Watched: 07/05/2025
Viewing: a lot. Whole bunch of times.
Format: Max
Director: Richard Donner
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In prep for seeing Superman 2025 on the 8th, I figured I owed the OG classic one more spin before settling in for what Big Blue has to offer us in our modern era.
To catch folks up, I saw Superman: The Movie (1978) during its initial release in December of 1978 or shortly thereafter. Maybe in Spring of 1979. But I'd certainly seen it in the theater with my dad and brother during that window when I was 3. I recall seeing it, as they were giving away gumball machines that were red or blue, and at that time, my brother's stuff was coded blue, and mine was red, so my parents could be even-steven giving us things, but we knew what belonged to who.
I think often of how spoiled we were as kids in the 1980s. One of my first movies outings was seeing Star Wars in the theater at age 2, and then all of the paraphernalia around the movie from toys to wall paper . To me, movies were just where mind-boggling things happened, and what was the point if you weren't seeing something amazing?
