Superman catches criminals | Superman (1978) 

This is the appeal of the character. Yes, he's a Mary Sue, but done in the RIGHT way. This is the Supes that people fell in love with.

​@@Supperdude9Actually, he isn't a mary sue. If he was, his stories (before New 52 and DCEU) wouldn't be appealed to audience. Just a little correction here. I hope it helps.

I agree seeing a Superman like this again would be nice. Thanks Christopher for giving us this one to use as a reference hopefully for the next.

We’ll get it for Legacy

Superman is supposed to be a Boy Scout. A friendly and caring individual who uses his powers responsibly. It's such an uncommon thing in our era of pessimistic dark superhero deconstruction.

I Know...😊

Only one was superman as his role. Chris was

It's called makeup. They can make anyone look like Superman.

@@donkeyslayer4661 no,they can't makeup you like superman

@@donkeyslayer4661 No. They picked him because of what he looked like and he was also a great actor. He was very slim though and they asked him to beef-up a bit ready for the role.

Even in the face of his own death!

Yup, the definitive supes.

Good, so it isn’t just me. I’m sitting here choking up at scenes from the movie and I have no clue why. Maybe it’s because the optimism and hope in this version of the character (along with that superb Williams score) is just missing in so much of the world today

@@zacharyheller1313 Even TODAY'S MOVIES don't have this sort of message!!

I love Christopher Reeve and I don’t care who knows it. ❤️❤️❤️

Yup, I've always loved this man's performance as an iconic superhero I've adorned since childhood. Superman has been interpreted by several actors over the years but no one can do it better than Chris Reeves! TBH, here are more actors I wanted to return to play the roles of Clark Kent/Superman: 1. Tom Welling (too bad he never wore his suit) 2. Henry Cavill (if possible for him to reprise his role) 3. Brandon Routh (since he did it in Crisis, he could've done it again) 4. Tyler Hoechlin (his is comic accurate, almost. Seen his portrayal on HBO GO. It's amazing since he debuted in Supergirl.) Rest in peace, Christopher D'Olier Reeve. You will be flying free in paradise peacefully with the angels triumphantly playing the theme we once heard in the film as the Creator welcomes you with open arms.

You are sooo correct....nowadays super heroes are too busy beating up each other !! No wonder we cant get along lol

@@nickford2692 he was , pardon the expression , superb for this role as superman , .

He should've got an Oscar win as Supes.

You can ...you just need a great director or light hearted spirit to make a film with that attitude

Not like Batman 😂

Superman is good cop and Batman is bad cop

Sounds like every leftist nowadays. More concernet about the crimminal than it's victims..

Meanwhile in BvS: Superman smashes a terrorist against the wall.

Yes, instead of the threatening introduction, "I'm Batman", while dangling the criminal of the edge of a building.

Me too. He's always making me smile every time I think of him or see his face. Is it wrong for me to swoon over an actor like Christopher Reeve?

The gold standard

That's how Supes should be. He was raised to be warm. Only when he gets pushed does he go all out.

That's superman :) the best of us. The beacon of hope to guide us. Caring and compassionate for all. Even criminals.

Superman the movie 1978 is funny when the Superman is catching the criminals.

But sadly not the girl getting hit afterwards for “lying”

Almost furless kitty..ew

World's Finest "Movie" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-89yiguzcAZc.html with Christopher Reeve & Michael Keaton

Exactly a paragon of goodness

Christopher Reeves wasn't the best; HE IS THE ONLY ONE!

@@supermadmac I dunno, Dean Cain made for a good Superman and Tom Welling too. And don't forget Tim Daly who voiced Superman from the animated series and still does in current video games like in Injustice.

Funny, so many other people are dying for Henry Cavill to come back and the "Snyderverse" to continue with those actors.

You mean he doesn't just fly off to destroy another building just to apprehend another perp like Snyder's Superman would do?

... Which is just one of the reasons why Richard Donner did an EPIC job of doing a "Superman" movie. And Richard Donner chose the PERFECT person to portray Superman: Christopher Reeve!

Luke M Snyder’s Superman is a more realistic take if Superman were actually around. This is more child friendly

@@Oneeye_snaps Superman is a childhood hero. DUH!

Luke M it’s also an unrealistic take on a legitimate godlike being clashing with another godlike being in a major city. Snyder actually follows legitimate physics. I mean I guess if you’re into nostalgic kid movies sure but Snyder’s Superman is the most realistic

*staring at disbelief at the impossible* "Mooney.....first bottle's on me." lol!

@@hobomike6935 "Let me get my hat."

The real mystery is….if the thief had already stolen the goods, why was he scaling the building? To me it always looks like the thief is at the beginning of the heist not the end. 🤔🤷😂

​@@danielhaire6677like a big blue bird

@@arghjayem I always assumed he was stealing from more than one office or building that night.

The whole thing about Superman is that if you don't play a good Clark Kent, you don't have a good Superman. Anyone can put on tights and muscles and a cape, but it was the way Reeves played Clark that sold it. NO ONE would suspect that Kent was superman the way Reeves played him. All the rest of the actors who play superman don't play a good Clark Kent and they blow it.

I realized this year that he's actually three personas. After 12-years of re-education with Jor-El, he's now Kal-El, who chooses to reveal himself in the form of Superman, a persona. Then to be near people and breaking news, he becomes the Clark Kent persona, an extremely stiff version and exaggeration of who he used to be in high school. If they had understood this in _Superman III_ then it would have been Kal-El, Christopher Reeve dressed like Jor-El who ended the fight.

1977

That Mom sounded like a real uptight bitch

with that trauma she became Harley Quinn years later.

70's parenting right there champ :)

I've always found that scene really friggin dark..

@@danbev9313 More likely a drunk.. the great thing about the movie is that it inserted an optimistic, hopeful 1950's Superman into the cynical world of the 1970's.. Superman: "for truth, justice and the American way".. Loise: "you're kidding, right?"

Bad Vibrations.

Grins as he momentarily watches a criminal fall from a building before casually catching him.

@@serpentsepia6638 he’s faster than a speeding bullet, he can catch him in the blink of an eye

Superman when written right has to be like the ideal father. Hes a goober with his humor and is quietly reserved in his strength. He knows what hes capable of doing but doesnt have to flex. Reeve got that aspect of the character pitch perfect.

"Hi there, something wrong with the elevator?...Going down".

Yes and thr fact that he gave up his powers just to live a normal life not caring about humanity. Best superman ever

@@elijahlee3610 what, he didn't lmao

@@silverskull7669 you didnt watch superman 2 have you

@@elijahlee3610 and don't forget he turned back time only to save Lois. Even so, Reeve was a great Kal-El.

@@elijahlee3610 I never got the give up his powers bit. Lois fell in love with Superman. NOT Clark. Without his powers, Kal-El is just unsure, clumsily, insecure, timid, lacking self-esteem Clark Kent. WHY would Lois want THAT?! She fell in love with Kal-El's confidence, his poise, his self-assuredness, his determination. Clark was NONE of those things. The diner scene pretty much exemplified that.

That same little girl was in comics with a picture drawing of superman. She's also in one of the last panel's in the death of superman comic

Oh man, that smack sound at the end. That’s 1970’s parenting.

​@@jhagestad...and kids need that today.

I guess his super-hearing went out cuz he didn't hear the slap. 😂

"Going down....."

1977

I forgot about all the subtle one liners that superman delivered here. not so on the nose as later superhero movies, but definitely there. he knows how powerful he is, and tries not to abuse it. don't get superman angry

Apparently it was Spiderman's night off

Agreed, i liked Brandon Routh interpretation too but Henry Cavill killed it for me..

He isn’t the best superman he is superman

check him out in Somewhere in Time.

There will never be another Christopher Reeve.

Henry Caville's good but nobody was better than Christopher Reeve or Michael Keaton as Batman. Ben Affleck's pretty good, too.

LOL that was so funny --- could never do it these days because it would condone "child abuse"

@@fredwerza3478 😂👍 Agree. The PC brigade would cancel the entire movie.

I wonder if that mother apologized to her daughter once they seen Superman in the newspaper or on TV? LOL

I knew I wasn't hearing things lol

Supermán shoulda gone back and slapped that mom to next Tuesday

He can also fly fast enough around the earth to reverse time but can also fly with just enough speed and carefulness to save the girls kitten. Superman is awesome.

+Ken B And when he takes off he doesn't damage things around him. How smooth was his takeoff after saving the cat?

This is what was missing Man of Steel!

Bingo! i hate how they keep trying to make Superman a jerk, he gets called the "blue boyscout" etc. thats the main thing with sups, all that power and uses self control and for good-

@@drumking241 Millions of people outside US still adore, admire and loved Superman. Especially at Asian countries. Forget about comparisons with Jesus rubbish, at rural villages even kids worshipped him as a god, a perfect father/protector figure.

"I am a world renowned building freeclimber and I always carry my lucky jewelry when I climb. Now get me my lawyer!"

Mooneys face is a picture. Makes me laugh every time!!

I am confused how he had jewels when he was climbing up the wall? Wouldn't he be going down the wall if he was done? CONSFUseeeed

@@succulentcranberry Having already robbed one or two places, he was looking for more.

That's how Thomas Wayne made his fortune!

(and) thanks for the thumbs up.

Funny, the 1970s was a time of violent crime and bombings for anti-war protests and violence in the Black Panther/Power movement. Things got better in the 1990s, going down almost every year, but the media kept pretending we were still in the 1970s; "if it bleeds, it leads". Even today with crime up due to COVID, it's still better than even 2015.

1977

And Michael Keaton is Batman

Tobey Maguire IS Spider-Man

Patrick Stewart is Prof X

Also Captain Jean-Luc Picard

@@adrienneflowers2237 I'm sorry. I respect his take on Captain America. But I always felt like he was far more natural as Johnny Storm.

Lies again? Chevrolet Carlsberg

and i'm your dad

@@NazriB What?

@@amalalnckamsk6939 I'm not sure what you mean.

@@amalalnckamsk6939 Hi, Dad!

Especially when the guy hits him with his tuning crowbar boooooooiiiiiiiiiinngg!!!!!

One of Gene Hackman's best lines (to Ned Beatty): "Otis, do you know _why_ the number 200 is so vitally descriptive to both _you, and me?_ It's _your weight, and MY IQ!"_

1977

Ian Jenkins "Going down."

"Bad vibrations?"

Channeling his inner "Nightwing"

"They say confession is good for the soul. I'd listen to this man."

*confused look* "...nah."

It's the way the character was intended to be portrayed

But he still had one liners, so he wasn't quite a Boy Scout. He was just awesome.

Reeve*

Terence Stamp was General Zod.

I was 13 when I saw it in the theater. I walked thinking “I believe a man CAN fly!”

"Easy miss, I've got you." "You've got me? Who's got you?" Some of the greatest dialogue ever.

That makes of us

@@odysseusrex5908 :who are you ? : ......" A friend " :*)

tamil film

No its English

Take him away!

Awesome?! They're okay at best and meh more accurately.

Dr Weatherface it’s cheesy in a good way.

".. Hey there Officer ... Mooney.... you what they say, confessions are good for the soul, I'd listen to this man... take him away.." hahaha ... Christopher Reeve too good as Superman

"Bad vibrations?"

AGREE!

WAS*

No. Superman is Christopher Reeve.

@Youre Gonna Need a Bigger Boat First of all, I didn't said Christopher is Superman. I said Superman is Christopher Reeve. Of course I know he's dead. I meant no one's got that Superman face cut besides him. So who's the f***ing idiot?

Maybe he truly is Superman who came from a parallel world into our reality.

he also has a cape that defies gravity lol

hamsterminator That's because in this film, Zod and Faora wasn't trying to replace earth with a world engine

What does that have to do with the destruction when he takes off or lands?

hamsterminator : LOL

By "everything around him" I suppose you mean just the pavement.

IIRC, and not to take anything away from the great work of the stunt crew, but Reeve himself deserves some credit for making Superman's flight look as real and natural as possible. Reeve worked really hard to make the flying look like second-nature to Superman, so easy and graceful that you'd never even think that you're watching something physically-impossible, sorta like how elite athletes make their sport look so easy that every couch-potato thinks, *I could do that!", until they try doing it. Reeve focused especially on his take-offs and landings, which are just so smooth that you don't even notice. Great example of performance and effects coming together to make a whole greater than the sum of its parts. I can only imagine how hard that must have been, physically, on Reeve. It'd be like having to hold a plank position for hours at a time.

Not if you want to do anything other than midspeed cruising. You can’t do a Doomsday battle like in BvS with just wires and rear projection

@@peterp2153 Yeah, maybe, but BvS sucked. You need a good story first, then the special effects are secondary.

@@odysseusrex5908 BvS had a good concept but they deliver it terribly..... Martha scene should be sad and heartmelting but again they deliver terribly...

@@kensstudio0806 It was just a bad movie.

Or TOO BIG!

with that trauma she became Harley Quinn years later.

@@renatoigmed 😂👍

No

@@itpennywise1968 yes

@@itpennywise1968 wow man. I guess you are one of those who care solely about CGI and not acting. However you should give reasoning behind your statement.

You side it

@@caolanmcflynn2412 your comment needs elaboration.

Remember the house climbing scenes in the Batman series of the 60´s? Those were made in the same way, but this looks so much better.

And that cavil already surpassed

Darth El 🤣🤣🤣 Thinking Henry Cavill is better than Christopher Reeve. Close, but yeah, no.

@@thefilmwatcher1302 yes because the hero that sacraficed his life for a planet of beings that hated him is worse than a simp who permanently gave his powers away to get with a girl.

@@elijahlee3610 says who!? Lol I like Henry but most people hate his version of Superman. If you don't appreciate this Superman then I do why you're here you clearly don't get it.

@@kendallrivers1119 arbitrary nonsense, you addressed none of my points

NYBravest82 I totally agree!!🙌

Forget George Reeves, Kirk alyn the first superman in 1948. He made two serials

He even has time to get the cat out of the tree. Cavill ya got work to do.

Yes! The new guys face don't fit as Superman but Man of Steel remake was good.

He also was the man of wheels

Superman went out of his way to say that he was on the same side as the authorities.Batman symbolizes that the system doesn't work. Superman symbolizes that it can.

BigNoseDoggie humor? Uh... Huh.. NAME 5 SENSES OF HUMORS 5!!!!! Name 5!!!!!!!!

Yup. A wonderful good natured movie.

Well thank god Joss Whedon gave us that in the new JL movie. He's on par with Reeve's Superman in that movie, he's so happy. (Henry Cavill himself confirmed that he and Joss made the superman we get in JL in case you're wondering where I got that from.)

Bilal Zafar - I’d probably be interested to see a 100% Joss Whedon take on Superman but what we ended up getting was a bit of a Frankenstein style amalgamation between Snyder and Whedon.

Superman had a few jokes, it wasn't just shoved in your face because they're were more important things in the film than just catching petty criminals

If I had a bottle for every time I said something that really happened that no-one would believe I would have a tremendous wine cellar. Why don't people just have an open mind, believe and give it shot. What can they lose and so much to gain.

Ah, the boss I'll never have.

Def Blinders reeve/keaton vs hackman/nicholson

Goku Black In a parallel universe we got that movie

Although we already have movies showing them helping each other instead of fighting, Batman and Superman have been best friends for 80+ years so I agree with you.

Ben Affleck as batman is the worst casting decision EVER!

@@user-bl1pw2th4lcorrect

dark knight, spiderman 2, captain america winter soldier are probably all better but i believe this was well ahead of its time and Christopher reeves probably is the best portrayal of any super-hero only one close is RDJ's Iron Man portrayal

Superman: The Movie and The Dark Knight are the best 2. This movie is perhaps one of the most influential movies ever made towards the movie industry. The success of this movie showed the business that superhero movies could make it.

Superman, the Movie, Wonder Woman, and Batman Begins are all on a par.

@Dominik Klein No, no it is not. The three best, in no particular order, are Superman, the Movie, Batman Begins, and Wonder Woman. OK, that's chronological order, but all three of them are head and shoulders above the rest, including the other movies in their own franchises.

@Dominik Klein no lol

Bingo man! i have a huge problem with them doing that, they cant leave him alone, trying to make him a jerk or dark.

Yeah because Superman Returns was a box office hit. Just like Superman 3 and 4

@@emanuel6693 lol, if your not aware of the reason those didn't work. Then I can't help you.

@@emanuel6693 Superman returns didn't work because it was set in a modern world. They nailed the Superman character but should have had more challenge to face. Man of Steel tried but the execution was poor and they tried to deconstruct to Superman in a lazy way

Same reason a new CEO takes over a successful company and then proceeds to change everything that made it a success. It's just human nature, I guess.

It was probably more of a spank. (or swat on the behind) Spanking, while not 'encouraged' back then, was certainly more socially acceptable. But slapping a child? (on the face) was not so (I don't believe it ever was) & would have generated lots of backlash (especially in such a feel-good movie).

I wonder what Superman felt when his super hearing heard the slap....

You can still spank your kids when they are bad not leave marks on their body. Pararents still does it. They need to learn when they doing is wrong to make them right.

Well the real injustice of course is that she was telling the truth. The mom is gonna feel bad when she sees the newspaper talking about a Superman that can fly.

Superman doesn't give a fuck.

What's up Captain America

@@seanjohnson4475 Christopher Reeve as Superman.. 😉

America 81 , thank you for your service!🖒🖒🖒

Yeah, I was a little kid when I saw this in the theater, and I laughed!

Same here

Yep.

Yep. Although to be fair, the older Routh from the CW crisis does it better than he did in 'Superman Returns'.

I think Routh is a very underrated superman. He's way better than Cavill (Cavill ain't bad) But Reeves is the best their ever was, and will be. Because of how they make superhero movies today. I think thats pretty save to say. Today it's so dark and depressive.

@@0megacron Routh wasn't given the best script in Returns.

@@glass9764 the film was terrible. Plain and simple.

@@black-sv4gk *Reeve*

Think of all the misunderstandings that would have been avoided if Superman saved one person in public before Zod showed up. After all, all it took was for him to protect the soldiers in Smallville for Hardy to say "This man's not our enemy".

1977

This warrants a few bottles

He means a 12 oz bottle of beer; those cops don't drink cocktails.

yeah i guess xd

Cavill's Superman is plenty gentle.

@@themetalstickman he snapped Zod’s neck-

@@dadwiththemilk6428 *Routh*

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I have to disagree. I think Christopher Reeve captured the best of what the Superman story had to offer by a substantial margin. In comparison, Routh and Cavil (even more so) seem dull, uninteresting, and even cold. Reeve brought heart, sincerity, relatability, humor, and a clear dynamic contrast between the humble, fumbling reporter & the steel yet compassionate superhero that I don't get from the other two. The chemistry and emotion that he brought to the screen with Lois, especially in S2, is also quite unique for a superhero film. I admit Kidder was a bit of an overactor and her role was kinda cheezy at times, so the romance doesn't always make sense. But you gotta admit the 'magic' kiss scene at the end of Superman 2 is some really good acting from both of them. If the other two Supermen do something better, I'd say it's mostly in how they look in their costumes. Reeve's supersuit looks kinda flimsy, washed out, and ill-fitted to me these days.