Originally posted by: Doctor M
Lol.
I've been interested in this edit based only on your description of what you're doing.
I never found anything in the trailers that gave a sense of what's new/different (which is true for many edits).

Ok, I get you. Well I am withholding most of the changes just to keep things a surprise. That's why I released teasers instead of real trailers. Rather than give anything specific away, I decided to just explain my philosophy towards editing the movies. Basically its to cut out what is lame, campy, and unintentionally unfunny, if it isn't necessary to the plot. Remove any continuity errors. Re-edit scenes if it will intensify the mood or speed up the pace in the action sequences closer to what's expected in modern action films. Improve any effects that I can. Focus more on Kal-el's relationship with Jor-el. Try to bring the entire film down to under 3 hours. And do everything in such a way that someone who isn't very familiar with the movies won't notice that I did anything.

And since I didn't like the way either Superman 2 wrapped up, I created a new, darker ending that fits fairly well with Superman Returns.

I realeased the train chase clip mostly as an example of that philosophy, and to show that I know how to edit. Its good to hear that you didn't notice what was changed!

If you compare it to the original, you'll see that I removed the ugliest running shots. I ramped up the pace a bit, and edited it so that Clark cares about not being seen by the girl's mom. I also removed the sequence aboard the train because:

1. Unless she was blind the mom would have seen Cark, yet she says she doesn't believe the girl.
2. The mom calls the girl Lois. That would mean Los is around 8 or 10 years younger than Clark.
3. It bothers me when movies try to link characters together in the past for no good reason. Lois saw Clark when she was a kid, C3P0 was made by Darth Vader, etc. It just a directors wink at the audience and it pulls me out of a movie.
4. The father tells her she has a "writers gift for invention", another wink at the audience.

And then I released the "De-Fifed" clip just to prove that I could the effects.

I'm very hesitant about releasing anything else. But after the test screening this weekend, I guess I should probably post something new.