Obi-Wan Kenobi: If you spent as much time practicing your saber techniques as you did your wit, you'd rival Master Yoda as a swordsman.
Anakin Skywalker: I thought I already did.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only in your mind, my very young apprentice.
Anakin's handcuffs keep coming off and then they're back on again; just look at his wrists when he gets on the bull and the shots when he's riding him, they go on and off a few times See more...
After the fight scene between Obi-Wan and Jango Fett at Kamino, as Jango runs up the walkway into his ship, the door closes from above and knocks Jango in the head as he enters. Deliberately done - a little nod to the Storm trooper in Star Wars. While there's no proof (yet) that all storm troopers are clones (films are the only canon, remember), this seems to suggest that a few years down the line at least some are, and have inherited their "father's" occasional clumsiness. Confirmed in the commentary. See more...
Directed by George Lucas, starring Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Ewan McGregor, Frank Oz, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Kenny Baker, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, Temuera Morrison (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi
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When Obi-Wan arrives at Kamino, when he walks through the door, the hallway goes straight on after entering. Later, when Obi-Wan is leaving, the hallway is curved. [When Obi Wan walks in, he looks to his left where a Kaminoan approaches -- the corridor is curved, not straight. The straight corridor is in the *next* scene outside Prime Minister Lama Su's chambers.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
After Padme's ship is destroyed, she says that she believes Count Dooku is behind it. Why would the leader of the Separatists assassinate a senator voting against the army of the Republic? In order for her conclusion to make sense, she would have to know that Dooku and Palpatine are working together. [The Seperatists are obvious candidates to make assassination attempts on prominent Senators like Padme, in order to increase turmoil within the Senate and potentially prompt other star systems to withdraw. She clearly has her reasons to be suspicious of Dooku - just because those reasons are not spelled out in great detail, that doesn't make this a mistake.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Wide shots of the scene in which Obi-Wan Kenobi delivers Luke Skywalker to the Larses (featured in Ep. III) were filmed during principal photography of Episode II. Ewan McGregor was not present, so the scene was filmed using his body double and Joel Edgerton (Owen). [I also believed this to be the case, however on the DVD for Episode III it shows this scene being filmed in a studio against a blue screen with all the actors present. Most disappointed, I was.]
The thumping sounds of the creature's feet in the arena are frequently unsynchronized throughout the scene. [Put simply, this is not correct at all. I see nothing in this scene that approaches this description.]
Corrected by Garlonuss
Remember in The Empire Strikes Back, when Boba Fett didn't fall for Han Solo's trick of having the Millennium Falcon cling to the Imperial starship? Now we know why. He remembered back to when he was just a kid, and his father (Jango Fett) lost track of Obi-wan Kenobi, who clung to an asteroid in the same way. No doubt that in Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett was thinking, "That trick may have worked on my dad once, but it's not going to work again." [He never actully KNEW Obi Wan clung to the asteroid so he couldn't possibly have remembered it. What's the point of hiding if Boba and Jango knew?]
In the scene where Mace Windu kills Jango Fett, his head falls off. In a later shot when his son looks at his head it is obvious that it is just a helmet. [This mistake has already been corrected once. If you watch very carefully or in slow motion, right when Windu cuts off his head, you can see TWO shadows on the ground fly by. One is his head, the other, his helmet.]
Corrected by William Bergquist
At the beginning of the other films after all the text has gone up the screen, the camera scrolls down. But after the text on this film, the camera scrolls up. It is the same as in 2001: A Space Odyssey. [Something that can be seen by anybody watching the film is hardly valid trivia. And this can hardly be unique to those two films.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
At the beginning when Amidala meets with Palpatine and Yoda, two guards are standing in the corners of the room. They're dressed identically to the Imperial Guards from ROTJ - a hint as to what's coming... [Foreshadowing is a pretty standard story-telling technique that occurs throughout the saga. There's no need to point out every single example of it, particularly as they can readily be seen by anybody watching - that's not what trivia's about.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
After Obi-Wan dives through the window, the next morning as Padme's packing we see from outside and inside shots little robots flying in a replacement sheet of glass and welding it into place. Nice attention to detail, Mr. Lucas... [Pointing out something that's, frankly, pretty obvious in the film is not valid trivia.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the first scene where we see Palpatine in his office, look closely to the design of his chair. It is the same chair Palpatine is sitting in the Death Star in Return of the Jedi but with an extra top. Nice touch of Lucas to show that Palpatine will eventually become the Emperor. [That's called foreshadowing. Perfectly standard storytelling technique which occurs throughout the saga and certainly doesn't need to have every single example of it pointed out.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
There is a shot during the opening battle in the arena, right before Dooku says "Master Windu, you have fought galantly..." where Obi-Wan appears to be checking the pulse of a fallen Jedi. If you look closely on that Jedi's shoulder, you can see that Obi-Wan's lightsaber has a shadow. [Lighsabers should have shadows. You can't see through the blade; that means it blocks light, thereby casting a shadow.]
Corrected by Phixius
When Obi-Wan and Anakin jump off the gunship in front of where Dooku went in two clones jump off after Obi-Wan and Anakin are off, but where do they go? [In the following shot, when the Geonosian fighters destroy the gunships, they can also be seen to fire at the landing platform. One of the two clones can be seen falling from the platform - it's fair to assume that the other was also killed.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the scene when Anakin and Padme's spaceship approaches Naboo, if you look closely, you can see Hudson Bay and the East Coast of North America under the clouds. The image of Naboo was stock footage of Earth. Also, Geonosis (in a later scene) appears to be stock footage of Jupiter. [Having checked through the film, I can find no shots where either Naboo or Geonosis bear any significant resemblance to Earth or Jupiter - there is, in fact, no shot of Anakin and Padme's ship approaching Naboo that I can find; the first shot is of their ship landing at the spaceport. And, given Lucas' attention to detail when it comes to effects, it's hardly likely that he would resort to the use of stock footage of a readily identifiable planet, particularly when he already has images of Naboo available from Episode 1.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
While in the droid factory Anakin's cloak gets caught on the tip of his lightsaber for a second when he takes it off. [This submission is way too vague. Anakin keeps his cloak on all through the droid factory scene and at no point was I able to spot the lightsaber getting stuck on it.]
In the arena battle right near the end a Jedi is blocking shots and then falls down. He never got shot. [He was hit by Jango. You could see where his "skin" gets burned.]
In the Coruscant bar scene, the two Jedi watch three huge screens. On one of these screens we see the game Star Wars Racer, based on the Pod Race scene of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. [That is not the Star Wars Racer video game seen on the screen in the bar. That is just another pod race.]
As already noted in another mistake, when Anakin says goodbye to Padmé outside the moisture farm, their shadows change position between shots. The shadows on the ground also change size and intensity between shots several times. [This mistake is noted online, it need not be noted again.]
This movie has interesting parallels to 'The Empire Strikes Back': first appearance of a bounty hunter named Fett; two of the principal characters fall in love; a chase into and through an asteroid field; a massive attack of a clone army against rebel forces (in this movie, the Separatists) with combat walkers; a Skywalker loses his hand to a Siths lightsaber. [This 'trivia' is poor on just so many levels.]
In the cloning facility when Obi-Wan is getting a tour of it, you can see some men dining. The camera zooms in on three of them, and the one on the left is seen doing a cutting motion with his knife. However, as the camera zooms out, you can see that he isn't actually cutting anything. [If you watch closer at the bottom of the shot just before they get out of view you see a white piece of "food" on his fork.]
When Zam crashes her speeder, watch the two pylons (or whatever they are) on the front of the vehicle, the left one hits a column and crumples up. The right one misses the column completely but still crumples even though it didn't hit anything. [If you watch it on slow motion or frame by frame play at the very bottom of the of the shot you see the right one strikes the column too, it's just a little bit later than the first one.]
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