Superman

Mika has been saying that she wants to see the new Superman movie – it’s been impossible to escape its publicity when you even have to walk under a Superman gate at Safeway to enter the store. She’s not a big Superman fan per se, but her friend Emmanuel is devoted to him, when he is not Superman himself. So every time we see something supermanish (all the time), she thinks of Emmanuel and wants to buy it for him.
I was not at all sure that Mika could sit down through a whole “adult” movie at the theater. She’s gone to see some animated movies, but her record hasn’t been great. She walked out during one (too loud) and fell asleep at another. So I decided to get the old Superman and see if she could sit still for that movie at all. Just like I predicted, she couldn’t. Not even for ONE minute. In a way it’s good, I don’t really want her to be staring at the TV for so long, but it definitely means we are not taking her to the theater.
I, on the other hand, watched it. I hadn’t seen it for years, but I soon fell into its magic. OK, forget about the magic, the romance. The scene in which Superman takes Lois Lane flying has to be the most romantic scene in all of movie history. It still tingles all the right parts of me and brings me right back to the time when I was a young teen (or was I a preteen?) watching it.
I have no interest in watching the new Superman. I don’t think anyone but Christopher Reeve could be Superman, and the actress they have playing Lois Lane looks like a child, not a woman. But I think I will rent Superman II, and watch those scenes in Niagara falls again (can’t tell you what the rest of the plot was).