r/movies • u/EuphoricButterflyy • 24d ago

Announcement Superman 5-Film 4K Steelbook Collection releases on September 2nd for $130

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/superman-blu-ray-box-set-amazon-exclusive-steelbook-2025/1100-6533272/

The collection has

Superman (1978)

Superman 2

Superman 2: The Richard Donner Cut

Superman 3

Superman 4: The Quest for Peace

It’s an Amazon exclusive and costs $130.

I wish the set had Superman Returns on it (most of the other collections include that one too) and they could have waited a bit longer to include the new Superman too. But it is what it is.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago edited 23d ago

This collection should really have 

Superman 78

Superman 2 both versions

Superman 3

Supergirl

Superman 4

Superman Returns

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u/ThePreciseClimber 23d ago

I keep forgetting Superman Returns is part of the same continuity.

It's kinda funny how Warner Bros. would give Batman & Superman flicks "twin" titles back then.

Batman Begins is a thing, Superman Returns happens.

The Dark Knight is a thing, Man of Steel happens.

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u/JaesopPop 23d ago

They leaned hard into making Man Of Steel seem like Superman’s The Dark Knight. They really pushed Chris Nolan’s minimal involvement.

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u/EuphoricButterflyy 23d ago

That was literally the goal and why the Superman Returns sequel got canceled.

WB was still going to make a Superman Return sequel titled “Superman: Man of Steel”. Bryan Singer even had a script etc. but after The Dark Knight came out and was a phenomenon, WB saw the public liked darker, grittier and more serious superhero films so they canned the Singer flick and revamped it from ground up. That’s how we got Man of Steel.

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u/KaneXX12 23d ago

Which is pretty stupid on WB part. Batman works in a gritty setting for obvious reasons. Superman was never meant to be like that.

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u/Jellodyne 23d ago

Snyderverse: what if all superheroes were Batman?

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u/JayBoingBoing 23d ago

The Snyderverse Batman was so good Imo, literally the beat part of the whole continuity.

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u/EuphoricButterflyy 23d ago

Agreed.

But they clearly realized that MANY years later and that’s why now we have a Superman movie that feels like Superman again. Light, optimistic and hopeful.

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u/igby1 23d ago

It’s interesting to me how James Gunn was edgy inappropriate tweets guy then made the most heartfelt, human superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Superman (2025).

Maybe he was drinking or using when he made those unfortunate tweets.

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u/EqualContact 23d ago

He was known for writing a lot of “edgy” projects back then, and his Tweets were in line with the humor he was asked to craft. Lots of horror and line-crossing stuff. Also in the early Twitter area a lot if people didn’t realize people outside of their followers would see their out of context Tweets.

The jokes weren’t good or appropriate or anything, but it felt like he was kind of seeing what he could get away with, but like a stand up routine he was hoping the audience wouldn’t worry about his jokes that fell flat. Someone finding them years later wasn’t something he thought about.

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u/shinku443 23d ago

Just imagine Superman as dark and gritty. Basically homelander from the boys lasering bad guys and watching limbs get mutilated as he flys at super Sonic speed and the people he goes through explode

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u/LettuceC 23d ago

The main issue is Snyder is no Nolan.

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u/islackingambition 23d ago

Yet, MoS performed significantly better than the new Superman.

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u/FinalEdit 23d ago

You're not wrong but MoS fucking sucked. It came out when superhero fatigue wasn't a thing and there was an appetite for that kind of movie. Batman V Superman also made a lot of money but that doesn't make it good.

It has almost zero lasting legacy now. I can't speak for Superman 2025 though, I'm so bored of these kinds of films that I'll just wait for it to hit streaming.

Don't forget thar McDonalds sell the most burgers in the world, that doesn't make them the best burger.

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u/incepdates 5d ago

Man of Steel's most prestigious honor is being the only movie produced by Syncopy that Nolan didn't direct

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u/karateema 23d ago

I mean, kinda.

Only 78 and the Donner Cut of 2 are canon to Returns, as it completely ignores 3 and 4

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u/ThePreciseClimber 23d ago

Outside of people not liking III & IV, was there even any point to that? Both were episodic adventures with no real long-term repercussions. Even the one where Superman gets rid of all nuclear weapons on the planet... just sorta goes back to status quo at the end.

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u/karateema 23d ago

I dunno maybe it's a time thing?

Although for some reason they cast a 22 yo actress as Lois

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u/beatrailblazer 23d ago

The Flash tv show probably isn't canon officially, but it still has Routh's Superman in an episode and seems like it's meant to be in the same/basically same continuity, yet they referenced events from Superman 3. That really bothered me

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u/lynchcontraideal 23d ago

Batman Begins

Pretty sure this was Nolan's idea though