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I love to access ham.

I must admit I don't care for ham.  Pork chops, yes.  Bacon, certainly.  Ribs?  Oh yeah.  But ham?  Bleck.

Alright, then -- I pick Superman and Superman II.

First things first, I'd have all that pseudo-messianic garbage Jor-El drones on-and-on about completely excised. Kal-El is a Moses figure, not a Jesus figure; Jor-El's purpose for sending him to Earth is to save his life, not to make him mankind's guardian angel.

All that shitty dialogue Jor-El mumbles during Kal-El's voyage through the void would be removed.

Any scenes of Clark displaying powers as a child would be removed, making it clear that his powers slowly developed over time as he grew older.

I'd have more scenes with Jonathan and Martha Kent added to the story, making it clear that Clark's human upbringing shaped him into the man he would become.

I'd remove the entire sequence with the Fortress of Solitude's creation and Jor-El's floating head brainwashing Clark for twelve years to turn him into Superman.

I'd cast Carrie Fisher as Lois Lane.

I'd tell Chris Reeve to play Clark as an average "boy next door", not a clusmy dork, making it apparent that Clark is his "real" identity, not a disguise of Superman's.

I'd have Lex Luthor written as a dangerously serious, corrupt billionaire, not a goofy con artist.

I'd have Otis completely written out of the story.

I'd have that stupid real estate subplot excised.

From here on out, Superman would be merged with Superman II.

I'd have Zod, Ursa, and Non written as more serious foes, removing all the campy characterization and dialogue.

Since there's no Fortress of Solitude, Clark can't take Lois there or use its technology to remove his powers. To keep the "powerless Clark" subplot in there, though, I'd have Luthor expose him to a form of red kryptonite which would strip him of his powers.

Clark, now powerless, would reveal to Lois that he is Superman.

I'd have a subplot added to the film where Luthor, using the red kryptonite as leverage, enslaves Zod, Ursa, and Non into doing his will for him.

Now powerless and unable to stop Luthor and the Kryptonian villains from taking over the world, Clark (with Lois by his side) returns to Smallville, where he finds the green crystal that came with him in his ship. Now is when he goes up north and has the Fortress created, allowing him to learn of his Kryptonian heritage and use the Fortress technology to restore his powers.

Working together, Lois and Clark manage to steal the red kryptonite from Luthor and lure the Kryptonian villains to the Fortress, where Lois exposes them to the red kryptonite -- stripping them of their powers -- and Clark sends them back to the Phantom Zone. From there, Luthor then would be arrested and incarcerated, awaiting trial.

To preserve the relationship and trust that has developed between Clark and Lois, I'd totally toss out that stupid amnesia kiss.

Oh, and finally -- no Clark flying around the Earth at FTL speeds to reverse time. This -- and all other Silver/Bronze Age-type feats -- would be removed to make it clear that the character has limitations and isn't all-powerful.

       This dovetails with my conviction that the principals of prepro should examine new projects with the eye of a fan-editor. They should ask themselves "When this is through, what might the skilled fan-editors wish to change?" Pre-emptive fan-editing.

      The summer big budget films I've seen: MAD MAX, AVENGERS ULTRON, TOMORROWLAND, and SAN ANDREAS.

      I'd leave MAD MAX and ULTRON as-is

      SAN ANDREAS had good bones, but a little too over-the-top for my tastes in DisasterPorn. But everything could be fixed with some clever edits and a little FX.

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     I can't see myself green-lighting the hard opening into the over-the-top action sequence  with the blonde in the car. I'd cut it in favor of a DIE HARD type of putting the chess pieces in place before the game starts. Uneventful interview on the helicopter to quake scientists to helicopter base to dam test to home alone and then the dam quake for the first big action sequence. The LA quake sequence could be altered to an accelerated save the wife to phone call from daughter to "I'll kill you" boyfriend to gearbox malfunction to crash near an LA mall to drive the truck to skydive school with a voice-over that the plane belongs to a friend. Eliminating a few other hokey lines and questionable decisions would produce what I know and like in catastrophe movies.

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      I am ENDLESSLY FASCINATED by TOMORROWLAND! It's an ASTOUNDING achievement! It presents the ENTIRE program in a thoroughly Disneyfied form and with the ALL-TIME GREATEST acts of projection and blame-shifting.

      A younger George-"Frank" in 1965, festooned in an Italian flag, aproached by a "programmed" child-slave-"robot"-recruiter (but they want you to know that it's okay because they are just "souless" creations sent from the future), taken to the 'Land of Tomorrow' that is only opened with a "golden ticket" to the hyper-elite with critical advanced skills(no screentime available for the platinum and then diamond tickets), these elites are assured their own "souless" "programmed" child-"robot"-slaves, it's suggested but don't suggest that it is Frank who is the super-genius that has the tower and all-seeing eye built (but you should know that he had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with it being put to evil purposes.) 

      No, you see, it is the Northwest European Protestanty characters who believe in and promote all the destructive horrors of the tower and eye. Frank and his sort have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with it. But don't fret, the WASPY traitors will get theirs.

     But a handful of that evil ilk will be allowed to pass into the land of tomorrow. The "special" ones who happen to be nubile young blondes who will maintain a positive mental attitude under any circumstances to encourage the other hyper-elites with their knowledge of "how things work" as evidenced by their willingness to enjoy wild rides with old elites in bathtubs and on top of rockets as well as being adept at working large bulbous red knobs with their fingers(actually, I think each of these things in particular were meant as off-color jokes snuck in)

     The ULTIMATE EVIL AND STUPIDITY, the ones most responsible for the ills of the world in transition, are the nattering-nabobs-of-negativism WHO WOULD DARE to suggest that the only place these enlightened elites could take us is to an AGONIZING ORWELLIAN HELL.

    Anyway, the director is one of the very best at 'talk-move-chew gum at the same time' presentation that I have seen. He was doubtless hemmed-in by the agenda he had to display. There were, however, at least for me, a couple of startling unforced errors:  

      Show, don't tell. I can't see myself green-lighting the opening retrospective voice-over narration. Why tell the audience that everything turned out dandy, right out of the gate??? Was it really necessary to club the moviegoers over their heads with the main theme and moral of the tale when it is dealt with very well throughout the story? Why not let the mystery unfold? Just young Frank to video of little Casey with the time stamp to teen Casey on the cycle. I thought the Athena death sequence was obviously overlong. Maybe most or all the the flash backs could have been moved to the truck sequence "He's special too" or cut all together. This and any other trims to move things along. A couple more quick shots of exterior Tomorrowland showing that all was restored to former glory might be a slight improvement.

I'd fix all the miscasting of movies of Broadway musicals.  Hollywood as a long history of cast big name stars when the actors that played the role on the stage would be much better.

I would also redo Guys and Dolls and take all the songs that weren't originally in the Broadway version and add in all the songs from Broadway version that were originally cut from the movie.

I would also like to erase the PT from existence.

Warbler said:

I would also like to erase the PT from existence.

 I used to think that way, but honestly Hal9000's edit's make them worth existing.  Maybe not cinema masterpieces, but worth existing.

ok, maybe I'll redo them instead.