Everybody loves Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie, but as the franchise went on, they got less and less universally-beloved.
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It started early: In Superman II, Donner was booted from the film and it was finished by other filmmakers who were favored by frugal studio bosses. These days, there are two versions of Superman II legally available on the home video marked: the theatrical and “Donner Cut” versions.
Neither is completely perfect, as the folks at CinemaSins were keen to point out:
…But, hey. At least most of those jokes haven’t been told a thousand times recently like the Man of Steel videos all over YouTube So…win?