Continuity mistake: Position of skis in Ross's penthouse changes between shots.
Sacha
27th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
27th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Lana is fixing her car, the road is sunny. In the next aerial shot the car casts a huge dark shadow.
27th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the film, the shape of the cake blob on the man's cap changes between shots.
27th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When the roller-skater pushes the trolley, the amount of cars in the background changes between shots.
27th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: During the wheat field scene, Lana wipes her son's bloody bruise with her sweatshirt, but no bloodstains are visible in following shots.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, Superman exits the photo-booth and a kid points at him. A frame later his arm is down.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: At the employment office the way papers are arranged on the counter changes from messy to tidy between shots. Also, the blue stamp behind the red one appears and disappears randomly.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Revealing mistake: When the phone booths fall they don't have any cables attached underneath, revealing they're props.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: Outside the bar, while the people are watching, Superman raises a glass and drinks a shot of whiskey. A frame later, inside the bar, he is already refilling his glass.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: Superman saves a drowning man in a car on the middle of the street, but when he takes off he's in a children's playground (the DVD extras show the playground scene was deleted).
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Other mistake: While on the skiing slope, Gus catches speed and skis away. The problem is he is always on the flat side of the slope, it's impossible to gain speed.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: In the bowling alley, right before Clark sneezes, the alley on the left has all its bowls standing. Half a second later there are just 5 standing. No sound of them falling was heard in between these two shots.
26th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: During the tablecloth scene, while Ross listens to Gus, the coffee pot located a meter to the right appears right behind Ross between one frame and another.
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: When having a picnic in the wheat field, Clark and Lana's position to the tree and the car nearby changes between shots.
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
Continuity mistake: After the blind man walks through the painting, the shape of the broken part changes on the angle behind.
25th Nov 2010
Superman III (1983)
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.
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.
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