# Most famous movie goof? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209 "2002-10-21T10:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/1 "2002-10-21T10:34:21Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/2 "2002-10-21T11:02:14Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/3 "2002-10-21T11:36:24Z")
The sun rising in the West in _The Green Berets_ ? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/4 "2002-10-21T12:34:15Z")
The girl robbing the resturant saying something diiffrent each time her scenes is shown in pulp fiction Although it might of been intentional ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/5 "2002-10-21T14:02:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/6 "2002-10-21T14:05:38Z")
making Ishtar ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/7 "2002-10-21T14:08:08Z")
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!). ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/8 "2002-10-21T14:11:41Z")
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!_ ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/9 "2002-10-21T14:15:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/10 "2002-10-21T14:25:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iamthewalrus(:3= \* > \*\*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! \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/11 "2002-10-21T14:29:42Z")
_ **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. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/12 "2002-10-21T14:53:58Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/13 "2002-10-21T14:57:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nightshadea \* > \*\*The girl robbing the resturant saying something diiffrent each time her scenes is shown in pulp fiction > > Although it might of been intentional \*\* 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? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/14 "2002-10-21T15:38:55Z")
That’s a heavy accusation to level against someone. Cite, please? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/15 "2002-10-21T16:47:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/16 "2002-10-21T16:59:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\* > > What about the guy dying in Ben-Hur? Ouch…Painful goof. Although I’ve heard that wasn’t really a goof? \*\* [http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/benhur.htm](http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/benhur.htm) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/17 "2002-10-21T17:11:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/18 "2002-10-21T17:19:36Z")
Undoubtedly “Kessel run in 12 parsecs”. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/19 "2002-10-21T17:41:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/20 "2002-10-21T18:26:32Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209.md?page=2)