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Ive just realised "Supermans" strap line doesnt work! its wrong

You'll believe a man can fly

Never spotted it before....

Sorry Chris,....am I missing something?

That's as bad as "The never ending story"!!!!!!!!!

I believe there was something in the simpsons about the never ending story being misleading because it ended thus proving it wasn't never ending

The strap line for Superman was more about the time it came out, rather than the fact that Superman is not actually a man.

At the time (late seventies, if memory serves) film special effects were not what they are today. The idea of the strap line was that the effects were so good (relatively) that the average cinema goer (and I was one of them) would not be able to tell that it was special effects. And to an extent, it worked.

I am reminded of the press chat about Jurassic Park when it came out (another major milestone in special effects). Gloria Hunniford was quoted on leaving thus: 'you can't tell where the fake dinosaurs end, and the real ones begin'. Now, she was rightly ridiculed for this, but if you look at it from a distance, as it were, you can see that she meant the seams between the animatronics and the CGI were hard to spot. CGI was very much in its infancy at this point, and up to then we had Tron and the Lawnmower Man for reference.

Similarly, pre-Christopher Reeve Superman we had the 1950's TV show, which was very different in its portrayal of 'flying'.

So, I will dispute that the tag line is wrong, just misinterpreted.

Take care, Ian

The idea of the strap line was that the effects were so good

Yes I got that part, but still highly frustrating

the movie snatch was abit of a let down for me.

kems wrote:the movie snatch was abit of a let down for me.

LOVE IT!

surely the most interesting thing about superman is the heavy religious overtones...