Superman (1978)

3 audio problems - chronological order

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Directed by: Richard Donner

Starring: Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-fi

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Audio problem: In the plane, when the Captain says "I'm not too god, what do you think" his lips aren't moving.

Sacha ★

Audio problem: When Lex is hiding the kryptonite in the chest, Superman walks towards him and says, "You diseased maniac! Did you really think you could hide it from me by encasing it in lead?" but his lips are not moving.

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Audio problem: While flying with Superman, Lois falls down and starts to shout. When he grabs her, her mouth closes slightly and her expression changes, but the loud crying continues.

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Mistakes

Plot hole: After Superman has reversed time the Hoover Dam reverts to its previous undamaged state as it should, but Jimmy Olsen should then have been replaced back on the dam. Instead he interrupts the potential kiss between Lois and Superman and complains of being abandoned by Superman in the desert.

skeffderry

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Suggested correction: Superman is moving at speeds fast enough to turn back time. He can spend 5 seconds to yank Jimmy away from the top of a dam he knows is going to be destroyed just to be safe in case he can't actually stop it all from happening again.

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Quotes

Superman: I'm here to fight for truth, justice and the American way.

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Trivia

Trivia: To get the muscular build required to play Superman Christopher Reeve went on a training regime supervised by David Prowse who played Darth Vader in the first Star Wars trilogy.

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Questions

Question: One thing I don't understand about the movie is why kryptonite is so harmful (almost making him drown in a pool), yet he was born there and he didn't die. Kryptonite did come from his home planet, Krypton, right? How come he didn't die when he was born?

Answer: When Krypton exploded, the resulting debris was chemically altered through nuclear fusion, converting it into kryptonite. Bits traveled through space, some eventually ending up on Earth, where it is now lethal to anyone who was from that planet.

raywest ★

Pieces of Krypton that exploded in the Red Sun were made radioactive, and the Red Sun is one of the weaknesses of the Kryptonians.

I thought the Red Sun was poisonous to Kryptonians and caused the remnants of the planet Krypton to become radioactive and also absorb some of the solar energy from the Red Sun. I was under that impression, maybe I'm mistaken.

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