Who saw this in cinemas back in 83?

I wanted to, but my older brother, who was an avid Star Wars fan, took me to go see Return if the Jedi instead. I was always the Superman fanatic. I vaguely remember seeing S I and S II in the theater. My neighbor went to see S III every week and bragged about it all the time. At the time he preferred S III to S II.

Well Superman 3 was released 7 years before I was even born... But it's always cool to here about peoples cinema experience for movies that came out long before I was born.

Before I went in with my friend to see this masterpiece, we snuck into the other theaters to kill some time. Here's where I need everyone's help:

I snuck into Flashdance & well for a little kid, that was utterly boring!

Then my friend & I snuck into a 3-D movie that I can't remember the name. All I can remember was it took place on a desert type environment & there were monsters that look like either wookies or sandpeople that were bothering the good guy. (it definitely was NOT Return of The Jedi).

Does anyone know what that movie was during early summer 1983?

I did. I remember being somewhat confused and disappointed by the trailer for several months before it opened December 26, 1983 in Australia.

When I took other friends along to see it during our summer school holidays the theatre was packed and we were forced to sit in the very front row to which I got a crook neck from looking straight up for 2 hrs.

I left feeling the confusion and disappointment as I had from the trailer wondering just what had I watched.

It became a slaptick parody with Superman playing second banana to Pryor as even director Lester had said he had to cut more of Pryor out from dropped scenes because of the shifted emphasis.

It was original yes and interesting about the early dangers of computers, weather modifiation via satelitte's like HARRP anyone ect, the smallville reunion stuff with Lana Lang was good and the evil Supe vs Clark Kent but that's all.

The villans were dumb dull stupid boring greedy rich silver spooned corporatists and the final confrontation with the Super computer in Grand Canyon cave not as exciting or especially formidable even though it projected a kryptonite ray and sucked power from the electrical grid across America to which Richard Pryor says "It's feeding itself, it want's to live". Although the goodie's such as them launching all matter of missle rockets and the MX thinggy at Superman in the air was cool.

Daily Planet colleagues Jimmy Olsen and Perry White were wasted as usual relegated to minor support appearances and could have had en-larged roles as they did in the 50s TV series. Worse than that was Superman's leading lady Lois Lane going off on vacation to Bermuda at the beginning making just enough of an appearance to pick up her check at the end to say "Im back" !

I was a teenager then and loved the first two epic movies but agreed with the masses that this third one was just misplaced and not very super at all.

Its appeal was to very little younger children though who liked it well enough but not so much with all ages kids,teens and adults alike as I & II did. So I figure this is why audience attendance dropped off sharply with dimminshing B.O returns the Salkind producers had managed to alienate the core target audiences .... everybody from young to old.

Just little kids liked it that wouldn't remember much of it afterwards anyway and grow out of it a few years later not the classic's of the first two movies were/are.

So that huge disappointment coupled with Christopher Reeve's insistence at the time of hanging up the cape because he wasn't a happy chappy with it was like but if only .... what could have been and wasn't.

A film series that would have stretched to five pictures easily if done right and not for goofy comical laughs at the main characters expense and done for much smaller and cheaper especially 4 years later with the 4th film killed the franchise.

I only paid the once at its screening unlike the umpteenth times I did for the first two.

Bought them all both on video then later dvd then bluray and still have only viewed it once again each format just to see the picture quality and sound.

But that's it. I don't get any enjoyment from the third and fourth ones at all.
Is a crying damn shame the film maker's stuffed it all up.





Nothing is as it seems, nothing is just one thing and nothing is ever just over there;

I remember I wanted to see it just because Richard Pryor was in it, and being very disappointed.

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I did; and the scene where the computer turns the woman into a Terminator-type robot; that was nightmare material for many years. Scary!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3wDj7bYve0

Superman I was good, Superman II was very good, but Superman III was so-so. It's like what happened with the three original X-Men movies.

I did.