While scanning the 1978 Superman movie for a few shots I need to illustrate my chapter on origin stories and patriarchal power, I suddenly noticed that the Man of Steel either didn’t bother to floss, or else he accidentally ordered a kryptonite-slushee at some point. In any case, those cavity fillings are a little awkward.
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But it’s these clumsy moments that make the film endearing, and humanize what is an already dehumanized genre. I much prefer the old Star Wars because of how creaky the special effects look today, whereas the prequels are so much more slick and soulless by comparison.
Absolutely! The worst thing they could do is re-release it with digitally reconstructed dental work. One likes to imagine that a decision was made in the editing suite that Reeve’s acting and the character’s effectively communicated anguish outweighed a minor continuity-type flaw like revealing the actor’s fillings. It’s hard to imagine a (quite possibly imaginary) decision like that being made in Hollywood today.