Goofs for
Spider-Man 3 (2007)

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• Continuity: In the shots of when Peter (as the Black Spider-Man) meets Harry on Harry's balcony, Peter's hair can be seen changing positions between two shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Whenever Spidey removes his mask, his costume (red or black) has a turtleneck collar that goes up to the middle of his neck. Whenever his costume is shown underneath his clothes, the collar is much lower.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Harry is looking down at Peter from the balcony when Mary Jane is singing in Broadway and Peter is singing along, Mary Jane sings one thing and Peter mouths another. However, it's possible that Peter does not remember the song very well, and he mouthed what he thought was next.
  
  

• Continuity: Beginning with the "Fever" scene in the jazz club, MJ's heels fluctuate between fairly high and almost flat a number of times during the time she's wearing the black/white outfit.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Peter Parker takes Gwen Stacy to the jazz bar, you can clearly hear drums and cymbals when Peter is dancing, but the drummer in the background is only tapping his drumsticks together.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter attends Mary Jane's opening performance and then takes her to the park, he's wearing a light blue shirt that changes from "button-down" collar style (unbuttoned - you can see the buttons under the collar flaps) to "plain" collar and back to button-down (unbuttoned again, but you can't see the buttons this time).
  
  
• Continuity: When Eddie dashes through the doors to Jameson's office, Miss Brant picks up the phone. In the very next shot she is in the background looking at Eddie and Jameson, but is no longer holding the phone.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Captain Stacy is shown wearing a variety of medals above his shield (badge). The green bar with gold stars, and the plain green bar should be worn at the TOP of his shield, above all the other bars, (not halfway down), as they represent the Medal of Honor and the Combat Cross. (The NYPD's Highest and Second-Highest awards).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Peter and Mary Jane are lying in Peter's spider web near the beginning of the movie, as the scene is zooming out you can clearly see a strand of web made out of chain near the bottom of the screen.
  
  
• Continuity: Before the final battle, when the crowd looks up at Spidey swinging in toward the building, the fireman at the left of the screen picks up the same child three times.
  
  
• Errors in geography: A part of the movie features the Cleveland Trust Rotunda in the background where one can easily read "Cleveland Trust" inscribed on the Romanesque structure, although the movie is supposed to be set in New York city. Two other unique Cleveland landmarks are also briefly visible - Terminal Tower, and the marquee entrance to Playhouse Square Center.
  
  
• Continuity: When Spiderman is being pummeled by the Sandman while being held down by Venom, underneath his eye, his mask is being held together by a couple of pieces of thread. When he is shown in later scenes, though, his mask has about 3/4 of an inch of fabric left holding it together.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Peter Parker tells Aunt May about proposing, the clock in the kitchen never changes time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter goes to tell Aunt May he is going to propose to Mary Jane, Aunt May starts to hug Peter with her head over his left shoulder. In the next shot from another angle, her head has shifted to Peter's right shoulder.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Flint Marko (Sandman) is in the demolecularizer, everything including his belt buckle turns to sand, but the locket with the picture of his daughter doesn't.
  
  
• Plot holes: The first time the Symbiot covers Peter's Spider Man suit and "copies" it, Peter isn't wearing the spider man mask, however the symbiote copies the mask EXACTLY, as if Peter were wearing it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Sandman throws a car into the street, it clearly hits one car that turns sideways, then goes through the center of the street. Two cars behind the first hit, however, are pushed to the side, and the mechanism pipe that moves the cars is clearly visible.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mary Jane is performing her song at the beginning of the film, and the audience applaud after the first couple of lines, the audience can be seen remaining quite still, not clapping, though great applause can be heard.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Peter visits Aunt May, she takes milk out of the refrigerator to put into her coffee. The next scene has it disappear without her turning back or going to the refrigerator.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The main camera Eddie shoots on is a Nikon D50, which is a digital SLR, yet we hear film winding sound effects. The LCD screen of the camera complete with "Nikon" logo at the bottom is also visible for a short time in one scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the cop holding a shovel is walking on top of the sand in the truck concealing Sandman, you can see the right hand edge of the platform used to stop him sinking into the sand. He stops right at the edge of the platform to raise the shovel.
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter goes to Harry's house, and fights with him, Harry gets thrown out of the window; notice his left shoulder. First there are no pieces of glass; in the shot after there are two pieces of glass; in the next shot, they are gone again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final fight the amount of mask on Peter's face and chin after it is ripped changes.
  
  
• Factual errors: The police who first encounter Sandman in NYC are carrying 9mm Beretta pistols. The NYC Police Department doesn't issue these pistols, but uses Glock and Sig-Sauer 9mms.
  
  
• Continuity: After Peter leaves Aunt May and is on his little yellow bike, when Harry swoops down to knock Peter off, Peter's red helmet flies off behind him a split second before he is actually hit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Spider-Man goes to chase Sandman into the storm-drain, after Sandman robs the bank, Spider-Man tears the grate out of the street. It's ripped out roughly along with some concrete around the grate. When the camera angle cuts to looking up from the storm sewer, there is a nice square hole as if the grate was lifted out neatly.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final fight scene, MJ's tie changes from a short necktie to a normal tie and back again.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Peter is in the Jazz bar and fighting the door man, you can see his skin through the space between the buttons on his shirt, but in the next scene he is wearing the 'black Spider-Man' outfit underneath his shirt. Although in the cartoon the suit can change into any pair of clothes Peter thinks of, this concept is not brought forwards in the movie, therefore making this a goof. Even if it were possible for the symbiote to change Peter's clothes in the movie, it seems unlikely that it would disappear and then reappear just after he's beaten someone up.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Shadow of camera briefly visible in the scene where the symbiote is getting ready to "attack" Peter Parker on the bed.
  
  

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