# Movie flaws that ANYONE should notice... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939 "2006-10-26T03:26:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/21 "2006-10-26T17:23:05Z")
In a movie with as many plotholes as there are stars in the sky, **Anaconda** has a scene where the boat is pulling away from where it had docked that is obviously just the film being reversed from the scene where it pulls in. How is it obvious, you may ask? Because the waterfall in the background is going UP! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/22 "2006-10-26T17:30:01Z")
In **Pulp Fiction** , when Jules and Vincent barge into the room where Brett and his three friends are holed up with the briefcase, _there are already huge bullet holes in the wall behind them_. The guy hiding in the bathroom charges out, unloads his .44 Magnum, and is shot dead by J&V. Jules then looks behind them and marvels at the bullet holes, the size of the gun and the fact that neither of them was hit. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/23 "2006-10-26T17:39:58Z")
[QUOTE=jali] Near the end of Spanglish - the wet little girl hugs the lead chick goodbye. Two minutes later the lead chick’s suit is dry. [/QUOTE] Have you seen Sex and Lucia? Paz Vega is just that hot. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/24 "2006-10-26T18:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=Smitty] In a movie with as many plotholes as there are stars in the sky, **Anaconda** has a scene where the boat is pulling away from where it had docked that is obviously just the film being reversed from the scene where it pulls in. How is it obvious, you may ask? Because the waterfall in the background is going UP! [/QUOTE] All is forgiven when Jon Voigt winks at the camera. There are no flaws in **Anaconda**. It was all intentional. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/25 "2006-10-26T18:26:49Z")
Rodin Hood: Prince of Thieves Azeem shows Robin the coming enemy through a primative telescope. Robin pulls his sword \*\*\*from his belt \*\* \* and there is a metal-on-metal SHHTING! sound. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/26 "2006-10-26T18:30:50Z")
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture supposedly only 5 years have passed since the end of their last mission even though its obvious that all the actors are 15 years older. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/27 "2006-10-26T18:50:51Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Krakatoa is _west_ of Java. [/QUOTE] It’s also east of Java, if you go far enough. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/28 "2006-10-26T18:55:22Z")
Any football fan should note that in Forest Gump, Forest is placed as a kick returner on the football team solely on his ability to run fast. A kick returner needs much more than just the ability to run fast, he needs to know how to follow the blocking, avoid tacklers, etc., things Forest isn’t smart enough to master. Why not have him run the 100 yard dash instead, wouldn’t that make more sense? But I give it a pass, becasue the intent was to show off the impressive CGI recreating a full 80,000 seat football stadium circa 1960’s, which is much more impressive than recreating a track meet with 12 fans watching. Although they could have had him in the 1964 Olympics… And in the movie Babe- pigs can’t really talk. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/29 "2006-10-26T18:56:36Z")
To tag on after the OP in **The Raiders of the Lost Ark** : After Indy determines in the map room where the Ark is located, he snaps the (too tall) staff in half in an apparent attempt to prohibit anyone else from finding the true height of the staff. It seems, no one’s ever heard of glue. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/30 "2006-10-26T19:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] Rodin Hood: Prince of Thieves Azeem shows Robin the coming enemy through a primative telescope. Robin pulls his sword \*\*\*from his belt \*\* \* and there is a metal-on-metal SHHTING! sound. [/QUOTE] In the Bond film _You Only Live Twice_, where Bond goes to Japan, during the big fight in the volcano at the end, a bunch of ninjas show up to help Bond defeat Blofeld’s minions. Every time a ninja kills a jump-suit clad minion, his sword makes a loud “Sching!” noise. The same film sees Bond (played by Sean Connery) succesfully disguise himself as a Japanese peasant by applying bronzer and slouching. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/31 "2006-10-26T19:08:26Z")
This one has always bugged me. In **Star Trek VI: Undiscovered Country** , Sulu, commanding the _Excelsior_, is coming back from a mission cataloging gaseous anomalies when they discover the explosion and destruction of Praxus. Later, while trying to locate the cloaked Klingon ship, Uhura suggests they attach some of their equipment to catalog gaseous anomalies onto a torpedo, since “The thing’s gotta have a tailpipe.” Problem was, Uhura was on the _Enterprise_, not _Excelsior_, when she said that! :smack: They didn’t even meet up with Sulu until after the space battle! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/32 "2006-10-26T19:12:50Z")
In the final scene of the Death Star fight in _Star Wars,_ when Darth Vader and his minions are flying along shooting up rebels, you can clearly see the rebels ahead of them. However, when the camera switches so that it’s looking _back_ from ahead of the rebels, there are no TIE fighters in sight. Then they switch back to the TIE fighters, and they’re right behind the rebels. And no, the TIE fighters weren’t cloaked. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/33 "2006-10-26T19:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] In the final scene of the Death Star fight in _Star Wars,_ when Darth Vader and his minions are flying along shooting up rebels, you can clearly see the rebels ahead of them. However, when the camera switches so that it’s looking _back_ from ahead of the rebels, there are no TIE fighters in sight. Then they switch back to the TIE fighters, and they’re right behind the rebels. And no, the TIE fighters weren’t cloaked. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Much like the early 80s Chevy Impala station wagon, those X-Wing fighters were known for their _wicked_ blind spot. What? It’s less dumb and less far-fetched, by degrees, than the idea of midichlorians! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/34 "2006-10-26T19:35:25Z")
I’ve posted this one before, but I’ll post it again because it bugs me so much: **E.T.** : In the first few minutes, poor li’l E.T. is stranded on Earth when the UFO he landed in takes off w/o him. He watches forelornly as the ship hovers - what? - ten feet off the ground? Later on in the movie, E.T. levitates himself, Elliot & his bike (and later still, all the kids in the neighborhood & their bikes) miles through the air, soaring over the redwood forests. _Why in hell didn’t E.T. just levitate himself up to the ship in the first few minutes of the movie?_ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/35 "2006-10-26T19:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] _Why in hell didn’t E.T. just levitate himself up to the ship in the first few minutes of the movie?_ [/QUOTE] Because then Spielberg would only be worth a zillion dollars, instead of a kajillion. Notice how much of this thread is devoted to Spielberg movies. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/36 "2006-10-26T19:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] There are no flaws in **Anaconda**. It was all intentional. [/QUOTE] Yeah. SUURRRRE it was… ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/37 "2006-10-26T20:04:16Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] I think I’ve mentioned this before, but in the film **Loser** w/ Jason Biggs & Mena Suvari, the two go on a date and instead of seeing money to see a Broadway show, they go to _Cabaret_ and sneak in during intermission with the patrons who had been outside. Only, the number they are then shown watching in the theatre is “Wilkommen”… :dubious: [/QUOTE] While I agree that the world would be a better place if everyone were familiar with all broadway musicals, I think you may have slightly missed the point of this thread… ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/38 "2006-10-26T20:38:13Z")
I just noticed this today on AMC In the original Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr. the first time he changes he is sitting down wearing slacks and his wife beater T shirt. He notices how his feet are changing. The camera focuses on his feet as he becomes the werewolf and walks away, cut to the same wolf feet walking in the swamp. As the camera pans up we see the Wolfman is now wearing a buttoned to the collar shirt. Did he stop to put on a shirt as he was changing into the werewolf? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/39 "2006-10-26T20:43:41Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Much like the early 80s Chevy Impala station wagon, those X-Wing fighters were known for their _wicked_ blind spot. [/QUOTE] But different. The X-Wings had blind spots. Chevy wagons left you blind, despite a world of glass around you, because the outside was so far away! Looking in the rearview and seeing mostly the interior except a little rectangle through the rear window I had to remind myself that those were downsized from the even-vaster early-70s wagons. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939/40 "2006-10-26T20:44:54Z")
In “The Maltese Falcon” (1941), as Sydney Greenstreet is pecking at the Falcon, his voice is dubbed to be saying “It’s a fake!” or something like that. It’s obvious that he’s not actually speaking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-flaws-that-anyone-should-notice/377939.md?page=3)