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One of the bright spots of Superman IV is Gene Hackman'sperformance as Lex Luthor because he seems to be having a wonderful time chewing the scenery. In one scene, he and his nephew, Lenny (Jon Cryer) visit a Superman exhibit at a museum. While there, audiences get a glimpse of the world's fascination with Superman to the point where he has his own...
Some of the best scenes in the Superman movies are the Smallville scenes. InSuperman IV, Clark returns home since he has inherited the Kent farm but a developer wants to buy it and use the land to build a mall. The scene features a funny dialogue exchange between the developer and Clark regarding a broken crib wherein he says that Jonathan Kent tol...
Part of Superman's charm is his struggle to be two people: Clark Kent and The Man Of Steel. Lois Lane is in love with Superman and famously acts aloof around Clark. However, in Superman IV, the new Daily Planet editor, Lacy, has a crush on Clark and plans a double date between the two of them with Superman and Lois. Of course, Superman can't be in ...
The Superman films were always unclear whether he was speaking to live people or recordings during his Fortress Of Solitude sessions, for example, in this scene he's definitely conversing with live people despite the fact that they should all be dead. However, it's a very interesting scene. Superman struggles with whether he should interfere with E...
The Superman franchise took a very political route with the fourth installment which reflected 1980s Cold War fears. Inspired by a little boy, Superman decides to rid the planet of all nuclear weapons. He strides into the United Nations building and speaks to its members about how the Earth is his new home and he can't let it destroy itself much li...
The battles between Superman and the Kryptonians in Superman II were mind-bogglingly good for the time. However, they're considered tame by today's standards set by movies like Man Of Steel, but audiences loved the knock-down, drag-out fights from that movie. This was something sorely lacking in Superman III but was thankfully brought back for Supe...
In his first battle with Nuclear Man, Superman gets scratched by his long nails which (for some reason) gives him radiation poisoning, and Superman becomes very sick. Superman disappears from the world and Lois visits Clark, who she finds to be sick as well. It's a tender scene because Lois obviously knows that Clark is really Superman and she tell...
As Superman continues to grow sicker due to the radiation poisoning, he decides to use the power from a Kryptonian energy module, which he can only use once, to bring back his powers. However, the scene where he uses it is quite interesting and perhaps even metaphorical. Audiences are shown that Superman has grown a lot weaker, grown much older, an...
The second big fightbetween Superman and Nuclear Man is more of what audiences want to see: two superhuman beings battling it out. The fairly long battle is a cosmic fight that is actually pretty cool. Not only are the two gods vicious with one another but Superman cleverly uses Nuclear Man's vulnerability to his advantage. The Sun powers Nuclear M...
In a final speech to the world, Superman admits that he couldn't achieve what he wanted. He cannot end nuclear power without the help of the will of the people. He even quotes President Eisenhower, saying "There will be peace when the people of the world want it so badly that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them." Acknowledg...
After a Russian space station is struck by debris, Superman swoops in to save the crew from drifting away into space. Later, at the Smallville farm he inherited from his deceased parents, Superman, as Clark Kent, uncovers the capsule that brought him to Earth and removes a luminescent green Kryptonian energy module.
For example, Konner and Rosenthal wrote a scene in which Superman lands on 42nd Street and walks down the double yellow lines to the United Nations, where he gives a speech. If that had been a scene in "Superman I", we would actually have shot it on 42nd Street.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure. The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
