The Digital Movie Collector

Retro Movie Time

I decided to go back into my archives and watch the first Christopher Reeve version of Superman. This time on my home theater 8' screen since I did not get to watch this in the theater the first time. Something to enjoy having your own personal theater during this pandemic. Makes you feel like you are at the theater minus the cost of tickets and concessions. I admit it does also lack the smell of theater popcorn and the excitement of a crowd watching something for the first time.

Review

Watching it again, I see how even with the special effects at the time made you believe a man could fly. The cast was amazing but even better is what is sorely missing in today's high budget movies, great cinematography. To actually see the movie without all the blur effects is refreshing. The focus was on Superman and just blurring the background when he flew or ran. Today's movies have all these great details that they blur away. You would think studios would want to get a little return on investment for these detailed special effects. Yes you can see the special effect in this movie are not as great as today but the way they did the special effects was so much better where the viewer could appreciate the scenes.

Rating

I would give this a HD rating. The movie now comes in UHD and is well worth less than $10 price. I was cheap and used disc to digital on my DVD for $2 to get my SD copy.

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