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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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• Continuity: Anakin's scar on his right eye changes, the part below his eye moves slightly down and lengthens. Also, on the DVD box cover, Anakin clearly doesn't have a scar; however throughout the movie the scar is there since he was supposed to have received it in between Episodes II and III.
  
  
• Continuity: During Anakin and Obi Wan's final fight, bodies on the floor appear and disappear between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin, the river of lava reverses direction of flow. When Obi-Wan jumps off the platform, the river flows towards his right, but in the next shot of Anakin, it is flowing towards Obi-Wan's left.
  
  

• Continuity: Dooku tries to choke Obi-Wan and sends him flying across the room with his left hand while holding his lightsaber in his right hand. In the shot where Dooku uses the Force to crush Obi-Wan with the large metal platform, he uses his right hand, which should be holding the lightsaber. The lightsaber is then in his right hand again when Anakin kicks him of the balcony.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the scene on the landing platform at the Jedi Temple, during the eradication of the Jedi, Bail Organa observes a young Jedi padawan get shot by Clone Troopers. In Organa's escape, he jumps into his speeder with his left hand gripping the steering control. In doing this, he turns the control all the way to the left. Yet, his speeder moves forward in a straight line, ignoring the input.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Emperor is pushed back by the force lighting collected by Yoda, he barely holds onto the smooth senate pod to keep from falling. In the next shot (after Yoda has fallen), he's holding onto a metal bar that wasn't there before.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin arrives on Mustafar and is shown putting on his hood, his mechanical arm is missing.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Padme is trying to convince Anakin to turn from the dark side on Mustafar, when Anakin says "And I'm doing it for you, to protect you." his mouth says "And I'm doing it because I love you, to protect you."
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin and Obi-Wan are struggling on the table on Mustafar during the final battle, Obi-Wan constantly switches from holding his to Anakin's lightsaber in his right hand. During the Final Battle on Mustafar, while the massive Metal Platform is going over the lava fall, there are some shots where Anakin's glove switches hands, and both characters switch their light sabers from hand to hand between shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Anakin and Obi-Wan confront Dooku, Anakin's light saber makes no sound as it ignites.
  
  
• Continuity: When Yoda uses the force to send Darth Sidious flying across the room, Sidious lands in his desk chair which knocks over backwards. In the next shot where the desk is visible, the chair is standing back up again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Obi-Wan Kenobi when Grievous sends him flying through the air during their fight.
  
  
• Continuity: The Bridge crew of the Invisible Hand evacuate the area twice. They start to leave after the Guard Droids are defeated, as evidence by all the empty crew stations when Grievous is making his exit through the window. Then after the windows explode and Grievous is blown out into space and the shutters close, we see another interior shot with the crew again running out of the bridge after it decompressed.
  
  
• Continuity: During the opening space battle, the positions of Anakin's and Obi Wan's microphones on the headsets repeatedly change from in front of their mouths to their chins to their necks and back.
  
  
• Continuity: When Palpatine takes out his lightsaber during the battle with Mace Windu, the unique design of the handle can clearly be seen. When he engages Mace and the Jedi, although the blade is still red, the handle of his lightsaber suddenly changes to Anakin's large clunky handle.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Invisible Hand is damaged by cannon fire, the gravity is distorted. The gravity is horribly inconsistent. It hardly affects those on the command bridge, yet it sends Anakin and company sliding down the floor at a rapid rate.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Obi-Wan and Anakin are having their exchange of words following the landing at the Senate building, there is a strange echo when they speak to one another. Neither one is indoors, and there's nothing nearby to create an echo since they are using regular speaking voices.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mace Windu gets on the air transport and tells Anakin to stay behind, the shadow of the vehicle disappears in the shot when Anakin is seen alone, but reappears in the next shot when we see the vehicle take off.
  
  
• Continuity: The pearl shoulder straps of Padme's dress disentangle between shots.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The button Padme pushes to start her ship near the end of the film is the same "magic" button that has two functions in "Attack Of The Clones". It's shot in exactly the same way and is a deliberate joke.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final sequence on Tatooine, when Obi Wan is handing the infant Luke to Beru, he opens his cloak to bring the baby out as he approaches her. This is first seen in a long shot from above. There is a cut to a two-shot, and he opens his cloak and extracts the baby again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Yoda enters a room to confront Darth Sidious and knocks the two guards unconscious using the force, the position of the guard's bodies shift during their fight scene and are positioned (conspicuously conveniently) out of the way.
  
  
• Continuity: When Padmé tells Anakin she is pregnant watch the pillar behind them - its design changes though out the scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sidious is knocked back by Yoda in his office, the stunt double's hand is visible. Sidious's hands are old, wrinkly, and his nails are dark. But this hand is perfectly healthy and much larger.
  
  
• Continuity: After Anakin has choked Padme she falls to the ground and her right arm falls out in front of her but in the close-up, her arm is resting across her stomach.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Before his demise on Mygeeto, during the execution of order 66, Ki-Adi-Mundi yells to his clone battalion, "Come on!" but his mouth doesn't move.
  
  
• Continuity: After Mace Windu disarms Palpatine, Mace advances on Palpatine with his blade held out, while Palpatine backs into the corner of the window in his office. In the next shot, when Anakin enters the office, Mace is shown advancing on Palpatine again.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): General Grievous, whose two arms can split into four, has a total of twelve fingers (six on each hand when his arms aren't split). However in some shots (such as when he orders his ship's bridge crew to fire the emergency booster engines in an early scene) we can clearly see he has five on each hand when his arms aren't split. In other shots, he has the correct number of fingers.
  
  
• Continuity: Throughout the fight scene between Sidious and Yoda in the Grand Chamber, the pattern of the chairs change. In some shots, the chairs on the wall are in straight lines, but in other shots they are placed every-other.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: As Darth Vader leads troops up the steps of the Jedi Temple you can hear their steps, marching in perfect unison, yet you can see that their steps not only do not match the audio, but they are not in sync with each other either.
  
  
• Continuity: When Darth Vader's mask is being lowered, there is no neck and chin guard in the long shot, yet after the point-of-view shot this portion of the mask appears already around Vader's neck.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Vader is incinerated after his fight with Obi-Wan, he loses his eyebrows. But in Return of the Jedi, the unmasked Anakin had eyebrows (the Return of the Jedi DVD fixed this, however, by digitally removing the eyebrows.)
  
  
• Continuity: When General Grievous is battling Obi-Wan, two of his lightsabers are clearly the Obi-Wan and Anakin models, despite the fact that Obi-Wan and Anakin recovered their lightsabers from him when they escaped the Invisible Hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Palpatine battles Mace Windu and his fellow Jedi Council members, Palpatine's lightsaber handle changes to Anakin's handle. This is because the scene was originally shot with Palpatine using Anakin's blade.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anakin is on top of the elevator, getting ready to jump back inside of it, you can see for a moment that the glove is missing from his prosthetic hand, yet after he jumps and is back inside the elevator, the glove is back on.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Padme enters her royal Naboo starship bound for Mustafar, the Coruscant skyline is full of air traffic. Yet none of the traffic is reflected in the ship's shiny mirror-like body.
  
  
• Continuity: When Obi-wan and Anakin enter the elevator on the Trade Federation flagship, they kill several battle droids. In every other take shot in the same elevator, there are no parts left on the floor. The part of the ceiling that Anakin cuts out also disappears. Also, when the elevators stops the first time, a Battle Droid's hand can be seen standing in the left corner, however, when the shot changes, it disappears and then re-appears again in a shot near the end of the sequence.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Anakin informs Mace Windu about Palpatine in the hangar, as he follows him to the ship nearby, Mace tells him not to come with him. When you hear Anakin respond "I must go, Master," his mouth is saying something different.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Obi-Wan jumps onto the small, metal platform in the Mustafar river, you hear the hum of a lightsaber, even though it is not ignited. When he regains balance, he turns it on, and it sounds as if it was on the whole time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Darth Vader catches fire, he is right next to lava river, but in the next few shots, he is somehow far away from the lava, despite having not climbed the embankment since being burned.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the funeral procession near the end, a female spectator holding a candle nearly knocks off the headgear of a small girl standing in front of her.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the start of the film when Palpatine is captive he says "Count Dooku" to draw the heroes attention to the villain whom has just entered the room. But Palpatine's lips are saying something else.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Jedi purge sequence, Plo Koon is seen flying an Episode II style Jedi Fighter. However, the inside of his cockpit is the Episode III style fighter.
  
  
• Continuity: when in the beginning of the film, Anakin, Obi-Wan and Chancellor Palpatine are falling down the elevator shaft, Chancellor Palpatine is holding Anakin by the leg at the beginning, then with the next cut he isn't, then when they swing into the corridor he is once again holding on.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the fight scene between General Grievous and Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan uses the force to drop a large vent-like object on top of Grievous' guards. In the fight scene that follows however, the object has disappeared.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the funeral procession near the end, you can clearly see the cloth on one of the animals intersecting with its left leg at approximately 2:10:58.
  
  
• Continuity: Anakin's hair changes in length and style inconsistently.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Obi-Wan's battle with General Grievous, he says "So uncivilized" and throws down a blaster, which makes no sound of hitting the platform.
  
  

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