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How ‘Superman’ Inspired a Movie-Review War: When Is It Fair to Say That Too Much Fun Is No Fun at All?
How 'Superman' inspired a movie-review war: When is it fair to say that too much fun Is no fun at all?
That was cool back then, but today, in the age of everyday digital magic, supernatural wonder made real is simply the language that movies speak, in an “Of course I’ll believe a man can fly! I love about half of the 1978 “Superman,” but the film always wears out its welcome for me because I’ve never been able to stand the villains: Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, and Valerie Perrine acting as if they were in a sketch on “The Carol Burnett Show.” And that’s no small matter. Critics have always disliked certain genres, but in recent years the collective media establishment has come to regard comic-book movies with a special disdain — as a unique incarnation of the Death of Cinema.
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