# Film Bloopers most people missed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011 "2014-03-31T18:49:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/21 "2014-04-01T16:34:13Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > By the looks of the little round scar on Brad Pitt’s shoulder in **Troy,** it seems there was a polio-vaccinating fish in the river his mother dipped him in. Did you perhaps mean “smallpox?” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/22 "2014-04-01T16:39:45Z")
One that I never see discussed online is in the original _Footloose_. When they first show the kids at the prom standing around bored (before Kevin Bacon gets them dancing), one prom goer is obviously a guy wearing a prom dress. I guess they had a shortage of female extras that day. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/23 "2014-04-01T17:05:01Z")
I noticed when I saw _Die Hard 2_ in the theaters that the pay phones in the Washington, DC airport were labeled “Pac Bell” (the west coast phone company at the time). This was later fixed in the video release. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/24 "2014-04-01T17:24:06Z")
One of my favorites was Bruce Willis’ ear pierced ear in _Unbreakable_. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/25 "2014-04-01T17:25:35Z")
In a few of the aerial scenes in _Pearl Harbor_, a few of the ships below hadn’t been built yet. There’s a Newport class LST (Landing Ship, Tank) down there, and they weren’t built until the 70’s (I served on one for over 5 years - they’re pretty unique in design) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/26 "2014-04-01T17:38:15Z")
Microphone boom visible at top for frame in _Annie Hall._ I believe it was the lobster cooking scene. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/27 "2014-04-01T17:59:44Z")
In _Stripes_ when Winger goes AWOL in the motor pool and Ziskey (Harlod Ramis) is on top of Murray banging his head on the concrete. But when the two MP’s pull up Murray has his head on a duffel bag. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/28 "2014-04-01T18:01:09Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > In a few of the aerial scenes in _Pearl Harbor_, a few of the ships below hadn’t been built yet. > > There’s a Newport class LST (Landing Ship, Tank) down there, and they weren’t built until the 70’s (I served on one for over 5 years - they’re pretty unique in design) I’d swear they did a shot of some Spruance class destroyers moored line abreast somewhere in the actual Pearl Harbor battle. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/29 "2014-04-01T20:10:12Z")
It always annoys me when people put the Stormtrooper bumping his head on lists like that. Yeah they probably would have reshot it if they had noticed. But someone in a full face helmet with shitty peripheral vision, while entering a potential hostile situation,on a door that was jimmied and didn’t open right, fits perfectly well in the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/30 "2014-04-01T21:08:14Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > It always annoys me when people put the Stormtrooper bumping his head on lists like that. Yeah they probably would have reshot it if they had noticed. But someone in a full face helmet with shitty peripheral vision, while entering a potential hostile situation,on a door that was jimmied and didn’t open right, fits perfectly well in the scene. Especially with the sound effect added in the 23rd final collector’s director’s fanboy’s cut. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/31 "2014-04-01T21:09:42Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > One of my favorites was Bruce Willis’ ear pierced ear in _Unbreakable_. Why is that a goof? It’s perfectly reasonable for a 40yo man in 1995 to have a pierced ear and not necessarily wear an earring any more. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/32 "2014-04-01T21:11:15Z")
Birdemic. The whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/33 "2014-04-01T21:19:29Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Why is that a goof? It’s perfectly reasonable for a 40yo man in 1995 to have a pierced ear and not necessarily wear an earring any more. Because he either has a freakish healing factor that woulda shoulda closed the piercing, or should not have been pierceable in the first place. Either way, the guy who walked away from the horrific train and car wrecks without a scratch shouldn’t have been in danger from a piercing gun. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/34 "2014-04-01T21:30:38Z")
In _I Love Trouble_, there are multiple instances where you can see the boom mic hanging from the top of the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/35 "2014-04-01T21:36:24Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > . . . **Roads which are clearly created by modern construction equipment** - Horse trails are not pan flat and roads in the Old West would be wagon-rutted. If they are not, then it’s clear that a grader has been used and that’s a 20th century invention. . . . What about just dragging a post or iron frame behind a horse to scrape a road smooth? Was that in practice in that time? > [@](#): > > _ **The Searchers** _ - John Wayne goes looking for his niece in what is obviously Monument Valley. The Comanche were a tribe whose range was from Northern Mexico into Southern Kansas, with their primary home being what is now West Texas. While a few might have wandered the almost 400 miles to Monument Valley, the Navajo and Hopi residents of that area would have had strenuous objections to their presence. . . . The “travel across country” scenes early in “Silverado” are funny in this way. If you know your great American South-West, you can see that they wander across immense expanses of land, far more than the premise of the film suggests. It isn’t a “blooper” exactly, just a rather substantial indulgence of artistic license. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/36 "2014-04-01T21:42:51Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > In a few of the aerial scenes in _Pearl Harbor_, a few of the ships below hadn’t been built yet. > > There’s a Newport class LST (Landing Ship, Tank) down there, and they weren’t built until the 70’s (I served on one for over 5 years - they’re pretty unique in design) Shit that’s nothing. In the scenes over Hickham Airfield the CGI attacking planes are carrying torpedoes! ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/37 "2014-04-01T21:50:01Z")
Not necessarily a film blooper, but the ABC show _GCB_ took place in Dallas. It was a guilty pleasure for some of us, because IIRC, the pilot was shot in the city. We initially watched it, if only to spot various landmarks or familiar locales. It was so cheesy, it got us hooked. Well, eventually, I guess they moved production to California, because one episode centered around a barbecue. In the background, you could see some mountains. Mountains in the DFW area. Pretty much all of my friends caught that and had a good laugh. (\*Cheaters \*also filmed a great deal of their episodes in Dallas, and so we’ll watch that for the same reason. I saw a “confrontation” once, and at one point, a friend was hired to play “the other man” for an episode. He took the role and has some good stories from the experience.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/38 "2014-04-01T22:00:17Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > In a few of the aerial scenes in _Pearl Harbor_, a few of the ships below hadn’t been built yet. _ **Pearl Harbor** _ may have been bad, but the Mother of All Such Films has to be _ **Midway** _: > **[Midway (1976) mistakes](https://www.moviemistakes.com/film831)** > > The biggest mistakes you never noticed in Midway (1976). Add more and vote on your favourites! The end of the movie, with the angled-deck carrier, the crowd of obviously-not-1942-people gathered on the dock in the background, and Henry Fonda’s “Maybe-we-really-aren’t-better-than-the-Japs” speech, never fails to leave me laughing! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/39 "2014-04-01T22:03:52Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Why is that a goof? It’s perfectly reasonable for a 40yo man in 1995 to have a pierced ear and not necessarily wear an earring any more. I think the point was that if he was really unbreakable, then his ear would be un-pierceable as well. That’s really a nit though. He also had a shaved face and trimmed hair and nails. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/40 "2014-04-01T22:07:37Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Birdemic. > The whole thing. What did most people miss? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011.md?page=3)