Well, it always bugged me in Home Alone that Macauley’s parents list National as one of the airports they can’t get a flight to from Paris. I mean, it’s Washington National Airport. OF COURSE there’s no flights from Paris.
I was reminded on another thread that the biggest movie gaffe that I’ve ever seen was Keanu Reeves starring in a movie!! BAHAHAHAHA!! And it happened more than once!! BAHAHAHAHA!! Dumbasses!!
From the second Die Hard movie…the Britsh plane that crashes because the bad guys messed with the radar? They said he was on fumes, yet the whole plane exploded into a huge fireball. I know gas fumes can explode, but come on.
Also, the action takes place at the Washington airport. The planes are all circling and can’t land; they even talk about how some ar diverted to (I think) Nashville, Philadelphia and somewhere else, but most are so low on fuel they can’t make it to New York. They convienently forgot that the Baltimore airport is just minutes away…they could have diverted ALL the planes there.
In “Fast Time at Ridgemont High,” at one point, one character tells another (I can’t remember names, it’s been awhile) to put on Led Zeppelin IV, but then “Kashmir” starts playing, which, as we all know, is on Physical Grafitti.
Twister…the part where they are driving down the road avoiding all the farm equipment, right before they drive through the house…there is something, a thresher maybe, with a huge arm that hits the windshield on Helen Hunt’s side, you even hear the glass break, and yet in the next shot, the windshield is fine, not broken at all.
Laughing so hard I think I’m gonna pee my pants!!!
The original search & rescue team starts out with 7 men. After one of them is killed (Private Caparzo), they’re left with 6. But at the scene where they’re approaching the busted up German radio tower, it shows them with 7 again.
My husband and I always get big laughs everytime we see a comupter in a movie. It is always some 13 year old punk trying to access the top-secret high-security controls-the-entire-world database. The monitor is mono, the fonts take up half the screen, and all he has to do to “hack the system” is type “access”!!
Then the comptuer allows him to save the world, destroy the world, whatever his goal is … maybe you have to be a nerd to find this amusing, I don’t know.
I don’t know if this is a semi-hijack, but . . .
I think when space movies try to be realistic when it comes to sounds and explosions, they are WAY more effective. Think of those scenes in 2001 when Dave blasts out of the pod back into the ship. Dead silence, just like in real space, and scarier than shit. In the movie 2010, when John Lithgow (who has a phobia of space) tries an EVA, all we hear is what he hears: the sound of his own breathing, which gets more and more panicky as he exits the ship and sees nothing between his space boots and the surface of one of Jupiter’s moons but several miles of empty space. These scenes have stuck with me for YEARS, and try as I might, I cannot as vividly recall one noisy, overdone explosion scene from any movie.
. . . back to gaffes.
This isn’t so much a gaffe as a real problem with movies involving martial arts.
We all know (all of us with basal intelligence) that when you’re fighting someone you don’t go in one at a time, you all jump the person at once. Who, oh why, do the people who plan these scenes have stuntguy1 go in first, have him be, like, punched in the face and fall down, then stuntguy2 comes on . . . you get the idea. As a modest martial arts afficionado, I am somewhat disgusted by this lack of basic fighting knowledge.
Take any martial art for a year. Then watch a movie with violence in it. You will never again respect the movie industry for choreographing good fight scenes.
“You will never again respect the movie industry for choreographing good fight scenes.”
So as to avoid confusion, you will never again respect the movie industry for choreographing good fight scenes because they do not, for the most part, try very hard. The only three movies in which I have seen respectable fight scenes: Dragon, Enter the Dragon, and Return of the Dragon.
The refrigerator was pried open, revealing the bomb mechanism. Someone comments that the refrigerator was delivered the day before.
Also, you could also argue that Jeremy Irons’ character deliberately placed the bomb in a school in close proximity to where John McClane (Bruce Willis’s character) was sent with the signboard saying “I hate …”
The Golden Turkey Awards book mentioned that at least a few of the “prehistorical caveman/cavewomen” movies had vehicles in range of the camera, or very visible jet vapor trails in the sky. They also mentioned that in the women in prison movie, “Chained Heat”, the microphone boom was clearly in range during certain scenes.
Thus, your film gaffe buff, DRY, without any regard for the naked women WHATSOEVER, rented the movie. Sure enough, the boom is quite visible at the top of the screen during certain scenes. By seeing who it moves to next, you can predict the next character to utter a line. 
I read on Roger Ebert’s site that sometimes mic booms are visible because the projectionist has framed up the film wrong, or something like that. In other words, yes, sometimes equipment is visible, but it’s not unusual and it’s up to the theater to make sure all is centered up correctly. This seems to be assuming a great deal on the part of theaters, but as best as I can remember, that’s what Rog said.
Did I read somewhere that wristwatches are visible on the Roman soldiers in “Sparticus” ?
That and the fact that every payphone in the airport said “Pacific Bell”. I was confused as hell. I knew the airport was in Washington, but I figured it was the state until someone mentioned something about the president!
I love it when the Foley artists (the guys who insert sound effects) are over zealous. I’ve seen several movies (such as Beverly Hills Cop II) where someone will be firing a pistol, and you’ll hear the tinkle of spent brass falling. Only they’re holding a revolver. Or, as mentioned before squealing tires on a dirt road. Or bullet ricochets in an empty field. In 48 Hours, there’s a scene where four people get out of a sedan, and you can clearly hear five car doors slam shut.
I watched * Goonies * with some friends last night. I’ve watched this movie about 4 times in my life, usually when it’s running on late-night cable.
Toward the end, the ditzy chick triggers YET ANOTHER Goldbergian trap, which causes the wall of the cave to crumble and the ship to sail away, unmaned.
1.) According to the movie, the pirates were stuck in the cave. That’s why they set all the traps. So if they could escape (which obviously they could, the last trap caused the wall to collapse) WHY DIDN’T THEY ESCAPE?
2.) A boat, sitting in water for 400 years would not sail.
3.) A sail, after 400 years, would not hold wind.
4.) A boat does not sail without a crew.
One should not watch movies one enjoyed as a child when one is an adult.
In the movie Where the heart is there are so many scenes where the microphone is shown above the actors head. It was so bad I couldn’t concentrate on the rest of the movie because I kept watching the top of the screen for the microphone to come down again. And once it was down it would stay down for a while, not just a quick peek.
I cannot believe they released the movie with all the mistakes, THEY WERE SO OBVIOUS! How could they not have seen it!