Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

The ladder that Luke uses to climb into his cockpit when leaving Dagobah disappears.

Reflected in C-3PO's head as it travels down the conveyor belt in Cloud City, and also during the carbon-freezing scene.

In the opening scene, Luke is trying to calm his frightened tauntaun (before the wampa attack).

As he says, "Hey, what's the matter? You smell something?" the boom microphone can be seen reflected in his goggles.

When the Snow Speeders are looking for Luke and Han, you can see the blue screen reflected on the angled side of the pilots goggles.

On Vader's Star Destroyer near the end of the movie, the rank insignia of the Imperial officers changes sides repeatedly.

(This has been fixed on the 2004 DVD release.

) When Luke tries to use the force to take out the spaceship from the water and he can't, he goes behind a tree and puts on his jacket.

When Yoda takes out the spaceship the jacket is clearly unzipped, and when Luke goes around the spaceship, it's zipped an tucked When Chewbacca rescues Threepio from the Ugnaughts, you can see one of them adjusting his mask.

Just before Vader amputates Luke's hand, piece of shiny tape around the end of a recently cut pole changes to burn marks.

When the Millennium Falcon is inside the worm and a tremor makes Princess Leia fall on Han Solo she says, "Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited", Han Solo is mouthing her line.

As they are are walking through cloud city, Leia is between Han and Lando.

As they come around a corner, Han and Lando have switched places.

One of Lando's lines don't match his jaw movements very well in the carbon-freezing chamber part.

In a shot of Chewbacca, after the rebel soldiers are telling Princess Leia that "the shield doors must be closed", the shield doors can be seen moving soundlessly.

In the next shot of Leia and the rebel soldiers, they aren't moving.

In the carbon-freezing room fight, after Luke forces Vader off the platform, Luke steps back after peering over the edge and turns off his light-saber (we hear the sound effect of the saber shutting down).

As he walks back from the edge beyond sight of the camera, you can see the tip of the fighting prop saber swing into view momentarily as a stage hand swaps Luke's "fighting prop" (with shaft) for the "shut off" belt prop (without shaft) out of view of the camera.

In the Dagobah scene, before Luke and R2-D2 have found Yoda (or Yoda found them), Luke plugs something into R2 then says"Now, all I gotta do is find this Yoda - if he even exists.

" When he says"If he even exists.

", Luke's mouth doesn't move.

The DVD tried to fix this by adding a little more texture every few half-seconds to Luke's mouth, but it is barely visible; they couldn't fix it without ruining the shot.

As Lando, Leia, R2, Chewie, and 3PO start boarding the Falcon to escape Bespin, you can see a blaster mark on the chest of one of the Stormtroopers firing at them from the doorway.

Seconds later, Leia shoots the Stormtrooper in the exact spot and he falls down.

Shortly after the Millennium Falcon's escape from Bespin, when it is flying alongside the Executor, several shots strike it.

However, these shots make no noise of any kind.

Towards the end of Luke's and Vader's duel, their lightsabers switch positions between shots - we see Luke parry against Vader's strike, with Luke's lightsaber pushing upwards against Vader's (towards Vader's body), but in subsequent shots we see Luke's lightsaber pushing downwards.

When Luke is doing a handstand, lifting cases and Artoo, the wires holding his feet up are visible.

In the letterbox version, when the wampa's arm swings into frame to kill Luke's tauntaun, the end of the "glove" can be seen at the bottom left, as well as the top of the head of the crew member wearing it.

Afterwards, when he is grabbed by the monster's arm, for a short time you can see the real arm of the person who is wearing the wampa arm.

Han helps Leia in repairing the Falcon on the asteroid.

They begin to kiss.

When C3PO interrupts, we see a wide angle shot with the couple's arms around each other, but in the previous shot Leia's arms were not around Han's head.

When the AT-AT that Luke destroys with a thermal detonator begins to fall over, a stick can be seen popping up through the ground from under the walker's left back leg to tip it over.

During the Battle for Hoth, several rebel soldiers fall down without being hit.

In the wide establishing shot of Luke riding a tauntaun, the tauntaun leaves no tracks in the snow.

After being switched off on the Falcon, C-3PO can be seen breathing during Han and Leia's dialogue about Lando.

When C-3PO interrupts Han and Leia's kiss on the Millennium Falcon, you can see parts of the Threepio costume break off and fall off at the elbow.

Several times, during the escape from Cloud City, stormtroopers are shot, but no blast marks are left on their armor.

In addition, the intenisty of the guns' blasters against the stormtroopers progressively decreases and increases during the episode.

The sounds for lasers and lightsabers change throughout the movie, even with same weapon being used more than once in a scene.

A good example is Han's blaster in the asteroid cave, which makes at least two completely different noises when firing.

During the escape on Cloud City, just after C3PO mentions the Millennium's hyperdrive (while R2 is plugged into the computer system), you see a stormtrooper's shot hit the wall.

However, the black blast mark is there before the shot hits it.

In Cloud City when Chewbacca leaves the others to find C3PO, his foot crushes one of the steps on a small set of stairs.

During Darth Vader and Lukes light saber battle, Darth knocks Luke down a flight of stairs.

Darth then leaps through the air and the wires attached to his back are visible.

When Vader amputates Luke's hand with his lightsaber you can see that Vader's saber actually misses Luke's hand.

'Denis Lawson' (qv)'s name is misspelled as Dennis in the credits, and this was not fixed in the 1997 Special Edition or on the 2004 DVD release.

On Dagobah, when Luke is doing a handstand and levitating R2-D2, the long shots show Luke with arms fully extended but the closeups show him with bent elbows.

When Yoda tells Luke to lift the X-wing from the swamp, he is standing on flat ground next to Luke, who is reclined.

Luke stands up, looks down at Yoda, and walks away.

Yoda then bows his head and raises the X-wing.

As it recedes from the camera, Yoda is seen at the far L now standing on a low knoll.

When Luke returns, he has to look up at Yoda, but Yoda never moved.

Yoda speaks of The Force"Life creates it, makes it grow.

It's energy surrounds us and binds us.

Luminous beings are we, Not this crude matter [pinching Luke's shoulder muscle].

You must feel the force around you.

Here, between you and me.

the tree.

the rock.

everywhere.

" In _Star WarsEpisode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)_ (qv) Qui-Gon mentions midichlorians as "constantly speaking to us [Force-sensitive beings such as Jedi] telling us the will of The Force.

" This does not mean that midi-chlorians are The Force; it's clear that they are much more like messengers of The Force.

After having kicked Vader off the platform in the Carbon-freezing-chamber during the first part of their duel, Luke turns off his Lightsaber and jumps down to continue the fight.

But when Luke jumps we can see him land and stand up in the shadows in the bottom-left corner off the screen.

Yet we hear the sound of Luke hitting the ground a second later.

This was probably an attempt to make Luke's fall sound longer than it actually was.

Also we can see some wires wobble after Vader having hit the mattress outside the camera angle.

While Vader is trying to tempt Luke to the dark side, the first part of his helmet can be seen moving on his head, when it is supposed to be magnetically sealed.

When the Millennium Falcon enters the asteroid field, a shot shows the asteroids through the Falcon's cockpit window.

One of the "asteroids" coming from the lower left is the Falcon itself.

Imperial officers wear their rank insignia badges on the left.

However, when Vader asks Admiral Piett if the Falcon's hyperdrive was deactivated, the shot appears to be flipped - the officers' badges are on their right.

This also happens near the end of the movie on Vader's Star Destroyer, the rank insignia of the Imperial officers changes sides repeatedly, indicating that the shots were flipped intermittently.

(This has been fixed on the 2004 DVD release.

) When Lando opens Falcon's top hatch, bright light comes in, although it is dark outside.

(This small mistake is fixed in the Special Edition.

) In the updated special edition TESB, as Han, Leia, Landa and Chewy are walking to the trap Vader has set, they walk past one of the new "visualisations" with a lift going up and a view of Bespin.

Yet in the following shot, when you see Han holding his gun, the original browny white background is back in its place.

The colors of the different buttons on Darth Vader's chest plate vary between the movies.

However, since time passes between each movie, it is not unthinkable that he has his life support equipment refurbished and upgraded on occasion.

The Snow Speeder being able to destroy the AT after it is tripped is often said to be an error seen as the blasters are useless beforehand against the walkers.

But from various sources (including Andrew Darling in the Q&A section in an early edition of the Official Star Wars Magazine) the explanation is that when the walker is tripped the armor is damaged and unable to deflect the power of the blasters.

Also the pilots shoot at the much weaker neck area where no protection is offered.

Vader kills Captain Needa for losing the Millenium Falcon.

When two Imperial soldiers come to carry his body away, the corpse steps up.

(at around 5 mins) The purple sleeve of the crew's arm in the Wampa arm striking the tauntaun appears in the lower left corner of the screen.

As Han is about to be frozen he is handcuffed, two Ugnaughts seem to fidget with the cuffs but Han is clearly still cuffed in the shot where he is being lowered in to the freezing chamber.

When he resurfaces in a frozen state his hands are not cuffed and appears to have "grasped" at the moment he was frozen.

When Han, Leia, and Chewbacca go outside to explore the cave in the big asteroid, a tarp is visible on the left side of the screen through all the mist.

During the battle on Hoth when Luke says "Alright I'm coming in" if you look on the black trim on the left side of the cockpit you can see the AT-AT through it.

(Visible in the original theatrical version, partially-fixed on the Special-Edition VHS release and subsequent DVD releases to where the trim is less transparent).

After Luke cuts off the Wampa's arm he begins to stagger out of the cave into the snow, deactivating his lightsaber as he goes.

The sound of the saber deactivating occurs but the saber is still completely active.

As Leia and the others return to rescue Luke, Leia sends Lando to open the top hatch and he exits the cockpit.

A shot or two later focuses on Leia at the controls.

On the far left side of the screen you can see Lando's blue shirt as he is still standing in the cockpit.

In the first wide shot of the Executor's bridge, there are black-uniformed officers in the left crewpit only.

However, when Vader walks down the command walkway, we see the right crewpit, but it seems to be a reversed image of the left.

In addition, it appears to be reused at the end of the film when Vader exits the bridge.

The entrance to the Executor's bridge appears to vary between wide shots of the entire bridge and shots from within.

When Luke is hanging from the roof of the Wampa's cave, he uses the Force to draw his light saber to him.

When viewed from Luke's POV, the light saber is clearly buried in the snow, but when viewed from the other side, it is just as clearly sitting on top of the snow, unburied.

After having his right hand cut off by Darth Vader, falling through a tunnel and reaching the end of the tunnel, you can clearly see Luke Skywalker's right arm, with the hand completely intact.

Just before cutting off Luke's hand, Vader cuts through a piece of equipment on the bridge.

As the top of the pipe falls off, both cut ends are wrapped in what appears to be duct tape, most likely to hold it in place for multiple takes.

When the scene cuts to a new angle, the duct tape is gone.

According to the credits, Luke's gunner in the Snowspeeder is named Dak.

However, all other spin-off media (games, books, etc.

) spells the name as Dack, which now seems to be official.

Later versions of the movie (special edition, DVD release, etc.

) do not correct this.

Towards the end when Chewbacca tries to go up the ramp of the Falcon and into the ship, C3-PO's head bumps one of the lights "attached" to the Falcon.

As soon as he bumps it, it goes out.

Despite having his dialogue rerecorded by 'Ian McDiarmid' (qv) for the DVD release of the film, 'Clive Revill' (qv) is still credited as "Voice of Emperor" in the DVD version's credits.

When Darth Vader uses the Force to throw things at Luke, one of them breaks the glass blowing Luke outside.

This indicates Cloud City is pressurized.

However, when the Millenium Falcon lands earlier, Lando is able to easily walk out the door, indicating there is equal pressure.

However Luke and Vader are battling in what is very obviously an interior portion of the city which is far more likely to be pressurized than the exposed outer hatches.

When Vader contacts Ozzel and Piett on the viewscreen after the fleet drops out of hyperspace at Hoth, the lower bands of the officers' rank insignia are erroneously colored dark red rather than blue in the initial shot but correctly colored in the subsequent close-up view.

During the duel on Cloud City, when Luke is sucked through the broken window, he's holding his lightsaber, but then is holding on to the bridge with both hands, however after he climbs up he has the lightsaber back, even though he didn't have a chance to put it anywhere before catching onto the bridge.

When seeing Darth Vader in the dining room in Bespin, when Chewbacca roars at Vader, you can see two holes in Chewie's mouth that let Peter Mayhew breathe through the costume.

Just before Obi-Wan calls to Luke when he is passed out in the snow, his gun holster is now on his left side rather than the right side.

- PLOTIn the beginning of the battle at Hoth, Luke, aboard his snowspeeder, mentions that the armour of the AT-AT's is too strong for their blasters, but after the first walker is downed, a couple of snowspeeders just fire at it a couple of times and the unit explodes.

The sequel of a masterpiece classic, is hard to top its predecessor but somehow it manage to did that. With better plot and story, the story progession and more characters insight.

Episode V is the finest entry of the first two trilogies, since it is the best written(really strong dialogue, situations, and realistic evolution of the returning characters) phenomenal direction by Irvin Kirshner(exciting and breathless, always something going on of interest) and equally spectacular F/X, which still hold up(did not need much tweaking for the Special Editions) Story has the Empire striking back(of course!) against the rebellion(despite the loss of the Death Star) and our heroes'(Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher returning as Luke, Han, and Leia) attempts to survive and enact their next plan of attack, only to become captured by an unwitting betrayal of old friend Lando(Billy Dee Williams, quite smooth but appealing).

This movie was awesome! I loved the characters (Vader was my favourite).

Empire Strikes Back delivers a larger scale, more mature sequel that ticks every box. It's darker but still a lot of fun, it's upped the scale and quality of everything it delivers.

I'm not sure which part I liked more - this one or the original. But this part sure is better in some terms.

Plot wise... well, it's full of holes, like every Star Wars movie.

(5 out of 5 stars).Great second movie in the trilogy.

This by far is my favorite movie of all time. Of Course I saw the original Star Wars when it first came out in theaters in 1977 which blew my mind and took me on the adventure of a lifetime.

It's just perfect. Its darker and more philosophical.