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Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes

Posted by timothy on from the stop-the-presses dept.

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.

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  1. 32 already by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm surprised that nobody noticed this biggie:

    In one scene, Spiderman is leaping and twirling like he's a male gymnast. Then in the next, he has a heterosexual love interest.

    1. Re:32 already by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny

      Edit: Of course. (Flash required)

    2. Re:32 already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In one scene, Spiderman is leaping and twirling like he's a male gymnast. Then in the next, he has a heterosexual love interest.

      As someone who got First Post in a Slashdot Spider-Man article, I highly doubt you are qualified to make such a differential assertion.

    3. Re:32 already by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny
      Brilliant :)

      So... what are you doing this evening?

  2. IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by black88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

    1. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by noewun · · Score: 5, Insightful
      But this would remove the ability of those who wish to make movies but never to feel superior by pointing out the mistakes of others.

      A harsh opinion? Perhaps. But sometimes it is the only way I can explain this middle school "neener neener neener" stuff. I would like to see these people work on a major motion picture and see how they feel afterwards.

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    2. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by Xeth · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Indeed, but radioactive spiders and super powers are forgivable stuff. Stupid stuff (like the Eigenvalue thing, which particularly bugged me) is what really riles the nerds. As Orson Scott Card said, you can ask your audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable. Writing your own rules are fine, as long as you're up front about it, but doing silly things without an apparent reason will tick some) people off.

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      If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
    3. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by Engineer+Andy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm sure these were the same people who objected to the ents in LOTR as trees seldom pick up roots and walk, or pointed out the time travel anomalies in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban (sp?) with respect to special relativity.

      It's called suspending disbelief, and some people, it would appear, are incapable of doing it.

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    4. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by Blastercorps · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You act as though you think the people on that site do nothing but critique and criticise the movies they see. Is it so hard to believe that some people can watch a movie, enjoy it, and then at a later date enjoy poking fun at the obvious mistakes the movie makers let slip? You act as if these people NOT having orgasms in their seats over every movie ever made is the worst thing to ever happen. As you said: "It's a movie, for christ's sake!"

    5. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by rorymoon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Since the first movie I've been wondering why the webs come of out his wrists. What aspect of the mutation brought about this particularly useful super power? If he was really taking on the properties/abilities of a spider, would they not shoot out of his arse? Or somewhere thereabouts ...

    6. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by Mister+Skippy · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The best I could say is that in the short lived Spider-Man 2099 comic book, spinnerettes grew as part of the mutation for that particular Spider-Man.

      According to IMDB: James Cameron wrote a treatment for this film, over the years, as the rights to the character jumped between companies, nearly all his ideas were scrapped except for the biological web-shooters.

      Also from IMDB: In the comics, Peter Parker designed and made Spider-Man's synthetic spider web and the mechanical wrist guns that fire it. In the movie he shoots the web from his own body. Director Sam Raimi answered the protests of comic book fans saying that it was more credible to have Peter shoot web this way than for a high school boy to be able to produce a wonder adhesive in his spare time that 3M could not make.

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    7. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! by OldManAndTheC++ · · Score: 5, Funny

      (p.s. IANAP... tachyons are still considered only theoretical, right?)

      Certainly not! How else could I be writing to you ... FROM THE YEAR 3004 AD!!!!!

      Oh and btw, don't take the bus on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Seriously. You don't affect history, but your son was captain of the first Earth-Saturn probe.

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  3. Rushed through post-production? by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Getting a feature film to be internally consistant with itself is not as easy as it seems, and it only gets harder the more shoots and scenes there are.

    But there's always a chance to catch these things in editing... in fact, that scar mistake was most likely introduced when somebody took a mirror image of a shot for some reason or another, and forgot that it'd end up reversing the side of the face the scar appears. Sure, that could be fixed in editing, but if they forgot to do it... well, it ends up on that site.

    Seems like the bigger the film, the more of these glitches surface as they rush to the box office.

    1. Re:Rushed through post-production? by lawpoop · · Score: 5, Interesting

      That's interesting. I heard an interview on NPR with an astronomer who criticizes night skies in movies. He said that for all the detail that Cameron claims to have gone through (some of which is difficult to verify, such as what plates they were using, the wallpaper in the hallways), there was one large verifiable mistake. The night sky that Winslet looks up into after the ship sank is totally fabricated, with no constellations -- in fact, it's a symmetrical image of stars! (as I remember the interviewee claiming -- never saw it myself.) By contrast, the most realistic night sky was from Lawrence of Arabia, with no recognizable constellations, but still very realistic.

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  4. Randall. by EvilJohn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What was it he said?

    "There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others."

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    Less Talk, More Beer.
  5. 3.141 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. More mistakes and trivia by rfernand79 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

  7. Hurting people, with science by sam_handelman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  8. One more mistake by yoshi1013 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Also, Tobey Maguire isn't Spider-Man in real life, he's just an actor.

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  9. Re:My Favorite Mistake by D+iz+a+n+k+Meister · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    I hate it when I can't see up an open dress. . .especially if it's Kirsten's dress.

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  10. Lone Taxidriver by CptChipJew · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  11. Lots of No-Prizes will be awarded... by tomRakewell · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  12. Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes by telstar · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes"
    • ...somebody's got to give Slashdot some competition.

  13. The biggest problem with spiderman by earthforce_1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  14. Re:My only gripe by istewart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I get the impression that both Spider-Man movies take place in the near (but not immediate) future. For instance, in the first one, they're celebrating a "World Unity Day" (some kind of PC World's Fair) and the military is testing advanced exosuits. (Not to mention that weird neutron grenade that the Goblin uses to disintegrate the Oscorp board.) In the second one, Jameson's son is an astronaut who has already been to the moon. Little background details like that make it easier to assume, for the purposes of the story, that somebody (maybe even Octavius) has perfected a more efficient means of harvesting tritium.

  15. Re:My only gripe by stienman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually the technicality here is that they never mentioned how pure the tritium was.

    In this case they only needed 0.001% pure tritium, so the size of the ball was entirely plausable.

    -Adam

  16. Errors, you say? by dema · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have found a few errors on their website (:

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /usr/www/users/jsandys/includes/phpconfig1.php on line 2 Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /usr/www/users/jsandys/includes/phpconfig1.php on line 3 Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /usr/www/users/jsandys/includes/randomtitle.php4 on line 4 Warning: mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /usr/www/users/jsandys/includes/randomtitle.php4 on line 16 Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/www/users/jsandys/includes/randomtitle.php4 on line 20

  17. Re:My only gripe by geomon · · Score: 5, Informative

    No one, including the US or former Soviet government, has ever had that much tritium in one place like that.

    Bullshit.

    The Hanford Reservation has several square MILES contaiminated with tritium.

    It was in the last process stream before discharging it to the ground - over the course of 40 years.

    Here's a list of figures showing the groundwater contamination at the Hanford Site. Keep in mind that the area in the boundary is 540 SQUARE MILES. Check out map S-7.

    That contamination doesn't include what is trapped in the vadose, the waste streams that have been treated in treatment facilities, and the tritium produced at Savannah River, Pocatello, and New York.

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  18. Re:Three things that got me... by jCaT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One thing is bugging me about your comment....

    Did you ever read the comic books? Really. You're wondering how robotic arms could attach to someone's spine, but you're OK with the fact that there's a guy that can shoot webs out of his wrists?

    I think some people actually go out of their way to NOT enjoy a movie at times. Just sit back, relax, and ignore the stupid shit. It's a fantasy movie, for chrissakes.

  19. Re:Evil Dead - Army of Darkness by MrPoopyPants · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  20. newsflash by blue_adept · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful

    of course not! the spider has to be radioactive, silly.

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  21. Re:My Favorite Mistake by stuffman64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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