Superman III

Continuity mistake: At the bowling alley, when the kids are about to choose Ricky, the kid on the left keeps changing between a tall kid to a small one with a hat on, back and forth.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Gus takes off the fuse off of the computer crying "I did it", then bends his arm towards his chest. A frame later, the arm is extended outside towards Ross.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Gus places the supercomputer blueprints on Mr. Webster's table, they change positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Ricky is laying on the wheat field, the tractor's distance to him increases or decreases randomly.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Lana is fixing her car, the road is sunny. In the next aerial shot the car casts a huge dark shadow.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the roller-skater pushes the trolley, the amount of cars in the background changes between shots.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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).

Sacha

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.

Sacha

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.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the blind man walks through the painting, the shape of the broken part changes on the angle behind.

Sacha

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

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.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The driver's window in the cop car by the burning factory swaps from rolled up to halfway down between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Vera stands to turn the TV off in the close shot and a second later, in the aerial shot, she repeats the movement.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the junkyard, when Clark takes the iron lid and gets out of the hole, he leans on his right. In the following shot he is coming out again and repeating the movement.

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Ross Webster: Congratulations, Gus, old buddy. You're going to go down in history as the man who killed Superman.

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Trivia: As Ross gets ready to fire rockets, the sounds made are those of the old Atari home video game version of Pac-Man.

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Question: When Gus is eating at a diner, he overhears a man telling another man that somebody is making money off the oil shortage. How?

Answer: For one, when a commodity like oil is in short supply and the demand is high, the price rises significantly.

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