You are spot on with this review. I did a video about a year ago about this collection where I spoke about how WB neglected to include the Special Edition of Superman: The Movie as a 4K release; just to include all of those features and the commentary from the late Richard Donner & the late Tom Mankewicz. As far as the extended TV cut, I respectfully disagree with you. I think that if you are of a certain age where you remember seeing that TV cut when it premiered on ABC in 1982. If you weren’t, then in that sense, I do agree with you. But it is cool to see this cut and to see what was reused for the Special Edition and what scenes made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Not sure when you last watched your DVD collection, but I had to update to the Blu-ray set because the You Will Believe documentary has disc rot (the disc looks fine but when you play it it skips over Chapter 3) There was a DVD set before the Ultimate Collection set. You can see it in the interviews with Illya Salkind. It's 4 disc snapper cases in a thin box. Only the first film had bonus features & it was the Special Edition cut. The Blu-ray set actually has more bonus features, msinly just the Original Opening for Superman Returns which for some reason wasn't on the DVD. The digital code that comes with this set actually comes with the Extended TV Cut as a bonus feature at least if you connect Movies Anywhere. The Supergirl Blu-ray is also missing a very minor unimportant feature from the 2 disc Anchor Bay DVD set. Aa well as booklet
Great video, nice to see a focus on special features. Super weird seeing a steelbook just for the paper extras. I think the Anthology set is the closest thing to a complete set but it’s just blu-ray and I believe OoP now.
@@Soundout12I actually own that set and I just received the new standard 4K set. Although, my question is, why would you say we wouldn’t need to have the 3 hour tv cut of Superman the movie? That cut was never seen before on any release except that two disc release. I personally already own it, so I’m not that worried about it. But it would have been really nice if they had included that in the 4K set at least in blu ray form. That way we would have every cut of that movie in one set.
This set is a mess 1978 Superman is my favorite movie of all times and it looks really really bad on 4K I don't know what happened Superman 2 Superman 2 Superman 3 and Superman 4 look fantastic and by the way Superman returns is a sequel to Superman 2 it's a terrible movie we don't need that . for whatever reason the 1978 Superman just looks really bad the color timings off the Blu-ray from 2011 looks way better now if you're talking about video quality wise the extended TV version has the best looking video picture of the 78 Superman however I'm not a fan of that particular edit I like the theatrical version but it's still nice to have and the reason this is happening in my opinion is because of Warner Brothers didn't decide to remaster the 78 version because they're probably going to do that for the 50th release and approximately 4 years but yeah this is a total mess it's so unfortunate .
nice review, its a great set, i to wish it was more complete, i have all the sets mentioned, takes up a lot of real estate on the shelf, its weird to have a steelbook with no discs, missed opportunity there
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