{"id":1258,"date":"2006-06-28T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2006-06-28T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T21:22:53","slug":"cinematic_krypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Cinematic Kryptonite"},"content":{"rendered":"

In preparation for Bryan Singer’s Superman<\/A> film, I re-watched the 1978 version<\/A> starring Christopher Reeve.  I  remember enjoying this film as a kid and I thought it might be interesting to see how it held up.  Yeesh.  The first half hour is okay, mostly because we get to watch Jor-El and General Zod glower at each other, but afterwards the movie descends quickly into uninspired camp.  Lex Luthor in a wig?  And what is up with that god-awful inner monologue (“Can you read my mind?”) delivered by Margot Kidder?  Her character is supposed to be a crackerjack reporter and she’s reciting dialog that sounds like it was written by a teenage girl with a crush on the guy who sits in front of her in geometry class.  Oh, and I’m pretty sure time doesn’t run backwards simply because Superman reverses the Earth’s orbit. <\/DIV>
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I want those two hours of my life back.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In preparation for Bryan Singer’s Superman film, I re-watched the 1978 version starring Christopher Reeve.  I  remember enjoying this film as a kid and I thought it might be interesting to see how it held up.  Yeesh.  The first half hour is okay, mostly because we get to watch Jor-El and General Zod glower at […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}