom trying to induce our older neighbor friends into seeing it. Did not work. Lady just did not care for superheroes.
I remeber then, lines for top movies like this. One did not just stroll in, they set up lines for each movie when necessary. It was too hot! And I remember my STM t-shirt, with the silvery logo.
Give me a break no one was in awe. I was 8 and we were all like holy mother of god when will these credits end! They are absolutely endless. Feels like an hour long. 20 years later I found out there was a big fight in Hollywood at the time over film credits being at the beginning or the end of movies. Clearly this was made to mock those fighting for credits at the beginning of movies.
That being said, outside of an excellent main theme by John Williams, this movie is horrible. Watching it today it's utterly embarrassing how bad it is. There is nothing good about this movie. The acting is cheesy. The special effects are laughable. The plots is weak. Nuff said.
I have to (mostly) agree with you.
I was 15 when the movie came out -- and boy howdy, was I disappointed... Barely more serious than the Adam West/Batman TV show of the '60s.
Send her to the snakes!
Anyone who uses terms like "boy howdy" has already set himself/herself up for some serious disappointment in life, anyway...
shareYour an idiot and a bad troll. I'm SURE you said that when you were 8. You hardly remember seeing it. It was a big success. It made 6.5 million opening weekend that's 24 million today. This was way before any digital effects. Everything was models and wires etc.
shareToo right gd5150! I've just seen it on TV (only seen snatches before), and the overriding impression is the damn starting credits! UNFORGIVEABLE! I thought I'd learnt patience in my 50 years, but jeez! I'm surprised the audience didn't walk out in protest!
shareThe credits were hardly any longer than a lot of movies of the 70s and earlier.
shareGive me a break no one was in awe. I was 8 and we were all like holy mother of god when will these credits end! They are absolutely endless. Feels like an hour long. 20 years later I found out there was a big fight in Hollywood at the time over film credits being at the beginning or the end of movies. Clearly this was made to mock those fighting for credits at the beginning of movies.
Don't project your sourpuss attitude onto other people. I managed to enjoy the credits even though I was 5 or 6 when I first saw the movie, and I grew up in a time when Hollywood began to phase out credit sequences altogether. share
Yeah you were 8 when you saw it in 2010 and you said, "Dude dis sux compared to Transformers!"
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For anyone that's interested, union rules REQUIRED credits at the beginning.
George Lucas got ejected from the Director's Guild (and fined $250,000 to boot) for saving all the credits for the end of "Star Wars."
The rules changed, of course, largely because of "Star Wars."
Besides, as a criticism, this is a stupid one. The credits were awesome, mostly because of the Williams score, but also because of the zoom-effects making every single credit feel like an individual super-being.
Pretty sure gd5150 was just trolling us.
Everyone was in awe. The Superman theme was epic. Superman was national news. National news magazines were raving about how realistic the special effects were ("You will believe a man can fly!")
Our town had one theater, with one screen. We saw it the first week it came out.