Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Corrected entry: In the opening shot, the Starship is the only thing floating above the entire surface of Coruscant. However, when the two Jedi starfighters fly underneath the Starship, the entire planet is covered with ships, missiles, lasers, and there is fighting everywhere. (00:02:00 - 00:02:30)

Correction: That ship is the very thing hiding the fighting, giving it that overwhelming effect.

Correction: You can never fully see how much of his arm was cut off in episode II, as he is wearing his baggy Jedi outfit. So he could have lost it just under the elbow.

Corrected entry: When Beru is showing the baby (Luke) to Owen, in the shot facing them, Owen straightens up. In the next shot, he repeats this movement. (02:08:10)

Correction: He doesn't straighten up completely in the first shot, he is still crouching a bit. When it cuts he is still crouching, then he straightens up fully while putting his arm around Beru. So it's not the same movement.

Mortug

Corrected entry: When the vulture droids are approaching the Jedi starfighters, Obi-Wan says, "Let them pass between us." As he stops talking, his mouth is still moving. (00:03:40)

Correction: This isn't true. Watch closely. It appears so because he shows his teeth after saying it for some reason.

Corrected entry: In the first shot of the scene where Anakin tells Mace Windu that Palpatine is a Sith lord, Kit Fisto and Agen Kolar are standing still, but in the next shot, they are suddenly walking. (01:04:55)

Correction: Time passes between shots, and judging by the distance they have covered between shots, no more than two seconds need to have passed.

Corrected entry: When Padmé is talking to Anakin on Mustafar, she says, "Come away with me." In the next shot, both of her hands are touching his head, but in the previous shot, only one of her hands were touching him.

Correction: With Anakin's head in the way and from that angle, it is impossible to say if she raised her second hand to touch his head or not. The next shot implies that she did, so she did, and hence, no mistake.

Corrected entry: On Grievous' ship, after Anakin unlocks Palpatine's cuffs and after Palpatine says, "Now we must leave before more security droids arrive," Anakin can be seen following Palpatine while still gripping his lightsaber. In the next immediate shot, his saber is clipped to his belt.

Correction: Look at Anakin's position in the shot where he's holding the saber and his position when he has it clipped on his belt. Dooku's corpse will help. Enough time for him to have clipped it between shots.

Corrected entry: During the opening space battle, Anakin's and Obi Wan's microphones alternates between being in front of their mouths, their chins and their necks.

Correction: And what's wrong with that? We see them being misplaced every time the ships are hit or shake or tumble or spin, they simply moved the microphones around between shots. The shots of a movie aren't supposed to be all that happens. They're supposed to be bits and pieces of what happens. Little things we don't need to see (like the heroes placing their microphones in front of their mouths) happen between shots.

Corrected entry: When Aayla Secura (the female Jedi with blue skin) is killed on Felucia, in the first shot of her, she's holding a lightsabre in her right hand. In the next shot, the same sabre is clipped to her belt, and her right hand is empty. In the following shot, she's holding it again and there's no lightsabre hanging from her belt. (Even if she carries two lightsabres, it offers no explanation for this specific mistake.) (01:18:30)

Correction: She carries one lightsaber. It's just that she's holding it in her right hand as they're walking, then clips it to her belt between the first and the second shot, just after they stop in front of the droids (there are droids in the foreground if you look closely when they stop). Notice how her hand is on the saber in the second shot, like she just placed it there and is ready to draw it if something happens. Something happens in the next shot, she senses the danger in the Force, and draws it. Just before she is shot, she's holding the saber as if she just unclipped it from the position we saw it in the previous shot. Obviously some time passes between the shots.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Anakin and Obi-Wan rescue the chancellor, the chair that Palpatine is sitting in and the pedestal it's standing on keeps changing position between shots, sometimes dramatically. For example, in the second shot of the scene, the chair and the pedestal are standing in the middle of the floor in front of the great window, in the next shot, they are standing on the right side of the window.

Correction: It seems they are changing position because of the angle. In the first and last shot that the chair is visible, we look at it from a distance and from a straight angle. In all the other shots the camera is on the right and that is why it seems to be closer to the right side of the window.

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the great space battle, Odd Ball says, "Set S-foils in attack position" but his mouth is closed. (00:03:20)

Correction: It is the clone behind him saying this; all clones voices sound alike and it is difficult to see his mouth move.

Corrected entry: When the Emperor tells Commander Cody to execute order 66, it cuts to a shot of the Emperor looking at a hologram of Commander Cody. The device that Commander Cody is holding doesn't project a hologram in the hologram. Yet when Yoda is talking to the Jedi council on Kyahsak, other members, such as Ki-Adi-Mundi appear as holograms inside Yoda's hologram.

Correction: Well, it is not important for Cody to see the hologram in the hologram. The recording facility at the emperors end might be focused only at the emporer or might simply not record a holo-projection. It might just be a simplier form of holo-communication for longer distances. Lots of reasons to use different forms of communication detail.

Christoph Galuschka

Corrected entry: When Grievous arrives on Utapau after the battle with Obi-Wan & Anakin, he talks with the hologram of Sidious in his disfigured state, but this disfigurement is caused by his battle with the Jedi Mace Windu (as he tells an audience himself later in the film)later on in the film. So really Grievous should be talking to the healthy looking and normal speaking Palpatine.

Correction: The face of Sidious is not mutated when Grievous talks to him. All we can see of Sidious' face in the hologram is his mouth and chin, which don't look much different after he is mutated compared to before he's mutated.

Corrected entry: When Mace Windu is deflecting Darth Sidious' lightning bolts (force lightning), Sidious says, "Don't let him kill me" but the first three words don't match the movement of his lips. (01:10:50)

Correction: This is a result of Sidious' face mutating due to the reversal of his force lightning.

Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan and Anakin escape from their bounds and tackle Grievous's bodyguards at the beginning of the film Obi-wan decapitates the last bodyguard. But it still lives and is able to fight him. Later when Obi-Wan drops the huge block on the bodyguards, before he fights Grievous, one bodyguard gets up and goes for its weapon. Obi-Wan kills this bodyguard by cutting off its head.

Correction: The bodyguard was already badly damaged from being hit by the block - as such, the decapitation was enough to stop it. In the earlier instance, the guard was otherwise unscathed, so is able to continue functioning despite the loss of its head.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Mace Windu is talking to Yoda, Ki-Adi-Mundi and Aayla Secura via holograms in the Jedi war room, as he says, "The Jedi Council would have to take control of the Senate in order to secure a peaceful transition.", his lightsabre is visible. A short time later, when he confronts Darth Sidious, he is carrying a different sabre. (He only has one sabre.). (00:59:10 - 01:08:00)

Correction: Even if he only uses one saber at a time, there is nothing wrong with Mace Windu owning more than one saber. And since the confrontation with Palpatine happens some time later, he could have switched to one with a different design. Maybe the one he used against Palpatine had some specific functions the other did not?

Twotall

Corrected entry: When Count Dooku drops the platform on Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan's lightsabre is nowhere to be seen, but when Anakin goes to pick him up, it is lying on the floor next to him. (00:12:45 - 00:14:35)

Correction: That is because Obi-Wan is lying on the saber. It becomes visible when Anakin moves him.

Mortug

Corrected entry: After Anakin is accepted on the Jedi Council, Ki-Adi-Mundi says, "What about the droid attack on the Wookies?", but the words are heard before his lips start moving. (00:36:20)

Correction: It's hard to see but under his moustache you can see his lips move through the whole sentence.

Mortug

Corrected entry: When Samuel L. Jackson says, "I don't think the boy can handle it, I don't trust him," his lips don't match his dialogue when he says, "I don't trust him."

Correction: After watching the scene several times i can tell his lips match.

Mortug

Corrected entry: In the scene where Anakin is holding onto the ledge in the elevator shaft, with Obi-Wan holding onto Anakin, Palpatine is holding onto Obi-Wan's ankle. When they decide to jump down, Palpatine lets go of Obi-Wan's ankle to free fall. In the very next shot, Palpatine is magically holding onto Obi-Wan's ankle again.

Correction: He was able to grab on to Obi-Wan's ankle when they were falling.

Mortug

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Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan meets Anakin on the landing bay of the volcanic planet, Obi-Wan comes down the ramp from the ship and removes his cloak. It lays across the end of the ramp. The shot changes, then comes back, and the cloak is now bunched off to one side. (01:42:30)

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Trivia: In the scene where Darth Vader and the Emperor are looking out onto the unfinished first Death Star, keep an eye out for a young Grand Moff Tarkin (played by Peter Cushing in "Star Wars").

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Question: When some Jedi die, they disappear (Yoda, Obi-wan). When others die, they don't (Qui-gon, Vader). Why is that? I thought this phenomenon would be explained in this movie, but unless I missed something, no explanation was given.

Matty Blast

Chosen answer: Powerful force users seem to have some degree of control over their bodies even after death. In the later series, Luke's wife Mara Jade Skywalker only allows her body to disappear when her killer, and nephew Jacen Solo arrives at her funeral as a clue. Thus it appears that a powerful force user can simply choose if they wish their body to disappear.

Darius Angel

Answer: Towards the end of the movie Yoda tells Obi Wan that Qui Gon has learned the path to imortality and offers to teach this to Obi Wan. In the Clone Wars TV series we see the journey Yoda takes to learn this power. The power to become one with the force is a power you have to learn as opposed to being achievable to all Jedi. Both yoda and Obi Wan has the years between ROTS and ANH/ESB to fine tune and master this power. It is possible that Darth Vader, having seen Obi Wan become one with the force, spent the following years after A New Hope, studying and learning this skill by himself, hence how he was able to appear as a force ghost towards the end of Return of the Jedi, but not quite skilled enough to dissapear on cue.

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