Superman begins?

Does anybody else think this film had so much potential? Don't get me wrong, I'm still very fond of this film, sure it was ridiculously corny throughout, and Richard Prior skiing down the face of a skyscraper then landing on his feet is pretty absurd. What a man in a red cape flying isn't?, actually no.

 I'm on about the scene where Superman's persona is split into good and bad, or blue and red in this case. Christopher Reeve is and always will be my quintessential Clark Kent/Superman, so to see him in his red role, physically and verbally dark/evil is a real eye opener watching it today in my mid-twenties.  

If you have never seen the film and skip straight to the bar/scrapyard scene it wouldn't be too far fetched to assume that scene totally doesn't fit in with the rest of the film's mad-cap approach, it's such a complete 180 that when it does come up it catches you totally off guard.

It's a shame Reeve never had the opportunity to explore this darker side some more, in the way Christian Bale brought back Bruce Wayne's credibility in Batman Begins. But hey, you gotta love the film's perception of the computer boom that hit America in the early 80's, who could forget Robert Vaughn's Ross Webster shooting missiles at Superman in what can only resemble a 4bit Atari arcade game, good stuff.