Plot hole: The whole premise of the movie is that due to a botched spell, people who happen to know that "Peter Parker is Spider-Man" are pulled inside this universe. It's a bit of a stretch already that amongst those people is...Peter Parker himself, twice over, but let's say it makes sense. The problem is that Jamie Foxx's Electro does not meet this condition; he never found out. You could say it's a retcon or it's a different universe from the original movie's, but even this cop-out explanation is negated by the movie itself when Max Dillon makes a joke that shows that he didn't know Spidey's identity or even race.
Sammo
18th Dec 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
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Suggested correction: Although Max didn't discover Peter's identity on film, an explanation of why Max knows his name IS offered. When the villains are talking about what happened before they found themselves in the MCU, Max indicated that once he tapped fully into the power grid and information systems, there was nothing he didn't know at that point. Since we know there is a clandestine organization tracking Peter from the end of ASM1, it's possible Max gained the info from their database.
In the interest of clarity, you refer to the one line that goes "I was stuck in the grid, absorbing data."? Nothing about tapping fully, and becoming omniscient as the correction presents. So we have to give it that specific meaning and make a connection to the obscure postcredit scene by Fiers in the unfinished trilogy that asks Connors if he said anything to the boy imagining that it produced data that was 'on the grid' somehow, and Electro never processed this information in the movie. Not sure if it's quite an"explanation offered", since the movie offers none. It's a 'possible' explanation like the other one people use, about hearing Gwen say Peter's name (I like this one better because at least it would give a special meaning to a throwaway line and I do I love attention to details).
Suggested correction: I don't find it such a stretch that he knew Peter's name but didn't know what he looked like.
When Spider-Man is explaining his plan to defeat Electro to Gwen, Gwen addresses him as "Peter." Electro was laying on the ground nearby and likely would have heard this. Presumably, knowing that Spidey's real name was Peter was enough to pull him in.
There are almost 10,000 "Peter" in New York alone in our world. Knowing just the super-common first name wouldn't cut it and the movie does nothing to support this theory, in fact does everything to undermine it (Strange's explanation, Electro's joke, complete lack of addressing it, etc). Also if he overheard that bit in the original movie, he would have also learned their plans to defeat him.
Suggested correction: I guess we're all going to ignore the fact that this Electro has a completely different look than the Max we saw previously. It's quite possible he's from a different universe.
He's not from a different universe than the Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The Lizard and the Andrew Garfield version of Spider-Man both know who he is, and he talks about events from the aforementioned film. His different appearance is also explained in the film.
All that means is he went through similar experiences and has a similar appearance as the Max they knew. Ala J. Jonah Jameson.
Suggested correction: It's not people who know who is Spider-Man that are spilling in, it's people who are connected to him in any way.
No, no. Strange says it explicitly "That little spell you botched, when you wanted everyone to forget that Peter Parker is Spider-man? It started pulling in everyone who knows that Peter Parker is Spider-man" and so on. That's why in the end they fix it by making everyone forget who Peter Parker is, not who Spider-man is.
18th Dec 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Stupidity: In the first part of the movie, Peter has to deal with the various 'visitors' and bring them too Strange. But the device Strange will use is just going to send them home no matter where they are (conveniently at the push of a button that even complete ignoramus can push) and there are visitors he does not know about, so everything up to that point has been meaningless. Then it becomes a matter of 'curing' every one of those visitors, but if -as it seems - they have been fetched moments before their deaths, 'curing' them is not going to fix anything. They are still going to die or end up in prison for life due to the horrors they committed.
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Suggested correction: Part of the problem we have is that instead of just dealing with the Multiverse, they're also creating parallel or alternate realities in those universes since everyone is pulled from a different point in time in their realities, so any changes besides their death is going to create a new timeline. And I think part of the plan to send them back cured was that from their they could change their course of action or be able to reason with their Spider-Man, which would mean it's better than nothing.
Yes, that's the idea, with all the problems we underlined and the movie ignores entirely. Much like when in Avengers Endgame they don't show you how Cap brings back the stones with the precision required, they elegantly skipped showing us if and how each of them avoids being impaled, drowned, dissolved, or how does it even work for those fetched by the 'same' timeline. We'll see if they deal with these messy timelines at any point in the future.
Suggested correction: With the exception of Doc Ock - who learned Spidey's identity shortly before he died - there's nothing to suggest the other villains were fetched from their realities moments before their deaths, or that they will die upon returning to their realities. Whether or not they end up in prison after returning is irrelevant to the fact that Peter wants to help them. If he doesn't cure them, then they are free to continue causing mayhem regardless of what reality they are occupying.
It's stated in the film that BOTH Otto and Norman died while fighting Spider-Man and that both were pulled from their reality shortly before dying. Max then recounts his fight before being pulled and says "I was about to die." Then Curt asks Max if he died too, but they get interrupted before we find out.
"Shortly" is a relative term. Goblin discovered Spider-Man's identity at Thanksgiving dinner and then died a day or two later. Electro's fate was rather ambiguous, but Jamie Foxx himself implied prior to The Amazing Spider-Man 2's release that he would be appearing in more films, likely including the Sinister Six movie that never came to fruition. We know from The Amazing Spider-Man that Lizard didn't die.
"Shortly before dying" as in pulled during the fight that they died during, not a few days before. It wasn't about being pulled when they found out who Spider-Man was.
Even so, if Green Goblin is pulled from his reality 5 minutes before his death, that would be considered shortly, but it certainly wouldn't be mere moments before he died as the original entry was suggesting. The movie never explicitly states how soon before their deaths they were pulled, therefore we as viewers can reasonably assume that there could have been just enough time for them to alter their course of actions and prevent their deaths.
Also, the reason why Peter wants to 'cure' them is not because they are causing mayhem, but as he explicitly says, because he's not comfortable sending them back when 'some' of them will die - thing is, he can't know that curing their conditions will save them, the whole idea kinda comes out of nowhere. I submitted it as Stupidity because I was sure someone would object it's not a plot hole since it's just stuff the characters 'believe' and there's no proof it's true, however it's funny that 90% of the stuff Peter does in this movie is probably completely pointless.
Saying that he can't know that curing their conditions won't save them is like a doctor saying they won't give a cancer patient chemotherapy because they don't know if it will save them. Their chances of being saved are certainly better if they are cured and cease fighting Spider-Man. If Osborn is returned cured before he attempts to impale Spider-Man with his glider, then that would certainly prevent him from dying in that situation.
I absolutely respect the fact that they want Spidey to be heroic and that the moment he knows that they are going to die he wants to do something about it, that's why I say that it's just funny that there's no indication at all that it would work (by all logic it would not) but it's elegantly glossed over. Let me remind you though that he's not a doctor that wants to cure his sick patient, he's a doctor that wants to cure someone who died 1-2 decades earlier in accidents he doesn't really get into the details of.
There not being an indication that it would work does not make it a stupidity. He can't let the villains remain in his reality, or else it will cause a major multiversal catastrophe. He doesn't want to send them back to their realities and die fighting other Spider-Men, so he does what he thinks is his best option. For this to be a stupidity, there would have to be a rather obvious alternate solution that he overlooked (such as asking Strange to make everyone forget Mysterio's broadcast instead of making everyone forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man).
I don't want to make my own movie in my head, the one we got is more than enjoyable, and I don't want to say that the character is stupid (any movie would be easily solved with afterthought or cynicism, such as "let Strange do his thing"); I merely pointed out that the plot takes you for a ride forcing you to buy premises that are taken as 100% fact and logical (they never ever even imply the fact that what Peter does could be pointless or problematic - in most movies, saving dead people is not a good idea) when they are anything but that. If I know that a crazy person died driving a car into a tree, curing his craziness is one step and not even the most important (would a crazy Norman not survive, if he goes back in time at the right moment and knows what is going to happen? again, the bigger flaw being that if he remembers dying, how can I undo that?) but the movie is surely not going for the "It's most certainly useless, but aww, at least he tried" angle.
18th Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Other mistake: In a weird move concocted for the movie, Carnage creates a tornado spinning around real fast with his tentacle sticking out. Against physics, one of the tentacles gets a hold of the prison chief and keep still for a few seconds while Carnage's body in the background has spun around itself a few times already. (00:38:30)
18th Dec 2021
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Other mistake: Eddie witnesses in horror from the window his former alien partner wrecking his Ducati bike in the alley below. Venom exits stage right and possesses a lady riding a bicycle, headed towards his right. Somehow, this double *right* turn leads to Eddie witnessing Venom's middle finger from a window to the *left* of his original position. (00:34:30)
18th Dec 2021
Jet Robot (1975)
Continuity mistake: Benkei is talking with the Getter team for the first time and promises to fix Genki's model airplane. The wings are broken in a different way between shots. (00:08:20)
17th Dec 2021
64th Street: A Detective Story
Other mistake: When you beat the penultimate boss and head to the last level (called "Last Level"), the instruction "Chase and AREST" with a single "r" pops up.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Hikou Isle Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E15
Other mistake: The cop shoots a hole through the box she's carrying - but there's the small detail that there's no opening at the back of it for her to stick the hand into and/or pull the trigger. (00:14:00)
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Hikou Isle Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E15
Other mistake: A copper alloy statue knocks away like nothing a huge mass of gold ingots; gold is much heavier than copper, cumulatively the ingots weigh much more, and even if being simply piled on one another would cause them to be moved as the statue topples, it would never simply breeze through them.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Gentleman Thief's Murder: File 3 - S1-E12
Character mistake: Itsuki tells Kindaichi about the painting the strange man was doing, saying it was "My Beloved Daughter." That is incorrect though, since what Itsuki would have been able to gather from the hospital staff was that the man painted lavender fields literally all over the room. The staff would remember that (a whole room of the building was changed!) and not that specific painting - and if they knew about it, news of it would have spread, being one of the most famous paintings in the world.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Gentleman Thief's Murder: File 1 - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: When the painting pops up with the card of the real Kaitou Gentleman's card on it, the card is placed on a different spot in the different shots. (00:11:55)
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Gentleman Thief's Murder: File 1 - S1-E10
Other mistake: A single wimpy guy on his own wouldn't be able to bury something as large as a painting in a rush without leaving any trace the police can discover.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E9
Plot hole: Miyuki is not a detective or has any qualification in the world of crime novel. Her presence (taking up one of the 10 slots of detectives picked from all over the world, she's not an accessory to Kindaichi) is completely unexplained and nobody questions it at all.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 3 - S1-E9
Plot hole: According to what was established in the first episode of the arc, the statute of limitations for the crime has expired. In this third one though, it is said that they are afraid that the body will be discovered. There's no link between them and the victim (s), so to say that they joined the whole madness because they needed to prevent the castle from being 'moved' is absurd.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 2 - S1-E8
Character mistake: Hajime's proposed solution is obviously wrong, but not for the reason they mention; the 'killer' could never clean themselves up completely and effortlessly in such a short time from the soot.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 2 - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: Hajime's towel changes color throughout the scene when he joins Miyuki and the inspector in the main room. (00:04:25)
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When the party discovers the real corpse, the door physically knocks forward the 2 ball, which is on the floor. Later in the scene, the 2 ball rolls on the desk. (00:21:15)
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Miyuki notices that there's something in the doll's hand, it's an 8-ball, and there are two on the table. As the scene later shows, it's supposed to be a 6 ball, together with a 3 ball. (00:14:50)
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E7
Other mistake: Everyone rushes to Miyuki's position when she screams having found the first "victim." However, she screamed a while before already when Kindaichi scared her, and nobody ran to her then.
17th Dec 2021
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Wax Doll Castle Murder Case: File 1 - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Miyuki tells Hajime that the winner of the contest will receive a castle, she's wearing a bag with a long and wide strap that happens to be colored exactly like her cyclamen shirt. In the rest of the scene she is carrying a pink and cream gym bag with short handles. (00:03:20)
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