Continuity mistake: Two firemen are seen away from their truck, but when the angle changes six firemen have appeared seemingly from nowhere.
Sacha
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: A window shop with a red curtain and a TV set explodes and gets totally destroyed, but several seconds later when Nuclear Man plays around with the SWAT van we see it intact.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Nuclear Man sends the police cars back, there's a man close to a mailbox on the left. There's a very brief cut before the cars explode but when the explosion takes place, the man has vanished.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the window shops explode, the grey car close to them disappears in the following shot.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Nuclear Man lands on a street surrounded by skyscrapers. In the following shots where he destroys everything, the right side of the street is the same, but the left side is totally different: small houses, sunnier, signs on the walls.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: Before the firemen arrive at the truck, there's a lot of smoke around, but half a second later it's all gone.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After Perry White delivers his final speech a woman in a yellow dress goes up the escalator. In the following shot, no one's there.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Nuclear Man is destroying Metropolis his hair suddenly changes from messy to perfectly brushed.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Perry White goes up the escalator, he places both hands on the rail. A second later there's just one.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: The SWAT people that are falling off the truck when it gets lifted disappear in the next angle where we see the pavement and a close up of the front of the truck.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: A fireman tries to grab the hose from the back of the truck and wounds himself. But half a second before there was no fireman there.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: The cab's hood, crumpled by Nuclear Man's power beam, magically smoothes itself a frame later.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When nuclear Man watches the newspaper on the table, the lighter is by the side of the phone. In the following shot it's in front of it.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Nuclear Man fires at the fire truck a short piece of hose comes out. A second later, in the following shot, the hose is 10 meters long and all over the place.
16th Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the window shops explode, a taxi cab door is widely open to show a Budweiser ad on it. In the following wide angle from above the door is closed.
3rd Oct 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Lois is packing Superman's cape and Lacy says "I had nothing to do with it", there's no continuity with the passers-by seen behind. A kid in a red t-shirt, for example, appears from nowhere.
22nd Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Nuclear Man is about to land on the Great Wall, the aerial view shows it's empty; a second later it's filled with people.
22nd Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Superman is rebuilding the Great Wall all of the people near the hole vanish.
19th Sep 2006
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Continuity mistake: After the volcano erupts, the boy standing to the right of the girl disappears between shots.
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.
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