Supergirl DVD extras

Cause let's face it, the movie isn't that much of a draw. My brother has reviewed some material here. I'll say that the documentary on the making of, and the film commentary are hillarous in that unintended way that makes it all the more funny. I don't come down too hard on the last two Superman films or Supergirl. They just didn't know what they were doing. Converting comic books to film was pioneered by Superman in way that after Spiderman/X-men/Daredevil just looks hokey. Those later Superman films made the mistakes that later comic adaptors learned from. The director of the first one and three quarters of the superman films didn't have a better sence of translating comics to film, but for reasons more happy coincidence than anything, his vison worked for superman. Hence the first two Superman films are good. As an example, check out some of the extras on the first Superman disk, in which in tests, Lois identifies Clark's identity by shooting him with blanks and judges Clarks reaction to being "shot". Much more the clever reporter than the hand in the fire that the replacement director on II replaced it with. Richard Donner's removal from the Superman series seems to have doomed it. Its his work directing the first one and three quarters of the pictures that we enjoyed. I think that in part, he is a good director, and in part he was lucky that what he wanted to do worked. No one knew how to make the translation from comics to film, but Donner was a good bet to have a good idea. He had worked on four episodes of the Twilight Zone in the 60's, did much direction for the series The Fugative, and just before making Superman had made the Omen. All work that while not in the comic book venue shares some qualities and works in related genres. As a final note, twenty years later, Donner produced X-Men.