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Also interesting that this and Masters of the Universe were released to theaters within two weeks of each other. Seems like they were probably chasing much of the same audience. Surprised Cannon didn't spread them out a bit if they thought they had two masterpieces of the 80's on their hands. ;)

Wikipedia has a longer quote from the Reeve autobiography about the film: In his autobiography, Still Me, Reeve described filming the movie: The Cannon business model seemed to be quantity over quality, as well as a P.T. Barnum approach to film promotion:

Seems like that's what they should have done, if the sequel was shooting mostly at the same time as the original, rather than doing a cut-and-paste of the planned end for Part II onto Part I. It could have been a "...to be Continued" like Back to the Future II and III, or a "Superman will...

I'm not sure that I've ever seen it, either. I just picked up the older blu-ray anthology at Big Lots the other day, so I'll have to remedy that at some point. With the big budget cut, I'm surprised the cast went along with filming. Seems like they all could have pulled out and made the case...