Movie Mistakes

[CebuShan]

While watching a movie, have you ever noticed something that slipped past continuity? Share it here!   There are 3 that I can think of off the top of my head: 1) In "Die Hard 2" John McClane is at Dulles airport. He goes to use a pay phone & the label on the phone says Pacific Bell!   2) In "Cannonball Run" Adrian Barbeau's character has been pulled over by the police. At first her top is zipped, then it's unzipped, then it's zipped again. Yet they never show her performing these actions.     3) In "Donovan's Reef" When Amelia arrives at the island, Donovan tries to help her off the ship & they both fall in the water. They climb into a waiting Catamaran. While Amelia was on the ship, she took off her shoes and she was wearing stockings. But when she climbed into the Catamaran, her stockings were gone!         

[mcclane]

in commando, there is a scene with a porsche, and it is being driven at night.  On one scene, the side is all banged up, but in another scene, the same side barely has a scratch.

[Desert Dancer]

Oh, there's a HUGE continuity error in 'Lord of the Rings'! The Ring - the main character - is worn on a chain around Frodo's neck. But... sometimes it's long, sometimes it's short. Then long. Then short.

This isn't so much a continuity error as it is a 'gotcha' kind of thing: In 'Contact' Jodie Foster's character tells Matthew McConaughey she was 9 years old when her father died. But later, when John Hurt is reciting a timeline of her own life back to her, he mentions her birth date and then the date her father died. But the dates would have made her 10 years old, not nine.

I'll probably think of a thousand others.

[texasstyle]

check out all the mistakes in Titanic  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/goofs

[mcclane]

Empire Strikes Back.  In one scene, Darth Vader uses the force to choke to death one of his officers.  As the camera is panning, you can see that same officer being carried off by 2 other officers, however, the officer that was choked to death by Darth is actually getting up on his own !

[kristina]

I love mistakes and little mishaps in films !

Whenever I notice another mistake and/or mishap,
I realize how difficult it must be
to direct a film without any mishaps...
after all, we are all human beings
and perfection exists only in our imagination...

[Willis]

Maybe only military veterans would consider this worthy of mention...but I was watching an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" last night. In one scene Ensign Kim was addressing Lieutenant Commander Tuvok. As Ensign Kim was departing, he said to Tuvok, "Yes, Lieutenant!" in response to his orders. Bad ensign! By protocol, a Lt Cmdr would always be called "Commander" by title or perhaps "Mister Tuvok" (in Navy lingo). NEVER would a Lt Cmdr be called "Lieutenant."

 

[CebuShan]

My husband & I were watching a fairly new movie called "The Grace Card". It was a great movie but we both noticed what we thought was a mistake. I asked my neph & he agrees that it IS a mistake. There is a scene where a person has been shot. He has emergency surgery & they find out that he only had 1 functioning kidney & it was destroyed by the shot. So no kidney function at all. The dr explains that he needs a transplant. There is no mention of dialysis & when we see the guy in the hosp he doesn't even have a catheter! My neph said that as soon as they discovered no kidney function they would have put one in.

[Desert Dancer]

My husband & I were watching a fairly new movie called "The Grace Card". It was a great movie but we both noticed what we thought was a mistake. I asked my neph & he agrees that it IS a mistake. There is a scene where a person has been shot. He has emergency surgery & they find out that he only had 1 functioning kidney & it was destroyed by the shot. So no kidney function at all. The dr explains that he needs a transplant. There is no mention of dialysis & when we see the guy in the hosp he doesn't even have a catheter! My neph said that as soon as they discovered no kidney function they would have put one in.

Don't even get me started on 'Steel Magnolias'. Yeah, it may look like Shelby's been driving nails up her arms, but just how is she doing that without a fistula or graft, hmm? And... a tx patient who keeps her mouth shut about what may be a rejection episode? Not to mention the whole 'completely rejected and in a coma one hour later' bit.

[Willis]

My husband & I were watching a fairly new movie called "The Grace Card". It was a great movie but we both noticed what we thought was a mistake. I asked my neph & he agrees that it IS a mistake. There is a scene where a person has been shot. He has emergency surgery & they find out that he only had 1 functioning kidney & it was destroyed by the shot. So no kidney function at all. The dr explains that he needs a transplant. There is no mention of dialysis & when we see the guy in the hosp he doesn't even have a catheter! My neph said that as soon as they discovered no kidney function they would have put one in.

Hawaii 5-0 (the new one) had an episode almost exactly like that recently! 

 

[kristina]

My absolute favourite “movie mistake” happens in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959)
when (~ 1hr 40 min. into the film) Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) gets a gun out of her handbag,
but before she shoots, a boy in the background is seen to have already his hands firmly over his ears.
This little boy obviously has already heard the whole kerfuffle too often and has become a bit tired of the noise. 
 

[RightSide]

Richard Donner finally managed to release the "Donner cut" of the movie "Superman II," showing it the way he had originally intended it before Lester replaced him as director due to soaring costs.  But the fact that some scenes were filmed by Donner and some other scenes filmed by Lester caused major continuity problems, as each director had to put together a coherent film out of pieces of both sets of scenes.

In Lester's version, after Clark Kent is beaten up, he says "He knew."  That was supposed to be a reference to his dad Jor-El warning him.  But those scenes had been cut due to cost considerations.

Lester had filmed Superman replying to Zod's insults, "Somehow I just can't hear you", after which Zod shouts, "Then die as you deserve to!"  In the Donner cut, Zod's insults and Superman's reply are omitted, and Zod seems to shout "Then die as you deserve to" without any prompting.

At the end of the Donner cut, Superman goes back in time  to erase the past.  But then Clark Kent goes back for a rematch in the bar as if that bar fight still happens.