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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #SpiderMan2 #TheMatrix #SupermanII 5 Movie Trilogies Where Only One Film Is a Masterpiece http://dlvr.it/TRwTsL
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Movies of the day (4/8) 🎬 Superman II(1980) 🎬 The Golden Compass(2007) 🎬 Spies in Disguise(2019) 🎬 Godzilla: Final Wars(2004) © TMDB #SupermanII #TheGoldenCompass #SpiesinDisguise #GodzillaFinalWars #Action #Adventure #Animation #Comedy #Family #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #Thriller
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Superman #ManofSteel #SupermanII 10 Greatest Superman Movies of All Time, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TNZyyB
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #TerenceStamp #SupermanII #TheLimey 10 Best Terence Stamp Movies, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TMYZ5m
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Remembering the Film Career of the Very Talented Terence Stamp
Link: https://film-book.com/remembering-the-film-career-of-the-very-talented-terence-stamp/?fsp_sid=66824
#MovieNews #SupermanII #TerenceStamp #TheAdventuresofPriscillaQueenoftheDesert
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #TerenceStamp #SupermanII #Obituary Star Wars, Superman Actor Terence Stamp Dead at 87 http://dlvr.it/TMXSP5
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@Craig Definitely. Orson Welles is back as Kal-El's father to offer holographic advice. In the original, it's his mom (contract disputes with Welles, IIRC).
It's less goofy, and the Niagara Falls part is streamlined (how Lois confirms Clark is handled differently). The fight in New York City is tighter. The ending harkens back to the original Super-man movie (with more time shenanigans).
All in all, a better cut. #Superman #SupermanII
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Watching the #SupermanII: The Richard Donner Cut, which somehow I've never seen.
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Now that I've written this, I never have to watch Superman 2 again, right?
Right!? :blobdead:
https://deninet.com/blog/2025/03/22/wenchwatches-superman-2-1980
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I have to admit, as a film, the final confrontation between the trio, Luthor, and Superman is a bit anticlimatic. Granted, it does rely on a neat visual callback. Invoking the lurid red lighting of the destruction of Krypton, the crystal chamber renders a Kryptonian powerless. Superman uses this himself in the second act to renounce his powers. In the fourth act, he reverses it, using it on the trio to render them powerless while he remains protected.
The disappointment in the ending doesn't stop there. Like the last film, he reverses time to undo all the damage and death wrought by Zod. It's briefer here, and lacking the emotion brought about by Lois' death in the first film. As a result, it feels more contrived and corny.
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As the third act closes, Superman is apparently killed in the battle with Zod and Ursa while trying to save those a thrown bus.The people briefly try to rise up, unplanned, uncoordinated, and in too small a number against the trio's combined power.
While Sups isn't dead, he does flee...and the people...just go on with their lives, disappointed. In the film, it's a small, unimportant moment, but it stands out in relief in 2025. That embodiment of empathy and ideal just....leaves. And Metropolis just accepts it's fate.
Keep your head down.
Look after your own.
Do not resist.There's something to be said about the USian tendency to "leave it to the heroes" instead of realizing, we're all we've got.
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Unintentional metaphors seem to a running theme in this watch through. General Zod occupying the White House, and issuing pronouncements while Luthor pulls the strings is...
Yeah. I wouldn't call it prescient, but it certainly feels eerily familiar at least.
I've often said that while the film may not change when you rewatch it, it's never the experience. Why? Because *you're* not the same. Today, beset by worries and anxieties, a darkening future, it's hard not to find yourself scrying anything for signs and portents. The human mind longs to make sense of the chaos.
Yet, it's hard to not see the parallels as Zod leverages Superman's empathy as a weapon against him.
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The most unreal thing about Superman II?
An American president who cares about saving lives or showing deference.
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Damn. Lois is *dangerous*.
Breaking the stalemate of Clark trying to enforce his identity she pulls....a snubnose revolver on him.
And fires.
The game lost, Kal-El gives up and reveals everything to Lane. And then she admits she used a blank.
One thing I find myself thinking about repeatedly watching both this film and the last is, "Who is the real person?" In the Batman mythos, many have written how it's Wayne which is the fiction, and Batman the real person. With Superman, the distinction doesn't feel so clear cut. Both Clark and Superman feel genuine, but not separate. If anything, they feel like different facets of the same person. Clark being the aspiration, the desire to be just another mundane person. Superman, on the other hand, feels like the weight of responsibility.
We see this in how the Clark and Lane subplot plays out. Having revealed his identity, he wishes to renounce his powers and indeed, his responsibility. There's a part of this which feels selfish, almost whiny.
"After all I've done for them?"
This line falls a bit flat for me, given the previous film felt like all the acts of saviorism were so small. Yes, yes, the bit about California falling into the sea, but it's hard to take that bit as real.
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Sups, do yourself a favor. Stay in Canada. They'll be less likely to deport you there.
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Actually, the lengthy space sequence with our trio of antagonists greatly suggests why I found this film much more interesting as a little kid. I did -- and still do -- love spacy shit. The intersection of the 1980's space program with Apollo era moon missions must have felt like predicting the future.
Then Regan happened.
I know, I know... We keep coming back to this. Regan and the beginning of the Greed is Good era of USian politics continues to be a running theme in so many of the films we've watched here. It stands as an inflection point, one that we're very much seeing the continence today. In that light, Luthor's arrival at the Fortress of Solitude and examining the education crystals almost feels like a crossroads of cultural metaphors. Luthor, representing that new spirit of the 80s. Jo-El and his moral prognostications feeling like dying relics of kinder era. I doubt this was intentional, and I'm likely over reading here given current political anxieties. Still, we see again and again that fascism is *not* new.
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"Houston"!? "To Rule"!?
Well....no, you'd probably be an improvement at this point.
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A particular treat of this film is improved sense of pacing over the first film. The following three scenes introduce us to the three concurrent plotlines which make up the film.
The first is Lois and Clark. Clark needing to maintain his secret identity.The next is Lex Luthor and his continuing machinations. And finally, General Zod. Three plots is a lot for a television episode, but perfect for a film. My intercutting between each plot, the film maintains a great sense of pacing and keeps your interest.
Once again, it's delightful to see Hackman again as Luthor. That gruff, self-assured swagger walks the knife edge of being over the top, which is an excellent match for the film.
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In the last film, we briefly seen the trial of General Zod and his cohorts before they were squished into a polaroid -- I mean sentenced to the Phantom Zone.
That film didn't really follow up on that thread, instead focusing entirely on Kal-El's origin story.It always seemed a bit odd they included it at all.
Here, we're once again treated do a truncated version of the trial, the destruction of Kypton, and the arrival of Superman. We're watching the Richard Donner Cut tonight, so I'm guessing there will be minor differences from my recollections.
One of those differences is Zod's line of "And one day...your heirs!" In the first film, we get an uncomfortably tight closeup of his mouth yelling this line. Here, we're spared with a more distant shoulder-level shot, possibly a B-roll from the original film. The different shot is more reserved, and as such, it feels like it lacks the emotional punch of the original by leveraging our discomfort.
We also revisit Superman disposing of one of the warheads in the previous film. Sent off into space it sputters as the fuel runs out, then explodes in near proximity to our film's foes. This frees them from the Phantom Zone, allowing the movie to finally begin.
The setup takes almost 9 minutes before we get to the opening credits. It feels rather odd for an 1980 film to have such a lengthy set up like this, giving it an episodic feel rather than a standalone film. Granted, this was before pervasive home video, so the lengthy cold open was important for its time and place.
Let's watch!
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Here's one of #GeneHackman 's scenes in the Donner cut of #SupermanII with #MarlonBrando as JorEl:
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Here's one of #GeneHackman 's scenes in the Donner cut of #SupermanII with #MarlonBrando as JorEl:
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Jan 29 : #CocaCola Product Placement
#Stonegasmoviechallenge2024 #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
@stonegasman
#SupermanII (1980)
#Superman throws General Zod into a Coca-Cola sign, probably something Zod didn't 'Enjoy' 😂
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Jan 29 : #CocaCola Product Placement
#Stonegasmoviechallenge2024 #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
@stonegasman
#SupermanII (1980)
#Superman throws General Zod into a Coca-Cola sign, probably something Zod didn't 'Enjoy' 😂
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Why Are There Two Very Different Cuts of ‘Superman II’?
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Why Are There Two Very Different Cuts of ‘Superman II’?
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Marlon Brando Made Filming Christopher Reeve’s ‘Superman’ a Nightmare
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Pick your favorite movie sequel.
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Update: the photo made it to Sarah Douglas (Ursa) and Non (Jack O’Halloran) at #FanboyExpo in Orlando
#DragonCon #DragonCon2023 #cosplay #Barbie #Superman #SupermanII #Superman2 #comics #DC #DCcomics #RichardDonner
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This is #DragonCon in a nutshell, or rather in a box: the Kryptonian super-criminals General Zod, Ursa, and Non from #Superman and #SupermanII trapped in the Phantom Zone of a #Barbie doll box
#DragonCon2023 #cosplay #Superman2 #comics #DC #DCcomics #RichardDonner
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July 23: Favourite Superhero sequel 🦸
#SuperSceneChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
@Multiplat_Mike#SupermanII (1980)
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that 3 Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. -
July 23: Favourite Superhero sequel 🦸
#SuperSceneChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
@Multiplat_Mike#SupermanII (1980)
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A mighty Happy Birthday 🎂 to Terence Stamp.
Here's my favourite cinematic line he's delivered, short, powerful and so effective in the scene.#SupermanII (1980) #GeneralZod
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Hearing the bones in Zod’s hand get crushed in #SupermanII is an iconic sound in my movie memories. So, for some reason, is #MrsDoubtfire scooping out the Marie Rose sauce in the “dinner is served” scene.
What are some of your indelible auditory #movie memories?
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ARGH! #SuperManII directors did NOT understand how gravity works! If "grunt" there wasn't grounded to the moon, he would've just flown up WITH the space capsule! He COULD NOT have held the capsule down like this! C'mon 1980's! Get it right! They didn't even correct this onerous mistake in the "fixed" #RichardDonnerCut! 🤬
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#NASA is set to announce the crew of the #ArtemisII lunar mission.
My question is, why would any astronaut volunteer for anything named ARTEMIS TWO???
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This is the 6th of 7 #GeneHackman movie polls.
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This is the 6th of 7 #GeneHackman movie polls.
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Happy 70th birthday to Sarah Douglas, born 12 December 1952!
Sarah caused many confused feelings amongst teenagers when she and Terence Stamp sashayed vampily from the Phantom Zone to (nearly) defeat Christopher Reeve with the power of black v-neck jumpsuits in Superman II.
#SarahDouglas #Ursa #SupermanII #Superman #OnThisDayInMovies #ArtOnPaper