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Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes
Jon Sandys writes "Spider-Man 2 may have won over the critics, but the hard-nosed bastards at moviemistakes.com are listing 31 mistakes already - and no, not nitpicky stuff that's different from the comics. A scar swaps sides on Peter Parker's face and dummies are visible in hurled cars, not to mention the numerous errors involving tritium which I'm sure Slashdot readers will enjoy refuting. Read the complete listing on the Spider-Man 2 page." Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful.
In one scene, Spiderman is leaping and twirling like he's a male gymnast. Then in the next, he has a heterosexual love interest.
"Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful." Unless those people get bitten by RADIOACTIVE spiders. Why do you people even bother going to the Cinema, if you are that goddamned critical? Why were there explosions in space in Star Wars? Because, they fucking looked cool exploding in space.
I beg to differ, I did indeed become ultra powerful after being bitten by a spider...
Or perhaps that was after I licked that toad...
Either way, definately ultra powerful.
Oh yes, and the soundtrack also has mistakes. Two canons are horrendously overlapped, the motif is altered by two notes in several reprisals and if you listen to it backwards it says "Jay and Silent Bob are better than Spidey".
Factual Error: When real scientists cybernetically attach themselves to an artificial intelligence, we use two, seperate, completely redundant systems to prevent ourselves from being turned evil.
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Deliberate "mistake": When Mary Jane is being pulled toward the tritium when Doc Ock has her, the shot is taken from her feet up to her head. If you look where her dress ends, you can just barely see that instead of having the regular open dress, it is switched with shorts of the same type so you can't see under her dress. Submitted by Guy Strad
.especially if it's Kirsten's dress.
I hate it when I can't see up an open dress. .
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
Cause hes telling people to stop looking at the site.
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At the end of the "I've changed" conversation with Mary Jane, the taxi is right next to her (you can see its roof next to her face), yet in the next shot, she has to cross the street to get to it.
Because as we all know, there is only one working taxi in New York City.
Vonal Declosion
Don't you guys get it? You're not supposed to just point out the mistakes, you're supposed to *explain how they are not really mistakes at all.* Then, you write into the letter page of your favorite Marvel comic book and claim your No Prize!
Spiders don't spin web from their wrists.
But I suppose a bit of realism here would give the movie (and comic book) an "X" rating. Would have been funny to see him net bad guys that way though...
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What are you getting all worked up about? Go ahead, make a Soviet Russia joke or a hot-grits joke. You'll feel better, I promise.
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Peter Parkers physiology is more man than spider. Therefore, he should be called: Man-Spider.
Damn, I just got bit by a spider as I was out walking last night. I can't believe that I wasted the last 24 hours building a webshooter for nothing.
Well, now that you mention it, it would be kind of interesting to see Spidey trade in his suit for a bowler hat and codpiece, and belt out "Singin' in the Rain" while stomping on some bad guy. The cinematography would be beautiful, a la "2001" or "Barry Lyndon", which is good, 'cause you'd get about five minutes between each line of dialog to study it...
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
movie points out mistakes about you
I have found a few errors on their website (:
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While we bicker over a movie, what about the mistakes in real life?
1. You are free.
2. You read slashdot because you're an 'intellectual'
3. That +5 Karma you have was hard earned.
4. You don't like Britney Spears and don't use windows at all.
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
So, where you the guy in the front row of Wizard of Oz shouting at the screen "Thats BULLSHIT man, monkeys dont fly!".
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Sure, whatever. If he was that worried about realism, why didn't he fix the godawful CGI guys walking around the deck with stretchy-legs(tm)?
Luckily, he still got a percentage of the box office and ended up just fine.
That wasn't lucky - now he'll just feel encouraged to do it again.
I thought the chainsaw in the operating room was an obvious homage to the Evil Dead movies. I've never heard of a medical chainsaw... but I'm not a doctor.
That Peter Parker wasn't bit by a radioactive dung-beetle. Just imagine what his super powers would be then..
..........FULL STOP.
I am not, nor have ever been, a comic book guy.
That said, I've watched various incarnations of comic books on TV an movies, and I've watched Spiderman since I was a kid.. From the old campy 70s show to the movies..... hey, this movie has the same problem.. WHAT THE FUCK IS HE SWINGING FROM? Conveniently located blimps?
I digress.. Hey, anyone remember Spidey on "the electric company?"
I digress again..
In some show, somewhere, I saw Peter Parker making up little canisters of the webbing, and stocking his suit up.. It was something he cooked up in his lab (being a genious scientist) to keep with the Spider theme.. Kind of like Batman keeps his Bat theme going..
Anyhow, in the movie, it's apparent that creating webbing is one of his powers.
So my question.. In the original comic, does the webbing actually come from his body, or is it an invention of Peter Parkers?
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If you can get "insightful" for that copy-paste job, then surely I can nab a "funny" for saying "LINEBREAKS!".
But still funny
A teenager was arrested early Wednesday in a California theater showing "Spider-Man 2" after a projectionist using night vision goggles saw him using a camcorder to make an illegal copy of the superhero sequel.
I told myself about 5 minutes in, if applied so much as a 5-year-old's grasp of science to this movie, I'd be getting dragged away by security for creating a disturbance. Stop a self-sustaining fusion reaction by dumping it in a river indeed.
What the heck is a 'sig'?
Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful
of course not! the spider has to be radioactive, silly.
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
Was it just me, or was there a continuity error involving MJ's nipples? In the scene near the end where spidey holds up the wall to prevent it from falling on her, I thought I saw MJ nippin' pretty bad just before the wall fell. Then, as spidey is standing over her holding the wall, her nipples are no longer showing through.
Of course, I may have just have been wishing her hardcore nippage from earlier in the movie was still there. Anyone else notice this?
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But then, what good is a microscopic amount of tritium going to be as a plot device?
About the same amount of good as having your main character get a small welt and mild itching after being bitten by a genetically-engineered spider.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
making the movie in the first place. :)
I'm still waiting for a CGI Transformers movie.
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When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
The problem with these kind of cricisms at this site is that once you set up a site to try very hard to find problems, people tend to find problems that aren't problems, just to get their entry on the page: Here's some examples:
Audio problem: It's clear that due to the tentacles' heaviness, they have to made some kind of sound when moving. But yet when Doc Ock takes the tritium from Harry in his house, he leaves without making any sound at all.
Doc Ock's normal limbs were also there, in addition to his mechanical ones (He's not called Doc Quad, after all), and therefore he could still walk normally, just holding his mechanical limbs in the air and not doing anything with them (except holding onto the loot, of course). That could still be silent. Thus the implied sneaky getaway he allegedly made while off-camera is possible.
Continuity: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself, so he should be under it as they descend, yet in the final shot of him sinking into the ocean, the ball is below him and he is falling after it.
No. From the shot, we see Ock in the foreground, and the ball behind him, and they are getting smaller. The critic probably interpreted this to mean that they were falling away from the camera. But when I viewed it I interpreted this as the camera's vantage point was underneath them both, and the camera was sinking faster than they were, into the depths. The way the shot looked, either interpretation works. (But I think a much larger problem is that the river is only about 60 feet deep, and that final shot makes it look like it just goes down and down and down at least several hundred feet.)
Besides, it's entirely possible, even if the critic's interpretation of the camara angles is right, that the two got turned around at some point when they were both off camera. The movie does imply that quite a few seconds have passed between the scene where Ock pulled the thing down and the underwater scene.
Continuity: After Doc Ock drops Spider-Man off at Harry's house, Spider-Man's legs, wrists and arms are bound. When he sits up after Harry unmasks him, he never breaks his legs free of the ties yet he no longer has anything holding his legs together
Things are often implied to happen off-camera in a movie. There were shots during which only the top half of spiderman is shown during that 'breaking out' scene, and so breaking out the legs could happen anywhere in there. The problem with finding errors of ommission is that they don't necessarily mean anything when there are moments that are implied to occur off camera. Otherwise everyone in the movie must be horrendously constipated since the movie is implied to take place over a period of several days, and nobody ever goes to the bathroom.
Continuity: After Peter changes into Spider-Man to deliver the pizzas and throws them onto the ledge to save the two children, the camera goes back to show the pizzas and the man living there finding them. There are only seven pizza boxes, without any damage done to them. When he actually delivers them, there are eight and a couple of them are now flattened or banged-up as they should be.
The fact that there are 8 instead of 7 - that's a problem, yes. The fact that they are now damaged when they weren't before - no that's not a problem in the slightest. Nowhere does it imply that zero time has passed between the pizza on the ledge scene and the delivering scene. Presumably the damage could have happened after the ledge scene.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
I don't know about you, but having a big-ass section of wall falling towards me would make my nipples go soft pretty fast! Probably also cause some retreating further south.
Glad to see other folks noticed the nippin' going on there. The slight under-my-breath invuluntary "ooh" that escaped was enough to earn me a punch in the arm and a dirty look from my girlfriend.
That? That was a pigeon.
Heh, I always noticed that too. The other thing that confused me is how he would be able to swing to the top of a building like he often does. The web is pretty much always attached to something higher but not actually visible. My hypothesis is that he is actually swinging from carefully placed blimps that are conveniently located around the city.
Anyway, you gotta give it to the guy, it's way cooler than flying.
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WTF? You are doing your part by conserving capital letters?
I guess you get to keep on secretly dreaming about Spidey coming out of the closet to declare his interest in you
Hmmm...
... or he'd shoot web from his ass.
He sticks his web to the inside top of your tv set.
Good point. We should pass a law prohibiting the construction of fusion reactors containing more than two solar masses of fuel (just to leave a good safety margin) on the Earth.
There's stars in the sky?
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