{"id":185,"date":"2002-07-01T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=185"},"modified":"2002-07-01T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-01T23:00:00","slug":"superman-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Superman (1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t must have been Canada day today. Oh wait, it was. Bravo (the channel) pounded with another movie out of its movies bag: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0078346\">Superman<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What else can I say about this movie? It&#8217;s not a bird, nor a plane,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s Christopher Reeve in his funny blue pants: Saving the world<br \/>\nfrom accidents waiting to happen. As a kid I thought this was a hell of<br \/>\na movie, and nowadays it reasonably stands the time. The effects are<br \/>\nstill worth looking at, the music is still great (I mistook the<br \/>\nintro&nbsp;for Star Wars, only to discover that the yellow subtitles<br \/>\nwere missing), Marlon Brando looks great in his neon-white suit and<br \/>\nMargot Kidder was really cute those days.<\/p>\n<p>I flipped channels when I heard Superman exclaiming &#8216;I fight for<br \/>\ntruth, justice and the American Way&#8217;. That explains why he&#8217;s only<br \/>\nsighted in America and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diaries.com\/xsamplex\/2002\/06\/24\">UFOs are sighted in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least I understand why the balcony scene is probably the most memorable part of the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must have been Canada day today. Oh wait, it was. Bravo (the channel) pounded with another movie out of its movies bag: Superman. What else can I say about this movie? It&#8217;s not a bird, nor a plane, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}