Superman III (1983) – Filmsack Show Notes

INTRO

 

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Oh hello me, it’s me again

and this week on FilmSack, we are “sweating bullets” instead of being faster than them… when we hear our inner 80s child begging us to be SUPERMAN 1 again but all we have at HomeVille is SUPERMAN III flicking it’s salty nuts at HBO MAX max like a 1983 “just add Richard Prior as a super COMPUTER genius” because he talked about you on Johnny Carson that one time Action/Comedy/Mishap where the humans are dumber than a man drowning in his car on the streets of the Big Apricot. Line 10 PRINT “HELLO ME”, Line 20 GO TO LINE 10. It’s a Basic system

Anywho, Hello. Yes, is this the Daily Planet? Hey listen, I’m down here at the scrapyard sorting various car parts and feeding them into the mangler for a living and you are not going to believe this… but that Clark Kent fella is out here punching the air and by god… somehow it is punching him back. Oh hold on… I think he is miming choking a guy. Ok… I think he’s done… oh and he just ripped his shirt open and is running out the exit with his hands in the air and making whooshing noises. Alright, he’s Metropolis’s problem now. 

Randy, you’re standing on my cape. Just let me fly man. Just let me fly. Thanks

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BRIEF

Superman faces his strangest foe yet: himself. A dose of synthetic kryptonite turns the Man of Steel into the Man of Sleaze. Meanwhile, a bumbling computer savant (Richard Pryor) gets hired by a megalomaniac billionaire to do evil tech things. There’s a supercomputer, a junkyard fight, a Smallville rekindling, and at least one robot lady nightmare that haunted every kid in the ’80s.

1983 | Rated PG | Action/Comedy/Sci-Fi | 2h 5m

LINKS

IMDB: Superman III (1983)

Wikipedia: Superman III Wiki

Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page

TVTropes: TV Tropes

WHERE TO WATCH

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SHOW NOTES

• Love the HBO Intro with Eddie Muller
• Richard Prior was a Fan.
• YoYo doen’t sound like that. Stand behind this line.
• 36 weeks out of work.
• Is this a Richard Prior Routine for the chronic Unemployment. You are no longer eligible. Not a bum.
• Finished like over… next as in bye.
• Earn big money… become a programmer.
• Holy Crap…those credit crawls…
• Strawberry everything…. She is a distraction.
• This movie is really colorful.
• That penguin is on fire!
• Hey… Superman… humans are in danger… everywhere.
• Blind Guy in the city…
• Man… we really do need superman… 
• That stunt is pretty great… the flooded car.
• Superman is just the everyday hero that The Rube Goldberg of a city that it is.
• Falling mimes get the claps.
• Are we supposed to know who the butt monkey on the street is?
• Richard Prior writing some Bilateral Basic
• Winning Jingo Bingo
• High School Reunion.
• How much has changed in 15 years.
• Bermuda…  Gonna miss Lois…. not Clark.
• Webscoe
• Richard Prior doesn’t know about taxes. but he does know about the missing half a cent.
• That is a chemical plant… full of chemicals!
• Worst officer of the law ever… Just gonna let Jimmy Olsen run on by and Clark Kent changing in your back seat.
• Hey come on and slide down my makeshift metal slide… SKIN RIPPED TO SHREDS!
• This is a our room of acid… we keep it cool… but sometimes… if there is a fire… we just let it cook.
• man… get the fire out or a acid cloud for everyone!
• haha… he froze that lake… and I hope at least a few fish.
• Superman made it rain. Yaaaay. That is not how anything works… but yay!
• Lana Lang
• his mom is dead! Martha!
• DJ Crotch Window
• This may be one of the best on screen performances of a Sneaker Net.
• That is way more than a gallon of potato salad Lana
• The Big Apricot? They call it The Big Apricot?
• Earth Angel… So 80s movies
• Blasted Computer
• My Psychic Nutritionist.
• Unless of course unless he is a complete and utter moron.  Oh… here he is now.
• The only kid in town without a father.
• haha… come on… he destroyed those poor bowling pins.
• You’ve just been a little bit naughty.
• Gus you are a genius… a naughty genius.
• Columbia won’t co-operate.
• You got so much… it is not enough that I succeed everyone else must fail.
• mmm… green stuff… Pate… that is the dog food.
• Lana likes yellow.
• Randy, I need to tell you something. My Oil pan is leaking and i think my kid is about to eat the wheat.
• Superman broke our farm equipment…. sure Pete… sure he did.
• The town drunk meets the traveling liquor man.
• That is a mighty big hat.
• Wheelbarrowing Clark’s high school nemesis and making noises is pretty great.
• Welcome to The Wheat King…. big business in a small town.
• Didn’t we just see this last week on Live Free Die Hard.
• This movie has gone full Zany.
• The Vulcan Weather program.
• It monitors weather… or it makes weather.
• We have established that Superman can make it rain.
• That weather satellite has lasers.
• Poor little Columbia
• City top Snow Skiing.
• What keeps the world working… Diet Soda? Oil.
• Big end on the bottom… little end on the top.
• Superman was bad.
• You know about him and bullets.
• Richard Prior doesn’t need superman to save him. He has his skiis
• That Vulcan Satellite is very versatile.
• The Prettiest Girl in School is still the Prettiest Girl In School.
• Damnit little Ricky… Can’t keep his mouth shut and now I have to do this stupid “accept the key to the city thing.”
• Richard Prior is playing all the roles.
• The chemical speech …
• Here is a chunk of green stuff… thank you for saving us?
• I asked you to kill Superman and you couldn’t do that one simple thing.
• Oh no… It wasn’t Kryptonite .. it was Krypto-naught-tee
• What’s the matter superman… just turn the clock back.
• This leaning tower has been bothering me for decades… fixed it… you are welcome.
• Stronza, Superman.
• Superman is out of the Nice Guy Business.
• haha… Superman being a dick. Let me blow that out for you.
• This Krypto-naught makes me a jerk.
• Everything is computer.
• Lady Lust on Lady Liberty.
• Don’t worry… I am long past saving.
• Superman with a 5 o’clock shadow
• I like how they have decolored Superman Evil.
• Oh man… it is worst than I thought…. I thought he was just going to turn the ship around… nope… he caused a natural disaster.
• is that a snake and apple necklace?
• It is funny… I am all like “he can still turn this around” until he sleeps with the lady… then I’m like…too late man… you can’t go back.
• Randy, please help me… someone is beating up my husband.
• He has upgraded to a Gucci Yo-Yo
• Randy, You listen here. You better start appreciating old brian. What else yo got in Filmville
• Like superman flicking his nuts… his bar nuts…you better stay out of the way.
• Runaway Ricky.
• Superman you are just in a slump… you can be great again.
• Be me… just sorting car parts on the mangler when some guy in a suit shows up and starts screaming and hatches a nerd right out of his body and starts beating up on it….. you know… just a Tuesday. Acid Bath.
• Kent is pretty good at ring toss. A Kent shaped hole in the ground.
• Noooo… not the glasses. Clark Kent will choke a bitch into thin air.
• Wait… so he has a suit under his costume with a suit under another suit.
• Ok. He un-rung the oil thing…. but how you going to unsleep with that lady… you can’t superman. You just have to take the L.
• I want to play that Atari Superman Game.
• I don’t know you lady
• Gus is doing the hero thing.
• Superman retreats!
• We’re through Frog Face.
• This movie goes from 0 to 500 real quick.
• Oh… did he go get that acid.
• These were so much better before the general public really understood how computers worked.
• The real danger is that acid. 
• No way does Gus Gorman settle down after that excitement
• What… you don’t know about me and Superman?
• haha… Superman made the biggest diamond ring you done ever seen… 
• I’m glad we got some closure on the town bully.
• Lana Lang meets Lois Lane
• Superman… leaned the tower back… did he solve all the things he did? What about the Olympic Torch.
• One man in Italy really hates the Superman.
• It always starts in space and ends on earth… this time. Flip it.
• Title should have been “Clark Kent: Homecoming.”
• The opening credits disaster zone = most slapstick Metropolis sequence ever.
• Richard Pryor is just trying to cash his welfare check and ends up on a weather satellite.
• Gus Gorman: 1980s tech bro origin story.
• “Let’s steal a half cent from every transaction” – okay Office Space.
• That time Superman blew out the Olympic torch. Just because.
• Tar kryptonite: the gritty reboot of green rocks.
• Drunk Superman equals horny, destructive, petty Superman. It’s relatable.
• That robot transformation scene scarred a generation.
• Clark vs Superman junkyard fight is still visually rad.
• Lana Lang > Lois Lane in this movie. I said it.
• Why does that supercomputer have a self-aware A.I. and laser eyes?
• Superman literally freezes a lake and drops it like a frozen sheet cake onto an oil fire.
• The villain’s plan boils down to “build a murder PC and hope Superman doesn’t show up.”
• Richard Pryor snow skis off a skyscraper. It’s not explained, and we love it.

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