She said no matter how much you pull it, it won't make you her grow up. Oh, are we on? Hello, and welcome to another edition of Retrospection. In this episode, we're flying high as we turn our X-ray vision to Superman IV, the quest for peace.
Is it solid lead? Or will we see right through it? My name's Colin, and I've always considered you the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree. It's about new, that was the one you were going to go for.
And I pull an true genius like myself learns to seize the moment. Yes, and you do every day, right? Every day I'm seizing that moment with both ends. And then letting it go.
You can't hold onto it forever, can you? No. No. I am DB, say Superman IV features the Man of Steel, as he crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, New Killerman.
Mm, sounds exciting, right? That sounds like a cracking movie, he really does. Yeah, I'm excited that Synopsys for the latest Superman and Lois TV show, which is join the world's most famous superhero on comic books most famous journalists as they deal with all the stress, pressures, the complexities that come with being working periods in today's society. Oh, that sounds like a winner.
Yeah, grip in. Is it every so about mortgage payments? Was it a superhero soap opera? EastEnders with capes?
You know that is what they do though, that is what the CW do. Is it? Oh, Jimmy, Lex has escaped and he's got some crypt tonight. Last night he went to the fortress of Solitude to kill Superbad.
Don't worry, Superbad wasn't there. Well, where's the all night? Ew, it's with your misses. Is that what it's like?
Yeah. I have seen the first one and it's a bit like that in places, I have to say, but I liked it. Oh, there you go. Superman Vasters include Christopher Ritiv has Superman and collect Kent.
I'm glad you told everyone that, yes. Yeah, well, that's what it is. Gene Hackman is Lex Luthor and the voice of New Kiliman. He is, yes.
Margaret Kiddet is Lois Lane, Jackie Cooper is Prairie White, Mac McClar, Jimmy Olsen, Mac Pillar is New Kiliman, Muriel Hemingway, Lacey Warfield and John Cryer as Lenny. Also, Jim Broadbent is Jean-Pierre Dubois. Yes, Jim Broadbent. That scene actually, when we get to it, the other two people in that scene are quite interesting as well.
In what way? Oh, do you want a way to get to it? I'll tell you when we get to it, but we've seen them before and we know them quite well from other things. Oh, I think it's flashing to my mind.
That's it. I'll have fun there as well. No, no, no. Wikipedia says that Superman 4 is the fifth entry in the Superman films.
Come again? Yeah, yeah. If you think of Thor, the clue is in the name. You don't randomly start changing the numbers.
Static 3 didn't come before Static 2. They didn't search for Spock before he went missing. Where's Spock? Where's Spock?
He's in the kitchen playing 3D chess. Calm down. No, they aren't Wikipedia. They count Supergirl as one of the Superman films.
Well, it is technically in the same universe. Yeah, it's not a Superman film, no is it. There's a picture of Superman on Supergirl's wall. That counts then?
Yeah. Originally, well, we've covered Supergirl before, haven't we? Yes. And originally he was supposed to be in Supergirl, but he really couldn't be bothered.
Yeah. Well, can't imagine why. He did this. That's true.
This is the first canon film for Superman. Yeah, another canon movie. We keep racking them up, don't we? Do you think they call themselves canon because a lot of the film should be fired into space?
Although if they did that, Superman could fly up there and bring them back. But would that be an act of evil? Do you want my opinion on that? Well, it depends on the canon movie that you're talking about, doesn't it?
I mean, if it's life-force, then surely not. If it's over the top, then I don't know. Yeah, the catalogue is buried. It is.
And we must find something about that because we keep covering them, don't we? Yes. I'd actually completely forgotten that this was a canon movie. Really?
I mean, I knew it was. I always knew it was. Yeah, but it just slipped my mind. It just slipped my mind.
And it threw me for a second when the opening credits said it was an MGM movie. And then I realised that they released it, didn't they? Yeah. This one was so cheap.
Milton Keynes is used for New York. What could you say? There's a scene, isn't there, where he goes to the United Nations? And apparently he's filmed at a car park in Milton Keynes.
And it looks like the building he's going to go into is just a hotel. I think it is, yeah. They didn't even film the firm sequences at the firm in Canada, which apparently was still there at the time. The set was still available and they could use it.
They went to Hertfordshire. But in all fairness to those scenes, you can't really tell him that. I was going to say exactly the same thing you can't. I would never have known.
No. Not so much. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Especially the subway one, which is clearly London subway, because it looks distinctive. Yes. It's not surprising though, because did you look into the how much this movie cost to make?
No. How much? Well, it was originally budgeted at 36 million, but then it got slashed down to 17 million. Ouch.
Apparently they kept taking money away from this movie to go and use on Masters of the Universe. But then both movies ended up running out of money. Yeah. It came in at 17 million to make in the end, but it did actually take 36 million worldwide this movie.
It's almost like you just make any old superhero film and it makes money. I've no idea what you mean by that. Do you have anything else? Well, I've got loads.
Alright. Jappin. So Christopher E. Went on record, stating that the movie was a catastrophe from start to finish.
Apparently he took John Cryer aside and said, before we go in there, I better tell you, it's gonna be terrible. Wow. That's optimistic. But only not John Cryer got to play it actually, didn't it?
In Super Mario Turtles? No, in Supergirl, the TV show recently. Oh. You got to play it.
Oh, okay. Which apparently was a bit of a catharsis for him. Kind of washed out the bad taste of Superman for him. Right.
Margarita said that apparently she didn't get along with Christopher E. as his ego was inflated because he co-authored the story of all the films to have an inflated ego about it. Well, that's because he came up with the idea of it being about nuclear weapons, right? That's right.
The idea of Superman deciding to rid the world of nuclear weapons is an interesting idea. Yeah, the idea is interesting. It's the execution. That's how it goes in practice.
Apparently, Wes Craven was set to direct it at one point, but he left the project due to creative differences with Christopher Reeve. I think he, he put the bullet on that one, don't you? Yeah, although you don't know what kind of film it would have been if he'd made it. Yeah, because everyone just assumed, you know, Wes Craven's so synonymous with horror, no, isn't he?
But he did do other things besides horror. So it could have been interesting. One of the ideas for the villain of this movie as well wasn't before nuclear man. They were going to do Bizarro, which could have been interesting.
I don't know, you know Bizarro is, you're not up on your comic book lore, are you? No. Bizarro is a... Tell the listeners.
Bizarro is an alternative version of kind of a backwards version of Superman. I don't mean backwards. You mean backwards? Yes, like what?
I think it's a little early, the podcast is flinging around slow. I mean, everything's kind of reversed. So instead of being really smart, he's dumb. And so his essays are all the way around and he speaks strangely.
And he's kind of zombie looking. Is he weak? No. I'm not going to be the opposite then.
All the selectively opposite. I didn't correct the character. Don't ever go with me. I'm not having to go yet.
Christopher apparently agreed to do the movie only if Cannon Financed his pet project, which was a movie called Apparently Streetsmart in 1987. Are you aware of this movie? No. Apparently it's a thriller.
No. I'm not sticking it out. Apparently it's meant to be quite good. Bye, all kinds.
So I paid off for it, then in the end. I don't know, obviously, but because no one remembers it. The interesting thing about this film was that it's original running time was 134 minutes. And apparently most of the deleted footage was considered as a possible groundwork for a fifth movie at one point.
So did they film this stuff? They filmed all of it, yeah. So it's out there somewhere? Oh, there's a lot of it on the Blu-ray actually.
Oh, that shows how much attention I've paid to the Blu-ray. There's a whole subplot where the first nuclear man doesn't quite come off. Well, that's funny because I read that and then I'm watching the film and I'm thinking, what are they talking about? Yeah, the first nuclear man is kind of a bit of a botched job and there's a whole final sequence with Superman that they cut the whole thing out of the movie.
And the original nuclear man, the first nuclear man was played by the guy that played, I can't remember his name, but he played little John in Robin of Sherwood. Oh, okay, I picture him, but I can't remember his name. Big guy, yeah. I think he's in casualty of all the city or something like that as well.
Yeah, so that's all. I think some of that's on the Blu-ray as well. Oh, I'd like to check that out. Yeah.
But the fact that they cut it down to 90 minutes, purely, well, it was for two reasons. Go on and Globus thought that maybe they could get more showings in theaters with a shorter movie. Right. And they thought it would be cost effective to just chop half of this movie away and then build another movie around the footage that they already had.
I see that that would explain some of the issues I had with the structure of this film. Oh, there's whole scenes that cut from one thing to another and there's no connective tissue between it at all. Yeah, there's things that happen. You're like, why, why did that happen?
Don't remember that developing, but okay. Yeah, definitely. And the way it all turned out, I think it's a blessing in disguise because the next thing that they wanted to do superhero wise, canon was to make a Spider-Man movie. Can you imagine Spider-Man on a canon budget swinging around New York?
I do know you'd be swinging around Milton Keynes, wouldn't you? Maybe not even Milton Keynes. It might not be able to fart that. Bradford, Sheffield.
It goes to build it. So we just have to walk everywhere. The builds are too low. It's just not the boss.
But I mean, we'd like to see it. I have to say. It hasn't got changed. It's just a pocket.
You see. You don't have a clipper card. I should remember those. Yes, I do.
Clipper cards. Clipper card. You're showing your age, they're calling. That told me about them.
Oh, right. Okay. You know, despite everything, Canon thought that this movie was going to be a massive hit inside the studio. Well, you can see why.
It's lap superman on it. I mean, it still made money, so. Obviously. How bad were they in debt though that 36 million didn't save the studio?
Depends how they made it. They could have financed it on loans. They probably did. There's a couple of interesting documentaries about canon that people should watch if you're interested, isn't there?
Yeah. It's called Electric Boogaloo, the Wild Untold Story of Canon Films. Yeah, that's the better of the two. I've seen them both.
But that's one I remember the most. Yeah, check that out if you're interested in canon. Give you the whole glory details. Cool.
All right. Shall we leap into the film? Yeah, let's go for it. This is going to be good.
We open with a red one above as logo with a Superman fanfare being played. And then we cut to Arbit and Earth as a credit star. And the only decent Superman theme continues to play out. Do you remember these two themes for films that you could remember?
I know. They don't do it anymore. It's all hands in a rumbling and banging noises, isn't it? That's all you get these days.
This is a hands in the track. There you go. It is a cracking thing, isn't it? It's up there for me.
One of John Williams is finest, I think. Yeah, yeah, nice. A giant red Superman logo appears followed by the title of the film. And the credits continue for about two hours.
It's a long gold credit sequence. It is. And they're hardly the credits that, you know, the way that the way that the, if you think about Superman, the movie, the way that the credits will zoom into the screen and fly off. It's not, it's not like that.
No, no. I mean, they do fly sort of. Yeah. I did like the red Superman, the logo, the Superman logo.
I thought it was a very comic book. It was like almost off the front page of a comic book. Yeah. I'll take your word for it.
Okay. Finally, we see a spacecraft orbiting and the sounds of a Russian cosmonaut singing. He's performing maintenance on the outside of the ship. Another cosmonaut tells him, sing at home, comrades, Sinatra.
Comedy Russians, aren't they? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
80s comedy Russians. 80s comedy Russians. This spacecraft as well, the miniature. It's not that bad.
Oh, no. All this. It's so fair. Yeah.
Suddenly, we see a piece of space junk flying through space. That's what you see. That's what you see. He's like, I don't know.
Right, terrible said. Actually, you know how films are not filmed in order? Yeah. But it almost seems like this film does actually run out of money at some point.
You know, like, it's not like you could go all that bit, it's cheap, that bit's not that bit. It's like it's okay. Okay. It just goes from film.
He does. It's a very low curve that goes down. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Suddenly, we see a piece of junk flying through space. It hits the cosmonaut and flings him out into the atmosphere. It's like a craft spinning.
Just like gravity. Then. Yeah. Just like gravity.
Exactly like gravity. Absolutely. Spot on. But then Superman appears.
He stops the craft from revolving and rescues as a cosmonaut. And then in Russian, he says, you'll be safer singing in here. Apparently, in space, nobody can hear you scream, but can hear Russia. I never thought about the sound actually.
Yeah. No, there's something very funny about this shot of Superman flying towards the camera, isn't there? What's funny about it, Paul? No, no, it just looked a bit off to me.
And you see quite a few times throughout the film. And it doesn't look better every time. It's way that the flying sequences are worse. Yeah.
Like three films after the first one. Yeah. I mean, I, I mean, I, I mean, even wonders whether, I tell you what it looked like. It looked like a still picture of, of Christopher Reeve flying towards the camera that they just moved closer to the camera.
Someone's just going, weee! That's what it looked like. Oh, they're zooming in on a still picture. And then they can just change the background wherever they want to.
Oh, maybe. Yeah. And when he flies back to Earth in a minute, did, did you see a new power that Superman's got? He turned into a cartoon?
All of a sudden? Yeah. Well, it's one of his magic powers. Oh, you've got a few of those in this film.
So Superman does fly down to his fair, man, smallville. He magically turned into a civilian close. I'll be like, supergirl. Yeah.
All right. Just like supergirl. The fan looks abandoned. He enters a band and opens a trap door on the floor uncovering a hold at close green.
Don't you open that trap door? Because there's something down there. Classic. A voice stats up.
Book. Where's my breakfast? That's not the voice. I haven't thought about trap though.
I haven't thought about trap though. I've been trapped in years, can't I? They're all on YouTube. No, it's Willie Rushdon.
Willie Rushdon. Yes. So, in reality, Superman's mum's voice, listen carefully, my son. By now, Kallell, you are entering the atmosphere of the planet known as Earth.
I pray you have had a safe journey. Who do they pray to? They have a guard? They're such a giant thing.
The Elle Son of Yarnu home will give you great physical powers, but it can't console your spirit. Place the Bard's vessel is an energy module and apparently a tape plays a lot of exposition. Has he never listened to this before? In full of movies?
No. Hasn't thought about it. No. Okay.
And for all you know, this could be track 350. He's been like, oh, God, I've got to another track of this. Just fill with mum. Tracks one to ten are like, brush your teeth.
Clean behind your ears. And then they get more complicated as they go on. Yeah. It's also interesting that no Marilyn Brando.
Oh, yeah. I mean, was he expensive at this point? I guess he was, right? Even though.
Yeah, he was alive at this point, wasn't he? That I'm not sure about. I was wondering that myself. I think he died in the 90s.
I'm sure he died in the 90s. But I mean, they're not kind of not going to get Marilyn Brando, are they? I mean, Richard Donner only just managed to get Marilyn Brando. I don't think, kind of get a game.
So the voice continues. This is older remains of a once powerful civilization. Krypton, you're more for planet. It is my last gift to you.
Once removed, the ship will grow cold and silent. You'll be alone. The power in the module can be used but once. Use it wisely, my son.
You think they put more than one in there just in case? Maybe you had more than one and you used them all. This is the last one. No, I thought about that.
That's a good point. Maybe you did. I mean, how long has he been on Earth now? And he's never thought to take this out.
Why has he suddenly decided? Wouldn't have come in handy when he was fighting General Zod? Couple of movies ago. Yeah.
Yeah. So Superman uses X-ray vision to see through the wall of the burn. And sees a truck approaching. He places the crystal in his jacket and seals the hull back up.
A man called Mr. Hansby gets out of the truck and clikes greets him. Hansby tells Clark that there's an offer on the place that Clark will only sell that the person buying once a firm. Not to knock it down and build another shopping mall.
Hansby sees the baby crib that's bashed about a bit. And he recalls Clark's dad joking that it had been broken when Clark had had had a bad dream. He was out of the 1930s comics. That by the way.
Oh, thanks, fam. Thanks. If we could asterix in podcasts, that would be an ask. It works.
Yeah. Clark offers Hansby a baseball bat ball and catches MIT for his grandchildren. Hansby decides he wants to have a game for some reason, the starter, I guess. I guess so, yeah.
Yeah. He throws the ball to Clark. Clark misses it. And Clark tells him he's going to hold out for a real farmer.
Hansby gets back into his car and tells Clark to be careful in myropolis. It's a long, long way from where he was born. Clark remarks. They'll never forget that.
But it should have been, that's first film lines, not this late in the series. No, still good line. You've got to say though, haven't you, that watching this scene? I mean, Christopher Eve is really good in this movie.
He's good as Clark Kent and he's good as Superman. And this is what I think other versions of the character miss, I think, no. The way that replays it, you know, you differentiate between Superman and Clark Kent. And the reason why he does that is to deflect people away from, oh, that bonding guy that's always falling over himself.
He's not superman, is he? You know, he looks like Superman. Yeah. And he's got all the recent versions of Superman.
They act to place it the same. Both of them play Superman, the same way he plays Clark Kent. And that goes all the way back to things like Lois and Clark. There was no difference.
So what Christopher Eve did, I think it's super, but he does in these Superman films. Anyway, I'm going to be so unboxed now, shall I? Yeah, right. Bring back Christopher Eve.
Johnny, you could be so thoughtful about, you know, part of things in your life. I know, I should have more effort into it. There might be some capes involved. No.
As the car pulls away, Clark takes a swing at the ball. Hansby forgot to take the bat in the ball. Yeah, he gave him two. He just took the catches.
Yeah, the ball saws into orbit. It'd be funny if the ball flew into orbit and hit the Russian cosmonaut in the head that he saved earlier. Boom. You know, he's not going to believe this when it's a baseball.
He did get that in gravity. No. You don't need to think about that scene that we have with the Russians, by the way, that was cut in a lot of American versions. The scene with Superman, when it was originally released in the cinemas, that scene of Superman saving the cosmonauts was cut completely.
So how did the film begin? I guess it just began on Smolville. Wow, so that's even one less almost action sequence. I suppose you could have...
Right. At the height of Cold War, I suppose they were worried about having Superman saving Russians, aren't they? That's the point, Superman. I know.
That's the point, it's the point of the film, too. I know. I know. Because he does it a few times.
He does it a little hard work as possible. He explains to Prisma that he now has plans to recreate life itself. Do you know how he's having a ball, isn't he? Do you know how he's having a ball, but I always find this character...
I can't believe that he's actually a villain. Because he's so inept and bumbling. Yeah. Yeah, I can see what you mean.
I have trouble imagining that he's invented anything. I think the scene that always strikes me when going to talking about what you're just talking about, there's a scene in Superman the movie where the two police guys are chasing Ned Beatty through the subway. And Ned Beatty goes through a secret door. And then one of the police guys is trying to find where the secret door is.
And there's a train coming the other way. And then we cut to Lex Luthor, Gene Hackman, in his little hideout. And he sees the policeman standing in the little alcove. And he presses a button and just coldly kills him by pushing him out in front of a train.
So you've got that side of Lex Luthor, but then that always sits really strangely with the bumbling kind of very childish version of Lex Luthor that he plays most of the other time. Right. Would you say he gets more bumbling as the films go on? I think so, yeah.
Which is interesting when he or she'll not be named plays like Luther in Superman Returns. That film tried to bridge the gap between the cold heart inside of him and the silly side of him. Right, right. But try to bridge the spacey.
No. Try to bridge the spacey. Yes, Ned. So two guards there to hassle.
Luther put their attention as drawn by open top limo pulling up. They firstly tell the kid who's driving to leave, but then they start getting interested in the surround system fitted into the car. This is Lenny, and he has to go ahead and sit in the car and really hear the sound. Luther watches from the rocks.
Lenny has a remote that closes and locks the doors, lowers the roof and pushes the chairs back. The gird yell, but Lenny sends a car speeding up the edge of the quarry and it explodes in a ball of fire when it hits the ground. It does, yes. I don't know what you can say.
Lenny unlocks Luther's ankle cuffs and asks him if he did all right. Lenny, I've always considered you to be the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree, but this time you did fine, Rebecca's Luther. As he leave, you get an 18 special. The two guards who somehow survived this dramatic crash pulling themselves back out of the quarry.
Yes. I actually wrote it's very 18 in my notes. Those guys are dead. But only two guards on an entire chain gang as well.
Yeah. Yeah. I've Lex Luthor, who I'm pretty sure is one of the biggest villains, right? Absolutely.
Going back to what you said about being a bit of a joke. All the other prisoners seem to treat him like he's a bit of a joke as well, don't they? Yes, they do. Yeah.
Luther reveals that all these thought about whilst being in prison is destroying Superman. We got to Metropolis, Lois Lays, walking through the subway system while reading a French language book, which is confusing because you're watching this and you're like, yeah, the subway system is not in America. So we're in France? Are we in France?
Yeah. Because why is she talking to people? No, we're in London. Yeah.
Yeah. So she goes on a train and claps just misses it. And then she's reading a French travel guide out loud to people on the train. Nobody talks to people on the ground trains.
Suddenly the train driver appears to suffer a hurt attack and slumps over. And for some reason, this causes the train to speed up instead of stopping, which is what happens to every underground train in the world. Is it really? They have a dead man switch.
Oh, right. Okay. The driver has to hold a lever in position all the time. If he has a hurt attack, dies and falls over, the switch is disconnected and the train stops.
Does he not fall forward onto the lever switch? So he's still holding it. But he hasn't hold it against pressure. Right.
Okay. That's a plan to this. That's what you were in this movie. Oh, yeah.
At this point, I'm like, well, this is shit. It's underground systems knowledge. It's seriously lacking. I think that's not the only thing that's seriously lacking in this film, but carry on.
So Lois yells for help. She's the only one who yells for help. And I'm not sure exactly how she thinks that's going to solve problems. But in this world, it does because Clark is a cries while he's waiting for the next train.
He runs into a phone booth. Ah, that's why she yells. Because she knows he knows she knows that Superman will hear because Superman's her special friend. Also, ah, but does she also know that Clark Kent is Superman because she's remembered stuff?
I don't know. That's a bit hazy in this film, isn't it? Oh, very spare. Yeah.
Okay. We'll get to that later, I guess. Got to say, this is the only time in any of the Superman movies where we actually see Clark Kent running to a phone booth and change. Because they did a gag in the first movie, don't they?
It's just a phone kiosk. And you can't actually get in it. Right. But the phone booth is changing as a massive Superman thing, isn't it?
Do we have phone booths on platforms, underground stations? No. Right. So, we're going to go past the train and stumps on the live rail, which somehow slows the train down.
Yeah. Yeah. Go on. All right.
He enters the cab and checks on the driver. And then as the rescue crew arrives, he says, I think he needs a doctor. No. Really?
You think he needs a doctor? Yeah, it'd be bad to tell anybody what's wrong with him. No x-ray vision or anything. Just, yeah.
I think that's something wrong with this blog. He's a busy guy. Plus he's going to be late for work now, isn't he? To be honest, when I was watching it, I got visions of you, a superman.
Oh, yeah, go on. It's just going, oh, I think that's something wrong with this, mate. Like, well, what's wrong with him? Yes, your job.
He's walking off. Yeah, probably. Yeah. I don't realize if it's you, you want to stop the train in the first place.
Oh, what if I was a superman? Oh, OK. Yeah. Although he stops the train, but you don't actually physically see him stop the train, do you?
He kind of holds out his arms and they shoot it in a way where it looks like he's stopping something, but you can actually see what it is he's actually touching. Yeah, I know I do what's going on. This way, I was like, he stumped on the live rail, there's some smoke, and then he holds his hands out and then the train stops. Yes.
I got a clue. No. I don't think that's the point. This is where, as Christopher Lee was watching this, when he put his head into his hands.
I think he did it sooner or maybe later. It depends what odds they filmed it in, but I don't know. Maybe he was told, oh, we'll be fixing it in post. Yeah.
Oh, I mean, when he finally saw the finished product. Oh, when he's watching it. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
He's like, what the hell's this? What happened? What did I stop it by breath? I mean, I suppose he could have.
Maybe he used his special look ability that he developed. He could just stir something into being. Yeah. Well, we'll talk about it later.
Right. Lois calls out for Superman. And for some reason, Superman then decides to reassure people that our subway system is still the most safe and reliable means of public transportation. Our subway system suggesting other people's not so safe.
He's American through and through, isn't he? I guess so. I mean, he's in London. I think this is more of a, the right is trying to do a call back.
A clumsy call back to the, you know, statistically speaking, a crafter still the safest way to travel kind of thing from the original movie. Oh, I didn't get that. But I think that's what they're trying to do. He flies away before Lois can thank him.
So we're at the Daily Planet. Yes. We're having a meeting with a new owner of the newspaper, Mr. Warfield.
He doesn't like the fact that the paper hasn't made money in three years. And his daughter, Lacey Warfield, backs him up. We're in Hemingway's interest in actress, isn't it? What's interesting about her path?
The lack of acting ability that she seems to do is to have on show. That's quite interesting. Yeah. She doesn't really have much to work with.
Not really, but why does she sound like she's got a really snottie nose through most of this film as well? Maybe she had. It was Alex's jobless. Oh, I see.
That's what you're going with. Okay. So Warfield tells White that Lacey will be helping him. She shows him a mock up with the new Daily Planet.
The headline reads, Summits Kaput is World at Brink. It has a herf naked woman below it. The world's yes, I know this as well. Which is, I think, more of a British thing than an American thing.
Yeah, you don't have like page three in all that rubbish. It wasn't a thing here. Clark points out that the world isn't really on the brink and the headline is irresponsible, but Warfield doesn't care. White says that if Lacey thinks she could turn the grand old lady of the Daily Planet into one of their bimbo's, well Lacey points out that her dad holds all of the contracts which I'll after honor.
Lois then mentions her assignment to Paris, which now explains why she's been trying French for the entire film to this point. Well Lacey tells her all travel has been cancelled. As everybody leaves, the meeting clerk tells Lacey that they'll try to cooperate, but reporters first duty is to the truth. The people of the city depend on it.
After he leaves, Lacey asks Lois if he's for real. Lois says, yes, 100% he's the oldest living boy scout, and points out that he will be interested in somebody like Lacey. She replies that every man likes her because she's very, very rich. Pretty few, that's not the reason.
So, acting ability, right? In Wayfield's office, he's asking Clark why there are no travel or expenses for him. Clark prevails that he gets her sick. That's an ask-ag.
Jimmy Perry and Lois enter. Jimmy says the president is about to give her speech. Wayfield hopes it's terrible news, as it will double her circulation. And the president does say that peace talks have failed.
And then we cut to a school. The teacher telling the students that even though the news is good, they need to think positive. Did you recognise the teacher? I did, but I don't know her name.
She played Admiral Cornwell in the first season of Star Trek Discovery. Ah, that'll be why I knew my mind was like, that faces for me, but I couldn't think. She suggests they write to the congressman, and that's one of the students, Jeremy. What he do, Jeremy, in an accent that comes from nowhere.
I'm pretty sure this kid's dubbed. Yeah, I think so too. Sates should write to Superman. Can you imagine if you'd spoken like that in our school when we were kids to one of our teachers?
Yeah, why do you think would happen? I think we're going to say they went aboard rubber thrown at you. Yeah, probably. Or an embarrassing caricature of you drawn on the blackboard.
Well, our first mistake was asking for their opinion. Our teachers wanted to ask for that. We were told this is what we were going to do. We were just little robots too.
That's what we were. Yeah. Why don't we acquire it? It's good to have a snottie nose, isn't it?
Yeah, it is. I'll tell you what I'd like to do. That's twice if you snottie nose. This is the same problem as Barry Lohamming.
Where's Barry Lohamming? Yes, there's a lot of snottie noses in this movie. Yeah. Oh, there's one there.
So we cut to a museum with an exhibit about Superman. In the exhibit is a strand of his hair that is holding 1,000 ton weight. Now, Lex Luthor and Lenny are at the museum, and after everybody has left, and I guess the museum is closed, Lou for society wants to hear for his genetic code that he can use to build on being more powerful than Superman, who in allegiance to him. He smashes the case and allows sounds.
Then he uses a simple per-a-tint snips to cut Superman's indestructible super-straight fur. It is so rubbish. It really is. It's terrible, isn't it?
It is rubbish. I tried to justify it to myself in that he was snipping whatever the hair was attached to him. Not the actual hair, but... I think it was just the case of the writers going, oh, no one will think about it, will they?
I did. You did? We all did? I think so, yeah.
Back at the Daily Planet, Claire Kent has Lacey's office to find her reclining on the top of her desk. Who does that? Well, she's trying to impress him, isn't she? How would that impress you?
It's like, you walk in, you go, I don't know how to use a desk? How'd you do this? Well, it was right where you were. She shows Claire a new layout that she wants him to work on and starts touching him and getting him personal that would send modern-day alarm bells at HR.
Yeah, it's a shame. Attention to all the people who work for parlter, he would like to touch him. No, I meant, well, I meant was. I wouldn't mind being Claire Kent in this situation.
Oh, because she'd like to be touched up by Mary Allham, anyway. Well, I wouldn't say no. Yeah, but there's not much you would say no to, so... It's not exactly a boast, is it?