Brian Kidd
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Next thing you know, they'll make a film where Superman can be horribly injured by a kryptonite dagger but then lift an entire island made of the stuff and throw it into space.
Next thing you know, they'll make a film where Superman can be horribly injured by a kryptonite dagger but then lift an entire island made of the stuff and throw it into space.
It isn't consistent, though, because simply being too close to kryptonite weakens and, eventually, kills him. There's no way he could lift an entire island made of the stuff and not have it kill him before he got it to space.That's consistent with Kal-El's super Kryptonian strength, however. Last I checked, humans aren't capable of surviving in the vacuum of space.
I think the explanation was that it wasn't pure kryptonite but rather a duplicate that Lex has synthesized so it wasn't as powerful as the raw stuff. Also, the idea was that he was sacrificing himself - he didn't expect to survive that. He just knew what had to be done.
I think the explanation was that it wasn't pure kryptoniteb hbut rather a duplicate that Lex has synthesized so it wasn't as powerful as the raw stuff.
Sounds like you're thinking of Superman III. I believe SR has a scene where Lex and co (again?!) steal the Addis Addaba meteorite from a museum.
The 134 minute cut Superman IV doesn't exist in a restorable state. All they have are workprint trims that are in too poor a condition to be reinserted into any version of the film. Allegedly Canon destroyed the raw negatives too so there's no way to reconstruct it anyway.