No matter how many millions of dollars the studios spend on a movie, mistakes or bloopers are inevitable. Most of these mistakes are continuity errors or something may be visible that shouldn’t be visible. Some pedantic moviegoers watch out for them like hawks and pounce. To be honest, most of us don’t even notice until it’s pointed out to us. Here are some of the more, shall we say…obvious ones…that slipped through the net.
10. Reservoir Dogs
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi
The cult movie about a heist gone wrong produced an unforgettable scene
9. Full Metal Jacket
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio
Kubrick filmed his anti-war movie in England, skillfully using locations to create the story. The attention to detail slipped up however, in the scene where the Marines are jogging in the ‘training camp’. The road they are jogging on shows British road markings, which would not be seen in the US.
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Directed by Peter Jackson
Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood
Fake wounds are common in action scenes and it’s good to remember where they are on the body, so continuity between takes is maintained. Frodo has a scar on his face for part of the film. It keeps changing position and size. It must be the work of wizards (or the make up department).
7. Jurassic Park
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
In the youtube movie clip you can see the “live” movie feed (2:38 mark) which is actually a Quicktime movie being played. Maybe the movie makers thought since this was an Apple Macintosh application most people wouldn’t recognize that it was obviously a pre-recorded movie. The storm effects are pretty good, though.
6. Gladiator
Directed by Ridley Scott
Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
Gladiator brought back the Roman epic, aided by modern CGI special effects and impressive fight scenes. During the Battle of Carthage, a chariot is knocked on to its side and hits a wall, whereupon a blanket lifts up to reveal a gas cylinder in the back. What did the Romans ever do for us? They didn’t introduce a gas supply, that’s for sure.
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Directed by Gore Verbinsky
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Keira Knightly
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise revived swashbuckling for a modern audience. In the scene when Captain Jack Sparrow says, ‘on deck, you scabrous dogs’, a crew member is clearly visible looking out to sea, dressed in a tee shirt and cowboy hat, and sporting a pair of sunglasses.
4. Teen Wolf
Starring Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti
Everyone is aware of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, but the first wardrobe mishap actually occurred during another Championship Game – between the Beavers and the Dragons. In the final victory scene you see Scott’s dad coming out of the crowd to congratulate him. There is a fan behind him who exposes himself to the camera. While Janet’s exposure made the headlines, this exposure may be what started it all.
3. Commando
Directed by Mark Lester
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong
After chasing down the unscrupulous Sully, the yellow Porsche is wrecked on the left side. When Arnold commandeers the Porsche and drives it away, and it’s fine. Of course this may have been the first Transformers movie and we didn’t know it.
2. Star Wars
Directed by George Lucas
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
Someone should have widened the doorways on the Death Star. As stormtroopers burst into the room, one of them hits his head on the door frame. Ouch! At least he had his helmet on. The re-mastered version of the film is in on the joke and has incorporated a ‘thud’ sound effect. Noel Coward famously said, ‘learn the lines and don’t bump into the furniture’.
1. North by Northwest
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Instructing extras on how to behave in a scene is all-important. In a scene in a café at the Mount Rushmore memorial, a young boy in the background puts his fingers in his ears before the sound of gunfire is heard. He’d read the script and knew what was coming!
Thanks to Movie Mistakes, they were instrumental in making this list.
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Was it just me or did anyone else notice the magically disappearing & re-appearing goatee of Dwayne “Rock” Johnson in “Fast & Furious 6” ?
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How about in STAR WARS what ever happned to the scanning crew and the couple of storm troopers that went aboard the MELENIUM FALCON we never see them again not even any bodies
“Phantom of the Paradise” – a perpetual favorite of mine, despite its numerous nits to pick. But they all serve to give the film its own unique charm.
Phantom has lots of continuity errors to choose from, but one of my favorites is Swann’s changing wardrobe. The first time we see Swann going up to his secret viewing room, he’s wearing a cream colored suit. We see him watching videos of the day’s events in the viewing room and presto! he’s wearing a black suit with a red shirt. When we see him again as he exits the viewing room, he’s magically changed back into the cream colored suit.
3. Commando
After chasing down the unscrupulous Sully, the yellow Porsche is wrecked on the left side.
When Arnold commandeers the Porsche and drives it away, and it’s fine.
Of course the left side not wisible from this angle. That is why you can’t see the wreched door on opposite side.
Everybody can make mistake. You too.
So it is okay.
Check out the film ‘Munich’ The retribution begins with a man who is shot in front of a door. He falls face-down. The Israeli assassins go to check his pockets. He is face-up. He managed to turn around? I guess it was the least he could do not to inconvenience his killers.
WHAT THE HELL !
that’s GREATT !
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give me more of this sweet mistakes. All of them are funny.
I personally get so sucked into a movie’s “alternate reality” that, unless the movie totally sucks (and so I have nothing to do but count the mistakes), or the mistake is REALLY obvious (like when a gun has more bullets in it than is possible [and there’s no reloading], but that’s because in some movies, the scene after the shootout depends on “how many shots did each guy fire?”. But other than that, nope. Like Commando – I’ve read about that “car mistake” dozens of times, and I’ve also watched the movie dozens of times, but to this day I never think to look for it when I’m watching that scene. I’m just too involved Arnie’s quips to think about the car dent not being there.
Ironically, I have a friend who loves movies as much (or more) than I do, but he’s also an avid “movie mistake catcher”. Like in Blade Runner, especially in the “early cuts”, there’s tons of small mistakes (well, *I* think they are small). Things like in one scene Harrison Ford shoots a replicant in the back, and it propels her through like 4 or 5 panes of glass, and if you look closely enough you can see that it’s a stuntwoman going through the glass, not the actress playing the replicant. Myself, I’m too caught up in the grand spectacle of the most beautiful and haunting movie ever made. Christ, he’s even come up with ones I never heard of before. Like the other day, I was telling him how Harrison Ford (not known for his prediliction towards “art films”), HATES Blade Runner because, quote, “I play a detective who doesn’t do any detecting!”. Yeah, I think he missed the point of the movie. But my friend replied with, “They know that the escaped replicants on Earth are going after their creator, Tyrell. So why don’t they just stake out Tyrell’s place? Cuz there’d be no movie then, that’s why!”
try watching mistakes in Matrix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0v5H3Uctw
In Jurasic Park I, the T-Rex busts through the barrier, then spins the car around with the 2 kids in it, then T-Rex pushes the car into it’s own enclosure, but there is a 50ft drop where the T-Rex used to be.
Im not sure if the guy above me can read :O Archkyle the man already posted and said in the old star wars movies IE before all these limited editions and collectors sets. When the storm trooper hits his head there is no sound (confirmed) but in later remakes the staff ADDED the SFX of a thud to the scene.
im not sure if ppl realize but if there is a sound effect for something that means it was added during post-production. boom mics are meant for the voices not sfx. so in the star wars movie where the stormtrooper hits his head and makes a ‘thunk’ noise, be assured that sfx was added later on. those doors werent made of metal anyway and thats not the sound a plastic helmet would make against painted foam.
In Spiderman, he climbs up a wall (which should mean vertically) yet his shirt is hanging down, which means he just crawled on a floor that looks like a wall (horizontally)
This is the umpteenth site with this list of mistakes which, in the thumbnail, has Frodo in LOTR about to accidentally wear the ring with a red circle indicating some sort of mistake – and yet I have never seen the accompanying mistake-explanation in the actual article! Seriously, it’s everywhere (and NOWHERE!)
That is not under our control. The traffic exchange site chooses images and I have no idea why they picked that one since we don’t list that mistake. Sorry, I feel your frustration at these misleading images.
What about step up 2? In the end, one of the dancers wore a hoodie, in the other shot, he didn’t and it was going on in the whole scene. After the final dance, Andie’s hank was on her forehead, then it was gone and it appeared again.
What about in star wars where Luke obi-wan and chewy escape from tattoine the just get to the falcon when some storm troopers show up. They get in the falcon everyone starts shooting all the troopers shoot forwards but one of the storm troopers gets hit in the back and rolls forward towards the falcon.
Just a thought from some of us that happen to chance a glance at some of these comments that are posted on boards such as this one. Is it true that a glaring majority of people who take the time to offer their opinions and postulations, are actually semi illiterate or are they just too much in a hurry (lazy) to use proper grammar and syntax? It reflects very poorly on the state of the matter as it were that those individuals evidently could care less if the rest of us think them to be less than eloquent. But I digress…
The expression is actually “couldn’t care less”.
To be TOTALLY, ultra-anal & OCD, the expression is, “could care less” – I mean, if you are judging this a) by how people said it when it first entered the English lexicon, and/or b) by how most people say the expression, then you have to say “the expression is ‘could care less’, but people who say it that way are the reason that the Euro and the UK Pound are worth much more than the US (or Canadian) dollar, and the reason why the average – cover your eyes if you hate Politically Incorrect statements – person living in a “white” European country (Sweden, Netherlands, Malta, etc., etc.) speaks between 3 and 7 languages. Meanwhile, I just read a 1990 article about how Dick Armey was against putting V-Chips into TVs because “kids could use them to hack into the Pentagon”!! (Of course, I’m sure the average American Federal Government worker has become *MUCH* smarter since then… no, I’m just pulling your leg, of course). And Canada’s no better (I admit it when my country does “American things”); in Edmonton, Alberta, there were big signs up in bus stops and LRT stations (LRT pretty much = subway) saying that we could look forward to being able to take the LRT clear across town, and that “its going to happen by the end of this year”! A sign put out by the municipal government, and NO ONE notices that the sign should say “it’s”? I *SO* moving to Norway or Holland or something… just as soon as I learn 4 more languages.
Actually, you’re incorrect. The spelling and corruption of the English language on this site is atrocious. If you say it “I could not care less,” the meaning is obvious. There is nothing of any less importance to ones self. If one were to say “I could care less,” as you imply, then it denotes some importance to the object or task at hand. You care about it, therefore you could care less about it. It’s my humble opinion that people like you say things like ice coffee instead of the proper term, iced coffee (coffee served over ice) and expresso-a completely made up word replacing the correct term, espresso. You can challenge me if you’d like, but I’m correct and I’ll probably never look at this site again in this lifetime.
I was reading over my post, and you’re (not “your” or “youre”) totally correct. I was 1/2 sleeping when I wrote it. I guess I was trying to say that American linguistics has deteriorated to such a base level that, even though “I couldn’t care less” is **PROPER** English Grammar, 99% of people in America say it incorrectly. So, in a country where the high falutin’ dictionaries annually add things like, “gangsta” or “LOL” or whatever (even though nobody is going to be using those terms in a decade or so); and a country where Jesse Jackson was rallying for Ebonics to be taught in the schools; then it’s not that big of leap to say that, in America, “I *could* care less” is understood to be the correct way of saying the expression we’ve been discussing.
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in commando wehn his jeep is suposed to not work and he pushes it down the hill to get speed you se the tail lights are turned on
No one has mentioned the continuity era in Casablanca. Wet trench coat in rain while reading letter, dry trench coat when boarding train.
Never noticed that! If you send me a link to a YouTube video of this we will add it to the playlist for this list.
Great! By the way, as a Czechs/foreigners we have a lot of fun with movie´s translators/translations. Everybody here, in Prague, loves “The Rock” (movie) cause of legendary soldier called gen. Attorney (probably John?:-)
You may want to delete or replace #7, the video it links to has been deleted.
Thanks, Rags. We have replaced it.
Coyote Ugly. One moment the girls dancing on the bar are soaked, the next they are completely dry ;D
Y’all forgot another classic. In the first Star Wars movie there was that pack of cigarettes left on the floor of the hangerbay floor. I caught it once years ago when it was first mentioned, but lost that copy of the tape over the years. watch any newer copy and you cannot find it, or at least i haven’t.
The Departed – great movie and I have watched it at least 100 times. Towards the end, when DiCaprio arrests Damon, he handcuffs him on the roof to bring down the elevator. When in the elevator, he slams Damon against the wall and he puts his arm out to brace himself, clearly not handcuffed. At the very end, when Wahlberg shoots Damon, the dead guy on the floor is not Damon. He has a 5 o’clock shadow, black hair, and different clothes.
How is Boyz In the Hood not on this list? The raking of all those leaves with no tree is classic. They even made fun of it in “Don’t be a menace to South Central while drinking your juice in the hood.”
how about the matrix redux the cars flipping didn’t have an exhaust or muffler. in Reservoir Dogs the door opens and Harvey Keitel walks over and closes it and you can see the sound truck. Reservoir Dogs cost 1.2 million and is a great movie. but to continue pulp fiction the bullet holes are always in the wall behind Jules and Vincent along with a bad cut when Butch raises the sword to zed. but what does it matter those people make quality work ant it’s appreciated
to Anne Iredale put up or _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ !
you can fill in that blank
Someone said before about Step Up 2.
It’s at the end, Moose is talking to the girl and his hat changes direction numerous times.
it amused me and my friend for a while:D
For the commando one you don’t actually see the side that he’s on when he drives away. According to the clip there is no error.
Sure there is. Granted, when he backs up, you see the opposit side, but when you see the rearshot of the car driving away, you also see the dirvers side (granted from a very tight angle, but you see the entire side). In the clip given, you can freeze frame it right before it changes to 0:18 seconds to get the side fully lit too.
The editing of Commando was the biggest blooper – how many times did we see the blue stunt bags at the bottom of the shot whenever a bloke fell of the roof?
The movie flannel pajamas was playing.. it was about 1am my wife and I were watching it when at this one point of the movie.. one of the actors said to another “what’s his phone number” or something like that.. so he gives out this phone number complete with “212” area code and not a “555” number.. So I call it. At 1am. And a man picks up the phone- and says ‘hello’ guess who it was?
The Director Jeff Lipsky-
He didn’t even say that much.. I thought it was a pretty cool easter egg that I found.
Well the best part it isn’t as noticeable as it may seem as I never noticed them before.. Until Now!! Haha
NxNW=best film evar thx 4 pointing out that kid
It seems more likely than reading the script that was a second take or they had rehearsed it and that ‘s how the kid learned when the noise would erupt. must’ve used a very loud on set sound effect.
AQUADUCT!
Kubrick was trying to show what Parris Island was like.
Having gone through Marine Boot Camp several years ago, I remember the British Road Markings. We were planning on attacking England. There wasn’t any reason for it. We were just tired of having to take over really crappy places and England would be a nice change of pace.
In reality, I can tell you that no other movie in history comes as close for me, as showing what the Marines and especially what Parris Island Boot Camp was like, than this film.
In the movie “Stop Loss” there is a scene where SSG King has just gone AWOL. He drives to his parents house and is about to hop over the barbed wire fence. He starts to jump and they cut to him just getting over it. When the cut to him, it is now a chain link fence.
Another pretty large mistake… in Twister, when they are driving the red truck and avoiding all the flying debre, the windshield is smashed, but changes side when they go to a view from outside.
You missed the most epic one, docs kid pointing at his “flux Capacitor” in the ending of Back to the future 3 :
Thanks! I just started a playlist on our YouTube channel for this list and this video is the first one.
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Please leave additional clips in the comments if you want them added. Cheers –
Number 3 was a mistake in the movie “The Italian Job” as well. In one of the last scenes where all three mini coopers are being chased by the helicopters, “Handsome Rob” tells “Left Ear” to open the passenger door and stop the guy on his motorcycle. The door comes off but in the next camera shot, the car doesn’t have a scratch on it and looks brand new.
Well I don’t know what she was doing but that was not a man exposing himself in the teen wolf clip. That was definitely a girl…you can see breasts.
Yeah, I’m still wondering how this one keeps going…
I always figured she ate too much at craft services and popped the jeans to get a little relief, but forgot to reclose them before filming 🙂
I don’t know if the person who wrote this actually watched these movies, at least #3 Comando, the porche scene he is talking about is actually false, yes the porche gets wrecked onto it’s side , however it doesn’t just jump to a scene where he drives it away, unless it’s a tv version with scenes cut short, because he pushes it back over onto it’s wheels before doing so. I know this and i haven’t watched that film since the late 80’s ealry 90’s.
It doesn’t matter what scenes happened between the two, unless one of the scenes involved them getting some serious body work done on that car.
And, granted, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Commando, but I don’t think you’re right. You’re saying there’s a scene where Arnold flips the car over onto it’s wheels before they drive off by AFTER they get in? Logic not detected [a]bort, [r]etry, [f]ail.
Tell you what, go rent the movie and watch just that part then. He runs the guy off the road where the yellow porche goes up on its side, after he hangs the guy by his ankle over the guardrail and drops him, he walks over and pushes the car over from its side onto its wheels and drives off.
JJ, I think you are completely missing the point. It has nothing to do with what happens between, the fact of the matter is still that the car recieves damage to the side, and later on, the damage has dissappeared. Unless you can tell me that there is another scene inbetween missing where he takes the car to a mechanic to have some body work done to fix the dents on the side?
Also, Matrim’s comment is correct… In the first part of the clip, you can see them sliding themselves into the car, this happens after he has pushed it back onto it’s wheels, so really, where is the problem? The big problem is the side of the car, as you should be able to see if you watched the video posted and watched the placements of the rings and what happens inside them :/
there is two more movie I've seen before that has a mistakes too. .
1. Transformer 1 : when the people talking in the dam, the clock on the wall is "spin faster" than the time.. I don't know, why short talking spend about 15 minutes. ( showed by the clock in the dam's wall).
2. Mission Imposible III : When Tom Cruise fight in the factory ( I think ) and he want to safe his wife, after the fight until the enemy down and unconfuse, he throw something in front of his enemy face, but the unconfiuse enemy blink his eyes..
I found it my self.. and i never read it in any blog or website before..
In regards to Transformer 1 – in the scene where he scrambles out of his jeans when fighting the little guy (megan fox took a saw to it), he jumps into the car in just his boxers and takes off. Next scene they are in the tunnel and get “kicked out” by Bumblebee. And he has on his jeans that he left at the last battle. Where did he get them?
Okay, forgive if I’m wrong because I haven’t seen that movie in awhile, but I do remember when they go to get Megan Fox’s (was her name Mikayla or something in the movie?) phone, (which was actually that transformer) Sam quickly grabs his pants…Or she grabbed them, I can’t remember. But they did get his pants 😛
That is right. When they drive over to get her purse and phone, his pants are also there.
goonies has a lot as well, when sean ashtin was yellin at the guy who played hes brother he called him by hes real name
I love finding mistakes like these. It only makes me like the movie more!
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Great list. I saw Brothers today, and in one scene a man is being walked down a hall, and we see from behind the character's head and the head of a man with long grey hair. The shot cuts to the front of him and the man had short black hair. I don't watch for bloopers, but it was way too obvious.
Regarding Reservoir Dogs, I think there is another more important mistake about the film.
In the blastoff scene, where everyone is being gun pointed and then shot, NOBODY is aiming his gun towards Nice Guy Eddie, but when the shooting begins, he receives a gunshot and dies.
so…..Who shot nice guy eddie?
Keitel shoots twice, once while standing, once while going down. I had to do a frame by frame myself.
what about three men and a baby when the director's son appeared behind the curtains ….. well probably wans't a mistake but a paranormal thing.
That’s stupid. It was neither a child nor was it a ghost. It was a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson. I’m sick of this stupid myth.
waaawaaa boo hoo. i’m sick of your insinuating that a ghost can and indeed does look like Ted Danson. Thats what the world is sick of….it’s you.
Similar to the road markings FMJ entry – in the Wolverine movie the bit where he is living as a lumberjack is set in Canada but filmed in NZ. there is an aerial shot as he drives his car across a bridge and road marking can clearly be seen – it is a white arrow pointing the opposite direction to the way he is driving as in NZ they drive on the other side of the road.
Note to guys in post treatment – Whoops! you forgot to block something out!
The storm effect were good in Jurassic Park because the footage is real. A hurrican hit Kauai (one of the movie locations) while they were filming.
I always thought it was funny to see the cobra's reflection in the Raiders of the Lost Ark and you could see the pole under the truck when it flipped and exploded when Indy was trying to save Marion.
These little quirks give movies more personality, I think.
Movie makers are only human after all!
Watch “step up 2 – the streets” during their last dance performance on the streets where some1 keeps changing outfit…
Yeah i saw that in step up 2 the streets….also the girls hair kept in the rain made me laugh. It was all in the face and messy and a second later it had been brushed back. Blatently cut for a touch up
i think its stupid to put your energie into finding this faults if this mean your not enyoing the movie plus the more faults the bether the movie caus those faults don’t show becaus of the great montage so just stop waisting time and try doing better
Um… maybe you should take time to spot your spelling mistakes if you are going to be telling someone off. Just a thought.
so sick of this lazy comeback.
shut up.
Right on! I agree!!
It is just for fun, joker. Why so serious? Lighten up.
yes ofcourse
Making mistakes, that’s a paddlin’
Protecting those who made mistake, oh you better believe that’s a paddlin’
I can respect any comment that uses a Simpsons quote. They delight me. 😉