Continuity mistake: In the bowling alley, before Clark sneezes, his hands are covered in talcum powder. A second later he raises his hand to fit his glasses and it's clean.
Sacha
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: Inside the bus to Smallvile, the landscape outside is always an empty and vast wheat field. However, from the shots outside, it swaps to a huge factory. This changes back and forth.
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: The driver's window in the cop car by the burning factory swaps from rolled up to halfway down between shots.
9th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Evil Superman arrives at the oil tanker, the tower on the deck disappears in the close-up where he opens a hole in the steel.
9th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: From the wide shots, the black stripe on the side of the oil tanker is 12 to 15 meters wide, but on the close-up of evil Superman destroying the tanker shows it's thinned to barely a couple meters wide.
9th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: After evil Superman makes a hole on the side of the oil tanker, he flies away and we get to see a bird's eye view of the ship. But now the hole is gone.
4th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: Before the truck is about to fall off the bridge, the blue car in the water moves from a 5 o'clock direction, to a 3 o'clock depending on the shot.
4th Jan 2007
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: After the truck falls off the bridge, before Superman arrives a red truck passes by a green one and keeps on to the other end of the bridge. When the angle changes, a split second later, the red truck is now several feet back, not running and parked next to the green truck.
14th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the blind man picks the painting machine, note that there are some water marks on the pavement going to the right. These are not visible in the next shot.
12th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy takes the picture of the Stokis, he lifts his finger from the camera and raises his head. In the following angle he repeats every movement.
12th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Superman enters the acid storage room we have a glance at the temperature needle and we can see it is way to the right; but the chemist is calm and no alerts are active. Minutes later, before the place explodes, while Superman is freezing the lake, the lights in the room turn red and the chemist freaks out, but the needle is further away from the danger zone than it was when we first saw it.
12th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: In Ross's office, when Gus makes the liquor shelve turn around, the way his jacket is done up changes between shots.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Ross is reading a newspaper in his office, the black paper clips move around between shots.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: At the acid storage room, while the chemist says that the temperature can't rise to much you can see the needle on the background way to the right revealing it's hot. But the next shots of the needle show it on the very left first and rising on the second.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: During the credits, a red and white pole with a light on top appears to the right of the crashed green car.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When the penguins are on the floor, a wide shot shows a man picking two of them, each with each hand. The close-up shows his hands empty.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When the green car crashes, it leaves a lot of rubble in front of it. In the wide shot, the street is clean.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: The toy penguin that catches fire is already burned and damaged, when it's supposed to come brand new from the seller's stall.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Superman extinguishes the flame on the toy penguin, it looks brand new, as opposed to the worn out look it had a couple seconds before.
8th Nov 2006
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: On the Grand Canyon, when Gus is about to get on the donkey, the first shot shows him several meters ahead of Vera. The next aerial angle shows him very close and parallel to her.
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