Corrected entry: Listen closely to one of the newsreaders reporting on the new appearances of Superman on the TV in the Daily Planet offices, she mentions a few cities where he has been seen, including Gotham, home to another famous superhero-Batman.
Corrected entry: When Lex reads the 'Superman is back' Daily Planet, it is dated something like September 16, 2006. Later, we see Superman on a store CCTV camera which is dated July 25. Then, on the 'Superman is Dead' / 'Superman Lives' Daily Planet covers the date reads something like September 27 2006. The date constantly changes.
Correction: It is possible that the date for the security camera was set wrong. Some stores only install the hardware but don't set the date and time correct. Human factor.
Corrected entry: During the airliner crash sequence, there are two cuts to the cockpit after both wings (and engines) have been torn off. In one, you can hear the flight deck computer saying "Overspeed. Overspeed". Later, after the plane is on the ground, you can hear "Fly up. Fly up." Both are valid warnings at the time, but without engines there is no power for these systems, and exterior shots don't show a ram air turbine deployed for backup power.
Correction: The computers and other electrical equipment on modern airliners are run on batteries that are recharged from the main engines during flight, like car batteries. The engines themselves do not power these systems directly. The computers therefore would still have power for the duration of the flight in the movie.
Corrected entry: During the out-of-control airplane scene, Lois (and other objects) are violently thrown around inside the plane. There are no bumps, bruises or scratches on any of the passengers or their clothing, and every hair is in place on Lois once the event is over.
Correction: Bumps, and especially bruises are not immediately visible in an accident. Also, the lady in front of her had her glasses askew and her hair very much out of place.
Corrected entry: Throughout the film, Superman's suit & cape are as impervious to damage as the man himself, even withstanding a full-on volley from a minigun. Yet when he is taken to hospital, the medics are able to rip open the chest area as if it was normal material. It can't be because his powers are waning, as they can't puncture his skin with a needle.
Correction: The medics didn't tear off the shirt: they simply removed it. It's shown to be in one piece, along with the rest of Superman's uniform when Lois and Jason come to visit him in the hospital.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, Clark wakes up in his bed. There is a close-up of his eyes. They are brown. However, during the rest of the film, Clark's eyes are blue.
Correction: The eyes appear blue throughout the whole start. Due to the lack of light in the room, his eyes may appear dark, but they are never brown.
Corrected entry: When Superman saves Lois and her family from the sinking ship you can see Superman's "S" through the window, but when we get an outside shot he is facing away from the window so there is no way we could have seen the "S" in the first place.
Correction: At no point is Superman facing the door porthole, nor do we see an interior shot from the inside seeing his chest. When the ship is underwater, what you see at the porthole are the soles of Supermans boots as he stomps on the door to lift up the ship half. Still holding onto the ship with one hand, he rips the door off/open with the other hand. The angle we see this happen is from the exterior of the ship.
Corrected entry: When the series of tremors causes the globe on top of The Daily Planet Headquarters to topple and fall, Superman catches it and places it on a car. When he flies away that night, at the end of the movie, and the camera spans Metropolis behind him, it sits in its original position on top of the Headquarters.
Correction: It could have been replaced or put back up and fixed in that amount of time.
Corrected entry: Jason must not have any super powers at all because Jason is the son of Clark Kent. Not Superman. As we all know in Superman II, Superman gave all his super powers up before he went to bed with Lois. He was just Clark Kent.
Correction: Except we don't know how his powers were removed - considering they're a by-product of our yellow sun (and that they were restored later) they can't just have been taken away from him. Most likely they were somehow suppressed, meaning that they were still present within him, just unusable, and that would mean they could still be passed on to a child.
Corrected entry: Lois's mind was erased at the end of Superman II by a "Super" kiss, but given that, how did she remember that she and Superman slept together?
Correction: We don't know exactly what she forgot. If Clark simply erased everything from the point where she learned his secret, she'd have a large gap that she would definitely want filled. He may have only made her blank out those specific parts that deal with Clark being Superman. Then she'd still have memories of almost all of the last few days and she'd be fine.
Corrected entry: Superman/Clark returns in a spaceship. Where did he get the spaceship from? The one he came in was destroyed and, even if it wasn't, it would be too small for him. What he returned in looked like a larger version of what he originally came in.
Correction: The crystals created the spaceship for him. They seem to create every artifact he uses. They created his first super-suit. In Superman 1, Jor-El says they contain the known knowledge of the 23 galaxies.
Corrected entry: Lex allegedly got off because Superman wasn't around to testify when an appellate court called him as a witness. Appellate courts do not call witness, they work from the transcript of testimony from trial courts. Only trial courts call witness.
Correction: This can very easily be a character mistake. We never see a file that says "Luthor got off on the Appalete courts" or anything like that. It's all word of mouth.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Lois and Jason are discussing Superman's physical characteristics, Lois states that Superman weighs 125 pounds. It should be 225, or at the very least the 215 pounds that Lois estimates as Clark's weight.
Correction: No, she actually says "220, 225." She rattles it off fairly quickly as she's describing him to Richard.
Corrected entry: When Superman is flying the new continent up and away from Earth, we see some Kryptonite right next to his fingers (actually, it's everywhere). It's already been established that Superman being near the Kryptonite on this continent will remove his powers, so he should not be able to fly, or be able to use his super strength.
Correction: Before Superman lifts the continent up you see him fly up really close to the sun, thereby not only restoring his powers but overstrengthening them so he could do that.
Corrected entry: A powered shuttle destined to leave the atmosphere could not be launched from the top of a flying jetliner for the simple fact that it would never be able to achieve escape velocity while flying. The speeds necessary to achieve sub-orbital injection require a near-100% vertical climb at speeds of well over 9,000 mph. If a shuttle flying at anywhere even near that speed tried to increase its rate of climb from horizontal to vertical, the aerodynamic forces encountered would destroy the airframe of the shuttle. Also, the shuttle's engines use a hypergolic chemical fuel reaction and the resulting thrust is so great that the the jetliner would have been instantly destroyed from the acceleration forces when it was still attached the the shuttle.
Correction: It is possible to make a shuttle leave the athmosphere on the back of an airplane. Never heard of the Spaceship One? Also, the thrust of an engine is not really related to the fuel used. There exist engines using hypergolic fuel with a thrust as low as a few kilograms. Anyway, if I remember well, the fuel used in the movie is kerosene or something similar, wich is not hypergolic. It's true that the scene is a bit exaggerated but not impossible.
Corrected entry: When Jor-El is "talking to" Lex, footage of Brando is used from Superman I in which (in this movie) he says "So. Kal-El. Speak". However, in the first film the line was "So. Speak", to which Clark asked who he was and was then told his Kryptonian name.
Correction: So, what's the mistake that you're claiming? Yes, they've manipulated old footage for the new film, that's true, but this isn't a video that repeats the same every time; it's an interactive projection of Jor-El created by Kryptonian technology. This isn't the same incident as the original Superman film; it's a different situation, ergo, the projection doesn't have to say the same thing.
Corrected entry: Jor-El's voice repeats something from the first film, that "by the time you get to Earth a thousand years will have passed", meaning that while his aging will be vastly slowed, the journey will take a thousand years. Yet Superman goes there and back in five years of real time using the same technology.
Correction: This isnt mistake because he did not say Earth years. For all we know a year on krypton could be a half a day to them.
Corrected entry: During the "brakes out" scene, Kitty tries to stop the car by turning the key, but it is broken and gets stuck in the ignition, so the engine can't be turned off. You can hear it going in the rest of the shots. But when Superman lifts the car, suddenly the engine is dead.
Correction: Superman stops the car before he picks it up. Forcing a stop that quickly would cause the engine to seize.
Corrected entry: When Superman is lifting the miniature continent, the rock formation where his hands are positioned changes between shots. It goes back and forth from a rocky surface to a flat one.
Correction: Not surprisingly, because chunks of rock and crystal are continuously falling off of it while Superman is lifting it into space. No mistake there.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Superman saves the plane from crushing, we can see that both of the plane wings were torn away in the air, but when they land they miracously disappear. No debris of any kind follows.
Correction: There's nothing remotely surprising or noteworthy about a movie based on a DC comic making a blatant reference to the setting of another DC comic. There are probably DC superheroes in every one of the cities mentioned in that news report.
K.C. Sierra