75 mistakes in Attack of the Clones

Attack of the Clones (2002) - 75 mistakes

Please note: People are fixated on Owen and C-3P0 not recognising each other in Episode 4, when they've been around each other in this film. Easy. The droids' memories get wiped at some point (presumably when they're sent with Padme and Bail Organa in a few years' time), and Owen either: experiences a lot of droids, and a few of them may have similar/identical names, or doesn't recognise C-3PO because he looks very different between Episodes 2 and 4, or else recognises them when we first see him in episode 4, but figures they won't remember him due to their memories being wiped, and him getting worked up over a couple of random droids would alert Luke's suspicions. Or any number of other explanations that Mr. Lucas may have planned - lots work.



There are at least 12 random bodies strewn about the arena during the Jedi/Drone battle that are neither Jedis or Drones. A couple are actually wearing regular shirts.

On Tatooine, Amidala presses a button to retransmit the message from Obi-wan. A moment later, she presses the same button to bring up the map showing Obi-wan's location and the distances between Tatooine and Couruscant. Not only does this same button do double duty, but with one press it knows she wants to show the location of the three planets.

When Amidala & Anakin are eating and he cuts her a piece of the fruit and "floats" it back to her, the bite appears in the fruit a split second before she actually eats it.

When Amidala and some of the clone troopers get blown out of the ship chasing Dooku, later the trooper approaches Amidala and asks about making their way back to the front lines, but Amidala says they should go to the hangar to help Obi-Wan and Ani. How did she know about the hangar, having left the ship quite some time before it arrived at the final destination?

When Padme gets her back scratched she seems to bleed. Even though she is wearing all white, and the scratches seems to be deep, her white top remains squeaky clean during the rest of the movie and does not get dirty from her wound.

How is it that one slash on Amidala's back ripped off the entire midriff of her shirt, and a sleeve?

The aliens that populate the planet of Geonosis have an extremely perculiar method of speech - consisting of clicks and weird ringing sounds. However, despite the fact that they make up 99.9% of the crowd in the arena, the sound of the crowd cheering is human.

In the scene where Amidala and Anakin look at the lake leaning against the lower balcony, just before the scene changes you can see a red beverage can (presumably Coca-Cola) placed on the lower left balcony slightly reflecting the sunlight as well.

In an early scene with Yoda talking to Mace Windu in the Jedi council room, he sits on his little Jedi throne balancing his hands atop his cane. As the shots change angle, the cane isn't there. To top it off, Yoda's hands remain as if still atop the cane...

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. I'm fairly sure that who shot is computer generated, so it must have been deliberate - a little nod to the Storm trooper in Star Wars, perhaps?

In the arena scene, Anakin's pillar already has a chain hanging from the top before he is led to it, however, when he is led to the pillar, the chain is no longer there, and a new one is hoisted to the top by the flying Geonosian guard.

In the arena scene, you will notice that Padme's hands are chained to the pillar and pulled up above her head. The chain is taut. However, subsequently the chain becomes sufficiently slack for Padme to bring the cuffs to her mouth and unpick it.

During the sequence where Obi-wan goes to meet Yoda regarding the abscence of Kamino from the Jedi Archives, look closely at the collection of children Yoda is training. While most are human, there is one that is alien, with a reptilian face of dark ski

 

When Palpatine is speaking to the Jedi very near the beginning, the ships in the suspended invisible freeways on the background are always going on the same pattern. Notice that there is an elongated ship with a large rear tip, and then two smaller ships always seem to catch it at the same time. This goes on for about 3 minutes.

After getting off the airspeeder at Naboo Padme and Anakin walk down a long balcony. R2D2 behind them has a huge dent clearly visible on his dome. How the heck did that happen? Did he fall down the stairs at some point?

In the scene when Obi-Wan is being held in captivity on Geonosis and is speaking with Dooku, watch Dooku as he circles Obi-Wan while he talks. At one point after a shot of Obi-Wan, a shot of Dooku has his hands clasped across his midsection, but also notice he is amazingly holding the sides of his cloak. Four hands Dooku? You are on the dark side aren't you?

When Anakin and Padme's shuttle arrives at Naboo it flies over a lake and lands on the other side next to some trees. Even though the trees are visibly reflected in the lake, at no time is the shuttle ever reflected on the lake when it passes over it and lands by the trees.

When Anakin is fighting the geonosis guards in the droid factory, he does a backwards roll to avoid being hit, while doing so he rolls right on one of the molten pieces of metal on the conveyor belt...

When Anakin is getting ready to ride off after his mother, you can see a small pile of boxes right next to his shadow that is being cast on the side of the Lars' house. Amidala comes out and we see their shadows, and the boxes have gone. Then when Anakin gets on the hoverbike and rides off, the boxes return.

In Empire Strikes Back, C3PO is shot to pieces, Chewie puts him together and C3PO can only speak when his head is plugged into his body (because his voice intercetor is in his chest). However in Attack of the clones, when all the jedi come, and R2D2 is pulling C3PO's head around he seems to be able to speak fine with only his head, and nothing to make him talk.

The spinning display in the background of the Lars family's workshop is inconsistently placed between cuts.

During the battle of Geonosis, Ki-Adi-Mundi has a blue lightsaber. After the clone army arrives, there is a shot of Obi-Wan and Mace, then Anakin, then Padme. During that shot of Padme, over her right shoulder, Ki-Adi can be seen with a green lightsaber. It then changes back to blue when he is on the transport ship deflecting laser shots.

In the scene where Anakin is in Padme's bedroom and he is whining about Obi Wan, he is floating a ball with the force. The ball's reflection shows in the window, but you cant see Anakin's reflection at all,

In the final battle, Mace Windu has climbed aboard Yoda's open ship and turns around to deflect the blaster shots with his lightsaber. However, one of the shots slips through and would have hit him right in the chest. About 10 centimeters from his body, the red shot mysteriously vanishes... Obviously an interaction between live character and CGI that went wrong.

In the battle at the Arena in Geonosis, we can see there are a lot of droids who survive the intervention of the clones when the transports leave with the remaining jedis, but a second later, we see R2-D2 and C3PO as the only survivors in the whole arena. Where did the remaining droids go? There was not enough time to evacuate the arena.

At the beginning of the scene where Anakin and Amidala are getting off the "train", R2-D2 is struggling down the stairs some way behind them. Their conversation flows continuously, but as soon as Anakin says "we've got R2 with us", R2-D2 is handily immediately behind them.

On Tatooine, after Anakin's mother died, and they laid her to rest, you notice the shadows of the tombstone's are all facing one direction. When R2-D2 comes over, you'll notice that his shadow is going in a different direction. Can't be explained by the two suns, as we've seen many times that they don't produce two dis

 

In the scene where Obi-Wan lands on the cloners' planet. Rain drops go from right to left as he walk to the door. In the next 180 degree scene change as he enters the building they are still going right to left.

When Yoda and Mace listen to the Senate voting Palpatine emergency powers, Yoda starts on the top ledge nearest the Senate chamber. When the shot changes he has moved down onto a different ledge which wasn't there before.

When Anakin is fighting Count Dooku, he takes Ben's blue light sabre in his left hand, in the next shot he is holding it in his right hand.

On Tatooine when Anakin first gets on to the swoop bike, two legs which the bike is standing (hovering) on is visible. This is even so while he is racing along tatooine landscape. These legs are no longer visible when he returns with Shmi.

When Anakin is crying on Tattooine, he starts to cry and the tears are running down his face, but then they disappear and his face is completely dry, then there are more tears, and the same thing happens again.

In the bar scene on Coruscant, when Anakin is tracking Zam Wessel through the bar, his Jedi braid changes sides - it is on the left side of his head in a shot where he is seen from behind. At all other times in the movie, the braid is on the right side of his head.

In the scene on Geonosis where the droids are closing in on the remaining Jedi, the camera keeps cutting close and cutting back out. In only two of these changes is a blue Twilek visible. She has disappeared in the other camera angles.

In the scenes at the very end when Anakin and Padme are married, the cloud formations in the background against the mountains change significantly between cuts from wide angle to closeups. A little wisp of clouds to the right of the couple disappears and reappears when a closeup of R2D2 and C3PO is shown.

In the scene where the Jedi are in the arena fighting the droids, Padme jumps on that animal carrying and Anakin jumps on the trailer. You can clearly see Anakin using his lightsaber to block...nothing.

The exact same shot of Obi-Wan being knocked back by an explosion is used twice in the scene on Kamino. Once when Jango fires a rocket at him and again when Boba fires at him from Slave 1.

As Padme and Anakin are about to leave their ship to save Obi-Wan right after landing in the exhaust shaft, she puts on a shawl-like piece of cloth over her shoulders facing forward. When they exit the ship, the shawl is suddenly backwards, with the two ends hanging behind her instead of in front of her.

When Obi-Wan goes to the water planet and talks to the Prime Minister in his office. The alien is of course computer generated. When the actors do their blue screen work, markers are put up for them to look at so that when the finished shot is done, and the alien is put in, it looks like they're looking at the alien. In this scene, Obi-Wan is clearly not looking at the alien. (On one of the "making of" trailers at starwars.com you can hear George Lucas jokingly say "Eye-lines! I don't care about no stinking eye-lines," and the scene behind him is Obi-Wan talking to the alien...)

When Anakin & Senator Amidala arrive back on Naboo, shortly after there is an arial shot of a landing platform of some sort elaborately surrounded by water and a row of trees. Notice that the reflections in the water do not match the position and height of the trees.

In the scene where Anakin arrives with his mother all wrapped up, he picks her up and you can clearly see that Anakin's mother moves her head into a more comfortable position on Anakin's shoulder.

When Anakin is talking to Palpatine, the shot pans to the door, and it appears as if the door and the furniture are painted.

when Obi-wan tries to apprehend Jango fett, Jango has 2 blasters. What happens to the other one, after it shows one blaster knocked to the ledge?

Yoda drops his cane to fight Count Dooku. Then in the wide shots, the cane (CG animated) is no longer on the floor (anywhere), until Yoda convenie

 

When Obi-Wan leaps out the window to grab the probe droid the placement is wrong. If standing inside and facing the window, the probe droid was on the right side and when it turns to leave it heads off to the right, yet Obi-Wan breaks the left/middle of the glass and still manages to catch it even though it never would have passed by that part of the window.

Obi-wan's jumping through the window at the assassin droid made NO sense. Silliest bit in the series. There they are, a hundred floors up (at least!) and he jumps on this floating basketball. Even assuming he somehow knows it can support his weight, what does he intend to do? Mind-probe it? Hope it's stupid enough to return to its master assassin owner who would be inexplicably unaware that it now has a rider? Hope it doesn't have a self-destruct mechanism? Any assassin droid would need to in case of capture by the cops.

When Anakin and Padme are disguised as refugees? and are eating their meal in the hold of a ship with many other passengers. Padme leans forward to get some food, when the camera angle changes she is sitting upright in her seat against the chair back.

The Nimoidian mouths are inconsisten with The Phantom Menace. The mouths of Nimoidians (Nute Gunray and his assistant) work inconsistently to how they did in Episode 1. In this film the centre of the mouth moves outwards rather than the edges moving out.

Amidala seem to buy her suitcases on earth. I've owned the same kind of suitcase set used in the flick. They're from a company called "Atlantic". The only way they've been modified for the film is the funky padding inside. [If I remember right, it's this case she's using].

As Anakin and Amidala are landing on Tattooine, the sun on the set and the sun reflection off their ship are in different directions. The double sun would not account for this, as they are not far enough apart.

When Anakin and Obi-Wan are going up the lift/elevator to meet Padme, the lift is on the right hand edge of the building so when they get out they can physically only turn left. however they get out, meet Jar-Jar, and turn right. Some people say it could have two doors, but it's on the very corner of the building - they've got doors in front and empty space behind.

In the arena battle, the creature that looks like a crab is a complete StarCraft rip off of the Lurker - click here to see it.

When Anakin is on Tatooine talking to Watto, there are two of Watto's worker-droids visible in the background between them (behind Anakin, screen left). In front of these droids is a box, presumably theirs to carry. In the very next shot, which shows Anakin leaving with Watto, the droids are still there, but the box is nowhere in sight.

In the scene where Obi-Wan landed on the cloners' planet. He gets out of his ship and the door closes automaticaly. If you look closely, the door doesn't close all the way, there's about a inch that stays open.

Jango Fett wears shiny metal armour. When he and Obi-Wan fall of the side of the Kamino building Obi-Wan falls and Jango climbs to safety. You can hear the clanks of metal on metal as he climbs yet you can clearly see Jango's metal armour bend.

When C-3PO is in the droid production centre, his head gets bolted onto a battle droid. Later on, during the huge battle between the droids and Jedi, both robots, the one with 3PO's head and the one with 3PO's body are fighting against the Jedi. Surely one of them should have fought with them?

In the introduction, when text flows across the screen, the words "ten thousand solar systems" appear. Strictly speaking, there is only one Solar system - ours. A star with planets is a "star system", our star is called "Sol", hence, the Solar System. This trivial error is made in many sci-fi films, BUT the Star Wars series has never fallen into this error before. Remember Episode IV, where Leia says something like, "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers" (and that's only one example). So why, why, why has

 

I knew that .

 

Wow. Took me ages to read all that. Heres another one - at the end of the Dooku / Yoda fight, when Yod's levitates the piller from falling onto Anakin and Obi, why not use the pillar as a missile and lob it at Dookus ship? Or, even simpler, use the Force to break something to stop it getting away.

 

Yeah MRA, I thought that. He could have avoided a war if he had thrown it the other way!

 

How about this:
Obi-Wan is told to bring Jango in for questioning by Mace and Yoda. The ship he
took to Kamino is a single-seater ship.
Just where was he supposed to stash Jango?

 

Even with all that, I still liked AotC!

 

Yeah, talk about nit picking!

 

@ D_Q- GEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!

 

Yes HOURS it took me to find out all those mistakes HOURS I TELLS YA!!!

Actually a couple of minutes cut and pasting from here
There's loads of other movies there too

 

There're simple explainations to a lot of those so called problems but I really can't be bothered to sit here and type them all. I've got a lot of coursework to be in, anyway.

For example, though: Anakin didn't 'steal' Threepio from Owen at all. If you've read the novelisation you'll know Owen gave Threepio back to Anakin because he knew it's what Shmi would have wanted.

There were a lot of good ones, though.

 

Yeah I still remember posting something like this back in july

All the mistakes and Happening in AotC

Not one person gave them - Shame on your


Thanks DQ

 

err.. so what?

I thought it was still a massive improvement on ep1.

 

Yes all films have mistakes but at least we got an atempt at a story line interestingly in the same movie that George used a script writer to help? So much for king of the castle!

Clones fantastic finally a movie/video game idea that works

No i didn't read it all (theres drinking to be done!) but good points on plot holes i also thought it hilarious how obi-wan was ment to capture jango and bring him back in a craft for 1! Could've been a cosy trip.

 

Twasn't meant as an insult to AotC cos it's my fave film was just something I saw and posted

 

So Dark_Elf_Queen if u didn't hate it,

What did ya like in tha film?
An i don't care what the clock on this board says its only 2:53 am not 6! Check ur number or better yet look out the window!

ps. CGI yoda kicks some ass! looks much better than that EP1 abomination, that designer should be hung, drawn and quartered, how dare you stray so far from the original design and be allowed to work on a star wars film!