Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Superman. At the Sack 57, daily...
...Superman. Whoo-whoo. A piece of already chewed bubble gum, out of which the producers have tried to blow a big, big, big bubble. With all the money that went into this film it should have soared, or at least floated agreeably. But the writers have crammed too much in, and the structure is lumpy and slow, devoid of suspense, toneless and horribly bland. And I'm sorry, I don't believe a man can fly--at least not in the fractured, badly edited take-offs, where the colors stink of chemicals and you can tell that any life...
...another big bite in Jaws II, which grossed $98.6 million. Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty's good-humored remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan, grossed $72 million, and The Goodbye Girl, another film from late 1977, grossed $82 million. Though it opened only this month, Superman seems to have taken wing already, with an estimated $12 million gross in its first week...
...SUPERMAN by George Bernard Shaw...
...probably caught his idea for Man and Superman from Schopenhauer. The glum philosopher held that "egotism is deeply rooted-but the species has a greater claim on the individual than the perishable individuality itself ... The growing inclination of two lovers is really already the will to live of the new individual which they can and desire to produce." Shaw labeled this will of the species the Life Force and gave an old formula an ingenious plot twist-boy meets girl, boy flees girl, girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added...