Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
Comic Book Movies, a conversation – “Superman II”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about movies based on comic books.
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Referenced media:
- “Superman” (Richard Donner, 1978)
- “Adventures of Superman” (Whitney Ellsworth and Robert J. Maxwell, 1952-1958)
- “Batman” (Bob Kane and Bill Finger, 1939-now)
- “Wonder-Woman” (William Moulton Marston, 1941-now)
- “Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut” (Richard Donner, 2006)
- “Spider-Man” (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, 1962-now)
- “Dr. Strange” (Steve Ditko, 1963-now)
- “The Incredible Hulk” (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, 1962-now)
- “Man of Steel” (Zack Snyder, 2013)
- “Super Friends” (Lewis Marshall and Iwao Takamoto, 1973-1985)
- “Superman III” (Richard Lester, 1983)
- “Spider-Man” (Sam Raimi, 2002)
- “Team America: World Police” (Trey Parker, 2004)
- “The Adventures of Superman” (George Putnam Ludlam, 1940-1951)
- “Unbreakable” (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
Audio quotation:
- “Superman II” (Richard Lester, 1980), including music composed and arranged by John Williams and Ken Thorne
- “’50s Adventures of Superman – Intro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2l4bz1FT8U