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<p><strong> <font size="2"> I'm getting old. I can't believe it was thirty years ago this month that a bunch of us went to see <em>Superman: The</em> <em>Movie</em> its opening weekend. What a thrill it was to see that when it was brand new in a packed theater! Christopher Reeve was just impossibly handsome, Margot Kidder was great as Lois Lane and Gene Hackman had a ball playing Lex Luthor. The sets, the costumes, the location filming, the music, the visual effects and of course Superman flying! What a cool movie. The two-album soundtrack of John Williams' score--he should have won the Oscar that year--still wasn't enough to contain all of the music. We would have to wait until 2002 for that. What fun memories! The audience was practically on its feet cheering when Superman rescued Lois Lane from the helicopter! A year before Luke Skywalker had lead the movies away from anti-heroes back to heroes, and what better hero to follow-on than a superhero, and what better superhero? They took a big gamble doing that movie as The Greatest Story Ever Told: Krypton, Smallville, the Fortress of Solitude, Metropolis, Lex Luthor, Super-Rescues, but it worked! The new <em>Superman Returns</em> was quite faithful to Richard Donner's original, but Superman and Lois Lane were badly miscast. Pity. They simply had no fire compared to Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. Actually, they looked wooden compared to Donner's cast. Kevi</font><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/3/2/a3e4eac5-aa56-4651-a2b1-bfb9f5630f63.Medium.jpg" alt="" /><br /><font size="2">n Spacey, like Gene Hackman, clearly had fun playing Lex Luthor.</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>