I can't wait!!!

OhPleaseohpleaseohplease

I can't wait, either.

FINALLY!

I've never seen Superman, and I really don't know if I'd enjoy it, but it looks like this DVD is a must for me, too.

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
The ORIGINAL mix? I was disappointed by the sound quality on the expanded Superman album (they didn't have access to the original masters or something like that). Maybe the DVD has better sound? And 10 alternate tracks?!

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As is very often the case with film music, the session masters were lost or destroyed. The original Warner release was a copy of the LP master. The Rhino release used a mix prepared for the film (and the LP master for some tracks).

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Originally posted by Shaun Rutherford:
This pisses me off. Why couldn't the people making the damned SOUNDTRACK find these "original mix" tapes? Same thing with North By Northwest.

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Well, because that leaves me the fun of creating my own 2 CD set!

But I think Rhino DID have the original masters for NBNW, it's just that the technical equipment has been improved during the last years and allowed the producers of the DVD to make the score sound better.

Fart: I haven't seen it, but it looks like I will soon. Unless it's very different from what I expect, I doubt I'll like it though - not my type of movie.

Close to it movies like BATMAN are nothing less than mediocre.

BTW, I like the score a lot, but don't rank it as high as most of here do. The second half of the original album wasn't that fascinating, and the expanded edition only added a couple of really good cues.

(I absolutely love certain parts of the score, though, like the main title, the flying music, the Americana tracks (very reminiscent of The Cowboys, one of Williams' very best scores), and particularly Fortress of Solitude).

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Originally posted by A.G:
Yep, this is the best comic-book movie, outstanding.
I didn't think there was anything wrong with the Rhino sound quality considering the age of the material, Star Wars: ANH sounded no better IMO.

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Well, Star Wars (and sequals) is another case where the session masters were destroyed (although in the case of Empire, a backup copy survived).

It's a tragedy.

If you don't collect classical, let me tell you that there are some recordings from the late '50s that sound great, and MANY recordings from the '60s and '70s that sound like they were recorded yesterday. Great results can be obtained when the carefully preserved first-generation tape is digitally stored and remixed.

A.G., I think Superman's sound isn't as good as Star Wars, at least not in the louder parts. Star Wars sounds much clearer, which remains one of the most important aspects of sound quality for me (I still find the sound quality on Phantom Menace bad).

---Superman Re-Release: Here's a piece of news that'll get fans excited before the DVD release mid-year:

"Warner's has decided to do a test theatrical release of Superman: The Movie special edition in San Antonio, Texas the weekend of March 23rd. If it's successful in this relative market they're going to go wide with it as they did with Exorcist. Needless to say, Donner and crew are trying our best to get everyone hyped for it".---

I live in San Antonio and urge anyone close to here to come down in March. We cant let The Exorcist beat Supes!!!!