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Superman Returns
Superman Returns may seem an unlikely Oscar candidate. But the Warner Bros. picture nabbed a nomination for best visual effects.

Even though the superhero story requires more than a little suspension of disbelief, one IMDB contributor didn't let a scientific slip-up in the movie slide. In the movie, the user points out, Lois Lane uses the failure times of electronic systems to pinpoint Lex Luthor's hideout. Those failure times are differentiated by seconds. But an electromagnetic pulse travels far faster than any conventional timepiece would be capable of measuring.

A second error was spotted when Luthor inserts a crystal into a kryptonite cylinder and the crystal immediately starts growing. Since the crystals are described as needing water to grow (and the cylinder was obviously dry), the crystal shouldn't have reacted until after it was launched into the ocean.

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