Mistakes in movies..

[bayrodney]

Hey,

I was just curious to see how many of our CMONers can spot any mistakes, bad lines, or anything else done poorly in movies. And, if anyone has any pics of these mistakes that would be awesome.

I\'ve heard of a few mistakes. In LOTR:FOTR on one of the apples in the movie there is still the apple sticker and in one of the scenes when they are on the mountains you can see a 4WD in the background. lol

Im just curious to see all the mistakes thay have been made in different movies.

Cheers Guys

 

[KingM]

I know a good LotR one, in the scene where Faramir finds out Frodo has the ring (in some caverns). There are these big barrels behind the hobbits, then in the next shot they randomly disappear.

Also, there is a bit of scripting weirdness, at one point Arwen says \"The light of the Evenstar does not wax away\", but wax is to grow more powerful right? wane is to diminish

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by bayrodneyin one of the scenes when they are on the mountains you can see a 4WD in the background. lol

I watched the extended DVD and the director\'s narration explains where this happened, but he points out that they erased it digitally from the DVD so it was only seen in theaters.

Can\'t think of any movies right now, but I remember a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he\'s sitting in a bed and for just a brief half second, the pillow behind him completely vanishes.

 

[No Such Agency]

I was watching this terrible, terrible film called \"The Guyver\"* once, and at one point there\'s a brief glimpse of a boom mike over this wall the characters are fighting beside. my bro and I laughed our asses off and I rewound the movie to see the \"boom mike error\" again. Then the fight smashed through the wall and some people are filming a movie behind it! At that point I knew the makers of this terrible, terrible film were the kind of cool mofos who would do that just to screw with the nitpickers in their audience.

* It has Mark Hamill in it. He turns into a giant lizard and runs amok. \'Nuff said.

 

[mrteal]

My all time favorite is still in A New Hope where the stormtrooper in the background hits his head while coming into the docking bay control room. I still rewind and fast forward numerous times and it is still a great laugh. lol

 

[Naukhel]

There\'s billions of these type of things.

In Krull, due to an open stage door, a space ship flies past a parking lot if you watch closely.

It\'s lots of fun to find these things and laugh at them.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

One of my favorite things to look for in movies is if I can see the camera. In one movie the main action was happening next to a van. On the side of the van you could see a reflection of the entire crew.

In another someone was in a phone booth and as the view pans around the booth you can see the camera guy, clear as day.

In the Dirty Harry movie Sudden Impact there is a scene where Harry is alone in his car in the woods and the camera approaches the car from behind. In the sideview mirror, again clear as day you can see the film magazine with the word Panaflex.

One thing I have noticed relating to the camera not being seen is that in most movies, rain or shine, night or day, most of the shots you see of someone getting into a car, the window will be rolled down.

In the first Indiana Jones movie, Indy is thrown down into the snake pit. He falls to the ground and comes face to face with a cobra. You can see his (or the snakes?) reflection in the glass protecting him. Also in that movie was the scene where the Ark is being taken from Indy in a desert gorge. Indy is on a ridge with a bazooka. The fellow in white looks up at him and as talking, a fly lands on his face and walks into his mouth and dosent come out.

 

[Einion]

Wow... Jesus, I was just thinking about adding a thread on this a couple of hours ago!

Einion

 

[Sithtainius]

this is more of a theater mistake, but when Tiff and I went to go see a movie, the cameraman aimed it too low, and it cut off the bottom of the fim, but added to the top, so you could see the boom mic in EVERY scene....it was hilariouslol

 

[Einion]

Subtle: in a Goldien Hawn movie (Best Friends?) there\'s a conversation outdoors during a rainstorm and among all the fast raindrops is this regular, slow, drip right in the centre between the two characters, presumably water dripping from the boom mic just out of frame. Since then I\'ve noticed this is many films.

In The Matrix if you watch carefully you\'ll see that sunglasses can have a matt finish to prevent unwanted reflections and in maybe the next shot they\'ll be über-reflective; again you notice this in a lot of movies on helmet visors etc. Really annoying for me I must say!

Obvious: in True Lies when they\'re \'threatening\' Bill Paxton\'s character at the dam, in the first aerial shot the sluice right beneath them is dry, then about 30 seconds later it\'s wet.

One of my favs because I didn\'t spot it myself: in the roof shootout in The Matrix when Neo empties his handgun at the dodging agent the windows of the building across the street don\'t break.

Also in this category is the stormtrooper banging his head that was already mentioned, I can\'t believe I didn\'t spot this the seven or eight times I watched the movie...

Continuity snafu: the magic growing/shrinking/growing ash on the cigarette in the interrogation scene in Basic Instinct.

This is a type of thing you learn to keep an eye out for as it\'s rarely done well. Similarly the level of a drink, the ice in a drink or the fizz in Champagne will often change in the wrong way.

Geeky: in Raiders Of The Lost Ark many of the German weapons are from later than the date the movie is supposedly set at, the most obvious being the MP38/40s most of the soldiers\' appear to be armed with.

General complaints: one thing that movies (Enemy Of The State) and TV (CSI) do constantly, which grates on me no end, is the apparent infinite resolution of surveillance-camera recordings (no matter how crappy the camera is in some cases!) allowing them to blow an image up and get a reflection off an eyeball (!) or some such nonsence. Related is the impossible camera angle some of this footage is from; in stuff with a low budget, or a poor director, it will be shots we\'ve already seen before.

The power of bullets is so often exaggerated out of all proportion but you just have to accept it as a stylistic thing, although in realistic movies it\'s grating.

The shhhhinnngggg when a sword or dagger is drawn, grrrr

Einion

 

[Trevor]

The Matrix.

Right in the beginning, you know that bit where you can get power from human bodies, er... it takes far more energy (in the form of food) to produce that than you could ever get back from body heat or electricity or whatever it was they were taking. Come on, thats basic thermodynamics, ruined an otherwise OK film for me. :flame:

It really annoys me when people do dumb out of character things in films.

 

[Sithtainius]

Originally posted by Einion

The power of bullets is so often exaggerated out of all proportion but you just have to accept it as a stylistic thing, although in realistic movies it\'s grating.

the flip side of that is that they\'re just as often under-powered. how many times have you seen the hero or bad guy hide behind a car or car door? the bullet would go right through the door and still get \'em....

 

[Gin1906]

My husband all time Grrrr in the movies and they do it all the time with revolvers, when they check the bullets, then give the barrrel a spin, you hear the clicking, spinning sound, (hope that actually made sense) any how revolvers dont make clicking sounds when the barrel is open and spun, he cringes every time, and alway gripes about it!

Gin

 

[Shawn R. L.]

One of my big complaints about Starwars (amongst others) is you have military robots. Made for combat. Hardwired to shoot well. Could probably thread a needle at 200 yards. In an absolute hail of laser shots at close to medium range, these high tech weapons platforms cant hit the broad side of a barn whereas the humans while jumping,rolling,running are doing \'one shot one kill\'s\' over and over and over..............and saying \'it\'s the force\' just dont cut it. Gimmie a break.

 

[Sand Rat]

General complaints: one thing that movies (Enemy Of The State) and TV (CSI) do constantly, which grates on me no end, is the apparent infinite resolution of surveillance-camera recordings (no matter how crappy the camera is in some cases!) allowing them to blow an image up and get a reflection off an eyeball (!) or some such nonsence. Related is the impossible camera angle some of this footage is from; in stuff with a low budget, or a poor director, it will be shots we\'ve already seen before.


If I know the episode of CSI your speaking of I think the image in questions was supposed to have been taken with a pro level digital or film camera. The thing that got me about it was that all they had to resolve was the print, not the negative.

 

[Ritual]

LOTR: FOTR - When Arwen races for the fords of Bruinen there\'s a very short close up of her and Frodo and you can clearly see Frodo is a doll who looks lifeless and NOTHING like Elijah Wood.

Gladiator - When one of the Gladiator chariots is smashed during the large battle re-enactment you can see some sort of engine or pneumatic device in it.

Sleepy Hollow - Johnny Depp writes down notes in his notebook and you see a close-up when he writes \'Balthus van Tassel\'. Then you see the name in close-up again and the handwriting is slightly different. Later you see the page for a third time and then it\'s yet another writing.

My all-time favourite mistake must be in the old Spartacus when one of the gladiator slaves has a wrist watch. lol

 

[SaxonAngel]

I have a tendency to pick out mistake in films. It annoys the hell out of my husband in theatres. I can name dozens and dozens of mistakes. But I have one favorite:

The Boob-grabbing scene in \"Return of Jedi\"

During the battle for the bunker on Endor, Leia gets shot in her left arm. (now SLOW your VCR down) Han then grabs her arms and pushes her back into the entranceway. Watch his hand come up and push her boob back with her as he shifts position. Watch Carrie Fisher grin...

Always a classic.:bouncy:

 

[bayrodney]

Thanks guys ( and girls.......and umm others). anyways, thanks for that, i will be sure to check out some of these movies

 

[Crackpot]

mistakes und misuse

Normally I don\'t have an eye for those things. I just won\'t realize those mistakes but I discovered one in \"Terminator 3\":
When Connor, Kate and the Terminator arrive at the lonely trailer you see Kate exit the car, then there is a cut to the Terminator and after some talking a cut back to kate and she still sits in the car... lol

But what realy drives my crazy in nearly every movie is the \"misuse\" of the defibrillator.
Victims with a flatline (cardiac arrest) are alway treated with a defibrillator and get shock after shock, till the heart begins to beat again... (or not )
In reality you will never find a doc doing this!!! You only treat people with ventricular fibrillation with a defibrillator so that the fibrillation is stoped by the shock. Normally you THEN get a flatline (cardiac arrest) which has to be countered with cardiac massage.
The chance, that you get a normale heart activity by shocking a patient is nearly 0%...
So it may look very spectacular in the movie but makes absolutely NO sense.
(I hope you understand what I am talking about, it\'s tricky enough in german but the translation is even harder... )

 

[Modderrhu]

Movie mistakes are not things that I readily pick out. But this one was obvious when it happened; in the film Legend, there are three goblins. In one of the scenes where the goblins are chasing the unicorn, four goblins are visible. The film was initially supposed to have four, but the fourth was removed during filming.