Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Peter Parker is at class in college, his professor asks for eigenvalues. Peter promptly answers in electron volts. Eigenvalues deal with linear algebra and matrices, and have no units. An electron volt is an energy unit, particularly for atomic and nuclear processes.

Correction: Finding Eigenvalues is part of solving many kinds of systems, not just matrix equations. If the problem represents something physical, the Eigenvalues will have dimensions. In fact, solving quantum mechanics problems often involves finding Eigenvalues in energy which are usually expressed in electron volts.

Corrected entry: Peter runs into the apartment building on fire to save a child and even though there are flames everywhere, he is able to grab onto a doorknob to see if it is locked without being burned.

bluedrop90

Correction: It's obviously a closet door and he can hear the child is just on the other side so he knows the knob is not any hotter than where he is now. The reason you usually should not grab a doorknob in a fire is when you don't know that the fire isn't on the other side. Without fire in direct contact with the handle, it might be uncomfortably hot, but wouldn't burn him. Plus, he's resistant to all sorts of physical abuse regular humans aren't, so I'm sure a hot doorknob won't trouble him too much.

Corrected entry: The first time Aunt May and Peter see each other after May nearly dies at the expense of Doc Ock, she does not even mention anything about her near-death experience to him. Because as far as she knows, Peter is not Spiderman. Don't you think if you fell from a very tall building to your near death twice you would tell your closest relative?

Josh Appelbaum

Correction: I took this to be one of the 'clues' that Aunt May actually knows who Spider-Man is... perhaps even worked it out for sure during her rescue. Her speech to him later, when she is packing up her belongings, would further indicate this. If nothing else, he was at the bank as Peter, so she'd expect he saw what happened.

STP

Corrected entry: After Peter talks to Mary Jane outside the fancy club, she brushes him off and he picks up a glass. He discovers it's empty and drops it, but you never hear the sound of it dropping.

Correction: He doesn't drop it to the ground... he is still holding onto the glass and his arms drop to his sides.

Corrected entry: When Doctor Octopus robs the bank vault, how did he hide the massive tentacles under his coat? No one notices him until the tentacles burst out from under the coat in front of the vault.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: In several scenes in the movie, and in the comic book, he could retract his tentacles, like when he walked over Spiderman to throw down the mini-sun. In the comics, Octavius commonly wore the trenchcoat and fedora shown in the bank scene of the movie.

Corrected entry: Throughout the entire movie, when Doc Ock moves around with his tentacles, it's always in very quick movements, with his tentacles pounding into the ground with "boom, boom, boom, boom..." However, whenever someone actually hears Ock coming, (i.e. Harry on the balcony, the woman in the office, or Peter and Mary Jane in the deli) we can hear very long, three to four-second pauses in between the impacts of his extra arms.

DenizenZERO

Correction: Doc Ock uses all four tentacles to move fast providing the quick pounding sounds you hear. As Ock climbs the building or is approaching someone slow, he's only using the two lower arms for walking causing the longer pause in between impacts.

bluedrop90

Corrected entry: When Spider-man is in the alley and is having trouble with his powers, he is climbing the wall without his mask on, yet when he falls and lands by the dumpster, you can briefly see that he now has on his mask. The next shot, he doesn't have it on again.

Correction: While it is a fast shot, Spider-Man is clearly not wearing his mask at all. The lighting is dark but when he falls and slams against the dumpster you can quickly but surely see his unmasked face pass through a stream of light peering into the alley.

Corrected entry: In the scene after Doc Ock gives Spider-Man to Harry, Harry goes to the table to pick up a dagger. When Harry grabs the dagger off the table (still sheathed) it makes the "sching" sound of a weapon being drawn, despite not being actually taken out of the sheath until later.

Correction: The sound is the metal sheath rubbing against the metal stand.

Xofer

Corrected entry: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself, so he should be under it as they descend, yet in the final shot of him sinking into the ocean, the ball is below him and he is falling after it.

Correction: Doc Ock pulls out two of the supports first, before falling into the water you can see it tip to the side, it actually hits next to him and he is dragged under by it.

Corrected entry: In the party scene at the space library, Harry Osbourne is sitting at the bar getting drunk. He knocks his glass to the ground to drink from the bottle. After talking with Peter, he goes back to drinking, but now it's from a glass again.

Correction: Harry grabs a new glass sitting on the bar after he knocks his original one off the edge.

bluedrop90

Corrected entry: After Peter changes into Spider-Man to deliver the pizzas and throws them onto the ledge to save the two children, the camera goes back to show the pizzas and the man living there finding them. There are only seven pizza boxes, without any damage done to them. When he actually delivers them, there are eight and a couple of them are now flattened or banged-up as they should be.

bluedrop90

Correction: I thought so too at first, but then I realized that the lid of one of the boxes is sticking out and bent such that it looks like an extra box, but there are still only seven.

I thought it was supposed to be 8 but it looked like 7?

Corrected entry: When Harry walks into his father's secret room, he sees the glider and the goblin suit. However, when Spider-Man drops of the Green Goblin after he is killed in the first movie, he only brought Norman's body back. How did the suit, mask, and glider get back to the secret room, considering there was only one costume and one glider?

Correction: No, we only saw them testing one suit and one glider. Since the suit was experimental, it would make sense that OsCorp had several suits and several gliders to serve as backups and speed up testing.

Corrected entry: Spider-Man's mask separates at the top of the neck. Yet the mask is longer (just the mask) when it hangs outside of the trash can, after he throws it away.

Correction: The long edges of the mask tuck into the neck hole of the suit, making it look seamless. Otherwise everytime he moved his head, it would expose the skin at his neck.

Corrected entry: When in the operating room, the lead doctor mentions something about the C17 vertebra. There are only seven cervical vertebrae in the human body. Also, he says something to the effect of performing a cervical-lumbar fusion, a procedure impossible because of the dozen thoracic vertebrae in between.

Correction: The doctor actually says '...C7, T1 through 12...', but he says it so quick that it actually sounds like 'C17'.

Corrected entry: When Peter is slammed up against a wall and covered in rubble by Doc Ock, he bursts through and his glasses are not even scratched. Then, he drops them in the street from about three feet up and the lens falls out.

Correction: Actually, you can see a crack in the bottom of one of the frames that corresponds to a chip in the lens that falls out.

Xofer

Corrected entry: When Peter is looking out of his window onto the city asking if he's not supposed to have what he wants, he's talking and breathing out loud right up next to the window. There should be the little cloud of condensation on the window from his breathing onto it.

bluedrop90

Correction: If the temperature is even just a bit warm outside, no condensation would be formed on the window because the temperature difference between the window and Peter's breath is not significant enough.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When Peter and Aunt May are sitting in front of the bank worker's desk, they appear to be right next to a low wooden partition, with no way that Peter and May's chairs could move too far apart from each other. However, when Doc Ock comes to rob the bank and a hunk of debris falls towards Peter and May, there is suddenly plenty of space for Peter to kick May's chair and slide her out of harm's way.

Correction: The partition (to May's left) is farther away than it looks; she also ends up right next to it, so she probably collided with it anyway.

Xofer

Corrected entry: Rosie is killed when a flying piece of glass hits her in the face. Later on when you see her on the stretcher, you can see both sides of her face for a moment, and there is no blood or any type of cut on her face.

Correction: The glass actually slices her neck and that's how she dies. The only reason her face is involved is we see her reflection in the glass as it flies towards her.

Tobin OReilly

Corrected entry: In one of the final scenes when Spider-Man is on the cranes, none of them have been affected by the tritium fusion. If they had survived, they would have at least been rotated towards the fusion machine.

Correction: Actually, right before it cuts to the scene of the taxis going towards where Doc Ock is, there is a wide shot of the lab's outside and you can see the cranes rotate towards the lab.

Nathanael Carlson

Corrected entry: When on the elevated train, Spider-man gets his right goggle-eye thing burned, and he tears it off in frustration and tosses it away. Later on, after successfully stopping the train (pretty far away from the point where he threw off his mask, mind you), two children bring his mask back to him. He threw it away earlier, and there was no way any normal human could've gotten the mask and brought it back to him in the situation he was in.

Correction: The mask gets charred a bit, but doesn't burn through. He rips the mask off, but doesn't throw it away, you don't see what he does with it actually.

bluedrop90

Plot hole: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them, then later throws Peter against a brick wall. Any normal person would've been killed instantly (or very badly injured), and Doc Ock doesn't yet know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would try to kill him.

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Suggested correction: Doc Ock is being controlled by the arms. They aren't behaving rationally.

Creating a series of silly explanations for obvious plot holes never resolves them. These arms were not behaving irrationally. In many scenes they were shown to be very intelligent. A good example is the scene where they attack doctors who try to remove them from Doc Ock's body. Saying that they weren't behaving rationally is absurd.

He may not have been trying to kill Peter, he could've been trying to make more of a scene of his entry, so Peter would take him more seriously and tell him where Spider-Man was. He could've been thinking of it as a risk of killing Peter though, but his arms made him go crazy.

This is only a theory. Theories never resolve mistakes.

It's not a theory. When Otto is first giving his demonstration to everybody at his apartment, a woman asks if the advanced AI for the tentacles would make him susceptible to being controlled. Otto says that yes it would so he shows everybody the inhibitor chip that he designed so he would not fall under its control. After the inhibitor chip gets destroyed, it's seen that the tentacles have not only taken control of his mind by forcing him to commit crimes, but have slowly driven him insane.

This scene is much too confusing for many people. This entry is correct. This is a mistake.

If these tentacles wanted him to finish the experiment then they wouldn't make him kill the person who has valuable information for him.

The arms are influencing his thoughts but not controlling every part of him. Doc Ock still seems to have control when defending himself but they seem to work in tandem with Ock. The only time they work on their own is when he under anesthetic. As we don't see him before he throws the car, we can only speculate the arms were trying to hurt Peter by themselves.

Lummie

It's a cool scene regardless man.

Rob245

Killing Peter would probably send a message to Spider-Man as well, so Ock probably wasn't concerned about being gentle.

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May Parker: We need a hero, couragous sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero, people line up for 'em, cheer for them, scream their names, and years later tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who told them to HOLD ON a second longer. I believe theres a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble. And finally gets us to die with pride. Even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want most, even our dreams.

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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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Answer: While it's never mentioned in the film, the most likely explanation is that Harry, as a rich kid, grew tired of "slumming it" and decided to move back into his mansion.

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