Overzealous editing, or by editors who don't know the whole movie.

In the first (1977) "Superman" film w/Christopher Reeve, there is a moment at the climax where Superman is trying to stop the missile that is hurtling toward Hackensack, New Jersey. He was in Metropolis, which we all know is located where New York City is in our world, in the previous scene when Valerie Perrine's character sets him free. And the missiles, we are shown, were fired out near Kansas, one going east toward NJ, one west. Yet we see him flying *after* the missile headed for NJ -- chasing it. How did it get past him?

Well, when the movie was first shown on network TV in the '80s, they restored several scenes that had been cut for the theatrical release. One such scene shows Superman hanging in air, ready to catch the eastbound missile -- and it swerves to avoid him (which might be a whole new "senseless" scene right there). Then we see him chasing it.

But it was cut, like an earlier scene where, as he marches through a dim passage on the way to Lex Luthor's hideout, a machine gun fires at him and we see the tracer bullets bouncing off him. How could you have a Superman movie without that? Yet it too was cut.

Anybody know if these scenes are on the DVD?

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