Do you enjoy finding mistakes in major movies?

I do. The best one ever, imho, is the 'Head Blooper' from Star Wars. It happens in the scene where R2 and C3P0 are hiding in that Death Star closet and the platoon of stormtroopers bust into the room. As they are coming in, the second one on the right whales his head against the doorframe. You can hear it. Classic.

What's your favorite?

You can see airplane trails in the sky too.

that the holes put in his chestplate by that stun gun disappeared after the magnet scene

driving by in the far distance during the closing credits of "The Alamo".

Looking for bloopers is almost as much fun as playing "What have I seen that actor in before?"

"What have I seen in that actor before?"

fun site.

at the end of the movie when land after blowing up the Death Star, Luke yells "Carrie!"

This is one very debatable, as its not crystal clear if he says "Carrie: or is just cheering

Also, in Empire Strikes Back:

During the evacuation of Cloud City, one of the citizens supposedly carrying a blender

they mess up the voice dub for Darth Vader.

"She lied. She lied to us!"

Vader: "I told you she would never consciously betray the rebellion."

...and after he is finished speaking, he makes this emphatic hand gesture. Out of place completely.

geek-boy. I think they have support groups for that now. :-)

:D

The visual of T-x name and the nametag of josé barrerra are spelled differently from eachother.. its pretty funny

I always enjoy seeing the crew off a reflective surface, glass, shiny cars,...ect.

Favorite:
In Braveheart after the end of the first battle. Wallace and comrades are wallowing in the glory of victory, and in the background you see 2 english soldiers goofing off spinning around laughing.

movie. There is a scene in "To Catch a Thief" where Cary Grant's character is walking through the Nice Flower Market with John Williams' character, and one of the extras is seen coming and going twice.

Editing mistakes are uncommon in Hitchcock movies.

In the shooting scene at Mt. Rushmore a boy in the background puts his fingers in his ears just before the gunshot. Presumably Hitchcock left that in as a joke ;)

the kid was sick and tired of the noise by then.

the kid was sick and tired of the noise by then.

When the alien is popping out of Kane, the camera changes angle and there is no long very much blood on his shirt. Then the angle changes back, the blood is there again.

in Episode 1 Obi-Wan's padawan braid moves from one side of his head to the other repeatedly during the movie.

Not sure you'd really call it a blooper, but you can also sure tell which scenes they had to bring him back to reshoot. He gains and loses 15 pounds miraculously between scenes.

is that the frames were flipped--make everyone move from right to left instead of left to right.

There's a scene in the newsroom where you can clearly see a cameraman crouched down in front of Redford.

Dustin Hoffman heading over the Bay Bridge toward Berkeley on the upper deck, which goes to San Francisco

the first "msitakes" I recall pointing out were in The Muppet Movie. A couple of the adorable little guys are escaping something with some helium-filled ballons. In the first shot there are three balloons. In the next angle there are only two balloons and different colors. Drives Mrs. Lunabush luna.

(especially in sci fi movies). Several previous posters have mentioned Star Wars and the Death Star blowing up. The big science mistake is that you hear it blow up. In the vacuum of space, sound cannot be transmitted since there is no medium for the sound waves to propagate in (although it is very significant that light propagates just fine in a vacuum). The Alien series had it right with the tag line "In space, no one can hear you scream". Major Trekkie science geeks (I consider myself a minor trekkie major science geek) love to point out science errors in the series and the movies.

Is when Shatner splits his pants as he's fighting the mugatu (I think that's how it's spelled).

> ... when Shatner splits his pants as he's fighting ...

Misread that one first time round :-)

In Somewhere In Time (my winner for sheer impossibility), the story opens in the present day, when Christopher Reeve is confronted by the now-elderly Jane Seymour. She hands him a pocket-watch, while murmuring "Come back to me." Later, after he has time-travelled back to the days of her youth, and fallen in love with her, he gives her the watch.

So, where did the watch come from in the first place?

:crazy:

It is a "mess with your head" movie, I admit, but that sort of paradox is common with time-travel. If he just picked the watch up in a junkshop the first time, goes back to the past, gives it to her, she then gives it to him in the present pre-empting his junkshop trip. In all subsequent loops the watch is present.

Simple!

EVERY other movie has sound in space. Even "Apollo 13" (which was a big disappointment since they put so much effort into the historical accuracy).

Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are standing outside the Belliagio restaurant. Pitt is eating a shrimp cocktail in a bowl. Cut back and he is eating shrimp off of a plate.

Hardly earthshaking, but I noticed it right away.

And I've seen it 3 times.

And I thought the bowl was translucent, so it could not have been a paper plate.
However, if my memory is just serving me incorrectly and it is an opaque bowl, I don't think the Bellagio would bring out Shrimp Cocktail on a paper plate. Casinos are all about treating you like a high roller, because they're making the ends meet elsehow.

Stuff like that?

But I usually find them nonetheless. In one scene the actor's glass is almost empty, in the next it's half full. Or their hand is in a different position from one scene to another even though they haven't moved. Or, my personal favorite, when the actor is supposed to be driving the car ... and gearshift is in the shot so you know the car is in park. Obvious stuff like this really bugs me, so no, I don't enjoy it.

But dang it, now I'm going to have to watch Star Wars again to see where the Storm Trooper whacks himself!

when the t-1000 drives off the bridge into the drainage ditch, the windshield falls out and the tie rods break on the semi truck. cut away, then back and he pushes the windshield out with his hand.


i used to have a friend that would count the bullets being shot, and since he was a gun nut, he always knew the capacity for every damn gun in the movie.. drove me nuts. not that i don't notice 15 shots from a revolver..


also in the movie blue steel with jamie lee curtis, they show the bad guy shooting people then running away, then they find shell casings to trace him with. only problem is he used a revolver and they don't eject shell casings.



it also annoys me when they constantly cock firearms in action movies.. WTF is the point in entering a situation with a loaded gun if there isn't a round in the chamber????

Man Norm could drink like nobody's business..

But Kane is alone when he utters the word on his deathbed.

How did the press find out he said Rosebud? :freak:

Saving Private Ryan opens with the aged Ryan at the French cemetary. The camera closes in on him, then the film dissolves to his memories (the main story in flashback) starting with the storming of Omaha Beach, which Ryan wasn't at.

There was a nurse in the room.

The final battle scene:

In one series of frames Wallace is charging the enemies with a sword in hand, a couple of seconds later it is gone, and yet another couple of seconds later it reappears. Like magic I tells ya!

But I do cringe at the really obvious stuff.

I directed a music video and you can see shots of me in the background sometimes directing a party scene, haha. No way of anybody knowing I was the director, but still it is funny to me.

Standard .303 rifle issued to British troops in WWI-WWII. Why would Japanese soldiers be carrying these, other than the fact that it was a British crew who made the movie?

Or in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," during the journey to Nepal, you can see "Thailand" is written on the map. The country has had this name only since 1939. The film takes place in 1936, when Thailand was called Siam.

Phrase most often uttered by my wife: "Just watch the goddamn movie!"

Arisaka

Picard chides her into giving him the phaser she took.

She gives it to him.

As she holds out her arm, she squeezes the trigger.

It's there for a 12/th of a second, but the phaser's light lights up. Of course, when it lights up, the fx guys are supposed to insert a laser beam while the person in front of the phaser is supposed to do a disco dance and die.

There is a touch tone phone in the guard shack. Okay - it wasn't a major movie.

occurs when Sonny is beating the snot out of his brother in law. He braces him against a brick wall with his left arm and throws a right cross -- that misses by at least a foot -- and Carlo snaps his head right like he's been slammed. It's awful, should've been cut.

there are two scenes where you can see the boom mic: once when it's being dragged along the floor (you can see the boom operator in that one), and once when George C Scott is drunk and rambling about impotence, you can see it dangling in a doorframe. Great movie, though.

I'm constantly spotting all sorts of mistakes.

My favorite? I like how in L.A. Confidential, Kim Basinger gives Russell Crowe a drink in her apartment when he first meets her, then a few seconds later it has magically disappeared.

...with Exley, you can see the camera and crew reflected in the door as the car pulls away.

Talk about bursting your suspension-of-disbelief bubble...

They are more historical inaccuracies than film-making bloopers though. In 'Gladiator', which takes place in 181 a.d., every horseman has stirrups, which wouldn't be introduced to the West for another three hundred years. The Praetorian Guard all wear menacing black uniforms, when in reality they wore brightly colored uniforms and shiny bronze armor. Spencer Treat Clark wears Adam Rich's hairstyle from 'Eight is Enough' when a Roman boy would have worn his hair closely cropped and combed forward. Some Roman senators have blue borders to their togas, instead of purple. On the brass plate of Proximo's rudius, (wooden sword signifying freedom from slavery), the Emperor's name is engraved as 'MARCUS AURELIUS', instead of 'MARCVS AVRELIVS'.

Things like that. Now, don't you just hate me? :-)

Poster for gladiaters that Gracchus was looking at.

Battle at beginning: "Hell" was not a Roman concept at that time.

from Egypt.

Another anachronism was when the characters referred to the 'Collosseum'. It wasn't known as that until roughly the eighth century. Until then, it was called the Flavian Amphitheater.

I couldn't see a society that values paper as much as gold making something as disposable as event posters.

Aristus, i don't think this forum is big enough for the two of us insufferables.

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when you let Ridley Scott direct a "historical" movie. He should stick to Sci Fi.

some great things about the movie, which I always enjoy watching.
For example, even though Maximus is a fictional character, the notion of an emperor choosing a Spanish general to succeed him on the basis of merit comes from historical fact. The Emperor Nerva adopted Spanish general Trajan as his son and successor. So the plot of 'Gladiator' is not far-fetched, anyway.

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some very funny/odd stuff has made it into movies

I like Mel Gibson, and I like movies about the American Revolution, but nobody has yet to get their shit together to make a good, historically accurate movie about the most important phase of American history:


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In the movie, you see Gabriel (Heath Ledger) repairing a torn American flag, and when he dies, his father (Mel Gibson) finds the flag and rides out to the army with it. It's also used as a symbol during the Battle of Cowpen and motivates everyone to keep fighting and motivates Mel to not give up. It's all very touching and patriotic and all, save for the fact that the design for the American flag was not made until a good 20 to 30 years after the revolution.

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When Mel Gibson is handing a store clerk some money, you can see that he is giving him a $5 bill with Lincoln on it??????????????

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During the American Revolution, men saluted by taking off their hat and lowering to their side, then putting it on again. In the movie, Gabriel (Heath Ledger) salutes by placing his hand on his head.

The "straight-arm" salute we see today is actually a maritime tradition

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Throughout the movie when loading their pistols, the characters are always seen ramming the bullets into their guns and then throwing the ramrod away. On old guns there is a little "rack" to store the ramrod right next to the barrel to facilitate fast loading.

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During one scene, Mel Gibson's soldiers ambush a British column in steady rain. In reality, the black powder used in the muskets of the day would not ignite if wet. Whole battles in the war were called off because of rain.

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During the battle of Cowpens, the bigot-guy who has a change of heart says to the slave that "It's October" meaning that he's free. All good and well. However, the Battle of Cowpens was fought in the month of January not October.

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The French only seem to show up at Yorktown in 1781, but they actually arrived in 1778 (we would never have won if they arrived that late).

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Although the historical advisor for the film is The Smithsonian Institute, they don't seem to have noticed that the toy soldiers used in the film (some in superb close-up} are all dressed in uniforms of the mid to late 19th cent., about 100 years later than when the film is set.

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As the Battle of Cowpens opens, we see British artillery firing on the Continentals. Normally, that would not be a mistake, except that the artillery shown is seige artillery used on forts and such. The British would probably have used smaller cannon against advancing troop columns.

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The guns are surprisingly more accurate at long range than they are at short range, seeing as Gabriel can only hit Tavington in the side at point blank range. But when they are shooting from very far away, or even shooting moving targets, they hit the target every time. This would have been impossible, the guns weren't even rifled(having grooved inner barrels) back then.

It starts at 00:00 mark, and ends around the 1:25:06 mark. Watch real close. It's the biggest mistake you'll ever see.

couldn't agree more

Robin WIlliams chugs a glass of wine after his son tells him he's going to get married. he goes over to refil the glass, but its already half full.

Robin Williams, I think, was supposedly driving to Miami Beach on the causeway, but he was actually driving to Miami. I guess the producers thought no one would know that. That is, unless you live there.

The first fight between Smith and Neo, at the park.

Smith is talking to Neo and you can see the reflection of the camera, the cameraman and the lighting guy all in his glasses. You can even see Keanu Reeves just standing there on an empty set.

:)

Oh, and in the actual fight scene itself. I'm not sure it's a mistake, but every Smith character fights the exact same way - a righthanded punch.

No kicks, no lefthanded punches - just a straight right jab.

wouldn't it make sense for them to all fight the same way?

:)

is the Jeopardy scene in "White Men Can't Jump" where the score seems ridiculously erratic from scene to scene.

Don't know why I remember that one, as I can't really think of any others.

After the Queen has ripped Bishop in half, while Newt is flying out the hatch, Bishop (his upper torso) reaches for and grabs Newt and as he does so, you can see Hendrickson lift out of the hole in the floor that had been cut for him.

It's driving along the top of the screen during a chariot race.

When I was growing up, Ben Hur was billed as a really macho, male movie.

Oops.

http://www.wits.ac.za/gala/lib/ben_hur.htm

Despite deletions of any homosexual references, the intense relationship between the two virile men says otherwise. In an interview, Vidal said that he proposed to director William Wyler “that the two had been adolescent lovers and now Messala has returned to Rome wanting to revive the love affair but Ben-Hur does not”.

After Wyler agreed to this covert motivational ploy, Vidal informed Stephen Boyd (and pointedly not Heston), resulting in Boyd successfully playing off the role of a spurned lover, especially when he cries, “ Is there anything so sad as unrequited love?” Wyler once said, “The biggest mistake we made was the love story. If we had cut out that girl (Haya Harareet) and concentrated on the two guys, everything would have gone better’.

I watched it last week. The naked lust kinda gives it away.

Part way through, Truman's friend is filling a candy dispenser with candy. There's lots of chocolate bars in it. The camera looks away. When it looks back, the dispenser is mostly empty and he's filling it again.

There's a fight scene between two Hong Kong prostitutes in a bar. There are a bunch of sailors gathered around watching. One grabs his crotch.

My ex-husband, way back then, worked as a projectionist and saw these films over and over. Projectionists routinely clipped out scenes such as the above for their own amusement.

Another I've heard about is in The Missouri Breaks. In one scene a plane flies overhead.

Or ten or fourteen or thirty.

Also, 20 or so rounds out of a Browning automatic (only holds 14) or hundreds of rounds out of a submachine gun (40 in a clip) coming out at a rate of dozens per second (it just can't go that fast).

I was watching a "making of" short about cowboy movies along time ago that taught me to count rounds and of course it was a plot element in Dirty Harry.

Movies lately have caught on and they make a big deal about reloading, but I still see slipups.

That stuff is heavy. Knights would be placed on a horse with a crane. Once unhorsed, their squire would run up and tear their armour off so they could move.

I never saw the movie but in Leonard Maltins movie book, at least the ones in the eighties said the sun set in the east.

The list is endless:

• People who can stay underwater forever
  
• People with their eyes open in polluted water
  
• Visibility underwater at night
  
• Water is muddy on the surface, clear underneath
  
• SCUBA divers at ridiculous depths
  
• placid people in the process of drowning
  
• mouth-to-mouth with victim in water (you'd never be able to move the chest with that much water pressure against it)
  

The scene where he wakes up on Christmas morning. He goes to the mirror and says "Merry Christmas, you old Humbug!" But when you look in the mirror you can see someone in the background, probably one of the film crew. I usually pretend and think it is probably another spirit making sure Scrooge in on the straight and narrow. It's a great movie just the same.

Now I have to go to blockbuster and rent out about 40 movies just to see the mistakes everyone is talking about.

Goldfinger is a classic example.

Real laser beams are invisible.

I did a laser demonstration for a science class one time and they kept asking where the beam was. I waved a flashlight around and pointed out that you couldn't see its beam either.

Then I banged a chalk eraser so the chalk fell across the laser's beam and everybody went oooooh.

Assuming you somehow managed to see it, laser beams do travel at the speed of light.

You see an explosion half a mile off and hear it simultaneously. Should be a 2 second delay.

By some synchronistic event the car knows it's going to explode before it hits the ground.

Doppler effect is caused by passing vehicles/airplanes, not while inside.

not a techincal mistake...but a written mistake
This isn't an exact quote but the gist is the same...


Link talking to his wife:

wife: morpheus is crazy you don't actually believe him do you?

link: I believe in morpheus and the prophecy. It's gotta be true.

wife: it's crazy

link: the prophecy can save humanity!

wife: okay well if you're gonna go, take my lucky neclace

link: you know i don't believe in that stuff

:wtf:


.....believing in crazy prophecies but not lucky neclaces?

Used to good effect (sarcastic) in 'Airplane'.

• twins that sound like singles
  
• singles that sound like twins
  
• pistons that sound like turbines
  
• turbines that sound like pistons
  
• crashing jets with supersonic prop whine