LOL. Nice.

A 90 page slideshow? I don't think so.

Some of those aren't really "blunders." They're creative decisions. A camera crew spotted in the background is a blunder. One church being used in place of another a few miles away is a conscious decision by the location manager. Same thing applies to some of the historical inaccuracies. In some cases it was lack of research, but in others it was a decision in favor of a better story.

Two Dogs Farking: Here's the direct link to teh funnay (poops)

Damn you beat me to it.

And some of those "blunders" fall into the category of Who Really Gives A Fark. In one, for example, a priest in 1846 recites a prayer that in real life wasn't written until 1888. So? If reciting that particular prayer at that point in the movie makes dramatic sense, who cares when the real-life prayer was written? And who the fark watches movies closely enough, or cares enough, to track these type of "blunders"?

/Pssst: None of the other words coming out of the characters' mouths were written in 1846, either.

emilyblake: Some of those aren't really "blunders." They're creative decisions. A camera crew spotted in the background is a blunder. One church being used in place of another a few miles away is a conscious decision by the location manager. Same thing applies to some of the historical inaccuracies. In some cases it was lack of research, but in others it was a decision in favor of a better story.

Well said. Some of these are not really "mistakes" for example: "When Ennis (Heath Ledger) dances with Cassie for the first time, in a scene set in the late 1970s, they're dancing to a Steve Earle song that wasn't recorded until 1988." At worst that's an anachronism. More likely, someone was like, hey use this song it works in the scene. Someone else said, yeah but that song didn't come out until '88. And someone else said, well if it works in the scene I don't give a fark, because it's a frickin' fictionally story so who cares.

"Airport"
1970 Best Picture Nominee

At one point you see an attendant vacuuming the floor. You can tell he's faking it because the vacuum bag is not inflated.

And that's when I stormed out of the theater and demanded my money back.

And no mention of "Babe"?! 'Cause when that pig talked.... I mean, come awn! A pig that talks?! No. WAY.

Etchy333: "Ghost"
1990 Best Picture Nominee

Sam's dead, right? He's a ghost, correct? So how come he casts a shadow?

Suspension of disbelief, have you heard of it?

Yeah, I saw that, that does seem like quite the stretch. I mean, they do realize that they used a human actor to portray the ghost, not a ghost actor, right?

Blunders? Not really. Some, sure. But come on.

Ever seen Free Willy? Wasn't Portland (Oregon) right by the ocean in that movie? Ooopsie...Who blew that one?

The end credits refer to the "State of Massachusetts." Massachusetts is a commonwealth, not a state.

So wait, we don't have 50 "States"?

{b]20 of 90 :
"Braveheart"
1995 Best Picture

Mel Gibson.{/b]

Mel Gibson is the blunder in Braveheart.

24 of 90 :
"Schindler's List"
1993 Best Picture

There was no "Holocaust"

As submitted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

brap you magnificent barstad.
I came err spewed err ah hell I blew snot out my nose.

87 is interesting, but I wonder why 55 was mentioned. Also 23 and 37 are the same blunder, pretty much.

/drtfa

ZeroKool: Etchy333: "Ghost"
1990 Best Picture Nominee

Sam's dead, right? He's a ghost, correct? So how come he casts a shadow?

Suspension of disbelief, have you heard of it?

Yeah, I saw that, that does seem like quite the stretch. I mean, they do realize that they used a human actor to portray the ghost, not a ghost actor, right?

Not to mention that they're treating ghosts as if there are predictable and concrete scientific principles associated with them. It's like saying "ummmm leprechauns don't wear read, idiot!"

s/read/red/;

59 of 90 :
"Star Wars"
1977 Best Picture Nominee

During a scene in which Luke and Han are fighting storm troopers, you can see makeup smeared on the colar of the uniform Han is wearing.

Pictured: Mark Hammill, Carrie Fischer (AP)


SHOW THE ACTUAL PICTURE THEN

REPEAT

What I want to know is who the fark got paid to cruise IMDB for this.

Real fark ups are when you can see crew and camera or something like that, not when a 1964 car appears in a 1962 scene.

States can also be commonwealths, Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania are also commonwealths. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth as well, but making it a state would be too much trouble.

Stupid. They don't even show the pictures to the cooresponding 'mistake'. Instead they show random pictures related to the movie.

How do I know they ain't making this stuff up?

srhp29: The end credits refer to the "State of Massachusetts." Massachusetts is a commonwealth, not a state.

So wait, we don't have 50 "States"?

Nope, 46.

/Cartographer

Also, you'd think after going to the effort to determine what year a dime had FDR on it, they'd put in photos relevant to the goofs.

State of Massachusetts." Massachusetts is a commonwealth, not a state.

huh?

You know what the biggest movie making blunder is? An industry where a 1990s bottle of cognac in a 1930s office is called a blunder.

Seriously, write a decent movie and then maybe people won't sit around looking for bullshiat little things like those.

Did any one notice that the mojority of the films listed were from at least 20 years ago? Maybe that's because back then they didn't have the technology to easily fix these common production mistakes in post. I edit TV commercials for a living and we fix production company's screwups all the time. It does dissapoint me when I see all the stuff on TV that gets by the numerous people that check for these mistakes before they air, though. As for the content that isn't accurate, who gives a crap...like the majority of people are experts on what year-model car is in the film? It is kind of cool when some of these things are intentionally left in a movie; they're called easter eggs, right?

*majority

/dang!

tamarah: State of Massachusetts." Massachusetts is a commonwealth, not a state.

huh?

Also KY, VA & PA I demand 46 stripes on the flag

Ahhhh.... nitpickers.
Is there anything they *can't* do?

That list sure had a problem with movies showing cars that were made 2 or 3 years before the movie took place. Those were listed at least 10 times.

Those were lame and very nit-picky (at least for me).

I thought The Departed was a horribly edited movie. I don't ever try to find "goofs" in movies, and rarely ever spot them. However during the first time watching that flick, I noticed problems throughout the whole thing.

It was bad.

mobombhead: Real fark ups are when you can see crew and camera or something like that, not when a 1964 car appears in a 1962 scene.

I was hoping it would be a list of plot holes or logic mistakes. Like those armcuff things that Han Solo had on when he got frozen, and were gone when he melted.

mobombhead: Real fark ups are when you can see crew and camera or something like that, not when a 1964 car appears in a 1962 scene.

If the movie is supposed to be realistic, then a car that shows up in an era before it actually existed is a legitimate mistake. They are minor mistakes that most of us never catch, but they are mistakes nonetheless. If you were watching a WWII drama, and the characters were flying stealth bombers and dancing the Macarena, everyone would recognize them as obvious mistakes.

TFA: Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) says his father removed him from his home on Saturday, Jan. 21, 1965. Jan. 21, 1965 was a Thursday.

Heh. That's more like it.

Do people keep forgetting that film makers shoot their films OUT OF ORDER?
That's right. The vast majority of films you see (with a few exceptions, of course... just can't think of them right now)
have their scenes/parts shot/filmed (and even parts within the same scene) days, weeks, sometimes months apart.
So obviously there's going to be differences/discrepancies in:
- the amount of liquid in a glass
- the amount of food on a plate
- the length of the cigarrette being smoked
- makeup and/or fake blood discrepancies
- prop/furniture placement
- time related product/clothing/setting/location details (not enough time spent on date/era researching)

etc. etc.

brap: This gaffe in Flags of Our Fathers was COMPLETELY unnacceptable.

You owe me a new keyboard. :)

"You slip me a bottle of bourbon, a little glass, and some ice. You can do that, can't you Lloyd? You're not too busy, are ya?"

balthan
"You slip me a bottle of bourbon, a little glass, and some ice. You can do that, can't you Lloyd? You're not too busy, are ya?"

"But you've always been here, Mr. Torrance"

/one of my favourite movies.