Goofs in films are always fun to catch. Here are six interesting ones from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy.
1 Self-healing wood. In the famous mugging scene from Spider-Man, when Spidey saves Mary Jane from four muggers (and then Spidey and Mary Jane kiss in the rain), he tosses the first two crooks through two boarded-up windows. Then you see Spider-Man beat up the other two. In the next scene, the camera switches back to Mary Jane, and the windows behind her are clearly not broken.
2 Resilient lamp. Earlier in the first film, when Peter is practicing shooting his webs, he accidentally latches on to a lamp in his room and pulls it down, breaking it. Aunt May eventually comes to check in on Peter and he opens the door just a crack to talk to her (he obviously can’t let her in, since his room is filled with webs). Next to him we see the unbroken lamp back where it originally was.
3 Oops, everyone’s blind now, sorry. In Spider-Man 2, Doctor Octavius has to wear special goggles while he is working on his fusion process because the light would blind him otherwise. However, no one else watching or working alongside the process are wearing goggles, neither the first time nor the second time they show it in the film.
4 Alternate realities? In Spider-Man 3, when Peter removes the symbiote in the church, Eddie Brock is downstairs praying, and it is clear that it is daylight outside, as all of the stained glass windows are lit up. However, in the Spider-Man scene, it is dark outside and raining. The Eddie scene directly follows the Spider-Man scene, sooo…alternate realities, anyone?
5 Crummy gift. In Spider-Man 3, everything Flint Marko had on him was turned into the special sand, just like him. His clothes, his belt buckle, everything. So how was he able to give his daughter a locket without it turning to sand?
6 Cleveland rocks! In the fight sequence in Spider-Man 3 between Spider-Man and Sandman in the armored car, the Terminal Tower can be seen in the background. The Terminal Tower is a Cleveland landmark (which is where the film was shot). However, the film was set in New York City, not Cleveland.