The great movie mistakes thread

[scottcsmith]

If you're a movie buff, chances are you've seen things in movies that the director didn't want anyone to see: the reflection of a crew member, a shot of a boom mic, visible wires on a character that's supposed to be flying through the air. The challenge is to come up with movie mistakes without resorting to information that is already available elsewhere. So, fire up those DVD players! I'll start things off with a movie I watched last night, The Fly II, with Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga, as well as an old favorite.

The Fly II
Revealing mistake:
Towards the end, when Martin has become the giant Fly, there is a scene of the fly tossing a dead scientist towards a security guard. The wires are visible when the scientist goes flying.

The Terminator
Continuity:
The Terminator looks for the name "Sarah Connor" in a phone book. He finds it and notes the address. When he arrives at the home, it has a different address than the address listed in the phone book.

[DrWeird]

1. Star Wars

Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star and flies back to the Rebel base.

He climbs out of the cockpit, Princess Leia rushes to greet him, shouting, "Luke!"

Luke replies: "Carrie!"



There's a couple of other bloopers, like a stormtrooper hitting his head on a doorway.

[Twillig]

2. In Excalibur

One of the extras in a suit of armor during the seige of Captain Picard's castle ( :) ) has a cigarette dangling out the mouth hole of his visor.

[Kahuna]

3. I have two.. "In Name Only" with Cary Grant.." At the hotel..

when the bellhop lets him the room, the door number is, 1522. The next time the door is shown it's number 1524.

In City Lights with Charlie Chaplin.. When Charlie drives the blind girl home she is wearing black tights. When she is walking up the steps to her apt. she is wearing flesh colored hosiery. When she walks thru the door, the tights are black again. :wtf:

Don't let me get started on the old Tarzan movies. You can see the trapezes where Tarzan is supposed to be swinging from vines.

[NightTrain]

4. Rocky Horror Picture Show

Frank-N-Furter's tattoo magically washes off during the swimming-pool scene.

[Something Blue]

5. One way streets in "The Graduate"

This doesn't count as a blooper, since it was intentionally filmed this way, but it's the only one I've seen without reading about somewhere first.

In The Graduate, when Dustin Hoffman drives up tp Berkeley, he's coming from the South. As he drives across the Bay into Berkeley from San Francisco, he's on the top deck of the Bay Bridge. Problem is the top deck traffic runs the other way - he would have been on the bottom deck.

Later, Elaine gets on a bus at the main gate of UC Berkeley and D.H. chases the bus on foot as it speeds off down Telegraph Avenue - unfortunately that part of Telegraph is one way heading toward the University!

[drumwolf]

16. why would it have been deliberate?

[Something Blue]

17. Well...

In the first case, it was an aerial shot of him driving over the bridge. You couldn't get that shot if he was on the lower deck.

In the second, IIRC he was talking to her on the UC campus and then she bolted and jumped on the bus going away from the U. Telegraph's a very photogenic street, and using this way plotwise meant reversing traffic.

In both cases it must have been a nightmare to shoot, especially shutting down the Bay Bridge in the daytime!

[jmowreader]

6. Die Hard

Well, besides the fact they cast a star who can't act.

Bruce Willis' wife was listed in the computerized directory as "Holly Gennaro" before he tapped on her name, and "Holly Gennero" after.

[NightTrain]

8. Die Hard 2.

It's supposed to take place in Washington, D.C., but the payphone Bruce Willis uses clearly says, PACIFIC BELL.

[jmowreader]

14. Let's not forget...

that when the terra-ists took over the airport, no one thought to call one of the fifty or so airports in the DC area to have them take the traffic stacked up over Dulles.

[Bertha Venation]

7. I guess the worst line in movie history doesn't count, but

I'm offering it anyway.

"I am not steak. You can't just order me." Hideous line from a hilarious movie: "Working Girl."

OTOH, we have the fabulous Joan Cusack: "Sometimes I sing & dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will."

[maveric]

9. "The Babe Ruth Story" with William Bendix.

What a sappy POS that one was. It shows the Babe as a gentle humanitarian that takes a dog that was hurt by one of his hits to the animal hospital. Just a terrible portrayal of the Babe. :puke:

[slksln]

10. Jaws

When the chick climbs out of the water into the boat with dry hair...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Ivanhoe.... when Tony Curtis as the knight says...

Yander, is da castle uff my fadder.

Instead of
Yonder is the castle of my father


Unless it was supposed to be set in Bensonhurst?

[pagerbear]

12. Prince of Tides

In one scene Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte are talking in the street, and an extra walks by. A moment later the same extra walks by in the same direction!

[Mr. Blonde]

13. A few

Desperado: When El Mariachi is on the bar facing off with a guy and they are both out of bullets, we see him put down his gun. It then switches to his perspective and his gun is still up.

The Girl Next Door: When Matthew is running next to Danielle's car the windown is down, when he opens the door it is up.

When Danielle runs into the principal's backyard she disappears into the dark. She then reappears in the exact spot she disappeared from when Matthew calls her name.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Ooops... forgot one No Way Out with Kevin Costner

an otherwise pretty good yarn...

The goons chase him into the Washington Metro on the Red Line and he comes out in Baltimore...


That one puzzled me.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. In The Heartbreak Kid

(which was filmed in Minneapolis and is supposed to take place there), Charles Grodin and Cybil Shepherd sneak away to Cybil's family's "cabin in the mountains" for a couple of hours.

The only problem is that the nearest geological objects that could ever be described as mountains (the Ozarks, the Black Hills) would each at least a day to reach, one way.

Also, the actress playing Cybil's mother says, "As I was reading in the Minneapolis Star this morning..."

The Star, which no longer exists as an independent publication, was an evening paper.

However, the Knollway Motel really existed and really looked like that.

[Deja Q]

19. Heh

Though I can easily find 30 per TNG Trek movie and 5 per Kirk-era movie, I'll heavily curtail my lust (I'm fatigued right now...):


First Contact: Ruby shoots Picard as she hands him the phaser. It can easily be seen on the DVD, so on a gigantic 30' wide screen it's got to be even more visible.


Nemesis WAS a mistake.