Even my BluRay player refused to play this movie as if he'd remember something I didn't.

To quote Christopher Reeve: "Superman IV was a catastrophe from start to finish. That failure was a huge blow to my career."

And the sad part in retrospect, he never got the chance to make another one. But I don't blame him for the failure despite co-writing the story. I think he wanted to make a story about the threat of nuclear destruction out of sincere worry. But the studio wanted crash, boom and bang and the usual silly comedy parts. Both of them mix very, very badly. Due to the lack of budget (it was cut in half shortly before production began) the SFX looks at times rediculous almost like those cheap scifi rip-offs that were made around that time. And pardon me for saying that, but Marc Pillow is one of the worst actors I've ever seen in a movie. His performance is a prime example of over-acting. Even Hackman's return as Lex Luthor can't save this movie from being a catastrophe. [spoiler] And pulling out the kiss and forget act on Lois again ? [/spoiler] Really ?! They clearly had no ideas left.

In hindsight it's amazing to see how over the span of ten years they ran the Superman movies into the ground.