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Subject: * MOVIE GOOFS LIST 4.0 (March 1994)
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MOVIE GOOFS LIST Version 4.0 (March 1994)
A collection of film flubs, cinematic slip-ups, movie mistakes,
Hollywood howlers, etc etc.
Compiled by Michael Gaines (render1@teak.njit.edu)
Found by the users of USENET.
Howdy!
It's been a while, but the goofs haven't been coing in as much as
in earlier incarnations of the list. Also, the list is now available through
the World Wide Web. Instructions for access are listed below. Please do not
bug Murray Chapman about the goofs list anymore. He sent me a rather nasty
e-mail letter filled with four letter 'F' words about it so please direct all
comments and requests to me and remove Murray from any connections to this
list.
As always, I do not PERSONALLY find all the goofs on this list, so
please don't send nasty e-mail saying that I'm blind or something.
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Please send your contributions/corrections/donations/suggestions to
render1@teak.njit.edu Please DO NOT POST to the net, as I may not see
your posting, and it bugs the people who are not interested in this
rubbish.
Contributions should be in the following (*NEW*) format:
# Movie Title
-blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
-blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Notes:
-Visible boom mikes aren't really goofs unless they are appear in some
unexpected way (eg reflection, hit actor on the head).
-I prefer goof reports which are short, specific, and about new or very
well-known movies. Picking faults in B-Grades isn't very sporting!
-There are two version of movies out there: Letterboxed and pan and
scan. I get goofs that are in the cropped version and not in the
letterboxed versions. Because of this, I will NOT post goofs that are
the cause of the movie being cropped for videotape, but I will note
flubs that can only be seen in letterboxed versions. Also, some movies
are filmed in the same aspect ratio as a television screen with 'safe
areas' masked off which are not intended to be seen in the theater.
When shown on video, the safe area is opened up which accounts for boom
mikes, wires and scaffolding seen in some movies. These 'safe area'
goofs will be listed, but noted as such.
-Spelling mistakes will be displayed in their full majesty to
hundreds of net readers.
-If the list gets too long, I may edit out some of the boring goofs.
-A book released on this topic is "Film Flubs: Memorable Movie Mistakes"
by Bill Given. It includes many of the goofs collected here (coincidence?)
and has some nice movie stills.
-New goofs will be posted in the differences list. If I get enough
complaints that the goof may be some bad editing job, or that the
person who wrote the goof may be some sort of loony, then it will
be deleted after one month. If nobody bothers to complain, it becomes
a permanent part of the following update.
-Please remeber that this is the movie GOOFS list and not the movie
GRIPES list. I will not put entries into the list based on people's
opinions of what something SHOULD be in terms of wallpaper color,
accents, etc.
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The following table gives details of the lists available:
List | Maintained by | Updated
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Actors | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 03/09/94
Actresses | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 03/09/94
Alternative Titles | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 03/23/94
Biographies | Mark Harding <ccsmh@ss1.bath.ac.uk> | 03/17/94
Character Names | Steve Hammond <shammond@indirect.com> | 01/24/94
Cinematographers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 03/23/94
Composers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 03/23/94
Costume Designers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 03/23/94
Crazy Credits | Mark Harding <ccsmh@ss1.bath.ac.uk> | 03/17/94
Directors | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 03/09/94
Editors | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 03/09/94
Goofs | Michael Gaines <render1@teak.njit.edu> | 03/23/94
Movies | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 03/23/94
Plot Summaries | Colin Tinto <colint@spider.co.uk> | 03/09/94
Producers | Andre Bernhardt <ujad@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> | 03/23/94
Production Designers | Michel Hafner <hafner@ifi.unizh.ch> | 03/23/94
Quotes | Lars J Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no> | 03/17/94
Ratings | Col Needham <cn@ibmpcug.co.uk> | 03/09/94
Soundtracks | Ron Higgins <rhiggins@carroll1.cc.edu> | 03/23/94
Trivia | Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> | 02/01/94
Writers | Jon Reeves <reeves@zk3.dec.com> | 03/01/94
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The lists are also available via anonymous ftp from cathouse.org
in the directory
pub/cathouse/movies/database
or from ftp.funet.fi in the directory:
pub/culture/tv+films/lists
Searching the lists
-------------------
The lists can now be searched via a mail-server interface. For details
send a message with a subject HELP to <movie@ibmpcug.co.uk>.
Alternatively, the movie database package uses the information contained on
the lists to create and search a massive movie database. The package is
available via anonymous FTP as follows:
cathouse.org in /pub/cathouse/movies/database/tools/moviedb-2.9.tar.Z
ftp.funet.fi in /pub/culture/tv+film/lists/tools/moviedb-2.9.tar.gz
see the README file in the same directories for information on how to
get started.
Finally, the database is available via the World Wide Web. To access it,
you'll need a browser. A browser is a 'client' program which connects to
'servers' such as www.cm.cf.ac.uk where the movie database can be found.
WWW browsers exist for most machines. Here's a list of some browsers;
Name System/requirements Available from (among others)
==== =================== ==============
Mosaic X windows, MS-Windows, Mac ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Web
lynx vt100 ftp.wustl.edu /packages/www/lynx
>From your browser, OPEN or GO to the following document;
http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
TELNET access (not half as good as running your own browser)
====== ======
There a several telnet'able WWW servers. Here's some examples;
telnet info.cern.ch
then type go http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
telnet www.njit.edu (login: www)
then type g http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (login: www) needs vt100
then look under "by Subject" then "Movies"
Help on the WWW can be found in comp.infosystems.www
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GOOFS LIST
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# "North and South" (mini)
-In one battle scene, the camera pans across the battle field... and
gets a shot of another camera filming away.
# 2001: A Space Odyssey
-(Loads of 'technical' goofs, relating to vacuums, weightlessness
and space physics. These would not be noticed by most people. Here's
some of the more obvious ones to keep the 2001 fans at bay:-)
-The rotating space station changes its direction of rotation three times.
-Stars in the background drift slowly past the spaceship.
-The hibernating astronauts are shown lying in different positions at
different times.
-as Dave Bowman climbs into HAL's logic center to shut him off, the seal on his
suit's left hand is hanging open.
# 3 Men and a Baby
-About 60 mins into the movie, Ted Danson is showing off the baby to
his mother. The camera pans across a window, and you see a cardboard
cutout of Danson's character
# 48 HRS.
-There is a black, dusty Porsche that Eddie drives
around in late in the movie, but you can see that car early in
the movie while traipsing around the city. Pretty lousy
garage to let the car out without washing or without a ticket.
# About Last Night...
-On new years eve, before Dan and Debbie decide to go out,
they are having a modest dinner with shrimp-looking-things on
the plates. As the camera angles change, Dan's food is eaten and
uneaten a couple of times.
-When litco is giving Dan his first delivery of stolen
(100% off) restaurant supplies in dan's brand new CITY DINER,
the clock dances wildly in the background as the views change.
# Abyss, The
-When Bud brings Lindsey back to the rig after she drowns, she is pulled out
of the water by the rest of the crew. They clear her hair out of her face.
In the next scene Hippy puts a tube into her mouth and her hair is back on
her face again. It's off her face again in the next scene.
# Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The
-In the last shot with the characters in beach chairs, The Kid (Brandon
Call) isn't wearing any shoes. When the camera shot changes for the
credit sequence The Kid now has on a pair of sandals.
-During the credit sequence, you can see the shadow on the boat of the
helicopter filming the aerial shot.
# Aliens
-In the battle scene between Ripley and the mother alien where Ripley is in
the loader, we see the alien pull the loader into the airlock when Ripley
tries to drop it. The loader is turned upside down and the cone on top with
the spinning yellow caution light is broken when it slams into the floor. In
the next scene, however, we see the loader lying on the floor of the airlock
with the yellow cone still in one piece. Also, the sharp end of the alien
tails seems to be missing, as if it broke off, but the broken part isn't on
the airlock floor.
-When Bishop gets it from the mother alien, you can see the string
pulling the stinger through the dummy.
# Anatomy of a Murder
-Lee Remick has a skirt when she gets up to leave a cafe. By
the time she gets outside, she's wearing slacks.
# Annie Hall
-In the cabin bedroom scene, a boom mike pop in from the SIDE.
# Awakenings
-There is one scene near the beginning where Robin Williams gets in his car
and talks to his nurse, who is outside the car. When you look into
the car from the outside, the car window is not quite rolled down,
and when you look out from the car, the car window is completely rolled down.
-When Lucy stops walking because the pattern of tiles on the floor changes,
her feet change position when the camera cuts to a different shot.
# Baby Boom
-When Diane Keaton has moved out to her new house and is talking to
her plumber - if you watch the door of the plumber's van during their
conversation, first he closes it, but in a following shot it is open again.
# Back to the Future
-When the Libyan terrorists are chasing Marty around the mall parking lot,
look at Marty's speedometer. The odometer jumps about 200 miles between
consecutive shots.
-Same scene: Marty shifts into second gear twice.
-This one takes place really quick, but when Biff et al.
are chasing Marty (on the "skateboard") their car changes between two
different models. Watch the headlights!!! The cutting is rapid and it is
difficult to catch this, even when you're looking for it.
-Right after Marty returns to 1985, the yellow readout (the one that shows
when you just left) should read 'November 12, 1955'. Instead, you can see that
it says 'October', which is the month in 1985.
-When hanging from the clock face in 1955, the cable falls and catches
on the ankle of Doc Brown's pants. He is wearing shoes that fasten
with velcro. [Editor's note: There was a scene cut from the movie where
Doc Brown goes through Marty's suitcase. He might have gotten the shoes
from there.]
-In the rock'n'roll scene, set in 1955, MartyMcFly plays a Gibson ES-355,
that model didn't exist until 1959.
# Back to the Future Part III
- When the time train arrives, its shadow changes position over Marty
and Jennifer.
# Backdraft
-When the man in the theatre drops his keys, they are at least 18 inches from
the door. In the next shot, they are about two inches from the door.
-When 'Shadow' (Robert De Niro) gets blown off of a porch, along with
two other people, you can clearly see him land on a stunt mat off to the
left. After the next camera cut, we find that the blast actually forced
him onto a spiked fence (which goes through his shoulder). Interesting
transition...
# Bad Boys
- A prison/juvenile detention movie starring Sean Penn. in a fight
scene near the climax, one of the film crews is clearly visible,
camera and all, in the shot.
# Bagdad Cafe
-As Jasmine is walking along the deserted road, the shadow of the camera
and crew in the back of a pickup truck is quite visible. I think this is
intentional, though, as the cinematographer credit is up during the shot.
# Barton Fink
-when the producer is wearing his uniform, some scenes show the bottom row of
medal strips hanging down while others show it straight.
# Batman (1989)
-Early in the movie, when the police show up at the chemical plant to
catch Jack raiding the files (just before the fight scene where he ends
up in the chemical vat), the fat police Lieutenant goes from being
noticably unshaven in one scene, to being clean shaven in the next.
-The name of the museum is spelled differently on the outside
and inside of the building.
-In the scene in which Jack Nicholson and his gang deface
a collection of of paintings, one canvas has pink handprints
on it in one shot but not in a later shot.
-When the joker send a ballon downtown that release a toxic gas, Vicki
is in a car, everybody outside dies, and she drives away, in a shot
from the back left of the car when she drives off, we see the
rear-left window open...
-When the Batmobile first drives itself automatically, you can see
someone's hand on the steering wheel through the tinted windscreen.
# Batman Returns
-When the penguin goes up to his parents grave, to lay down the roses,
he passes a tombstone. His coat touches it, and it clearly wobbles back
and forth.
-When Batman reveals himself as Bruce Wayne and he takes his mask off,
the eye makeup that blackens the space between his eyes and the mask is
missing.
# Battle of Midway, The
-The same Forestal-class carrier (60's vintage, with slant decks and full
radar suites) is used as the "Hiryu" and "Soryu", one of which is simply
the same film turned left-to-right, including the backwards hull number
painted on the flight deck.
# Beetlejuice
-In one scene Otho is walking with Delia through the house with
spray paint cans planning colors. He walks toward the bathroom and has on red
shoes. The next shot is him going through the bathroom and he has on white
shoes. Next scene out of the bathroom and his shoes are back red.
# Better Off Dead (1985)
-During the scene of the final ski race down the K-12, when the paper boy
is chasing Lane, there is an obvious camera on skis in the bottom of the
shot. I know the skis and the reflection of the camera gear is visible,
and I think the camera pops in for a minute, too!
# Beverly Hills Cop
-The more I watch it, the more goofs I find.
Remember the scene where Axel goes to Victor Matlin's office and meets
him for the first time? After a brief conversation, Victor presses a
button to summon his goon squad. They come in to forcibly remove Axel.
Victor's head goon is a thin man with straight hair and glasses. As
the goon squad enters, you see a shot of them looking from Victor's
desk. In this shot, the head goon has his suit jacket buttoned. They
grab Axel, and you see a shot from the door as they carry him out. The
head goon turns around and starts to lead them out. As he does he buttons
his jacket.
# Beverly Hills Cop II
-There is a scene where Rosewood is driving a large, but slow,
truck(?) and chasing the bad guys. Eddie Murphy catches
hold of the door, jumps onto the truck, and gets into the cab.
Meanwhile, his gun, which he stuck in the back of
his jeans (in the small of his back) can clearly be seen falling out
and into the road. A little while later he naturally produces this
gun and starts shooting.
# Big
-When Tom Hanks' character is about to return home, the girl's hand moves
from his cheek to his chin and back to his cheek in subsequent shots.
# Big Easy, The
-In the scene after "Big Daddy" (?) is killed, the position of Ellen
Barkin's pearl necklace changes depending on whether she is seen from
the front or the side.
# Black Hole, The
-The space travellers describe their mission as being to find
"inhabitable life" in the universe, as though we are a race of fleas, looking
for a new dog. They really do say it.
# Blade Runner
-During the VK on Racheal is a shot of Tyrell standing ahead of another
standing person, while he's alone with Deckard and Racheal, both sitting
at the table. The shoulder You can see ( in widescreen versions only ) is
Roy's from the confrontation scene at Tyrell's home.
-In the confrontation scene between Deckard an Roy, a cable-boy' shadow can
easily be seen in widescreen versions additionally to the camereman's.
-The first shot of Roy Batty, when he's alone in the phone booth, the hand
on his shoulder can only be seen in widescreen versions.
-When Roy saves Deckard from falling off the building and throws him on the
floor, Deckards Shirt rips out of his trousers. Just from another camera
position his clothes are ok again.
-When we first see Roy Batty, he's in a phone box. There's someone's hand on
his shoulder even though he's clearly the only person in the phone box.
(Bob N. sez: "That's Tyrell's hand. The shot is from them sitting on
his bed near the end of the film, reversed left to right".)
-In the very first shot of Batty, we see his hand clenching up. If you look
carefully as he turns his hand just before the shot changes, you can see
the nail sticking through the back of his hand. He doesn't actually insert
that nail until about an hour later in the film.
-When Leon throws Deckard into the car window -- the window was already
broken before Deckard hit it. Not necessarily a goof, but could be.
-Yet another `spot the stuntman'. When Zhora goes crashing through those
plate-glass windows, the stunt double looks NOTHING like the actress.
While the actress has wavy reddish hair, the stunt double has this very
curly dark hair. Oops!
-For the scene of the skimmer taking off, the support cables are quite
visible.
-In the Deckard/Batty confrontation, after Deckard has been given
his gun back, and stalk off, you can see (in letterboxed versions) the
shadow of the camera man and camera on the wall.
# Blow Out
-In the scene where John Travolta crashes through the police barracade
to drive straight through Philly's City Hall they accidentally show the
film crew in an overhead shot swinging their boom around.
# Blue Thunder
-When Officer Lymongood is running on foot and being chased by the bad
guy in the car,he has his hands tied behind his back but when he runs into
the bike he puts his hands out to break his fall. In the next scene before he
gets run over, his hands are back behind his back.
# Blues Brothers, The
-In the scene after the hotel is blown up, one of the troopers stands up with
a brick sitting on the side of his hat.
# Body Double
-When Gloria (?) leaves the mall, she hands her parking ticket to the
attendant, and tells him it's a green Mercedes, but it's actually
yellow.
# Boomerang
- The scene where Halle and Eddie are watching Star Trek uses two different
The Captain and crew do not beam down at the start of that episode.
# Born on the Fourth of July
-Set in 1968-69 includes Don McLean's American Pie, released in 1971.
-In a protest scene outside the 1972 Republican convention, a
Vietnam veteran is wearing Reeboks, which weren't introduced until
1978.
# Breakfast Club, The
-When the teacher is in the basement looking at the files, the index card
on the open drawer is in two different positions depending on the angle of
the camera.
# Bride of Frankenstein
- At the end, when the castle is self-destructing, the good Doctor can
be seen against the far wall. Yet he is next seen outside in the arms of
his beloved, watching the explosions. There were two endings originally.
The first had Doctor Frankenstein dying within the castle and this was so
filmed. But the producers judged this a bit harsh and wanted a happy ending,
so they shot the extra footage (too expensive to re-film the explosions).
# Bull Durham
- In the first game of the movie, the opposing batter is introduced
with "Now batting for the Prince William Cannons, ...". However, the
batter is wearing the uniform of the Hagerstown Suns.
# Bullitt
-The Charger loses three hubcaps during the chase scene, and then another
three when it leaves the highway and runs into the gas station.
-The same little green VW Beetle keeps showing up during the chase scene.
Funny how it keeps up with the Charger and the Mustang!
# Camelot
-In one scene, Richard Harris is sporting a band-aid on his neck.
-Guinevere's party stops along the way for a cup of tea; tea wasn't
imported to England until much, *much* later. (neither was plate-mail,
it is widely accepted).
# Can't Buy Me Love
-Miller and Budweiser must've both paid for product placement in this movie.
At the New Years Eve party, Ronald, Iris, and John(?) are all holding cans
of Miller. The camera moves to Bobby, then back to the threesome; now they're
all holding Budweiser!
# Cape Fear (1991)
-In the bar scene where Max Cady is talking up the law clerk
infatuated with Nolte's character, there is a shot where she is either
buttons or unbuttons (I forget which) the collar of her blouse. Whenever
the camera is on her during the rest of the scene, the collar of the
blouse alternates with different shots.
- When the private investigator is talking to Max Cady (outside
somewhere), the sweat on the side of the PI's face fluctuates.
# Casablanca
-12 minutes into the film, it is mentioned that the stolen Letters of Transit
are signed by General DeGaulle, and cannot be questioned. But DeGaulle was the
leader of the Free French, and CASABLANCA is set in Vichy France, where he had
been sentenced (in absentia) to death as a traitor. (This is contentious; did
Peter Lorre say "DeGaulle", "Weygand", or a mix of the two?).
# Cassandra Crossing, The
-There is a train that cannot stop, and there is an attempt to pace
it with a helicopter and lower something down to it on a rope.
This would be rather a neat trick, because this is
Europe and the train is electric, and every few seconds it passes
under one of the structures holding up the overhead wires!
Solution? Simple. In the shot where the attempt is actually made
to lower the rope, the locomotive is magically transformed into a
diesel, and the electric wires are gone! (And only in that shot;
it's still electric while the helicopter is lining up for the attempt,
and turns back to electric as soon as it's finished.)
# Cat People (1982)
-The scene in the restaurant between John Heard and Nastassja Kinski, the
amount of head on Heard's beer constantly changes.
# Chariots of Fire
-A canadian athlete is shown with a red and white maple leaf flag on
his jersey. Canada did not adopt this flag until the 1960s. Instead
they used the Union Jack.
-The film's main plot line is centered around the 1924 Olympics.
American flags (on the sweatshirts of the US Team, held by spectators, etc.)
have 50 stars on them; there were only 48 states at the time.
# Cleopatra (1963)
-She goes thru that arch. Cleopatra died in 30 BC, the arch was
constructed in 300 AD.
# Clockwork Orange, A
-Scene where Alex returns to "Home" were he raped the author's wife.
He is eating some spaghetti and drinking some wine, the amount of
wine in his glass and the amount of spaghetti on his plate jumps
around in an unnatural manner.
-There is a goof in the scene in which Alex is talking to a high mucky-muck
(I think it was the warden in prison just before he gets the
Ludovecho treatment started.) We cut back and forth to the mucky-muck
a few times and alternatly see that in some scenes he has his hands
(fingers interlocked) supporting his chin and in others his hands are
on his desk.
# Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- During one of the Aliens' visitations to the farm, there's a close of the
little boy Barry watching out the screen door. As the camera zooms in, the
camera shadow becomes apparent on the screen door.
# Color of Money, The
-Right after Eddie (Paul Newman) plays Vincent (Tom Cruise), Eddie is seen
taking apart his cue stick, then the movie cuts to a short time later (after
the crowd appears to have cleared out some) when Eddie walks over to the table
and AGAIN begins to disassemble his stick.
# Commando (1985)
-After Rae Dawn Chong is introduced, Rae gets into her car in the
parking garage. You can see a reflection of the camera and sound man.
-In the chase scene between the bad guys' yellow Porsche and
the girls' red convertible, the front bumper of the red
car gets hit and hangs from only one side. A few seconds
later the bumper is back on the car again all fixed.
-When the Porsche rolls over, it smashes the driver's side. After AS drops the
bad guy over the edge, he rolls the Porche back upright; the driver's side
is **clearly** smashed badly. Yet a few seconds later, they show the car
driving off, and there is not a scratch on the driver's side!
-When Arnie is hit by the car as he runs out of the shopping centre, it is easy
to see his wallet fly out of his pocket. In a later scene, he pulls out his
wallet to show Rae Dawn Chong a picture of his daughter.
-As Arnie is pulling his rubber raft onto the shores of Val Verde,
he is wearing a black bathing suit. When we are shown a different angle,
the bathing suit is white (or the other way round).
-I think it's just after Arnie get's out of the shed after ventilating
the nasty man's head with a sawblade. Arnie has a machine gun in his
right hand and bullet casings are being ejected to the right.
Cut to a slightly different angle for ~.5 seconds and Arnie has the gun
in his left hand and casings are being ejected to the left. Quickly cut
to the original view and the gun is in his right hand with shells
ejecting to the right.
-When arnold rips the car seat out of her red car, later it grows a
new one.
-You can see the blue crash mat in one scene as one bad guy is thrown
off the roof.
# Cowboys, The
-Early establishing shot. Jet contrails!
# Crimson Pirate, The
-(During the balloon scene) the camera pans down from the balloon and onto
the ship where we see the old crew tied up in the big net. Between the masts
of the ship you can see a luxury sealiner in the background.
# Crusades, The
-Richard the Lionheart dramatically tosses back his cape .. to check his watch!
# Cutter's Way
-Near the end of the movie, as Alex Cutter (John Heard) is charging
across J. J. Cord's estate on a horse, for about a second he is
seen as missing his right arm instead of his left. They must have
felt that the importance of keeping the action moving from left to
right on the screen outweighed this brief inconsistency.
# Dances with Wolves
-Early in the film, the first time we see Costner riding Cisco,
there's a canteen tied to Cisco's saddle; as the camera pulls back for a
longer shot, Cisco is prancing along and it becomes obvious that the
canteen is *open*, and there's clearly water splashing all over the side
of the horse. Score -1 for the prop department.
-Dunbar's wagon driver who carries him to the outpost has some migrating egg
on his face. In the scene where he is eating the pickled eggs, every shot
from the front of wagon has him with a large piece of egg on his upper lip,
but every time he looks back at Dunbar, its gone.
-When the three Indian boys steal Dunbar's horse one of them gets thrown off
the horse. If you look closely you can see the rope that was attached to the
boy and used to pull him backwards from the horse.
# Darkman
-(near the beginning) Darkman and Julie are on the bed & Julie is using the
cordless phone. After she hangs up and puts the phone back down, it is
facing down. The next scene shows the phone facing up.
# Days of Thunder
-When Tom Cruise is injured during a race, he's taken to hospital with a
red ring around the iris of his right eye. But in the subsequent scenes at
the hospital, the ring moves to his left eye and then back to his right.
# Decameron Nights
-As Louis Jourdan surveys the shore from his 14th century ship, you
can clearly see a large white truck winding its way down a hill.
# Diamonds Are Forever
-There is a chase scene between Bond in a "moon buggy" and a bunch of Fords
careening across the desert. In one shot, one of the Fords shoots over
a sand dune. In the lower corner of the screen, you see what appears to be
one of the moon buggy's wheels bouncing away. Next shot, the moon buggy
drives away, with all wheels intact.
-At one point James Bond is driving a car down an alley that ends at a gap
between two buildings that is too narrow to drive through normally. Somehow,
Bond manages to get the two left wheels up in the air and drives through the
gap at a slant. When the car comes out from between the two buildings, the
two RIGHT wheels are in the air. (The intervening sequence, where the car
rides on all 4 wheels again before lifting the two right wheels, was edited
out of the TV version of this movie).
# Die Hard
-Watch the window on the door to the conference room where Hans kills Takagi.
Takagi's brains splatter all over the glass. But in the next scene the amount
of blood on the glass is a lot less. Later during the shootout in the same
room the amount of blood that was originally on the glass reappears.
-When the body of the terrorist is discovered in the lift, watch as
Gruber (Alan Rickman) pushes the corpse's head to one side. The eyes of the
dead man close just before the hand reaches his face.
# Die Hard 2
-Pacific Bell phones in Dulles Airport.
-You can't make phonecalls *to* planes.
-Later in the movie, Bruce Willis is shown running through the airport
terminal. In the background, you see him running past one of the
information boards near the baggage claim and rental car area. It shows
a map of the *Los Angeles* freeway system.
-The Air Traffic Controllers said that the planes could only stay in a
holding pattern for 2 more hours before they crashed. Those planes could
have easily reached O'HARE from Dulles in 2 hours. I also believe there was
some problem with the radio antenna in the airport (it was blown up or
something). Many pilots have their own transceivers, which are little
radios. I'm sure that someone in the airport would have one that could talk
to the planes with.
-During the snowmobile chase, towards the part before the bad guys start
shooting at McLane, there is a person towards the right hand side trying
to flag the actors with a flashlight to go a certain way.
-During the fight scene on the wing between Bruce Willis and John Amos,
Bruce has him down pounding his bloody face. When John Amos says "Too bad
McClane I could have liked you" his face is clean no blood.
# Dirty Dancing
-You can see Jennifer Grey's body stocking durint the first sex scene,
when Patrick Swayze gets out of bed with nothing on.
# Disorganized Crime
-Two FBI agents have their car stolen by a group of bank robbers.
The car is used by both sides in several chase scenes, and they keep
referring to it as a "Chrysler", even though it's a Ford. I wonder if they
took product-placement money from both companies?
# Do the Right Thing
-The "mayor" of the street gives the old woman (Ruby Dee?) a bouquet of red
flowers. The next day she is shown with the flowers, but they have changed. I
think they switched between carnations and roses.
# Doors, The
-In the last half hour of the movie when Jim Morrison is out on a window
ledge several stories up at night you can see a movie billboard in the
background with Nick Nolte on it (advertising one of the 48 hour movies).
This scene is set in 1971 and _48 Hours_ wasn't around then (was Nolte in
any movies back then?). In a shot a few seconds later the movie billboard
has been blurred beyond recognition.
# Downhill Racer
-Redford pulls a u-turn while driving through his "home town". From one
camera view no other cars are in site. 2nd view is from a rooftop and *POOF*
there is another car.
-While winning the olympic gold medal in downhill racing just after he reaches
the finish line there is an announcement over the loudspeaker (in German)
"please clear the course the first racer will be down in 5 minutes". Obviously
they filmed their sequences just before a real world cup race was run.
# Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
-You see the B-52 flying (obviously a model) over the arctic landscape and
below you can plainly see the shadow of the prop-driven plane (a B-17) from
which the snowscape shots were filmed.
-Towards the end of the movie, when Dr. Strangelove is having trouble
controlling his arm, you can clearly see the Russian ambassador trying
to keep from laughing.
# Driving Miss Daisy
-Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman's encounter with state troopers clearly
takes place in Alabama. The troopers, however, wear Georgia Patches on
their uniforms.
# E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
-Did anyone else notice in E.T. that for about one second, you see Ellioit
wreck his bike? He has E.T. in the front and everything. It flashed really
quick, and most people didn't see it. I only saw it the second time I saw it
because a friend had noticed it the time before, so I was looking. The guy I
was with didn't catch it though.
-When Eliot first sees ET in the storage shed, watch him and the boy
sitting next to him at the table after he runs in to tell his
brother's friends. As he's telling them of his amazing discovery,
the boy next to him is mouthing the lines along with Eliot.
-last scene, E.T. getting on ship and waving goodbye: mom kneels down - twice.
kid standing next to dog, cut to ship, kid holding dog by collar, cut to
ship, kid standing next to dog.
# Echo Park
- Susan Dey stands on the stairs of her house and talks to somebody while
smoking a cigarette. She gets excited and throws the cigarette away. A cut
later the cigarette is back.
# Empire Strikes Back, The
-When Chewie is putting Threepio back together, you can see Anthony
Daniel's nose
-Just as the Rebel troops are lining up in the trench, you see smoke
from a damaged piece of equipment floating by. The AT-ATs haven't
fired yet!
-In the scene where Han Solo is about to get carbon-frozen, the close-ups
show him without his vest, then with his vest, then without his vest as he
goes down...
# Excalibur
-King Arthur sure looks spiffy in his shiny silver armor. As a matter of
fact, it's so shiny that in it you can see the reflection of someone
holding what appears to be a boom microphone. Considering that Arthur
is having a private chat with Guenevere, it is safe to say that the
"boom guy" *ISN'T* supposed to be there.
# Exorcist III, The
-When George C. Scott and Ed Flanders go to see "It's a Wonderful Life".
In an outside shot we see Scott's cab pull up and him getting out. It then
switches to a shot from inside the lobby where we see Scott coming into
the theater. The interior shots were done at the Biograph theater in
Georgetown, but the outside shot of Scott's cab pulling up was not done
anywhere near the theater.
-Complete mixup of Georgetown geography during the big car chase. Some shots
might even be from a different city.
# Fatal Attraction (1987)
-Glen Close is in bed, talking to Michael Douglas, who's standing.
In the shots looking at her from the viewer's left (her right), the sheet
is below her (visible) breasts. In the shot looking at her from the
viewer's right, the sheet is over her breasts.
# Field of Dreams
-In the scene where Costner is driving in his VW van through Boston
to pick up JE Jones, the trailer bed upon which the van is resting
is clearly visible. (Editor's note: This is due to matting)
# Flatliners
-During the final resuscitation scene, the hand-held camera is
easily seen in the reflection of the EEG monitor when it zooms in.
# Fletch
-Doctor Rosenpenis's stethoscope, VERY BRIEFLY, appears off, then back on
his ears as he is bending over to pick up the papers he has dropped.
# For Your Eyes Only
-When Bond attacks Kristatos' warehouse with Coulombo's men, it is night.
Fighting takes perhaps 10 minutes, and Locque tries to drive away.
He drives upward through some tunnels and emerges to broad daylight.
# Frankenhooker
-It is the scene just after the doctor wakes up in his garage/laboratory,
finds the "monster" is gone, and runs out to the street.
>From the street, the camera shows the doctor comming out of the
garage. His car is in front of his house on the street. Then the camera
follows him as he runs a little way up the street looking for the monster.
It is late at night and the streets are empty of people.
There is another car on the street not far in front of the doctor's car.
The doctor then runs back to his car, jumps in, and drives off. But ...
THE CAR DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF HIS IS NOW GONE.
The whole scene is just a few seconds. The strange thing about this goof is
that the scene is (apparently), continuous. I could not see break in the
action where they could have moved the car. Its as if the movie makers did
it just as a joke of somekind.
# Friday the Thirteenth: The Final Friday
-There is a part in the movie where the main guy is shoving his ex-girlfriend
in a car so as to escape Jason. If you look in the passenger side window
you can see the cameraman's reflection.
# Full Metal Jacket
-In the first half of the film, the soldiers have to go across one of those
monkey-bar-type things that you hang from and get across by moving one hand
alternately ahead of the other. The sergeant in charge shouts "It should take
no less than x seconds to get across!" But this doesn't make sense. He should
have said "it should take no *more* than"....because then he'd be putting a
reasonable upper limit on it.
# Gargoyles (TV)
-There is a scene where a cops car in speeding down a dirt road. The
car changes from a Chevy Impala to a Ford several times during the
scene.
# Ghost (1990)
-When bad guy Rick Aviles is hit and killed by a car, his body is left
lying in the street. Seconds later, when his ghost appears at the scene,
his dead body is lying on top of the car. [Roger W. said that the
*ghost* was left on the ground, and the *body* on the car bonnet. Can
someone please check this on video?]
# Ghostbusters
-During the scene on top of the apartment building, there are rocks
falling from the top of the building. At one point, the scene cuts to a shot
of the panicking crowd in the street. Watch closely - you can see one of the
rocks hit a wooden police barricade - and BOUNCE OFF!
-You can also see marshmallow on a truck *before* Mr StaPuft gets fried.
# Gleaming the Cube
-During the big chase sequence at the end, the burgundy Toronado
alternately has and doesn't have headlight covers.
-Later during this same chase, the stolen police car cuts in front of
a red Corvette, "damaging" the left front fender near the headlight.
When Christian Slater skates up alongside the irate driver the "damage"
to the car is obviously from *old* rust, and not a hit from another car.
# Glory (1989)
-In the first scene where Morgan Freeman meets Matthew Broderick, Freeman is
is kicking soldiers to see if they are alive. When Broderick looks up to see
who has kicked him, the sun is clearly shining from behind him. Yet in the
next scene, Freeman comes into the sunlight, showing his face. The sun is
behind him now. The direction of the sun alternates in the next two scenes.
- One has to look real close at the night battle scenes at the end to discern
that the bayonets are rubber (they wiggle). This was actually a safety
precaution so that no one got skewered in the dark.
# Godfather, Part III, The
-In the montage of newspaper clippings describing the Corleone family's
involvement with the Italian corporation, all of the headlines are correct
(e.g. CORLEONE GAINS STOCK IN IMMOBILIARE), but the text underneath them is
way off base: one story talks about Saddam Hussein, another is about something
else in current affairs (taxes? I forgot), and the third is actually from a
computer manual, as I recall seeing "Insert the disk into the drive and
turn the computer on" before it flashed offscreen.
# Godfather, The
-There's a major glass-of-wine continuity problem during the wedding scene near
the start.
# Gone with the Wind
-When the horse-drawn carriages are driving up to Twelve Oaks,
they cast no shadows on the ground.
-When Scarlett and Melanie are nursing the wounded soldier, their
shadows don't fit their movements.
-Late in the second half, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) takes the women on
a wild "chariot style" ride through burning Atlanta. Depending on which cut of
the film you see, Rhett changes once, twice, or three times into a short black
stunt man while driving the wagon!!
# GoodFellas
-In the videocassette version of this film, in the scene where Ray Liotta
is about to drive his drug courier to the airport, she takes a ticket out
of her bag and looks at it; the frame is then frozen while a voiceover
takes place. The freeze-frame makes the large rectangular black box that
is censoring the name of the airline on the ticket rather noticeable!
- In the final chaseing scene, which is supposed to be happening in 1981:
The scene shows two people (I forget the names of the characters)
covnersing in the back of the car. You can see the "third tail light" above
the back seat. This would be completely normal, except that this feature
wasn't offered unitl 1986 +/- a year.
-In the scene near the end where DeNiro's character is trying to off
the wife (by telling her to go into the "dress shop"), she speeds off
in her car, and in the process, blows a fake license plate off the
car parked in front of her (an orange new york license plate covering
a new one).
# Graduate, The
-Ben, in a pretty establishing shot, drives over the Bay Bridge to
Berkeley and is on the upper span, thus going the wrong way.
# Grand Canyon (1991)
-Mac (Kevin Kline), distracted by a discussion with his wife, cuts his
finger while slicing vegetables. They bandage it, covering the top
of the finger. Suddenly there is an earthquake. As they run from the
house, Mac's entire finger is now wrapped up.
# Great Outdoors, The
-In the scene where the bear knocks down the cabin door on top of John Candy
you can clearly see the trainer's stick being waved under the bear's chin
to make it roar for a close-up.
# Green Berets, The
-John Wayne goes eastward into the sunset
# Green Card
-Andie MacDowell goes to the dinner party at her friend's parents' house.
In the scene out in the garden when she is talking to the father
she is barelegged; later when she comes home we see her taking off
black stockings.
# Gremlins
-Zach Galligan's Volkswagen changes color twice in the course
of a few minutes.
-The *underside* of tree branches are coated with snow.
-Look at the scene when the gremlins are swinging from the Christmas tree and
the tree falls forward. For a split second, you can see a prop man pushing
the tree over. He's behind the tree a little to the left, and he's wearing a
red shirt and glasses.
# Halloween
-Although the story takes place in Illinois, all the cars have
California license plates.
# Hamlet (1990)
-When the guy is stabbed through the curtain, the size and position of the
hole in the curtain changes.
# Handmaid's Tale, The
-In the scene where Offred is holding yarn for Major's Wife, the amount
of yarn jumps around erratically.
-Natasha is given a photo of her daughter. The camera angles change, and
in the next shot she is holding a _different_ photo.
-A man is giving a speech denouncing women. He lists one of their sins
as "test-tube babies" (on the soundtrack), but his mouth is clearly
saying something else.
# Hang 'em High
-There's a scene where Clint Eastwood walks into a saloon.
The shadow of the cameraman is clearly visible in the street.
# Hard Way, The (1991)
-In the captain's office (early in the film, when John is complaining
about Nick) a list on the wall is titled "Homocides" (sic).
# Heathers
-Right before the students at the pep rally "hear" the explosion, you
see the flash of light that cues them to turn around.
# Hell Comes to Frogtown
-(Rowdy Roddy Piper stars as a post-apocalyptic stud whose drafted
by the US government to impregnate virgins in the field ... really
funny !) Roddy shoves a bad-guy demon off a cliff, and the demon falls
off and out of the picture. If you play it in slow motion, you can see
the matress that the demon lands on pop up for a second into the picture.
# Hiding Out
-BOOM MIKE: The boom mike should have top billing for this film, as
it appears more than any of the actors.
# High Noon
-At the end of the movie, a long boom shot pulls back from the cowboy-era town
to reveal downtown Los Angeles in the background with telephone pole wires and
all.
# How I Got Into College
-There is a scene with an overhead view of the car the main character is
driving on his way to college. The shadow of the helicopter this scene
was shot from passes through the bottom of the picture.
# Hudson Hawk
- When Hawk gets out of the packing case, he has some styrofoam stuck to his
head. In a later shot, the position of the styrofoam changes.
# Hunt for Red October, The
-A soviet crewman on a US ship does a sign of the (Roman Catholic) cross
when the Russian sub goes down. Russian orthodoxists should do a mirror-image
cross (ie. head, heart, right, left)!
-in the beginnig when the Political Officer is reading the orders ... they
are supposed to test the caterpillar drive and return to base "on or about
the 16th of this month..." a few scenes later (and not more than 1 day)
Jack Ryan is in the breifing of Jeffrey Pelt, and asks "it isnt the 23rd"
# Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
-(In the scene at the beginning) Indy is swinging off the Coronado via
a hook on a line. He distinctly has the Cross of Coronado in his left hand
in the previous scene. When he grabs onto the hook, the cross disappears,
and when he lands in the water, it's in his left hand again.
-At the beginning of the movie, just before young Indy escapes into the train's
caboose, the train is seen going through a mountainous area with forests. He
disappears through the box in the floor, and when the guy with the hat looks
out the back door of the caboose, there are no more mountains ... the terrain
is flat like the place where Indy boarded the train in the first place!
-The first shot of the adult Indy as he raises his head shows blood trickling
down his chin from one side of his mouth. In the next and subsequent shots,
the blood is dripping from the other side.
-In trying to find his father. Indiana Jones goes thru his father's mail.
A close up of the letters shows one with a stamp not issued by the U.S.
Post Office until after the time frame of the movie.
-After being chased by the Germans, Indy and his father come to a sign that
is posted by a fork in the road. One road goes to Berlin, the other to Venice.
This sign is unlikely, because Venice and Berlin are roughly 400 miles apart.
-In the sequence in which Indy's clambering about on the outside of the tank,
it's impossible for him to have gotten hung up on the gun barrel the way he
does -- the end of the barrel's already been blown apart, causing it to
blossom like a metal flower which is too large for Indy to have passed that
loop of equipment strap over even if he'd wanted to.
-After the tank goes over the cliff, the turret of the tank falls off and away
as the tank hits the ground. However, when Connery and the rest look over the
edge at the tank, the turret is in place on the top of the tank.
-As the camera angles change on Sean Connery right after the Hatayan tank
falls from the cliff, you can see marked differences in the way Connery's
beard is trimmed.
-While spelling out the word of God, Indy steps on a letter, accidentally
breaking the letter behind his foot. In the next shot, the letter is intact.
-The letter he stepped on was a J, which was wrong because Jehovah is spelled
Iehovah in Latin. But the reason for the spelling difference is that Latin
*has* no letter J. So there shouldn't have been a J tile in the first place.
(It might conceivably have been an ornate T, but doesn't look much like one.)
-Hitler writes his name with the wrong hand when he autographs the diary.
-After Connery's character has blown away the rudder of the plane,
the rudder is seen virtually intact in a following long shot of the plane.
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
-In the long shots of Indy on the rope bridge when he has thugees on either
side of him, the thugees are much further from him than in the close up
shots. Note that this is not a deceptive camera angle, it is quite clearly
the case.
-When the rope bridge is cut and Indy is climbing up, the stuntman is far
thinner than Harrison Ford.
-In the finale when the kids are returning to their mothers, one kid is
boosted up to his mother. You can see the assistant's white hands for a
second helping the kid up to the mother.
# Innerspace
-Right in the beginning when Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) crashes the
ceremony, they beat him up in the kitchen. In the 1st scene, the
decorations at his uniform line up, in the next they are loose at one
end and hang down. In the next scene, they are lined up again
# Intolerance
-Shot includes director's assistant clad in coat and tie in scene set
in ancient Babylon.
# Jagged Edge
-Glenn Close's outfit changes from gray to blue to brown to blue in a
a courtroom sequence (..or was this to convey the passage of a
few days? Anyone?).
# Jailhouse Rock
-The prison number on Elvis's jacket changes from 6239 to 6240.
# Jewel of the Nile, The
-Kathleen Turner jumps onto a train wearing canvas slip-on that
change to leather sandals that change back to canvas shoe later
in the scene.
# Julius Caesar (1953)
-In the scene where Cassius offers Brutus his dagger to kill him,
the blade of his dagger falls off as he pulls it out of the sheath.
Without even slowing down, the actor offers the hilt of the dagger to Brutus,
with the "blade" hidden behind his forearm. Truly a great recovery...
#Jurassic Park
- When the Velociraptor eggs are hatching in the nursery, the robot arm
is steadying the egg in one shot then disappears in the next shot.
- When the jeeps are stalled outside the T-Rex paddock during the storm, and
the lawyer runs away, he leaves the door open. When the kids' jeep (the one
with the door open) is shown from the other jeep, the door is closed, then
open again in the closeup and interior shots of the kids jeep. The door opens
and closes several times in this scene.
# Kelly's Heroes
-While they are removing the "boxes of gold bars" from the bank, some
of the actors act as if the boxes are very heavy, while others toss them
around as if they are empty (which they were).
-Each box is supposed to carry 12 gold bars, each of 10 kg -- that's
over 240 lbs a box -- at the very end, Kelly (Clint Eastwood) picks up
two boxes, one in each hand, and hauls them out. A real man's man :-)
# King and I, The
-During Yul Brynner's "Is a Puzzlement" number, the earring he
wears in some shots is absent in others. It also shifts from
ear to ear.
# King of Kings (1961)
-In this Biblical movie, you can clearly see Jeffrey Hunter wearing a
wristwatch in one scene and sneakers in another.
# Knock on Wood
-A policeman dashes up the stairs wearing a helmet...and busrsts into
the room wearing a peaked cap.
# Krakatoa, East of Java
-It's west of Java.
# La Femme Nikita
-Nikita is in Venice when she is called upon to perform an assassination.
The window in the bathroom won't open, so she uses a towel to protect her
hand as she punches a hole in it. But after she shoots her target, you
can see the window in the background, complete and unbroken.
# Ladyhawke
-The moon goes from gibbous to full to gibbous again over three succesive days
more or less as it should. Then, only three days later it's new. Or, is this
movie set in some fantasy world with multiple moons? The people in this movie
also had the strangest pronunciation of Aquila that I ever heard.
-There is a long shot of the guard looking for his purse BEFORE Phillipe
steals it.
# Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
-As the film starts, Nathaniel is running at full speed with his shirt
on and a bandolier over each shoulder. The film cuts to his father and
back to him. Now his shirt is around his waist and the bandoliers are
still on.
# Let's Make Love
-In a dining scene between Marilyn Monroe and Yves St. Montand from
alternateviews her hands are alternatively gesturing or being used to
eat her meal.
# Lethal Weapon
-When Roger is complaining about his life being over and xxx years on the
force and not a scratch on his record, the car he's driving is moving
but the shifter is in park.
-Riggs handcuffs himself to the depressed businessman. They jump off the
building but they're not handcuffed to each other anymore.
-Riggs describes his "special" bullet as a hollow point, but the one he put in
his pistol earlier wasn't.
# Lethal Weapon 3
-When the suspect is shot in the police station by the chief bad guy,
there is blood splattered across the white tiles. When Mel et al.
arrive, it's been cleaned up.
# Life of Brian
-BOOM MIKE: in the scene where Brian's mother is buying rocks to take
to the stoning, the mike is visible at the top of the screen, SWIVELING back
and forth between the two actors as first one talks, then the other.
# Little Man Tate
-In the scene where Fred is having his last talk with the Harry Connick Jr.
character, the strap on his on his breifcase changes positions from his
shoulder to his arm, depending on the angle of the shot.
-In the scene where Jane is giving Fred that vile drink, you can
see the band-aid on his head where he got hit by the globe Eddie threw.
But he hasn't been hit by the globe yet.
# Longtime Companion
-BOOM MIKE:the well-known death scene where one man is
telling the other to "let go", the overhead mike was visible to me off and
on through the entire scene. I remember it so clearly because I was so
shocked that this very important and emotional scene would have this
occur. Not only was the mike apparent, but it was moving in and out
of the picture (up and down, like someone couldn't hold it properly),
which was even more of a distraction.
# Look Who's Talking
-While John Travolta and Kristie Alley drive around in search of a
missing child, Travolta has sunglasses on in the shots taken from
outside the car but not those taken inside.
# Lost Boys, The
-There is a scene where actor Jason Patric is flying uncontrollably in
his room. In his scramble to control himself, he accidentally knocks
his phone off the hook. This is quite clear. We then
cut to the next room, where the phone rings. Corey Haim picks it up,
and begins to talk...only to have Patric talk on his phone. Of course, my
question is how could the phone ring? Wouldn't it have been a busy signal?
-There are two or three scenes where the camera simulates the vampires
flying into and out of their lair. One of the scenes is clearly just
the previous one played backwards (as the camera flies over the ocean
the waves head *OUT* to sea)
# Magnum Force
-When the boss bad cop takes Dirty Harry prisoner, he makes him throw his gun in
the back seat, not out the window. Later, when left alone in the car, Harry
flees without getting the gun and is unarmed throughout the climactic battle
royal (which, incidentally, hinges on a homicide detective's ability to
outride several full-time motorcycle cops).
# Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
-There's a fire on a boat (La Paloma) in the port of San Francisco.
The fire fighters have Los Angeles Fire Department uniforms on.
What a long drive to put out a fire!!!
# Manhattan
There is a scene in Manhattan, where someone is running down
a sidewalk being filmed out of a moving car. You can see a reflection
of the camera (and cameraperson) in some of the windows of the cars
that are between the camera and the subject. [this is the kind of
# Manhunter (1986)
- when the second police car crashes into the ditch, the driver cracks his
head on the windscreen (complete with sound effects). In slow motion, it is
obvious that the windscreen was smashed, and then the stuntman threw his
head against it.
# Marked for Death
-There is a scene where Stevan Segal is sitting in a truck parked next to the
curb, watching some bad guys in a black four-door. The street is covered
with leaves. Later when he starts up the truck and drives toward the bad guys
car the street is clean with barely any leaves on it.
# Meet Me in St. Louis
-While Judy Garland sings "The Trolley Song" a friend visiting the set
shouts "Hiya Johnny!", not "Hiya Judy, as widely reported.
-In some early scene you can see that there is feather/down snow
floating all over the set, left over from the upcoming winter scenes.
-When Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien are singing "If You Like-a Me",
Margaret's slippers change from pink to blue.
# Memphis Belle (1990)
-In the opening minutes of the film, a B17 is returning to its British base
after a mission and attempts a crash landing, siding over the camera placement.
During this shot, look at the engines on the port side of the plane (right
side of the screen): the inboard engine has two of three blades remaining and
there is only one left on the outboard engine. But when the plane finally
slides to a stop, the propeller blades have miraculously reappeared.
-The Memphis Belle had P51 mustangs escorting the bombers several
months before they appeared in the European theatre. (movie takes place in
May, 43 - mustangs showed up in the fall)
# Mermaids
-Bob Hoskins discusses how "AstroTurf" will ruin baseball.
Movie is set in 1963, AstroTurf was not introduced until 1967 or so.
# Midnight Express
-There is a shot of one of the walls to the prison, from the outside.
There is a path that starts at the lower left of the wall and goes
to the right, climbing. Along the bottom of the wall there are a
few scraggly trees. Now, the protagonist (or someone)
goes running up the path, from left to right. Your attention is
meant to be focused on him, but if you watch the bottom of the screen, you
will see the boomman running in time with the actor, sticking his
microphone in the general direction of the action. It is plain as day.
-In the scene where Hayes is alone(?) in that "wheel room", I recall the
boom mike being PLAINLY visible. This is not one of those times where
it simply "dips" down from above. In this scene, you can see the entire
rig.
# Misery
-After Mr. Sheldon slams Ms. Wilkes over the head with the type-
writer, the typewriter falls on the floor upside-down,, in the next
sceen, it is right-side up when Wilkes slides it out of her way.
-When Wilkes first brings the typewriter to Sheldon, in the
long shot (?) she is tapping the maching in a different position
than in the previous sceen, plus the bottle of white-out has vanished.
-When Sheldon is downstairs, there is a can of charcoal lighter. In one scene
it is on its side, the next, it is upright, all before Sheldon picks it up.
# My Bodyguard
-In the scene where Clifford first uses Linderman as his bodyguard
against Moody, one of Clifford's friends (a short, red-haired
boy) can be seen hiding behind Linderman. In a subsequent shot,
he appears in between two others in the crowd, tells Moody
something, and THEN goes to hide behind Linderman. Clearly the
scene was shot in one order, but edited in another.
# My Girl
-When Thomas J. (Caulkin) and Veda (Chlumsky) are fishing, Thomas J.
catches a fish and proceeds to say, "I hate touching the fish." While
the hook falls out of the fish's mouth twice before Veda grabs the fish and
removes the hook. No wonder the fish died!
# Narrow Margin (1990)
-There's a chase scene in the early part of the movie through a Canadian
wood. Their vehicle hits a low branch and it thoroughly cracks the upper
half of the windshield. Towards the end of the chase, for one shot, the
windshield is miraculously gone! and then reappears for the next shot...
# National Lampoon's Vacation
-In the scene where Chevy Chase and ffamily are leaving the city of
Chicago, if you look out of the car windows you can see that they
are driving by oil rigs. Oil rigs in Chicago?
# Natural, The
-At the end before Roy Hobbs hits the home run, look how the blood pattern
on his uniform changes from shot to shot. It gets bigger and smaller and
the number of spots changes.
-When he is in his slump, he goes to Wrigley and it is supposed to be the
first inning when he bats the first time. However, the scoreboard shows
the Cubs up 1-0. They would not have batted yet since it is at Wrigley. Then
in the ninth when he hits the home run and breaks the clock; everybody
acts like they are leaving but why don't the Cubs bat in the bottom of ninth.
-In the scene where Redford and Close meet in the diner, watch for
the mysterious moving/disappearing/reappearing glass.
# Never Say Never Again
-There is a scene where Bond and Felix swim across to have a look at
the villain's yacht - when Bond first gets into the water he has no
head mask with his scuba diving suit, but when he exits, he is seen
taking it off - guess somebody forgot about Connery's toupee.......
# NeverEnding Story, The
-Atreyu is washed up on a beach, face down. He raises his head, looks around,
then stands up. During this movement, there is a cut from a tight to a wide
shot. In the tight shot, Atreyu's chest is covered with sand. In the wide
shot his chest is clean.
-Hathaway has just left Rockbiter. We see him (from above) walking towards
that building on top of the hill. All around him there are the remains
of the devastated city. On his right there are some rocks strewn about.
Suddenly the ground opens up. The camera switches to a ground-level
shot. On his right there is now a "wall" of rocks (extending way up into
the air). The camera now switches back to an aerial shot. The wall is
gone and the "strewn about" rocks are back. Looks like the matte painters
and set designers didn't agree on this one.
-(38:19 into the movie)
You can play "spot the stuntman" with this scene. If you can single-
frame the film, go about 9 frames in to this "second", and there is a
full-face image of the stuntman just before he falls from the tree.
-Watch the bottom of the asteroid flying by. Its support pole apparently
gets in the way as the asteroid rotates and ends up "masking" a vertical
section of the asteroid. Looks like the effects department goofed up this
time.
# Night of the Iguana, The
-BOOM MIKE: Richard Burton actually gets hit in the head
by a friendly boom mike in one scene...
# Nightmare on Elm Street, A
-Nancy, after talking to her father, is seen walking past a tree, and
in her hand is what seems to be the exact same tickets that her boyfriend
gives her in the next scene!!!
-A female character wearing a short-sleeved nightgown checks her watch.
We see a wrist with the end of a long sleeve on it.
# Ninja III: The Domination
-At one point, the ninja is standing on top of a police car. He then stabs
on policeman through the top of the car and punches the other, also through
the top of the car. This makes two large holes in the roof which magicaly
no longer there in the next shot when the car goes into a lake.
# No Way Out (1987)
-Kevin Costner's character escapes two assasins while running along the
C&O canal in Washington D.C. by ducking into a Metro station and getting
on a BALTIMORE Metro train just as it leaves.
# North by Northwest
-Cary Grant complains that he only has one suit for his stay in
Chicago. Yet when he heads out into the prairie, he has a different
colour suit on.
-There is a scene in a cafe where Cary Grant is approached by Eva Marie Saint.
They talk and she draws a gun and shoots him. Before she does however
there is a shot of a crowd scene. Included is a little boy, who was
obviously at the scene rehearsal, putting his fingers in his ears.
-Many backdrop tops and light reflections.
# Nude Bomb, The
-At one point, 86 is standing next to the cloning machine, and his reflection
in a mirror behind him disappears when one of his clones comes out.
# Officer and a Gentleman, An
-In the fight at the end of the film, Lou Gosset throws a punch that Richard
Gere blocks. Gere then grabs Gosset's arm. If you single step this scene, you
can see that in one shot, Gere is holding Gosset by the wrist, and in the next
frame (from a different angle) he is holding him near his elbow.
# One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-As Jack Nicholson is strangling Nurse Ratchet, his cap falls off and
is surprisingly back on his head seconds later.
-BOOM MIKE: two or three scenes of a black mike standing out against the
white ceiling...
# Operation Petticoat (1959)
-At the end of the movie, as Cary Grant is coming off the gangplank from the
submarine, Tony Curtis's character's kids actually call him Mr. Grant rather
than Admiral Whatever.
# Out of Africa
-During one scene in the movie, Robert Redford and Meryl Strep are sitting
down at a table outside. Redford's character is shown pealing and eating
an orange. The camera cuts back to Redford often, sometimes eating and
orange and sometimes peeling another. If you count, it would seem as if
he has eaten 5 or 6 oranges in the span of about 3 minutes. And on Oscar
was awarded to this fool.
-In the scene where Robert Redford returns to Merryl Streep after a
hunting trip and they run into the house to make mad, passionate love,
Robert takes his tie off once, no, twice (!), no, three times! <sheesh>
-BOOM MIKE: Made me wonder what kind of African plant has mikes as its fruit.
# Outland
-Sean Connery is involved in one of those fights where they are outside
with spacesuits on. As he is struggling, you can CLEARLY see his bare
arm where the sleeve of the spacesuit is supposed to be attached to
the glove. Considering the way people are blowing up whenever they are
exposed to space elsewhere in the film, this probably wasn't intended.
-At one point Connery gets a bad guy cornered and "interrogates" him
with his custom shotgun. Both men are approx. 4 meters apart and still
Sean manages to miss the baddie twice. Some special non-expanding ammo?
-Large steel plate thrown by Sean Connery flutters down -- in vacuum.
# Oxford Blues
-When Rob Lowe arrives in Oxford with his sports car, driving through
town and shouting "I do not believe this!" the shots are of locations
in Oxford spliced together in random order. For example, he drives
into a dead end inside New College and reappears on Oriel Square,
where he asks directions to Oriel!
-He gets his car stuck in an artificial wall. You can see the fittings
shake on impact. In reality that car could make it through the street
with no trouble.
-Everybody including Rob Lowe wears scholar's gowns. In reality only
about 3 percent of Oxford's students are entitled to wear scholars
gowns, and Rob and his boatie friends don't seem likely scholars.
-There is no architecture course at Oxford.
-Admissions and students' course schedules computerized/centralized?
-Virtually no one has a roommate. To be assigned a roommate in college,
even in the "rowing room," would be an imposition, not an honor.
-Rob breaks up an intimate late-night tete-a-tete between Amanda Pays
and Julian Sands at Brown's coffee bar in the Covered Market. Brown's
is always bustling and the whole Covered Market complex closes at 5:30 p.m.
-It would be very unusual for a university fellow to be a rowing
coach. Usually the coaches are just veteran student rowers, or for
the really good crews, professionals brought from outside.
-Rowers do not occupy high table at any college, not even Oriel. The
fellows do. Most students in Oxford are so cynical/apathetic about
rowing (and also hungry) that a suggestion of a walkout would be
laughed out of college.
-In the punting scene (long boat with pole), Rob Lowe moves the boat
in circles, a mark of an inept novice. He probably needed to be
towed back to shore.
-Sconcing is banned in Oxford and certainly would not be done in
formal hall with all the fellows of the college looking on.
-Boat-burning takes place only after eights, not after ad hoc
coxless pairs grudge matches against Harvard.
# Pacific Heights
-Melanie Griffiths is sneaking around Michael Keaton's room. We see his
open briefcase on the table. The next scene shows Melanie sitting at
the table and opening the (inexplicably closed) briefcase.
-I believe that they were depicted as a young couple just starting out.
Well, Pacific Heights is the most exclusive neighborhood in San Francisco
and I doubt even the meanest little house would go for much under $1M U.S.
Thanks to San Francisco Chronicle for pointing this one out.
# Pale Rider
-The snow in town appears and disappears each day. Also it is clearly winter in
the town, but not in the panner's settlement or the miner's valley (this may
be explainable by them being some distance from the town).
-Prospector Michael Moriarty finds a chunk of gold about the size of a football
and dances through the streambed waving it around over his head.
("Styrofoam. There's STYROFOAM in them thar hills!")
# Parenthood
-During the scene where Jason Robards talks to his
wayward son in the garage in front of his prized green car, the entire
film crew is visible in the reflection of the car.
-The horse that the kids ride is a docile looking, skinny
chestnut colored horse. Then Steve Martin gets on the horse
an rides him down the street and attempts to jump him over a
hedge - the horse is now bay coloured, and with a lot more energy..
# Pee-wee's Big Adventure
-When Pee Wee is chaining his BIKE up next to the clown (outside the bike-
store), he opens up a small "basket" on his bike to pull out the chain. Of
course, he pulls out about 75 feet of chain, so what is desired is that old
"joke" about something very large fitting in something very small. However
one thing spoils it... in the "wide view" shot, it is clearly seen that the
"basket" has a hole in it. Looking at the bottom-right of the screen, one can
see the chain going up through the hole in the basket, through the basket and
being pulled by PW...
Ed Note: This is due to the fact that the 'safe area' was not covered
in the home video version
# Perfect Weapon, The
-When Jeff is listening to the song 'The Power', the radio station
identifies itself as "FM 109". (FM dials only go as high as 108).
# Pet Sematary
-While daddy Dale Midkeff kneels by his son's grave, the nearby
flowers change from purple to yellow.
# Pink Panther, The
-There's a scene where David Nivens's character romances the Princess and
gets her drunk on champagne while she's laying on a tiger rug. While
they're talking and drinking she's been holding a lit cigarette. She
passes out, still holding the cigarette; her hand flops down on the rug.
Niven then tries to pick her up in order to carry her into the bedroom,
and eventually wraps her up in the rug and drags it in. During this
procedure, the cigarette is gone; it probably should have lit
the rug on fire. I was watching carefully to see if he had taken it out
of her hand, but it just disappeared.
# Plan 9 from Outer Space
-The grass wrinkles.
-Day changes to night and back and forth in the same scene, many times.
-Bela Lugosi appears in only a few shots (he died early in production)
and in all other shots his character is played by Ed Wood's wife's chiropractor
with his arm in front of his face. Furthermore, he was blond and made no
attempt to color his hair like Lugosi's. (Ed Wood being, of course, the famous
bad-movie director [Plan 9, Glen or Glenda, etc]).
# Porky's II: The Next Day
-Set in the 50's, the movie poster showed a cheerleader wearing
Nikes. Don't know if this reoccurs in the movie.
# Predator
-When Mac and the major are hiding under the log (just before Mac gets it),
you can see a microphone pinned to the underside of the log.
-After the commandos have toasted the enemy camp and the major is going through
the papers, Dutch (Arnie) leaves the office in a vest and comes back wearing
a jacket and smoking a cigar. Immediately afterwards they are leaving the
camp and Dutch has lost the jacket.
-Later when Anna runs off and the guy-with-glasses gets it, one of the two
cable wraps tying her wrists together is clearly hanging below the other.
# Presumed Innocent
-Check out the tape recorder shoved into ???'s face (Can't remember who,
I was so blown away by it) after ??? emerges from the courthouse making
a few statements to the press. The tape recorder is an obvious "prop" that
nobody thought to put a tape in. I about cracked up watching him talk into
an empty tape recorder.
# Pretty Woman
-On the movie poster, Gere's hair is brown. In the movie it's grey.
-It's not Julia Roberts' body on the movie poster.
-While they are having breakfast - watch the donut/roll/pancake Julia Roberts
is eating - it keeps switching -very bad editing!
-Julia Roberts bathing-scene, head-set on and listening to some Stones
tune: As the camera is switching between her and Gere her Sony-Walkman
is laying once lid-down then up and down again, up, down, ...
-In the scene where Gere and Roberts are dining with Ralph Bellamy,
the meals they have in front of them (esp. the sorbets) chop 'n change.
-Julia Roberts starts undressing Richard Gere, Gere's tie and collar and zipper
go from being untied and unbuttoned to being tied and buttoned, then
back again, all in a matter of seconds (but not the zipper).
-Also, Julia takes off his shoes and socks. A few seconds later they
are magically back on his feet again.
# Princess Bride, The
-In the beginning when the grandfather arrives with the book. He opens
the book, the camera angle switches, and the book is closed and gets
opened a second time.
# Prize, The
-Watch Paul Newman's hands when he jumps to the cargo net on the ship; you can
see a pair of gloves briefly appear when his hand reaches for the railing,
and just as quickly disappear as he swings over. Didn't want to hurt his
dainty little hands, no doubt. Whatta wimp.
# Psycho
-While Marion Crane ( Janet Leigh ) prepares to leave town with the
stolen money and packs up her stuff the money is lying on the bed. The
camera thenzooms/moves in on the money. At the end of the zoom/movement
the shadow of the camera(man) is cast on her bed (lower right).
# Pump Up the Volume
-There is one shot of the exterior of Hubert Humphrey High where you can clearly
see what is presumably the actual name of the school on a wall behind Slater.
# Raiders of the Lost Ark
-In the scene where Indy and Marion emerge from their entombment
in the crypt after crashing through a wall with a statue. Indy pushes a
massive stone block out of the outside wall - and you can see from the block's
shadow that when it hits the ground, it bounces!
-Note the tell-tale reflection of the glass pane that keeps Harrison Ford
safe during his tete-a-tete with the cobra.
-Indy goes to Marion's bar to get the medallion. She tells him to get
lost. After he leaves she sits down and pulls the medallion, which she is
wearing on a chain around he neck, out of her blouse. Straight-on shot of
Meriam looking at the medallion with the chain still around her neck. Cut
to a profile shot where she is still looking at the medallion and the chain
is no longer around her neck.
-When the truck explodes, you can see the pole shooting out of the bottom
of it to make it tip over as if the explosion was real.
-When Indy finds Marion in the tent after he thinks she is dead, he unties
the gag in her mouth. He then ties it back catching a lot of her hair in
it. The camera changes, and there is no more hair caught in the gag.
-When they go to see the old man about the writing on the medalion,
he tells them that the staff should be 6 kadams to which Indy states
that is about 72 inches. Then the old man says to remove 1 kadam.
Simple math dictates that the staff should be 60 inches or 5 feet tall.
When Indy is later in the map room, he inserts the staff into the
hole and the mounted medalion is over his head. I don't think Harrison
Ford is less than 5 feet tall. (Editor's note: This is true. People have
written to me saying that he could be on the steps when he puts the staff
into the hole. Actually in the letterboxed version of the film, you see his
feet on the platform when he sicks the staff in the hole proving that this
is indeed a goof)
-When Indiana leaps aboard the German submarine on its way to the
island to open the Ark, he is on the outside. Then the Uboat captain
shouts "tauchen, tauchen" meaning "dive, dive"! (Editor's note: In the
original script, the submarine made it all the way to the island with its
periscope up which is how Indy made it there)
# Raising Arizona
-Near the end of the film when Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter are
chasing down the crooks who kidnapped the baby, their car changes
a couple of times. At one point they are driving a black and white
police car with Holly Hunter driving and Nicolas Cage in the passengers
seat. Later they are driving a different car with Mr. Cage driving
and Ms. Hunter in the passenger's seat.
# Rambo: First Blood Part II
-When Rambo fires the rocket launcher through his helicopter's (missing)
windshield to blow up the Russky's helicopter, the backblast would have
fried all of the MIAs (and the helicopter).
# Rebecca
-Joan Fontaine sits on a chair and looks in the direction of the camera.
The camera moves away from her. On its path it touches some flowers on
a table and you can see them move as they enter the image from the
right. Joan Fontaine then stands up and looks out of a window to the
wing where Rebecca's room was.
# Red Dawn
-The Colorado Rockies conveniently have just enough of a dusting of snow that
winter to provide a nice Valley Forge atmosphere of shared patriotic hardship.
Try "snow ass-deep to a tall horse."
# Return of the Jedi
-When Luke is explaining to Threepio about the 'magic', Artoo is NOT tied up.
(Letterboxed version only)
-There is one point in the climatic battle scene where a tie fighter
magically appears in the middle of the Falcon.
-As Threepio is trying to get his frinds untied, we see Chewbacca poke his head
onto the set BEFORE he is actually cut loose (letterboxed version ONLY)
-After the battle on Tantooine, there is a flypast of many TIE fighters past
the Death Star. As 3 of them approach, they magically disappear. It's about
30m into the film.
# Road House (1989)
-Before Patrick Swayze punches the tall, goofy guy in his boss's office,
you can see some of the blood come out of the guy's nose before he's
punched!!!
# Robin and Marian
-In the very last scene, after Robin(Sean Connery) has shot his last
arrow, you see three apples on a window board. Two are rotten, the
third one seems to be a Golden Delicious. It`s doubtful whether this
variety was known in 13th century England...
# Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- When Robin returns to England and throws himself on the ground, he offers his
hand to his Moorish slave. In a subsequent shot, he is offering his other
hand.
-The Sheriff asks his maids to see him tonight, one at 10:00, the
other at 10:15. In the 12th century, they didn't have clocks.
-There is one scene where the thieves are casting arrowheads out
of *lead*!
-there is a plaque in the wall of the castle near where he and Marion are
standing. It happens just before the bad guys come to give chase.
-When Sherwood Forest is initially shown (a distant shot) it appears to be
an coniferous forest, and yet when Robin and party are shown within, the
forest has become deciduous!
-When the outlaws' hideout in Sherwood Forest is attacked 'by surprise' there
are a large number of heavy cataputs, which 'shell' the hideout. Given the
density of the forest and the size of the catapults it probably would have
taken over a week to get them in position.
# Robocop
-When the disgruntled ex-city official is blasted out of the window of
City Hall, he falls out of screen. During the replay of the scene for
the "news" immediately afterward, the stunt man's feet are seen popping
up into view as he bounces on the padding and rolls to take the impact.
[This may have been intentional]
- In the scene where Clarence is showing off his new "toy" gun to his
pals, he gets back in his Brand New SUX to have the rear view mirror fall down.
-After Clarence Boddicker spills his guts and rats of his boss Dick Jones,
Robo goes to arrest Jones. To get to Jones's office, Robo rides in an
elevator that takes him up past the 90th floor. In the office Robo meets
up with ED209. To escape, Robo walks down a flight of stairs that the
Enforcement Droid cannot. Has anyone noticed that he immediately opens
the door there and is amazingly on the ground level of the building?
# Rocketeer, The
-When the GeeBee crashes, you can see the cable pulling it along.
# Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
-In the scene where Brad and Janet are being undressed, Brads Sweater is
removed and his shirt is already unbuttoned. Later Riff Raff walks by, and
then Magenta unbuttons it.
-When Brad and Janet are putting on their robes in the lab, at one
point, Brad's robe is wide open, he turns around, and it somehow gets
completely closed.
-During the Time Warp, one of the Transylvanians hands another an
hors d'ouevres tray, and then immediately has it back in his hands again.
-During "Dammit, Janet", Janet drops her purse in back of her. Later
in the scene, when she bends down to get the ring, it is in front of her.
-Frank does not hit Eddie with the pick until he is well within the freezer,
but when he emerges, there is a long trail of blood leading into it.
-At the end of the movie, Brad and Janet carry Dr. Scott out of the castle -
no wheelchair. But later, as the scene begins to spin, you can see
Dr. Scott lying on the ground next to his crushed wheelchair!
# Scarface (1983)
-Set in 1980, the movie includes a billboard for a 1984 Corvette
and a vending machine for USA Today, which began in 1982.
# Sea Hawk, The
-after the first battle, when stuff is being moved from the captured ship, there
is an overhead shot of the two ships side-by-side, with lots of men carrying
stuff across planks set up between the two ships. Watch closely, and you'll
see a couple of guys fall off one of the planks! The guy following them pauses,
as if he is expecting the director to yell "cut", and then finally continues
across.
# See No Evil, Hear No Evil
-Pryor & Wilder are on the run from the police. They ditch the
stolen police car that they were driver into a muddy bog. Their clothes
end up being covered in mud. In next scene, they show up squeaky clean.
# Shining, The
-During the opening with the aerial view of the car climbing up the
lonely mountain road, the shadow of the helicopter is visible for more
than just brief moment.
-Jack Nicholson hacks through one of two thin panels in a bathroom door.
In a later scene, you can clearly see that both panels have been hacked
through. According to Maltin, Kubrick cut the film by 4 minutes after
its premiere. I guess more ax work by Nicholson must have been what was cut.
# Shock to the System, A
-A detective questions Michael Caine's secretary and writes down his
telephone number on a piece of notepad paper for her. Later, when she decides
to call him, she has his business card.
# Silence of the Lambs, The
-When Jodie Foster goes into the first girl's room, her father says
that the room has been left the way it was when she died. But, there's
a Debbie Harry "Def, Dumb & Blonde" poster on the wall; that album was
released in 1989, 3 years(?) after the girl died.
-When we first see Dr. Lector in the "courthouse cage", we hear his
cassette player playing. I looked very closely, and noticed that the
tape wheels on the cassette are *not* turning.
# Silent Running
-Someone hits Bruce Dern's left leg with a shovel. Later, his
right leg is the one that is injured.
# Sleepless in Seattle
-There are indeed fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve in Seattle,
but they should be at midnight Pacific time, not midnight Eastern time!
# Soapdish
-Kevin Kline takes a swig of vodka before going on stage in
"Death of a Salesman." Unfortunately, the cap is still tightly screwed
on the bottle.
# Sons of Katie Elder, The
-Early in this film various characters run out of ammunition after firing
six shots from their revolvers. So far, so good. But, in the climactic
gunfight at the end, John Wayne loads up his six gun and then goes out and
fires fourteen shots. This is in the Paramount home video. I could swear
that when I first saw this on film, he fired 15 shots, THEN reloaded and
fired 3 more. (different editing?)
# Spartacus
-Watch for the truck driving along the hills behind a battle scene.
-Same scene: the directory utilized college students as extras in some of
this "cast of thousands" scene. If you look quickly, you can see slaves wearing
wristwatches.
# Splash
-When the mermaid (Daryl Hannah) steps on land for the first time,
she is supposed to be totally nude. The director tries to convey her
nudity WITHOUT actually showing her nude body thus:
As she walks towards that crowd, the camera alternates between
her bare back (waist upwards) and her bare legs. EXCEPT that in the
first shot, you can see Hannah wearing blue jeans (!!) and in the
second, she is wearing a long brown(?) shirt!! Someone was very
careless somewhere!
Ed Note: This is due to the fact that the 'safe area' was not covered
in the home video version.
-Scene where Tom Hanks has the lid off the outboard motor while
he is trying to start it. The motor starts suddenly, throwing
him overboard. Next shot has the boat spinning around with the
lid magically back on the motor.
# Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
-The blood-stain on Kirk's uniform (from Scotty's dying relative) changes
size & position.
-During the battle in the nebula, Khan pulls debris off of a comrade,
who says something to him and dies with his eyes open. As Khan leans
over him the dead man's eyes briefly follow his face and then close when
Khan puts his arms around him.
# Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
-When Sarek and Kirk are talking in Kirk's home, there is a wall display
of several dueling pistols. During the scene, the arrangement of the
guns changes.
-When Kirk and Kruge are fighting, a piece of the cliff breaks away and wiggles
down the side of the cliff rather than falling like a rock.
# Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
-In the dinner scene, the candle in the middle of the table changes postion
all the time.
-After the President gives his warning, Kirk gets up to talk to Spock.
You see a boom mike for an instant.
-When Kirk et al are in the operating room attempting to rescue Chekov, he
locks the doctor and nurses in a closet and uses a phaser to seal the door.
The close-up shows him aiming at the door knob, holding the phaser with one
hand. The scene immediately after shows him holding the phaser with the
other.
# Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
-Well, the whole was a goof when you get down to it, but in the opening
sequence when Kirk falls off the cliff, Spock catches him before he goes
splat. Right after he's caught, take a close look at Kirk's shirt. You
can see at least one part of his shirt puffed out where wires are attached
to keep Shatner from swaying back and forth.
-Star Fleet Headquarters is in the same time zone as Yosemite, when
Kirk, Spock and McCoy leave Yosemite it's dark, when there are
aboard the Enterprise talking to the 'Bob' from Star Fleet it's
daytime in the background.
-When Spock, McCoy, and Kirk shoot up the accessway aboard the Enterprise while
attempting to escape Sybok's men note that the decks are numbered. Also note
that they seem to pass (I believe it's) deck 52 twice.
# Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- In the scene where Spock is questioning Kim Catrell's character, the clocks
on the bridge have different times on them.
# Star Trek: The Motion Picture
-During the climatic scene outside of the Enterprise (inside of V'ger),
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are all wearing jackets with a colored band on
the sleeve. Just after the return inside the Enterprise and are back
on the bridge, the colors (red & blue, I think) on Spock and McCoy are
swapped.
-The scene of Spock on Vulcan clearly shows two moons hanging in the sky
despite Spock's statement in the Star Trek episode "Man Trap" that
Vulcan has no moon.
-In the "longer version" of the film, when Kirk in in a spacesuit going
after Spock, you see the unfinished effects shot complete with scaffolding
and stage lights.
# Star Wars
-when Ben watches Leia's holographic message, the items placed on the table
change.
-After Luke buys R5-D4 it explodes. He points to R2-D2 and as Artoo's
head turns, you see the previous shot of the Jawas prepping R5D4 BEFORE they
take him away.
-A major consistency point in the movie is C3P0's dent in his
forehead, which is consistently on one side of his head. However,
during the final battle when he and Princess Leia (and several
others) are looking into that round pool-thing, a couple frames are
backwards and C3P0 is standing on the wrong side of Leia with the
dent in the wrong side of his forehead.
-When the stormtroopers break into the control room, one of them bangs his
head on the door.
-The shots of the twin stars of Tatooine CLEARLY show them at different
distances apart in two different shots. Note this is not explained by a
different time of day as the time between shots is seconds.
-In the trash compactor, Carrie Fisher is anticipating her cue by
getting ready to lift the metal(?) bar BEFORE the compactor begins to
close (a good second or two.)
-After Luke destroys the Death Star and lands, Leia runs up to him yelling
"Luke!". Luke's response is "Carrie!" (as in Carrie Fisher).
-After Vader kills Ben, there's a shot from the docking bay towards Vader. They
forgot to color in his lightsaber.
-In the final scene, when Luke, Han and Chewie are getting their medals, in the
very beginning of the scene some of the Troops lining the aisle are very
obvious mattes. This shows on letterboxed versions.
# Stateline Motel
-During the middle of the getaway scene the driver and passenger in the Mustang
suddenly switch sides in the car, and then switch back. This is convenient,
however, as the steering wheel in the Mustang switches too!
# Sting, The
- In the scene where the FBI guy is talking to Robert Redford in the
warehouse, at one point he leans forward to speak to RR. At this
point the camera is aimed over his shoulder. The camera angle shifts
to a full-face shot, in which we see him lean forward again.
# Stranger Than Paradise
-Just before the end of the scene where Eva is throwing away the dress, you can
see a shadow cast by someone stepping in front of the lights.
# Stripes
-During the part of the film where Harold Ramis stops Bill Murray from
deserting, there is a "goof". From one angle, while Murray is laying
on the ground with Ramis on top of him, Murray has his pack under
his head, while in another angle, it is to his side.
# Sudden Impact
-In the scene where Harry is practicing with his .44 AutoMag, and his partner
sneaks up in his car, we get to see the camera, dolly and operator
reflected in the car window just before the door opens.
# Super, The (1991)
-This movie is supposed to take place in the middle of winter, yet in a
scene where Joe Pesci's character confronts his father on the top of his
building it can be clearly seen that the Empire State Building in the
background is lit whith red, white, and blue lights -- this only happens
in July.
# Supercarrier (TV)
-Aircraft regularly change paint schemes (including serial numbers)
during flight.
# Supergirl
-The posters show her flying over New York City near the Statue of
Liberty... and the Statue is holding her torch up in her *left* hand.
# Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
-When the Statue of Liberty is thrown down on the street, we see it clearly
fitting easily between two high-rises, and it seems to be only three or
four stories high.
-Capes of both supermen ruffle when they are on the moon.
# Sure Thing, The
-As John Cusack prepares for his study date with Daphne Zuniga, he unzips
his pants and tucks his shirt in twice.
# Swarm, The
-Heh...there's a scene where one of the scientists, a woman and a man in a
wheelchair, who is supposedly paralyzed from the waist down, are discussing
what they are going to do. The man in the wheelchair
then moves on down the hall while the camera focuses on the scientist and
woman talking. If you look past them and down to the end of the hall you can
see the guy in the wheel chair look both ways and then *kick* the door open
with his foot so he can get through! Too funny...
# Tall Guy, The
-In a shower scene late in the movie the camera moves to an "above" shot;
Jeff Goldblum's shorts can be seen.
# Terminator 2: Judgment Day
-In the beginning of the Bike Chase scene: When Arnie turns out from the
garage and into the street, he gets followed by a red car which in turn
crashes into another car as a result of Arnie's hazardous left turn. The
red car is already wrecked BEFORE the collision.
-When the T-1000 flies the tow truck into the gulley, the windows pop
out as it hits the ground. Next scene: they're still in place.
-The Bike Chase: Sparks emerge from the truck BEFORE it scratches the wall.
-At the car park where Arnie and John have their little tete-a-tete, the
automatic pistol is cocked and uncocked alternatively.
-Sarah's Escape: When she knocks down the guard (or what ever) he bleeds
on the floor. Next time we see the floor, the blood's gone.
-When John tries to ease Sarah down because she nearly killed Dyson, his
watch shows different hours from 10:35 to 12.
-When Arnie takes the teargas gun it is half empty. When he steps outside to
fire it, magically it's full again.
-On their escape from Cyberdyne, the SWAT truck has its right backdoor open.
But all subsequent shots of the truck show its left back door open.
-The Truck Chase: When the SWAT truck tilts over on the bridge, its front
window is thrown out and smashed. When we see the N2-truck pass by, the
front window is almost intact and back in place.
-When Arnie is thrown from the Cryoco truck, you can CLEARLY see the matte.
-When a mental-hospital guard gets a cup of coffee from a vending
machine he looks at the playing cards illustrated on the cup. There
are two jacks and two aces on the outside of the cup. Seeing a queen
on the bottom of the cup the guard says, "Full House." However,
a Full House requires two of one kind and three of another.
-In the scene when Arnie has told to "Get off before I drop you." He walks
towards the proprietor of the bar. As he walks up the stairs towards the
man after snatching the gun he takes one hand off the gun. When they pan
out his hand is holding the gun again.
-The T1000 fires his rounds into Arnie's back (we even hear them
clank on his hyperalloy endoskeleton). Then they grapple while John
gets away. When the T1000 throws Arnie thru the storefront window,
the holes are gone, only to reappear later on. The scene was edited
into a different sequence that that which was intended when the shots
were filmed (so sez director James Cameron).
-In the steel mill -- notice that the vat of molten steel isn't
evenly illuminated. You can clearly see that it is made of sections
of translucent plastic sheets, darker on the edges and corners,
brighter in the centers.
-In the bar fight, one of the bokers stabs Arnie with what is clearly
a rubber knife.
# Terminator, The
-In the scene where Arnold goes to kill Sarah in her apartment (but
ends up killing her roommate), her roommate accidentally knocks the
phone off the table (you can see and hear this). Shortly after,
the phone rings.
-After Arnie says "I'll Be Back", the clerk looks up to see headlights coming at
him. When we see the front of the car, the headlights are OFF.
-Also in the scene inside the police station. A guy steps out of a
doorway to shoot at Arni and gets blown away. The camera is
positioned at the bottom of the floor at the foot of the dead cop.
Arni walks past and turns to the door on the left and blows some cops
away. Watch real close and you'll see the "dead" cop jump at the
noise of the gun.
# That Hamilton Woman
-Set in 1804, the film features the chimes of Big Ben... 50 years
before it was built.
# That Was Then...This Is Now
-At the end of the film, the protagonist (not Estevez) gets off a bus to visit
his girlfriend at work (behind the counter in a hospital cafe).
The shot looks out the hospital doors as the bus pulls up and
the protagonist climbs off. The buses marquee clearly reads
"Chartered".
# Thelma & Louise
- In the scene in the bar, Geena Davis's glass of coke is delivered full, she
picks it up and it is half empty. Then she puts in down, and it is 3/4 full
again. Also, she takes a large drink from her shot glass, and in the next shot
we see her sipping from a full glass.
- When Thelma shoots the 'air-holes' in the police car's trunk, she
does so at roughly a 45-degree angle. Later when we see a closeup of
the holes they are perfect circles, as though they were drilled
(or the gun was fired straight down at the trunk).
# Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
-The scene with the train: in the background, right in the center of some
shots, are those concrete towers typical of nuclear power stations...
# Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
-In the scene where they're hitchhiking, and the crazy guy with the rabbits in
the trunk picks them up, when the car crashes you can see one of the
rear wheels come off and roll away from the crash. They drive the car away
shortly thereafter...
# Time Bandits
-The scene where the bandits are trapped in the cage
by "Evil" over what appears to be a bottomless chasm. They make their
escape by cutting small strips of rope off of the support rope and
makeing a long rope from the fragments. Then, one of the bandits is
lowered out of the cage and is swung up to the next cage. During the
scene where they are trying to get the swing high enough for the
guy on the end of the rope to grab ahold of the other cage, you can
easily see the floor of whatever set they are on. The bandit appears
to be only a few feet off the floor. Oops...
# Top Gun (1986)
-At the beginning, an officer comes in and says Good morning, which means
Maverick meets the MiG in the morning. However, at the end of the fight,
they trap at the carrier and it is NIGHT! Gee, must have been about a
12 hour fight.
-At the beginning, Stinger (the bald guy from Back to the Future, James Tolkan)
has a slew of ribbons on his chest that disappear, reappear then disappear.
-The armament of the F-14s change in midair a lot of times during the movie.
-When Merlin says, "we're running low on gas", he taps the fuel guage. Unfor-
tunately, the fuel guage tapped is in the front cockpit, and Merlin is in the
REAR.
-Near the beginning of the film, when Maverick is going to land on the
carrier, but then decides to go rescue Cougar, who has been shaken up
by the Migs, his tail hook has been lowered for the carrier approach.
As he decides to abort the landing, his tailhook has been retracted!
(This was obviously to prevent the F-14 from inadvertantly catching
a wire as it did a touch and go on the carrier deck)
-When Charlie is giving Maverick a pep talk in the airport bar, Maverick's
ice water gets more ice in it as the scene progresses!!
-When Maverick (as Alert5 aircraft) is launched to help Iceman in the
climatic battle near the end of the movie, he is more than 110 miles from
Iceman. Once he goes supersonic, he says "Maverics supersonic, I'll be
there in 30 seconds." Well, supersonic is about 730 mph, so it would take
the airplane at least 9 minutes to go 110 miles!!! Even at the F-14's
maximum speed (around Mach 2), it would still take 4 1/2 minutes!!!
-When Iceman is shot at, he gets hit near the cockpit, yet the engine catches
fire and they say they were hit in the right engine.
-At the end of the movie when maverick lands on the deck after shooting
down all the baddies, Slider(iceman's partner) picks maverick up sort of
bear hug style. Well before he picks him up maverick doesn't have his
sunglasses on, but when he has been lifted up they have magically
appeared on his face! If you don't believe me check it out!!
# Total Recall
-In the 'elevator' scene, Richter and his men are running to the elevator...
past a blue screen.
-Just after Arnie has killed his first four he goes back to his apartment and
talks to his wife. He places boths hands on either side of her head and
pretty much immediately afterwards he shows her his blood covered hands.
She doesn't of course have any blood on her face! (NB. This may not be
a goof, but a clue to show that Arnie is only dreaming. That's the
continuity man's story anyway...)
-Doug has the hologram when inside the alien nuclear reactor, and a bunch of bad
guys encircle the holographic image and fire upon it at point blank with
automatic weapons- and guess what- not one bad guy gets hit! If they encircled
the 3D image, at least a few bad guys would have been hit by their own men.
-In the last scene in the movie, Arnie and his Dream Girl are kissing, the
camera pulls back to show the Martian landscape... except for the lop left
hand side of the screen where the clips holding the back projection screen
are visible (may not be visible if the projector is not lined up right).
-guns magically appear to be either close-range blunderbuss weapons or highly
accurate longer-ranged weapons, whichever is needed
-incredible speed and windlessness of the re-atmosphering of the entire planet
# Town That Dreaded Sundown, The
-Near the end of the movie, during the climactic chase, on foot,
the killer manages to run in front of a freight train and put
it between himself and his pursurers. A long shot shows train
and characters running and then close shots from the train show
the characters running along side. In the long shot, the
camera used in the close shots (and the camera man) can be seen
on a flatcar.
# Tremors
-As the camera is panning up the side of Michael Gross' and Reba McEntire's
"fortress", it goes past a window. In the window you can make out a
reflection of some guy standing on the ground nearby wearing a red hat
and white shorts. Due to the nature of the plot at this point, it is safe
to say that he *ISN'T* supposed to be there.
-(Near the end of the movie) As one of the brave men makes a run for it,
you can see the ground beneath his feet WOBBLE as if he had run across a
ditch covered by a piece of plywood. Oops, now we know how they did the
mechanical effects for the underground monsters :-)
# True Stories
-David Byrne is cruising around in his jumbo red convertible. His rearview
mirror is present in the interior shots but removed for shots through
the windshield. Very common in movie scenes where a car is driven.
# Twins
-During a conversation between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny
DeVito in a bar restroom, a bottle of beer shifts from one
towel dispensor to another.
# Two Jakes, The
-Although the film is set in 1948, Jack Nicholson strolls past
an automatic teller machine.
# Untouchables, The
-When Sean Connery is talking to Kevin Costner in his (Connery's)
room, Connery's shirt collar alternates between being buttoned and
and unbuttoned in the several shots of that scene.
-When the knife-man is sneaking into Sean Connery's apartment, there is a POV
shot as the camera approaches a window. The camera and cameraman are clearly
reflected in the window. (He is wearing a white shirt and a red cap, as I
recall.)
# Viking Queen, The
-One of the characters in this 1st Century AD epic is clearly wearing a
wristwatch.
# Wall Street
-As the movie opens, it tells us that it is set in 1985. A few minutes
later, Charlie Sheen's coworker makes a remark about how bad the stock
market was after the Challenger blew up. The Challenger disaster was in
1986.
-BOOM MIKE there's a scene where Michael Douglas is walking around
in Charlie Sheen's apartment giving a speech to Martin Sheen.
It's dark outside, and the boom mike is clearly visible in the window
following him around.
# WarGames
-The General yells "Send out the F-15's", and footage shows F-16's
taking off.
# Water
-Near the end of movie : When Ms. Baxter speaks to her husband by megaphone her
voice sounds equally amplified albeit the distance between mouth and
microphone ranges from 10 to 60 cm.
# Weekend at Bernie's
-In one of the scenes where the two guys are trying to deal with Bernie's
corpse inside his house, Jonathan Silverman is alternately barefooted and
wearing shoes every 2 seconds, as we switch from medium to long shot.
Fire that continuity person!
# When Harry Met Sally...
-When leaving from the Univ. of Chicago to drive to NYC at the beginning
of the movie, the Chicago skyline is shown. The Univ. of Chicago is
South of downtown Chicago, and the way to leave for NYC is South/Southeast.
(unless you want to drive through Wisconsin and Upper Michigan:-)
-Harry says "I'll open the window" and does so immediately. The next shot shows
the outside of the car and the window is closed. The next shot is inside the
car and he spits grape seeds out the window directly at the camera!
# White Men Can't Jump
-When Woody comes home after loosing the $1,700, watch his girlfriend's
bottle of Vodka. The label is facing to the left, then they show a
back view, and then a back to front view where it is facing right, and
later it switches back to the left.
# Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- In one scene, Judge Doom is walking towards Eddie Valiant, and we can see
that there are some ping-pong balls in front of him. In the reverse angle
shot, the balls have disappeared.
- After Eddie Valiant's first visit to Maroon's office, he leaves the
studio lot and walks across the street. The camera pans down and back,
revealing the reflection of an assistant director in the trolley car window.
# Witches of Eastwick, The
-Watch carefully near the end of the movie when Susan Sarandon falls
off the balcony. Just before she hits the floor you can see the
wires holding her up.
# Wizard of Oz, The
-In the wonderful dance scene where Dorothy meets the Scarecrow,
you will notice her hair length change quite a few times.
-The wire holding the Lion's tale is visible during his solo
"If I Were King of the Forest".
-After the "Off to See the Wizard" song, when Dorothy waves goodbye
to all the munchkins, look behind her at the yellow brick broad stretching
off into the distance. This scene is obviously painted on a wall; you
can see a line where the wall meets the floor.
-As they prepare to skip down the road in the closing shot, look
in the woods in the far background. You can see a person scrouching
down, possibly a camera man. He can be seen twice clearly.
-When the Wicked Witch leaves MunchkinLand, you can see the trap door
she does in to.
# Working Girl
-Once scene has Melanie Griffith stepping off a bus wearing panty-hose. In a
subsequent scene, they have changed color.
# Wrong Box, The
-The Victorian-age London houses have TV antennae on them.
# Xanadu
-An early scene in the movie has Gene Kelly at the beach sitting
on a rock, playing his clarinet, as the sun rises over the
(Pacific) ocean. (No, it wasn't Australia.)
# Yankee Doodle Dandy
-BOOM MIKE: A classic "boom shot" sequence occurs in the middle of
"Yankee Doodle Dandy". George M. Cohan (James Cagney) is walking
along a street scene, having a converstion. The camera is following
him, when the shadow of the boom assembly sweeps across the shot.
# Young Guns (1988)
-Twice in the film, one character calls another a "geek." (I can't remember
who the offenders were) "Geek" was a word back then, I believe, but it was
used as a term for a side-show freak, not a general insult.
# Zulu
-In this reenactment of the 1879 stand at Rorke's Drift, several of the
Zulu warriors are wearing the wrist watches the extras had been paid with.
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