Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - 85 corrections

Directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Frank Oz, James Earl Jones, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew (add more)

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

Mistakes

Trivia

Pictures

Quotes

Easter Eggs

Corrections

Questions

Submit
Entry Early on in the film we see General Grievous escape from the Jedi by leaving a ship and skipping around in space. It is later established that the General has some internal organs (heart and maybe lungs) when Obi Wan kills him. How did these internal organs survive the vacuum of space, not to mention the cold and radiation? [According to Star Wars Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary, General Grievous's "gut sack is pressurized synthskin, allowing Grievous to survive in a vacuum." I assume this futuristic synthskin also protects his internal organs from the cold and radiation.]
Time
Entry For someone who needs a mask in order to breathe, Vader does a good job of screaming loudly while on the operating table. [As shown by the fact that he's still alive for what must be quite some time before Palpatine arrives to "rescue" him, it's pretty clear that he doesn't *need* the mask to breath, but it makes it far easier for him to do so. He can probably breath enough to scream while lying down, but a sith lord who can't really move about much isn't much good.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly Time
Entry The final scene of the movie shows Vader and the Emperor looking out at the Death Star being constructed. This doesn't fit with the storyline as there is almost 20 years between episodes 3 & 4, that is quite a slow construction. Compare this to the time in which the second and more powerful death star is almost finished. Some time could be accounted for through prototype versions and testing, but not 20 years. [This has already been covered elsewhere - considering that major building projects on Earth can take several years to complete, it's hardly unreasonable that it could take the Empire, even with their more advanced technology, twenty years to construct a battle station that's seventy-five miles across, involves at least one completely untried technology (the planet-destroying superlaser) and many other technologies on a scale previously unheard of. The second Death Star's construction would be quicker, as they'd have learned from building the first one, but it is quite clearly not even close to being finished - the amount of construction that's seen is quite consistent with a build time of two to three years.]
Corrected by Tailkinker Time
Entry After Palpatine has been rescued the ship starts to sink directly downwards. However there is a cut to Grievous at the front of the ship and everything is upright. [The point of view of this shot is directly facing Grievous, an image that would look the same no matter what angle the ship is at. [Note: Though not a part of the film, the book clarifies that Grievous's outer coverings are magnetic, which would cling to the floor of the vessel when it is magnetized.]]
Time
Entry Padme gives birth to two full size babies, but looking at her stomach, she's barely carrying one full size baby. [All women carry babies at different heights, and their stomachs appear to be different sizes.]
Time
Entry When Anakin cuts off both of Dooku's hands, Dooku's hands are at waist level. Yet after the cut, Dooku's lightsaber is now flying above head level for some unexplained reason. [Anakin either flipped it up in the air by directing his final slice upward, or he used the Force to do it so he could easily retrieve the saber.]
Time
Entry During Obi-Wan's departure scene on Coruscant, when he is telling Anakin how proud he is of him, Obi-Wan's eye color shifts from Ewan McGregor's' natural blue-green eyes to a dark brown. [There's no mistake or modification. The shift in Obi-Wan's eye color is due to a shift in shadowing and lighting,.]
Time
Entry On the bridge of Grievous' ship, Obi-wan cuts the head off of a magna droid and it keeps fighting. However, right before Obi-wan faces off with Grievous on Utapau, he cuts off the head of a magna droid and it falls dead. [The magna droid on Utapau is already badly damaged, so the loss of the head is enough to finish it off - in the prior encounter, the magna droid is otherwise in perfect shape, so is able to continue fighting.]
Corrected by Tailkinker Time
Entry As Anakin tries to land General Grievous' ship on Coruscant, they are escorted by ships that try to put out the fire on Grievous' ship by shooting liquid on the flames. Given the intense speed at which they are traveling, the liquid should immediately fly backwards in a mist rather than stay mostly in a stream as it leaves the escort ships. (Try throwing water out a car window at 60mph to understand). [If the pressure is high enough, the stream could maintain cohesiveness for the short distance to reach the ship. Also, since it some sort of fluid that is clearly heavier than water (as it foams up and sticks to the hull of the ship), that would help keep it together as well.]
Corrected by Guy Brigman Time
Entry When Palpatine and Mace Windu are fighting and Palpatine is taking damage. His mouth is gaping in pain and you can get a clear view of his teeth - the number, cleanliness and configuration change between shots. [Well, yes Palpatine's teeth are changing drastically between shots. They are quickly deteriorating, as is his face, as a result of the powerful reversal of his force lightening.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry After the crash landing on Coruscant, Anakin, Kenobi, and Palpatine take a shuttle to the Jedi Temple. While Anakin and Kenobi are talking by the shuttle entrance a droid behind them picks up a single piece of luggage. After a few more moments of dialogue the same droid picks up the same single piece of luggage. [This is incorrect. In the first shot of the luggage there are three items - two on the right and one on the left. The robot removes the top right item, the view flicks to Obi-Wan and then back to the luggage and Anakin, but the angle is different so the second item looks like it's in the first's position. However, the third left hand item proves its position as the lower item of luggage.]
Time
Entry Anakin has his lightsaber in his hands immediately after having his handcuffs cut off on the bridge of General Grievous' ship. In the next shot, he has to force-retrieve it from Grievous. [This is incorect. Obi-Wan has the lightsaber, as R2D2 releases him from the handcuffs he Force recalls it from Grievous with his back to him, meanwhile Anakin spins and is released by R2D2 he then turns and force retrieves it handcuff free.]
Time
Entry After Padme gives birth, her body was sent to her home planet to be laid to rest. Presumably this is a week or two later. However if you look at her stomach, it is partially inflated - can't be the babies, and wouldn't be gases either, given she's clearly been prepared for burial. [Padmé's belly is deliberately made to look as if she was STILL pregnant when she died, in order for everyone to think that the "baby' died, as well. There are but a few witnesses, Bail Organa, Yoda, Obi-Wan and the droids, to the very live birth of the twins. There is a dire need to safeguard the secrecy of the birth of Anakin/Vader's offspring - to protect Luke and Leia. There is even a close-up of Padmé's belly to stress the point of the deception.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry When Obi-Wan's ship is being attacked by the buzz droids, why would he not just use the force to knock them away? Also, the one R2-D2 destroys tumbles away as if being blown by wind, but there is no atmosphere in space and it should move with the same velocity. [As I recall, we've never seen evidence that Jedis can force push through objects, and while he can see the droids, his cockpit canopy's in the way. As for the destroyed droid, it doesn't tumble away, it slowly slides off. Basically there's not enough friction between it and the wing to keep it there - the wing is moving too fast for the droid's body to keep up using inertia alone.]
Time
Entry Anakin's clothes catch fire when on land, despite being exactly the same distance away from the lava as he was when standing on the droid earlier. [The droid has some unknown technology that allows it to both hover over the magma and be protected from the heat. This can be seen as an energy field while the droid is moving and is what prevents Anakin's clothing from combusting.]
Time
Entry In the opening battle General Grievous shatters the front glass on the bridge to escape. A metal barrier slides into place to stop the bridge from decompressing. But when Anakin is trying to land the disabled ship the metal barrier is gone and the glass appears to be back in place. If the metal barrier had just withdrawn everyone on the bridge would be being buffeted around to an insane degree by inrushing wind. [The metal shield only covered the damaged sections to the side (you can see it stop as it moves accross). On the closeup as the ship lands we can see only the very front of the bridge has intact glass, the rest of the bridge has metal shielding over the broken windows.]
Time
Entry Darth Vader has the red button on his chest on the right side, but in the original movies it was on the left. [It's hardly unreasonable to think that there would have been some modifications (upgrades, damage fixes) to his life-support suit in the years between the films.]
Corrected by Tailkinker Time
Entry In the original Star Wars, Obi-Wan gives Luke his father's lightsaber, which is green. The lightsaber taken by Obi-Wan from Anakin after the final fight scene in this film is blue. [The lightsaber Obi-Wan gives to Luke in "Star Wars" has the blue blade. When that one is lost in "The Empire Strikes Back," Luke constructs a new one for himself. The new one has the green blade.]
Corrected by Cubs Fan Time
Entry When Padmé just has landed on the volcanic planet and is about to get off the ship, she is wearing a green/grey costume and no trousers. When she arrives at the platform she wears the same costume but also a grey pair of trousers. [Padme is always wearing trousers. They are fitted and so are not always easy to see as separate from skin.]
Time
Entry After Obi-Wan gets off that rainbow coloured creature he was riding, he reaches to pet him. His hand actually never touches the creature. [Obi-wan is pretty absorbed in looking at General Grevious and all of the droids. I would imagine his mind is not really on consoling the creature; therefore, him missing a "pet" is his mistake as a human, and not a mistake in the movie.]
Time

Previous Page • 1 2 3 4 5 • Next page

You may also like: Star Wars | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Click here to send this page to a friend...

Submit this page to:

StumbleUpon Slashdot Facebook Delicious reddit