Negative Space: superhero
- The Complete Superman Collection
- The Fleischer studios released seventeen “Superman” animated shorts during the forties. While the storylines are lacking, the animation is very interesting: shadowy, with art-deco backgrounds and ‘props’.
- The Sentence for Freedom is Death (75.4 KB)
- Is the world ready for a Noh-inspired superhero? Probably not.
- Superman II
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A respectable enough sequel, although it threw away character development in favor of big fights. The big fights were pretty cool. Superman II took the weird science at the ending of Superman: The Movie and really went wild. Superman gives up his powers so that he can have sex with Lois Lane. And then gets beat up by a trucker (with a payback that is in retrospect eerily reminiscent of Superman III, a movie best avoided).
- Superman: The Movie
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One of the most incredible movies of my youth, I watched it on VHS for a decade—it was one of the handful of movies I was willing to buy on VHS—and when my VHS copy died, I got the DVD version. The DVD version unfortunately adds some extraneous scenes that hurt Stuart Baird’s editing of the movie, but it’s still great.
If you can justify it, I recommend spending a little extra to get one of the collections that contain the theatrical version; but one way or another, get this movie.
