The "lava" in the lava-lamp style bed posts at the honeymoon hotel jumps around
at an alarming rate from shot to shot.
When Superman takes Lois flying for the last time before erasing her memory the
next day at the office, scenes from Superman (1978) are shown from when Superman
first took her flying; she is wearing the blue outfit she wore in that movie, rather than
the clothes she wore during the ordeal with the three Krypton villains at the fortress
of solitude.
When Eve and Luthor go to the Fortress, they look at Lara giving information at the
"Keeper of the Archives of Krypton". However, they are looking up, while she is
eye level to them.
At the beginning of the battle in Metropolis, Lois's hair goes from frizzy to straight
and back again.
At the end of the film, as Superman flies over the White House to replace the flag,
the water in the foreground fountain remains motionless.
During the Super Battle, when Zod is getting ready to hurl a slab of concrete
at Superman, the view of the crowd is shown reversed (note the "No Entry" sign).
When Non knocks Perry out by lifting him up into the ceiling, a crew member
can be seen holding Perry's hand in the lower right corner of the screen.
Due to the different filming times, Lois's face and hair are noticeably altered
between different scenes.
Wires clearly visible when Superman throws the super "S" at Non in the
Fortress of Solitude.
In the Director’s Cut, when Lois is in her bathrobe and Clark is in a tuxedo,
the length and style of Clark's hair changes. In some shots, it is longer and
full bodied; in others, it is short and slicked down.
There is no way to steer a balloon, so Lex Luthor would be unable to go
"Due north". Also, he should be freezing to death wearing those light
clothes in the balloon.
After the scene at the Daily Planet, the Kryptriplets fly through editor Perry's
window. In the first cut, the window is open and there is no glass. In the second
cut, seen from the outside, glass appears as through they've flown through a closed window.
When Zod throws Superman crashing through the side of the Marlboro Truck, the
"metal" side of the truck flaps a little and you can see that it is in fact a plastic sheet.
Willie, the young boy in East Houston, Idaho, does a poor job covering up
his British accent.
In the beginning, when Superman throws the Hydrogen bomb into space, you
can hear the explosion and there is fire visible in the explosion. Neither of this
is possible in space due to the lack of atmosphere.
When the Kryptriplets land on the moon, Ursa talks to an astronaut. There's
insufficient atmosphere to carry her voice on the moon.
When Zod flings the cosmonaut up and then yanks his airline down, the line
falls at normal "earth gravity" speed.
The air cannons throwing the manholes in the air during the battle are visible
in a couple of shots.
When the three land on earth for the first time, Gen Zod walks on water. When
he walks from the middle of the lake to the shore on the wide angle shot, some
type of board or platform outline can be seen just under the water as he walks to shore.
When the villains appear in the small town, Zod uses his levitation powers to lift
a man with a shotgun up into the air. When he releases the man and he hits the
ground you can see the false ground bounce from the impact.
In the small, East Houston town when Zod lifts the man into the air, the
crash mat below him is clearly visible when he is dropped back down.
When the county sheriff and his deputy first encounter the Krypton three, after
discharging the shotgun, Zod throws it and it lands to the front of the passenger
side rear wheel. When Non lifts the patrol car to retrieve the weapon, it has
moved to the rear of that wheel.
During the Metropolis battle, Non punches Superman in the chin. Superman
goes flying back. We see that he is not matted in from the waist down and
buildings can be seen through him.
As Superman is flying from Lois's penthouse apartment, we can see members
of the crew inside her apartment.
After the evil Kryptonians burst into Perry White's office we see their
strings hanging at their sides.
During the fight in Metropolis, Ursa throws a manhole cover into Superman's
chest, and as he gets flung backwards by it, you can see what is holding the
man hole cover to his stomach as he bounces off the hood of a car.
As Superman is flying the flag to the White House, the shot is flipped left to right.
Look at his hair, as well as his "S" emblem.
Superman's and Zod's and crew's clothes flap about as they fly in space. There is
no wind or air in space to make clothes flutter.
On the Moon, as the camera pans from Ursa and Non to Zod, the Earth moves
from one edge of the Sun to the other, revealing that it's not far from the camera.
While driving toward the diner for the first fight with the loutish trucker after
Superman/Clark has given up his powers for love, the car is seen driving on the
left-hand side of the road.
Superman and Lois are able to change clothes while in the fortress of solitude,
when in fact they brought no luggage with them.
Ursa speaks to the astronaut aloud, despite there being no air on the moon to
form words, or carry sound.
The faceplates of the astronauts' space suits are transparent, with no glare shield to
filter out cosmic rays, direct sunlight or radiation.
After Clark is beaten up in the diner after giving up his powers and now he realizes
the Krypton villains wreaking havoc on Earth, Lois tries to console him by telling
Clark that "you didn't know." Clark's response is "he knew." Clark was referring to
his father, whose scenes were filmed with Marlon Brando before they were cut
because of financial differences between Brando and the producers. In the film that
was released, it was Superman's mother that tried to convince him to keep his
powers, not his father.
Flying away from the moon after the confrontation with the astronauts, Non throws
down the American flag and pole into the moon buggy. It drops normally revealing
ordinary earth gravitational pull.
When the army enters the small town to destroy the villains, a helicopter comes
in to fire missiles at General Zod. At one point as the helicopter is flying by screen,
you can clearly see a motion picture camera and crew members in the foreground,
covering the action from another angle.
The brakes on the elevator in Paris take some time to come on, and when they
finally do, the elevator continues to accelerate in its decent.
As Non throws down the flags at the end of the scene of the Moon, the flags can
be seen waving, which is impossible due to lack of air.
Superman and Lois fly to the Fortress of Solitude, so after Superman gives up
his powers they would have absolutely no way to return to civilization yet they
manage to make it back to Metropolis safely.
Superman makes his way back to the Fortress of Solitude when he finds out
about Zod in order to recover his powers. He says there must be a way of doing
so. Nevertheless, we never see how he does this and he appears in Metropolis
for the showdown with the three villains as if this had never happened. In the
Donner Cut it is revealed that his father, Jor-El, gives his remaining energy to
Superman in order for him to have powers again. As Marlon Brando was cut
out of the film, this was never seen in the Lester Cut, but they inexplicably
decided not to film it with Superman's mom as they had done with most of
the other Brando scenes.
At the beginning of the film Ursa uses her heat vision on a snake that bit her,
but as she was on earth at the time there is no way that a snake could pierce
her Kryptonian skin.
When Jason's father is dropped by General Zod in Houston, Idaho, the dirt can
be seen bouncing on the spring mat when the stunt man lands.
While Superman and Non engage in subterranean hand-to-hand combat in Metropolis,
the pneumatic pyro pumps are visible in the street, as the manhole covers pop upwards.
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SUPERMAN II (2006)
THE DONNER CUT GOOFS
After escaping the Phantom Zone, Zod screams and it echoes. However, as
space is a vacuum, the scream not only wouldn't have echoed, but wouldn't
have made noise at all.
During the hotel room sequence, Clark's hair changes length and style
several times between shots (this due to the scene being cobbled together
from two sets of screen tests filmed months apart).
In the last scene of the film, Clark returns to the diner to have his revenge on
the bully who had beat him up earlier. Several references in dialogue are made
to the previous encounter. However this scene is placed in the reedited film
after Superman has turned back the clock, so therefore no-one should
remember Clark or the previous fight.
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