What is your favorite movie mistake?

[DARTH SABER]

In Galaxy Quest when Laredo is steering the ship out of space dock- the side of the main hull scrapes along the wall, and yet the ship has these giant curved wings on either side...how the hell was the main hull able to touch the side walls?

When they show the profile shot of the ship exiting the space dock you can see that he CG artists squeezed the wings in thus creating a wierd optical illusion effect.

 

[Treadwell]

Also, noticed this is Temple of Doom (I thought it was a mistake but my wife didn't), on the mine-cart train chase through the tunnels and caves Indy is fighting a thugee on the back of the cart, punches him off but takes one more punch and misses, he then turns back to Willie and laughs ad puts his head down as if he wasn't suppose to take that extra swing but the thugee gets back up and punches him to continue out the scene.

It's just a joke. Indy thought he had punched the guy off the cart, but he was still holding on.

 

[iMan]

I never saw this as a mistake. I always viewed the track they were on as a loop. The goat cage was on one side of the T-Rex paddock, the cliff on the other side.

Well the goat is directly left to the car in the paddock on the driver's side of the truck that Generro and the kids are in. Once the wires snap and the T-Rex walks over to the trucks, he is coming from the goat area. When you see the paddock next, it is a huge cliff where the T-Rex throws the car over it.

Spielberg has even admitted it to being a mistake but left it in the movie anyway.

 

[iMan]

It's just a joke. Indy thought he had punched the guy off the cart, but he was still holding on.

Right but it looks like Ford wasn't suppose to take that extra punch you know what I mean? Like, it wasn't scripted because the thugee had already been "knocked off the back". I think once Indy punched him and he disappeared, that was suppose to stop that little fight sequence until he popped back up and Short Round hits him off for real.

 

[TK9120]

Two of my favourites:

When Ahnuld's blowing buildings up at the end of COMMANDO, I love how obvious the model army guys stuck in the ground are:

Explosions of COMMANDO - YouTube

That house looks like the same one that was used for Beverly Hills Cop. With those little white walls, planters and statues.

 

[Keiko]

Interestingly enough about the plane crash in the water sequence screen-capped above, I once saw an old interview with Hitchcock in which he delightedly explained how this scene was acheived. Apparently though it's obvious to modern audiences, it was quite startling and effective when it came out.

We've come a long way!

 

[Treadwell]

Right but it looks like Ford wasn't suppose to take that extra punch you know what I mean? Like, it wasn't scripted because the thugee had already been "knocked off the back". I think once Indy punched him and he disappeared, that was suppose to stop that little fight sequence until he popped back up and Short Round hits him off for real.

Acting!

 

[Bigdaddy]

Star wars I, II, and III, I can only watch them with FF to skip to the Lightsaber battles. LOL the best Acting was done by Yoda (II and III) but i have to give props to Mr Lee, he was a believable sith lord.

 

[SSgt Burton]

In Galaxy Quest when Laredo is steering the ship out of space dock- the side of the main hull scrapes along the wall, and yet the ship has these giant curved wings on either side...how the hell was the main hull able to touch the side walls?

That one drives me nuts every time I see it! :lol


Kevin

 

[Doddsino]

Can't believe no one mentioned it but the big mistake left in there by Speilberg in Jurassic Park where they show the T-Rex walking over to the cars coming from his cage when they are stopped by the goat but when Dr. Grant and the girl escape after the T-Rex attacks them, the cage has now turned to a huge cliff.

Also, noticed this is Temple of Doom (I thought it was a mistake but my wife didn't), on the mine-cart train chase through the tunnels and caves Indy is fighting a thugee on the back of the cart, punches him off but takes one more punch and misses, he then turns back to Willie and laughs ad puts his head down as if he wasn't suppose to take that extra swing but the thugee gets back up and punches him to continue out the scene.

The one I like from Jurassic Park, one of the early scenes has Hammond with a towel in his hand. The towel changes colors several times within a 3 minute span, it goes from white to red and back to white. It's pretty funny.

As far as TOD's minecart chase, the Maharajá tells them to get out they must take the left tunnel. Well, what about all those kids? How did they get out? Did they go through the booby trapped room? I'm sure with 100 kids running through there, one of them may have triggered the foot button or something and ended up getting impaled, maybe I'm overthinking it, maybe there was a Thuggee stage left or something. But then...how did they get across that bridge? Did they beat the big gush of water too? Are you telling me that those kids who were on foot beat Indy who was traveling very fast in a minecart, they beat him across the bridge that was on the opposite side of the temple? I know the Maharajá made it out to the other side...perhaps the Brits intervened? Eh, I'm thinking too much.

 

[Scapey]

It always cracks me up when I watch Navy S.E.A.L.S. - Whenever Michael Biehn is driving the jeep near the start, just watch his hands

 

[Jeyl]

The Usual Suspects. Why would you go from a 747 (Four enging plane) to a 767 (Two engine plane)? That's just nuts.

 

[Tastyburger]

In Captain America: The First Avenger:

Watch the scene where Rogers takes the ***** beating in the alley behind the theater. After crashing into the garbage cans and denting them all up, it cuts away and back to him to show them standing upright and undented..

Twice.

Must be the rare aluminum rubbermaid ones.

 

[DeanPJedi]

In ANH when a stormtrooper can't see above him and hit to head completely knocks him to the ground. Always makes me laugh!

 

[Philly]

In all of the BTTF films, a delorean reaching 88....I mean, c'mon

 

[Riceball]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this one yet, what about the scene in Raiders where Indy first drops into the Well of Souls(?) and lands in front of the cobra but you can see his reflection in the glass that's actually separating him from the snake? I know that they eventually fixed this with the re-release/special edition but I always noticed that every time I watched that scene until it was fixed.

A big TV mistake was in the pilot episode of SG-1 where you see an Air Force Sgt. Major walking down the halls of the SGC. The mistake is that this character is dressed literally as a Sgt. Major as in he has a Major's oak leaves on his epaulettes and Sgt's stripes on his sleeves.

 

[robn1]

...what about the scene in Raiders where Indy first drops into the Well of Souls(?) and lands in front of the cobra but you can see his reflection in the glass that's actually separating him from the snake?...

I usually try to rationalize that as reflection in the camera lens, sometimes it works sometimes not.

But the telephone pole/canon thingy used to flip the truck can never be unseen.

...The mistake is that this character is dressed literally as a Sgt. Major as in he has a Major's oak leaves on his epaulettes and Sgt's stripes on his sleeves.

Like Cpl. Captain O'Reilly :lol

 

[Nijal]

Not my favourite error but the first I spotted in my life:
In James Bond "Dr.No", while he is waiting in the dark in a house, his socks change from long to short, and his tie disappears by the time he has attached the silencer to the gun.

 

[Jeyl]

Indiana Jones: Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We've known each other for a long time. I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus.

Really Indy? The sight of a man getting his heart torn out of his chest and still be alive is perfectly natural? Or that being dipped into lava causes his disembodied heart to erupt in flames and turn to ash? Or being mind controlled by drinking evil blood? Or be able to summon the power of the stones by speaking in a foreign language?

 

[Bigdaddy]

Indiana Jones: Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We've known each other for a long time. I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus.

Really Indy? The sight of a man getting his heart torn out of his chest and still be alive is perfectly natural? Or that being dipped into lava causes his disembodied heart to erupt in flames and turn to ash? Or being mind controlled by drinking evil blood? Or be able to summon the power of the stones by speaking in a foreign language?

LOL That same thought comes unbidden to my mind every time I hear him say that!