Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Continuity mistake: In the first shot of the scene where Anakin visits Padmé before going to Mustafar, Padmé runs past a statue on the veranda. In the following close-up, she passes it again. (01:24:20)

Kylantha

Continuity mistake: When Anakin visits Padmé before going to Mustafar, as he says, "Have faith, my love." he's touching the side of her head. In the next shot, his fingers change position. (01:25:25)

Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan and Yoda walk through the Jedi Temple after order 66, in the second shot, they are standing on a round circle on the floor, but in the previous shot, they were a few metres away from it. (01:30:40)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Obi-Wan and Yoda find the dead Jedi younglings, in the first shot, there are no bodies on the stairs. But when Yoda says, "Killed not by clones, this Padawan.", you can see a dead body on the bottom of the stairs. (01:30:40)

Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan and Yoda arrive at the Jedi temple to find all the slain Jedi, there is a wide shot showing Obi-Wan walking several feet ahead of Yoda. Obi-Wan then raises his hands and is about to remove his hood when it cuts and now Yoda is suddenly right next to Obi-Wan. (01:30:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan and Yoda find the dead Jedi, some of the dead children lying on the floor where Obi-Wan and Yoda are standing are lying in a different position between shots. For example, watch the brown cloak of one of the Padawans near Obi-Wan. (01:30:40)

Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan and Yoda find the dead Jedi in the Jedi Temple, in the first shot, there are several bodies on the floor in front of them. In the next shot, there are different bodies. (01:30:40)

Continuity mistake: In the beginning of Anakin and Padmé's conversation on Mustafar, as Padmé says, "I was so worried about you.", Anakin's hand is on her waist. In the next shot, his hand is on her back. (01:30:40)

Continuity mistake: When Anakin is at the Mustafar system wiping out everyone, before he kills the last droid, he kills someone near the panels. When he falls dead to the ground his scarf is lying on his back. When it cuts the scarf is hanging down over his arm. (01:31:40)

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Continuity mistake: When the Emperor addresses the Senate, as he says, "In order to ensure the security and continuing stability", his hands are held at waist level. As the next shot begins, his hands are higher up. Then, when the Senate applauds, he begins to raise his hands. As the following shot begins, his hands are held in a much lower position. No one moves that quickly. (01:31:55)

Kylantha

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Anakin arrives on Mustafar and tells R2-D2 to stay with the ship, he pulls the hood of his robe over his head with two organic hands. His right hand should be mechanical. [This mistake is mentioned in the audio commentary: this shot is taken from a shot of Obi-Wan later in the film when leaving Padme's apartment. Still a mistake, though.] (01:32:55)

Continuity mistake: When the Emperor addresses the Senate, as he begins to raise his hands, Mas Amedda (the blue alien next to the Emperor) is holding a staff. In the next shot, his hand has moved much further down on the staff. (01:32:55)

Kylantha

Continuity mistake: When Obi-Wan and Yoda are about to leave the Jedi Temple and Obi-Wan says "Wait, Master, there is something I must know", Yoda stops. Notice the pattern on the floor under Yoda. When it cuts you can see from the pattern on the floor that Yoda has moved. (01:33:10)

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Continuity mistake: During Anakin and Padmé's conversation on Mustafar, in the first shot, they are standing near some sort of container. They continue to stand in the same place in the following shots. When Anakin sees Obi-Wan and becomes furious, both of them take several steps away from the container, but when Anakin says, "You brought him here to kill me.", they are standing near it again. In the following shots, it is nowhere to be seen. (01:39:35 - 01:41:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Anakin is choking Padme and lets her go, she falls to the ground. She lands a few feet away from the line on the floor. Two shots later she is lying on the line. She is unconscious so she couldn't have moved. (01:42:10)

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Continuity mistake: After Anakin chokes Padmé, her right arm lies in front of her as she collapses, but in the next shot of her, her arm is resting across her stomach. (01:42:10)

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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)

Continuity mistake: When Yoda enters to confront Sidious he wipes out the two red guards. The guard on the right side moves a feet away from the entrance between the shots. (01:44:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the Emperor says "I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend," Yoda can be seen lying beside his cane on the purple carpet. When they show him standing up, he and the cane are now further back toward the wall on the tan part of the carpet. (01:45:10)

Revealing mistake: When Yoda knocks Darth Sidious backwards over his chair, you can see the stuntman's hand. Sidious's hands are old and his nails are dark around the cuticles, but the hand during the flip is perfectly healthy and a different size. (01:45:35)

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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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