The Super Duper Extreme Deluxe Ultimate collection coming out next Tuesday of the Chris Reeve Superman films, with a version of Superman II that I am told is almost a different film, both the less popular sequels are also being brought out.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) had its budget cut at the last minute and flopped in front of test audiences. The movie went from 134mins to 87 mins. So, of course the movie didn't make much sense. The plot was about a nuclear man that Lex Luthor made to fight Superman. In the original cut of the film Lex had a failed attempted who got his ass beat by Sups. None of Nuclear Man #1 made it to the final cut of the film. So basically there is about close to 30 mins cut out of the movie. For additional info. on him click here.
All the extra footage has been missing for a long time, but supposedly they are including what deleted footage they "found" as a deleted scenes feature on the final of the Superman films.
The original nuclear man looked a lot different than the blonde haired guy you are familiar with (okay I bet no one watched this film in a long time) he looked like a gay 80s cluber. Very gay.
Anyway a scene has already made it to YOUTUBE. I really hope that the music hear just was in place till the real score was added considering the film was cut to pieces, but than again, why in gods name did they show at test screening with this scene in this condition? What was there an ice cream truck near by?
Anyway, this was one of the many scenes fans of the series have been waiting to see for a long time. But, my god, this was supposed to be one of the cooler ones. Sups throwing down with nuclear man 1. It's just awful! Why is Nuclear Man acting like a gay Charlie Chaplin ?
Anyway I can't wait to see all the extra scenes of both II and IV, but based on this scene here I am pretty sure I could do without a extended 134 cut of IV. Here it is folks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC00OjEIYls
2 comments:
This is directed at Keith's coment called super silly.Even though we agree that superman 4 is silly,keep the anti-gay comments out of your opinion.It's offensive and has nothing to do with the movie.
Even thought the deleted scenes are campy I would rather have all those scenes added back in the movie so the story makes sense.
About 45 mins are on the new issue DVD. I am debating on actually buying the movie even though I already have the release from a few years ago. For some reason NETFLIX doesnt have it. I have not been able to find any of the other deleted scenes on YOUTUBE yet.
It wasn't anti Gay. I have gay friends. People need to lighten up. Didn't mean to start a big deal over this.
"Destory This Man!"
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