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Superman (1978)
Deserves more credit, one of the best sci-fi pictures alongside 2001 and Star Trek II
I really owe a lot to Superman. It was the first movie that really made me think about character development. I've seen it before in other movies and games I played before at the time, but this is the movie that made me notice it. For the first half of Superman, all it does it develop Superman from a young child to a confused teenager, to Clark Kent. And that is what separates Superman from every other movie I've seen. We feel like we've grown up with Clark as if we were one of his own brothers. This is a quality Superman II and Man of Steel didn't have. We feel for Clark and we like and cheer for him as we watch him go up against Lex Luthor. And that brings me to my next half of the review. A lot of people don't like the change between adolescent Clark and him then going to Metropolis and becoming Superman for the first time. I thought the second and third act were just as good as act one. Clark is forced to juggle his Clark life at the Daily Planet and his crime-fighting alter ego life as Superman. Richard Donner creates in my opinion, one of the best, if not THE best comic movie ever made, and it's quality wouldn't be matched until The Dark Knight in 2008. Superman was a masterpiece and it is not a big dumb action fest everyone makes it out to be. It goes alongside Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Star Trek II as one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. You'll believe a man can fly. 10/10