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Checkout FunnyFact.com | SuperHeroBooks - The Complete Superman Collection
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List Price: $52.98
Our Price: $17.99
Your Save: $ 34.99 ( 66% )
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790761084
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0790761084
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-05-01
Running Time: 496
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Summary: The Complete Supermen Collection
Comment: The Complete Superman Collection set of DVD movies are fine quality and would recommend them.
Ron
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Summary: Super as always
Comment: Firstly I love the old styled face of these DVD's. Secondly its nice to have a complete Christopher Reeve superman collection.
Superman the movie is the best followed by Superman II. The romance between Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane is truly heart warming. The best movie collection ever.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: This set was supposed to have the Christopher Reeve "Superman 1-4" movies, but #3 was missing and instead, there were 2 #2s. It was especially bad because the movies were a gift from "Santa" for my 6-year old son. Further, the seller could not send me a #3 replacement, but offered to refund me $9. However, i still have to go buy #3 on my own.
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Summary: Wait until November
Comment: On November 28 two better versions of this collection will be released. The first is entitled "The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection". This release is listed on Amazon.
This version will have 8 disks including a 4 disk special release of Superman I with both the 1978 release and 2000 expanded edition (don't know how that relates to the longer TV version only shown twice). There will be a two disk version of Richard Lester's Superman II which will only contain one version, not the longer TV version (a darker film), which has not been rebroadcast. There will also be one disk versions of III and IV with some new special features. In the case of IV it is not clear whether it will be the version released in the US or the 20 minute longer version released in the rest of the world.
I and II will also have remastered productions of the Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons, long overdue since the special edition VHS versions of those cartoons (no longer available) were of superior quality to the DVD releases.
The four Superman movies as described above supposedly will also be released individually.
Most importantly, the long hoped-for Richard Donner's version of Superman II (a noticeably different movie from Superman II heretofore available) has been completed and will also be released seperately at the same time. This is not just a modified cut, but actually a noticeably different movie as Richard Donner had a different view of the basic story. For one thing, Marlon Brando as Jor-El has a major role in Richard Donner's version, while he was totally writtten out of Lester's intrepretation. Marlon Brando's appearance in Superman Returns was made up of alternate takes of what he did in Superman I. What is in Donner's Superman II has not been seen publicly before. Donner's Superman II is not planned to be part of the collection above. Superman Returns will also be a separate release in one and two disc versions, although this is not yet shown on Amazon
On November 28 the Ultimate Superman collection will also be released. it will include all of the above along with the Richard Donner cut of Superman II, the 2 disc version of Superman Returns and a host of special features. Not yet sure if Supergirl will be in the package, although a new release of that (not yet listed on Amazon) comes out the same day). Still some speculation if 13 or 14 discs.
There is reportedly another package, also called the Ultimate Superman Collection, that will come out the same day, consisting of 19 discs. Not sure what's on the extra discs relative to the US release. That version will be released abroad, not in the US, at least not now. Maybe later, after they've sold as many US versions as they can and want to see if they can sell the collection agian with these extra discs.
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Summary: Do not buy this set!
Comment: Wait till November this year because the Superman 14-Disc Collection is coming out. It will have extra scenes on Superman IV. All the Supes films will be on it like Superman, Superman 2, Superman 3, Superman 4, Supergirl, and Superman Returns. Nothing really exciting about this set. It was exciting the first day it came out but not much anymore. There's only extra features on Superman 1 but the rest of the series just has the trailers. You will get more extra features on the 14-Disc but do not buy this set.
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Editorial Reviews:
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With great aplomb--and the tag line "You'll Believe a Man Can Fly"--DC Comics' Superman met with movie magic in 1978. The film featured Oscar-winning flying effects, John Williams's soaring music, and an innovative title sequence, and audiences ate it up, along with its thrilling sequel. Director Richard Donner's casting of the then-unknown Christopher Reeve couldn't have been better--the towering Reeve fit the suit and cape masterfully, but his real weapon was making the bumbling Clark Kent into an endearing leading man instead of the dry counterpoint to the Man of Steel that Kent had been in earlier film versions. Although most critics lean toward Richard Lester's Superman II (1980) as the series high point, which offered an endearing love story between the Man of Steel and Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), Donner's first film also deserves just praise in setting the old-fashioned cornball tone for the series and providing Superman's backstory from planet Krypton (featuring a high-priced Marlon Brando as Superman's father). The last two sequels lose much of the magic: 1983's Superman III seems to have been produced only to showcase red-hot comic Richard Pryor as a computer hack turned supervillain, and Reeve himself came up with the story line for 1987's Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, a silly attempt to impart a meaningful message of nuclear disarmament. Throughout the films, the supporting cast is first-rate, with old pros like Valerie Perrine, Jackie Cooper, and Ned Beatty having a grand old time. Even better are the villains, especially Terence Stamp as General Zod and Gene Hackman in his lightest, funniest work ever as Lex Luthor. --Doug Thomas
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