Corrected entry: When Anakin and Obi-wan are fighting Dooku, Dooku pushes Obi-wan. When Obi-wan lands you can see a shadow of his lightsaber, when lightsabers don't have shadows.
Tailkinker
12th Feb 2010
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
20th Jul 2009
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: When Anakin starts to fly the ship in the beginning Obi Wan says "Well, under the circumstances I'd say his ability to fly this thing is irrelevant" but his lips don't move.
Correction: That would be because Anakin says it, not Obi-wan.
5th Sep 2008
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: After Anakin gets his arms and legs mutilated by Kenobi, he is transported to a facility to adapt the bionic parts to him. Amidala is delivering the twins about the same time. It's obviously all for the sake of drama, but it makes absolutely no sense that a society so technologically developed as to have invented hyperspace jumping, had not invented a simple glass cover, or even an umbrella to shield Anakin from the rain while transporting him, nor painkillers or a way to sedate him through the medical procedure. Amidala is delivering the old-fashioned way, so apparently they haven't invented cesarea either. This is unacceptable, even for our universe.
Correction: Sidious wants Anakin to suffer through the process - the Sith gain power through rage and hate and pain. He wants Anakin to feel everything that happens to him as he's put back together again. As for Padme's delivery, she delivers naturally, which proves nothing whatsoever about whether they've developed caesarean sections. By the time they realise that they're losing her, the babies are nearly there - to start cutting into her at that point would only increase the strain on her body, making it even more likely that she won't survive.
13th Jul 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Keisha Castle-Hughes, from "Whale Rider", can be seen in this movie as the queen of Naboo during Padme's funeral. Her scenes took one day to film.
Correction: She's in the credits - this is not valid trivia by any stretch of the imagination. And as she only appears in very few shots in one short scene, it's hardly worthwhile to point out that it could all be done in a single day.
13th Dec 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: When Obi-Wan and Anakin escape from their bounds and tackle Grievous's bodyguards at the beginning of the film Obi-wan decapitates the last bodyguard. But it still lives and is able to fight him. Later when Obi-Wan drops the huge block on the bodyguards, before he fights Grievous, one bodyguard gets up and goes for its weapon. Obi-Wan kills this bodyguard by cutting off its head.
Correction: The bodyguard was already badly damaged from being hit by the block - as such, the decapitation was enough to stop it. In the earlier instance, the guard was otherwise unscathed, so is able to continue functioning despite the loss of its head.
9th Oct 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: During the Opera scene Palpatine tells Anakin about the dark ways of the force which he listens to without question. However later in the movie when they next meet Anakin asks him, "How do you know about the force?" as if he didn't know that Palpatine already knew about it. Anakin even acts as if he didn't know that Palpatine knew about the force.
Correction: In the Opera scene, Palpatine is telling Anakin a story relating to the Force that, as far as the younger man knows, he could have picked up anywhere - Anakin has no doubt heard a number of such tales in his time. In their later confrontation, it becomes clear that Palpatine knows how to USE the Force, which is something else entirely - when he questions Palpatine, Anakin is asking him where he gained this ability.
5th Aug 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: During the fight between Anakin and Count Dooku, there's at least one shot where a lightsaber's shadow is visible on the floor. You see a shadow because they use a stick during the filming and later add the special effect.
Correction: Throughout the series of films, there are numerous shots where a lightsabre blade is seen to cast a shadow. As we don't know anything about the energy used to create the blade, we cannot say that it shouldn't cast a shadow, not least at the blades aren't translucent, meaning they definitely block light in some way.
6th Jul 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Chewbacca is good friends with Yoda in Episode 3, but joins in with Han Solo in making fun of Obi Wan in Episode 4: " You said it Chewy. Kid, where did you dig up that fossil?" If he was such good friends with the leader of the Jedi Council, why would he later make fun of one of the last remaining Jedi? Maybe he never met Obi Wan but you'd think he would be thrilled to meet anyone who claimed to know the ways of the Jedi. After all, Obi Wan was instructing Luke on the ways of the force right in front of him on board the Millennium Falcon.
Correction: As the Wookies were enslaved by the Empire for the crime of assisting the Jedi, it's quite reasonable that Chewbacca would be somewhat less in awe of them these days.
25th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Plo Koon is killed (the Jedi that dies while piloting an old Jedi starfighter), one shot shows him in his cockpit before it explodes from clone fire. The cockpit window shows that there are three separate window panels, much like the design in the fighters Anakin and Obi-wan fly in the beginning of the movie. The old Jedi Star fighter only has one full window panel.
Correction: Clearly this isn't quite the same as the earlier design - unless we actually see that what he's flying only has the one panel at some point, this can't be considered a mistake.
20th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Following the battle on the bridge of the starship Obi-Wan and Anakin infiltrated in the beginning of the movie, the windows are shattered and protective shutters move down. In a following scene showing the bridge from the outside, the bridge is shown to still have windows.
Correction: The shutters only cover those windows that are damaged - the others remain clear.
23rd Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: The final scene of the movie shows Vader and the Emperor looking out at the Death Star being constructed. This doesn't fit with the storyline as there is almost 20 years between episodes 3 & 4, that is quite a slow construction. Compare this to the time in which the second and more powerful death star is almost finished. Some time could be accounted for through prototype versions and testing, but not 20 years.
Correction: This has already been covered elsewhere - considering that major building projects on Earth can take several years to complete, it's hardly unreasonable that it could take the Empire, even with their more advanced technology, twenty years to construct a battle station that's seventy-five miles across, involves at least one completely untried technology (the planet-destroying superlaser) and many other technologies on a scale previously unheard of. The second Death Star's construction would be quicker, as they'd have learned from building the first one, but it is quite clearly not even close to being finished - the amount of construction that's seen is quite consistent with a build time of two to three years.
Correction: Besides, the Death Star may not have much steel. Other materials would be present. For example, titanium alloys replace steel on Earth, and composite materials can be substituted for steel in some cases. While steel is strong, lighter materials are better suited for objects that need to be moved.
12th Jun 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: On the bridge of Grievous' ship, Obi-wan cuts the head off of a magna droid and it keeps fighting. However, right before Obi-wan faces off with Grievous on Utapau, he cuts off the head of a magna droid and it falls dead.
Correction: The magna droid on Utapau is already badly damaged, so the loss of the head is enough to finish it off - in the prior encounter, the magna droid is otherwise in perfect shape, so is able to continue fighting.
23rd May 2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Corrected entry: Darth Vader has the red button on his chest on the right side, but in the original movies it was on the left.
Correction: It's hardly unreasonable to think that there would have been some modifications (upgrades, damage fixes) to his life-support suit in the years between the films.
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Correction: As has been corrected many times, it can be seen throughout the series that lightsabers cast visible shadows. A lightsaber blade is not transparent, therefore it blocks light, therefore it casts a shadow.
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