Spider-Man 2

Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock punches a yellow cab which flips over and is about to land on its side, inches away from the floor. When the angle changes, the cab is now a couple meters above from the floor, with a cab underneath, plus it's falling on it's 4 wheels.

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Continuity mistake: Spidey falls on a puddle and takes off his mask, his hair completely messy and wet. A frame later, when he is about to climb a wall, it's neat and brushed.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock kidnaps Mary Jane and walks by a bluish car with a girl laying on the hood, panicking, a boom mic is reflected on the windshield.

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Continuity mistake: During the bank robbery, Aunt May cries "Don't leave me!" and the distance between her head and the bank worker's swaps from close to far between one frame and the next.

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Continuity mistake: When Spidey runs out of web and plummets on some metal tubes, he lands with both arms up. A frame later one is up and another by his side.

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Continuity mistake: When aunt May places flowers by her husband's grave a green plant suddenly appears on the left side, between shots.

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Continuity mistake: In the bank, when Dr. Ock is throwing bags with coins at Spidey, a bunch of folders on the right appear / disappear randomly depending on the shot.

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Continuity mistake: During the cafe scene, Mary Jane's hair on her left side is stuck under her hat. When the angle changes, it's not.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock punches the yellow cab, the cabs on the left disappear, only to reappear seconds later.

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Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock points at the chip with his finger on his nape, but when the angle changes the finger is away and is approaching the nape again.

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Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock flies through the bank window and crashes against a cab, next to a metal cabinet. The cabinet changes positions between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock is thrown out of the bank he breaks a shop window, leaving no glass bits standing out of the frame. A second later there are glass part all around the window.

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Continuity mistake: Spider-Man falls on a puddle and looks at the wall in front. There's a window to his right, barely a metre from the floor, and an emergency staircase on the left. When he starts climbing, the staircase disappears and the window is now 10 metres above the ground, on the left side.

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Continuity mistake: Before Spider-Man saves the kids from being run over, they're running and are inches away from the road. Five seconds later, after several flying scenes, they've moved 5 metres behind and are running towards the road again.

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Continuity mistake: When Peter crosses the campus, its avenue is almost empty, but in the close-up it's filled with people.

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Continuity mistake: During the train scene, Spider-Man's mask had gone partially black. We also see it when Spidey puts his mask back on. Yet when Doc brings him to Harry, we don't even see a patch of darkness on his mask.

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Dr. Otto Octavius: I finally got lucky in love when I met Rosie here. She was discussing T.S. Eliot, and I was discussing... I still don't know what she was talking about!

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Trivia: In the scene where Peter drops his books on the college grounds and bends down to pick them up, a black bag comes by and smacks Peter in the face. The person carrying the bag is director Sam Raimi.

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Question: What exactly does Aunt May mean when she says, "What do you mean 'we'" after Spider-Man tells her, "We sure showed him"? Is she just being modest?

Answer: She's actually being funny because she thinks that she did all the work, instead of Spider Man.

Allyson

Answer: I later found out it could have been a reference to a Spider-Man comic. In the comic, after he rescues a girl from a bad guy, she says "We sure showed him!" There is a thinking bubble by Spider-Man's head saying "We?" It's like the conversation in the movie but in reverse.

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