Super movies!

Wow! Supergirl is a really bad movie. Like really bad. Bad to my standards and my standards are pretty low. It as bad as Superman 4!

On the other hand, Superman 2: The Richard Donner cut was super excellent. I really enjoyed it. There are MAJOR differences between the original cut and the Donner cut. If you don't know the back story about Superman 2, here is a quick history lesson. Richard Donner (the director for Superman: The Movie) shot both Superman: The Movie and Superman 2 at the same time. However, in order to meet the Superman: The Movie deadline, they stopped shooting Superman 2 to focus on the original. Once Superman was released, Donner was going to come back and finish Superman 2. However, over creative differences (I believe mostly money issues) Donner was FIRED. Not only was Donner fired, but the great John Williams (composer of Superman theme) was fired as well. Donner was replaced by Richard Lester, who finished Superman 2 and directed Superman 3.

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* The France scene to open the movie in the original ... GONE
* The whole silly Niagara Falls honeymoon apartment bit ... GONE
* The Lois jumping into the water ... GONE
* How did Clark get his super powers back? The Lester cut didn't explain it too well (because the Salkinds are cheap - Brando wanted too much money), but Donner cut explains it
* There is a scene (screen test though) where Lois finally confronts Clark about being Superman (and *shoots* Clark with a gun)
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Its a totally different movie. I like the Donner cut because he took the movie more seriously. Lester seemed to put in 'jokes' and other humour (when the 3 aliens were blowing wind against the crowd, Lester threw in alot of jokes like a man's toupee gets blown off his head or the man in the telephone booth falling over). Lester seems to remind me of Zoidberg's filmmaking uncle, who tried to be comedy in everything.

I agree with alot of people out there who say, "Superman 2 was good. Superman 2: The Donner Cut is better."

I still shake my head at the firing of John Williams. That's just silly. Its John Williams.

Song of the day: John Williams - Superman Theme Song