Question: Why didn't Superman spin the world (and time) backwards enough to prevent the nuke from exploding in the first place? Wouldn't that have saved a lot more lives?
briggs
3rd Aug 2019
Superman (1978)
3rd Aug 2019
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Factual error: When Kirk falls off El Capitan, he is shown falling all the way past the tops of the trees. I have been to Yosemite and the trees are tall, but not tall enough to give Spock enough time to slow then stop Kirk's fall.
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By the time Kirk reaches the top of the trees, he is traveling at terminal velocity (assuming Kirk was halfway up, about 2000 feet from the ground, and an initial fall rate of 32 feet per second, per second), approximately 120 mph, about 200 feet per second. If the trees were 1000 feet tall and Spock caught Kirk right at the top of the trees, that would give him 5 seconds to slow down and stop Kirk. Impossible. Fortunately, in the movie he was able to accomplish this feat, or it would have been a very short movie. :).
3rd Aug 2019
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Continuity mistake: Pat Hingle attempts to paint yellow on Steven Hill's canvas, which shows up green (as intended in the show), but seconds later the two green marks are gone.
30th Jul 2019
Star Trek (1966)
Character mistake: William Shatner mentions the sound enhancer is multiplied by 1 to the 4th. I think he meant 10 to the 4th.
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Answer: Just to clarify: Superman didn't spin the Earth backwards. We just see the world turning backwards when he went back in time. Of course this doesn't answer your question and it shows how difficult it is to write a good time travel story that doesn't leave the audience thinking of better ways to solve problems.
I guess the way they wrote it, Superman got to be the hero and also get the girl, not really too bad of an outcome.
briggs