Spider-Man 2

Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock punches a yellow cab which flips over and is about to land on its side, inches away from the floor. When the angle changes, the cab is now a couple meters above from the floor, with a cab underneath, plus it's falling on it's 4 wheels.

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Continuity mistake: Spidey falls on a puddle and takes off his mask, his hair completely messy and wet. A frame later, when he is about to climb a wall, it's neat and brushed.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock kidnaps Mary Jane and walks by a bluish car with a girl laying on the hood, panicking, a boom mic is reflected on the windshield.

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Continuity mistake: During the bank robbery, Aunt May cries "Don't leave me!" and the distance between her head and the bank worker's swaps from close to far between one frame and the next.

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Continuity mistake: When Spidey runs out of web and plummets on some metal tubes, he lands with both arms up. A frame later one is up and another by his side.

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Continuity mistake: When aunt May places flowers by her husband's grave a green plant suddenly appears on the left side, between shots.

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Continuity mistake: In the bank, when Dr. Ock is throwing bags with coins at Spidey, a bunch of folders on the right appear / disappear randomly depending on the shot.

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Continuity mistake: During the cafe scene, Mary Jane's hair on her left side is stuck under her hat. When the angle changes, it's not.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock punches the yellow cab, the cabs on the left disappear, only to reappear seconds later.

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Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock points at the chip with his finger on his nape, but when the angle changes the finger is away and is approaching the nape again.

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Continuity mistake: Dr. Ock flies through the bank window and crashes against a cab, next to a metal cabinet. The cabinet changes positions between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ock is thrown out of the bank he breaks a shop window, leaving no glass bits standing out of the frame. A second later there are glass part all around the window.

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Continuity mistake: Spider-Man falls on a puddle and looks at the wall in front. There's a window to his right, barely a metre from the floor, and an emergency staircase on the left. When he starts climbing, the staircase disappears and the window is now 10 metres above the ground, on the left side.

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Continuity mistake: Before Spider-Man saves the kids from being run over, they're running and are inches away from the road. Five seconds later, after several flying scenes, they've moved 5 metres behind and are running towards the road again.

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Continuity mistake: When Peter crosses the campus, its avenue is almost empty, but in the close-up it's filled with people.

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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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Trivia: Dr. Curt Connors, Peter's one-armed teacher in the film, is the man who will later become The Lizard, one of Spider-Man's longest running enemies.

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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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