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Gabler, former co-host of PBS's Sneak Previews, delivers blunt verdicts on comic-book film adaptations: the Superman films failed because filmmakers never grasped the character's mythic potential; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was more playful than Raiders; Bond lost its way after Goldfinger. He argues that the 1970s return of romantic heroism in film (Rocky, Star Wars, Superman) grew from the Bicentennial moment and the myth of the common man.