I have not seen Superman Returns and have no desire to, but I think it is a big mistake to have a film act as continuation of an earlier film done with a completely different cast. You can get away with having Roger Moore's James Bond visit the grave of Tracy from "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" but for Superman you can't do it today and continue off the Reeve films IMO any more than you could have "Force 10 From Navarone" be a true sequel to "Guns Of Navarone" if you were going to have Robert Shaw in Gregory Peck's old part (and no longer with the ability to speak German!).
I don't know how to make "fan cuts" beyond using the pause features of two cued up DVD machines at different points (and I really don't have the time or desire to do something professional) but two ways I will revisit both films in the future will be this way.
1-Watch the Lester cut up to the moment where the power restoration scene should be, switch to Donner just for that, and then back to Lester the rest of the way. I've always wondered if perhaps the impact would have been stronger if the *only* scene where we see Brando in II would be for that one sequence, and then the Lester cut in all respects would be satisfactory as a whole with just that one addition.
2-Watch the Donner cut all the way up to where the Lester ending should take over and see how that cut of the film gets improved by just starting with Superman returning the flag to the White House, the "mega-kiss" and the end.
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