Superman III Pitch Meeting

[@DGCpicturesEntertainment]

My uncle once said that he believed that this movie was written by a sentient bag of cocaine. I can see why now. 😂

[@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286]

I didn't know Richard Pryor had writing credits for Superman III.

[@stevenmackay8053]

One can assume Pryor had his own bag of cocaine.

[@LuisSierra42]

I can confirm this is true

[@countgeekula9143]

That's how most movies in the 80's were made.

[@alexpowers5117]

Hahaha a sentient bag of cocaine I can all ready see bag of cocaine with a pencil sitting in front of a desk

[@bitofalice]

Computers seem super impressive! I can't wait to get my hands on one!

[@NeoTechni]

it'll be a million years before we can afford something like that. Didn't you see the graphics the computer put out?

[@keith32482]

Think of how long it will take for them to make one small enough to fit in your hand!🤯

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

Me too! (im using my microwave to send this message)

[@mrclint7377]

I don't understand what it is. I have to go to the library and do some reading about it.

[@warreng675]

Well give the instructions on how to build one, on a couple bits of scrap paper

[@MwizeraUwizera]

Wait... So Superman Bully Maguire'd before Bully Maguire Bully Maguire'd? Tight!

[@Subh8081]

No. he was Bullyman.

[@AttentionDeficitGuy]

​​@@Subh8081Bullstopher Reeve

[@evanhayes5891]

No, not really

[@Jack-sy8mr]

“I’m gonna put some kryptonite in your eyes”

[@theoneandonlysoslappy]

There's one unironically great scene in this movie: The boss discussing how the thief won't slip up, "He'll keep a low profile. He won't do a thing to call attention to himself. Unless he is a complete and utter moron." *Ferrari tires screech in parking lot*

[@nerdock4747]

Whether you know it or not, there's also an F1 meme in here and I'm enjoying that, too.

[@emptyhand777]

I was going to comment on that scene as well. Hilarious, Richard Pryor pulls up the day after a robbery in his new red Ferrari and struts across the parking lot.

[@emptyhand777]

Another great line "I asked you to kill Superman, and you couldn't do that one simple thing."

[@justpaul899]

It's a comedy first and a superman movie second...a distant second.

[@ThePlayTyperGuy]

@@emptyhand777I have quoted that one for years.

[@Boerseun2000xx]

We should start a support group for adults who were traumatized by the robot scene as a child.

[@mattlang8946]

I’d be the first to sign up. 🫣

[@Manzooka]

Count me in. That scene is seared into my brain's bad place right next to the clown in Poltergeist and Artax dying in The Neverending Story

[@dmochat]

I'm in. *shudder*

[@stormtempterf8058]

For me, it'd be this scene, and the death of Dr Lannister in Alien 3. Our bathroom tub had curtains EXACTLY like those in the medbay, I couldn't fully shut them for fear of xenomorph attack as a kid.

[@SharpeMan-007]

Thought I was the only one scarred by that scene!

[@alecrichards8574]

I'm just now realizing I have never seen Superman III.... And the pitch meeting is all I needed to see.

[@Shadowclaw25]

i saw it , i was one of the kids that got nightmares about that machine that litteraly eat that women alive xD

[@alecrichards8574]

@Shadowclaw25 I'm so sorry you experienced that at a young vulnerable age 😁

[@John-pj6iv]

If you think 3 was bad don't watch 4.

[@Optophobic]

Thank you for acknowledging my childhood nightmares from those silver eyes.

[@JB-pu3oj]

So i wasn't the only one?!

[@Smokie_666]

@@JB-pu3oj No, you were never alone...

[@dannyr2976]

It was being caught up, pulled back by the beam, and Vera's screaming which did it for me when I was younger! 😱😭

[@wotu4901]

I was 5 when this movie came out. I spent the rest of my childhood absolutely terrified of that damn robot.

[@markuhler2664]

Looking back on it, the process seems a lot like making Cybermen from Dr. Who, but honestly I think the swirling blades from that is worse.

[@THESocialJusticeWarrior]

This movie teaches a very important lesson: If you are embezzling money from your employer, don't show up to work in a Ferrari.

[@newtpondskipper]

What could possibly go wrong?

[@killbotprime]

This lesson has shockingly low adoption.

[@davidletarte214]

skimming 101

[@adamkares7549]

It is actually shocking how criminals will actually do stuff like that. One case I remember was a scary good $ counterfeiter, he went down because he left the trimmings and used supplies in his public garbage can right next to the $120,000 car the IRS knows he shouldn't have. Must have made the FBIs day having a literal barrel of evidence just right outside.

[@4plus20isHappy]

@@adamkares7549 “If you should be picked up next week buying a hundred-thousand dollar sports car in Newport Beach, I am going to be supremely disappointed.” -Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), ‘Ocean’s Eleven’

[@DrakeBarrow]

Still have a soft spot in my heart for this one. It's really two things: 1) The idea of someone trying to make synthetic kryptonite but not being able to get a full breakdown so they just throw some random stuff in there is excellent. 2) The Clark VS --evil-- puckish rogue Superman fight is really great, because it lets you see exactly how good a physical actor Reeve was. Also, the supercomputer was kinda entertaining. Looking back on it, it comes across as someone's attempt to create a Mother Box. In fact, that would be a nice thematic callback to how Gorman handled the kryptonite situation - he just bluffs and guesses his way through the things he doesn't know.

[@sebastiantrias1529]

Best idea, a Richard Pryor movie, with Superman as a Supporting character.

[@Smorpdup2193]

And also make it not funny at all

[@keitrickmiller]

And thus began the true death of Superman, this and WB firing the late Richard Donner years before.

[@tenrecc]

I thought he was oddly recognizable >>

[@mirceamitch]

@@tenrecc You thought Richard Pryor, one of the greatest comedians of all time, a man that many other comedy greats have quoted as being their inspiration, was "oddly recognizable"? That's like saying Paul McCartney kinda looks familiar.

[@TheRealDuckofDeath]

@@mirceamitch Paul Mac Courtney, eh? Yeah... That does sound familiar. Funny how we vaguely remember all the one hit wonders.

[@strawbarry7834]

Superman III walked so that Superman IV could crawl.

[@wilcee238]

Superman IV was better. Not by much but it was.

[@wisehippo3072]

​@@wilcee238oh, come on now! IV is a travesty.

[@julianbashir8277]

Agreed

[@danieltempas6062]

I will never get that milk that came out of my nose back...

[@Rhamsody]

😂😂

[@nicksouthcote8826]

Dude... i had forgotten about that robotic nightmare thing until today.... it literally freaked me out as a kid. Wild.

[@theq86]

I never forgot.

[@AbsurdlyGeeky]

That's literally the moment I started to think of Superman as cool.

[@robloxvids2233]

That scene scared the everloving crap out of me. Most stuff didn't but for whatever reason that one disturbed me.

[@InJeffable]

@@theq86 I never forgot either. That scene is probably why the Borg in Star Trek never seemed all that scary to me. Once you've had Superman III's nightmare fuel, what else can compare?

[@jameshamilton5849]

I would have been 11 when I saw it. Yup, nightmare time!

[@dangtoons1760]

They couldn't afford Gene Hackman at all, they could only afford about an hour's work for Margot Kidder, and they could only afford Christopher Reeve for 16 hours of work, total. So we got this movie instead.

[@slowpie]

and they reeealy wanted to push richard and the comedy part as well.

[@jameslyninger1280]

That's why a good idea for making a sequel to a big name franchise when you (for some idiotic reason) don't have the funds for it is................................. Don't!

[@slowpie]

@@jameslyninger1280 superman 4 heavily agrees!!

[@TemporaryApe]

@@dangtoons1760 Margot kidder got sidelined because she rightfully stood up and blasted the producers for sacking Richard Donner as director on 2 . The producers will always be tools for this.

[@adctd2gtr]

@@TemporaryApe Came here to stand tall about those greaseball producers chopping Kidder's lines down to 16 mins out of pure and childish spite for calling them out on their absolute incompetence and narcissistic bullshit.

[@eugeneoisten9409]

Yeah because dropping a lake sized block of ice from a few 100 feet in the air will absolutely not damage that industrial complex...😏

[@borisstojanovic6646]

That's the only scene I remember from this movie 😂

[@craigbryant3191]

I've also got bad news for you if you were planning on picking it up from one edge and carrying it like a platter.

[@EllisChapter1]

yes

[@DeRockMedia]

@@craigbryant3191 funny how Superman can carry heavy things in the air, but the entire object stays perfectly intact despite the force being exerted in one small area, used to bug me even in my single digit years lol

[@JeffKantin]

What do you mean? The heat from the fires melted the ice and turned it into rain...somehow :P

[@Ladykyra101]

5:27....Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! All the nightmares! Yep. As a child, I have a scant memory of this Richard Pryor movie, but that ROBOT thing. Forever seared into my cerebral cortex. 🫣 Thanks, Writer/Producer guys. 😭😳😭

[@johnlee7164]

True. I don't even recall the part of story where superman fights himself. But the robot...core memory.

[@notme222]

@@johnlee7164 Oh I had fond memories of the part where he fought himself. Then I turned off the VCR once he got to the computer complex.

[@hendrong]

Why was it so damned scary?! I remember seeing this when I was, I don’t know, 5 or 7 or something, and being extremely freaked out by the robot thing. Maybe it was the combination of how scary the robot looked and the fact that the woman died horrendously.

[@ashtonfelps8274]

Her screaming while the computer is absorbing her gave me nightmares as a kid.

[@kurtssv]

Same here. That scene scared me so bad as a little kid, I wouldn’t go to the theater for over a year.

[@BatmanFan76]

Well, all that’s left is Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Which should be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@ebbderelict]

It's been a long time since I've seen that movie.... well, since it was in theaters I guess. Childhood me didn't know it at the time, but I filed it away under "Worst super hero movie you will ever see, yes, even worse than Cat Woman."

[@thedude3065]

about as easy as it is for Gene Hackman to say "nuclear"

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

Considering how bad it is it’s not super easy Even the stars of the movie dismissed it altogether

[@VictorythroughUnity59]

Oh really!?

[@benabramowitz18]

Or better yet, 1984’s Supergirl!

[@alexnurse3498]

"Why not just breathe his ice breath on the thing that needs to stay cool." Bruh, I've been saying that since I was FOUR YEARS OLD... also, I probably shouldn't have watched this movie at 4 years old...

[@JohnMitchem-e2k]

Why not? I watched the witness and silence of the lambs at that age, and look at me now! LOOK AT ME!!!

[@XENOS_Indie_Game_Dev]

@@JohnMitchem-e2k

[@iGame3D]

There was also a fire to put out.

[@Fulphilment]

No one should have watched this movie at any age. I'm glad, I didn't.

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

It's like unloading a fire extinguisher at a chair, then throwing the chair at the fire.

[@jonathanw1019]

I was so glad you acknowledged the scene. What I find most fascinating about it is that it is literally 5 seconds long, but as a child watching it the transformation felt like it took forever and was even more detailed and shocking. Then as an adult you see her as a robot in that crappy wig and...yeah...back to therapy I go.

[@danmelvin9460]

I saw this in the theaters when I was like 5. When the computer created "brainiac" from the woman, it scarred me for a long time. Like chronic nightmares.

[@coloredgentleman]

I never watched a horror movie before I saw Superman III. We watched this as a family and the Vera scene completely broke my reality 😂😂😂

[@mikeguilmette776]

Gotta agree with you there . . . that scene was shocking.

[@hwogrillo]

It's the only scene I remember from the movie, and it was absolute nightmare fuel for anyone single digit aged.

[@Ryan_Gutz]

Same. Terrifying stuff

[@Alondro77]

I thought it was AWESOME!! I wanted to turn some random woman into a cyborg too! (Alondro was a disturbed and disturbing child....)

[@RogueTalent]

“Wouldn’t Superman be wary of giant green rocks?” “You’d think so, but the thing is … No.” 😂😂😂

[@LuisSierra42]

@@killdano I did as well, such a coincidence

[@EllisChapter1]

Part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2PLZ5Z5pLlqhpo

[@Amcor09]

Did we just watch the same video?

[@bagpussmacfarlan9008]

@@killdano what are the odds?!

[@sluxi]

@@killdano must have been the first one you watched or otherwise you'd be aware of people posting quotes from the parts they find particularly funny in the comments. Now you know!

[@S4ns]

Oh good, I had finally forgotten about that nightmare fuel of the robot woman ... ... Until now.

[@Drawkcabi]

5:27 Mission accomplished! I remember 8-year-old me coming home from the theater and not being able to sleep at all that night. Every time I closed my eyes I saw robo zombie Vera.

[@woolybear]

I saw this movie with my aunt when I was about 7, in a Ciné-parc near Montreal. The bit about giving nightmares to an entire generation of children is accurate.

[@Ladykyra101]

Yep. I was crying and everything. But hey, those were the the 80's. Traumatizing and uncensored movies were the norm. 😂

[@johnbook5545]

I saw this come up on my feed and immediately thought, "He's going to address my childhood nightmare." That scene was horrifying. So glad to again have confirmation it wasn't just me.

[@Ramschat]

The traffic light guys fighting thanks to computer stuff broke me

[@cxwe090]

i thought that was a fever dream and that i misremembered it...but nooooo that scene was real.

[@cherkovision]

I misremebered it being from Short Circuit.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I saw this movie as a small child (< 10 years old) and I thought that it was the stupidest thing ever. Even at that age and no knowledge of computers I knew that this was impossible. I never watched it ever again. This is the only part I remember. I have no memory of the thing that traumatized children, just the stupid the crosswalk light guys fighting scene.

[@thatHARVguy]

That was foreshadowing of the junkyard fight.

[@NunoTorpedo]

@@KasumiKenshirou ME TOO! I remember AS A KID thinking how stupid was to think that a cut out of a man with a light behind could be animated to cross from one box to the other one next to it

[@yuaisnek]

"Did she just come in to show off a bikini and leave" Absolute Queen

[@Norvik_-ug3ge]

Margot Kidder is a sort. Fact.

[@basharic3162]

She probably took one look at an early script and noped the hell out, only appearing because "we gotta have Lois in the movie for at least a minute".

[@willh3972]

Margot Kidder will always be my Lois Lane, she owned that role.

[@some_guy369]

@@Norvik_-ug3ge A sort?

[@TimTE01]

@@basharic3162Partly true. She hated the Salkinds for screwing over Donner. They ‘punished’ her by giving her a tiny role.

[@trueherokoinzell2817]

Ryan George actually watched Superman 3 for us, guys.

[@iGame3D]

Some heroes don't wear capes.

[@theneoreformationist]

Still better than Superman 2.

[@yaqinmalul6467]

Haha not funny

[@deltonmcclary7341]

"Evil peanut flicking freak!!" Lol the best lines!

[@TheJPinder]

The computer fad in movies back in the 80s was the A.I in movies currently in the present.

[@johnrichmond8978]

Did an AI bot write this? They write all the best comments ;)

[@kierenmoore3236]

A.I. or Multiverse fad … ? I guess they’re both still running concurrently, though I feel that A.I. was a fad first … ?

[@IDOLL_Dev]

Except current movies take themselves way too seriously. 80s movie hacking pretty much knew it was bonkers and didn't care. For example, in this movie the bad guys are looking at Superman on a screen and shooting missiles at him, and it looks like a NES game with a score in the corner and everything :D

[@therealking6202]

Except AI really CAN do the things we don't know it can do yet.

[@anabee8310]

There's always been fads in movies, starting with trains.

[@martinportelance138]

- "... It shoots a bubble at him and he can't breathe in the bubble..." - "Doesn't he kind of regularly fly into outer space?" - "... He can't breathe in the bubble at all." I don't know for you folks, but this explanation fully satisfies me.

[@PGHDude]

Yeah. Vera’s transformation terrified the holy hell out of me.

[@maxsalmon4980]

Something about the actress' performance really conveyed the 'I am being eaten by a machine and am terrified and also in the worst pain imaginable' to an extent that should maybe be illegal.

[@PGHDude]

@@maxsalmon4980 seriously. It was the just the noises that sell it. For such a slap stick, cheesy movie, this was just….amazing.

[@thebenforever]

I had successfully locked that away in a box in my mind until this video. The eye snapping open...shudder.

[@FrancisNull]

+1

[@FrancisNull]

@@thebenforever TRUE. Those freakin' eyes

[@trinaq]

"What's Webster's deal?" "He's like Lex Luthor, only... Not."

[@FunnyStuffOnly-b8u]

@@killdano I'm tired of people who respond like you needing to be told that, when somebody repeats a quote they like in the comments, it's to highlight that they like that particular quote and are welcoming people to talk about that specific bit. Then oblivious people like you come in and are like "uh, yeah I saw the video too durrrr" like, ok, no crap. Thanks for the amazing, positive input, peanut gallery.

[@HariSeldon913]

He's that bad UNCLE.

[@ellicel]

Lex was on vacation with Lois!

[@cainster]

@@FunnyStuffOnly-b8u Lighten up, Francis.

[@FunnyStuffOnly-b8u]

@@cainster That's the idea

[@anotherzingbo]

I was one of those kids traumatised by the scene where Vera got turned into a robot.

[@ZylonBane]

*cyborg

[@reneejeffryes9832]

As a former child of the 80s, I can confirm that robot scene was scarring.

[@chadrowin2956]

As a child of 10 years old I owned an Apple IIe . . . so as I watched this show and the fighting stop light signs and plan to take over the weather with computers, I kind of knew. This show had no basis in any reality, so just try and enjoy it as a action/bad-comedy.

[@Shinkajo]

If I could give children nightmares then I would be so happy

[@richardgale1287]

As a child of the 80s, this isn't even close to Noseybonk territory.

[@CyberKnight1]

"Hey shut up about that forever." 😂😂🤣🤣 That almost makes up for bringing up some repressed childhood trauma. (That scene where the sister gets turned into a robot did freak me out when I was a kid.)

[@tomthomas5793]

“And over the last few years we have heard a lot about something called ‘family values’. And like many of you, I have struggled to figure out what that means. And since my accident, I've found a definition that seems to make sense. I think it means that we're all family. And that we all have value.” Christopher Reeve, speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 1996. What a Super Man.

[@mitlaameesh]

04:48 "There's no way to know exactly what I meant by that."

[@killdano]

yes I also saw this video!

[@okassius451]

Ok so glad to confirm we were all traumatized by the computer robot scene. Wasnt just me then….

[@raidenwave4219]

My memory had completely burried these horrible images and now I remembered how terrified I was of this scene. Now it feels like japanese anime body horror.

[@ratzelbarreto2070]

Never saw superman 3 but i seen 4 lots of time weird 😅.

[@isaiasabinadisosagarcia936]

Ever since the Pitch Meeting pitch meeting I can't help but notice the ancient computer in the background hahahaha

[@Lotsolov4u]

Iron Giant pitch meeting!! It's the best superman movie ever

[@Tonyten39]

Definitely!!!

[@MusicoftheDamned]

A bit sad that this is still true even as much as I like _The Iron Giant_ too. It's sort of like how _The Incredibles_ is still the best Fantastic Four movie currently.

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Honest Trailers did Iron Giant yesterday!!!

[@waltergaming817]

@@MusicoftheDamnedThere are still good Superman movies. The same can’t be said for fantastic four

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@waltergaming817 Yeah, that's fair, especially if you count the animated movies, which weirdly I don't think The Fantastic Four have ever gotten now that I think about it. Huh. A bit funny that the two FF movies with Chris Evans have gotten a bit of a bump recently though from _Deadpool & Wolverine_ of all things. It makes me wonder if there will be something that causes people to look at _"Fan4stic"_ fondly without irony. (Please no.)

[@blueraccoon1088]

6:02 yeah..

[@blue_thac0]

I remember seeing this in the theater as a kid... and yes the robot scene scared the daylights out of me. Like bad, nightmares and everything. Hilarious how you nailed that!

[@jarsenaultj]

5:16 As someone who saw that scene at a way too young an age; I can confirm that it worked giving kids nightmares.

[@Joe-xo1cx]

100%

[@liamlunniss]

@@Joe-xo1cx

[@SocialBobcat]

yes i don't recall anything from this movie other than scary robot human lady nightmare

[@123tibbs]

As a 46 year old 'man' I can truly say the nightmares have scarred me , that comment hit home.

[@tellopes]

0:26 that “HUH!” cracked me up, I haven’t seen it done like that before and I hope it becomes (or is already) a thing!

[@dwill8t1]

RIP Richard Pryor, Christopher Reeve

[@keitrickmiller]

😢

[@robotrix]

And Margo Kidder and Robert Vaughn.

[@bjd4]

and peanut flicking superman

[@nmappraiser9926]

Gene Hackman managed to stay out of Superman III, and still lives. Coincidence?

[@danavixen6274]

Mr. Pryor and Mr. Reeve left too soon. 😢 Rest in peace Jackie Cooper as well. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️

[@deannelson7027]

I'm definitely one of those kids who was traumatized by the sister getting turned into a robot.

[@JohnDoe-zr8pc]

It’s funny, I could vaguely remember a movie I saw as a kid, where a lady got turned into a robot by a super computer, but I could never put my finger on what movie it was. Now I remember it was Superman III.

[@lew526]

I was one of the children who had nightmares about that scene, but until now, I never knew there were others! Thank you!

[@justinklenk]

You too?? 😮/😢/😅

[@coolminivandad2400]

I feel seen

[@thinkingtoinfinity]

Five year old me thought Superman III was awesome. 46 year old me thinks this is far better.

[@Dalton_stuff]

Everyone knows the real superman III is superman '78

[@ibunkatraining]

Hi Ryan, just listened to a podcast with Ty Frank who is the co-creator of the Expanse. He quoted you and called you a comedic genius! ❤ I concur.

[@myoman1977]

My list of traumatizing scenes (kindertrauma): 1. Indiana jones heart removal 2. No mouth girl in Twighlight Zone 3. Woman turning into a cyborg in Superman 3 4. Shields and Yarnell robot sketches on the muppets and backstage sketch 5. Ghostbusters library ghost 6. Headless Christopher Lloyd on Amazing stories 7. Wheelers in Return to Oz 8. Hallway scene and well scene with John in Chuck Norris's Silent Rage 9. Tales from the Darkside intro music 10. Large Marge from Pee Wee's Great Adventure 11. David Copperfield cutting himself in half with a saw From the 90's Finger in the Drain in Monsters Vietnam tunnels in Monsters Overall movies that scared/creeped me out 1. Dark Crystal 2. Jaws 1 and 2 3. Return to Oz

[@wilcee238]

No Creepshow 2 oil slick monster?

[@danavixen6274]

You're right about the Tales from the Dark side intro. Chills. 🥶 Great series though! 👍🏾

[@iambicpentakill971]

Large Marge terrified me for what felt like years. Also the Wheelers **shudder** and the queen (or whomever) REPLACES HER HEAD WITH DIFFERENT HEADS!!!

[@nickgreen4731]

Watership Down gas scenes and Bright Eyes!!

[@iGame3D]

No spinal meningitis sister from Pet Cemetary?

[@TheDreamfinder99]

I remember barely anything from Superman 3 but I do remember that damn freaky robot woman. I’m 45 😆 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@foolwriter]

Pure GenX nightmare fuel, man

[@doubledown0411]

I'm 48 and yeah same. We can hug if you want.

[@curiouslyabsent]

Same for me, just re-rewatched this movie recently and got the instant shudder creeps when the circuit boards jump onto her body

[@tsuikagura]

100% the same. All I remembered from this movie was that scene. And the traffic light guys fighting, for some reason that freaked me out too o.o

[@Dragon-Believer]

All I remember is the penny stealing. I don't know if I saw the rest of the movie. None of that even looks familiar.

[@fanboyhex1555]

Yeah☹️, i remember that scene with the sister turning into a robot actually did give me nightmares when i was a kid😨.................. and now this video brought those repressed memories back 😱

[@veganconservative1109]

For the longest time, Superman was my favorite comic book character. Which is probably why I've completely forgotten this one. Now I have to work to completely forget it all over again.

[@4plus20isHappy]

“Being okay with terrible movies existing so that Ryan can do hilarious pitch meetings about them is TIGHT!”

[@brianhenry7348]

If only Superman would fly in and kiss those memories away. (otherwise it's the director's cut solution)

[@danavixen6274]

Hope you've forgotten Superman IV too. 😂

[@marcgallagher32]

lol I weirdly still love this movie. Great work as always mate.

[@jetzeschaafsma1211]

I'll tell you something though, 8yo me was blown away by this movie. Should definitely watch this again!

[@williamklemp3764]

Please do a pitch meeting for Titan A.E(2000) 😂 I feel like you can get a LOT of good jokes out of that movie

[@burningtheevidence8038]

Also it had a great soundtrack

[@oleg45678]

No! That movie is perfection!.... I've decided... 24 years ago...

[@reckoner1913]

The biggest, and almost most literal, deus ex machina ending of any film in history, ever. May as well have had actual Richard Pryor show up in the third act of it.

[@YourCreepyUncle.]

It's flawed as hell, but also kind of underrated.

[@robsolf]

4:30 The "Superman: Evil Peanut Flicking Freak" limited comic series ran from 1985-1987.

[@brainmistrust8480]

“WHOA, THIS GUY DOESN’T GIVE A S***!!!” almost made me wake up my wife laughing. 🤣

[@DahvooYT]

4:11 got me lol

[@dheard81]

For some reason it's somehow comforting to see that Hollywood writing has been terrible for 40 yrs. So, it's not just a recent thing, it's basically been happening forever.

[@felixmarvin1199]

For over 100 years, and still going strong with the stupid and ridiculous!

[@Marveryn]

@@felixmarvin1199 yeah bad hollywood scripts always been there, but they still produce enough good movies to likable that we pretty much ignore the issue. heck even a bad movie like this one was enjoyable to me when i first saw it. I did enjoy supe vs evil supe fight. Morden movies just dont do anything at all for me. At least they are way too many modern movies that are blah

[@BeeHatGuy]

Look up Siskel & Ebert's "Worst of 1989", their criticism of Hollywood is the same as ours is today, except superhero films

[@jjc5407]

@@Marveryn I'm surprised Ryan didn't make a comment about evil Superman's costume getting darker along with his personality. Amazing what properties Kryptonian spandex has!

[@darrenmacqueen9884]

@@Marveryn Modern movies don't do anything for you now because you're older. Not because they are worse. I'm the same, I don't watch nearly as many movies as I used to. And the ones I do watch don't have the same magic as when I was young. But a lot of the movies I loved as a kid were hated by the adults. It's the same now.

[@glarryg2318]

One time in the seventh grade we had to do an oral book report in front of the class, and one kid (who, let's just say, wasn't a big reader) chose the novelization of this movie. My favorite part of his report was that he kept referring to Gus Gorman as "Richard Pryor," and although I was naive enough to give him the benefit of the doubt back then the reason was pretty clear to me by the time I was an adult.

[@fasillimerick7394]

40 years later, and I still can't watch her get "assimilated" by that computer.

[@leibermuster2399]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKG3eaWamtKZh9Esi=f0Xl634FOIk2aF4S

[@JohnMitchem-e2k]

... Without needing a cold shower afterwards.

[@garytwinem5275]

Looks like Cyberman conversion.

[@aztn19]

I mean, that’s how Capt. Picard described it…😬😅😬

[@servetoserve]

That scene where the woman turns into a robot has always to this day since i was a kid after decades without seeing this movie again has given me, without fail, final destination chills.

[@christophermartin4091]

I appreciate the era correct PC in the background. 5 1/4” floppies are tight!

[@apoplexiamusic]

5:36 that scene indeed gave me nightmares

[@ryanwhaley5041]

Producer guy definitely succeeded in giving me nightmares as a child

[@SpaceCowboy5]

💯

[@dy4pi2]

Same here, I was terrified by that scene for years… to be honest, I still find it disturbing.

[@papano6450]

I had forgotten how bad it scared me until he got to that scene. Freaked me the f*** out when I was a kid.

[@keatonhanson43]

Same here, I was hiding behind the couch at the point

[@snowman_web_design_development]

Glad that computer fad is over. The weather hasn’t been the same since.

[@pauls6639]

I literally just told someone the other day how the computer assimilating Vera gave me nightmares for most of my childhood!! Spot on Pitch Meeting about giving "nightmares to an entire generation of children".

[@marvinthemartian2199]

Don't EVER stop making these!

[@cheekypasta55]

Til you're 90....

[@4plus20isHappy]

Isn’t it going to be impossible to keep making pitch meetings forever?

[@marvinthemartian2199]

@@4plus20isHappy, no, it'll be super easy! Barely an. inconvenience!

[@SFEstoudios]

Replacing characters in the spot is tight!

[@ToylandChairman666]

I was indifferent to SUPERMAN III growing up, but it's actually become a guilty pleasure of mine in recent years.

[@vanderful2397]

Same here

[@cruz1ale]

Producer guy saying "What are you talking about...?" needs to be a recurring thing

[@reelrook3044]

What are you talking about?

[@DrDavelope]

This movie and Tron. My inspiration to the world of computers and programming. Gus and Flynn were awesome!

[@dupersuper1938]

I hope that the completely realistic expectations imparted by those two films have been realised for you.

[@deancooper5500]

These are great! Please do a Pitch Meeting for Liar, Liar. The Jim Carrey movie. Lots of crazy what-ifs with that premise.

[@milkiassamuel780]

Who else agrees that Brainiac should've been the main villain of this movie instead of Gus Gorman and Webster?

[@felixmarvin1199]

That was the original intention, but then the producers snorted a small mountain of cocaine and said "Richard Pryor would be great for this movie!"

[@robotrix]

Just once I want a Superman movie without Lex Luthor and with Brainiac. The real Brainiac from the comics.

[@felixmarvin1199]

Richard Pryor and cocaine took up most of the budget, so Brainiac was out.

[@Crossbones6732]

My kid self seriously thought that’s where the movie was headed once they mentioned building supercomputer, and again when it fought to stay alive, but nothing happened.

[@nhmooytis7058]

As a kid in the early Sixties Brainiac was my favorite Supe villain!

[@akwasiantwiboamah7777]

Superman went from battling Zod in Superman 2 to a computer Superman 3 is peak fiction

[@sluggishnu]

Ryan. That is like 13 pitches in a row with a slideshow at the end. New outro. We need it.

[@TimTE01]

Missed opportunity- not pointing out that the same Actress plays both Lana Lang (his love interest) and his Earth Mother.

[@radrobd123]

this was a pitch meeting for a movie that happened in 1983, years before Smallville

[@OB25F1]

Please do cloverfield

[@JRueTee]

YESSSSS! Tearing that movie to shreds will be super easy, barely an inconvenience!

[@KevHCloud]

oh decent shout

[@synthetic240]

Barely seeing the monster in your monster movie is TIGHT!

[@graffitiverse9567]

Totally

[@dannyganelin9777]

Oh wow wow wow, that's a good idea!

[@Mexigun]

Can confirm the robot lady gave me nightmares as a kid.

[@SetsuneW]

Oh he's about to talk about that scene that gave me nightmares as a child. "We use this scene to give nightmares to an entire generation of children."

[@ryansmithscience757]

Despite their massive errors in judgement, I feel like Screenwriter Guy and Producer Guy have actually made a lot of good movies over the years.

[@CosmicPhilosopher]

The real meaning is the Pitch Meetings that were made along the way.

[@Sterls7]

As one of those kids traumatized by that specific scene I would just like to say it has popped into my nightmares and haunted me for decades.

[@greghannibal]

I don't remember this movie and now I know why.

[@Anwelei]

Same here

[@syberknyt]

I completely forgot about the plot of this movie. Judging by the last part, it was probably repressed for good reason.

[@BlankityBlank]

An audible gasp when Ryan mentioned the t-shirt opening thing. Never would have made that connection. Well done.

[@Grasslander]

4:58 Most of Superman's battle problems are caused by not flying in with his super speed and fix things in half a second. Instead he takes it slow so people have time to use kryptonite.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

3:37 Kryptonite a metal from Krypton made almost out of Earth Materials including Dialium a plant

[@Parocha]

Some elements are very common across the universe. The thing is the proportions they are blended in, and the isotopes of those found to be radioactive

[@calvatronic]

Lol elements are universal

[@joecope9935]

The Kryptonite in the first movie is clearly a crystal of some kind, not metallic. Also, kryptonite just means "meteorite from Krypton". It isn't what is made of that's important, it's that it's from superman's home planet so its radioactivity can harm him. Which makes this plot point even more bizarre! Lex Luther even explains this in the first movie!

[@SirsasthNigam.]

this would mean kryptonite can be made synthetically and it is made 10.62% out of a freaking Earth 25% Hydrogen and Helium + 75% Unknown makes more sense

[@THE_bchat]

@@SirsasthNigam. "75% unknown" doesn't make more sense. From what little I know about Kryptonite (I'm not a huge Superman fan), any piece of the planet Krypton is dangerous to Superman and mostly harmless to humans (except as a result of prolonged exposure). It's the radiation that's the problem, not what kryptonite is made up of. If anything, the complaint you should have with the movie is that materials found on Earth could be used to replicate the effects of kryptonite without the proper type of radiation to go along with them.

[@austinschlichting]

I’ve been waiting for this pitch meeting for a while! ❤

[@osirisatot19]

Impressive that this isn't the worst or even second worst Superman film.

[@toadynamite8141]

It has to be, there is no worse

[@osirisatot19]

@@toadynamite8141 Superman 4 and Batman Vs. Superman are worse. I know people will say BvS isn't worse, but at least Superman 3 is fun and goofy and mostly understands Superman; BvS doesn't understand Superman, Batman, or Lex Luthor.

[@joshmciver4847]

​@@osirisatot19no.

[@chadalpha7983]

​@@osirisatot19BVS taught me a valuable life lesson, that anyone whose mother is named Martha is good no matter how many people they slaughter

[@THE_bchat]

@@joshmciver4847 He isn't wrong about "Batman vs Superman". Batman wouldn't brand criminals so that they would be killed by their fellow inmates, or blame Superman for the destruction caused by Zod. Superman wouldn't attack anyone just because people he cared about were being held hostage. Lex Luthor isn't an idiot.

[@MitchTubeism]

I'd completely forgotten about 95% of this movie.

[@iambicpentakill971]

You remembered about 4% more than it was worthy of

[@1984Phalanx]

"Doesn't he regularly fly into outer space?" "He can't breathe in the bubble at all!" 😂

[@bhargavjoshi4473]

0:26 just feels so so so wierd. Had to watch thrice

[@Bird_867]

HÆ

[@floydkenosis4382]

Delicious sounding crimes are tight 😂

[@johmyh14]

Yeahyeahyeah

[@Onionman77]

Just how calmly he talks about safely landing because he's wearing skis cracked me up.

[@dsmtoday]

0:15 computer programming *DOES* work like that

[@NeoTechni]

came to say that

[@iGame3D]

That scene could be used for so many private computer schools that scammed so many people since the 1970s all the way until Obama slapped the money out of their hands.

[@riffrff]

As a professional programmer, I can confirm this

[@Beer_Dad1975]

Yup, literally make my living from fixing the mistakes of people who were not born with it but did some computer classes and somehow managed to get a career.

[@atilaneves76]

I also came here to sauy that ​@@NeoTechni

[@DaSlotho]

3:28 wait what.... ur kidding right...lolz 🤣🤣🤣

[@TMan978]

Right

[@Parocha]

That happened 😂

[@AndrewLemmings1998]

I love how Richard Pryor is a huge part of this movie, always one of my favorite comedians

[@visisydandthevoid]

When I was a kid 🥹 I loved the movie, and Richard Pryor is always great.