The Reel Rejects - SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY IS POWERFUL!! MOVIE REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Reeve's story. I didn't see the trailer. No, wait, I did. Did I? I don't know. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. James Gunn has said, like, he actually considers this, like, the real first DCU movie. And with the Superman trailer coming out, I'm like, yeah, let's watch us. Let's get a good vibe of this. So, of course, joined by Aaron Alexander over here. We got Andrew Gordon, Agor 7. Flash. Oh, no. Now you want to do it. Oh, my bad. Now you want to do it.

Starting point is 00:02:03 He's just defaulted. I'm sorry. Every time I try to chew you, you have no. I'm not swell today. Whatever. Thank you so much for being here. Please go ahead. Leave your thoughts down below what you thought about this movie.

Starting point is 00:02:14 I'm just really looking forward to watching. We will like. Ring that bell. That thing. Respectfully. That thing is just something that it will work one day. I love it. Also, Praper.

Starting point is 00:02:28 Thanks for it is down. The full-length stretch and watch long stories think of with your own copy is available for our super sexy rejects. We're watching this off max where it's currently available. All right, guys, you're ready to learn about Christopher Reeves? Christopher Reeve or Reeves? I believe you're looking at Reeve, right? Yeah. And if we don't know, the movie will definitely correct us.

Starting point is 00:02:43 All right, let's do it. Wow. That was beautiful. Oh, I was just laying up with this video to say. And if you have to censor it, this movie, fuck me up it's so good oh wow

Starting point is 00:03:05 that was incredible do you guys think there's a definitely yeah Rick flags at the end that died in a creature command all right so we just watched who read the christopher reeves story and uh really learning what

Starting point is 00:03:34 it's like to be a hero yeah and we're in the movie for everyone the whole time with all his jokes yep nice hearing we're not watching glory man too soon yeah oh my but no this was uh this is a triumph of a documentary here of It's really showing what an individual is. Andrew, why don't you go first, buddy? Yeah, I mean, besides the fact that I, of course, knew he was Superman, I did not know, and that he was friends with Robin Williams.

Starting point is 00:04:08 That's really the extent I knew about Christopher Reeve. So getting to learn, first of all, about the broken household that he came from and his father, and that, you know, nothing he ever did was good enough, and that he kind of passed on some of those. those demons so to say to him in his own household a little bit

Starting point is 00:04:29 I found that to be very tragic for him and he kind of like wanted to wrong those rights or write those wrongs rather and I found that to be very fascinating about just the product of where we grow up

Starting point is 00:04:43 you know what I mean and just also just the type of frequent human being that he was in general like he was a very active human being like whether it was a scheme whether it was boating or sailing whether it was flying on a plane or whatever like he lived a very active lifestyle and obviously when this accident happened you know it really like for the fact that

Starting point is 00:05:08 obviously he was paralyzed of course that torn him and his whole family um but like he couldn't do anything and like the psychological effect it has on you just because you can't do anything of the activities you can't be uh you know what you were you know in your everything you'd been led up to to that point in your life whether it be a father a husband just everything activity wise like that is gone now and you have to like deal with that fact and like realize like this is now your life and i think like the psychological effects that that has on a human being and that he was willing like able to endure and survive that and still push on like i think that just says the incredible human being that he was on the perseverance that he had

Starting point is 00:05:50 and i found that to be rather inspiring like no matter the circumstances he was willing to just always push through um and also like the incredible support system that he had from a family and friends was just incredible and i think that also speaks to the type of human being he was like that he had the uh you know uh fan i mean also too he was so lucky to have met dana i mean she easily could have just like once he was paralyzed like that would have been a situation that could have been like many people could have just walked away from like i don't have like my husband's basically gone he's a vegetable at this point so i think that i'm so happy that he met such an incredible woman um very sad obviously with what happened to her as well but i'm so

Starting point is 00:06:34 happy that he had someone that stood by him in his darkest hours uh and i also found it very fascinating too and then i'll let you guys get going because i don't want to take away too many talking points but i found it very fascinating too like uh i talked about the the dark stuff that he had to deal with with his father that through his accident you know he found it a way to connect with people, you know, through that. I found that to be very fascinating. Like, you know, through his activities, he found that he thought that was going to be a way that he could connect with people.

Starting point is 00:07:04 But he found like, oh, my God, I had to be in a wheelchair to start connecting with people, start talking with people and using that. And I found that to be rather interesting. I'm like, wow. So it took an accident for that to happen and to, like, really, you know, get more humanity out of him in that. So it's sad, but also interesting as well. but there's just a lot more i want to say but i'll let you guys go from here yeah um what's up uh nice stuff for it no i thought this um this film was incredible you know

Starting point is 00:07:38 seeing the the triumph of the human human spirit kind of go through the obstacles of something that's so you know life-changing and seeing the juxtaposition between how he started at the rise of Superman and then after having the accident and watching those two different versions of how he affected the world or those two different periods in his life of how he affected the world. But, and then seeing how that affected him in his own psyche and then seeing him be Superman for the world and Superman for his family. And then having that be the basis of how he rebecomes.

Starting point is 00:08:22 a different kind of Superman for the world and then fighting for something that is kind of I guess not at the time as fought for or widely as publicized and yeah it was just very inspiring and heartfelt and heartbreaking at the same time because he was fighting for all these things

Starting point is 00:08:48 but I can only imagine being a man so active and the face of something that is larger than life. You know, you inspire people by the goodness that you present into the world, by being this hero and believing that a man can fly and then having all of, going from like the physical peak of human perfection to then not really having your body as a tool to aid you in whatever other external things that you're trying to accomplish with good by using that platform that's been established for you and seeing him go through that internal struggle of ruminating over like the the things you could have done differently and like him having to reevalue what it means

Starting point is 00:09:40 to serve it to be of service to be not only of your family but to the world to to but the basis of that would be like what does it mean to now be a father what does it mean to now be a husband what does it mean to now be to be a man because all the things you associate traditionally with masculinity are now taken away from you and then to find new definition of what that is in in your current state was just really really powerful because there are all kinds of ways a man can change the world and then having him like fight for this thing but secretly kind of want to beat it at the same time only adds that that sense of of tragedy but i think the fact that he is his will and his light on the world was able to inspire such optimism and

Starting point is 00:10:38 a sense that change is possible or that life can still be and have that endure long going on 20 years past his passing is still incredible and just speaks to whether it was intentional or in mind at the time the power of change the power of someone's own self-belief and the power of legacy because its own family has persevered and continued on for this fight and we're just now starting to see the changes and the ripple effects of what he fought for while he was still with us. So, yeah, I, like Andrew, have more to say, but I want to give it over to Greg now. I got nothing to say.

Starting point is 00:11:23 That's great. We took it all. I could continue to talking. Totally foul with me. Yeah, and, yeah, this movie moved me. It made me feel things. You guys probably don't see me cry too often on this page, but I definitely resonated with a lot of stuff that was in this movie. So, yeah, touch me in the heart and in the brain.

Starting point is 00:11:46 and just kind of make me reflect up on my own life. So, yeah, but I thought you were crying because that story wanted to go to closed early today. And you weren't able to get there. I mean, that too, you know, and just remind the movie was reminding me of that. Because I'm like, damn, man, I'm going to make it. But, um, I was crying because of the hungry I got, you know. What am I going to get fed? that's a that's the real tragedy here that's the real story here but um yeah it was obviously a

Starting point is 00:12:26 beautiful uh story i think the bookend that they have there with saying sometimes things happen for a reason and it's our job to look for a reason if that is a philosophy that you subscribe to then this movie is absolutely the emblematic version of what that means. Because when you look at this identity of Christopher Reeve, at least what this documentary illustrates here, he's a man who did not get approval from his father, and he seemed like he sought a lot of that

Starting point is 00:13:02 through external validation through his career because he can never get approval from his dad. But in the midst of all that, even in those career ambitions, when he was going up against Superman, he was constantly being told by everyone around him, like, you shouldn't do this. this isn't a good idea and he put his all in to that from the appreciation of the Superman level to go from hey I'm gonna like there's like little things even in that that I just like totally took for granted even this concept of how much his involvement was there to really making you believe a man can fly like when they give him credit for that like yeah absolutely I mean he was the actor there but I never really thought of like oh but the performance behind the flying and everything he learned technicality

Starting point is 00:13:46 wise because he hadn't really quite accomplished that of how he had to give all the series of chalk that up to like but that's like a visual thing that's a that's a that's a technicality thing that's not really a christopher reeve thing is it i didn't i took that for granted but in the midst of that he still persevered and went through it and of course like seeing the humanity side of him of making the mistakes along the way of lack of appreciation some neglect. What I loved is how they showed that this consistently throughout his journey, even before the accident or before the time where they call him where he got hurt, he was being stripped of other things. His career was doing the link. He was being stripped

Starting point is 00:14:31 of career achievements. But that would bring him down to finding Dana. That would bring him down to finding things that really mattered more to him, things that were truly the essence of life. And then even after the accident, and then as he keeps going, again, like, the part that really stood out to me in this journey was something I never thought I would hear in this documentary or even thought was a thing that came up because I am someone who is not familiar with the disabled community and that extent of, like, what they must go through and perceptions of what they deal with like. I think when I went to the Academy Awards and they were saying how you have to have the strength to be in front of two billion people. And then in that auditorium itself to be dealing with the fact of you have to smile and not think about or how many people are looking at you out of pity. And I'm like, oh, man, it must be something like deceible people deal with all the time. Like the specific look that you get. And then even if someone is treating you normal, quote unquote normally, of how I imagine it could still be in the back of your mind.

Starting point is 00:15:40 you know like are they just intentionally trying to treat me normal while they're being aware of what it is and do i just latch onto the respect like trying to be in the mindset of that it was something that was so specific to me and even right down to the very end of it talks about that it's not a before and after of his life that it's just one continual timeline and that continual timeline brought him to the point of like yes he got stripped of everything like when his career was being stripped he found him with dana and his family again then then this brought him back to like oh that what really matters is the relationships that we form along the way like that was so freaking beautiful that was the most powerful aspect to me and then like you brought up with

Starting point is 00:16:21 legacy continuing on with his children like they say our our children are our legacy that's a phrase of my whole life and then to see that his children are literally carrying on the legacy of what they established with this foundation and in the midst of like how he dealt with some scrutiny from the disabled community and how that was becoming a very like like they made it very clear here that he was an inspiring person and a polarizing person while being um while championing for these um aspects of like being able to overcome the disabilities and such and how that mess with people's identities but then to see that like no they are succeeding that it is happening for people that it's something worth fighting for and that like like i appreciated the nuance

Starting point is 00:17:08 of that I mean there's a part of me I was like oh it'd be kind of cool to hear a little bit more of the discussion behind this especially for people who are much bigger experts than myself as opposed to someone who's like just beginning to open up the conversation of my own brain about it but the the very idea of because like there were such a there's like there are people who are born with the disability and their people have the an accident happen now they are disabled and have to deal with it and the gray of that that murky line of we are not saying there is something wrong with your identity there's not something wrong with you as a individual as a being as a person yet there's so much more that you can have that sometimes having this disability

Starting point is 00:17:54 strips away from but yet the movie also shows a documentary through the narration and the audio archives of Christopher Reeve that there was still so much beauty that occurred of who he became And the life lesson, but man, that love story, too, between him and Dana was one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever heard. Reject Nation, I'm here to interrupt this video just for a little bit to let you know that for a limited time at Rejectionshop.com, we have exclusive apparel, just like the one I am wearing right now on my body. This is a reject sweater, the brainchild of the she-jacks, Tara Erickson, and Roxy Stryer.

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Starting point is 00:19:41 yeah yeah she was going through a tough time as well yeah but she was still staying strong and i think like you know she you know she a lot of a lot of that came like uh from what she learned from chris as well and also from him through her and i think that a lot of that stemmed you know they elevated each other it just such a beautiful relationship and um you know i think they they really needed each other especially through those dark and tough times so and a big part of uh big part of her was lost that day uh when when he uh left us and um uh it was just so sad too for will i mean in in 18 months he lost his grandmother his mother and his father yeah um but uh yeah and then you were talking about like uh legacy too was really again inspiring to see like even

Starting point is 00:20:29 after life that his children were still are still handling the foundation and like now people are starting to you know starting to you know through their disabilities they're able to just start walking again and start like you know doing what he wanted

Starting point is 00:20:44 you know and you could tell too like he actually cares about these issues like even before the accident he's an environmentalist he was a you know into human rights and all that stuff so and he was going to D.C. with Susan Sarandon so like these are important issues him and then like that one story that really touched me really heavily uh was with that kid who

Starting point is 00:21:05 was like you know there's no way i can get off a ventilator and then he came into the room and said hey i you know i think you can't get off a ventilator and then that kid's like i'm gonna get off a ventilator superman told me i could like that's just so sweet and so inspiring like he didn't have to come into that room and do that like actually cared about human being so you know to see that it's incredible yeah i think what they show with his background is that it's not like he was born this way like he and i don't mean physically like i mean in terms mentally yeah like there's obviously a lot of darkness that he had to combat um within him and the fact that he was able to exude such light and actually have transformative inspiration is not an easy thing to

Starting point is 00:21:47 accomplish in one's life and this documentary poses the question at the very top or at least the theme of it of and by the way for documentary just a quick aside one of an amazing edited documentary like i just can't imagine like whoa did it edit something like this it's like a nightmare yeah the non-linear linear linear way they were editing it was incredible that was uh that was really powerful but the quality of of he talks christ really just stood up to me right away of oh that's why christopher reeve was such a good superman because he understood that it's about the qualities of what's of who superman is more than anything else and so much of this documentary is about what is a hero what's a real life hero and i think this really

Starting point is 00:22:29 does demonstrate it that yes he was playing superman and he used that opportunity as it's like it makes me just question myself so much like to be like oh i'm i have this identity of being superman and now i'm beloved by millions oh crap but being superman is like damaging my career it's ruined and then you start seeing like disdain peeking through and interviews for this perception that people have of him and he's trying to be like a not him like that's not me you know and then it's like tragically stripped away from him we're like that's definitely not superman you know like the illustration of kryptonite overtaking his whole body that's definitely not superman and yet he becomes like a real life hero as opposed to playing a

Starting point is 00:23:20 hero he becomes a true hero in the midst of true hardship i can not fathom possibly ever going through It's a really, really strong story of love, really what they told here. Yeah, in a strange way, kind of him losing the ability to have full autonomy of his body. And it presented a door for him to change the world in a different type of way, to be a different type of hero, to formulate a new legacy. granted it started by him being Superman but which was like the launch off point but because of that and how much he was already an activist prior to this just allowed the doorway to help people that maybe not would or not have gotten as much help or attention had he not gone through his life in the way that it had unfolded yeah like that they kept it focused at the very end about this

Starting point is 00:24:24 this was also about the ongoing effect that he had in terms of truly making an impact on science and impact on people's actual lives not just he's an inspirational guy for sticking it through and keeping his chin up when he could have easily called it quits that's inspiring in it of itself absolutely the love's true to him and Dana and the and the resilience and the sacrifice that data give absolutely it's all very very and motivating and inspiring however the the real like big thing is that's why he had to be Superman and be stripped away from it was because if he wasn't Superman he would not have been able to make such an impact that has obviously really helped play a massive influence in the disability community yeah exactly yeah that's like it's like it feels like a sense of fate in a way because

Starting point is 00:25:21 it's so easy to that's what yeah it's so crazy about it because it's so easy to look at it and go man what it is a tragedy and just stick to that and just be like man what a tragedy stripped but he made something yeah but he did something so like more important than then if he hadn't had that happen and it's a sacrifice in his life that it had to be done but man what a what a valuable sacrifice that is probably taken not probably it's for sure taken for granted yeah and it kind of speaks to the idea of like you can't see the fuller picture while you're while you're carving at it you know like um like in a weird kind of analogy like the more like the the rock or like the stone is like untouched right then as you're carving

Starting point is 00:26:04 away at it you start to see like what the picture is and like obviously he isn't in the moment as he's living it he's like you know the ruminations of depression like you're focusing on the fight and like what you haven't formed or what's what um you've lost but then like you take a look this documentary now in full and like the work that his family is continuing to do like oh being Superman to then being a champion for science and for people of disability was his legacy like that entire thing is his impact in the world not only from a point of fiction and inspiring uh film but it's just inspiring um yeah research and then just people to have better quality wise yeah yeah and then like i said that story about what he did with that little kid was

Starting point is 00:26:53 really inspiring but i didn't even know who brooke ellison was like that was an incredible story to the woman who went to harvard uh and then they made a movie about it too and i actually want to see that as well uh so that was incredible but again just showed that you know this man really cared uh about this uh about this cause and like it wasn't just about him it was like the bigger picture and i just appreciate like that he like just was again a humanitarian at heart and like really wanted to inspire other people to look past

Starting point is 00:27:24 you know the issue and to inspire them to get better and I know that I'm not saying that like there is an issue but you know what I mean like so like very inspiring stuff and just really a tragic loss obviously and just an incredible documentary yeah man the fact they were both ticket died so soon

Starting point is 00:27:45 was insane I was like man that poor kid poor yeah it really seems like kind of a love tale though in that in that regard like i remember when i was really really young learning about it like it happening with a pet uh not my pet but like someone who i i was working for someone i was like 15 years old and they had these these two dogs and then this one dog was really sick and then it died it eventually died and then a couple weeks later that dog became the other dog became so depressed from it that it got sick and then it eventually passed away from that because the dog wasn't sick before that it just wasn't and it seems like oh wow i mean it's tragic it's a sense of like it's just terrible irony

Starting point is 00:28:28 of what occurs is like oh this freedom is finally given in a sense right like you can't you got to imagine that there's got to be a bit of a duality type of grief in a situation like that because there's so much caretaking and love and hope and that there's also and by the same time it's like okay But now this responsibility of taking care of this individual has been lifted from me, despite how heavy of a heartbreak this is. And then to have that instilled, it just kind of, to me, spoke even more volumes of love that this sickness would suddenly come in the form, come get her. It's like there's multiple ways of sort of reading into it.

Starting point is 00:29:04 One could just be like, that's life, shit happens. Sometimes something happens. And the other part is maybe that sickness held off so that she could take care of him. Or maybe that's in this form because the other part of her. Maybe that sickness form because of the heartache of how much she loved him. You know, there's like so many different variables of that. Or it depends on your perspective. And that's something I think this documentary really poses well.

Starting point is 00:29:28 It's like, when something terrible happens, how are you going to choose to perceive how that happens? You know, like when Aaron's store closes, too early and he didn't get that burger. Didn't get that burger. And also, too, like, for a reason. And also, too, you see. Like, after he passed, how empty the house felt. But also, too, like, you see the repercussions, like, they gave the van away to a kid who was never able to be transported anywhere. Like, that was something beautiful came out of something sad.

Starting point is 00:29:55 Yeah. Yeah. That's why you're going to have this channel to compete with Sinepals. Something beautiful comes out of something sad. Should I read a couple? There's only a few. I think we're good, man. That's all the movies.

Starting point is 00:30:12 It was true. I appreciate you though man anyway guys um what did you guys think about the documentary what did you learn what was your big takeaway from experiencing this uh leave your thoughts down below thanks aaron and andrew for uh being here no one make eye contact with each other um i'll make eye contact with super for a while please just looking at us right now we all got emotional and as men I think it's best we just look the other way there's now officially two doors in here each choose Leave. You stay here, we'll just both leave. Yeah, you say I leave and I will just roll on the ground. Just put a blanket on you. Turn the lights off. The art part.

Starting point is 00:31:08 I don't know. I don't feel like you're enjoying this as much as Aaron and I are. I am internally. I'm going to go find a burger after this. I'm laughing her ass off. Tension and release. I'm just in a lot of pain, but I'm doing good. He just wanted to do his trivia.

Starting point is 00:31:24 That's what you're doing. He's really mad. We didn't get to go to the IMDB facts. I'm pissed, Greg. I didn't read my trivia. Anyway. All right, guys. Thanks so much for being here.

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The Reel Rejects - SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY IS POWERFUL!! MOVIE REVIEW!

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