Returns Internet Archive _verified_: Superman

In the summer of 2006, director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns soared into theaters with a $270 million budget and the weight of Christopher Reeve’s cape on its shoulders. The critical reception was... complicated. Roger Ebert praised it. Others called it soulless. It made money, but not Superman money.

It started with a glitch in the "Returns" metadata. A young archivist named Elias was scrubbing old petabytes when he noticed a file size that kept growing. The 154-minute movie was now a 15-terabyte sentient algorithm. superman returns internet archive