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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
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FilmPG1983
Superman III
Directed by Richard Lester
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer. From TMDB
221 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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Superman III is a 1983 comedy science fiction action film, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor and Annette O'Toole.
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60 of 221 · most liked firstFinally, Superman III may lay down its burden as the Only Good Superman Movie.
positive · AI labelView post →> In doing so, they fraudulently gained access to pending private transactions and used that access to alter certain transactions and obtain their victims' cryptocurrency, I guess they never watched Office Space, or Superman III. Edit: wrong Superman
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm duty bound to rip a film apart for sport every so often, and this week my ire falls on 1983's Superman III, a rotten threequel which trashes whatever was good about the first two. I'm a Richard Pryor fan, but Richard Lester's movie is a hate-watch. 2 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/09/02/s...
negative · AI labelView post →Christopher Reeve IS the Man Of Steel!: cover art by Terry Hoffman for a planned Atari game tie-in with 1983’s Superman III. When the movie got a (deserved) critical drubbing, the game was cancelled.
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman III (on one of the HBOs right now) is a deeply silly, slapsticky movie, but, man, that scene when Vera gets coated in metal and turned into a robot by the self-aware computer FREAKED MY SHIT OUT when I was a kid.
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman III is, to my mind, the best Superman film of all time. Also, Annie Ross, who plays Vera Webster (the woman who gets part cyber-converted) may have had the coolest career and life of anyone in any superhero film ever.
positive · AI labelView post →The only modern (i.e. post-1970) Superman movie I did not see in the theater was SUPERMAN III, which in retrospect was a mistake. (I would happily trade it with SUPERMAN IV, an all-around depressing endeavor.)
neutral · AI labelView post →watched Superman III recently, and I feel like I used to be both Drunk Superman, and Good Superman, back when I was drinkin - it's been a long time since I've seen this film, but watching him split in two really f'd me up this is totally a hacker film btw I'm sorry if I was ever a jerk to you
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman III involves Superman saving the day by applying something he learned earlier in the film rather than developing a new power. That's my Superman fan reason for loving it. I have Goon Show fan reasons for loving it.
positive · AI labelView post →We just watched Superman III and, cards on the table, I will hear nothing against this movie. Sweet and funny, needed about thirty minutes trimmed, otherwise perfectly fine.
positive · AI labelView post →Last four watched time @letterboxd.social #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Haven't watched Superman III in years. Don't remember it being such a fucking odd movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Being a kid in 1983 was fun. I don't care how shitty OCTOPUSSY or SUPERMAN III supposedly are. I saw both of those movies in the theater & my little kid brain went wild. Nostalgia's a Hell of a drug. I can't wrap my brain around not liking either film. Anyway, here's 007 with Superman.
positive · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 14 : A movie I love that everyone hates Superman III (1983) Although not as hated as Superman IV, this has a lot less fans than the 1st two. But I don’t mind the comedy and it has the iconic fight between evil Superman and Clark Kent. youtu.be/tb9Hm56rbDM?...
positive · AI labelView post →SUPERMAN III is a bad movie (and a horrible waste of Richard Pryor), but the Superman vs. his evil self fight is pretty great. Oh, and Annette O'Toole is at her most luminescent throughout. ...no, i don't know why i'm thinking about this either.
neutral · AI labelView post →18: First movie you saw at the cinema I pretty sure this was it. My dad took me and my brother to get us out of our mom's hair. Superman III 1983 #MovieMadness
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s the first time I’ve cooked hot dogs in the microwave in a while, and I’d forgotten how they make that horrible distant, echoing scream sound like the transporter accident in the first Star Trek movie. (Traumatic scenes for Gen X kids, like the woman turned into a robot in Superman III)
neutral · AI labelView post →Going to see the new Superman movie tonight and I'm very excited about it. Looking back, I think the only Superman movie I didn't see in a movie theater was Superman III. So yeah, I've been a Superman fan for looong time. 😀 #Film 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a small movement to reappraise the film but I dunno guys, if I am going to defend a famous property reworked around a comedian, it will be Superman III and not this. It's not the worst but it sure as hell isn't good either.
neutral · AI labelView post →been decades since I've seen Superman III, no rush to go see it again, but: any movie that gives us this still can't be all bad:
neutral · AI labelView post →The SUPERMAN III adaptation, by Cary Bates, Curt Swan, and Sal Amendola may also be slightly better than the film, but the film had some iconic (and for more than a few kids, terrifying) scenes almost despite itself.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's still very strange to me that Superman III is a Richard Pryor family comedy first, and a Superman movie second.
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to @bergmaster5000.bsky.social and @apstrange.bsky.social talking Superman III is something I recommend everyone to do! And btw, Hollywoodland is the movie with Baffleck playing George Reeves. Great flick!
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman III, not a good movie, but that scene lives rent-free in my nightmares.
negative · AI labelView post →So, it's pretty amazing in a way it took over 40 years to get a Superman movie received well critically again. Like, that streak since Superman III finally broke.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've never understood the "I can't watch Man of Steel with my kids" argument. That's just parents using their kids as a shield to dislike the movie. FWIW, both Superman III and IV are far more inappropriate and suggestive for children than Man of Steel is.
neutral · AI labelView post →What happened to Superman IV: The Quest For Peace?. > Unlike Superman and Superman II, Superman III didn’t even bother teasing the next installment in the franchise. Really, by the time that movie’s end credits hit, did anyone even want another entry? Hadn’t the Salkinds done enough damage to the Man of Steel? And yet, as we all know, a fourth installment in the Superman series did indeed hit theaters…with a nearly unmatched thud. > > If you remember from our previous instalment of What…
neutral · AI labelView post →I find Superman III to be a fun superhero movie written by Leslie and David Newman, who went on to write “Santa Claus The Movie” and the screenplay for Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”. I love the bad Superman sequence, and the fight between Clark and Supes!
positive · AI labelView post →- The producers of Superman III were criminals for turning that actress into a cyborg. She had a whole non-cyborg life ahead of her and they just snatched it away! All for the sake of a dumb movie! - You know she turns human again at the end, right? - They did that with special effects, idiot.
neutral · AI labelView post →Weirdly, I saw this before I ever saw Star Wars as well as Space Raiders (1983, also Corman, also same Horner score, also same special effects, JESUS ROGER). My early film memories are some shite, I can tell you. Superman III was the most astonishing thing to me as a tot. #TheFilmCrowd
neutral · AI labelView post →If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek", "Doctor Who," or "Transformers." Possibly misplaced, but the Robot Woman from Superman III was one of the earliest "scary movie" things I'd seen up to that point.
neutral · AI labelView post →Large Marge shook me up, but that was only for the day. The end of Superman III made it impossible for my parents to get me inside a movie theater for years after that. If Superman himself could betray me, nothing was safe.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a great time chatting to Rob and Chris about the finest film of the 1980s, the flawless Superman III
positive · AI labelView post →Never forget that the first Supergirl film in the 80s was held up as the reason that we couldn't have female-led superhero films even decades into the X-Men & MCU franchises... despite it being no worse than Superman III & IV. Because "girl."
neutral · AI labelView post →After watching it three times, Superman (2025) is my favorite Superman movie. My personal rankings: 1. Superman (2025) 2. Man of Steel 3. Superman II 4. Superman: The Movie 5. Superman III 6. Superman Returns 7. Superman IV
neutral · AI labelView post →And I’m pretty sure the last Superman film I saw was Superman III at the Northwest Plaza Cinema in Muncie. (This picture is from a few years later, based on the movies playing. The theater doesn’t exist anymore.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Fired up SUPERMAN III on Max, and was treated to an unexpected (but welcome) TCM intro before the movie started.
neutral · AI labelView post →A fun day of board games and Jackbox Now home for a cold drink and a bad movie It's time for Superman III
negative · AI labelView post →Ten films to know me: Dr Strangelove F For Fake The Girl Can't Help It! The Wicker Man Superman III Elvis: That's The Way It Is This Is Spinal Tap Knives Out Head Popeye Yes, I really am *that* utterly middlebrow in my film tastes.
positive · AI labelView post →A Useful Ghost is the clear winner this week, but I enjoyed Not Another Teen Movie and Superman III quite a bit. Backrooms was also a movie I watched. (the rest of the audience seemed to like it a lot more than I did, so your mileage may vary)
positive · AI labelView post →Probably Superman III, at first I thought of Temple of Doom, but Temple is just mediocre, while Superman III was probably the first movie to make me wish I could unsee it. (My opinion remains unchanged.)
negative · AI labelView post →🎉 Happy #SupermanDay ‘26! To celebrate, we have a special bonus edition of the podcast out today — in which Superman historian Ed Gross returns for a tour through Supergirl’s on-screen adaptations. We talk about the wild unmade SUPERMAN III, the eventual Helen Slater movie, & much more. 🎧 NOW!
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman III from 1983. I have such vivid memories of seeing all the Christopher Reeve Superman movies in theatres. At 16 years old, I knew this was a stupid movie. But how could you not love this man and his perfect portrayal?
neutral · AI labelView post →When I saw this post my first thought was “SUPERMAN III *cannot* be your favorite movie”
neutral · AI labelView post →May 30 - Aaron Smolinski, baby Clark Kent in Superman: The Movie and also appears in Superman II (The Donner Cut), Superman III, and Man of Steel, is born in Calgary, AB, CA in 1975. #AaronSmolinski #ClarkKent #Superman #DCComics
neutral · AI labelView post →A film as fun as #TheManWithTwoBrains should have been a hit but June 1983 was a fairly stacked moviegoing month. It opened the same day as WarGames and Psycho II; as the month went on Trading Places, Superman III, Octopussy, Porky's II, and the Twilight Zone movie entered the fray. #FlicksForAll
neutral · AI labelView post →Brian was right, nothing is worse than a bad DC movie. Our commentary track for SUPERMAN III is up NOW on Apple, Spotify, and more! Come join @redlreview.bsky.social and @thesmartalec.bsky.social as they continue the Supermanathon with this stinker! rss.com/podcasts/bou...
neutral · AI labelView post →Short film idea: Hamm as Superman doing a shot for shot remake of JUST the drunk Superman scenes from SUPERMAN III. It could show at the Alamo Drafthouse in one context, SDCC in another and the Hirschhorn in a third.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know if you could rightly call it a kids' movie, exactly, but Superman III? With Vera being pulled into the machine and turned into a cyborg? Yeah, that messed me up pretty good.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two Reeve Superman moments that always almost make me cry thanks to perfect combo of performance, direction and stirring musical cue- when he catches Lois and the Helicopter in the first film, and when he stand up and opens his shirt to reveal that S after beating the Evil Superman in Superman III
positive · AI labelView post →Only three more sleeps! Being but a few days away from #FThisMovieFest has me giddy with excitement, so celebrating with another #FlashBack! Fest 12 (2023) celebrating 1983: 🍿 WarGames 🍿 Superman III 🍿 Mr. Mom 🍿 Krull 🍿 Valley Girl 🍿 Return of the Jedi www.fthismovie.net/2023/02/anno...
neutral · AI labelView post →I played Ricky in Superman III…I’m hoping this movie is better than that one! 😬😆
negative · AI labelView post →Superman movie. FUN! Big! Awesome! Fun! But just like in Superman ‘78, Superman III, and Superman Returns, Lex Luthor is just trying to get rich off a dubious Real Estate scheme.
neutral · AI labelView post →Obligatory Superman film ranking. 1. Superman II 2. Superman (1978) 3. Man of Steel 4. Superman (2025) 5. Superman III 6. Superman Returns 7. Batman vs Superman 8. Superman IV
neutral · AI labelView post →Latest Superman movie is exceptional. Casting is spot on, every lead playing it to perfection esp, David, Rachel and Nicholas. Story, music, SFX 💯👌 I'd say: Superman II Superman (2025) Superman: the Movie Man of Steel Superman Returns Superman III Superman IV Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman II is excellent, and Superman III is a great Silver Age Superman film. Superman IV and Superman Returns, though - not good (even if Brandon Routh does Christopher Reeve Superman amazingly).
positive · AI labelView post →SUPERMAN III isn't the best movie in the world, but at least it had a lot of fun energy to it, plus that iconic Bad Superman sequence culminating in a Clark Vs. Supes fight. SUPERMAN IV is just sad. Not "sad" just as in "this is a bad movie," but "sad" as in "it made me sad."
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably sacrilegious to say but SUPERMAN II is better than SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE. And SUPERMAN III ain't bad either. It's just goofy as shit.
positive · AI labelView post →And the other movie that scared the hell out of me was Superman III when Vera got sucked into the machine at the end and turned into an android.
neutral · AI labelView post →First I heard of it was the movie Superman III in the early 1980’s
neutral · AI labelView post →Found this old Superman III movie comic under the bed just now and it's so sweet, except... what the hell did he call Superman?! 😂
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