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Spider-Man Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter is visiting Aunt May in the hospital, the sweater on the back of his chair changes position.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the alleyway fight involving Mary Jane, Spider-man yanks all four men off of her with webbing. The webbing is strong enough to drag them across the street, however when he hops down off the lamppost, all the webbing is gone.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter is talking with his uncle in the car the background is completely different than when he gets out of the car.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Peter's hair in the cemetery scene
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Mary-Jane is attacked in the rain in the alley Peter is shown running along the roof changing into his costume, you can clearly see he is already wearing his mask, but when he fights the thugs he has no mask.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Spider-man swings MJ to safety and we see them swinging close-up, not only is MJ's hair blowing in the wrong direction, but Spider-man's head, neck and shoulders appear to be stiff as if it were a mannequin she is holding on to for the sake of the shot.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter meets Mr. Osborn for the first time in front of the museum, the people behind Peter on the steps change between shots. People who are standing still disappear and re appear.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Peter wakes up after getting bitten he puts on his glasses and the entire screen become blurred not just the part looking through the glasses.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter is practicing his jumping from building, he starts off holding the web with his left hand over his right. When he smashes into the wall, his right hand is over his left.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Peter clobbers Flash, a fat boy with glasses can be seen standing in shock at Peter's abilities, then clapping and smiling, then standing in shock again between shots.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): In the scene with the burning building, when the Green Goblin says "No-one says no to me!", you can see the camera in the reflection of his eyes.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Peter is first becoming aware of his "spider sense" in school as Flash is approaching from behind, he sees a fly and a paper airplane moving in very slow motion. The fly has two wings when in reality, flies have two sets of wings, the main wings plus a smaller "halter" wings underneath (to maintain balance in flight), for a total of four wings.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Spider-Man first rescues Mary Jane at the Unity festival and swings her to safety, they are moving to the right but her hair is flowing that way, too, instead of blowing in Spider-Man's face.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter smacks the food tray onto Flash's back, the tray hits Flash on his left side. The stain from the food is shown on this side in differing sizes except for the moment Flash stands up and turns around, saying "Parker" - in which it is shown to be a huge stain on his right side.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When the car-jacker walks into the deserted warehouse, he has the gun in his left hand and the money bag under his right (flipped image). Next cut is to him reloading, and the gun is back into his right hand.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When the Green Goblin is trying to stab Spider-Man with his Trident, one of its points bends.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Mary Jane's jacket collar changes when she's talking to Peter outside the diner the first time.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Peter won the Bonesaw wrestling match by knocking him out, but when the fight promoter stiffs him, the promoter claims he pinned him for the victory.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In the scene with MJ in front of the spider cage, just prior to Peter being bitten, a spider on a thread can be seen just over Peter's right shoulder in the medium shots, and directly underneath the spot where he will be bitten. It disappears in the final cut before closeup coverage begins. Notice also that the focus changes on the background, indicating the use of different lenses or different spikes for the shots used.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the World Unity Fair sequence Times Square alternates between the real Times Square and the digitally altered one created for the movie. The main difference is the signage (i.e. the altered version doesn't have the gigantic Cup-O-Noodle sign). The Cup-O-Noodle sign can be clearly seen twice, and the bottom of it a 3rd time. First time when you first seen the Goblin flying in the distance, and the 2nd is during the shot from behind in when she flies past the Earth balloon before throwing the first bomb, the sign is on the left. Then when Goblin is flying off, you see the bottom of it.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Peter Parker is talking to Mr. Jameson about the Green Goblin and the name "Green Goblin" is first suggested... Mr. Jameson takes credit for the name and says something to the effect of "Call the Patent office, I want to copyright that name"... This is not factually correct. The PTO (Patent and Trademark Office) deals exclusively in only Patents and Trademarks, NOT copyrights. There is a separate and distinct Copyright Office which handles copyrights. He should have said, "Call the copyright office"
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Peter gets bitten by the spider, the camera pans over to a tv screen showing the spider DNA. You can see a camera man's head peek from behind the camera in the reflection
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Spider-Man pulls the wall down over the Green Goblin, the wall is still in one piece, but in the next shot the wall has been broken up and the bricks cover the Green Goblin.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the Thanksgiving dinner when everyone is seated at the table, MJ's arms jump about between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The hole which Spider-Man punches in the roof of a car disappears and reappears between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the cafeteria after MJ slips on the spilled beverage on the floor, later when Peter gets up, the beverage is gone.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): After depositing MJ on the green lawn at the church, Spider-man obviously jumps off of a mini trampoline over the hedge. As MJ runs behind to follow, she clearly has to step around the mini trampoline to approach the hedge.
Movie Goof (plot holes): In the scene where Spider-man jumps on the car, there's an in-car shot of the carjacker firing up at the roof. When the camera goes back to Spider-man on the roof of the car, the bullet hole switch position. In fact, if the bullet holes had stayed in position, Spider-man would have been killed.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): At the Times Square battle, when Green Goblin grabs Spider-Man's hand and says, 'impressive' his mouth doesn't move but stays shut.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): The extras at Columbia University are wearing cold weather clothing, appropriate for the seasonal setting. Students in the background wearing shorts and t-shirts blow the illusion and reveal that the scene was shot on a warm day.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When Spider-man catches the falling MJ from the balcony at Times Square, the first web he shoots in mid-air to swing away is directed at an angle impossible to grapple to any buildings in that area.
Movie Goof (plot holes): When Peter is practicing his web-slinging in his room and catches the lamp to pull it towards him, it doesn't appear to move very fast off the chest and looks more likely to fall on the floor before the shot changes. When it cuts to Peter, it speeds past his shoulder a lot faster to smash on the wall behind him. Furthermore, Aunt May would have easily seen the amount of webbing all over the room through the gap in the door as she's talking to him.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Norman Osborn test the experimental nerve gas, we see him in front of the gas chamber with a naked chest. In the next shot he's got tubes attached to his chest.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter spills the tray of food on Flash and runs out of the cafeteria, Flash has food on his shirt. Once in the hallway, the food disappears, reappears (but it's a smaller amount), and then disappears altogether.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): In the scene where Peter is walking behind Mary Jane, on the way to the bus, he stops and talks to himself. over his left shoulder is a car parked, with a Massachusetts license plate. Cars from many different states visit or pass through New York on a daily basis.
Movie Goof (continuity error): On the morning Peter does a little web practice, he talks to his Aunt at the door. After closing the door, we see that there are webs all over the room, even in the path he just walked to get to the door.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Mary Jane's hand disappears briefly from Peter's face at the cemetery.
Movie Goof (plot holes): At the wrestling arena, you can see men putting giant chains and padlocks on to lock the cage, but when Spider-man is declared winner, the cage goes up and opens when no one has removed the padlocks.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the fight scene between Flash and Peter Parker, a girl standing next to MJ disappears and reappears several times between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the parade attack sequence when MJ falls from the balcony she is first seen falling side-down. As Spider-Man catches her she is falling face-down. In the next shot, of Spider-Man about to catch her from above, she is on her side again.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the World Unity Fair when MJ is on the balcony that is all tilted askew, the light pole on the railing disappears and reappears.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Peter is fighting the carjacker in the warehouse, the thief drops his pistol to throw a knife at Peter, but when Peter thows him against the wall, the pistol is suddenly back in the car jacker's hand.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the science trip where Peter is bitten, Harry says that the microscope is the "largest electron microscope on the eastern seaboard". However, the microscope images shown are taken from a phase contrast microscope not an electron microscope. (Phase contrast gives less magnification but lets you work with live material, for example, the cell being manipulated in the image shown on the film).
Movie Goof (continuity error): While Norman Osborn is in the chamber, the electrode wires jump about between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When MJ is attacked in the alley, Spider-Man throws two of the attackers through the windows behind her. However, in the next shot of MJ the windows are whole again.
Movie Goof (continuity error): A blonde woman walks past twice in the same direction when Peter finds out from Mary Jane that she is dating his best friend.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the field trip scene in the beginning of the movie, Harry, Peter, and Mr. Osborn are talking outside the building, the students are walking up the stairs in the background during one shot and not in the background at all in the next. Later they return in the background once again.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When we see an exterior view of the Oscorp office building, just before Norman Osborn's meeting with the board, the main sign is for Oscorp. However, at each corner of the building, the ING logo with its distinctive lion can clearly be seen.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): In several scenes, the Green Goblin's mouth (which is visible through the mesh in the "mouth" of his mask) does not move while he is talking.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Several times, when Spider-Man speaks or even scream, his mouth/jaw does not move.