Episode 163: The SUPERMAN Franchise (1978 - 1987)

The Wages of Cinema

Live from Hackensack, New Jersey (no extra missile here, Luthor, take that!) comes the Wages of Cinema!! LOOK! Up in the sky: it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's... discourse!! Jack and Korey watch the first five Superman movies! Yep, even Supergirl. (We start off for about the first ten to fifteen minutes talking about what led up to us doing this gigantic episode- and why Superman Returns is decidedly *not* part of the discussion). SPOILERS are more powerful than a locomotive, but we got em here anyway, so be warned! Hope you are all as charmed by our discussion as we all were by Christopher Reeve (Mark Pillow as Nuclear Man... not so much). Also a major shout out is given at the jump to Guest Star Matt Catania (of https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com) who inspired this episode in part. And apologies in advance for some background noise, but it's hotter than that Krypton-Energizer sun out there so we needed the AC. Dun Dun-dun-dun-dun, DUNDUNDUN! Movies discussed: SUPERMAN (1978) (Richard Donner) SUPERMAN II (1980) (Richard Lester and Richard Donner) SUPERMAN III (1983) (Richard Lester) SUPERGIRL (1984) (Jeannot Swarzc) SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) email is [e-mail]