Continuity mistake: While Superman is picking up the crystal form the hole in the barn, the straw hanging loose around the hole disappears in the wide shot.
Sacha
23rd Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
22nd Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After Clark takes the green crystal from the hole on the ground and hides it, the cloth covering the hole has a different position to how it looked a second before.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Audio problem: When Lex is giving instructions to launch the missile, a young man puts on his earphones and talks to Lex, but his mouth doesn't move.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Nuclear Man and Superman fall off the balcony and fight, the position of their bodies has no continuity in the wide and close shots.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: While Nuclear Man and Superman are falling off the balcony, their skin switches from pink to natural. When Nuclear Man finally flies away he loses all of his colour and becomes semi transparent.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the truck is carrying the missile, the officers parading in front of it pass by the same place twice.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Before Lex presses the red button to launch the missile, the phone next to it is hung-up. Then someone grabs it and the phone cable covers the control panel, but the immediate close-up of Lex's finger shows that the phone is hung-up, as in the first position.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman lands Lex on the quarry, the standing position of the prisoner behind differs between shots.
21st Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: In the quarry, the cop on the right's hat has two strings around the top, the upper one dissapears depending on the shot.
20th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After the SWAT van is lifted, it tilts forward. A frame later, it's looking sideways.
20th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Nuclear Man sends the 2 police cars back and the one on the right skids and faces slightly to the right, but a second later, when they explode, both cars are perfectly aligned.
20th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: While Nuclear Man moves the 2 police cars backwards, the first shot shows the car on the right ahead of the other. A frame later, in a new angle, it is way behind the other car.
20th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After the two police cars are sent backwards, a third one that was parked behind, suddenly appears aligned with the other two.
20th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After Superman straightens the US flag, a brief shot shows he is on a plain ground, but when he is knocked down by Nuclear Man, a big mount appears in front of him.
19th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman throws the rock into the volcano, it flies from right to left into a huge cloud of smoke. In the following angle, it is falling from the blue clear sky, up away from the smoke.
19th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Plot hole: Superman manages to find bricks to rebuild the Great Wall of China. While it's true that he could have created the bricks from stones, the humongous explosions of the wall, and the vast grounds surrounding the area, show that there is no place, no material, and no way even for Superman to create 1,000 bricks from nothing.
19th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: While Nuclear Man is destroying Metropolis, two police cars get moved backwards. The first shot of the cars moving show a lot of people by a shop window. The angle changes to a close shot, with no people there, then back to the previous wide angle, now with the cars moving backwards, and the bunch of people reappear.
9th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After the volcano erupts, a big black cloud covers the city, but a wider angle shows the sky clear.
9th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: A couple walks behind the hot dog stand in the same direction twice in less than half a second.
9th Mar 2007
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: The UN building that Superman walks towards and the one he arrives at in a new shot look entirely different.
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Suggested correction: This is the same Superman that flew around the earth fast enough to reverse time, for all we know the bricks came from the other side of the planet, and he just zipped over there in an instant to grab them.
Junk correction based on assumption, not on what the movie shows.
Sacha ★