Superman origins

[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,

Spoiler:

I'll be darned if he didn't go and pull that sh!t again! Yeesh.

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.

[Moonliner]

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,

Spoiler:

I'll be darned if he didn't go and pull that sh!t again! Yeesh.

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.