World Who else thought the Cyborg in "Superman 3" was hilarious?

[CyrusGrissom]

Sure she freaked me out when i was a kid but now i find her hilarious as she kind of looks like Dot from "Spaceballs".

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I find her just as scary now. Part of the reason is that sequence in Superman III is so unexpected, so much nastier than anything you'd expect in a Superman film, you just never see it coming. It's horror movie territory. Her screams make it even worse.....and then it happens to Superman!

Just one of the many great things about Superman III that some fanboys overlook because they're too busy moaning about comedy in a Superman film.

 

[Obi-Ron]

Yeah, that used to creep me out, too.

 

[Jochimus]

I thought it was creepy back in 1983, but now it's just plain goofy.

 

[mjbull23]

I remember watching that scene when I was a kid, and It put some fright into me for sure. I vaguely recall, as I haven't seen that movie in years, but didn't her eyes become like a silver nitrate or perhaps they wer metallic. Either way, it creeped me out momentarily.

 

[SFII]

agreed that scene did scare me when i was a kid.
i actually liked Superman 3 back then. and i still kinda do.

i hated and still hate Superman 4 tho.

 

[Papa Burgundy]

that robot was hilarious.

 

[mcflytrap]

Yeah, it really creeped me out. Doesn't really phase me as much anymore...but it definitey was hardcore for a Superman movie.

 

[The Shredder]

When I first saw Superman III way back when, I initially thought the computer/Robot was the Superman movie version of Brainiac. Basically because I was aware that movie versions of comic book characters, especially villains, arent exactly the same and that studios often do take liberties with such characters. And also because I remember having a brainiac action figure from the Superpowers toy line that looked vaguely similar to the female robot in Superman III (Minus the hair and clothes of course). But needless to say, by the time the movie ended, I was already well aware that this definately wasnt Brainiac, but was probably the closest thing I would see of him/it in a Superman film for quite some time.

I'm still waiting.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

LOL I thought she was Brainiac as a kid and yeah she freaked me out big time

 

[CFE]

I love it; pure B Movie goodness.

Superman III is a guilty pleasure for me. I find myself putting on the DVD quite often.

But SFII's right. I can't stand The Quest for Peace. Especcially since it was derived from a series that started so incredibly strong. That's what happens when you take Donner and Mankiewicz away from the material.

CFE

 

[captain_jimbo]

I was never that afraid of it as a kid, but now it just looks a little embarrassing.

 

[Rorschach2012]

hilariously creepy

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I love it; pure B Movie goodness.

Superman III is a guilty pleasure for me. I find myself putting on the DVD quite often.

But SFII's right. I can't stand The Quest for Peace. Especcially since it was derived from a series that started so incredibly strong. That's what happens when you take Donner and Mankiewicz away from the material.

CFE

That's not strictly accurate, as you could take away Donner and Mankiewicz, but then add James Cameron and Robert Towne instead.

 

[Jochimus]

That's not strictly accurate, as you could take away Donner and Mankiewicz, but then add James Cameron and Robert Towne instead.

Except, well...WB didn't.

Also in the SII Donner Cut commentary Mankiewicz specifically recollected cautioning Reeve on focusing Superman on handling a real-world crisis, so I hesitate to argue that Donner and Mankiewicz were not integral to the continued success of the original run of the Superman film franchise, especially given the obvious regret in Donner's voice hearing him lament about why they never got the chance to draw more material from the comics. And director changes so early into a potential franchise aren't always a good thing; look at what happened to Burton's Batman. If they had done like 007, where after about four or five movies the actors are usually ready to move on to something else, then I could see where you wouldn't necessarily need Donner and Mankiewicz around anymore.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Except, well...WB didn't.

I didn't say they did. The point is that there are other directors and writers who could have made good Superman movies in the absence of Donner and co.

 

[BlackSuitSpidey]

It did creep me out a bit at first but now, I laugh about it.

 

[buggs0268]

She seems to me as she was in 1983. A useless point to have some type of supervillain in the movie that had no point, and served nothing to anything.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

She seems to me as she was in 1983. A useless point to have some type of supervillain in the movie that had no point, and served nothing to anything.

Useless?

It showed what would happen to Superman if he ended up in the machine. Which he did. The suspense of Superman being sucked into the machine is created because we now know what it does to people.