I have a video of The Wizard of OZ with a home movie of the Jitterbug scene. It was some sort of anniversary edition so it had trailers and the jitterbug scene–just the dance not much dialogue before or after.
Also contained a longer version of the Scarecrow’s dance when he meets Dorothy.
One error I think is funny is the Hitchcock film based on the Loeb/Leopold murders. One of the villians cuts his had severely, wraps it up in bandages and a few minutes later is playing the piano with no bandage.
Someone once told me (yes, I know, always a good source of reliable information) that movies are supposed to have someone in charge of “script continuity,” I think it’s called. This means that, if the hero is wearing a blue shirt in one scene, the s.c. person is in charge of making sure that he’s wearing the same shirt in the next scene (assuming that the script doesn’t call for him to change his shirt).
I have seen the s.c. person listed during the credits of some movies, although not recently. It seems that this is becoming a lost art.
Never attribute to malice anything that can be attributed to stupidity.
– Unknown
I just watched Mummy, and I have to admit I liked it, but you have to take it at the mindless level it’s offered.
As far as the scarabs go, if you remember they were active even before Imhotep was ressurrected - note the death of the warden, so why shouldn’t they be around after Imhotep is gone. To tell the truth, I thought Benny was just going to have to sit in the dark traesure room forever until those beetles showed up, my guess is they wanted it to go full circle - they ate Benny’s boss, so now they eat Benny.
…at night, the ice weasels come…
One thing I want to make clear: I don’t necessarily dislike movies with mistakes. I’m not perfect, so I can’t condemn someone else for not being perfect. PLEASANTVILLE was one of my faves last year, even with the “visiting basketball team” mystery. But something like ARMAGEDDON…
Don’t get me started…
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They made jokes about this in the sequel. Another computer mistake: Passwords are already-existing English words and never a randomly-generated series of characters.
Just thought I’d revive this thread to see if anyone could think of any more mistakes. Also, I’m finally getting around to see the new James Bond flick and I bet there are mistakes in that one too. See ya later!
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Didn’t any of the Teeming Millions notice George Bailey’s goof in It’s a Wonderful Life? Just before he finds out that Uncle Billy lost the $8000. He comes into the Building and Loan office with a Christmas wreath, for home, on one arm. He sets the wreath down to take a call from his war-hero brother Harry, calling from Washington. Watch this scene carefully–George sets the wreath down on the desk to take the phone, then the wreath reappears on his arm! And later, when he finally goes home, knowing about Uncle Billy’s mistake, George says he “left the wreath at the office.”
Duh! Of course they’re undefeated! Of course, you’ve also got to assume they’ve never won a game, either…
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Most of the goofs I have difficulty with are stupid technical ones: Some of these movies I don’t remember the titles.
F4 Phantoms in Korea, ca. 1950.
Top Gun: The new MiGs are F5s painted black. Hmmm. black paint, blue sky, the cretins deserved to die!
Top Gun: "He’s lost #1! (#2 engine goes out)
"Hard deck for this hop is 10,000’; so why does the very next scene show them ripping across the desert floor at 50’?
The Empire Strikes Back: TIE Fighter comes around an asteroid with silhouette of another one right behind him.
Star Wars: Kenobi / Vader fight: at one point the angle of the light sabres becomes too steep to the camera, and you can see that they are just plastic rods.
Pilot enters strafing attack in an F100, pulls out in a Phantom.
And My Favourite!
Commando: Arnold trashes a yellow Porsche, caving in the passengers’ side. In the next scene, he pulls it back down onto its’ wheels and they drive away, with the side magically restored; later, it’s trashed again!
In the next to final scene, Arnold throws a thin walled 4" diameter pipe so hard that it pins the bad guy to a boiler. Right.
VB
The ways of cats and little girls are mysterious.
OK, two things.
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Why is it that when any two ships meet in space , they are both right side up with respect to each other. Or, does the Enterprise send out a constant signal to anyone in the area to assume it’s coordinate system?
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In the movie “Passenger 57”. The plane is at the airport, and the terrorists throw out their recently killed passenger. Why is there a giant airbag visible in the reflection on the bottom of the plane?
Batman: the Joker’s henchmen leave yellow handprint on a picture in the museum. A moment later, the picture is untouched. The Joker also knocks over a statue which rights itself.
Casablanca (which is, in spite of these, the best movie ever): after Rick is waiting, soaked, in the rain for Ilsa, his coat on the train is dry. Rick knocks over a wine glass, which magically becomes a rocks glass when he picks it up.
Stripes: the money on Bill Murray’s chest after he collapses doing the pushups multiplies in an instant. In the beginning when Murray is driving a taxi, there’s a white van behind it, which vanishes when we see an ariel shot of the cab.
Air Force One: the major claims to not know how to fly a plane, but he’s wearing a 10,000 hour flight pin.
No Way Out: Kevin Costner escapes the two guys tryign to kill him by running through Georgetown Park Mall and getting on a subway. (a) There is no Metro stop in Georgetown, and (b) they show the Baltimore subway system, not DC’s. There are no banks of pay phones in the Pentagon such was were shown. And my favorite: there are about 15 miles of corridor in the Pentagon. A single group could not search it in two hours.
I could go on forever… especially with movies that take place in DC!
- Rick
Okay granted it was a bad movie but Army of Darkness shows Sheila laying on the ground at the end looking all perfect, then the hero pulls her up, bang, really messy wet hair, I say huh?
Also in Full Metal Jacket, one scene, I think (it’s beeen a while) as they approach the sniper part, at least two of the rifles are shown sans magazine, how facinating that they can still fire.
Lastly in Jagged Edge they show Glann Close’s character in no fewer than three different suits, on the same day in court, how’d she do that?
Oh, for more you can find them on the Internet Movie Database in the “Goofs” section
The Buddy Holly Story - Scenes of Buddy’s hometown, Lubbock, Texas, show mountains in the background. This is pretty funny if you’ve ever been to Lubbock. The “Hub City of the South Plains” is so flat, it makes a pancake look like a relief map of the Swiss Alps.
Uncommon Valor or some other mid-80s Vietnam themed movie - Scenes of commandos training in a mountain jungle setting are introduced with a subtitle stating “Outside Galveston, Texas”. Galveston is basically a big sandbar-like island on the coastal plains of Texas.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure - In the scene were Pee Wee is driving Mickey’s getaway car, he is having trouble staying awake. Successive shots show various roadside signs as they flash by in the car’s headlights. However, you can clearly see that the signs are on a little train track with strings attached to them. As the headlights flash on a sign, you can see that the sign is pulled along the track to give the illusion of being driven past.
Brady Bunch Quote Of The Week:
“Porkchops and applesauce.” – Peter
I was watching “Renaissance Man” today, which takes place at an Army training base just outside Detroit. The problem I have with this is that there is no Army training base anywhere near Detroit. I don’t think there is even one in the whole state. The nearest base to Detroit is Selfridge, which is an Air National Guard Base. There is no Army personnel on this base at all (as far as I know, my dad works on the base so I will ask him).
Another problem is that they show Danny Devito’s character and his daughter at a Tiger’s baseball game. Well, I don’t know what stadium they filmed this at, but it was not Tiger Stadium.
There were other things I noticed, but I will have to watch the movie again to refresh my memory.
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This has always bugged me…perhaps someone brighter than me (or a Trek freak who’s read all the technical manuals) knows the answer.
When you’re, say, in a car, and another car hits you, you get jostled around. The reason it pretty obvious: your position relative to the center of the Earth (the point toward which gravity is pulling you) is seesawing rapidly.
When, say, the Starship Enterprise gets thumped by a torpedo, why does everyone get tossed around? They bring their own gravity! If you had a source of gravity in your car, and you weren’t affected by the Earth’s gravity, you and your gravity source would change positions in the same direction and at the same rate. No jostling.
So what gives?
One of my faves as seen in a number of movies:
The spread of a disease, martians, virus, rabid horny guinea pig, whatever, can always be charted on a well-lit electronic map…and it always stops at the US/Canada Border. Makes me feel safe up here!
With God as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly.
I just remembered another one, although any farmers out there will have to correct me if I’m wrong. Norman the calf in City Slickers is a “Jersey” cow which are dairy, not beef cattle. The “Mother” cow however was a beef cow. As I understand it they used a “Jersy” because they are cuter.
In Jaws 3 Michael Caine falls off of the boat, flops around in the water and in the next scene they help him back into the boat and he’s bone dry.
You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!!
All of the big ships of that period had steerage passengers, it was a major part of their cash flow. When those passengers stopped sailing due to changes in the immigration laws the ocean liner companies almost went out of business. I saw this on a TV special about the cruise industry a few weeks ago.
Adam: “When will the police adopt caller ID technology?”
beatle: “Welcome aboard Adam! I think you might have wanted to start a new topic.”
Nope, same topic. He’s not referring to the police in the real world but to police in movies. Specifically the persistence of the following scene:
[begin cliche movie scene]
Telephone rings. Everyone in the room immediately shuts up and stares at the phone. After a second or two, soomeone finally answers the phone, while a police detective or agent in the background picks up an extension, covering the mouthpiece.
“Keep him on the line!” the cop/agent whispers loudly. (^:
The person on the phone tries whatever he has to to keep the other party on the line.
The mad bomber/wrongly-accused hero/whoever on the other end of the wire suddenly hangs up.
The cop/agent slams his receiver down and yells “DAMN! Two seconds more and we would have had a trace!”
[end cliche movie scene] (^:
The time for tracing existed because someone back at the telephone exchange had to physically trace (hence the name) the path of the switches. In other words, having to keep the line open for a period of time to acheive a trace applies only to electro-mechanical (dial) exchanges. A trace is INSTANTANEOUS on an electronic (touch-tone) exchange. So even before caller ID was made available to the public, as long as the telephone switching system has been all-electronic, the cops haven’t had to “keep him talking.” Except in the movies, of course. (^:
There are a lot of funny goofs in the movie “Swingers”. My roommate points them out all the time. Lots of continuity problems. A lot are blatant, as well. You don’t even have to know the movie to pick them out.
http://us.imdb.com/Goofs?0117802
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