10 Movie Scenes Everyone Always Gets Wrong

Few who've seen Richard Donner's original 1978 Superman will forget the iconic scene where an enraged Superman (Christopher Reeve) turns back time in order to undo Lois Lane's (Margot Kidder) death.

Superman is seen flying around the Earth to reverse time, and because we're shown Earth spinning backwards on its axis, many chose to believe that the Man of Steel literally exerted enough force on the planet itself to reverse the flow of time.

But the real answer is a lot simpler and less-silly than that: Superman is actually flying around the Earth in order to reach the speed of light, allowing him to travel back through time. It's still relatively ridiculous, of course, but makes far more sense.

Showing the Earth rotating backwards is just an easy visual shorthand to explain to the audience what is happening to time, though it is at least easy to appreciate why so many people have gotten the scene wrong over the decades.