I’m still on this platform, mostly because I don’t want it be taking over by something bad.
Anyway, here’s the seasonally appropriate song.
— | She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/15/she-found-a-dating-app-on-her-boyfriends-phone-then-she-bought-a-samurai-sword/?utm_term=.d6631ee39b88 Victim blaming is bad and all, but I think if she can be disarmed and he loses his games, they deserve each other. |
The real reason that the movie works—and it does work, for the most part, even when you rewatch it 40 years later—is Christopher Reeve, the then-unknown actor chosen to play Superman. I don’t know whether Reeve is an exact fit for the comic book version of Superman or whether my own personal image of Superman is just colored by this Reeve version being around for my entire life, but it’s hard to imagine any other actor embodying that strange mix of brawny handsomeness, charming sincerity, and physical comedy. As Clark Kent, Reeve is a gracefully screwball bumbler, and as Superman, he’s a warm and sheltering presence…
…the main problem that subsequent screen Supermans Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill have had is that they’re just not Christopher Reeve.
I don’t think we’ve addressed how weird it is that Fred eats a cereal with the same name as his daughter.
Why didn’t they teach us this in school instead of trying to rationalize the War of Southern Aggression?
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