Continuity mistake: After the volcano erupts, the boy standing to the right of the girl disappears between shots.
Sacha
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman saves the girl from the Great Wall of China and starts rising, a woman with a white hat behind lifts her arm to say goodbye. In the following angle she is repeating the movement.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman throws Nuclear Man down the chimney, the sky is grey and cloudy, but a second later it's pitch black.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: It is way too obvious that when Luthor holds the dollar bill, his arm and hand have been replaced by a robotic prop. His arm manages to move without involving all the bones connected to the shoulder and the back.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Before nuclear Man lands in the city, there's barely any smoke. A split second later, the close shot is completely filled with smoke. Then it disappears when we see the old lady with the yellow bag, and reappears when we go back to Nuclear Man.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Before Nuclear Man burns Luthor's dollar bill, Luthor looks to his right, immediately after, the shot from behind shows him looking straight forward.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Visible crew/equipment: Nuclear Man descends close to the statue of liberty to fight Superman. For a brief glimpse his supporting wires are seen.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: The SWAT van is lifted next to the curb, but a second later appears in the middle of the street surrounded by cars.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: Watch the cars and the grey truck during the LexTv scene. Whenever Luthor appears on screen the same cars are driving on the street.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: During the Great Wall of China scene, the sky changes from cloudy and grey in the shots involving people, to bright and sunny when the wall explodes.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: The rock that hits the prop-astronaut blows his head off. Seconds later the head is back in place.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When nuclear Man makes the engine of the taxi explode, there's a guy with a red jacket behind it that appears and disappears between shots.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Nuclear Man is destroying Metropolis, the same stuntman with a gabardine and a hat is seen close to a shop window, then a second later in the middle of the street and a second afterwards getting thrown through the air with a group of people. He looks and dress just like Clark Kent, guess it's his stand in doing some extra work.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Luthor extends his arm with a dollar bill in hand for Nuclear Man to light. From the front his arm is fully extended. From behind it isn't.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Visible crew/equipment: After Superman is seen aged holding the green glass, Nuclear Man is seen ascending and wires are visible.
18th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the statue of Liberty is about to crash on the street, a close shot is seen of jammed cars and hysterical people. When the shot changes to Superman flying to the rescue, the jam, the cops and the people have disappeared, and all is nice and quiet in Metropolis.
18th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Nuclear Man watches the Daily Planet paper with the "New publisher for your favourite paper" headline. The first shot shows the paper slightly wrinkled on the left and bent to the right. In the following angle it is straight and perfect.
18th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Swat agents hide behind the van and start to shoot. A second later they've all vanished.
18th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Nuclear Man lands on Metropolis and all the traffic in both lanes is jammed and no cars move. When he walks a couple of feet suddenly the right lane, which had space for a car the most, is empty and with space enough to let two taxis appear from nowhere and run for several feet.
18th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the SWAT van is turning around, the cars on the street are different than the ones in previous shots (try to find the destroyed taxi cabs that collided).
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