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7. Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

While technically an alternate version of Superman II, The Richard Donner Cut isn't just the usual extended director's cut of an existing film - replacing the Richard Lester additions with unused footage originally shot by Donner, it is for all intents and purposes a totally different movie. Much of the out-and-out silliness that Lester added is gone - Lois finds out Clark's secret identity with a gun rather than a bearskin rug and the Battle of Metropolis isn't just comedic pratfalls - which means the film's tone is more in keeping with what preceded it and has a greater balance between the outer threat of Zod and Superman's more internalised journey. Still, for all its improvements, it isn't perfect. By the nature of being pieced together from decades old footage and not having its namesake involved at all, this is less the perfect Superman II, but rather a glimpse to what might have been. Still, had it been released in 1980, we could have a very different superhero landscape now.