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Top 30 Best Movies Mistakes

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1. Star Wars - When the stormtroopers break into the control room, the stormtrooper on the right of the screen hits his head on the door frame. On the DVD release they've added a thump when he hits it.

2. Commando - After chasing down Sully, the yellow Porsche is totally wrecked on the left side, until Arnie drives it away, and it's fine.

3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The criminologist describes the events of the movie as taking place "on a late November evening". In the very next scene, Brad and Janet are driving in Brad's car, and President Richard Nixon's resignation speech is playing on the radio. Nixon resigned in August of 1974.

4. Charlie's Angels - When the Angels are fighting the "Creepy Thin Man," right before Drew Barrymore lifts up Lucy Liu to spin her around and kick the thin man, to get Lucy's attention, Drew hollers out "Lucy!" even though Lucy Liu's character's name is "Alex."

5. Gladiator - In the "Battle of Carthage" in the Colosseum, one of the chariots is turned over. Once the dust settles you can see a gas cylinder in the back of the chariot.

6. The Matrix - In the scene where Agent Smith is interrogating Neo, after Smith has sealed Neo's mouth shut and he is backed into the corner, when the camera cuts back to Smith you can clearly see a reflection in his glasses of Neo still sitting down in the chair.

7. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - Just as Jack says, "On deck, you scabrous dogs," to the very left edge of the screen over Jack's shoulder is a grip crew member with a tan cowboy hat, white short sleeve tee shirt and sunglasses, just standing there looking out to sea.

8. Spider-Man - In the scene where Mary Jane is being mugged by four men, Spider-Man throws two of the men into two windows behind Mary Jane. Then the camera goes back to Spider-Man beating up the other two guys. When the camera goes back to Mary Jane the two windows are intact.

9. Titanic - The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is Lake Wissota, a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1918 when a power company built a dam on the Chippewa River, six years after the Titanic sank.

10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - At the beginning of the scene near the end of the movie with Lucius Malfoy fuming at Dumbledore in his office, Malfoy's hair is fanned back behind his shoulders. The lighting in the room illuminates the back of his neck, where you can see his real, short brown hair.

11. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - In the scene where John & Catherine are in the hangar at the runway, the Cessna's tail number is N3035C. When the plane is shown in the air, the number is N9373F. When they land, the tail number has changed back to N3035C.

12. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - When Harry, Ron and Hermione rush to Hagrid after the end of the year exams, and Harry is saying something that ends with, "Why didn't I see it before?", Hermione is mouthing part of that line.

13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Merry and Pippin were bound when taken by the Uruk-hai, and the bonds weren't cut until after they managed to escape during the fight. Yet, when the horse almost crashed down on Pippin, he had his arms spread out up near his face, not bound, even though they weren't cut until later. In the next shot, his hands are bound again.

14. Black Hawk Down - Near the end of the movie when the convoy is heading back to the Pakistan Stadium, a Humvee stops briefly to allow a man to walk across the street with a child in his arms. When the shot changes and the Humvee begins driving again, a crew member or cameraman is seen inside the Humvee wearing a white shirt. All of the men who entered the Humvee were wearing fatigues.

15. American Pie - In the bedroom scene the girl is holding a clear cup full of beer. The camera goes off her and when it comes back she is holding a blue cup. The camera goes back off her then on her and the cup is clear again.

16. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - In the scene where Sam and Frodo are in the field with the scarecrow, you can plainly see a car cruising past in the distance, from right to left. Further comment - there are two different shots which show the car moving from right to left. One starts at the top right distance, and in a shot a few seconds later the car has traveled down the road a bit and is more easily visible. Complicating matters is that the dust thrown up by the car looks similar to smoke from a chimney in the right distance, making some people think it is just the chimney. But chimneys don't move, and the smoke from the chimney is separate from the moving vehicle. <em>[It is deleted on the DVD, but you can still see an obvious bit of image fakery on the hill just left of the smoking chimney. One can see the hill, tree, and surrounding area move up and down and shimmer slightly where someone has done a cut and paste to cover up the auto. The "car inclusive" scen

17. Mr. and Mrs. Smith - The movie is supposed to take place in and around New York City, however during the car chase where Angelina and Brad are fighting off the three BMW's, a wide shot clearly shows a street sign announcing Los Angeles.

18. Top Gun - At the end, a victorious Maverick is hoisted on the shoulders of the guys. As he goes up, he isn't wearing sunglasses. His head goes out of the shot, and when he comes down, he's wearing a pair.

19. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - In the second half of the film, Frodo has a scar on his lower right cheek, close to his chin. Many times throughout the rest of the film the scar changes position and size on his right cheek. It also appears on his left cheek in flipped shots (most obviously on the slopes of Mount Doom when Sam is cradling his head).

20. X-Men 2 - In the end, when the President is visited by the X-Men, he receives a blue binder, which is laid in front of him on the table. When they have left, you see a shot including the President's desk, and you can see that the only thing he has on the table are some sheets of paper, stapled in the upper left corner, opened up. Then the shot changes to a close-up of the President, and then back again, and you see the blue binder in front of him, closed, and the papers have disappeared.

21. Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The T-1000 punches his body through the window of a helicopter to get inside. An instant later, the hole in the windshield is gone.

22. Ocean's Eleven - Linus and Rusty are standing in the Botanical Garden at the Bellagio going over Linus' observations. Rusty has a cocktail glass of shrimp in hand. When they change angles he has a plate in his hand, then change back, it's a glass.

23. Raiders of the Lost Ark - While Indy and Marion are in the Well of the Souls, and they encounter the snakes, Indy falls to the ground only to get confronted by a Cobra rearing its head and hissing. Look carefully and you'll see the reflection of the snake on the safety glass between it and Indy. Briefly you can also see the torch's reflection while he's waving it around. <em>[This has been corrected in the new DVD set. You can only see it if you have the original VHS. I think it's visible in the "making of" on the DVD as well.]</em>

24. Die Another Day - In the final fight scene on the plane between Jinx (Halle Berry) and Agent Frost (Rosamund Pike) Jinx is slashed across her stomach, drawing blood. In a later scene when Jinx and 007 are pouring diamonds over one another in the hut on the cliff her stomach is unblemished.
25. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - When Amidala & Anakin are eating and he cuts her a piece of the fruit and "floats" it back to her, the bite appears in the fruit a split second before she actually eats it.

26. The Matrix Reloaded - During the scene where Neo is talking to Agent Smith in the park area where Neo was talking to the Oracle, there is a close-up on Agent Smith's face. In his sunglasses you can see a bright white screen to reflect the light onto the faces of the actors. This isn't visible in any non-reflected angles.

27. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - On Utapau, when Obi-wan faces off with Grievous, Grievous sends 4 magma droids at Obi-wan. Obi-wan force-pulls something from the ceiling to crush the droids. But in the ensuing fight between Obi-wan and Grievous afterwards, the ceiling thing and crushed droids are gone.

28. The Wizard of Oz - In the beginning while Dorothy is still on the farm, she walks along the pig pen fence and then falls in. When Bert Lahr picks her up out of there her dress is perfectly clean.

29. Teen Wolf - In the scene of the championship game, one of the final shots shows Scott's Dad coming out of the crowd to congratulate him. There is a fan behind him who stands up to cheer and deliberately exposes himself to the camera.

30. Jurassic Park - In the scenes where there's a video link to the docks shown on computer, there's a bar moving along the bottom of the screen, showing us that it's actually a video that's just playing on the computer.
 
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wow people in Hollywood are so stupid and all of those things prove it.
 
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True, humans aren't allowed to make errors.

nope humans arent allowed to make errors. they should be PERFECT!!! :iorofl:

jk i see your point Pain. anyways them are some funny things. some of them ive noticed before but most i would prolly have never known

thanks Pain
 
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slip-ups happen in every single movie.

http://www.slipups.com/

If you have OCD, it's very easy to spot continuity errors in films and tv shows.

yea i guess you are right. it would be hard to make everything perfect in a movie. i can notice things every now and then but usually i cant.
 
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Even books that sell millions have spelling errors. I'll never know because I'll never be smart enough to read one.
 
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Even books that sell millions have spelling errors. I'll never know because I'll never be smart enough to read one.

haha come on Pain im sure you can read a book. do you want me to teach you how to read?
 

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Missed one of the more famous ones:

At the end of Star Wars: A New Hope, the scene were Luke has just gotten out of his X-wing fighter and celebrations are ensuing, Princess Leia runs up to greet him. At this moment Luke shouts out "Carrie!" instead of Leia.


But I agree with Tech; there are so many little things that get missed in a movie or book. If you are looking for it you can pick up all sorts of mistakes. Image flipping is an obvious one (watch for people writing backwards or watches changing wrists or background or prop text), microphones are another. I'd never noticed cigarette burns until Fight Club, now if the movie doesn't have me completely I'll see them all the time.
 
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12. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - When Harry, Ron and Hermione rush to Hagrid after the end of the year exams, and Harry is saying something that ends with, "Why didn't I see it before?", Hermione is mouthing part of that line.

That's an easy mistake.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone would be the correct title.
 
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That's an easy mistake.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone would be the correct title.
That was the movie title in the US.

In places like Canada and the UK, it was called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
 
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But I agree with Tech; there are so many little things that get missed in a movie or book. If you are looking for it you can pick up all sorts of mistakes. Image flipping is an obvious one (watch for people writing backwards or watches changing wrists or background or prop text), microphones are another. I'd never noticed cigarette burns until Fight Club, now if the movie doesn't have me completely I'll see them all the time.

i never started noticing the cigarette burns until Fight Club either. i watched Fight Club last night too. its so weird how you never notice stuff like that before but once it is pointed out to you you will notice it everytime after that.
 
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