Just finished watching the Donner cut of Superman 2 on DVD.....

I thought it was great - it was just a shame they had to use some of the theatrical release material - they at least managed to cut out much of the cheese from those scenes.

The Pre-credit sequence is a little off but it soon picks up from there - a real shame this wasn't the way things were meant to be!

Mike

When did it come out?

In the UK, monday - so it should be out in the US I would have thought.


It's a twin pack DVD with both the Lester and Donner cuts.

Edit: seems its not out in the US yet but you'll be able to get just the donner cut on its own instead of the twin pack!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IJ79WU/ref=pd_cp_d_title/002-4047303-6571225

I ordered the big boxed set which includes the Donner Cut of S:2 for my son as a birthday/Christmas present for this December. He's really big in to Supes and I figured he'd really enjoy it.

There's a "premiere" screening for charity of the Donner Cut at a theater here in L.A. on Saturday.

Theres loads of extras with the Lester cut and a commentary from the producers.


They seemed to love the Lester 'humour' - I see why whem during the commentary one of them says "...He destroys the whole bloody set, I mean I say bloody but there isn't any bloody, the set isn't bloody - it's just a figure of speech!" - he seemed to think that was hillarious!

I got the impression that the cast weren't too impressed with Lester - you get the odd glimpse during a making of section.

Mike