Film mistakes

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Equinox
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Watching The Natural. In the final scene, Roy Hobbs' wound is bleeding through his jersey. It keeps growing in size, making three distinct spots of blood. Then he hits the home run. As he's jogging around the bases, it's back to one small spot.
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Was going to post this. It is even unintentionally funnier when a bit later when Leia says "Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper" to Luke. Apparently being a tall storm trooper isn't all that great.
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Something in Smokey and the Bandit always bothered me but don't find it mentioned anywhere. The sound made when he is peeling out on dirt is the sound you get on asphalt.
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Claude!
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I saw Battlefield Earth in the theaters. That was a pretty big film mistake.
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62strat said:

Brian Earl Spilner said:

Back to the Future 2

When Old Biff gives himself the almanac in 1955, and then travels back to 2015, he shouldn't have been able to return to the same 2015. It would have been the future from the alternate timeline where Biff was a rich casino owner.

doesn't doc go over this on the chalkboard?

Exactly. But for some reason the plot doesn't apply this logic to Old Biff.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark... when he falls into the snake pit, you can see the reflection of the cobra on the glass between the snake and Indy
Martin Q. Blank
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Back to the Future 2

When Old Biff gives himself the almanac in 1955, and then travels back to 2015, he shouldn't have been able to return to the same 2015. It would have been the future from the alternate timeline where Biff was a rich casino owner.

In Back to the Future time travel, it takes a while for the timeline to catch up after something has changed in the past. It's not instantaneous. In the scene you're talking about, when he returns to 2015, he is in clear pain after exiting the time machine because he is disappearing. This is clearer in an extra scene that was cut.

Mr. Thunderclap McGirthy
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I dropped the camera on your mom's head one time.
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91_Aggie said:

Raiders of the Lost Ark... when he falls into the snake pit, you can see the reflection of the cobra on the glass between the snake and Indy

It was remastered to remove the reflection in newer releases and broadcast/cable. I was very disappointed when they made the change.
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I can tell you movies consistently make blatant errors with airplanes and firearms. I can't even think of specifics because it's so common.
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In Dances With Wolves. In the big Buffalo hunting scene….you can see large electrical towers and transmission lines in the far background of the plains.
Philo B 93
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"The Neverending Story" is self-explanatory.

Seriously, I would have though twice about naming a movie that. If it doesn't review well, they've just loaded the critics up with a headline.
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In this scene in The Big Lebowski, the blue Beetle tailing him makes a left turn but should have been a right turn based on the right turn that the Dude just made prior.

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In La Bamba, after Ritchie's death is announced on the radio, the station plays "a selection in honor of the dead". The song is Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny. Ritchie Valens died in February, but that song wasn't released until several months later, hitting the charts in August.
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akaggie05 said:

In this scene in The Big Lebowski, the blue Beetle tailing him makes a left turn but should have been a right turn based on the right turn that the Dude just made prior.



It's also driving on the opposite side of the road. Like you're looking in a mirror.
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Gramercy Riffs said:

In La Bamba, after Ritchie's death is announced on the radio, the station plays "a selection in honor of the dead". The song is Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny. Ritchie Valens died in February, but that song wasn't released until several months later, hitting the charts in August.

RITCHIE!!!!
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In Elf, when "angry elf" Miles Finch throws Buddy against the wall, one of the pictures on the wall falls to the ground. Then in the next shot, that picture is miraculously back hanging on the wall.
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Sooper Jeenyus said:

They don't say how far north?


Looking at a map and it doesn't matter how far north you go... there aren't any desert landscape mountains. Manitoba doesn't even have mountains
Claude!
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knoxtom said:

Sooper Jeenyus said:

They don't say how far north?


Looking at a map and it doesn't matter how far north you go... there aren't any desert landscape mountains. Manitoba doesn't even have mountains

But Womanitoba has two mountains.
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In Ocean 11 there's a scene where Brad Pitt is casually eating a shrimp cocktail while talking with George Clooney. It cuts a couple times and goes from being in a martini glass to on a plate to back in a martini glass. I noticed it even as a kid so maybe they left it in semi intentionally. There's some sort of lore associated with how Brad Pitt is constantly casually eating in those movies I think.
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NormanEH said:

debbie does dallas was filmed in new york.

idiots

Totally unacceptable. I spent 2 years trying to find Debbie in Dallas with zero luck. Two years of my life I'll never get back!
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Ryan the Temp said:

91_Aggie said:

Raiders of the Lost Ark... when he falls into the snake pit, you can see the reflection of the cobra on the glass between the snake and Indy

It was remastered to remove the reflection in newer releases and broadcast/cable. I was very disappointed when they made the change.



Remastering a movie to clean up photography is one thing. Remastering it to tweak a plot or character is another. I am far from a Star Wars fanboy, but I think it sucks that they changed the cantina scene in Star Wars when Han Solo shot Gredo. I liked Han Solo's character better when he was a bit thuggish.
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Less Evil Hank Scorpio said:

In Ocean 11 there's a scene where Brad Pitt is casually eating a shrimp cocktail while talking with George Clooney. It cuts a couple times and goes from being in a martini glass to on a plate to back in a martini glass. I noticed it even as a kid so maybe they left it in semi intentionally. There's some sort of lore associated with how Brad Pitt is constantly casually eating in those movies I think.


I noticed that too as a kid. His character eats in every scene, kinda funny.
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The iron in the background of Forrest Gump when he first meets his son.. down/up..


Martin Q. Blank
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Back to the Future. Watch the M&M jar on the shelf. It gradually goes down because the crew kept eating them throughout shooting the scene.

Brian Earl Spilner
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Less Evil Hank Scorpio said:

In Ocean 11 there's a scene where Brad Pitt is casually eating a shrimp cocktail while talking with George Clooney. It cuts a couple times and goes from being in a martini glass to on a plate to back in a martini glass. I noticed it even as a kid so maybe they left it in semi intentionally. There's some sort of lore associated with how Brad Pitt is constantly casually eating in those movies I think.

He ate three shrimp cocktails.
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Pay attention to the Nachos....

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( ...voice punctuated with a clap of distant thunder... )
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BartInLA said:

NormanEH said:

debbie does dallas was filmed in new york.

idiots

Totally unacceptable. I spent 2 years trying to find Debbie in Dallas with zero luck. Two years of my life I'll never get back!


She's not in Dallas. She's trying to get money to go to Dallas.

At least that's what the internet tells me
Omperlodge
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62strat said:

Brian Earl Spilner said:

Back to the Future 2

When Old Biff gives himself the almanac in 1955, and then travels back to 2015, he shouldn't have been able to return to the same 2015. It would have been the future from the alternate timeline where Biff was a rich casino owner.

doesn't doc go over this on the chalkboard?

They address it in the Big Bang theory. An infinite number of universes are all running at the same speed. Old Biff got back to his original 2015 and either because Marty was successful in stopping him thus no change to the space time continuum or was able to travel prior to the effect taking place in his current continuum. It is the hot tub time machine issue all over again.
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