That scene where Vic Morrow is killed by the helicopter blade in “Twilight Zone: The Movie”. That was so fake!
Oh, wait…
During the chase scene in Bullitt the car loses six hubcaps…
Actually, I brought this up some time back to my friends who are star wars nuts and they had an explanation for this. Apparantly the kessel run is a narrow channel with series of black holes on the sides. In order to make the run you have to dodge the black holes on alternating sides while going through the channel. The faster the ship, the closer they could cut the black holes, and the faster they could make it through the channel.
Maybe a post-hoc explanation but it satisfies me 
where does the stormtrooper bang his head? In which scene?
I don’t know how famous it is, but the misspelling of “STEGOSAURUS” as “STEGASAURUS” in Jurassic Park was pretty grating, to say the least.
No idea whether it’s intentional, but he did miss it rather badly.
I read once that in Jurassic Park, toward the end when the young girl finds a computer and says something like “Linux. I know how to use this,” she’s shown working on a Mac Quadra, and the screen image is a Windows screen.
My favorite though, is at the end of Back to the Future (and also in Back to the Future II). After Michael J. Fox successfully connects with the overhead wire and returns to 1985, Christopher Lloyd is shown walking a short distance up the street and then doing a celebratory dance. When he does this the camera pans back and up to a wider angle, and there’s no music for just a moment. During that moment you can clearly hear the hydraulics of the camera truck as it lifts up.
The scene was repeated in the second movie, and the sound is still there.
The weirdest I’ve seen is also from The Wizard of Oz, and also involves the scarecrow, albeit indirectly.
During the scarecrow’s first song, the camera cuts back and forth between him and Dorothy. Watch Dorothy’s hair: they were apparently trying out different wigs on Judy Garland during that scene, and her hair length and style changes dramatically and repeatedly between cuts.
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Not necessarily famous, but I saw Panic Room last night and noticed something terribly wrong. Jodi Foster decides to light the propane that’s being pumped into the Panic Room, and when she does so, the flaming gas makes a dramatic blue display on the ceiling of the room. The problem is that propane is heavy, so the gas would have sunk to the floor. Lighting it would have toasted her and her daughter to a deep brown.
It’s when the stormtroopers bust into the Death Star control room where Threepio and Artoo are hiding. (“They’re madmen! They’re headed for the prison level!”)
He hadn’t joined the show, but he apparently had joined the crew. Chekov become the permanent helmsman at the start of the second season, but he may very well have been a crew member during the first and only been promoted to bridge officer to begin the second.
D’oh. Chekov became the navigator. Sulu was helmsman.
For those who are curious, here’s the Scarecrow’s take on the Pythagorean theorem:
The correct statement is:
Re the stormtrooper banging his head, he’s on the far right, so I expect you can’t really see it unless you have a widescreen version of the video. Haven’t verified myself, though.
One that most youngsters wouldn’t notice: in The Godfather, when Michael sees a newspaper with a headline about his father being shot, he ducks into a phone booth to call home. While he’s talking on the phone, you can see the dial of the phone behind him, and it’s clearly broken. There’s no way anyone could make a call on that phone.
In INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Indie, posing as a Nazi officer, gets Hitler’s autograph. Der Fuhrer was evidently too busy ruling Germany to learn how to spell his name: he signs it “Adolph” instead of “Adolf”.
In one of my favorite movies, THE LION IN WINTER, there’s a great scene towards the beginning where Eleanor of Aquitaine is being rowed to a French castle in all her 12th century glory and you can clearly see a piece of 1960s camera equipment.
In GODFATHER II, Vito’s Mama’and’em is crying over her dead son Paolo, murdered by a 1901 Sicilian don. Apparently he’s not quite dead yet as you can see his hands moving.
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it but I believe she says “It’s a Unix system, I know this!” And it shows some flashy 3D video.
Quite right on the line; the graphics were one of the SGI demos which is likely why it was used. The flying building file system is a lot more interesting than a $ prompt, after all.
Another Jurassic Park goof / error / continuity screw-up / whatever-the-hell-happened: the “Flying Tyrannosaur”.
At the start of the “Tyrannosaurus attack” scene, we see the T. rex bust through the fence of its paddock, acting all big and bad, and giving us our first really good glimpse of what we all really came to see. So far, so good.
Not long after, while the T. rex is menacing one of the tour vehicles, Grant and Alex get knocked through that very same hole in the fence - only now there’s a big cliff there! The vehicle, with Timmy inside, gets knocked over the edge, etc., etc.
Seeing as how there was nothing for the tyrannosaur to stand on in order to break through the fence at that location, there seems to be little other explanation other than that she could fly. Or at least levitate.
She’s pretty stealthy, too, when she wants to be.
Doesn’t Bruce Willis make a call from a Pacific Bell pay phone in Die Hard 2?