If you enjoy movies, you probably also enjoy picking out funny movie goofs. So I thought a fun thread would be to list single movie goofs, one per post.
Post as much as you like, but one per post please.
I will start with a classic; The Godfather.
James Caan as Sonny Corleone beats Carlo (Talia Shires Husband) in the streets. If you pay attention there is a VERY obvious missed punch (a right handed hook) that is EASILY a foot off the mark but the actor (as Carlo) does his choreographed move nonetheless.
I do believe it is one of the most obvious fight misses you will find (I am serious you could walk through the gap from fist to face)!
Singin’ in the Rain has a ton of goofs, but the most obvious one is during Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse’s nightclub dance. There are a few frames missing from the movie due to a very clumsy cut, and the two appear to completely change positions without actually moving.
A well-known one: In Pulp Fiction, when the two hitters are in the apartment with the young men who stole the briefcase, you can see the bullet holes in the wall behind them before any shooting takes place.
Diamonds are Forever, the car chase scene. The Mustang encounters a narrow alley, so the driver puts in up on two wheels with the driver’s side (left) down.
The car is then seen leaving the alley with the passenger’s (right) side down.
Oops.
Speaking of Mustangs and car chases, in the classic Bullitt car chase where the bad guys’ Charger loses five hubcaps during the course of the chase and which ones are missing in which shots are more or less random.
Blade Runner, the scene where Deckard is confronted by Leon in an alleyway (“Wake up…time to die”). As the fight begins, Deckard pulls his gun, which Leon swats away. There’s a weird little jump cut at that point, as if the shot was spliced together from two takes. Always bugged me, for some reason.
Working off memory but I think I am pretty accurate:
Commando with Arnold. There is a night time chase scene on a mountainous curvey road that ends up with a Porsche 911 flipping on its driver side, pratically destroying the entire side of the 911.
After Arnie dispatches of the bad guys, he flips the 911 back upright, jumps in to drive off, camera cuts to a different view and the 911 speeds away with its driver side clearly in view and with nary a scratch!
Once you know it’s coming, there’s a moment in SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE where you can’t help but see Jor-El of Krypton turn into Marlon Brando flashing his Rolex. (It maybe wouldn’t be so bad, except it’s the close-up where all your attention is on his hands, since he’s dramatically lowering his infant son to salvation…)
I watch the Alastair Sim “A Christmas Carol” every year just to see that stagehand show up in the mirror behind Scrooge when he wakes up on Christmas morning.
Ouch - I realise it’s eight years old now, but who are those plasticine people, and why are they fighting in a Playstation?
As for the mistake, I vote for the last shot in the MST3K-spoofed 1967 Eurospy movie Danger Death Ray. Not a particularly famous move but the goof is extraordinary; the shot is supposed to show the main character tossing his wristwatch radio into a swimming pool (he’s fed up with being a spy), but… just look.
In Transporter (1 or 2, can’t recall), Statham is driving an Audi, but the W12 logo on the grill keeps appearing and disappearing as they used different cars for different shots in the same chase sequence.
In The Great Escape (one of my all-time favorite films), the color of Blythe’s socks keeps changing from grey to white and back again as he rides the trolley through the tunnel.
Also, the German villages in the backgrounds of the “on-the-road” scenes are clearly the same town shot from different angles.
during the “monster isn’t really dead yet” scene, the TT rises from the flames behind Kyle and Sarah. Zoom in a little and you can see a guy behind the props as he reaches up and pulls down a handle of some sort that pulls up the robot model. He’s nearly dead center on the screen, and once you’ve noticed him you’ll never unsee it.
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