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Day 250/365 – Modern Day Drive-In
Image by Kevin H.
The Business Improvement District in my neighborhood stages an outdoor film festival every summer. They erect a movie screen on a grassy sward in the courtyard of an office complex and show movies for free every Monday after dark. Last summer they showed all the James Bond movies. The theme for this summer is superhero movies and tonight’s show was Superman II, so I decided it was high time I put in my first appearance at this year’s festival.
Superman II is my favorite of the Superman movies despite all the logic holes, such as:
— Why, when the villains drop the flags after attacking the lunar expedition, do they immediately fall to the surface of the moon rather than drifing down slowly?
— When Superman uses his laser vision while in his Clark Kent disguise, why doesn’t he burn holes through his glasses?
— After being stripped of his superpowers, how do Clark and Lois make it back to civilization from his remote Fortress of Solitude?
— How does Superman get his powers back after his mom tells him the process of removing them is permanent?
— And just how does his amnesia-inducing superkiss manage to neatly erase Lois’ memory of his secret identity?
In the final analysis though, who really cares? It’s still a fun movie and seeing it makes me feel like a kid again, just like sitting outside to watch a movie makes me think back to when we’d go to the drive-in theater when I was little. That’s worth overlooking a few gaffes.
(June 15, 2009)
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