For me, that would have made the movie so much better. The line-drive made me laugh out loud!

Ha. Glad you liked it as well.
I was rather astounded how well the old movie images integrated with the new.
I guess that that movie is stitched together from fragments of scenes and effects anyway. So that making this lark was relatively little work.

Christopher Reeves looked strangely plastic btw. Maybe that has something to do with different movie technology of those days.