Comments | bluedevilsf: Superman II: The Donner Cut!

bluedevilsf

Superman II: The Donner Cut!

Dec 09, 2006 22:53

I just got done watching the Donner cut of Superman II. Wow, what a much, much, MUCH better movie it is. Not perfect, but vastly improved.

( Spoilers within. You've been warned. )

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Yep telemann December 10 2006, 05:47:23 UTC

I picked up the Donner Cut the day it came out.

The most wonderful thing I thought, was the restoration of Marlon Brando's scenes, with powerful visual symbols (using Michangeleo's "Creation of Man" when Jor-el restores his son's power by giving him his life force.

Lois Lane's scene with Clark was just so much better in Richard Donner's cut, versus the lame "ops I fell into the fire and my hand didn't get burned" routine in the theatrical cut.

The writer (well he was the creative consultant), explained that the theatrical release of Superman II was wrong to use the "magic kiss." His rationale was flawless--- Clark Kent never kisses Lois. Turning the Earth back was always the intended ending for Superman II, it was only used in Superman I because the producers wanted a "big splash" at the conclusion.

Great flick! And you wonder what great movies would have been made had the producers been twats and fired the original director and his creative consultant.

Re: Yep bluedevilsf December 11 2006, 18:48:59 UTC

Of course Clark kisses Lois...they're married!

Re: Yep telemann December 12 2006, 01:12:39 UTC

I agree with you there...I thought the whole "Clark never kisses Lois" explanation was REALLY lame!

tedwords December 11 2006, 04:12:12 UTC

Well, Donner rally had no other option than to go with the "world turning" sequence, did he? That was what had been planned, and they didn't have any other footage to go with, other than the magic kiss ( ... )

bluedevilsf December 11 2006, 18:48:39 UTC

Did you like Superman Returns? Now that a few months have passed since I've seen it, I've concluded that I was really disappointed by it.

Oh, and did you know there is a technical issue with disc 1 of the original Superman reissue? Seems the 2.0 sound mix was left off by mistake:

http://www.davisdvd.com/weekly/bin/3021.html

Warner is offering replacement discs.

tedwords December 12 2006, 01:11:49 UTC

I actually did like Superman Returns. Just seeing Superman onscreen again, with that fantastic John Williams soundtrack, was thrilling to me. The only big negative I had was that I felt that Lois Lane was totally boring...the exact opposite of Margot Kidder!

I only picked up the Donner version, so I'm fine, although there were sounds issues with the last deleted scene with luthor and Miss T...but I think that's a defect of the existing material, not my DVD.