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After more than a decade of the decidedly gloomy Snyderverse, James Gunn's charming crowd-pleaser "Superman" has made DC movies fun again. Ignoring the 1940s serial and movies in which Superman appears but wasn't the main character, Gunn's "Superman" is the seventh live-action adaptation of the character, and while it was never going to match the legendary status of Richard Donner's seminal 1978 film, it has at least given us an original vision of the Man of Steel.

The same can't exactly be said of 2006's "Superman Returns." The film was essentially director Bryan Singer's ode to the Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve films, and actually functioned as a direct sequel to 1980's "Superman II." That said, among Superman movies , "R

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