nightwing
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2006, 01:23:03 PM » |
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Here's my problem: if it happened after 1978 or so, I probably don't care anyway. Yesterday I watched the doc online, thanks to the link Rao provided, and I found myself really interested right up to the first Chris Reeve film (with my interest at a peak during the discussion of the George Reeves show). After that it was all downhill: three sequels of rapidly diminishing quality, the Superboy TV show, Lois and Clark, the marriage, the "death", Smallville and then about 8 minutes of advertisement for the new film. Almost none of which interested me then or now. Okay, I am interested in the new film, but this sort of "documentary" always winds up feeling more like an infomercial when they tack on the sales pitch at the end.
I find I'm really not interested in recent Superman history (by which I mean anything from the late 80s on), so a comprehensive, multi-disc set would really be overkill for me. I'd bail out with about three discs to go, I guess.
Anyway, as far as the criticism that a lot of history was left out, my impression was that this was an overview of Superman as he impacted popular culture, not a comprehensive history of his life in comics. Ultimately, Superman only shows up on the cultural radar when he's on radio, TV or film, and recently when he's part of an engineered marketing campaign like the wedding and funeral. This documentary was made for the average Joe and not the regular patrons of "The Android Dungeon."
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