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Continuity mistake: When Flash is hit by the tray with food he raises his arms in disbelief. A shot later his arms are lowered and he repeats the previous movements.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie begins and all the students enter the lab, Mary Jane's boyfriend nags her and she moves her arm to her shoulder, then lowers it. In the following shot her arm is raised and she is lowering it again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Osborn is getting ready to radiate himself at his laboratory, he throws his clothes on the floor. Their position differs between the first and second shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Peter leaves Jameson's office after becoming a freelancer for him, Jameson closes the door, and at the end of the shot, the door is half-shut, but in the next shot, the door is completely shut. (00:58:45)

Continuity mistake: The day after Peter gets his powers, while he follows Mary Jane to the school, the sun changes between shots.

ozwal13

Continuity mistake: When Peter is testing the web on the crane, his fringe swaps between messy/ brushed /windy / still between frames in no order whatsoever.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Osborn is drinking whiskey and hears his inner voice, is about to see the African masks and before watching himself in the mirror, his fringe swaps from messy to brushed.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Osborn is laid on the stretcher about to enter the vault, the cables by his right shoulder change positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the famous kiss scene, Mary Jane's hair keeps swapping styles between shots. It changes between hairless cheek then hair on cheek, and soaked and straight to curly hair.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Aunt May is praying, right before being attacked by Goblin, the portrait moves closer/ further away from the quilt between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: This is a little hard to explain. During the Unity Day Festival, after Goblin beats up the cops, the shot cuts and he turns around to face Spider-Man, who lands in front of him. The problem? He was facing the same direction as Spider-Man in the previous shot (you can tell from the background), so it makes no sense that he has to turn around when the camera cuts.

TedStixon

Factual error: In the museum, Peter is filming in real-time moving biological specimens shot through 'the largest electron microscope on the Eastern seaboard'. You can't film live specimens in an electron microscope. The electron beam only works in a vacuum chamber, in which the specimen - invariably dead - is held. The microscope is identified as a scanning electron microscope, and nobody can fire an electron stream through air. The electrons will collide with gas molecules and scatter, ruining the image.

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Mary Jane: Who are you?
Spider-Man: You know who I am.
Mary Jane: I do?
Spider-Man: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

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Trivia: JJJ's secretary (the one who takes Peter's cheque) is Betty Brant, one of Peter's girlfriends in the comic books.

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Question: What exactly did Mary Jane's father say to her when he was yelling at her at home?

MikeH

Chosen answer: "You're trash! You're always gonna be trash, just like her!" - He says this presumably in reference to Mary Jane's mother.

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