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Peter Parker: Ahem, you know, if you're going to steal cars, don't dress like a car thief.

Car Thief: You a cop?

Peter Parker: You seriously think I'm a cop in a skintight red and blue suit?

Peter Parker falls through a roof and lands in a wrestling ring, where he gets the idea of using a mask, a homage to the original comic and the first Sam Raimi film, where Peter tests his spider powers by entering a wrestling match. See more...

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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - 35 mistakes

Directed by Marc Webb, starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen, Rhys Ifans (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

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Continuity: In the scene where Peter Parker is fighting on a train he tells the last man standing 'not my board', the last man is black but after hitting Parker and the board breaking the next shot is one of the guys he has already knocked down who is white fighting him after the board breaks.

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Continuity: When Peter falls through the roof and lands on the boxing ring, the planks on his body suddenly disappear.

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Continuity: While fighting against the Lizard in the lab, Peter looks at his backpack. The position of its straps and the debris on the wall change between shots.

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Continuity: In the scene where the lizard and Spiderman are fighting in the sewers, the lizard scratches Spider-Man's chest, causing tears down the front of his suit and chest. He actually scratches straight down his chest, but from then on, whenever Spiderman's chest is shown the scratches are diagonally across him.

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Continuity: At the deli, when the cops have shot down the Lizard, watch the back part of the robe, where the bag strap is: It swaps from a big open hole, to being split in two big sizes, to split in a big and a small size hole; all in a matter of frames, no sense whatsoever.

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Continuity: When the Lizard is cornered by the cops at the deli, note the column behind him: First it has 6 bullet holes, then after the shooting it's got 30, then in a brief close-up it's back to 6 holes.

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Continuity: Just when Peter tries the web launcher the tables and chairs on the street change number and position through shots: They are arranged parallel to each other and have the following amount of chairs: First table has 3 chairs, second 2, third 1 and fourth 2. In the close-up, all tables have 2 chairs; the first three tables are parallel, yet a fourth one is behind the third table. Peter also knocks down a table or chair which appears standing in the final shot.

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Continuity: When Peter, in his beta-suit, traps the thief, a woman behind, holding a flower bouquet, disappears in the final shot.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Peter and Doctor Connors are talking in Doctor Connors' kitchen, a green screen is reflected in Doctor Connors' glasses.

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Continuity: During Peter and Lizard's fights by the lockers, watch the folder on the right side behind them. It sometimes faces a 9 o'clock direction, others an 8 o'clock.

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Continuity: Inside the school lab, the Lizard walks to Peter on the floor and a stool next to him suddenly appears for Lizard to pick it up.

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Continuity: When Peter is told that the thief that killed Uncle Ben has a star tattooed on his left arm, the way the thief steals the money from the cash register is slightly different from the first time we saw him do it. The scene was re-filmed.

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Continuity: While fighting against Lizard in the lab, Peter's jacket changes randomly from spotless to covered in dust, to partially covered in dust, back and forth.

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Continuity: When Lizard launches Peter through a wall into a classroom, books and huge chunks of concrete fly above Peter, but when he lands and slides backwards they're suddenly gone.

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Continuity: When Peter leaves his house and May asks Ben to "leave him alone" her position swaps from half a meter away from the wall to right next to it, with one hand leaning on the frame.

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Continuity: After Peter leaves home and breaks the glass door, Ben places his hand on May's back. When the angle changes it's on her shoulder.

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Continuity: When Spider-Man is launched against the library, when he lies on the floor the type of books next to him change between shots.

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Continuity: During The Lizard's attack on the bridge, he throws the car with Doctor Ratha in off a bridge. Peter then catches the car with a web. Yet as soon as he notices The Lizard, not only is the web not in his hand anymore, but there's no sign of it hanging over the bridge either. Then the web and car reappear in the wide shot where Peter swings over to get the boy out of the car.

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Continuity: When Peter throws the trophy out of the window during the fight between him and The Lizard, we can see that it breaks up and the damage of the trophy is all next to each other. But when he throws Gwen out of the window in a web, the damage from the trophy is at least a few feet away from each other.

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Continuity: In the scene at school when Gwen invites Peter to have dinner at her house, Peter initially removes both earphones when Gwen talks to him, but when Gwen asks about the bruise in Peter's eye and the camera angle shifts, the right earphone is still in his ear.

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Continuity: In the scene when Peter Parker goes back to his Aunt & Uncles house after his first Spidey-training session, he raids the fridge & freezer. When confronted by his Aunt & Uncle, the freezer door is slowly swinging open, but in the next shot, the freezer door next to his Aunt & Uncle is closed.

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Continuity: When Peter is looking through his father's file in his bedroom, Uncle Ben comes in and starts playing with a Rubix cube from Peter's desk. When he sets it down, the top and middle row are red and the bottom row is white. Shortly afterwards, when Peter is researching Doctor Connors on his computer, the top and middle rows are suddenly white and the bottom row is red (not fully solved, as another listed mistake claims).

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Continuity: When Peter is paying at the convenience store, the bottle on the counter turns around between shots.

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Deliberate "mistake": When Connors becomes a humongous Lizard, his robe magically grows from a Medium size to an XXL.

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Continuity: During the scene where Spider-Man is unmasked he splits an assault rifle in half, trips a man, then drops the two pieces on the ground. The scene switches to a long shot and Spider-Man can be seen still holding the two pieces of the weapon in his hands. The pieces are out of his hands in the immediate following shot.

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Continuity: When the roof breaks Peter falls feet first facing to the right side. A frame later, he is falling face down facing the left side.

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Continuity: When Gwen visits Peter at the end of the movie, you can see that the glass door with the house number "36" painted on it has been replaced from when he broke it earlier in the movie, and it looks brand new. Once she leaves and he turns to Aunt May, the numbers have returned to their earlier weathered and peeling state.

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Continuity: In the car thief scene, the cop points his gun at Spidey and tells him not to move. Spidey puts his arms in the air with his upper arms relatively horizontal and his forearms straight up. But in the immediate shot following, his upper arms are also straight up.

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Continuity: Launched by the Lizard, Peter slides on his back through the lab and a small stone lays by his head. A frame later, when the Lizard steps on his arm, the stone is gone.

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Audio problem: As Dr. Ratha says to Dr. Connors, "The clock is ticking, Dr. Connors", his lips do not match what he says and are still moving shortly after he finishes speaking.

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Continuity: When Peter asks Flash to stop bullying the other student in the outdoor eating area, right before Flash punches Peter, Peter is carrying his camera on a strap on his right shoulder. As the shot changes to Flash punching Peter, the camera strap disappears before Peter even gets hit and falls to the ground. Later we find Peter's camera smashed on the ground next to his backpack and skateboard.

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Continuity: After Peter grabs Flash against the lockers, who says he's sorry for Ben's death, Peter walks to Gwen. The passers-by are not continuous between shots.

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Continuity: During the scene where Uncle Ben is talking to Peter in Peter's bedroom, on his desk there is a solved Rubik's cube. Uncle Ben picks it up, and twists it slightly. It then suddenly appears on the opposite side of the desk next to Peter, too far away for Ben to have placed it there, fully solved again.

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Factual error: There is a scene in midtown Manhattan toward the middle of the film outside a NYC subway station, which according to the sign on the subway entrance is at 6th Avenue and 39th Street. There is no such subway station on those streets.

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Continuity: When the one of the cups of coffee falls off the table Peter catches it. After that, Peter takes the other cup from the desk to give Dr. Connors. In the first shot Peter carries the cup from the upper part, next shot the cup is on his palm.

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