Superman Through the Ages! Forum

So which of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies is your favorite?

My favorite is Donner's original version of Superman II.  Or at least the slightly less-rare extended version.

Superman The Movie was and always will be one of my three favorite movies (Ben-Hur and The Longest Day being the others).  I truly did believe a man could fly.

Superman the Movie is my favorite because it's a big epic story.  It's got action, fantasy, drama, romance and humor.  Richard Donner couldn't have directed it any better.  Chris Reeve nailed the part.  He's my favorite Superman.   :D  :s:

Well, your subject line was a bit misleading.  I prefer the first Kirk Alyn serial!

But as for the Chris Reeve films, it's gotta be "Superman" The Movie."  

Although I loved it as a teen in 1981, Superman II had lots of effects that simply have not held up over time, plus the unbelievable sub-plot where Superman gives up his powers and the even more unbelievable retrieval of those powers, and finally an apparent lack of understanding even of what Superman's powers are (super-statue-making power?  Super-cellophane tossing power?).  Otherwise, the film is pretty strong, but those are enough things to torpedo it for me.  Oh, and there's also the lackluster retooling of John William's score from the first film, and the low-budget feel of just about everything (We got 3 supervillains with the power to take over the world!  Let's have them attack the town of Mayberry!).

The other films aren't even in the running.  The effects just got worse and worse as time went on, the music was pathetic and Reeve started letting his physique go to pot (although in fairness, 40-something is pushing it for any man in this role).  In fact, the sequels were so bad they made the first one look weaker just by association.  I had to take a break of several years and come back to S:TM on DVD before it seemed fresh and beautiful again.  If anything, I like it better now than I did in '78.  When I first saw it I kept thinking things like, "That's not Krypton!" and "What happened to Superboy?"

It wasn't the last time I'd think those things, either. :-)

I love Superman: the movie. I loved Christopher Reeve and his great Clark/Superman contrast. His Clark was so awkward, and his Superman was so... super, so smooth and confident and supermanish. and I love the scene flying with lois. the whole "can you read my thoughts?" bit.

although I do enjoy Superman II. I think this is mostly because I like general zod and the other kryptonian supervillians being there. I was watching it recently, and what really struck me as strange is that the krypton woman's shirt was like something that is "in" now. isn't that weird?

Superman: the movie, natch.  It was the closets adaptation to the silver age Superman that I had grown up with.

But no head band for Jor-el?!

The horror, the horror! LOL :wink:

Superman II has always been my favorite.........You got General Zod you got Superman giving up his powers for Lois, its a good movie i think better then the First.....

I say Superman 2 because losing his powers was really dramatic and the whole movie just sends chills through my body......Superman 1 is a very,very close second and then Superman 3 and Superman 4.

Superman II is my fav.  :D

Why? The credits start off with an ace reminder of what took place in Superman: The Movie, and it's straight into Metropolis and we get a Superman sighting within 10 minutes rather than having to wait a whole hour like the first one :P

General Zod is just fab as is Lex Luthor, plus Lois uncovers Clark's secret - makes for fab drama  :)


Dj in the UK

I voted the first Superman movie. I really enjoy the Smallville scenes especially where he kicks the football about three states away. I'm also always moved by the part where he goes postal when Lois dies.  That scene bought realism and humility to the film.  You see that Superman 'is human', that he's not always perfect and right.  He looses it sometimes.

When I was little my mum worked in a video shop and there was no one to look after me so I was there to and every day I 'd put on Superman and sit there glued to the screen.  Customers must have been sick of seeing it but who cares?  :D

I only watched the second Superman a couple of times because the scene where Supes gets beaten up after loosing his powers useto upset me  :roll: The whole thing was so depressing.

Superman 3 highlight: The junkyard scene, you can't beat it.  I kind of liked bad Superman.  Still do.  Whenever Clark turns naughty in Smallville he's always that little more interesting.

Superman 4.......hated it.

Chow 4 now  8)

for me its Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, its a film which has its heart in the right place and still has a lot of potential. For the first time we see superman doing what he should have been doing from the beginning, confronting global issues.