Because she's not. Even through the absurdly blurry lenses they shot her with, she looked old and hard! I literally rolled my eyes when Superman gave up his superpowers for HER!? Yea right. Dude needed a new eyeglass prescription!
shareYeah, and valuing women solely for how they look is why so many not so hot guys complain that they're single. I didn't think that Margot Kidder was unattractive, but Lois has a lot of qualities besides her looks.
shareDon’t kid yourself, newbie.
Attractiveness is still THE number one quality people of both genders consider most when appraising others.
That’s why it’s called being “attractive.” Their looks attract people.
Don’t let the current trend of pushing body positivity fool you for a second.
When given a choice, you would choose someone you felt was attractive to be in a relationship.
Only tile someone doesn’t is if the attractive people don’t want them.
Lol...newbie to what?
Ive been around long enough that looks are not the only thing which makes someone attractive.
" is why so many not so hot guys complain that they 're single. " 😅
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Off the topic, but he shouldn't have had to give up his powers at all.
I don't believe there is any such thing as a plot hole in movies (at least I can't recall a real one), but this comes close - what exactly is the mechanism involved in his needing to give up his powers to marry Lois?
My understanding of Superman canon is that the sun the Earth revolves around imparts to Kryptonians specific super powers when within the sun's influence. So why would he have to give up his power to enter either a religious or civil ceremony to get married? The only thing that would explain it away is if we were to accept that his superpowers gained with the Earth's sun also make him impotent.
I'm not a super hero fan either of movies or comics, so I don't know if this has ever been brought up.
The origin of the Mall Rats discussion
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel,_Woman_of_Kleenex
https://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
I found Margot Kidder to be attractive. She was a perfectly fine Lois Lane.
Her later years were unfortunately plagued by mental illness and her death was ruled a suicide due to overdose.
Anyway, she’s did some good things but she’s dead. No need to kick her around.
I didn't realize she was mentally ill nor dead, I'm sorry to hear all of that. I'd just watched this movie for the first time ever and was merely reacting to what I saw from a storytelling standpoint. I'm sure she was a perfectly lovely human being but at the end of the day not everyone is right for every part & I was simply asking if she was meant to be some stunning beauty (or even on par with Christopher Reeve) because if so then I think she was miscast. The filmmaker made a ridiculously obvious attempt at 'beautifying' her by shooting her with a lens that was so blurry it actually caused a double image in some scenes! Those blurry close-ups ultimately achieved the opposite effect of what was intended because they were completely distracting and made me judge her looks more critically than I otherwise would have had the filmmaker not tried to forcefully manipulate me into seeing her as some great object of beauty!
shareYeah, she had some real struggles. I’m no doctor but healing a body seems way easier than healing the mind. That just seems extremely complicated.
sharei always thought Margot Kidder was pretty hot as Lois, in STM she had a completly different raven hair 70s look to the other movies, mainly bc she was notably younger, filmed in mid/late 70s, probably hadnt been taking too many drugs at that point etc. in SII (the Lester scenes filmed a couple of years after the 1st film in about 1980) i think shed lost alot of weight due to substance abuse (but idk for sure) so looked abit anorexic at times , in SIII she basically cameo'd (bc shed fallen out with the producers over Donner being fired for SII, and theyd brought in Lana Lang as the love interest anyway)and remember thinking she looked hot in her scenes all tanned looking, and even SIV she looked alot older she still looked good (but was secondary to Mariel Hemingways hot young Lacy, to Margots be/amusement in interviews)
anyway her looks aside she was great in the role. totally 'Lois Lane' (unlike later versions Bosworth/Amy Adams who were both meh in the role - with way too young Bosworth in a ill fitting brown wig and red hair Amy Adams more Lana Lang in looks!) it'll be good to get back to that raven hair fesity type of Lois for the Gunn reboot (as presumably thats what the new actress will be like)
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One of the S:TM DVDs has screen tests of other and more attractive actresses (IMO). Kidder captured Lois Lane; the others weren't close.
Margo is quite attractive in the screen tests,
In the film, Margot channeled Phyllis Coates from the TV show.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=anne+archer+superman+screen+test&&mid=81899CA0FFD5528E192181899CA0FFD5528E1921&&FORM=VRDGAR
I used to think Margot Kidder was gorgeous. I'd say The Amityville Horror was when she looked her hottest.
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