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gopher321

2011-11-01 09:52:57 AM

List fails without Brando's Rolex in 'Superman'.

Flint Ironstag

2011-11-01 09:56:00 AM

The really surprising thing is, given how complicated the process of making a movie is, that there are not many many more mistakes.

How about I follow you around at your job for six months and then at the end list every tiny mistake you made?

ArkAngel

2011-11-01 09:57:18 AM

It's not an engine, it's an air gun used to flip it.

And for a better collection of mistakes, go here

Link (new window)

I'm a contributor

calbert

2011-11-01 10:08:27 AM

those aren't even the worst mistakes of the respective movies.

somebody just went to moviemistakes and clicked 'random'.

dumb list.

Sybarite

2011-11-01 10:36:13 AM

The 15 Worst Movie Mistakes in History

And yet no mention of The Last Airbender.

FlashHarry

2011-11-01 11:07:46 AM

i was always bugged by connery's collar in "the untouchables." it goes from shot to shot buttoned and unbuttoned.

Quasar

2011-11-01 11:33:32 AM

I think it's very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance.

rickythepenguin

2011-11-01 11:38:52 AM

I'm not sure who "invented" the whole "the parsec is unit of distance, not time" thingie, but my college Astronomy professor (Chris Impey) had a blurb about that fact in his course textbook, which I took in the late 90s.

just saying.

IrateShadow

2011-11-01 11:39:25 AM

That Gladiator one bugs the shiat out of me every time I see the movie.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

2011-11-01 11:42:45 AM

No, the "worst movie mistake" in history is that no one is actually around to hear Charles Foster Kane's last word.

brigid_fitch

2011-11-01 11:44:03 AM

I think the cobra's reflection in the glass in the first Indiana Jones movie is worse than him appearing dry on the plane. I never noticed that one but caught the snake the first time I saw it.

And there are 2 in Star Wars that they don't mention & weren't even fixed for the re-release: There's the now-famous stormtrooper hitting his head on the door and then the re-appearing R5-D4 at the Jawa's sandcrawler. Uncle Owen picks the R5-D4 out of the lineup instead of R2-D2 but it blows a gasket. C3PO suggests Luke by R2 and, when the camera cuts back to him in line, the R5 unit is back next to R2.

scottydoesntknow

2011-11-01 11:45:18 AM

Horrible list, they didn't even include the flasher from Teen Wolf.

ThatBillmanGuy

2011-11-01 11:51:32 AM

Sybarite: The 15 Worst Movie Mistakes in History

And yet no mention of The Last Airbender.

Or Transformers...

/went to RiffTrax live also..

Disposable Rob

2011-11-01 11:52:03 AM

My favorite is the ambulance that magically appeared in a previously empty truck in Die Hard.

thamike

2011-11-01 11:52:18 AM

What, no 19th century digital watch in "Glory?'

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colimar

2011-11-01 11:52:48 AM

Oh noes theres one guy from the future pirates of the caribbean sucks arrest everyone i want my money back. Terrible list.

One mistake i think everyone is ok with was on the godfather where we see sonnys car destroyed at the house before he is killed. Another one in godfather 2 in cuba where something like a jigsaw piece appears in the screen like it got stuck inside the camera

Superjew

2011-11-01 11:53:42 AM

If "actor falls in water then is dry in next scene" is truly one of the top 15 movie mistakes, then there must have only been 15 movies ever made.

WingTipMikey

2011-11-01 11:54:18 AM

I read the headline and thought that subby was talking about 'Mel Brooks' History of the World pt. 1'.

flaminio

2011-11-01 11:56:47 AM

Superjew: If "actor falls in water then is dry in next scene" is truly one of the top 15 movie mistakes, then there must have only been 15 movies ever made.

At least in Indy's case he was hanging on a plane in the process of taking off. The flow of hot air over his clothes could dry him out fairly quickly.

Contrast with Michael Caine climbing out of the ocean in Jaws IV. He's dry before he gets to the top of the ladder.

th0th

2011-11-01 11:57:06 AM

They missed the one where Return of the King ended after the Fellowship arrived back in Rivendell and no one told Peter Jackson who then proceeded to have 23 more endings.

mayIFark

2011-11-01 11:59:25 AM

And yet no one posted the picture of Brad Pitt standing on a mountain top in "Troy" and a plane in the sky behind him.

Kome

2011-11-01 11:59:55 AM

Yay, let's be nit-picky!

The Birdcage - Williams drinks a full glass of wine upon hearing his son is getting married, and in the next shot it's full again as he gets up to refill it.

Ace Venture: When Nature Calls - the bad guy is playing chess and the pieces disappear and reappear throughout some shots as Carey is ranting at him.

Dr. Speed

2011-11-01 12:00:00 PM

Movie Mistakes?

GacysBasement

2011-11-01 12:01:21 PM

i used to work in a movie theater and made a point to check out part of a movie called ' The Seduction' with Morgan Fairchild because she was naked. So i watch the scene where she gets into her car in this dark blue dress, we follow her home, she pulls up to her house, gets out but somehow has changed to a pink dress during the ride--which she ultimately takes off. Terrible film but great breasts.

SFSailor

2011-11-01 12:02:25 PM

Flint Ironstag: The really surprising thing is, given how complicated the process of making a movie is, that there are not many many more mistakes.

Funny... I have exactly the opposite opinion: The surprising thing is, given how complicated the process of making a movie is -- including so many people and SO much money -- that any mistakes ever make it to screen. Every single person who saw their movie before it was released and -didn't- see the mistake should be ashamed of themselves.

I'm similarly appalled when I find a typo or terrible punctuation / grammar mistake in a published book.

That said, I imagine going through the world with your perspective leads to a much happier existence than dealing with mine -- I'm jealous!

Dr. Speed

2011-11-01 12:02:35 PM

Movie Mistakes?

FooDog

2011-11-01 12:02:42 PM

There are a lot of contenders missing from that list. In fact, there is an entire website dedicated to this: www.slipups.com

Born to Die

2011-11-01 12:03:10 PM

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: No, the "worst movie mistake" in history is that no one is actually around to hear Charles Foster Kane's last word.

Maybe the nurse heard it through the door, but didn't actually enter the room until he dropped the snowglobe? Or more likely, Wells did it on purpose: as the audience is privy to Kane's last word in the opening scene, so is the audience privy to the identity of Rosebud in the final scene.

StrangeQ

2011-11-01 12:05:01 PM

I noticed one watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas this weekend. In the scene where Thompson is walking through the lounge blazed on acid he lights his broken cigarette on a random patron's lighter. Then when he's sitting at the bar you see him first smoking the broken cigarette, then the broken tip has burnt off and he smoking it normally, then he's smoking the broken one again. Don't know why I noticed it...might have been my state that was more in tune with the movie at the time.

Dr. Speed

2011-11-01 12:05:04 PM

Movie Mistakes?

Angry Buddha

2011-11-01 12:06:53 PM

ArkAngel: It's not an engine, it's an air gun used to flip it.

And for a better collection of mistakes, go here

Link (new window)

I'm a contributor

Also in Raiders, when the supply truck flips over in the market scene, you can see the telephone pole piston they used to flip it sticking out of the bottom.

canyoneer

2011-11-01 12:07:05 PM

Carefully watch many westerns from the 50's and you'll see contrails and powerlines in the background.

thamike

2011-11-01 12:07:18 PM

Disposable Rob: My favorite is the ambulance that magically appeared in a previously empty truck in Die Hard.

I could never tell if (the allegedly German) Karl really needed an English translation of "shoot the glass" or if Gudonov was just f*cking with Rickman for using grammatically incorrect German.

Dr. Speed

2011-11-01 12:13:08 PM

Movie Mistakes?

dittybopper

2011-11-01 12:16:13 PM

Of all the anachronisms in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", they pick the Thailand/Siam one? What about all the equipment shown that didn't exist in 1936, when the movie takes place:

1. MP-40 submachine guns carried by the Germans (invented in 1940)
2. Panzerfaust wielded by Indy (1942 - actually was an RPG-2, invented in 1949)
3. Type VII (B or C) U-boat (1938 for B, 1940 for the C shown in the film)
4. Flying Wing aircraft (First experimental powered Horten built in 1937)
5. Walther P-38 (1938)

KingPsyz

2011-11-01 12:16:25 PM

So not a single mention of the movie Comando?

instafail

Sybarite

2011-11-01 12:24:35 PM

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: No, the "worst movie mistake" in history is that no one is actually around to hear Charles Foster Kane's last word.

Raymond, the butler heard it. It's a common misconception that no one was in the room when Kane spoke his dying word(s), "Rosebud"...but the script itself contradicts this idea. At the end of the film, when "News on the March" reporter Mr. Thompson (William Alland) asks Raymond (Paul Stewart) about the meaning of the term "Rosebud," Raymond states that he heard Kane say "Rosebud" just after his second wife left Xanadu...and, he adds, "that other time, too." We never *see* Raymond in the room during the opening scene of the film when Kane dies, but the dialogue demands (as does logic) that *someone* heard Kane's final words, and Raymond appears to have been that critical witness -- "that other time, too" seems to be a reference to Kane's final moment alive.

Jake Havechek

2011-11-01 12:24:50 PM

In Braveheart, all the Scots are running around in belted kilts, which did not come into fashion until the 16th century.

child_god

2011-11-01 12:30:54 PM

I remember in Matrix Reloaded, during the super expensive Highway Chase scene, an agent jumps on the hood of a car which causes it to flip over and reveal no engine or transmission in the damn car.

Completely took me out of the fantasy and made me aware that I'm watching a movie. WHY DIDNT THEY DIGITALLY ADD ONE? I can handle ghost programs, key makers, devil machines, but a car with no transmission? NO WAY.

And in Matrix Revolutions, during the last battle IN THE RAIN, Smith goes inside a building and SHAKES DUST OFF. I mean, c'mon!

master_of_rayality

2011-11-01 12:36:14 PM

I always remember in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" that in the scene where Pee Wee is pulling out the loooooong chain for his bike out of one of the side holders, you can see the chain being feed through the bottom.

But yeah, this list is *far* from the biggest mistakes.

FlashHarry

2011-11-01 12:39:06 PM

no car driving through sherwood forest during the classic errol flynn's robin hood?

canyoneer

2011-11-01 12:40:44 PM

dittybopper: Of all the anachronisms in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", they pick the Thailand/Siam one? What about all the equipment shown that didn't exist in 1936, when the movie takes place:

1. MP-40 submachine guns carried by the Germans (invented in 1940)
2. Panzerfaust wielded by Indy (1942 - actually was an RPG-2, invented in 1949)
3. Type VII (B or C) U-boat (1938 for B, 1940 for the C shown in the film)
4. Flying Wing aircraft (First experimental powered Horten built in 1937)
5. Walther P-38 (1938)

Because they had to use the standard scary NAZI props for the 18 millionth time. What's a NAZI without the proper props? I speculate that Hollywood earnings over the last 40 years would be about 10% of what they were without THE NAZIS. Just when you think that there are no more wrinkles left on WWII and THE NAZIS, Hollywood comes up with yet another contorted, contrived reason to make yet another movie about THE NAZIS. The latest ridiculous excuse for a movie was that dreadful Pulp Fiction version of Hollywood pretty boys killing NAZIS. NAZIS NAZIS NAZIS.

Think there's any chance that there will be a movie released soon which is set in a time and place featuring THE NAZIS???

garandman1a

2011-11-01 12:41:04 PM

GacysBasement: i used to work in a movie theater and made a point to check out part of a movie called ' The Seduction' with Morgan Fairchild because she was naked. So i watch the scene where she gets into her car in this dark blue dress, we follow her home, she pulls up to her house, gets out but somehow has changed to a pink dress during the ride--which she ultimately takes off. Terrible film but great breasts.

You are so right. I had lunch with her in the late 1970's, maybe it was the early 1980's. I was walking into a deli and held the door open for this short, very pretty woman. As she turned to say "Thank You" I recognized her and in a VERY rare display of coolness (I was still a teenager) was able to come back with a retort that was neither offensive nor stupid. We struck up a conversation while waiting in line, and went to the park to eat our lunches. I mentioned during lunch I was a fan but didn't press the issue, wasn't inquisitive about it, and didn't ever ask for an autograph. Never saw her again afterwards, but of all the famous people I have met (and there are quite a few) she was definitely one of the few that was notable to me.

KingKauff

2011-11-01 12:42:01 PM

Jake Havechek: In Braveheart, all the Scots are running around in belted kilts, which did not come into fashion until the 16th century.

Where was the bridge in the Battle of Stirling Bridge?

jedzz

2011-11-01 12:43:29 PM

They just didn't care.

SFSailor: Flint Ironstag: The really surprising thing is, given how complicated the process of making a movie is, that there are not many many more mistakes.

Funny... I have exactly the opposite opinion: The surprising thing is, given how complicated the process of making a movie is -- including so many people and SO much money -- that any mistakes ever make it to screen. Every single person who saw their movie before it was released and -didn't- see the mistake should be ashamed of themselves.

The point is that mistakes - especially continuity-type stuff - can be very easy to miss during shooting, and sometimes impossible to fix without ruining the way the scene is put together in editing. I'd be willing to bet that most mistakes were eventually noticed, but were left in because it was decided that the main action would be strong enough to have the errors overlooked by all but the most anal nitpickers.

Born to Die: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: No, the "worst movie mistake" in history is that no one is actually around to hear Charles Foster Kane's last word.

Maybe the nurse heard it through the door, but didn't actually enter the room until he dropped the snowglobe? Or more likely, Wells did it on purpose: as the audience is privy to Kane's last word in the opening scene, so is the audience privy to the identity of Rosebud in the final scene.

What if Kane muttered "Rosebud" before the movie begins, while the nurse was in the room? She hears it, leaves, the movie starts, and he says it again just before she reenters? I'm not saying that's a great explanation, but it makes her claim more plausible.

Mattevil

2011-11-01 12:44:36 PM

master_of_rayality: I always remember in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" that in the scene where Pee Wee is pulling out the loooooong chain for his bike out of one of the side holders, you can see the chain being feed through the bottom.

But yeah, this list is *far* from the biggest mistakes.

Isn't that a framing issue? I assumed it looks correct in widescreen but the home video transfers in the past were supposedly open matte.

thamike

2011-11-01 12:44:54 PM

dittybopper: 4. Flying Wing aircraft (First experimental powered Horten built in 1937)

Actually, the film's flying wing was entirely fabricated (but based on the Hortens). Notice the propellers. The Hortens was jet powered, however, the early glider model Hortens was flying in the early 30s. There were larger prop flying wings in the early 20th century, too.

brainlordmesomorph

2011-11-01 12:46:07 PM

WHAT ABOUT THE BLOOD STAIN ON KIRK'S UNIFORM IN STAR TREK 2?!

thamike

2011-11-01 12:46:18 PM

canyoneer: Because they had to use the standard scary NAZI props for the 18 millionth time. What's a NAZI without the proper props? I speculate that Hollywood earnings over the last 40 years would be about 10% of what they were without THE NAZIS. Just when you think that there are no more wrinkles left on WWII and THE NAZIS, Hollywood comes up with yet another contorted, contrived reason to make yet another movie about THE NAZIS. The latest ridiculous excuse for a movie was that dreadful Pulp Fiction version of Hollywood pretty boys killing NAZIS. NAZIS NAZIS NAZIS.

Think there's any chance that there will be a movie released soon which is set in a time and place featuring THE NAZIS???

You sound insulted.

Mrbogey

2011-11-01 12:46:41 PM

canyoneer: Carefully watch many westerns from the 50's and you'll see contrails and powerlines in the background.

In movies today I point out the plastic enclosures on telephone poles from movies set in the pre-50s. I don't really count it against them because almost anyone today doesn't really think about how back then it was mostly steel, aluminum, and lead cabling and enclosures. Black plastic and rubber enclosures didn't catch on till the 60s.

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