Im watching your cut right now and reeally enjoying it. You asked for feedback so here are theits i didnt like as much.A lways feel negative to say what you dont like so please take that if i havent commented on something its cause i loved it and thought 90% of it was great ! Also bear in mind its been years since ive seen the original so i going from memory.
* = major points for me
OVERALL
My overall comment is that i wold have preferred more edits of cd1 and some of the other stuff put back in cd2. I also havent had time to read all the pages on this thread yet, im still plowing thru them.
SPECIFICS
- i thought the first half of the movie (cd1) was seemlessly put together, i personally would prefer if it was edited down a bit as it takes quite a long time for us to get to the real main part of the story (zods arrival), not sure what edits u could make. (The flying scene with louis goes on for a while tho, particularly as we get another scene of this later on as they fly after niagra falls). But i just genuinally felt it needs alittle more cutting down to get the flow in line with modern cinema.
* - you can tell you've paused frames for us to read the paper headlines at the start of cd2 it looks odd (unless this is a glitch on my copy)
- you dont explain how lex luthor finds the north palace. Not sure how u can include it without the prison break tho. As an aside,i never liked how he "magically" picks the crystal telling him about zod, in the original doesnt i take him some more time to find it ?
- i like the jump from the scene with zod et al burning the snake (15.25 on disc 2) with the snake on fire to the fire atniagra falls but it feels a bit inserted there. ie very short scene with no real plot furtherence. shouldnt this be part of when they come out of the water (as original?) ?
* - why do u edit the krypton female arm wrestling the guy in the cafe? it doesnt explain why he gets thrown thru the window. also by editing the scenes there we dont really see zod getting increasingly impatient with weak humans, he just jumps to get "bored" with humans. It seems to jump too quickly to the army arriving.
* - the gap between superman losinghis powers and wishing to regain them now seems too short, perhaps of rediting could suggest a longer passage of time?
- at 1:09(cd2) i would go straight from "good morning metropolis" to "just minutes ago" as the guy isnt a great actor nd this make sit seem to flow better in my view.
I LOVE the new ending (removal of time trvael and kiss, set up for the (awful) superman returns).
* Only commentis please "remove the to be conitNued".
I hope u dont mind my suggestions. Its nearly my perfect version of superman ut if u dont agree with some of my comments then i will hapilly live with the nearly perfect version ;)