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Originally Posted by flippyshark
As much as I enjoy the first Richard Donner Superman, I did not then, I do not now and I never will accept that spinning-the-Earth-backwards bit. It's number one on my list of all time "you gotta be kidding me" moments.
And then, in the Richard Donner cut of Superman II,
I agree that Brandon Routh was a good Reeves-ish clark Kent. I wish he had a more charming movie within which to be so. |
Personally, I never interpreted that scene to imply the actual rotation of the earth stopped and reversed. It just looked that way from Superman's point-of-view as he moved back in time.
Have you all seen the Superman "
How it should have ended"? Classic.
Also, if you wanted to revamp the Superman franchise I think a movie adaptation of Larry Niven's
classic Superman essay would be a good start.