Revealing mistake: When Superman takes Lex's car to prison, right when Lex and Lenny become black and white, Lex is a blatant stunt double.
Sacha
5th Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
5th Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When Superman drops Nuclear Man down the power plant chimney, the city behind swaps from a real image to a cheap blurry painting.
5th Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: During the Metropolis destruction, when a cab crashes against the cab in front, the first car's trunk blows out and the FX system (an air-bag similar system) to make this happen flies all over the place.
5th Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: After Nuclear Man destroys the cab's hood, the shot changes and there's a thick string running behind him all along the car, and the cab driver is stretching out to pull it. Probably he was activating some sort of bad FX.
5th Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When Nuclear Man's fingers hurt Superman's nape, part of the Statue of Liberty's tablet disappears.
5th Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: After Superman leaves the Statue of Liberty, a thick string is noticeable under his cape to keep it up and fluttering.
3rd Jun 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When the missile is launched, Superman flies to catch it. However, his face has some sort of stocking over the upper part and the man looks nothing like Christopher Reeve. It was either a stunt double, a bad special effect, or a cheap mannequin.
25th May 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When Nuclear Man lands in Metropolis before destroying everything, watch the truck and cab on the left and you'll realise that they are a painting. Not a realistic painting, but a cheap, unfinished one.
21st May 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: After Nuclear Man bursts the cab's hood, watch behind and you'll see the wiggling cable that pulls the prop car.
21st May 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: The first time we see Clark, he is crossing the crowded street towards the subway entrance. Note that none of the cars are moving except for a cab in the front. If you watch behind Clark you'll see that the street ends in a flat wall, revealing it's a backlot set.
21st May 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When the movie ends and Superman grabs Lenny and Lex's car, they both become black and white coloured and semi transparent.
21st May 2013
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: Underneath Lenny's car when it flies away in the quarry there's no pipes, no nothing, just a black plank, revealing the car's a cheap prop.
12th Feb 2012
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When Nuclear Man flies through the ceiling for the first time, the first glass he crashes into is noticeably different than the others surrounding it, revealing it's a prop.
28th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: Due to the blue-screen effect, part of Superman's glasses disappear when he is free falling with Lois.
28th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: Same footage used when the Statue of Liberty plummets and when it's lifted up by Superman, though reversed.
28th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: Superman's hands move despite him being frozen in a block of ice.
28th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: Reversed scene when Nuclear Man exits the volcano: note the white smoke climbing upwards into the crater.
27th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When the first cab is attacked by Nuclear Man, watch underneath and you'll notice that the wheels don't touch the ground, revealing it's a prop.
27th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When Nuclear Man steals the Statue of Liberty, there's a very obvious blur around the retouched image where the real statue has been painted over to simulate it's gone.
27th Feb 2011
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Revealing mistake: When the police cars drive backwards, before they crash and burst, the scene is a repetition of a previous one but reversed.
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