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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Ho boy, what a doozy this one is. This is the movie that not only killed the franchise, but killed it hard enough to send it into reboot purgatory (3 reboots and counting).
Normally I would make snarky comments on, well, anything involving a terrible movie, but I've got nothing for this one. Just like Jaws IV, it fails so much that you can barely insult it. Cheap as hell special effects, nonsensical powers, moving the bloody moon, the list goes on.
I will go into the 'villain' of this movie, Nuclear Man. Were they high when they made him? A clone of Superman that 1) looks nothing like him and 2) has the powers of the sun. I get this is a comic book movie, but how does throwing a bit of Superman's DNA into the sun even come close to pulling that off? Even if that were to happen, why does he disobey the only rule to his power so often? Multiple times in the movie, Nuclear Man just strides into a building, where there is absolutely no sunlight, unheeded.
This movie is not only disrespectful to Superman, it's disrespectful to bad movies in general. It fails so hard it might as well set up a leper village on the outskirts of Cheeseville.
I do not recommend this movie, at all. You won't even have fun trying to insult it. Avoid at all costs.
Selected Quote:
Superman: You've broken all the laws of man, Luthor. Not it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too. I can only assume you must have hidden a device of some kind on one of the missiles I hurled into the sun.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Ho boy, what a doozy this one is. This is the movie that not only killed the franchise, but killed it hard enough to send it into reboot purgatory (3 reboots and counting).
Normally I would make snarky comments on, well, anything involving a terrible movie, but I've got nothing for this one. Just like Jaws IV, it fails so much that you can barely insult it. Cheap as hell special effects, nonsensical powers, moving the bloody moon, the list goes on.
I will go into the 'villain' of this movie, Nuclear Man. Were they high when they made him? A clone of Superman that 1) looks nothing like him and 2) has the powers of the sun. I get this is a comic book movie, but how does throwing a bit of Superman's DNA into the sun even come close to pulling that off? Even if that were to happen, why does he disobey the only rule to his power so often? Multiple times in the movie, Nuclear Man just strides into a building, where there is absolutely no sunlight, unheeded.
This movie is not only disrespectful to Superman, it's disrespectful to bad movies in general. It fails so hard it might as well set up a leper village on the outskirts of Cheeseville.
I do not recommend this movie, at all. You won't even have fun trying to insult it. Avoid at all costs.
Selected Quote:
Superman: You've broken all the laws of man, Luthor. Not it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too. I can only assume you must have hidden a device of some kind on one of the missiles I hurled into the sun.