During the car chase in Bullit (still the best car chase sequence, imho) one of the cars loses a total of five hubcaps. 
This isn’t the Worst Continuity Error Ever, but it is my favorite. There’s an episode of “Seinfeld” in which Jerry eats a black-and-white cookie. The black side and the white side switch back and forth depending on the camera angle. It’s very obvious–I noticed it the first time I saw the episode, and have seen it several times since.
For pizza’s sake, the orderly heard him as he was coming in. End of story. :smack:
Well, I haven’t seen the movie in years and don’t know THAT much about guns and firearm injuries, but I do know that an entry wound is a lot smaller than an exit wound. Just because his brains were splattered doesn’t mean his face should be totally destroyed. Think about it, from three feet away, shouldn’t the impact of something as small as a bullet leave his face more or less intact?
…Unless they showed his whole face and there was clearly no entry wound, in which case I have no answer. Like I said, it’s been a while. Anyway, I’ve seen one or two pictures of people with their faces actually destroyed by gunfire, and I don’t think I mind them taking a little artistic licence with such cases anyway.
In Die Hard 2 where Bruce Willis goes to use the pay phone in an East Coast airport (DC?) the phone says Pac Bell on it.
Of course there is always the jet contrails in the background of thw Wild, Wild West TV shows.
They actually never state the year T2 takes place in. And Edward Furlong was 13 at the time of filming so it’s theoretically possible the movie takes place in 1997 (which would explain why Sarah Connor is having so many visions of Judgement Day).
The two biggest errors I’ve almost remembered as a child was in Willow. It was in the scene where Val Kilmer jumps on that big two-headed dragon thing and impales it with his sword. Problem is, his sword isn’t long enough to stick in from the top of the dragon’s head and protrude out from its chin. I always wondered how his sword went from being about 3 feet long to 5 feet long, viagra?
Another one was where Willow is hanging on the feet of a troll as it dangles beneath a bridge high in the air. We see the two-headed dragon take a chomp out of the troll, and miraculously Willow is the one left hanging on the bridge. Despite him hanging onto the troll’s FEET in that scene. Its always gotten a smirk out of me whenever I see it.
Can I use an example from a movie I saw on MST3K? (Strangely enough, it was not commented on by the 'bots or Mike…) The ‘film’ in question was “Horror Of Spider Island”, and the scene began with a TWO-engined plane taking off, but when the thing started going down, it had somehow become a FOUR-engined craft…
True that nobody mentioned Lore in the scene in which the Data-head is discovered… this bothered me too. However, I think HelloKitty is right that there was a line, albeit much later in the film, that reffered to Lore in an offhand way. I remember pointing it out to my wife, becaue she didn’t know who they were talking about.
The fact that there were no references to this when they first found the head was pretty silly to me, too, but it was mentioned in the film.
The biggest Star Trek continuity error for me was one that became a major plot point, first in the movie First Contact and then later in subsequent episodes of Voyager. When the Borg were first introduced as a species, they were called the perfect hive-mind, with no inividuality and no hierarchy. Each element of the Borg served no purpose but to serve the whole, with no thought for their individual “selves.” This was a scary concpet, and in a way went against most of what the Federation was all about.
Then, we have the Borg “Queen” – this was, for me, the point when the Borg officially “jumped the shark.” The introduction of individual thought and will into the group mind of the Borg made them less frightening, less powerful, and more able to be defeated. Not only that, but it’s a pretty major continuity error.
If you watch the movie, it’s pretty clear that the scene was filmed with the intent of showing Kane dying alone in his room. Wideshots of the room are shown, Kane is the only person seen, he says “rosebud” and dies, drops the globe which rolls down the steps and breaks. Then we see a nurse open the door and enter the room. She goes over to the bed, folds Kane’s arms, and puts the sheet over his head.
Now, my guess is that sometime during the production of the movie, after this scene was filmed, someone realized their mistake in not having anyone in the room to hear Kane’s last word. So the line was added in about the butler, Raymond, hearing his last word and seeing the globe fall. I guess we’re supposed to assume he was sitting motionless in a dark corner of the room watching everything that was happening in the opening scene without stepping in to camera range.
But my guess? Big time continuity error with an attempted cover.
I could be wrong, but I got the impression from that scene that it’s supposed to take place over the course of a few days, or a few months. It shows Kane lingering in his bed, not just his final hour. He probably spent much of that time alone, but he needn’t be so for his last word. So, shots of the room being empty don’t mean anything, IMHO.
Any James Bond film made after 1967’s Casino Royale is a terrible continuity error, merely by existing.
Unless they’re making Bond films that are set in the afterlife, of course.
More Davidian interference?
This isnt the w.ce.E. But is the only one I noticed the first time I saw it that stuck out in my mind as egregious.
In LOTR:FOTR, in the introduction they state that “The ring came to the creature Gollum”. But, he wasnt called gollum then, he was Smeagol. (and, of course, it wasnt found by him, but that can be overlooked.)
One might claim it isnt a continuity error, per se, since the movie may be different from the book, except that in TTT, they do get into the whole “smeagol/gollum” thing.
Some Dialogue from Star Trek: Nemesis
An obvious Data/Lore/B-4 connection even if it is a bit nuanced. Lore was not mentioned specificaly, but they did make a nod.
The one that always bothered me was Frasier. On Cheers, Frasier Crane’s father is dead, and he was an only child. When he moves to Seattle for his sitcom, his father is magically alive, and he now has a brother.
This isnt the w.ce.E. But is the only one I noticed the first time I saw it that stuck out in my mind as egregious.
In LOTR:FOTR, in the introduction they state that “The ring came to the creature Gollum”. But, he wasnt called gollum then, he was Smeagol. (and, of course, it wasnt found by him, but that can be overlooked.)
One might claim it isnt a continuity error, per se, since the movie may be different from the book, except that in TTT, they do get into the whole “smeagol/gollum” thing.
I think you’re joking but for those that don’t know:
Casino Royale is an unofficial Bond movie produced by an outside studio that only had the rights to the novel Casino Royale. So anything that happens in it has no bearing on any future Bond movies.
Plus, it’s an awful movie so I refuse to acknowledge it’s existence.
And on a quasi-related side note, there is a theory going around that much like M, Q and Miss Moneypenny, 007 is just a code name for whatever agent holds that position at any given time. Thus, an explanation for the multiple actors playing Bond (and a nod to George Lazenby’s quip in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: “That never happened to the other fellow.”).
Science nitpick: since Jupiter is completely gaseous (IIRC), where would John Carter even stand?
(Yeah, I know, Burroughs, humor me here, hmm? 
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Ooh! I just remembered the movie Wayne’s World. The first one. There are two that come to mind:
- When the movie fades in, Noah Vanderhoff is giving a commercial for his arcades. He mentions the fact that he has two of every game. He then says, “That means two of Zantar, two of…”.
When he is talking with Rob Lowe about sponsoring Wayne’s World, however, he says, and I quote, “I never mention the games in the ads.”
- Outside of the Alice Cooper concert, Chris Farley, as a security guard, says that the limo belongs to Frankie Sharp, of Sharp records (the vanity plate has his nickname, Mr Big) is looking for talent. He’s in Milwaukee, and will be soon going to Chicago on his way to Detroit.
When Wayne and Garth get the idea to beam a performance of Cassandra’s band, Crucial Taunt, into his limo, Garth says, and again I quote, “Remember what the security guard outside the Alice Cooper said? He said that Mr Big was driving back through Chicago on Friday!”
Emphasis mine. However, Chris Farley’s character, NEVER mentioned the day that Mr Big would be traveling back though Chicago.