4 Movies That Get Weird Quick (When You Break Them Down)

1Lex Luthor’s First Map, Superman

We hate to double-dip on Lex Luthor here, but in 1978’s Superman, not only was his real estate scam at least equally stupid to what he had planned in Superman Returns, but his maps were even less thought out.

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In the first movie, Luthor (played this time by Gene Hackman) also monologued his evil plan, this time to Superman himself. His plan was to fire a stolen 500 megaton nuclear missile at the San Andreas fault line, triggering a massive earthquake and sending everything west of the fault line into the ocean. This would, in turn, make all of the worthless desert land east of the fault line Luthor has been buying up skyrocket in value. He tells Superman all about this plan while the missile was already heading towards its target.

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“There’s no TIME stop me! Now, let’s TURN BACK to my plan.”

To further hedge his bets, Luthor also fired a second missile at the same time, this one heading straight for Hackensack, New Jersey. Believing that Superman couldn’t possibly be fast enough to stop both missiles, it looks like he was trapping the Man of Steel in a high stakes trolley problem that made no damn sense. Let’s see here … Save the entire west coast from destruction, save millions of lives, and foil this supposed genius’ evil plan? Or, save the roughly 36,000 people living in Hackensack, New Jersey, many of whom might consider a nuclear blast an upgrade? Hmm … it’s a thinker.

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Anyway Luthor again uses a map to detail his plan, this one having already been installed on the floor of the abandoned Metropolis train station he was using as his secret hideout. Luthor’s henchman, Otis, brings in two plexiglass overlays. The first one shows California still intact, with a line showing where the San Andreas fault is. The second one shows the aftermath, with everything west of the fault from San Francisco to San Diego now underwater, and all of the cities along the new west coast… Lex Luthor’s west coast. Oh, and Otisburg.

4 Movies That Get Weird Quick (When You Break Them Down)
Source: Pinoy Daily News