I'm sure I'm going to get crap for this, but I'm honestly confused and would like to discuss the end of Superman (1978).

Towards the end the Superman commentary Trey says that Superman is NOT reversing the Earth's rotation to turn back time. Instead, Superman is merely flying faster than light & traveling back and the Earth only APPEARS to be rotating backward because the flow of time has reversed.

I understand that justification, but I really think it's flawed based on what we see in the film. Please bear with me for a moment.

If the above statement were true, the moment Superman stops, time would resume moving forward at its normal pace and he should return to Earth to save Lois -- but that's not what we see in the film. Superman flies back in time. We see the montage of disasters reversing then he stops and changes the direction he is flying and continues to fly fast around the world. If the "flying fast to go back in time" argument was valid, he would continue to travel BACK in time regardless of the direction he was flying.

I really think the movie just got it wrong and is showing Superman reversing the direction of the earth's rotation = time travel. I swear I'm not some IMDB posting schmuck.

For reference, here is a link to the scene courtesy of Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjgsnWtBQm0

Last edited by braedan51 (2013-06-10 02:25:41)