Dear Ðìçk:
No, I’m not being insulting. In the intro to SUPERMAN II: THE RICHARD DONNER CUT, you say that your friends call you Ðìçk. So I’m speaking to you now, as a friend.
You blew it.
I mean, so much of your version of S2 was vastly superior to the original theatrical, Richard Lester release, that it’s staggering. Ill-timed humor was removed, scenes with the Kryptonian villains that went on endlessly were quite correctly trimmed. The revise of the Niagra Falls reveal of Clark’s dual identity was a vast improvement. Everything was better, better, and–to use, shocking, the double comparative–more better The sequences with Brando, the explanation (at last!) of how Clark regained his powers after tossing them away. I had a minor quibble when Superman’s defiant “General…would you care to step outside?” was replaced with a different and much less effective line, but as I said…minor.
And then…then, God help us…came the end. Which I will now blow below because there’s no other way to address it:
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