Superman 2

This week, we've written songs about Superman 2, "Tough Act to Follow" and "Give Up All I've Got" 

Superman II (1980), directed by Richard Lester, follows Superman (Christopher Reeve) as he relinquishes his powers to live a normal life with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), just as three Kryptonian criminals—General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran)—escape from the Phantom Zone and threaten Earth. Clark Kent must decide whether to regain his powers and face the invaders. Gene Hackman also returns as Lex Luthor, who forms an uneasy alliance with the Kryptonian villains.

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This week on the podcast, we've written songs about Superman two. Hey, if Superman really wanted to save America in the 80s, he would have helped John Hinckley Jr. Hello, hello and welcome to the Royds Revue podcast. I'm Rob. Whoa. And we are back once again this week. We've written songs about Superman two. Andy, how are you? I'm good. I watch Superman two for the first time. I had never seen it before. Really? Oh, wow. Andy saw a movie from the Library Communiste. Andy, using the library? Yeah, yeah, the library is a deep state. Something or other? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know something about socialism, man. It makes me mad at the library. Oh my God. Oh, come on, Andy, for justice listeners. He's jerking a guy off. Yeah. But the angle's weird. So all we see is taint and that taint. Cool. I say all that shit about a library while I have a degree in library sciences. Yep. Isn't that the red list? I don't know. Paul McCartney ism. We need to get rid of all these communists. So, to my understanding, this is kind of where the quality ends in these movies, though, right? Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Yo, Andy's got brains in his chest. Oh, I thought it was Axl Rose. Thank you. Was it. Was it really that good? Oh, okay. I thought it was another Duff McKagan. Was that another member of guns N roses? Nice. That would have been a really. I should have said that first. I would've been a super deep cut and everyone would have said, well, he's a real guns N roses fan. And I said, yeah, I like a bunch of their songs. Okay. November Rain. Listen, I'll be honest, I used to feel that way. The older I've gotten, I've kind of started appreciating guns N roses more. Oh, that's. You're allowed to. My dog loves water. In fact, you know what? My cat loves my dog's water. So dog water must be pretty good. Yeah. I never listen to Velvet Revolver, though. And, we are here to talk about guns N roses. Welcome. Welcome to the guns N roses cast show. No no no no no no no no no no. These these. I want to watch you P. I was about to start singing Bungle in the jungle to the tune of welcome to the jungle, but my brain was absolutely going haywire trying to work that. And and all. I couldn't think of the second line to the chorus of Bungle in the jungle. And so all I was going to come out with was Bungle to the jungle, Bungle in the jungle. We've got fun and games, but that joke's not worth it. Well, I appreciate it. Oh, wait. Bungle in the jungle. Well, that's all right by me. All right. This year came out in 1980. This year this movie came out in 1981. The year also. Yes, it. Started right on January 1st, 1981. Okay. Okay. Is it is it number one? It's not surprising. Right. No, it's actually Superman to Andy. We did Superman last week. Previous episode. Check it out. I turned into a moose for a second. Raiders of the Lost Bark. It's a bunch of football players looking for a dog. I thought this movie was pretty gross. It was. It was just a joke. Yeah, I noticed that. I don't know why. I don't know why you said. And I know I didn't even know, but I said, I said, Frick, you. Keeping a clean like Superman. I'll buy that. According to Wikipedia, it is 54 million. And then it was reshot. Yep. That's what it is. Oh, no. We can't find him. He got eaten by Carl Reiner. Yes, I'll be honest. I looked up the Donner cut. I did not watch the Donner cut. Honest. By the time this releases, I might watch the Donner cut and give my thoughts on it on Instagram or our socials. Yes. From what I've read, there are differences that actually help the movie out. Oh, yeah, but that's because Richard Lester needed to film all this stuff so he could get the director's credit. No. If you're bringing being brought in, you want to get that credit. Unfortunately, some people weren't coming back for these reshoots. Gene Hackman. Ned Beatty. Here's the thing, though I don't know. See, I have to watch the Donner Cut to see if there were actually more scenes supposed to have Beatty and test marker, because in this movie, it seems very much like we didn't have a role for Beatty. We didn't have a role for Miss Test marker, because Otis is left out at a very clear point where it's like he's no longer this movie. Miss Test marker disappears. No one noticed they had posters of her. That's the real Donner Party they're looking for. Miss test marker out in the Arctic. Right. Because. And it also becomes a thing if test Marker and Otis are still in this. Now we're having these scenes with Zod. Ursa. Non. Luthor. Otis. Test marker. We'll have the president. Wood. Yeah, and it makes sense to get rid of some of these characters so we can let the Kryptonians come in and be a part of this movie. I thought it was okay. Not bad by any means, but I didn't think this was nearly as good as the first one. I disagree, I think the humor is not as good in this one. The. No, I don't think so. I think this is way sillier. That whole blow scene where, like, where it's just slapstick comedy for like, five minutes. We'll get to it later. Do you want to jump right into Superman to the movie opens up on Krypton, and it's pretty much just rehashing the opening of the first movie. General Zod. Yes, it is good. I mean, again, it's based on the John Williams score from the first movie. He did not come back from this. It's for this. It's somebody else who just kind of rerecorded it and added a little bits and pieces to it. Yeah. Oh, listen to music once again. It's really good. Yeah. The first thing we see in this movie is non snapping a guy's neck. Like, out of nowhere, he just grabs this guy who's got this crazy outfit on or is this a robot? I thought it was a guy because a robot's not going down like that unless you just. You can just pop its head off. If it was a robot. Yes. So yeah. He snaps his neck and then we see Zod, Ursa and Non. They break this crystal and the council immediately banishes them to the Phantom Zone. What really hurts this movie is when you watch these back to back, because we've already seen this, but done better. And with Marlon Brando. I think they wanted to show us the crime that was committed, but it's not really clear what this crime is because they just like, grab a crystal or something and then these rings come down on them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. You say that in the first movie. I'm down for it. But then when we just see him grab it, like they don't, they don't really tell us what this crystal does, that he grabs. So it goes. Right. I think this was just kind of establish Brando's not here. Right. But they also, if he's not here, you can't keep calling him the son of Jor-El. You reshot the opening of the first movie to exclude him. And now we're in this movie, and he keeps bringing up Superman's father. It does. Doesn't make sense. And apparently, in the Donner Cut, there was a whole, like, trial sequence here. And they with Brando, and they actually described the crimes a little bit more. So that's something I'm really interested to see when I finally watch it. I really should have watched it. What a failure on my part. Both our parts actually. Oh fair enough. We get a really long credit sequence. It's highlights from the first movie. This leads me to my first question, and I think you know exactly what this question's going to be. Did we need the naked kid in the credits? Yeah. Once again, they show the full on naked kid. Oh, you could have just showed him holding the car up after he crashed. No, but, like, to then be like, oh, we're going to put him right up front in this one. But why? That's weird. It's weird and gross. We're at the Daily Planet. Some terrorists are going to blow up the Eiffel Tower or something. So Perry White sent Lois Lane to. Paris. So they say. Yeah, she flew on a Concorde, even if she flew on a Concorde there and gets there. And however they got there, they were very fast. How did Perry White a find out about the terror attack? Get Lois on a plane, get her to Paris before the terrorists have even started their plan. Did the terrorists call Perry White and say, hey. Oh, we are going to blow up the Eiffel Tower? Oh. Yeah. Oh. I looked it up. I asked the same thing. According to IMDb, it's because Bill Cosby once did a joke about Superman. And that's it. Yep. That's it. That's it. Listen, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. There are a lot of comedians who did bits about Superman, and he he's a pretty popular character. And Jerry Seinfeld even did a whole series of commercials with Superman in the early 2000s. Do you remember those? Yeah. Yeah. Also a big fan of teenage girls. Sid, this is so funny. Yes, it is, because in the Donner version, apparently they were released from Superman throwing the nuclear bomb in the first movie. Yep. That's not what happens. Hahahahaha! That is true. At least in the Donner one. Allegedly, there is a connection, and at least Superman has a consequence for just throwing a bomb into space. That's. That is true. Imagine if he gave those advice. Education. Crystal 142 general, don't ever take a bomb and throw it into space. Yeah. All right. Hey. Yeah. Yeah. Really weak. Especially because with Lester, you had the chance to correct that. That's something you could have made better. And you chose not to in favor of this scene in Paris where, first off, I really got a good laugh of a two good lines in this first bit with Clark talking to Perry White. Number one, when Jimmy Olsen goes the Eiffel Tower in Paris and he goes, he knows where the Eiffel Tower is, don't you, Clark? And there's another one where Clark goes, that's terrible. And white goes. That's why they call them terrorists. Let me laugh at. But Lois sneaks her way into the Eiffel Tower, and she hot. She hides on the bottom of an elevator. This is not worth a Pulitzer Prize. First of all. And, oh, but to calm her nerves, she starts to spell Nobel Prize. Because I'm assuming she doesn't know how to spell Pulitzer based on the first movie. And the first movie, she's constantly having her spelling corrected. So here she gets on and she goes, Pulitzer Prize. And then she goes Nobel Prize. And oh, like that. That's a good bit. Yeah. The terrorists cut the elevator, Superman saves the day, and then he flies the hydrogen bomb into space. The bomb explodes and it frees Zod, Ursa, and Non from the Phantom Zone. Oh, good. I wonder if it's the same question I have. Please do. I think he just knows. Like he knew. I think he was heading to the elevator, and that was like, there's a fucking. It's Lois. God damn it, Lois. So that is true. Yeah. She can't spell. And then she bets her life that Clark Kent is Superman later. So. She's right. That's insane. So I want to ask my question, then Question. what is the Phantom Zone? Is it just a little disk? Okay. Is this how it's represented in the comics, like in the comics? Or is like, does a little disk come down on them, capturing them? Flatley. Michael Flatley, they're all river dancing. Okay. Yeah. Right in court. I mean, Superman. Clark sees Lois outside the Daily Planet. He gets hit by a car. He gets hit by. And then a taxi as he crosses the street, and the cab driver is just like, freak. Yes. Lois doesn't react at all to that. So you. Yes. He wrecked that man's livelihood. Yeah. Yeah. You don't just go freak. Your car is totaled. Dude. Here's the thing. You can't. This movie, you can't be as silly as you are in this movie. I guess you can be. That's the problem. This movie is so silly. Everything in this movie is silly. And. But like, the first movie was funny without being overly silly. I think there's a great mix of like 1966 Batman toned down in the first one. But yeah, because yeah, because the Kryptonians are now gone. Now it's not just California that's getting. It's the world is now up for grabs, but I do too. But I just think, like Lex Luthor was playing in the first movie is a lot more down to earth and realistic of a guy saying, I'm buying up a bunch of property, and then I'm launching nukes to blow California off the map. It's a believable thing. This is just kind of like, okay, this guy just wants power. That's all this guy wants. Because even when they land, he's like, I can rule. And it's like, all right, at least I understand Lex Luthor. His motivations. It's money. At the end of the day, it's money. This is just some weird thing. It was like, I want to power. And then it's like. But I also want to kill the son of Jor-El. All right, all right. Yeah. He's like, bend over Ursa. Well, remember, all Ursa cares about is pleasing her, man. Zod. That's what they say at the beginning. In a callback to the first movie, I like this. Lois does tell Clark he needs to be more aggressive. And then we see Lex Luthor and Otis in prison. And Lex is wondering why the greatest criminal. Mind isn't being celebrated. Let's. But, like, why would they celebrate the greatest criminal mind? But why were the worst? Otis and Luther talk about Superman heading north every time he's seen. And Luther has a little black box that he's been building in his cell that tracks alpha waves. And that's how he knows Superman's heading north. Sure. Yeah, we're at NASA in Houston, and we get a young John Ratzenberger. Yeah, he's the, he's the guy here. And they they don't give a shit about these guys that they've sent out on to the moon. They just don't care. Because Zod and Ursa and non see these astronauts on the moon. Ursa kicks one guy into the Or into orbit via nuts. He's. That's that's someone's fetish. You know? This does. It's got to be strings and wires. You know what I think they did to. Hold on. Andy, this is great engagement. I'm going to post this. What I'm going to say next on to social media and people are going to Andy, did you know they actually went to space and filmed this on the moon? Isn't that crazy? Yeah, because there's no other way. They would have been able to film this. And now all these people are going to comment, you idiots, you dumb idiot faces. No no no. Yeah. Yes, I like that. For some reason, even in space, they have to fly with their arms out like this. I guess. Yeah. I love not in this. You're as thoughtless as you are. Whatever or whatever he says. Zod sends the cosmonaut out into space and on hooks him and non destroys the shuttle altogether. It's weird that this never comes back. Like no one references these people who lost their lives in space. All right, go. Nobody says a. Yeah, there's no news reports about it. No. Because again, they established centers don't care. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this would be very real about the US government covering up aliens, killing astronauts on the moon. But no, the US government would not tell us that. Never in a billion. Yeah, that's that's the year it was. We're back at the prison, and Miss Tess Smucker shows up in a hot air balloon to help Otis and Luther escape. Weird, because in the first movie, Tess mock. Or help Superman because Luther was about to kill her mom or whatever. Yeah. Because she helped Superman. No, not. No. He just drops off Otis and Luther, and that's when he removes his wig. Otis weighing down the whole balloon. It's really funny. It's. It's funny. It's funny that that's considered so fat in 1981 that you weigh down a hot air balloon. Yeah. Yeah, probably. Well, in the in the first movie, he goes, Luther says to him, you know, 200 is a very important number for both of us. It's your weight and my IQ. It's like, it's funny that in 1978, 200 was considered. Whoa. I liked this projection. Luther used to make it seem like him and Otis were in their cell. And then the guard comes in and it would show up on the guards back. But, by Otis. He is. He's done. He's just in prison for life now. Yeah, yeah, well, that's for certain. He got shanked in the shower. He didn't have the protection of Lex Luthor anymore. Step step step step step step step step step step step step step. Clark Kent and Lois Lane. They get sent on assignment to Niagara Falls. Trying to expose a honeymoon racket. I don't I don't know what that is. Yeah. This, this bellboy is like. Sir, do you think you want me to carry over the threshold? If you can't. The speed is six four, 220. He's like, yeah. Yeah. Of course. While they're at the falls, a kid falls over the side and the clerk saying he's going to get hot dogs, become Superman and saves the boy. I like him walking back from the hot dog stand doing, oh, I forgot the hot dogs because it gives like an oh, shucks. And he runs back and gets them. Got to get them glasses. Oh yeah. It's okay man. It's okay. You'll be all right. You'll be okay. Yeah. That's when she starts to realize, like I think you're Superman. And now Lois is convinced because once again Clark disappeared and Superman showed up. I didn't notice that. What? Super. Mankiewicz. There we go. I didn't know Superman was Jewish. I just I honestly didn't know they had religions on Krypton. Kent. Kent. The Jewish name. Am I looking too far into it? That's for for. Somehow Lex and Miss Test can't make it all the way to the Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic. I do like her just repeating everything Lex says. Yeah. He. And then she immediately touches it. She immediately has. They watch an education crystal. And the first one is just a poem. And then the second one is Superman's mother telling the story of Zod, Ursa and non. And she's like the the the worst thing that's ever happened to our planet were these three grabbing a crystal, and we locked him in the Phantom Zone and, well, wouldn't you know, the only weakness it has is an atomic bomb. Oh, that's that's fortuitous. Also, your planet blew up lady. Is that like. But like, is that what's worse? The planet blowing up at these three, breaking a crystal. I played Crash Bandicoot. Or two I don't, yeah. Yeah, neo. It's pretty unclear what they do here. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yes. Okay. Oh, Lex, after watching the video of Laura. Right. We established that last week. Laura. Oh, he rambles on about there being three Superman, and then he's like. And they have the same disgust of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that I do. Yeah, right. Yeah. Pretty much. They're going to be the contact on earth. There we get Lois betting her life that Clark is Superman, and she jumps into the water and instead of becoming Superman, he slyly uses his heat vision to cut off a log and helps Lois get to safety. And then Lois is like, wow, am I an idiot or what? It's so dumb. Yeah. That was cool. Yes. Yeah, because they're at the honeymoon suite, and Clark gives up that he's Superman when he falls into this giant fireplace in the middle of the room and suffers no injuries. I do like that. Lois calls it out. Kind of like you did that on purpose. That's fair. Yeah. Let's wait. So you could have saved me and you just didn't know. Well, then he would have been like I did. I cut you that branch. I know. She might grab it, and it just takes her away with the branch. Yeah. After the reveal that Clark is Superman, he decides he's going to take Lois to the Fortress of Solitude. And now we're back with Zod, Ursa and Non. And they're with these cops. I don't need this cops. A little back and forth about what this guy's going to eat for lunch. I don't care. Like you're two small town cops. That's all I need to know. I don't need to know that you can't get the fish or you got blah, blah, blah. Emily's good. The fish. That's not funny. You've now wasted about two minutes of my time when the fucking aliens are just waiting for you. I hated it, I was so angry, I was like, what are we doing? This movie is 20 minutes shorter than the first one, and it felt longer because a little shit like this to me when I was like, I don't care about this. I just like. I don't care about the explanation of the honeymoon suite. I was like, I just don't care. There's a lot of, you know, like this thing in France, like, I didn't care. I don't think I was bad. No. That's awesome. And, like, yeah, it's roasted. I also like non not being able to do it quite well. It gets a little. Well is that in the comics. Do they have telekinesis in the comics. Like these movies when you have a character like Superman and characters like Zod, Ursa and Non, you need to establish rules of what they can and can't do. Right. And then it never really comes back, does it? Okay. Well, they also do this thing that can Superman project himself. Yeah. And then Superman also in that scene. I will get to it. We'll get to. We'll get to it. I like this bit where Zod Terence Stamp is awesome in this. Terence. Yeah, yeah, he's great here. And I like when the cops pull up. He goes, I like the red ball or whatever. It reminds me of the red sun, though. I find the noise annoying. So he breaks it. And then at the end, neon tries to gift the siren to Zod. He. Right. That's. I do think neon is the strongest. I think they kind of try to establish that when he crushes the shuttle earlier that like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Zod in the gang rough up some dudes in a bar. I like this cush. Ursa like arm wrestles the guy through the table. Not that the tables. Dude, listen, I, I understand it, but, like, I don't know if I just watched a woman put a guy through a table. Yeah, like. But at that point, if she attacks me now, you have a right to defend yourself. You watch, you put a dude through a table like this woman. This woman is a professional fighter. Oh, no. Me too. I'm not standing up to her. I'm just saying, if she attacks me, I mean, I'd be dead. But if I. Yeah, yeah. No, you won't not. Superman flies across the earth to pick flowers and get dinner for Lois. You know, like, comes back with a bag of groceries and stuff. All of that would've been flying out of the bag. Well, all of that would be. He would just be. That's nothing like that. Flowers not surviving. Yeah. He didn't. Once in that trip across the earth. Look at a newspaper. Look at a television. He was tunnel vision. He did it all for the nookie. Which I'll bet you. Lois is really disappointed because Zod interrupts his news broadcast and he's just screaming. In this broadcast, we see uses he powers for some military trucks, and I like the. Awesome. Yeah, I do like this thing of not using one individual eye at a time to. He's like, I learned tricks. Zod in the gang wreak havoc. The president wonders where Superman is. While Superman is talking to his mother's consciousness, and he decides to give up his powers and become an ordinary man. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. She watches him become a regular human. And then Moscow. I didn't even get one super. Right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But he could have asked before. Like with his powers. No, they would have to say that for me to believe that to be the case. Okay. Let her do the work. Like. Because here's the thing. He can't feel anything. He's basically basically to be a sex toy for her. But, like, he would not instantly, because it's the first time he could feel anything. He's got to be. He spent he spent 18 to 30. Then the Fortress of Solitude. Yeah. Crank and hog. Super hog. Impossible. Like in a Hancock. I think it might be a deleted scene, but, it's an. Yeah. When he's when he's like, all right, you got to be on top. And when I tell you to get off, get off. And I like she's right. Him and he's like, all right, get off. And then he cuts outside the trailer and you see it just explodes through the top of the trailer. Clark and Lois on a giant beanbag. Zod in the gang destroy Mount Rushmore. Pretty cool. And then they go to the white House and force the president to surrender and. Yes, I like this line. From side of goes. You can't be the leader. No leader would give up sad easily. Yeah. Will you, Neil? He goes. Yeah, I'm going to save millions of lives. Sure. I'll. Neil like what? Oh no. Oh no. Somehow Lois and Clark get out of the Arctic. Like, maybe I shouldn't think about this, but next thing we see them, they're just driving in Alaska. Did Superman have a car at the Fortress of Solitude? Like, just in case he lost his powers. Did they stop at Hertz Arctic? Like, what is this? Ooh. Really? Oh, wow. You're kidding. Yeah. His brother Mo. Clark and Lois get to this diner in Alaska, and Clark gets the shit kicked out of him by this guy. Yeah, yeah. He's like, Well, he goes, let's go. Why don't we step outside? And then the guy sucker punches like. He'd be able to fight cuz, like, he. It's not like he doesn't know how to fight. Like, well, we've seen him punch and kick and stuff, so, like. But again, like you said though, he's six four, 220 like, there's got to be a little force behind it. But I like that the guy sucker punches them because it's like, oh fuck, this is what humans are like. Yeah. Come on Lewis, let's get out of here. You made me. Bleed my own blood. The waitress at the diner turns the TV on and they all watch the news. The president apparently has spoken to every world leader, and they all agreed to give power to Zod. And then Zod just gets like, giving Superman. It's like, oh, shit. All right, all right. But you know what kind of sucks? Oh, God. Yes. Oh, no. Yeah, but Superman only loses his power for, like, five minutes. Because Luther confronts Zod and the gang at the white House and they form an alliance he's going to get. He's going to give them Superman in exchange for Australia. Yeah, there's. I don't think he's in this movie enough. Yeah. Yeah. He thinks generals his first name. Yeah. Although I do like this running gag with Zod and Lex that Zod is constantly ready to kill Lex and Lex always talks his way out of it. Yeah. Zod, Luthor, and the others smash through the Daily Planet. I also got a kick. Yeah. I also got a kick of Luthor wondering why the Kryptonians don't use doorknobs. You know, it's such an advanced race. They don't even know how to use doorknobs. Yeah. I think I missed it before, but, Clark at this point had somehow walked or hitchhiked his way all the way from Alaska to the Arctic back to the Fortress of Solitude. As a regular man. Okay. And luckily, when he. Yeah. Yeah. That's the thing. It's like, why would they make the stairs? Once you do this, you can't go back. Seems like you can pretty easily. Yeah. You know, they made that big deal about it. He only loses his powers for five minutes, and then he just goes back and it's just like, oh, luckily, this is your article. Yeah. That's something that would be at least a thing. But no. Right. Yeah. For something they make such a big deal about, it's just immediately negated making the 15 minutes of this movie totally removable. Yeah. Yeah. But then even to just walk back like that, it's like, come on. A fight ensues. Oh my God. Yes. This fight is a lot of fun. I like that Zod realizes Superman has one weakness, and it's basically that he cares about the people. Yes. No. Well. That. Yeah, he just keeps focusing on Superman when ultimately they're all they do at the end of this big fight. Because, like, is this big blow move. This is what I was talking about with this whole before, with this whole scene where they're just sitting there going and yeah, okay, I'll admit the gag where the guy is on a date and she loses her wig and then he loses his like, all right, that's typical slapstick. But this goes on for so long. And like, we get this bit of the guy falling over in the phone booth and he's just cackling for some reason. Yeah. At one point, a piece of building is about to hit a lady and her baby. And instead of moving, she just tries to cover her baby. And then Superman catches them. It's like move, move. It ruins. It ruins the whole fight. Ruins the whole fight. And like, this is God's idea of putting all the humans in danger is just blowing them away. You have heat vision. Also one. How come everyone just assumes Superman's dead from being smushed in the two trucks? Immediately they're like, oh, he's dead. Now smoking kills kids. Marlboro didn't like that from the first movie when Superman was like, Lois, that's going to give you lung cancer. So they said, hey, what if for a sponsor? Ooh, it's smooth. Superman flies off to the Fortress of Solitude, and everyone immediately looks like he's giving up. He's quit. No one considers. He hasn't planned for a second. Well. Yes, because Lex again avoids death by being like I'm the only one with Superman's address. Yeah. Right. Because they fall right into his plan. Oh! What? In the fortress. This fight sucks. First off. That's not a power, right? Has it ever been in the. Okay. And it also amounts to nothing because he just gets back up. It's just like. I don't that was really, really bad. Yeah, but even when Superman's doing like, the teleportation or the multiple Superman thing, he's like, I used to play this game in school, though. So you told all the kids you were Superman. Because you certainly didn't go to school on Krypton. Superman tells Lex. Because I was like, all right, let's get over there. We're going to kill you, too. And Superman's like, all right, let's listen. Get them into this chamber. It will power them. And Lex, with this shit eating grin is immediately like, get Superman into that thing. It'll do power. And so they go, okay, Lex Luther, ruler of Australia, would you. Do the honors? Yeah. I have a thing for beachfront property. So, it's so good. It's so good. That's forcing Superman into the chamber and activates it. But this time, the outside of the chamber turns red. Nobody can feel that in the. When Superman went through this process, we watched his insides. Yeah, his outfit change is. I wish. How did this happened? What did Superman do to cause this to happen? He flipped the switch. But, like, I need a little more to know how this works, because, like, it was just in this little thing. This little, like, concentrated cell cage thing. And somehow you flipped it. I need to know how this was done. I really do for this scene to make it to work at all. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But like, you use a contrivance to get to a good scene and that's like. Yeah, it doesn't, I don't know. Right? Also, Luther and Lois Lane are shitting their insides out. Their organs have become mush from this laser from all this, like, nuclear radiation that Superman just subjected them to. I have no idea. So after Superman crushes Zod hand revealing that he had reversed the fortress or whatever he did, he then kills a human. No, he kills Zod, and then non tries to jump at him and falls down the cliff. So that's a not. But like Superman, that's not Superman. Superman one like Superman knows he's just a regular human now because his plan worked. The Phantom Zone or just bring him to jail. He's a human. Like I understand it, non. It's not his fault, but Zod is a like he should have said to Lois, do not do that. Like he should have flown Zod and Ursa to a prison or something, because Superman wouldn't just throw him down an icy cliff. With zero. Remorse. Yeah. That's wild. He. Yeah, well. Luther has a great line. Goes. Yeah. See, you know, you know, I like you because the man always knows where he stands with you. Like it's like me. Your piece about to turn him. Like, do his face. Yeah. Superman and Lois fly back to Metropolis, leaving Luther behind. But like, you've just left him with an entire advanced racist secrets. Well, that's the thing. If you're willing to kill Zod after he became a human, why wouldn't you kill Luther? He was going to. He was going to kill millions of people in the first movie. Just do it if you're going to leave him to freeze to death anyway. That's some Batman fucking logic of I didn't kill him. I just snapped his neck and left him in the snow. At the Daily Planet, Clark kisses Lois and then wipes her mind. Men in black style. That sucks. That's such a. No, but that. That's such a convenient power to have. Because, I mean, you can basically just tell everyone that you're Superman and then wipe their minds. It seems like a pretty cool power. No, that's the Superman then goes back to the diner and just kills this guy. This again this is not what Superman would do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like. Yeah. This sucks. It is. Yes. He then returns the American flag back to the top of the white House. And promises the president that he'll never leave again. Yes, he best believe. And then the credits. Should we go to letter box dandy? I think that's a wonderful idea. You can follow us on Letterboxd at the Royds Band. Let's go ahead. I'll give a rating for Superman two. I think this movie's good, but I don't think it's as good as the first one, which I think we gave four stars. I kind of lean, three, three and a half. Yeah. All right, I'll do. Yeah. Like I said, the the fight in the city is really good. Until we get to the blow into the the gusts of wind, you know. Oh, no. My bad, my bad. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. This. Yeah. That cut scene from the Fortress of Solitude. Oh, no. But yeah, for me, I think there's a little too much silly in this movie that kind of brings it down. And there's a lot of it feels like we're wasting time. And also, to throw the naked kid in the credits is like, that's. You lose points for that one. You're losing points. So we gave it three and a half stars. Yeah, yeah. And I get a lot of that. Could be the production issues. But that doesn't excuse the movie. So. That being said, I do have four trivia questions. I'll go first. What was Lex Luthor sentenced for his crimes from the first movie? Three life sentences. Life plus 100 years. Life plus 25 years life plus one zillion years. It is not life plus 100. It is not three life sentences. It is life plus 25 years. Yeah, you crushed it. Piece of ass. No, what it. Was or that was number two. Somewhere in time. I realized you were going with it. Yeah, I realized that. Very good. Which educational crystal do Lex and test? Marker trigger first number 308. Number 402. Number 805. Number 103. It is not one of three. It is not. 805308. It is 308. That's the poem. Very good. Six. Six. Look at me. Oh! What song is playing? One. Ursa beats the guy at arm wrestling. Jungle Boogie by cool in the game. Pick up the pieces by the average white band. Brick house by the Commodores. That's the way I Like It by KC and the Sunshine Band. It is pick Up the Pieces by Average White Band. Yeah. If you want. Red. Gold. Yellow. Mean. Yeah. Or. Oh, no! It's the brown. No Kryptonite. I have. IBS. This one is going to be easy. I think we talked about it. What brand of cigaret truck clearly sponsored this movie? Or really? That we see gets featured in the fight? No, it is Marlboro. My options were camel, Newports, Lucky Strike and Marlboro. Yeah. Smoking reds. Oh, no. Andy, no! Andy. And you'll never guess what I did after watching this movie. Dude, I did write a song. You know what I have? Right here. I didn't hold it in front of the camera. Oh, cool. Call it in the air. It is. Heads. Oh. Okay. Yeah. No. Do that. That's Superman, guys. A really tough act to follow. So what he says. And then he shoves a pill down her throat. Yeah. Darcy. I was up all night, and, Jealous of. The way they work. Why can't you get the girls? They don't tell me that I'll meet somebody. Yeah. Kind of a tough act to follow. Don't tell me that I'll meet somebody else. They may be sleeping, baby. They won't be seeing me. I guess, Just to feel. When they come see you. I'm selfish. But the world needs you more than I do. But it won't be easy to forget you. Don't tell me that I'll meet somebody. You're kind of a tough. Act to follow. Don't tell me that I'll. Meet somebody. That they won't. Be sleeping. They won't be. Supermen. They won't be a superman. They won't be a superman. And. I like it. I am verbatim from the movie. Hey, this fucking blows! Yeah. Yes. That was very nice song. Yeah. I dig it. Yeah. I did. Yeah. He went crazy, so I called. I still called them Superman. Yeah. My song is a fun little two minute pop song. It's called Give Up all I've got. It's a fun little pop song. Yeah, it's really not much to say about it. I'll play it. And then if I can think of anything else to say, I'll say it. But here we go. My song. Give up all I've got. And. Yeah. You jump in the river. I know you never sneeze. You've been drinking orange juice. I'll do whatever to keep you pleased. Don't matter if I need you. Or if I've got a fly. I will take you back to my home. So I can be your guide. Give of all I've got. I'll give up all I've got. I'll give up all I've got. To be with you. We've got a honeymoon suite. A check out the five. You know where you stand with me. Cause I ain't no liar. And I fly. Across the Atlantic. To keep you safe. I toss a hydrogen bomb out into space. I give up all I got. I'll give up all I've got. I'll give up all I've got. To be with you and. My. Little. Love. All I've got. I'll give up all I've got. I'll give up all I've got. To be with you. Give up all I've got. I'll give up all I've got. I'll give up all I've got. So that was my song called Give Up. All I've got. Yeah, I just, I don't know, like I said, it was a fun little movie, so I just figured I'd write a fun, little poppy love song about Superman being willing to give up all of his powers for Lois Lane. Oh. Thank you. Yeah, I did that. And then the person had a little bit of a Scott influence with that. You know, I thought I. Yeah, I thought about throwing on some horns in there, but I like to like that. That's the first song I haven't put piano on in a while. Yeah, but I dig it. I was, yeah, no little, little fun little pop song about a fun little pop movie. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, I again, I've had a really good time with these first two Superman movies. This is the first time I saw either one of them, and I know the reputation for three and four are not very good. Yeah, I know that. But, you know, Gene Wilder ain't playing Superman, so I don't care. No, but like, his movies with Gene Wilder are his best movies. Yeah. There you go. You can't think of a single movie that doesn't have Gene Wilder in it. Short man. Yep. Yeah. See? No evil here. No evil. That's what Richard Pryor, when there's stir crazy with Richard Pryor. Yeah, there are others. Who were staying in superhero ville. Where doing the Fantastic Four, the Fantastic Three and the Terrible One. Remember that Arrested Development? Oh. Oh, yeah. We all. We're doing James Gunn's Superman. I'm pretty excited for that. Yeah, we have a few. Hot and fresh is coming up, so this will be fun. Yeah. I should also stress, we're doing the 2005 Fantastic Four, not Fan force. Dick. Yes. 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