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Pryor falls off a skyscraper


What do you reckon would really happen when he hit that angled glass?

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Dunno.

I tend not to waste time thinking about reality when watching a sci-fi slapstick comedy like this.





"These days, if say you're English, you'll get arrested and thrown in jail"

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You can think Richard Lester for that scene. Had Richard Donner or Tom Mackiewicz been involved, SIII would have been a much better movie.

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Yeah but Otis was not a main character like Gus Gorman was.Otis did not dominate I & II the way Gus dominated III. Otis only had a few minutes of screen time in II. It became more of a Richard Pryor movie with Superman than the other way around.

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From what I've heard Donnor wanted Superman 3 to be about Braniac. Why the studio wouldn't let him do that is beyond my comprehension.
"You want me to roll 6,000 of these!? What? Should I quit my job!?" George Costanza, Seinfeld

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I cant ski!! lmao!

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If they wanted Prior to ski off the side of a skyscraper, they really needed to have Superman catch him. It's the only sensible way for Prior to survive, and it would set up Prior's decision to help Superman at the end.

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Yes of course. Unfortunate scene in a movie I like.

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I kinds of like this movie too. I used to not, but now I think it's at least OK in spite of several flaw.

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it would set up Prior's decision to help Superman at the end.


That is a good call. But I think its clear that Pryor's character is going to buckle near the end. He grows increasingly uncomfortable with the whole thing during the movie and its clear from the get go that he's not that bad of a guy to begin with, so it plausible Pryor's character would have eventually switched sides at the end. You don't want to telegraph that switch too much with a moral debt. That would lower the tension.

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Nailed it.

What is that thing you're using?.... It's technical.

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My thoughts exactly


The stupid have one thing in common.They alter the facts to fit their views not the other way

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He would have went straight through the glass and died, if glass didn't shattered he would shattered every bone in his body

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The ironic thing is that Richard Pryor of course, was in that infamous burning incident back in 1980! So him falling off of a skyscraper in comparison (even if it's in a movie and not in real life) is almost "ordinary" (if that makes sense).

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That was so stupid.

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This movie was dreadful, but not as bad as the fourth one.

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