Believe it or not, there was a time in our not long ago in which movie studios were reluctant to make blockbuster superhero films, who thought that the general public had been fickle in terms of whether they would go to the theaters with consistency. Jon Schnepp's somewhat amateurish documentary (it is a crowd-funded effort made on a shoestring) takes a penetrating look at one such potential studio gamble, Superman Lives, which was to be directed in 1998 by the only director of the past decade to make a superhero franchise work, Tim Burton, who directed the first two Batman films, the first which would become a pop culture phenomenon in 1989.