Take a look at Google Earth - the section of the Golden Gate Bridge Magneto breaks off (tower to tower, with a bit of overhang, 0.9 miles at most, more like 0.85) is not long enough to reach Alcatraz - the two closest points are 0.96 miles apart, and that's the very end of a pier, which most likely couldn't support the weight of the bridge anyway. See more...
Not exactly a mistake since his name is never spoken, but according to the writers, the porcupine-like character was incorrectly named "Kid Omega" in the credits, "Quill" is the corresponding comic book character. See more...
Directed by Brett Ratner, starring Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller
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In the opening scene at Jean Grey's house, we see the water from the hose going up, but neither Magneto nor Xavier has the power to do this: Magneto can control metal and Xavier is a telepath. [Neither Xavier nor Magneto are doing anything in this scene, it's all Jean Grey. And SHE has no problem using telekinesis.]
Corrected by Twotall
In the opening scene when Xavier uses his telekinetic ability to lift the cars in the street outside the Grey house, Magneto says "Oh Charles, I like that one!", a reference to the fact in the first film he used the same trick outside the train station. [Nope, totally wrong. He says "I like THIS one", referring to Jean, the one's who's actually lifting the cars, not to what she's doing.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the big fights scene at the end of the movie against The Brotherhood, Storm fights Callisto (Speed/mutant-detector) and kills her via electricity which comes out of her hands. Now, since Storms power is to control weather and weather control and electric shock are two very different things, she shouldn't be able to do this. At the very least, the lightning should have at least come from the clouds. [This is entirely consistent with Storm's powers as seen in the comics. Her power, while often described in simple terms as being "weather control" is more accurately described as a control over natural forces, which allows her a far greater range of options.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Wolverine states to Storm he's the only one who can stop Jean at the end - what about the child who they were rescuing who can take mutant powers away? [The kid's power only has a range of a few feet. He'd have been torn apart long before he got close enough to Jean to affect her.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
The loud voice in the background giving orders as the soldiers trade in their weapons and equipment for the plastic cure guns is R. Lee Ermey, the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket. [Pointing out the name of the actor playing a part does not qualify as trivia.]
In the scene where Jean and Magneto are overlooking the camp of mutants, Magneto talks to Jean about her powers. He holds up the weapon with the antidote and says he can only control metal then levitates the weapon. The weapon was supposed to be made of plastic as revealed later in the movie. The alternate scene shows him levitating a metal mug instead which made sense with his line. [*That* particular weapon had metal in it. It was taken from one of the guards on the transport vehicle. Since Magneto was not one of their prisoners, they'd have no reason to carry metal free weapons.]
Corrected by Phixius
When Shadowkat meets Leech in the complex, she can't phase through the wall to escape because being near Leech negates her mutant powers. When Juggernaut enters the same room, he is unable to break through the wall for the same reason, however Juggernaut technically isn't a mutant, his abilities were received through mysticism so his powers shouldn't have been affected. [Inapplicable comic book mistake. In the movie, Juggernaut IS a mutant.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
While Wolverine is trying to walk toward Jean in the final showdown. His clothes (and chunks of his skin) are ripped off. There are a view shots where his pants have been ripped down to boxer brief length, but after he reaches Jean, they are full pants again. [If you look closely, you can see that Wolverine's pants haven't really been cut down to shorts, but rather there's a big hole torn from mid-thigh to mid-calf.]
In the scene where Rogue talks to Wolverine about going to get the cure, she reveals that her real name is Marie. In the first X-men film, Rogue introduces herself to Wolverine as Marie after he reveals that his real name is Logan therefore eliminating the need for her to reveal her name in the third film. [She is not "revealing" her name. She is pointing out that she wants to be called Marie, instead of Rogue, since she is going to get the cure and become "normal".]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
During the final battle, Magneto pulls cars up from the bridge behind him and catapults them onto the island. However, in later wide shots we can see behind him and the bridge is still jammed solid with vehicles. [It would be a good idea for him to constantly drag more cars closer to him, whilst fire others, so he'd have a ready supply "car-tillary", for later use.]
How did Mystique know where Magneto was in the forest? He doesn't tell her, and there's no secret meeting base or anything, just a quick set-up hideout and a bunch of tents set up by the mutants. [We do not know if this meeting place was somewhere where they had already been. Somewhere that the officials and Xavier's people would not think to look.]
Corrected by Scrappy
Juggernaut's power is the ability to gain great strength but only by building momentum. This was proved when the loss of momentum, by locking his arms and legs down in the mobile prison, is how they were able to contain him. However, when Kitty Pryde sinks him in the floor, he bursts out effortlessly, despite having his arms and legs fully pinned down in concrete and unable to gain momentum. [Even though Juggernaut is not a mutant in the comic that is not how his power works. Juggernaut has uncharted superhuman strength like the Hulk and could have easily broken through the floor like he did. When he was in the back of the truck the point they were trying to get across was that he is so strong that nothing can stop him short of fully restraining him as so he can not move or even wriggle.]
Corrected by Spaceboy_007
In the forest of the Brotherhood, when Wolverine first extends his claws, the sleeve of his leather jacket can be seen above his fist. Despite the fact that he never is seen taking it off, he is only wearing a tank top a second later. [That's not his leather jacket's sleeve. That's his wrist band. ]
When we see Magneto move the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz he sets it down so that there is a bridge across the mainland to Alcatraz. The bridge is supported only by the island and the mainland, this wouldn't happen as a bridge that long and heavy would just collapse in the middle, that is why suspension bridges with supports in the middle are needed. [Already listed. See minor mistakes.]
In the van when the brotherhood attacks to get Mystique, she is shot with one of the darts of the gun. This should leave three. Magneto keeps the gun. But when Jean takes it apart and plays with Magneto, there are four again. [The handgun used by the guard in the moving prison does not resemble the guns used later by the soldiers. There is no way to say for certain how many needles go into the handgun, so it may have held five darts.]
Corrected by Twotall
In the second film Magneto escapes the entire prison with only the aid of 3 ball bearings. He could have easily ripped the cars apart and used them as bullets against the troops guarding Lech and hit them with 100% accuracy or even made the cars spin like tops and slam into the guards. All he did was throw cars in random directions and let Pyro light them and hope for the best. This goes beyond a character mistake, as Magneto's often been shown to make very good use of metal around him, whereas here he just doesn't bother so it benefits the plot. [Still, it is his choice to use the cars as artillery shells rather than bullets. Maybe he just wanted to attract attention while his fellow mutants got to Leech, maybe he simply wanted a big, flashy and intimidating show for the humans watching. It is impossible to say for certain what a character's motives are, based on such circumstantial evidence as this.]
Corrected by Twotall
Somehow, Angel manages to get from Upstate New York to San Francisco, just in time to save his father. Of course, this takes place about half an hour after the other X-Men arrive in a super sonic jet. Even with some feathery wings, that's quite a distance in such a short time. [He could have stowed away on the jet. He overheard the plans of the other X-Men.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
When Magneto is leading the Brotherhood across the Golden Gate Bridge, Jean is walking to his far left. In the following shots, Jean jumps to Magneto's far right. [Actually what happens is this: we first see them walking with her on his left, then Magneto stops, everyone behind him keeps walking past him, then they stop and everyone, including Magneto, turns around to face the other direction, resulting in Jean now being on his right, then Magneto proceeds to move the bridge.]
Towards the end, when Wolverine looks down and sees the cartridge of the cure on the ground, 4 needles are visible in it. The next shot of it, with no-one touching it in the meantime, only 3 are visible. [There are only three needles in the cartridge, you have to look at the center of the needles to see this. The mistake takes place when they stab Magneto and there are four needles stabbed into Magneto and not three.]
When racing to the room where Jean Grey and Professor X fought, Wolverine's claws are fully extended. In the next shot, when he drops to his knees, his claws are suddenly sheathed, with not enough time passing or sound to indicate he retracted them. [As he's falling to his knees, that is more than enough time to retract his claws, as we've seen in other scenes. They take about 1 second to retract. You couldn't hear them retract because there was so much noise from the fight Jean just had. The wind was blowing and the house was falling apart.]
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