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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790761084
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
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: May 01, 2001
Running Time: 496 minutes
Sales Rank: 10525
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1978
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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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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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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Richard Donner's 1978 Superman movies, Superman: The Movie and Superman II are clearly the best 2 superhero movies ever made, but its a real shame that only the first movie was made into a special edition while the others didn't get the same star treatment when transferred to DVD format.
Superman: The Movie got a great DVD release which includes a total re-mastered movie with superb picture quality and presented in true widescreen format, including 8 new added scenes, 5.1 super surround ... Read More
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Following in the footsteps of the great italian movie maker predecessor Cecile B. DeMille (and Dino DeLaurentiis as well) who are known for opting on big budgeted colossal motion picture productions- Alexander Salkind came up with these SUPERMAN Movies that held an influential landmark amongst high-explosive infested movies of the current era, cashing on greatly humongous situational storylines, mainly with the first 1978 blockbuster fresh from the frenzy of the fever that moviegoers encountered with ... Read More
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