# Movie Goofs Thread - One Per Post **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594 "2012-12-10T13:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/1 "2012-12-10T13:42:25Z")
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)! ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/2 "2012-12-10T14:08:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/3 "2012-12-10T14:09:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/4 "2012-12-10T14:31:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/5 "2012-12-10T14:38:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/6 "2012-12-10T14:42:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/7 "2012-12-10T14:51:41Z")
You can often see microphone booms dropping into a frame. An obvious one is in \*Annie Hall \*when Alphie and Annie are cooking lobster. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/8 "2012-12-10T14:52:23Z")
Tombstone. At the OK Corral, Doc gets off three shots from a double barreled shotgun. ---
**Author:** ![chargerrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chargerrich/32/5399_2.png) [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/9 "2012-12-10T15:02:14Z")
On the car chase scene topic… 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! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/10 "2012-12-10T15:08:10Z")
In Spider Man 2, during the train fight scene, Doc Ock throws Spiderman _forward_ (in the direction in which the train is speeding). When Spider Man lands, he tackles Doc Ock from _behind_. SM did _not_ circumnavigate the globe, btw. WTF? You can see the sequence starting at 1:40 [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z00fTwhmYX0) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/11 "2012-12-10T16:03:16Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > In Spider Man 2, during the train fight scene, Doc Ock throws Spiderman _forward_ (in the direction in which the train is speeding). 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…) ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/12 "2012-12-10T17:05:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![StJoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@StJoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StJoan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/13 "2012-12-10T17:14:35Z")
It made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs… ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/14 "2012-12-10T18:44:11Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > In Spider Man 2, during the train fight scene, Doc Ock throws Spiderman _forward_ (in the direction in which the train is speeding). > > You can see the sequence starting at 1:40 [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z00fTwhmYX0) 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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSeNDMhnCg0#t=09m36s). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/15 "2012-12-10T18:46:49Z")
In _Superman_, you can see the fillings in Christopher Reeve’s teeth when he screams “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” upon the death of Lois Lane. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/16 "2012-12-10T18:55:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/17 "2012-12-10T19:07:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/18 "2012-12-10T19:12:36Z")
> [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](#): > > 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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSeNDMhnCg0#t=09m36s). Thanks for the earworm. _bing!_ ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/19 "2012-12-10T19:13:38Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > 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. If I remember correctly, Scott sped up the film at that spot for a couple of frames to emphasize how quick and strong Leon was. I’ve always liked it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594/20 "2012-12-10T19:24:05Z")
My entry: **The Terminator.** 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. . [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-goofs-thread-one-per-post/643594.md?page=2)