What’s the most famous or notorious movie goof (not including plot holes)?
I nominate:
Stormtrooper hitting his head in Star Wars
Leaving the cardboard cut-out in the window in Three Men and a Baby
The switch from having 6, then 5, and then 6 (yet again) bombers attacking alcatraz at the end of The Rock. Maybe not so notorious, but freaking glaringly obvious!
The sun rising in the West in The Green Berets ?
The girl robbing the resturant saying something diiffrent each time her scenes is shown in pulp fiction
Although it might of been intentional
I think you can see Moses wearing a watch in The Ten Commandments.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Harrison Ford drops into the snake pit, you can clearly see the glass between him and the cobra.
making Ishtar
How about the title of **Kralatoa, East of Java[/B}, when it’s West of Java? (Or else it’s really far to the East!).
I think it’s either the sun-setting-in-the-east thing in The Green Berets (not rising in the West, LL - the coast there faces the East) or the infamous continuity gaffe in The Jagged Edge wherein Glenn Close wears three totally different suits in the same courtroom exchange!
As far as famous goofs go, the ones that spring to mind are:
Luke saying “Carrie!” at the end of ‘Star Wars’, which has been debunked, rebunked, and redebunked several times.
Supposedly there’s a sports car that can be seen in the background during the chariot race in ‘Ben-Hur’. Famous enough that I’ve heard about it several times but haven’t seen the movie or know if it’s legit.
The missing replicant in ‘Blade Runner’. Famous because it’s been incorporated into the alternative “Deckard’s a replicant” theory and declared a non-error by people of that belief.
At the beginning of The Rock, Nicolas Cage drives the yellow Ferrari (?) through a line of parking meters, clearly smashing his windshield, but when he stops the car at the end of the chase, his windshield is fine.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Khan says to Checkov
I never forget a face.
But Checkov wasn’t in the original series episode that Kahn was. He hadn’t joined the show at that time.
In “Santa Claus vs The Martians”
you can actually see a sound tech off to the side. And it had a six yr old Pia Zadora.
“Plan Nine From Outer Space” has several shots of the overhead boom mics
It was. It was because both characters viewed it a different way, so it looked diff.
What about the guy dying in Ben-Hur? Ouch…Painful goof. Although I’ve heard that wasn’t really a goof?
That’s a heavy accusation to level against someone. Cite, please?
In Walking Tall, the boom mike is clearly visible in at least one shot.
Or the vaccination scars on practically all the extras in any Roman flick.
Just like the Pulp Fiction one, there’s an intentional one in Fight Club.
At the beginning, Tyler has a gun in Jack’s mouth and says, “Any last words?”
Jack replies “I can’t think of anything.”
They repeat that scene at the end of the movie and when asked the same question, Jack says “I still can’t think of anything,” instead.
Undoubtedly “Kessel run in 12 parsecs”.
In Pearl Harbor , one of the buildings says “est. 1953” on the front of it.
And didn’t the scarecrow totally screw up stating the Pythagorean theorem after he got his “brain”? Or did they mean to do that?
How about in North by Northwest where the kid plugs his ears just before the gunshot in the Mount Rushmore cafeteria? That’s the best known one I can think of.