Hackman alone adds at least 1 star to the rating of any film he's in.

Deep down i think that LUTHOR knew it was only a matter of time before GENERAL JACKASS & his playmates got put down

Yaaa...

God, Gene Hackman is an absolutely brilliant actor! Love him!!!

Kneel before Zod!! Five sit ups,..... before Zod! Ten push ups,......... before Zod! Ten jumping jacks,...... before Zod! LOL 🤣🤣😆😆.

Hey, it's me...from 2024. It's gotten worse

We don’t even have General Zod; we have President Clod.

In the Donner Cut, he says “Haven’t you ever heard of freedom of the press?” Literally everybody thinks that the care to step outside line is so much better.

Kneel before Zod 😂😂😂

@@TheKevinKruger thats the only part of the Lester cut is better.

@@TheKevinKruger No, literally not everybody.

1979

0:22 come to me, son of Jor el! 0:24 Kneel before Zod!

Lies again? Mountain Blast

1979

@Carolus Magnus it is. Another interesting fact is that some of these scenes were set in England.

1979

@@josephmullin5845metropolis was supposed to be England? Looks like New York

henry cavils superman was more realistic and less happy go lucky kiss my ass types superman. plus man of steel was just a better movie than all of the origionals

kid jaden Man of Steel was lame and that was reflected in how badly it did in the Box office. Who cares if you TRY to make a serious movie if you don't do it will. a good light hearted movie> a bad serious movie.

You guys got move on,there will be others playing superman in the future.You could enjoy the new ones and the old ones.ANYWAY I ENJOY THEM ALL BUT MAN OF STEEL WAS AT LEAST AS GOOD OR BETTER,I THINK ABIT BETTER BUT THAT'S ME.

There’s no other Superman like Christopher Reeves. He was the best

kid jaden you are wrong

It was omitted, but after Luthor says, “the chief’s got it,” Jimmy Oleson then said, “I should’ve spiked it.”

The Chief's got it last night with another Superbowl 😂

1979

One of the small complaints I have with Christopher’s Superman movies: they don’t do enough with Lex Luthor and Jimmy Olsen together. Two totally opposite characters and could easily have shown how dark/dangerous Lex is.

and also the hero decides to give up his powers in the sequel

and also the hero decides to give up his powers in the sequel

I know right, so annoying when you're trying to get home.

and never as good

In The Beginning Was The Word especially when the hero sends the villain into your windshield. BTW I like your username.

It's not the final stand off in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It's not the final shoot out in The Wild Bunch, or Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, or My Darling Clementine, or even Champ of Champs. Hmmm. I'm not sure.

This is so superior to anything recent.... it FEELS REAL

1979

@@JordetheArtistpractical fx always feels more realistic than CGI.

It's shocking how alleged fans like Bryan Singer...and the *&#% they have doing his films now...have managed to capture...absolutely nothing of what Reeve brought to the role--nor have even tried to, really. But indeed, the man was practically superhuman in real life--he'd recovered 70% of sensation in his body and significant motor function after having his skull separated from his spine. THAT is not supposed to happen.

Yeah but the 50's tv Superman George Reeves was pretty good too.

al tan bello y recordado amigo cristhoper revee Estos vídeos son un Pequeño homenaje de todos sus fans que tanto lo recordamos con mucho Cariño y te llevamos en el corazón ♥️♥️♥️😍😍💘💋

Did you ever see Chris Reeve in interviews? He was a genuine, caring, humble guy. Like he was angel sent from heaven or something. He always seemed so... good and righteous and caring about everybody... a Superman.

He was awesome but henry cavil fits the mold too

yes! i quote that line all the time.

1980

That's awesome!!

Kal El disagrees.

TheGoldcountry Why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?

o.k. im down.

Can I have a little piece of property known as "Australia" for this allegiance?

***** I have promised Australia to Lex Luthor. You may have..... Madagascar.

None of the visuals look good, let's be honest! But this was the 70s and 80s, so it's no surprise that nearly 50 years later, things have improved dramatically. 50 years from now, kids will look at movies today and they'll look just as bad to them.

+Johnnie Campbell I think he meant that Shannon played a realistic Zod due to realistic world that MOS was set in.

Yeah that's true, but I think having another movie villain hell bent on totalitarianism might have got a little bit boring. I do agree though that he wasn't a exact copy of his comic counterpart but that happens a lot in comic book films.

true ! new zod has zero charc. development .. he just screams at people and it's hilarious

Terrence Stamp's acting alone is better than any up-to-date Superman films now.

@@suvajitchoudhury1707 EXACTLY. Shannon just played different levels of pissed. He's a really good actor, but Terrence Stamp is just on another level. Such a cold, alpha vibe

I don't know man they both look pretty fake. I like both of the movies but honestly both metropolis battles in both movies were over the top and silly, for both their times. I personally like the MOS Faora fight in Smallville. it wasn't too crazy and really gave weight to superman's powers. like seriously in this scene. Zod throws him and it's just a broken windshield? nah..... a kryptonian, no matter who's side they're on, is gonna cause some damage!

But when the debris falls down and the windshield crashes, they feel tangible. They feel real. In MOS they feel video-gamey.

+RF20Lennon Haha, w.e dude. This is terrible. B-Rank material. MOS was better by a long shot.

Robert Rivera the debris falling, roads cracking, all of that is practical visual effects. MOS looks like a video game. None of it feels real.

+RF20Lennon dude this looks like me and my friends made it... man of steel looks fucking awesome.

Impotent and intimidating? Do you mean to say, imposing?

combined with hans zimmer's music made that moment more transcending.

1979

best line ever!

Zod.

1979

or Marlboro

Superman is like "I think Batman is not gonna happy when he see this..."

GochEm 30 Why would he think that?

And people complain about Man of Steel having product placement.

@@stephentreadwell5851 Have you seen a Diet Coke commercial from 1989 with Batman?

The whole fucking city wasn't destroyed after this fight like in Man of Steel.

LOL so true, that's exactly my point!! granted there was less destruction here in this fight, but that's mainly because the cgi didn't exist at the time, but for its time that was still a lot of destruction. but yet no one complained back then and everyone complains now

+MelanicDisaster watch the movie again, a good portion of the city is still standing, if the whole city was destroyed, then how come the daily planet is still standing in the end, and Superman was able to walk in? plus this was superman's literally first day as Superman, and he had to fight the world engines, and then zod, in this fight it was just zod

I don't care in the logic of the movie why the city was destroyed. From a writing perspective it was stupid.

+stickman3 I guess you never saw MOS, because whatever comparison you tried to make you grossly inflated. In MOS 1:45, 3:00, 6:49 x 100. How about Superman letting his Dad die over a dog yet he can expose himself to a bunch of bratt ass kids on a bus. This Superman he outsmarts and learns over his opponents. MOS he gets his ass kicked continuously and learns nothing. There is no comparison..I'm glad they made Superman of the 70s and will always be a true classic, It makes it easier for me to easily forget about the current Superman.

Divine the drag queen? Is this a Percilla Queen of the Desert reference? Where's Agent Smith?

1979

Yes, for me too! superman the movie is fantastic, but superman 2 is also my favorite.

1979

I think its KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN because on the dash of the car a KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN box was seen then later as ZOD URSA and NON are creating a wind storm we see a man and a woman walking out of a KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN restaurant seeing carrying their order before being blown away buy wind .

I disagree, but to each his own. Both are great movies for me.

Mackster248 yep, same thought here! Great movies!

I loved how despite the seriousness of the battle there's well timed humour mixed in ...a bit like James Bond's multiple encounters against henchman Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979). This is one of many things that makes this battle superior over the MOS version.

MOS bounced back and forth between a tedious drama and a video game.

@aidsbrigade well said sir my thoughts excactly

It's sort of hard to fight and save people when you didn't have time to learn about being a better hero and when you are being attacked constantly by a guy who wants you and the planet dead in real scenario Man of Steel is what would happen there'd be no enemy gives you time outs so you can save people

Your right but I would have to argue that this IS Superman we are talking about. Their version of Superman isn't developed all the way yet and they put him in a world altering situation before he was ready. Like in the comics the situation he learns from is Jonathan Kent's death were he can't save everyone, but they changed his death in the movie a bit. Its cool I will wait until the sequel to see how much I like the new Superman ;)

The Man of Steel fight was more fast pace and aggressive that this fight. If two superhumans did fight there would be a lot more destruction, death, and buildings falling. Plus how is he going to save people if Zod is constantly throwing punches at him. When he stopped to save people in Man of Steel he was taken by surprise. Subduing Zod should be his only priority because if he takes his eye off Zod and gets killed then everyone dies.

dude i KNOW that all that dead and destruction everyone is bitching and being so fucking annoying about is a plot device for the next movie theres a reason for it you dumbasses

@@warofdarknessfang I remember him even showing remorse though. Christopher Reeves when he blows up the concrete wall above the people, has a look that he knows he made a mistake or that lives are in Jeopardy and he feels bad about it. You get none of that from Henry Cavill character

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He dint "destroy" city's in that movie..........well maybe Smallville.

Did you see what happened to Metropolis in MoS? It was completely leveled! It was leveled so badly that I bet that the citizens of Metropolis would be willing to move to Gotham!

Cheetos Hmm if you really think there is no collateral damage in a superman fight then you really dont know superman heck even the animated series has destruction of buildings it's what makes the stakes high. Hell the people here are dumb sticking around and even trying to fight them

Roe Dameron

Not only that ... the only way he got Zod to leave is by Superman himself leaving thus letting Metropolis be at Zod's mercy. Luckily it worked out as Zod didn't hurt anyone else but that was gamble as Zod did grab Lois... ... MoS' Zod already said he was going to kill everyone ... so leaving wasn't an option. MoS Zod would have just killed Lois and everyone else if Supeman left.

Eddy R That's another great point. Very well said, Eddy!

***** You make some good points. Thank you for your response. And an even bigger "thank you" for responding in a respectful manner (since respect for others doesn't happen much on KZfaq). On your point about Snyder and the camera - I think one of his biggest flaws is that if it's not written in the script/story then he won't film it. He doesn't really think, "Maybe I should add this extra scene or situation just incase the audience might get confused or not fully understand this or that." Either way, I'm glad that David Goyer is gone as story writer & script writer. If the new script writer gives encrypting detailed saves for Superman then Snyder will film it. Maybe in the follow up film we'll see more "heroic-looking" scenes of Superman saving things like cats in trees or saving a grandma crossing the street at risk of being hit by a speeding bus (I'm not trying to be sarcastic by saying this because I actually think these types of scenes will add to the film). By the way sir, your "old timer" ideas are great and hold weight because good ideas come from both old-timers and new-timers. And a lot of the time I often agree with "old timers" more so than newer generation folks. Anyway, thanks for your feedback.

Let's not also forget about Zod blowing up several cars with his heat vision and Supes doing nothing to stop him for several moments. Also, the funny thing about the "leading Zod away from Metropolis thing" was that Superman had no idea that Zod would follow him. Zod didn't even know where he was going at first if memory serves and Superman didn't try to bait him to come after him. Imagine if Zod decided to vaporize the city after Superman left. He's real lucky he didn't.

huntcd2012 That is another excellent point about Superman 2! You're absolutely right. Like you said, "Superman had no idea that Zod would follow him." General Zod was satisfied by Superman leaving, with a big smile on his face he says, "So, he is a coward after all." He was ready to rule the earth and destroy more of Metraopolis. But luckily Lex Luthor told General Zod about Superman's Fortress of Solitude at the North Pole. But if Zod had killed Luthor, then Zod would've just destroyed the remainder of Metropolis and killed millions of people. So in fact, Superman never "lead Zod away from Metropolis." - Simply put, he got lucky that Lex Luthor was alive and even knew where Superman's Fortress was.