As I wrote above, I can't buy Superman not noticing that no bullets come from Lois's the gun when we've seen him catch bullets in the first film. I *can* see him tripping over a rug and, in the moment, being more worried about being seen without his glasses than not being able to bluff about not getting burned. The…

She's also crazy sexy in SOME KIND OF HERO with Richard Pryor.

Superman's absence in RETURNS would have been forgiveable with ONE line of dialogue ("The whole trip was only supposed to take three weeks, but once the lightdrive malfunctioned it was a miracle I made it back at all!")

Anne Archer's screentest looked promising, and she's prettier than Kidder, IMO.

Never liked the blanks conceit. SUPERMAN shows him catching a bullet - he's not going to notice nothing coming out of the barrel of Lois's revolver?

Deela went well beyond implied (rare for TOS) - you see Kirk getting dressed after! Quite a shock when I saw it as a Worse Colt. . .

Not George Coe (similar name, though): https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I think Schiff was pretty clearly playing an unrequited crush on CJ. Looking at his ex-wife, CJ falls well within his type. Two moments come to mind that always reinforce it for me.

I get Schiff's and others objections, I really do. But I think the additional element of the recent (only five eps before) suicide of Toby's astronaut brother made it *just* plausible to me. I can see, on some level, a grieving Toby thinking "I can save *these* astronauts."

That seems. . . unlikely, since it was Murphy's first movie and there was no "jokey Eddie Murphy comedy" template to compare it to.

And mean blackout drunk. At least circa THE INCREDIBLE HULK.

Even if I loved his performance (which isn't bad), I could never accept Kilmer as Batman because Bruce Wayne isn't blond. For whatever reason, that was more of a dealbreaker to me than Kteaon's unimposing physique and hairline.

My dad went to school with Tom Fagan. When I showed him some of those comics, he was baffled. "Someone put Crazy Tommy Fagan in a comic book?"

SMALLVILLE peaked with the first Christopher Reeve episode. It was varying degrees of (sometimes entertaining) downhill from there.

I was shocked the show didn't hold Laura Vandervoort back to be Power Girl.

Denny O'Neil's HELLTOWN prose novel is basically an improved second draft of the first QUESTION arc, featuring a supportive-instead-of-dickish Batman. Well worth a look

is trampled by *blidgesnipe*

[Bruno Kirby hands Broderick a fake passport]

LOVE this film. So much fun. The recurring gag of Brando and his circle misremembering what state Broderick is from still kills me.

All the mutant cure stuff is pretty solid. It's the terrible Dark Phoenix material (and putting Wolverine at the core of that story at Cyclops' expense) that sinks the film.