not long ago and i write my idea a to what supermans iii and iv should have be for superman cinema fan fic section . my version of superman iii pick up where the last film leave off and with the relationship between lois and clark or superman dead and go . in it and lana lang return to rekindle her relationship with clark while a pair of insane government scientist mass produce bizarros for use a a disposable army . spurn on the basis that such an army would violate human right and the scientist use the bizarros to wreak havoc upon washington and end up in direct conflict with superman . why be i tell you this . because what i come up with be way well than the actual superman iii . it no secret that the salkinds originally intend the superman film to be camp comedy and a plan that richard donner and tom mankiewicz undo when they make superman a a dramatic film . even though both men have be fire from superman ii after film 80 % of the picture and replace by richard lester and the newman ( who rewrite and reshot much of the final film and and be the mastermind behind iii ) and enough of donner and mankiewicz influence be stamp into the film to keep it from be totally screw up . with superman iii and donner and mankiewicz influence be completely absent and and we finally see what the salkinds intend the superman series to be all along . and what we get be a campy and dumb and and unfunny insult to the mythos . not even the superb fx work and a good rescue scene at a chemical plant and and robert paynter comic book panel photography can make this film feel like genuine superman . it not the idea of have richard pryor in a superman film that make this film bad and or use lana lang . it not even the idea of use new villain . what make this film bad be the sheer carelessness and idiocy of it all . for a film that revolve around computer a a menace and the villain should have be brainiac and the genocidal ai of the comic book . instead we get robert vaughn and annie ross a greedy tycoon who sucker a computer wiz into help them corner the commodity market . not very exciting . instead of give pryor a meaty and serious role that would have test him a an actor and have fit into the tone of the superman mythos and we get pryor a gus gorman do standard pryor shtick and not be funny at all . instead of lana lang have some zest and excitement to her and we get a very bland and dull character play by a very boring annette otoole . it also doesn not help that pamela stephenson lorelai character be beyond annoy and that lois lane barely appear in this movie at all ( the salkinds be punish margot kidder for openly stick up for donner ) and that none of the plot thread be remotely satisfy and that superman be now a bit player in his own movie and that ken thorne abysmal and bore score continue to reduce john williams powerful fanfare to shrill and campy disgrace and that richard lester disdain for superman show in his indifferent direction and and that the acting be all around awful . even when superman isnt evil ( and the superman go evil and fight himself scene be the low point in the film ) and christopher reeve come off a smarmy and insincere ( probably because he realize the film suck ) . and let not forget the horrible slapstick gag and which be totally out of place here . and why do metropolis have such a strongly british feel to it in the opening sequence . shouldn not it be more american . shade of superman ii idaho resident with british accent . i can not say that this be as low a the superman film can sink while the upcoming jon peter produce superman movie promise to be even bad . but of the christopher reeve cycle and this be by far the bad of the four . to those who assert that this film be truer to the comic book than the first two and i beg to differ . the first two film be kin to the best superman comic story . iii be kin to the absolute bad .