Spider-Man 3

Corrected entry: When Flint Marco is walking downing the street just after turning into Sandman, two cops notice him and give chase. He runs behind a truck and disappears. When the cops get there, there are 5 or 6 people walking by. From their point of view they would of seen where he went, but no one seems dumbfounded or shocked that a man just turned to sand and slid into the back of a truck. The tarp on the truck was tied down on all sides, so he couldn't have jumped in as a man.

Correction: There is no reason that Flint could not have rolled under the truck, then turned to sand, as opposed as just turning to sand. The movie even shows that the sand is still entering the truck when the cops arrive.

Corrected entry: When Aunt May comes to visit Peter at his apartment, she is easily able to open the door that has taken Pete's strength to open from the outside every other time throughout the film.

Correction: She doesn't open the door, she knocks and Peter lets her in. He also breaks off the doorknob in this scene because the door is stuck.

Nick Bylsma

Corrected entry: When Peter and MJ are on the bridge, in the shot where MJ walks away, Pater's hand holding the wedding ring remains up by his face. In the next shot, the long shot where Peter is seen entirely in the frame, his hand is down by his side.

Correction: The shot has a time cut, you can tell because MJ is already all the way off of the bridge and out of view. There's more than enough time for Peter to drop his hand down to his side.

Nick Bylsma

Corrected entry: When Spider-Man first goes to save MJ from Venom and Sand-Man, there is a panning shot of the crowd turning to look at him. In the crowd is a fireman who lifts a small child up so he can see. The shot switches between the crowd and Spider-Man, and every time it goes back, it shows the fireman lifting the child again.

Correction: There is enough time between shots for the fireman to have lowered the child. Perhaps the fireman was amusing the child by lifting it up and down. Or perhaps the child said something that the fireman couldn't hear so the fireman brought the child back down to listen. There are numerous reasons why this would occur.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Venom knows everything that Spider-Man knows, since the alien costume was once part of Spider-Man. How did Venom know about Sandman's dying daughter, if Spider-Man and the police only think Sandman is a violent murderer? As a photographer, Venom would not have access to Sandman's criminal file, and Peter refused to look at the file at the police station.

Correction: We don't know how long Venom had been tailing Flint before he propositioned him. It would make sense to dig up something that would persuade Flint to help him.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Spider-Man floods the storm drain sand man is in, he begins to disintegrate, as does any sand in water. He tries to pick up the locket of his daughter, yet is unable to, due to his liquefying form. He is then washed through the sewers as disintegrated sand, but when he reforms himself at the other end he's somehow got the locket in his hand.

Correction: Because the locket got washed out with him. Once he was able to reform, he did so with the sand the locket was buried in, bringing it back to him.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When the cop is chasing Flint, the tarp above them flutters, causing the cops to climb a ladder. When the cop climbs the ladder the next shot shows him with a shovel that's appeared from nowhere.

Correction: He got the shovel off of the back of the truck. Since we don't see his entire climb, he must have grabbed it on his way up.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Eddie Brock is taking photos of Gwen Stacy hanging from the girder, he is using a telephoto lens that the Chief looks through for a close-up look at his daughter. Only a moment later when Spider-Man brings Gwen to the ground he instantly has a regular lens on his camera.

Correction: It is not a "moment later." There is a lengthy rescue scene, during which Brock, while off camera, could have (and most certainly would have) changed the lens from telephoto to close range, since Spider-Man and Gwen were coming closer.

Phixius

Corrected entry: During Peter and Marko's final scene together where Peter gives Flint forgiveness, Flint says something like "I'm sorry I killed your uncle." There is no way for Marko to have known that the man he killed was indeed Peter's uncle, for Marko only knows him as 'Spider-Man', and not 'Peter Parker'.

Correction: Sandman was working with Venom, and Venom knew Peter's identity. It's a given that Venom told Sandman who Spider-Man was. Then, given what Spider-Man had said to him before about Ben Parker, Sandman put two and two together.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the first Spiderman movie, JJ is told that when they featured Spiderman on the cover they sold out, he wanted more pictures of him, but was told "Eddie has been on it for weeks and just can't get a shot of him" Now when the first movie came out all of us comic geeks knew it was in reference to Eddie Brock. But in Spiderman 3, Brock is a "new guy" trying to get a job and had to introduce himself.

Correction: Eddie was freelance, just like Peter has been. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that no one in the office had met him except Robbie, since Robbie's job is directly related to the photographs that appear in the Daily Bugle. Just because Peter went to JJ personally doesn't mean everyone does.

Phixius

Corrected entry: The symbiote is vulnerable to sound and sonic vibrations. We see this at the bell tower and the construction site at the end. However, When black Spiderman is fighting Sandman in the sewer tunnels, subway trains are shooting past them left and right. Those make tremendous noise when moving at high speeds, far more noise than a single church bell or a couple of ringing metal rods. However, black Spider-Man was not affected at all.

Correction: It's not just noise. A subway train makes a lot of noise, yes, but it is of all different kinds of frequencies. The bell and the pipes however make resonating tones. They cause consistent waves within Venom's fluidic body that just simple noise does not.

Garlonuss

Correction: Spider-Man falls to the ground (on the sand), his mask is right next to him and he picks it up.

Correction: Sandman's name is used in the film and while "Green Goblin" isn't said, Goblin is.

Bishop73

Correction: Sandman is referred to as "Sandman" during the newscast right before the final battle and Spider-Man refers to Harry as "Goblin" while taunting him. (Albeit, something like "Goblin Jr, " but he refers to him as Goblin nonetheless).

TedStixon

Corrected entry: In the scene where Peter Parker is in the restaurant where Mary Jane is singing he is sitting down having a drink and in the background you see Willem Defoe as an extra in the scene.

Correction: It has been stated several times that this is not Willem Dafoe, and if you look close, it is obvious the man in question looks considerably younger and different than Dafoe.

You are very much mistaken. I watched this scene, and it obviously is Willem Dafoe. It is possible that the makeup artist made him look younger.

If it's Dafoe, then his interviews don't make sense. He's talked about his time on both Spider-Man films he's been in, and he's said he's not sure if he'd appear in another one if it was just a cameo or tip of the hat. Why wouldn't he mention this time?

Bishop73

Okay, maybe it's not Dafoe, but this man resembles him.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Gwen is grabbing the phone cable to not fall to her death, her father and boyfriend (Eddie) arrive. They see her, and show no sign of worry. Her father asks "What is she doing up there?", but doesn't react that her daughter is about to die. Eddie, who likes her very much, doesn't react either. What's wrong with these people?

Dr. James

Correction: There is not to much to do. The building is about to fall, and they only wait for someone to help.

Anastasios Anastasatos

Even if they were waiting for someone's help, it doesn't explain their behavior. They should have showed a lot of concern if they cared about her so much. How could they be completely sure that help would arrive? What would have happened if help wasn't coming? How could they react if she fell but Spider-Man hasn't arrived? There was also possibility that building would collapse much sooner than they expected. Since they care about Gwen very much, they should be very concerned or at least worried. Even if there was not too much to do, they should have tried to take some action if help wasn't arriving or if building was collapsing faster. This entry is correct. This is a mistake.

None of us can dictate how someone "should" act in every given situation. Her dad's literally just realised who it is, he's figuring out of the situation. What, you think he should be screaming and waving his hands around? He's an experienced police officer, well versed in staying calm under pressure. His reaction is entirely appropriate, and idle speculation about "what if she fell without Spider-Man saving her" is irrelevant. Not everyone in life panics over hypotheticals.

Jon Sandys

Maybe Gwen's father is well versed in staying calm under pressure but Eddie is not. At least Eddie should have reacted more intensely.

Eddie's portrayed as a complete and utter jerk throughout the film. Even after Spider-Man saves Gwen, he barely checks on her, only giving her a (very) half-hearted "Thank god you're OK" before turning his focus to Spider-Man. It's clear he doesn't really care about her as a person. Hence, he doesn't really react much to her life being in danger.

TedStixon

Agreed, his lack of reaction and indifference were done deliberately. Filmmakers wanted to hint to everybody how truly callous and heartless a person Eddie is, as he was very willing to photograph Gwen falling to her death. The movie's novelization takes this even further, depicting him as someone who actively hopes to find dead bodies and disasters to take pictures of.

Correction: No, they were from the first movie, one of them was from the second film. The scream when she got caught by spider-man and when he shot the web up was the same one when she fell of the cord from the bridge on the first one. Most of her screams from the second film were different for all of the other screams in the first movie and 3rd.

Corrected entry: In the crane scene, the crane operator gets on the radio and says to shut down power at the generator. When the chief arrives, he tells another cop to call the power company and have them cut the power to the entire block. What good would that do if the crane is powered by a generator?

Correction: The chief did not know that the crane was being powered by a generator.

Corrected entry: In the crane scene, the first damage shot shows the I-beam that is hanging from the crane crashing through the windows as everyone hits the floor. In a following shot, the boom of the crane takes out the floor below. The opening shot of the scene shows that it's a fixed boom tower crane. How did the boom get lower than the I-Beam was in the first shot?

Correction: The crane was out of control, spinning wildly and altering its height. On the first pass it was high enough to just let the I-beam strike the building. On the second pass it lowered enough to take out the floor under the models. It is a suspension of disbelief to show that the whole boom would shift downward (or that it was long enough to hit a building across the street) when it should have been at a fixed angle, but since we don't know exactly how that particular crane works or the extent of the malfunction, it's not possible to determine if the damage could cause the boom to drop.

Corrected entry: When Spiderman is going to chase Sandman after the bank robbery he rip out the sewerage cover with some concrete around it, a few seconds later when Spiderman jumps through this hole the concrete edges are totally intact.

Correction: After ripping the concrete out, you never see the outside edges again. You can see the inside, which is a large metal manhole, but this is undamaged as it was not attached to the concrete. Hence, not a mistake.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Peter goes to tell his aunt he is going to marry MJ, she is serving him tea and goes to get milk out of the fridge. It happens fast, but if you watch, she actually pulls Tropicana Orange juice out, then the next shot, she is shown pouring milk for the tea, there is no orange juice on the table or any need for it in tea.

Correction: No, she has Tuscan milk all the time.

Sacha

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Factual error: During the fight scene with Sandman in the armored car, the Terminal Tower can be seen in the background, which is a landmark in Cleveland, Ohio (where the scene was shot), not in New York City.

ctown28

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Eddie Brock: It's Brock, sir. Edward Brock Jr. I come before you today, humbled and humiliated, to ask you for just one thing. I want you to kill Peter Parker.

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Trivia: Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man, makes a cameo appearance when Peter Parker is reading about Spider-Man getting the key to the city. He is the man that walks up and talks to him.

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Question: Was Spider-Man's identity ever made public at the end of this movie? He was without his mask several times during the final battle and there were a lot of cameras, so...?

Brad

Chosen answer: There's no evidence to suggest that his identity was compromised at any point.

Tailkinker

Answer: The fight between Sandman, Venom and Spider-Man was high up on a construction site so nobody watching the action from ground level would be able to see his face.

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