For anyone who wishes to watch Superman: the Movie on DVD, I strongly recommend watching the theatrical cut and using the Dolby 2.0 stereo audio mix, rather than the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mix. The disc that contains these features is available in two box sets: the Ultimate Collection and the Christopher Reeve Collection, both released in 2006. Unfortunately, neither the theatrical cut nor the 2.0 audio mix are available on the 2001 DVD, which reinserts deleted scenes into the film (incidentally, these scenes are amusing enough, but are ultimately pointless and detract from the pacing of the film). To compound the problem, the 2.0 mix was accidentally omitted from some early pressings of the 2006 disc.
If your version of Superman: the Movie has the option for Dolby 2.0, I strongly recommend using it, as it is the only way to experience the film in its original form. In order to create the 5.1 mix, the studio scrapped the original audio effects and replaced them with new ones, resulting in a jarring collision of 2001-era sound effects and 1978-era dialogue and visuals. The 2.0 version is a more seamless viewing experience and maintains the integrity of the original production.
You’re frickin’ slackin’, dawg. I think I understood every word you used in that latest post. Good work on shout-outs to ASS, It’s A Bird…, and Secret Identity. Where’s the love for Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, though? Or is that in The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told TRADE, BABY?
I wanted to recommend titles for the casual reader to pick up–meaning, stuff that you’d be likely to find in any major bookstore. The only widely available title I’m aware of that contains Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? is the Alan Moore collection, which is filled with mostly non-Superman stuff. I had to grudgingly leave it out of my recommendations, along with For the Man Who Has Everything.
I don’t think the Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told is a particularly great collection, but I decided to include it as it gives a brief example from several different eras of Superman comics. It also has Steranko’s Exile, which is one of my favorite Superman stories.
I had those same VHS tape when I was little. The one that sticks out the most from my memory is when Lex tries to destroy the world with a giant magnet. Those were the good ol’ days.
Ah, yes, “The Magnetic Telescope.” It wasn’t Lex; it was some other random mad scientist who was totally full of himself. Come to think of it, many of the classic Superman shorts had random mad scientists in them.
Ok ok yeah I remember it being like a telescope in a dome observatory, it’s been so long I forgot who it was and just assumed Lex. I was like 3 wearing my Superman PJs and watch that at my Grandma’s
Yeah, I was rocking the PJs as a three year old too. The Superman cartoons are actually in the public domain, which is why they were available on such a wide variety of cheap tapes (and are currently available on cheap DVDs). They’re also included as bonus features in the gigantic Superman movie box set, which is nice. I’m sure it cost WB nothing, but the versions are good quality.
I hope you do a series of blog posts in which you explain what you enjoy about Dragon Ball, and why you enjoy it.
Also, and not that I’m proud of it, I was in the same high school class as [media=youtube]POKrpzc99Yg"[/media]. Even if you will implement your policy of strong discretion on this topic, I am hopeful you will say something either funny or utterly pretentious (ideally, something funny and pretentious) about the Dragon Ball movie. I really want you to write something on the subject. Otherwise I don’t know if I will ever read anything ever again.
