Superman IV vs. Superman Returns

Hi there everyone! Ok, I'm making this editorial because to be quite frank...I've heard many people on here defend 'Superman Returns' and they defended it as a "great" film because to them it was better than "Superman IV" now I am NO 'Superman IV defender' i know the movie was a piece of sh!t heck, in one part of the movie you can see the wires holding up Chris Reeve as he flew. That is pathetic. Now on to my editorial...

I would just like to say that in the first place...Superman IV predates Superman Returns by TWENTY years...so really Superman Returns is EXPECTED to be better than Superman IV. I mean come on, with all the vast improvements in technology and source-material since the debut of "Superman IV" Superman Returns should have been LEAPS and BOUNDS beyond 'Superman IV'

The best comparison I could come up with for the relationship between 'Superman Returns' and 'Superman IV' is from the Bat-franchise- 'Batman Begins' and 'Batman and Robin'

I use them as a comparison because both 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace' and "Batman and Robin' are the 4th films in their respective franchises...and both are considered by many the WORST of the franchises that effectively KILLED the characters on screen for a period of years. While 'Batman Begins' and 'Superman Returns' were meant to break new ground for the franchises after their 4th-film-failures.

But you compare them and you can easily see that 'Batman Begins' was FAAAAAR superior to 'Batman and Robin' in every way imaginable.

You look now at 'Superman IV' and 'Superman Returns' and the pathetic thing is...most people are stalemated as to which film was actually better. That is pathetic. There should be no question about it- 'Superman Returns' SHOULD HAVE BEEN WAAAAAY better than 'Superman IV'

Here I will begin to state my reasons as to WHY I think 'Superman IV' was actually better than 'Superman Returns'

1) Superman fought a REAL villain (yes...Nuclearman was lame as hell...but I still think that was better than what we got in Superman Returns- Kevin Spacey and Kumar) 'Superman IV' also had real action. My whole point is, no matter how cheesy and corny the fights were back then, AT LEAST he fought.

2) In 'Superman IV' Lex Luthor had finally evolved a bit. He finally moved beyond the petty real-estate swindles and decided to enter the Nuclear Arms race and sell weapons. In 'Superman Returns' he reverted back to his petty and lame real-estate plans. That is pitiful.

3) 'Superman IV' had a much more meaningful story- it was about ending nuclear war across the globe. Superman Returns had no meaningful story at all...so... Superman had a bastard child and ditched it for 5 years. WOW...what a prick. My biggest beef with Bryan Singer is the fact that he actually WORSENED the tired stereotype of Superman being a "boring hero" that is why 'BrIan Stinker' failed so miserably. He has ZERO respect for the source-material and ZERO respect for the comicbook fans.

Now let's examine these pictures shall we?


Ahhhh, Superman fighting. That is refreshing ;D