What did you think of Superman III?

[DisneyBoy]

Did anybody watch Superman III Last night? I used to have that film on tape, years ago. I would always get scared at the end when the sister of Robert Von got turned into that robot -woman thing! What did you guys think of it? Did you only enjoy the original Superman film, or were the sequels just as good in your eyes? Also, at the end of the film, Clark gives Lana a diamond ring, she moves to Metropolis and become Perry's secretary. Lois looked pretty shocked upon seeing the ring. Was Clark then engaged to Lana? Is this issue at all dealt with in the fourth and final film? Let me know you Superman fans!

[Calhoun07]

The only Superman moves I really like and bought on DVD are one and two. I haven't seen 3 in so long, I forget what it was even about.

[James Harvey]

SUPERMAN 1 & 2 were real good. SUPERMAN 3 reeked and SUPERMAN 4 was worse. I really didn't like SUPERMAN 3, although I did plan to watch it bt got sidetracked. The first two movies really accent off each other. If you watch 1 & 2 one after another, you'll see that they pick right up and is like one continious story.

[Nass]

Superman 2 is on all time time, Im tired of watching it but I still do. I bought Superman III on video in the re-releases cuz it was like 8 bucks at Sams. I like Richard Pryor and Superman so it made sense to buy it, but some parts were too corny. I liked it basically, but the first two worked because they were about Superman's hard times. III was about Richard Pryor's struggle basically, and IV was sweet cuz Superman fought the nuclear war stuff, but it was still mostly about Lex Luthor and his quest to destroy Superman more than anything else.

[Maxie Zeus]

It's really not very good, though some of the comic bits work.

[James Harvey]

I just dreaded the movie when I saw Pryor mugging for the camera on the cover. The movie just sorta didn't quite mesh although the premise was definatly interesting and could've worked if done seriously.

[Maxie Zeus]

I last saw it when I was a teenager (ugh, that was a long time ago), but I've since heard about one gag that I would definitely appreciate now.

The dumb secretary in one scene is shown reading Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (and laying it aside for trashy Cosmo-type magazine when the boss walks in). That's funny all by itself, but sources I trust tell me that while reading the Kant she makes some comment that (a) shows she's reading and comprehending the most difficult section of a hideously difficult book, and (b) constitutes an insightful and possibly devastating refutation of a key Kantian thesis. So the joke is even more satirical than it looks on the surface.