Superman III

Stupidity: When Superman gets to the bridge after the truck falls off, he asks the firemen if there's anything he can do. They responds that there's really nothing as he got there too late. How about asking him if he could get the truck out of the water. That would have been a help.

Gavin Jackson

Stupidity: When Clark is fighting Evil Superman in the junkyard, Evil Superman looks up and sees a huge magnet directly over Clark and Clark notices it too. Evil Superman uses his heat vision on the chain causing it to heat up then break dropping the magnet on Clark. Clark had plenty of time to get out of the way before the chain snapped but he just stands there when it finally falls on him.

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Suggested correction: Isn't it implied that the junkyard battle is all in Superman's head? "Clark" acts timid, indecisive, and overall strange during the scene because the scene is the manifestation of his identity crisis, and we all sometimes act in ways that make no real-world sense in dreams.

Anson Gordon-Creed

The battle all in Superman's head? When good Superman flies off, the physical signs of the battle are visible behind him.

Agreed. This battle was certainly not in Superman's head.

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Mistakes

Other mistake: Towards the end of the movie, when Superman drops Gus off at the coal mine, Gus begins talking with the coal miners about him and Superman. He then rips open his shirt (as if he had a Superman costume on underneath). How did Gus know that Clark Kent tore his shirt like that in order to change into Superman, or keeps his suit under his clothes at all? The only people who know this fact are the ones who have seen the transformation from Clark to Superman, i.e. the audience.

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Quotes

Gus Gorman: I don't want to go to jail because there are robbers and rapers and rapers who rape robbers.

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Trivia

Trivia: Aaron Smolinski who played Kal El in Superman has a cameo as the kid that gets the pic from Superman.

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Questions

Question: Why was Lex Luthor absent in this movie? Not only he didn't appear but wasn't even mentioned. Did Gene Hackman refuse to reprise the role in this movie?

Answer: There were rumors that Hackman was angry with the Salkind Brothers (the producers) for firing director Richard Donner, though Hackman later disputed saying that. His explanation, though he may have been downplaying the real reason, was that he had a number of other movie projects at the time, and he also did not wish to continually play the same villain in an ongoing movie series.

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