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jpauln 
Registered: May '05
23560_Qui-Gon and Anakin
Date Posted: 2/8/06 11:24pm Subject: RE: General Superman Discussion Thread - Date Edited: 2/8/06 11:34pm (1 edits total) Edited By: jpauln
I am definitely looking forward to the Donner Cut! Here's the five minute scene that they were shown. (I got this from supermanhomepage.com, another excellent place to find info on the Man of Steel)...

Senior VP of Theatrical Catalog Marketing, George Feltenstein, informed us that 20%-40% of Richard Donner's Superman II has never been seen. After this presentation, the lights we're dimmed and we were treated to Donner's original opening of Superman II. This segment is set amidst the hustle and bustle of the Daily Planet. Lois Lane is reading an article on Superman. She sees Clark Kent across the room, who is standing with his arms folded, and she realizes that the two look quite similar. After drawing a hat, glasses and a suit on Superman, she and Clark are summoned into Perry White's office and informed of an assignment they will work on together in Niagara Falls.

Perry soon leaves the room and Lois begins dropping hints to Clark that she thinks he's Superman. Clark of course denies this and Lois, believing he is lying, throws herself out the window. As she is tumbling in the air, Clark makes his way down to the street below. Using his "wind blowing" powers he slows up Lois's descent, and then makes an awning drop (courtesy of his "laser-like" eye power) so that Lois's fall is eventually broken by a fruit stand.

Even with a temporary score and titles like "Work Test" cut into this piece, it still very much captured the spirit of what a Richard Donner cut of Superman II might have in store.


 

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chiss_man 
Registered: Jul '02
46173_Robot Chicken: Ackbar Cereal
Date Posted: 2/13/06 11:59am Subject: RE: General Superman Discussion Thread
So far, All Star Superman is everything I feel a Superman comic should be, filled with wonder and the most far out amazing concepts. Why can't Superman have a baby sun eater in his Fortress of Solitude, I ask you?! Plus Quietly's art is just fantastic to look at, his Lois...meow. wink

I also picked up Superman #226 recently as it was a crucial IC tie in, and I was quite impressed. The intercutting of the fight with E2's past made for a compelling read, and I really got the sense that this could very well be the battle for the end of the world. Great stuff.

 

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Darth-Lando 
Registered: Aug '02
19353_Lando Calrissian
Date Posted: 2/13/06 1:46pm Subject: RE: General Superman Discussion Thread
gabe posted:
Red Son is probably my favorite Superman series.


I definetly second that. I'm not that big of a Superman fan but Red Son was IMMENSLY entertaining. Mark Millar did a superb job. When I read it I must have flip-flopped on my view of Superman as either Hero or Villan every 3 pages or so!

 

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