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Ace Ventura 1
Ace Ventura 2
Air Force One
American Pie
Apollo 13
Armageddan
Austin Powers 1
Austin Powers 2
Beavis And Butthead:Do America
Bethoven 1
Bethoven 2
Big Daddy
Blair Witch
Bow Finger
Bride Of Chucky
Cable Guy
Cant Hardly Wait
Con Air
Congo
Copland
Cruel Intentions
Deep Blue Sea
Deep Impact
Dumb And Dumber
8mm
End Of Days
Entrapment
Eyes Wide Shut
Fathers Day
Fear
Forest Gump
The Game
Ghostbusters
Great Expectations
Gremlins
Halloween
Happy Gilmore
Haunting
HighSchoolHigh
Home Alone
House Arrest
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Independence Day
Jaws
Jerry Maguire
Jurassic Park
KingPin
Kiss The Girls
Lake Placid
Lethal Weapon
The Lost Boys
ManOnTheMoon
Matrix
Men In Black
Mission Impossible
Mouse Hunt
Mummy
Mystery Men
ACE VENTURA 1
In the opening scene, someone is crawling through the shattered rear windshield of Ace's car while it is in motion. They show a shot from inside the car and the guy has about half of his body in the car. When they show an outside shot, his hands are barely inside the car. Then, in the next inside shot, half of his body is still in the car.
When he is in the aquarium tank looking into the glass, he has his glasses in his left hand, then it switches and he has them in his right the next second.
When the people take the dolphin and put it in the truck near the beginning, they close the truck door and the door is red. When it shows the truck driving away, the door is white.
At the end of the mission impossible music, where Ace is sneaking into the billionaire's private Aquarium, there is a plant in the hallway shown from Outside of the building when Ace swings opens the door. But when he slams the door shuts and is inside the building no plant is there.
When Ace is in the tank and has found the ruby stone in the filter, he shakes it out onto his hand...from the far shot the gem is in the upper area of his hand, but when the camera comes in for a closer shot the gem is in the dead centre of his palm.
When he is in the asylum he is trying to hide in a little cardboard box from an employee of the building he crams himself into the box and when the man leaves he breaks out of it. He ends up completely squishing the box underneath him. When the camera comes in for the close up shot the farthest side of the box from the viewer is now undamaged.
When Ace rescues the dog and replaces it with a toy-dog, the toy-dog is in an impossible position. Ace had to place it there when the door was still open, but if door was closed after that the man should have knocked over the dog.
In the scene where Ace just gets out of the empty dolphin tank at the football field, Roger Pedacter is a football coach trying to stave off the media. Take a look at the sweat stain on the back of his shirt and see how it changes sizes.
ACE VENTURA 2
Towards the end of the movie, after Ace figured the whole scheme out, the bad dude is sitting in front of a chess table playing chess as Ace comes in. For the next several shots of the dude, the chess pieces are in place. Then, all of a sudden, the chess pieces are mysteriously absent. The dude is just sitting in front of a chess table.
When Ace is hit with darts, his shirt falls off his shoulder but in the next shot, it's back on.
On the plane to Africa, the stewardess asks Ace if he wants peanuts but he winds up eating sunflower seeds or something of that nature because he spits the shells out on the man's arm. [As seen in the first film, he carries them around with him all the time - probably why he refused the peanuts]
Air Force One
Kinda half way through the movie, Harrison Ford is shown being clever by having the other planes fire on the plane, thereby engaging the automatic pilot, so the bad guys have no control of the plane. At the end, when the MiGs come after them, Harrison Ford is shown again as being clever by dodging the missiles they fire at him. Apparently that automatic system got lost somewhere... [Harrison Ford turns it off before he takes control]
Towards the beginning of the movie, after Air Force One lands in Germany, both pilots are killed and one of the terrorists assumes control of the 747 as it slides across runways, taxiways, etc. In an effort to take-off, he guns the 747 right at a Cargo Plane on the ground. At the last second he pulls up just in the nick-of-time to avoid a collision with the Cargo plane. Just after lift-off the camera view switches from a view of the terrorist pilot's face to a scene of jeeps, trucks and other military paraphernalia left on the ground in the wake of the 747 take-off. However, in this scene shot 2 seconds after lift-off, the cargo plane is no where to be found. It just seems to vanish. [The camera position is in front of the ground troops, so the cargo plane would be behind the camera, hence out of sight].
When Harrison Ford tries to enter the conference room when he comes upstairs from the lower level, he first struggles with the guard to the conference room door. While fumbling with the keys, the guard "wakes up" and shoots 2 shots toward Harrison Ford, where he turns around and shoots back. Those 2 shots from the guard leave bullet holes in the conference room door (the left door), and no one in the room gets shot from the bullets. Anyway the mistake is when Harrison finally enters the room, the bullet holes disappear. Whenever the bad guys return, the bullet holes are gone.
During the attempted landing of AF1, when Ford is piloting, the aircraft is seen leaving the runway and moving on green grass and earth (meaning the ground is not hard but soft). The softness of those combined with the weight of AF1 would never have let it get back off the ground. Ask any pilot, it's impossible.
In one scene a terrorist is seen taxiing the 747 on the ground using the control column. Like most commercial jets the aircraft is 'steered' on the ground using a tiller which is to the left (or right) of each pilot. The control column is only used for take off, landing and in flight. Only excuse: The terrorist may not have known this.
When Harrison Ford is fighting one of the terrorist guys, they go into a room with two chairs. Ford spins a chair to knock down the guy, and they keep fighting. As the go at it we see a knocked over stool with a black seat. Instantly, in the next scene, the stool is standing up, and in a perfect position for Ford to knock the guy out with.
When the traitor first begins to shoot the 3 people, we see a close up on one of the victims (the one who gets shot in the head). If you look behind him in slow mo, you'll notice that the furniture is already red (from the blood).
American Pie
When Jim comes home to find the fresh-baked apple pie that he eventually...anyway, the note his mother leaves says "I made you're favourite!" [Acknowledged by the director as a mistake].
The boom microphone is visible at the top of the screen but at least 3 or 4 different times.
In the scene where the father hands the porno mags to his son, if you look real carefully, you can see the son hide one of the covers from the camera with his hand.
In the scene where we see Finch running through the school looking for a men's room because he just fell victim to the laxative gag, he is tricked into going into the ladies' room. One question comes to mind. Granted we know he always goes home to relive himself because he doesn't trust the public restrooms, but you would think (assuming he's been going to this school since he was a freshman-about four years approx.) that he would know where all the men's rooms are in the school?
In the bedroom scene actor the girl is holding a clear cup full of beer. The camera goes off her and when it comes back she is holding a blue cup. The camera goes back off her then on her and the cup is clear again.
When Nadia is going through Jim's drawer in his bedroom, a tub of Vaseline magically disappears from one shot to the next.
Around the middle of the film, Oz's shirt changes going from the car park to the library, and then back again when he's singing in the classroom.
When the school is watching Jim and Nadia over the internet, they can't hear what they are talking about. When Nadia puts on the music, everyone watching can hear the music.
Oz at one point (in the sandwich shop) says he is playing lacrosse at MSU, presumably Michigan State, in the fall. They do not have a lacrosse team there.
In the one of the scenes in Jim's bedroom (I think when Nadia is there), when the drawer with the porno mags is opened there is a jar of vaseline in the shot when it is opened, a split second later the jar of vaseline is gone.
In the same scene on top of the drawer a small white box appears at the same time the vaseline disappears.
In the scene were the lacrosse team is in the locker room, right before OZ comes in singing, Stiffler is talking to his friend saying "Man, that cheerleader, she wants me man, she called me up last night asking for my number..." If she called him up why would she need his phone number?
After the prom when Jim and Michelle are sitting on the couch, Michelle is wearing a silver hair band. When they enter the room where they make out she is not wearing a hair band and her hair style is completely different.
Either the fattish main character is a bit dumb, or the US educational system is, or the writers are out of date. 'Cause when the guy mentions his interest about Nadia to his mates, he refers to her as: »that Czechoslovakian girl«. Czechoslovakia was split in two countries a decade ago!!
When the boys are sitting in the living room talking about how they have to "do it" before graduation, one of the boys sitting on the couch has his legs crossed, then they uncross, cross,and uncross. They keep changing positions.
Apollo 13
You have to be a Beatles fan to notice, but in the scene where Lovell's daughter is whining and moaning that the Beatles have broken up, she slams "Let It Be" (the album) into her rack. Apollo 13 occurs on April 13, 1970. Let It Be was not released until May 9, 1970. Must pay to work for NASA!
In the part where the mission control guy is explaining how they're going to sling shot around the moon, the pictures on the chalkboard change.
The corvette Tom Hanks drives is the '70, '71, or '72 model, but the scene where we see him drive the corvette is in July 1969.
As the Apollo 13 crew is readying to "slingshot" around the back of the moon, burn calculations are being made by Houston which are relayed to the crew. Tom Hanks is calculating total fuel amounts in the various fuel tanks by mathematical addition using a slide rule. You don't add and subtract with a slide rule. You multiply and divide. [Wrong - the only time a sliderule is seen is when the crew are transferring from the Command Module to the Lunar Module and they need to convert the gimbal angles. Lovell (Hanks) is attempting to work out the conversions using pencil and paper. He asks for confirmation that he has got the figures right. At this point we see one of the flight controllers using a slide rule to check the calculations, which DO involve multiplication and division]
After their slingshot around the back of the moon, the movie's tenseness calms as Tom Hanks turns his head to look out one of the module's windows at the moon, and then turns his head to the other adjacent window to look at a serene view of the earth. The tenseness shouldn't have calmed. If the moon is on one side of you and the earth is on the other ... you're going the wrong way. [Correction - space modules don't have a "front" - they can travel in any direction at any attitude. He's going the right way, just not pointed in the direction he's going].
There is a shot of Ed Harris, and lying on his desk is a pack of Camel cigarettes. On the pack there is a surgeon general's warning. However, in 1970 there were no warnings on cigarette packs. [Correction - apparently warnings were introduced in 1966. It's possible that the wrong warning was used (it changed several times over the years) - can anyone read it?]
Just after the explosion, there is a shot of Odyssey's instrument panel with the mission timer reading 91 hours and 34 minutes. The accident occurred around 56 hours into the flight. The next time the mission timer is seen, it reflects the proper time.
While the flight director (Gene) is talking to a guy about bringing the spacecraft's power down, there is a side shot of Gene saying: "that's the deal?" now, his hands are in front of him (playing with a pen) the very next shot he has his hands by his side and the man next to him has his head in a different position (a very short time to move your arms and head like that).
When the Apollo 13 rocket is taking off the arms that hold the rocket in place come off at different times, when they should have come off at the same time or the rocket would have crashed. [The arms holding the rocket in place are at the base of the rocket, and we only ever see one of these. The arms further up just hold connections such as fuel lines and power cables, and only have to come off quickly enough so they don't hit the rocket - they don't have to detach at the same time].
The movie is set in 1970 when all telephones in the USA were analog and had a fixed connection. However, in the movie, the phones used are connected to modular jacks (the kind used everywhere for digital connections and that can be pulled out of the socket).
When Lovell is talking to his wife on Earth about the moon she asks him where is her mountain (Mt Marilyn) He shows her it is near the top right of the moon's face. When he is behind the moon Bill Paxton mentions "There is Mt Marilyn" Then "Look at that Tsiolkovsky crater" Tsiolkovsky is on the far side of the moon so couldn't be anywhere near Mt Marilyn. [If you're in the right place, you can see the far side and near side at the same time - obviously not all of both sides, but it's like if you're hovering over the atlantic you could see the UK and USA, even though they're miles apart].
The Admiral that Tom Hanks is talking to on the aircraft carrier at the end of the movie is the real Jim Lovell.
Armageddan
When the NASA space shuttle pilots are being introduced to Harry's men, the female pilot (I do not remember her name) is wearing a flight suit and has her long hair worn down. This is against military regulations - women's hair must be worn up, or cut above shoulder length when in uniform.
They say the asteroid is the size of Texas (800 miles wide), which is a lot bigger than the largest known asteroid. Not necessarily a mistake, but maybe....
En route to the asteroid, the two space shuttles head to the Russian space station to refuel. To simulate gravity, the cosmonaut aboard the space station fires a few rockets to put the space station into the spin. How fast does it need to spin to reproduce Earth gravity? Assuming the space station's spoke arms (where the shuttles dock) are about 50 feet long, the answer is 8 revolutions a minute. That makes it impossible to dock - it'd be like trying to drive a car on ice-covered roads into a spinning parking garage. There's another, more fundamental, problem: the artificial gravity points in the wrong direction. Think of spinning rides at the amusement park. The spinning motion creates an artificial gravity, an effective outward-pushing force. On the space station, the spinning would tend to throw the astronauts down the station's spoke arms and back onto the shuttle. Also, the artificial gravity would taper off to nothing at the centre. But the movie's artificial gravity somehow points down, not outward, and appears to work equally well throughout the station.
After they leave the space station, they head to the moon, and then pull a slingshot U-turn with all engines blasting, ostensibly using the moon's gravity, to increase their speed and come up behind the asteroid. Imagine you're in your car approaching a sharp hairpin turn. You floor the accelerator. What happens? You fly off the road. Same thing here. In the real universe, that manoeuvre would send the spacecraft flying right past the moon and away from the asteroid. [Apparently this is completely untrue - you can't compare slinging around the moon to a tight turn in a car, because in a car you don't have the gravitational pull. As you approach the moon you'd have to accelerate in order to avoid crashing into the surface].
The movie's plot is to drill an 800-foot-deep hole, drop in a nuclear bomb, boom! and the explosion blows the asteroid in two pieces that fly apart in a V-pattern, missing Earth on both sides. Supposedly there's not enough time for the two pieces to spread out and miss Earth. One newscaster says the asteroid passes zero barrier 3 hours, 37 minutes before impact. Multiply that time by the asteroid's 22,000 mph speed. That means zero barrier is 80,000 miles out from Earth. Earth is 8,000 miles wide. Assuming the asteroid is headed toward the bulls-eye middle, that means you have to deflect both halves by half that, or 4,000 miles. At the zero barrier point that means changing the course of the rocks by 2.8 degrees. Doesn't sound too bad, does it? Except Texas is big. Real big. At 800 miles across, it's one-third wider than the largest known asteroid. Something this big is also heavy. Assuming the asteroid is a nice, round, 800-mile-wide sphere and as dense as a typical asteroid, it would weigh about 7 billion trillion pounds. (That's 7, followed by 21 zeros.) Now let's figure out how fast you have to push those two chunks in the up and down directions to make them miss. Simple calculation: 4,000 miles divided by 3 hours, 37 minutes equals 1,106 mph. How much energy is that, blasting two half-Texas-size rocks to just over 1,100 miles per hour? The equivalent of 500 million 10-megaton nuclear bombs. The would-be world rescuers brought along just one bomb. Oops.
There are two crews boarding their spacecraft, called Freedom and Independence. They are mounting a ramp and when on top, there is a guy who directs the two different crews toward their ship: "Independence on the left, Freedom on the right." We even see the ships (in their initial launch phases) right next to each other - you can see one right next to the other as they launch. Then, once they're airborne, we see a long shot of the two bright engines, miles apart.
When people around the world are shown watching the President's address to mankind. there is evidently no change of daytime and people almost everywhere are sitting there in plain daylight, although it should be night according to the world´s time zones. [The film's set in summer, so it's possible for there to be good amounts of daylight at the same time across the world. Except, as someone else pointed out, it's WINTER in the Southern Hempisphere. Oh, it's too complicated...]
After the ship crashes on the asteroid and Ben Affleck goes to the cowboy guy and sees that he's dead, you can see the cowboy's eyes moving.
A traditional space blooper: you can't have explosions in space.
The asteroid is said to be tumbling on all three axis, and therefore communications will be lost for the rest of the mission. A diagram of the asteroid rolls on all three axis is shown behind the characters, and if it rolls that way, it would return to its original spin position every now and then, resuming communications.
Setting the thrusters on in the "Armadillo" while it is spinning, would cause the vehicle to spin either out to space, or to crash into the ground.
Early on in the film, the space shuttles are described as having the strongest hulls in the history of the space program (that's got to be pretty damn strong). Why, then, would it be so easy for a machine gun to cut the hull to shreds as it did when the mining truck was removed from the crashed shuttle?
In the initial scenes which show the gigantic asteroid, there are many relatively smaller asteroids surrounding it. According to studies, any of those asteroids (about 3 or 4 miles across) would be able to take out half the planet.
During one of the escape sequences, one of the astronauts says that they are under a pressure of eleven g's. Although it is sometimes possible for people to withstand ten g's, it's practically impossible for anyone to be concious at eleven g's. They should have blacked out. [Not true - some, maybe all, fighter pilots are tested at 12G's and they all pass the test (men and women)].
The montages around the world show a boy listening to a transistor radio. In order to make it look truly Americana the boy has an old-fashioned earphone in one ear but continues to hold the transistor radio up to his ear as though the speaker were working in addition to the headphone.
After crashing on the asteroid, Ben Affleck walks outside surveying the wreckage while debris is strewn out burning on the ground...burning on an airless asteroid in space.
When Harry goes into A.J.'s room, he gets mad and sticks the end of the golf club at A.J.'s throat, with the tip of the club to the left. The next scene, the tip of the club is facing to the right.
This isn't actually in the film but on the video and on the DVD box we see a Space Shuttle - just a normal, bog standard Space Shuttle but in the film it is never used - they use a made up space craft, 30% bigger than the real shuttle.
What are the chances of little (relatively speaking) asteroids hitting specific, well-known cities around the world? Hmm....
Since sound is made by waves moving through air and the air moving back and forth, there would be no sound in space...but then the movie would be boring.
The asteroid is the size of texas, yet has Earth gravity as shown when pipes are dropped on the ground and don't float at all. The only time there isn't earth gravity is when they need to fly.
Another traditional problem - the timer on the bomb counts too slowly.
Why have the armadillos got guns?
Don't nuclear blasts a) blind you if you look directly at them, and b) wreck all electronic circuits within a very large radius?
When Ben Affleck's Armadillo needs to break out of the space shuttle, they shoot up the walls of the hull of the ship. But then when they drive the Armadillo through the hull, the ship breaks apart at the seams rather than at the bullet holes.
This might an obvious thing to criticise (along with all the others in this film) and maybe I missed something, but the basic flawed premise of the film is that its easier to train oilmen to become astronauts than to train astronauts to drill holes - yeah right, I can really believe that. [Possibly - they don't have to do much astronaut stuff, but drilling requires a detailed knowledge of rock strata, and presumably a large amount of experience].
When Bruce finds out his oilrig cut an extra 200 feet the night before he gets mad and throws his golf club at the greenpeace boat, next thing he is in Ben's room wielding a club, I guess he stopped off to get another club on the way? [Er...yes - he had a bag of them.]
Just a point of interest, the guy who freaks out (and fired the machine gun at everything) and the Russian cosmonaut are the same duo in crime in Fargo - Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare.
I cannot believe that with all the hardware that is on a space shuttle that they could not rig up a simple method of setting off the trigger of the bomb without leaving someone behind. The coffee maker timer would do!
The first meteor is a direct hit on a street vendor in NY where the dog is chewing on one of his Godzilla figurines in one scene. The next scene shot from a distance, the dog is still chewing on his inflatable Godzilla.
And after the meteor hits and the view is from the inside of the hole, you don't see the things that are lying over the edge of the hole, as seen in the above ground shots.
Austin Powers 1
There are close-ups of Burt Bacharach playing piano and singing to Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley on top of a "bus" as they cruise through Las Vegas. From a long shot as the vehicle travels by, it's very obvious that it's not Burt playing, but a stand-in.
At the end, during Austin's confrontation with the FemBots, he lights them all a cigarette. In one scene the cigarettes fly into their mouths. In the next scene they are gone and they are no where around them.
When Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley are on top of the bus, for one scene Mike Myers' teeth are clean.
After Austin and Vanessa's night on the town, she falls asleep on Austin, holding a champagne glass, the laptop computer starts beeping, and when Austin pushes her off of him, the glass disappears.
In the scene where they are going through Las Vegas on the top of the bus there are several times when Austin stops walking and Vanessa does not.
Also in the scene near the beginning when Austin is walking around naked and Vanessa is holding a magnifying glass she is concentrating very hard on watching the monitor off the screen.
Watch the people who fall back into the fire, courtesy of Dr. Evil. As they fall back, watch their feet - they roll off to either the left or the right.
When Austin confronts the fembots, he counts them and brings up 8 cigarettes.He then lights them. In the next scene, it has a wider shot of Austin, and it looks like about 30 cigarettes are in his mouth.Then, it drastically reduces to 3, then 1.
When Austin first encounters the fembots, just right before the lead one gasses him, and the nozzles come out, look closely at the bottom left of the screen (during the headshot of the lead one) and you'll see the nozzle is already out on her left breast.
When the Irish assassin & Austin Powers are in the bathroom, after he fails to strangle Powers, Austin grabs him and shoves his head in the can. If you look closely, right before his head enters the toilet, the back of his hair is already wet.
In the scene where Liz Hurley gets drunk and the laptop rings, the first time it shows the laptop, there is an alarm clock behind it. First it reads about 10:30 or so. The 2nd time it is off.
When Austin is unfrozen you see the scientists remove the wires clipped to his ears, then suddenly they are back.
When Austin and Vanessa are riding the bus down the Vegas strip, the bus changes directions on the strip between shots.
At the end when they are trying to stop the drill from going into the earth, Austin runs into the room and starts firing his gun. Each time he fires the gun there is a flash. If you watch, you'll see he fires 3 times, but there are only 2 flashes.
In the bachelors' party, when the man takes the call his beer is a quarter facing the camera and when he comes back it's all the way facing the camera.
When Austin sits down on the toilet his pants are still on, then when he is fighting with the henchman they are pulled all the way down.
Near the end when Christian Slater comes back with the orange sherbert Austin has no gun, and then in the next shot Austin has a gun but no sherbert.
Britain has a Ministry of Defence, not a Ministry of Defense.
Austin doesn't just have "bad" and "good" teeth - there were three sets of teeth that they interchanged to give different effects. In the romantic scenes they used the nicest ones so as no to gross-out all the females in the audience.
When Austin picks up the laptop after the 'Night on the Town' he opens it normally. (Like a suitcase on your lap, or computer for that matter). But when he closes it, he closes it like a book. He either should open it like a book to or also close it like a suitcase. [I have to say, even by this site's standards, does it really matter? Isn't a man allowed to open and close a laptop how he wishes in a free society?]
In the scene at Alotta Fagina's penthouse, you can clearly see the side of her swimming costume as she gets in the jacuzzi - she's meant to be naked (I think).
The scene where Austin is doing the modes of transportation (the canoe, the escalator, etc.) he uses the word elevator. Now if Austin and Vanessa are both English, why didn't he use the English 'lift'?
In the scene where Austin and Vanessa are unpacking in the hotel room and he suggests that they shag, she reminds him that they are only sharing a room on the "context" of being husband and wife. The word she means is "pretext."
In the casino, Number 2 uses his X-ray eye-patch to see the next card is a 4 of something, but it should be mirrored. [It is mirrored - it may not look like it, because the 4 is on its side].
When Austin and Vanessa are flying over to the states on the cool plane, there is a scene where Vanessa and Austin are talking, if you concentrate on Vanessa she has her glasses on, then in the next scene they are off, then they are back on again, how can she do this this in the space of seconds?
To reach the centre of the earth, you must travel 4000 miles. For Dr. Evil's drill to achieve this feat in 3 minutes, it must go 80,000 miles per hour. This is impossible to happen. [Well, yeah, but this is Austin Powers...]
The centre of the earth is NOT magma, it is nickel.
When the warhead is on the cart in Dr. Evil's lair, they use the same footage twice.
The Jumbo Jet hadn't made its first flight until 1971 even though Austin has one up and running in 1969...
In a scene near the start Austin goes through a "warm liquid goo phase" in a big metal container. When he come out it has vanished.
During the honeymoon sequence at the end of the film, if you look towards the bottom left corner of the screen during the "milk jugs covering nipples" bit, you can see a bit of red duct tape covering Liz Hurley's nipple from behind one of the milk jugs.
When Austin and Vanessa are in the bed and Vanessa is drunk in one scene Vanessa has a wine glass in her hand resting on te pillow while in the next shot of her she has nothing in her hand but her hand is still resting on the pillow.
Austin Powers 2
I'm going to get this out the way first, because SO many people have mentioned it. Scott was NOT a test tube baby (watch all the way through the credits). He WAS conceived that night by Frau Farbissna and Dr. Evil, and therefore he SHOULD be about 29/30. It IS a mistake.
Part of the time Doctor Evil's eyes are blue, part of the time they are brown. [Specifically when he's talking to the President in 1969]
In the scene when Mini-Me and the young number 2 (Rob Lowe) grab for the cookies, when Rob Lowe grabs there are two, one that looks like chocolate chip, and a plain one. When Mini Me grabs for it there is just one.
There is a scene when Austin and Felicity spend a day on the town, go back to Austin's shag pad, then separate for the night. The next day they are back in the same exact clothes as yesterday (after a clothes change piece the night before).
When they're doing the whole "penis" insert joke the second time, they show Woody Harrelson in the '60s. [Probably deliberate].
Supposedly Number 2 is killed in the first one when he is dumped into the fire, but he is alive in the second one. [He's not killed in the fire, just burned - explained by the burn on his face].
If you travel back in time, you still are who you are, but when Austin travels back in time, his nice straight teeth become the way they were, yellow and messed up. [All time travel mistakes are justified when Basil Exposition addresses the audience and says "that goes for you too" after telling Austin not to think about physics of time and just enjoy the ride.]
In the scene where Felicity shoots out Mustafa's tire, you can see in the next two shots that the tire is fully inflated as it goes off the cliff.
When Dr. Evil is demonstrating how his "Death Star" will work, he lines up the "laser" with Washington D.C. Then later on when he is arguing with his son, the "laser" has moved way above Washington D.C.
When Dr. Evil comes through the portal back to 1999, his double is in the same shot standing to the left; except he doesn't look anything like Dr. Evil. Not really a mistake but still it's something to notice.
In the scene where Mini Me is drawing the goodbye card to Scott, (before they go to the moon) you can see that the drawing is already on the page and Mini Me just traces it over.
All of the short dance numbers that separate scenes, even in the beginning of the movie, show Austin with his "bad" teeth - except for one.
When Austin and Felicity are being shot at, after he escapes the party by crashing through the window, watch where the bullets hit around them - there is no way Austin or Felicity could have walked away from the attack. [Almost certainly a dig at the Bond films (or, indeed, most action films) where the good guys always get missed].
When Dr. Evil is negotiating with the president in 1969, one of the military officials is the exact same actor who played the general from the first one who was in the scene when they unfroze Austin.
After Austin decides he can't "perform" for Felicity he gets in his car and drives away, in the LEFT seat. He's supposedly in England, where we drive on the left, so the driver's seat is on the right. [This might be deliberate, in keeping with the "isn't it strange how England looks exactly like Southern California" comment. Alternatively, someone pointed out he's driving the new VW beetle, which was only available in left hand drive at the time].
Towards the end, when Felicity Shagwell is captured in that glass tube, there's a shot of the entire room and she is yelling for Austin Powers but her lips aren't moving.
The actor (Mike McDonald) who finds the penis-shaped ship on radar is the same actor who, in the first one, gets run over by the steamroller.
Frau announced the countdown for Dr. Evil & Mini-Me's departure to the moon, yet we later see her on the moon. [And for that matter, what about everyone else? Some people might already have been there, but not everyone...]
After Austin and Ms. Shagwell are finished harassing the Palace guard, there is a scene that shows them talking, and you can see that instead of a bearskin, the guard is wearing a different kind of hat.
Probably deliberate, but when they are in 1969, all the music you hear is actually from the 1970's.
They say that mini-me is 1/8 of Doctor Evil's size when actually he is much closer to a 1/3 or 1/4. [An explanation: Using pounds as the divider, Mini-Me was approximately one-eighth of Evil's weight. To prove how this would work, get eight dominoes. Put four on the bottom row, four on the top. Take away seven. One-eighth of the total is left. Ah, but it STANDS half as high as the total stack].
When Austin and Felicity walk across a major London Street, prior to the seen with Burt Bacarach, there is a major mountain range in view behind them. This is obviously the Universal backlot. [This is probably deliberate, in keeping with "isn't it strange how England looks exactly like Southern California?"]
How does Fat Bastard know the lyrics to the "Chilli's Baby Back Ribs" song back in 1969, before it was composed?
An interesting thought....since in the first one, the Frau said they used some of Evil's frozen sperm, perhaps in Austin Powers 3 Dr. Evil's OTHER child will come back?
Towards the beginning there's a scene where Austin and the girl are interrogating a guy at gunpoint. During this entire scene, the girl is holding the trigger on the gun down!
The Dr Evil rap "Just The Two Of Us" starts with the lines "From the moment I heard Frau / Say I had a clone..." However, it was Number 2, and not Frau, that told him about Mini-Me. [Although it was Frau who said "send in the clone"]
In the Scene where Mini-Me is first seen, in the shadow on the screen where he is projected as full size before Number Two says he is 1/8 the size. Mini-Me is in a different stance in the shadow projection than when the screen lifts to show him to everyone.
In the scene where Dr. Evil is explaining the "death star" to his partners he says: "As you all know, the moon rotates around the Earth..." This is wrong. The moon REVOLVES around the Earth, while rotating on its axis. There is a big difference, well, at least according the the New York State Earth Science regency...
In the whole movie, Dr. Evil's head switches from completely bald, to shaven. Also, in the scene when Austin is in his blue jumper in The Allan Parsons Project's main chamber, you can clearly see Dr. Evil's stand in and he's about 6 inches taller.
At the end of the movie when Fat Bastard barges in to Austin's pad and almost takes the whole door with him as parts of it crumble around him. But later when Felicity brings all the swingers into Austin's pad for the party, it clearly obvious that the hole the Fat Bastard made in the door is a little more defined, as if it was a cut-out of him.
When Austin asks Mustafa where Dr. Evil's secret volcano layer is, he then says, "do I really have to ask you two more times?" He then asks again and Austin and Felisity both insist that he asked three times, when he really only asked two times.
When Austin is fighting with Mustafa at the side of the road, we see a red London telephone box. But if you look inside, you can spot a modern day push button phone. No way were these around in the 60`s!
Beavis And Butthead:Do America
In the scene where Beavis & Butthead are walking off with the school's AV equipment, when they get to the outside steps, you can see that they are not dragging any equipment behind them, when they were doing that just a couple seconds before. Oh, and the equipment they were dragging with them does show up after the whole unit falls down the outside steps.
When Beavis & Butthead are walking at night looking for their TV, Beavis is seen with a remote control clicking it into nothing. When they get to motel and start pounding on the doors, Beavis no longer has the remote control
From the point where Muddy is introduced in the movie to the point where he drops Beavis & Butthead off at the airport, he takes eight swigs from his whiskey bottle and yet the amount left in the bottle never changes.
In the scene in the car going to the airport, Muddy explains that the boys are to get back a satchel for him. When he demostartes how big it is, the whiskey bottle in his hands magically disappears and reappears.
There are no bongos in the song "Love Rollercoaster", yet in the casino scene in the movie where the song is played, the band has a bongo player.
Beavis' desert hallucinations were drawn by Rob Zombie (for those who don't know, the lead singer of metal band White Zombie.)
Bethoven 1
At the beginning when Beethoven was a puppy, the puppy switches are very noticable. Especially when Beethoven is making his way to the Newtons' house, the colours of each puppy the film makers use for each scene are very easy to tell apart.
Bethoven 2
In the scene where the woman owner of Beethoven's girlfriend (Virinia or something like that) tells her boyfriend (Floyd) to put the leash on the dog, he goes to do so but when you see his hand clip the leash on, the shot changes to a woman's hand clipping the leash on (The nails are covered in nail polish).
Big Daddy
While Adam Sandler bathes the young actor in the bath tub, the microphone recording the sound for the scene can be seen protruding into the field of view of the camera.
When the little kid's in the bed, Adam lays three sheets of newspaper on the bed. The camera cuts away, then goes back, only to see that there are a lot more pieces of newspaper on the bed.
There's the part when Sunny Kovacs takes Julian to McDonalds. Then they meet the street rat and he doesn't stop talking, so Sunny tells him "I'll buy you a sausage McMuffin" but the street rat says "No, I'd like an Egg McMuffin". Then when Sunny and Julian come back out of McDonalds, the street rat asks "Where's my sausage McMuffin?" Then when Sunny & Julian are warning the roller bladers not to move fast, the street rat comes back on his bike and asks him "you owe me an egg McMuffin".
When the kid is making cereal and spills the milk, it runs between Adam Sandler's legs. In the next shot when he's cleaning the milk the puddle is not where it was before, it's all in one spot.
In the courtroom scene, Julian and Sonny embrace in a hug with Sonny's right hand over his left hand behind Julian. As they speak to one another the camera angle changes and shows Sonny's left hand on top of his right.
Blair Witch
In the beginning they are interviewing ordinary people (locals) before going off into the woods for a weekend documentary. Two of the people they happen to interview are two local yokels fishing in a small, shallow river. The mistake is that the men are fishing in the river, and one of the men is using a large, open water lure called a 'Rattle Trap', a lure that's primarily used for largemouth bass in large, open waters, not shallow trout streams. You can't present a 3" lure to a 10" fish. It just doesn't work.
When the trio realise that they've lost the map why don't they just rewind their footage in the video camera and pause it when they find one of the many points where it is in shot?
Under these circumstances, one should always walk downslope until you meet a stream and follow that downstream until you meet a river and so on, the theory being that there tend to be settlements on rivers and lakes. Plus you are navigating by a realworld feature not by some arbitrary point on a map (if you still have one). Heather surely would know this as she reminds us she is the one with all the hiking/map reading experience.
If you look very very carefully at the very end of the film when Heather and Michael are looking for Josh, just before they go into the house, Heather is filming and has Michael on the camera, but somebody wearing white tracksuit bottoms is standing at the side...
How come they have the battery power to film for so long? They're in the woods for longer than they thought they'd be, and surely they didn't bring hundreds of spares, just in case!
Bow Finger
There is a scene where "cops" get out of the car to stop Eddie Murphy and the fat guys face melts (?). The skinny cop appears out of the car then back in then out.
Bride Of Chucky
In the beginning, when Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) has just had her soul put into the bride doll, she is reading the "Voodoo for Dummies" book and Chucky tells her that the page she is looking for is in Chapter Six, page 217. When she flips to it, the camera shows the top of the page before panning downwards. On the top of the page it very clearly says "Chapter Eleven".
Cable Guy
Throughout the whole movie the cable guy calls himself Chip Douglas. When Steven is in prison and asks him his real name, cable guy replies Larry Tate. Later in the movie, Steven tells his friend to track the cable guy down and says "He calls himself Larry Tate but he told me his name was Chip Douglas." That's backwards.
After Chip brought Steven on the trip to the information super highway, and Steven is just about to get out of the van, Chip is smiling, in the very next shot he is very very serious, and then starts into an odd smile.
During the "Midnight Express" scene, Chip (Jim Carrey) opens his shirt and presses his chest against the glass. The shot moves to Steven (Matthew Broderick), and as we pan back to Chip, he is sitting, phone in hand, with his shirt buttoned.
Cant Hardly Wait
At the party Denise gets hit in the head by a pot brownie. She has fudge on the side of her face and in her hair. As she goes upstairs to the bathroom, the fudge is a smaller spot on her cheek.
In the beginning when Preston is talking to Denise about when he first met Amanda, he says she was eating a Pop-Tart. You can see when she is leaving, the pop-tart is near the centre of the desk, but it shows it falling off when no one ever touched it.
When Preston is about to talk to Amanda on the couch and when he kicks over the candles, before he kicks them over you can see that there are only 2 or 3 candles. When he sets them back up, you can see that there are 5 or 6 candles.
When Preston is reminiscing about when he first saw Amanda, when the teacher is showing Amanda to her seat, you can see Preston is talking but his lips aren't moving.
Con Air
In the scene when the aeroplane is crash landing in Las Vegas, it follows a flight path from shot to shot that would have been physically impossible, one moment bearing down on the strip, next downtown, back to the strip, back to downtown, and back to the strip before crashing there.
The Debbie Reynolds Museum is not located along the strip.
When they show the plane crashing into the Sands Hotel, the hotel no longer exists and they used the explosion from blowing the hotel up to use in the movie. [Apparently not - it was only partially demolished].
When the villains have made their lousy landing at the airfield and the police are coming, Cyrus opens a box with shotguns and throws one to his fellow convicts. The next scene shows the convict catching the gun, and it has somehow turned into an M-16.
When the plane takes off from Lerner airfield, it flies over John Cusack and the other agents, trailing the car. Quite a few seconds after flying over them, the car hits the tower and flies off, still falling away from them. However, they then have to stand back because the car falls at their feet, despite the fact that by that stage the car would have been at least 200m away from them.
The type of fire pump that would be on the ladder truck that they're driving at the end can not pump water and drive at the same time. The transmission has to be moved from "drive" to "pump".
The plane at the end of the movie also breaks off the guitar at the Hard Rock Cafe. The Hard Rock Cafe is not even close to the strip.
Some people have said there's no tunnel in Vegas: there is a tunnel in Las Vegas. At the time the movie was filmed they were building an expressway that does tunnel under Las Vegas Blvd., but it's not as long as the movie projected it to be. [Still wrong - the tunnel goes under the runway to connect to I215 - it doesn't go under the Blvd.]
When the car hits the control tower and falls. You can see the "azz kickr" licence plate still intact. A few seconds later a crumpled up licence plate that says "azz kickr" is picked up by Colm Meany. [It's been a while since I saw this - couldn't the plate have been crumpled after it fell?]
Just before the plane crashes in Las Vegas, Swamp Thing grabs a crash helmet, where did this come from?
Poe handcuffs Cyrus to the ladder and then it hits a walkway but Cyrus flies off. Also he lands on a conveyer belt and gets his head smashed in by the pounder....why was this ugly thing in the middle of the strip?
Poe writes a note to the US Marshall on Pinball then throws him off the plane. Pinball lands on a car after falling - there wouldn't be much left of Pinball yet alone the message.
Cyrus takes over the plane and tells the pilot not to radio anyone and then leaves the cockpit, no one is watching the pilet why dosen't he report the take over on the radio?
Congo
When everybody is in the cave there are rocks falling on them, but when the rocks go in the water, they float!
When our heroes are in the hut, with the African warlord, there is a lot of money. At a time, they throw an bundle of dollar bills, and the top-bill flips over, and shows that the next is just plain white paper.
In the scene in the cave where they finally found the white diamonds, they take the diamonds from the stone-mine-wall with their fingers and the diamond is alredy cut like a jewel (diamonds in their "raw" form look like rough glass).
When everyone is jumping out of the plane, Monroe tells Peter he'll take Amy. The pilots jump out along with some equipment, then some porters. Mr Homolka has to be pushed out and Karen jumps out after him. Peter then goes and so there's only Monroe, Kahega and Amy on the plane. Monroe and Amy jump, but we never see Kahega jump even though he manages to land before Karen Ross and Monroe.
Copland
The first scene with Murray Babitch driving across the George Washington Bridge from New York to New Jersey was actually filmed going the other direction. When driving from New York to New Jersey on the lower level of the bridge you enter a black tunnel first, and exit through a yellow tiled tunnel. The scene in the film starts in the yellow tiled tunnel - New Jersey to New York direction.
In a scene between Liotta and Stallone on the front porch, Liotta deliberately lays his pop or beer can on its side on the porch railing. In the next scene it is standing upright.
There's a scene after supercop jumps from the bridge with a paramedic smoking a cigarette close to the butt. The camera switches and suddenly his cigarette is a freshly lit one.
Midway through the film a character speaks to Stallone from the back of his squad car and then gets up and leaves. I thought you couldn't open the back door of a police car from the inside.
In one of the scenes, Stallone's character is playing a record. The music we hear is a song by Springsteen. However, the record doesn't have the red Columbia Records label that all of Springsteen's albums have. They obviously decided to use Springsteen's song later.
When Sylvester Stallone is asked why he couldn't join the NYPD, he points at his left ear and says it was because of deafness...but his deaf ear was the right.
Cruel Intentions
When Sarah Michelle Gellar and her half-brother are looking at Reese Witherspoon through binoculars, there is a shot of the two and above them is a boom mike for a good 2 seconds
In the scene where Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Philippe are arguing because he won't sleep with her, he grabs the phone from her and slams it down. But when the camera shows the desk, the phone is on the opposite side from where he slammed it into the receiver.
In the swimming pool scene between Annette (Reese Witherspoon) and Sebastian (Ryan Philippe), a positioning mark can be seen quite clearly on the floor.
In the final scene where Annette is driving the Jaguar and having flashbacks, watch as she drives past lovely rolling hills and pastures. Cut to a helicopter shot of her driving the car along a New York freeway (FDR I think...) This mistake has been confirmed by the director.
In the end where Sarah Michelle Gellar is in the bathroom (right before the service) she puts some memocards in front of her on the sink. There's a line highlighted with a yellow marker. In the next shot the card has got no marked text. The third shot it's back again.
Deep Blue Sea
In a scene near the end of the movie, Carter is swimming back to the wet lab through flooded passageways. At the beginning of the swim, his left shoe is completely untied - you can see both laces floating. In the next full body shot (where his shoes show) the shoe is tied again.
Carter pries open a door with a knife that is on as sheath on his leg. The knife breaks and he throws it away. In the final scene, when Carter and Preacher are laying on the wreckage, the knife is clearly visibly back in the sheath on Carter's right leg.
At one point in a shaft L.L. Cool J's character throws down a rope to save a few of the characters from the fast rising water. The shot shows them pull back the rope and shut the door. A few scenes later, the rope is hanging down the shaft again.
Toward the end, as people are fleeing the coastline, we see a group of refugees watching a television on a truck alongside the road. They are watching MSNBC. Must have a pretty long cable.
In the scene where Preach saves Carter, Skoggs and Susan in the elevator shaft he uses a rope made of bedsheets, we see the rope get pulled up and the door close. But later when Preach is in the elevator shaft the homemade rope is still dangling in the water.
In the scene where L.L. Cool J. is in the flooded kitchen and the shark comes in through the door, he climbs up a shelf then falls in the water then climbs out again. Before he makes his way to the oven you can clearly see that under his pants he is wearing knee pads.
Isn't it convenient that the water level is always at waist level. Never knee high or neck high, just above the waist.
Sharks can't jump like crocodiles, yet they make a short leap when they attack their prey.
Sharks can't stand still or back up because they get water in their gills.
Anyone notice the shark could break through a steel door in 4 or 5 hits that's made to withstand tons of water pressure, but it takes 6 or 7 direct hits to get through a chainlink fence at the end and never succeeds?
The sharks can break through metal, but not the glass in the oven where one of the characters is "hiding". Must be some strong glass...
Deep Impact
When the President is making his speech at the press conference he says that the as comet had been seen by a Young Explorer's Astronomy Club on a mountaintop in Arizona. Then when everybody's escaping from the coastal areas and it shows Leo driving down the highway looking for his girlfriend there's a sign for Virginia Beaches. Arizona is a pretty long way to go on a field trip, don't you think? [One contributor had a field trip to Seattle from Florida once].
Elijah Wood's character supposedly lives in Richmond, Virginia. Near the end of the movie, everyone is fleeing the coasts and we see a sign reading "Virginia Beaches: 5 miles." Richmond is 100 miles inland. And while there is a city called Virginia Beach, not a sign exists in the state that refers to the coast as "Virginia Beaches." To make matters worse, Elijah Wood and Leelee Sobieski outrun the wave to the mountains, which are 60 miles on the other side of Richmond. Furthermore, there is no observatory anywhere near Richmond.
I could go into the physics involved in landing on a comet but do I really need to?
When they are launched into space and change over to the other space craft they are all wearing street clothes, and then in a scene when they are getting closer to the comet they are all wearing NASA shirts. [Might they have been able to change in between scenes?]
If you happen to have the DVD version of the film, have a look at one of the trailers. In the movie trailer they show the comet hitting the ocean at an almost right-angle. On the actual movie the comet enters the atmosphere at an angle, thus letting the people watch the comet travel to across the sky into the ocean.
At the end of the film, when the comet hits, the tidal wave washes over New York City, smashing first into the Statue of Liberty, then Downtown and the World Trade Center, then sweeping uptown, depositing Lady Liberty's head somewhere in Midtown. The only problem with this is the fact that Manhattan Island doesn't face East. It doesn't even face the South. It lies on an angle in a Northeast/Southwest direction, top to bottom (1:00 to 7:00 on a clock face). That means a wave that started in the middle of the Atlantic would have to take a pretty sharp right turn at Brooklyn (over 90 degrees) to travel uptown in a Northeasterly direction.
During a scene where the boss of the TV station is talking to his staff, when he finishes he takes off his glasses and starts to move off his chair. Yet in the next shot he gets off the chair still wearing his glasses.
Dumb And Dumber
You have to know Colorado to get this one, but the two guys are on a trip to Aspen to return the suitcase to the woman. But when they finally arrive, they are not actually in Aspen like you are supposed to assume they are. The whole Aspen scenario actually takes place in Breckenridge ski resort.
In the scene where Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are in the restaurant just before they encounter Seabass and right after they call the waitress "Flo", Jeff's coke glass is on his right side. The next shot shows it on his left, then his right, then his left again, without him touching it.
In the scene where they have left the cafe without paying, and Lloyd has to pee, Harry's hair is blowing in one scene because the window is down and in the next scene the window is up and his hair is not blowing. This goes back and forth for the duration of the scene.
In the scene where Lloyd drops Mary off at the airport and hugs her goodbye, in the background there are two men walking towards them. The camera changes to the angle behind Mary then behind Lloyd and then back to the side. When it returns to the side view the two men are farther away but still walking toward them.
When Lloyd goes to drive away he shifts the gear shift down one notch. Wouldn't that be reverse? [Not necessarily - on Lamborghinis the gear box is arranged differently]
When the airbag blows it stays inflated. It should instantly deflate. [Apparently early airbags didn't have an exhaust hole, so they stayed inflated (also suffocating the driver, in some cases)].
Speaking of the airbag mistake, how about the fact that the hub of the steering wheel in the Cadillac Limo was small, and could no way have an air bag behind it?
The airport at the beginning of the movie is the Salt Lake airport in Utah. That would make their cross-country drive (they go through the Midwest I believe) useless.
In the scene where Harry and Mary go out on the date to the ski resort, when they get into a snowball fight, the camera shows Mary, and it's snowing, but when they show Harry (who is supposed to be right beside her) it is not snowing. It keeps doing that, when it shows Mary is is snowing, and Harry it is not (or vice versa).
A police office states that Harry and Lloyd were last seen heading west on I-80 towards Colorado. I-80 doesn't actually go into Colorado.
In the scene at Harry and Lloyd's apartment, one of them opens a beer and throws the cap on the floor. In different shots the beer cap moves from place to place on the floor.
In the scene where Lloyd is talking to the person at the bar, the barman gives him another beer. In the first shot there are two bottles on the desk, however when he gets another, there is only one bottle.
When Lloyd is leaving the bar, he reads the headline on the newspaper framed on the wall and then says something about landing on the moon. Later in the hotel room, he has a lot of trouble reading the headline about Mary Swanson,and has problems reading the word "the" which was on the headline in the bar.Did he forget how to read?
In the scene at the truck stop, just before C-Bass comes over to Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniel's table, the same teenage boy walks by the window twice with his girlfriend. Also, the "Aspen" hotel is really The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The Stanley is the hotel Stephen King based The Shinning on.
8mm
Not really a mistake, but near the end of the movie, when Nicholas Cage and "Machine" are fighting, why is it that this guy just happens to live next door to a cemetery, and they wind up falling out of the house and into the cemetery? How clichéd can you get?
End Of Days
In the beginning of the movie, the camera is supposed to be giving us the view through Satan's eyes. We see the camera wind through a crowd of pedestrians, (pay attention this happens real quick) and we can see one man almost walk towards the center then back up a step as if he almost ran into something. Keep in mind that no one is supposed to see Satan at this point.
After Arnold drops through the newspaper stand from the helicopter and chases after the priest, we never really get to see him disconnect his harness. As a matter of fact he takes off running with it still attached.
After the priest writes down 666 on a piece of paper, he holds it upside down to reveal that it is 999, but we also notice it's in someone else's handwriting.
Entrapment
Catherine Zeta Jones isn't supposed to touch some strings that she is working her way through, but you see a bell hanging on the string move - it's agreed by the characters that she does do a perfect job, when actually she would have set the whole alarm system off.
Fine powder is sprayed on a security door keypad to determine which keys are used to get in. Sean Connery enters the numbers, but how did he know the sequence? [The keys of the security pad represents Chinese symbols, like mosquito, cannon, shoot etc. When Catherine Zeta Jones asked the fat guy if there was anything else she needed to know he replied: "You don't shoot mosquitoes with cannons" or something like that - that's how Sean Connery knows the sequence].
Catherine Zeta Jones says that she needs ten extra seconds after midnight to download the program that collects the billions of dollars from the international bank. In the movie at two different point, she states that after 11:00 PM the device she linked to the clock is gathering an extra 1/10 of a second every minute to allow for ten seconds at midnight. If you take a tenth of a second a minute for 60 minutes, you end up with only 6 seconds. 4 seconds short of the required 10.
When they are staying in Malaysia, Zeta Jones is mentioning that they have to do the "electronic robbery" the following night. As a matter of fact it has to be the night after that one, because there are two bits of darkness - one where Sean Connery plans the job and one where they fight and make up.
When Catherine Zeta-Jones practices with the bells and strings maze, she is careful to lift her left leg over one of the first strings, then brings her body through, and then brings her right leg over the string. Too bad when she does the heist of the mask for real, she lifts her left leg over the unseen laser beam but keeps her arms dangling as she brings her right leg over. This would have set off the alarm because she forgot to lift her arms over the laser beam!
In one scene we see the characters at night in New York, and they have (I think) 4 days to the millennium. Next scene they are in Malaysia in the morning with 3 days to the millennium. This can't be b/c Malaysia is ahead of the east coast in terms of the time zone, so they would have lost a day. Plus, it takes at least 12 hours from Detroit to Osaka Japan. Then another 6 hours to Malaysia.
Connery and Jones are cutting their way through a stone floor by setting off four line-cutting charges arranged in a square. Much is made of setting off each charge to coincide with the four chimes of a clock which, supposedly, covers up the sound of the respective blasts. But since these charges touch each other at the corners of the square, setting off the first one would have immediately set off all the others! Admittedly it isn't as dramatic that way, but that's how explosives work in the real world.
A graphics expert said that the guards on the platform, bridge or whatever are fake. One way you can tell is that they always pass each other at exactly the same point.
In the scene where Catherine Zeta-Jones knocks out the crook with a vase and jumps into the car with Sean Connery, one of the bad guys jumps into the car and sticks a knife through the roof and tears it open. Yet when they park the car outside the hotel a few moments later the roof is in pristine condition.
Eyes Wide Shut
In a scene not too long after Tom Cruise attempts to revive a hooker who has OD'd, he is speaking with an older gentleman. The three are in a bathroom and the hooker is passed out on a chair. One of the shower or light fixtures toward the left of the screen is shiny, and in a shot during which the camera briefly tracks in reverse, you can see the camera, cameraman and the focus puller reflected. It's pretty clear and not all that fast.
Throughout the film Nicole Kidman's nails are very short, but in the scene when she is holding a cigarette her nails are long and obviously false. Later that day, they are short again.
In scenes showing Tom Cruise driving in a cab to the pivotal orgy scene, apparently in or near Glen Cove, Long Island, the road markings are clearly from the UK film locations in which the film was shot.
The jade sculptures move from table to table in the hallway, while Tom Cruise is having a pass made at him by the daughter of his newly deceased patient.
In the scene in which Alice tells Bill about her fantasies regarding the military man, the right shoulder strap on the camisole she's wearing is up, then down, then up, then down - ovbiously the scene was culled from multiple takes. In addition, the stack of CDs on the window sill just over her right shoulder seems to be balanced precariously (particularly the top one) in some shots, and stacked normally in others.
As Tom Cruise's character is in the morgue to find out about the now dead prostitute who helped him out, the corpse moves.
When the older guy is playing pool and explaining to Tom Cruise's character who the masked people are and why they're dangerous, the balls (the 3 ball, in particular) on the pool table are in a different spot every time it comes back to the older guy.
Fathers Day
There is a scene at a bar with Billy Crystal's character and the woman who plays his girlfriend from the past. She tells him that he is the father of her son while he is drinking a martini. He is so shocked by the news that he practically drinks the entire drink leaving only a little bit and the olive in the glass when he sets it down. The camera swings to another angle and the martini is full again and after the camera changes angles a few more times, each showing a full glass, it finally goes back to the original angle where the glass is once again almost empty.
At the end Billy Crystal's character says that he immediately saw that the son of his ex-girlfriend was lying to him (he noticed it because he was a very good lawyer and he was able to tell us when people were lying to him). So why did he believe his ex-girlfriend when she told him that he was the father of her son?
Fear
In the scene where they are the roller coaster, the female co-star (I can't remember her name) has nail tips on, then 20 seconds later she doesn't, then she does again.
There is a change of scene from an inside shot to an outside shot in the first hour of the movie. There is an extremely obvious skip in the film where it was edited.
One day the two girls are laying out by the pool in their bikinis. The next day the father is fighting with Nicole's boyfriend (Mark W) and you can see their breath and they are wearing pants and long sleeves. It goes from summer to autumn in one day.
When the girl and her brother are playing the games console and her friend walks in. She leaves her brother but it was a two player game and both sides are still fighting, instead of one.
Forest Gump
In the scene where Forest goes and visits Jenny (and is introduced to his son), there is an iron on the ironing board in the background. It was standing up, then down, then up. The child's artwork in the background also disappears.
They show someone reading from a USA Today that is from around 1970, but the newspaper wasn't even created until 1982.
Jenny shows Forrest a clipping of him in U.S.A Today, dated 1983, but on Jenny's Grave it says she died on March 22 1982.
When Forrest firsts meets Jenny on the bus to school, a girl is sitting behind them, then disappears.
When Forrest is talking to Jenny at her grave, he says "You died on a Tuesday morning." But 22 March 1982 (the date on the grave) was a Monday.
When Forrest and Lt. Dan first try catching shrimp on the new boat they catch a bunch of junk, including a Mello Yello can, which hadn't been invented yet.
Near the end of the movie when he visits Jenny, it is supposed to be July 4th, 1976. On her TV is the New York Harbour Bi-centennial Celebration, and a shot of the Statue of Liberty shows her with a "gold" torch, which was added as part of her restoration in 1986.
If it is 1976, Apple Stock did not exist.
When Forrest is in the Army gym practising his ping pong skills, the Army guy comes in to tell him that he's been given his release papers and he can go home. There is a 3-point line on the gym floor. The 3-point line wasn't around yet.
Jenny comes to visit Forrest as he is mowing his yard on the riding lawn mower. The first shot shows Forrest still mowing the edge of the long grass but the shot that shows him getting off to meet Jenny, the lawnmower is off of the line he was mowing and is away from the long grass - if you look, the grass in front of the lawn mower is already cut.
When Forrest sits down next to Bubba he wipes his face off with a pair of women's underwear.
In the scene where Jenny asks Forrest if he thinks she could fly off the bridge, a car is coming towards them - in the next shot it's gone.
In the scene where Robin Wright's character is supposed to be playing the guitar and singing nude in the club, you can see the nude-colored thong she is wearing when they show her from the back.
The Game
After the driver of the cab that goes into the bay bails out of the car his door is obviously open, but when the car goes into the water it is closed.
After the car goes into the water it takes a long time before water starts coming into the car. When it does, it shoots into the car like some seal was broken. In reality cars are so full of ways for water to get in, that the car starts to fill with water as soon as it goes in.
At the end of the movie when he jumps off the building he lands perfectly in the "x" of the airbag- almost impossible after falling from a height of that distance, and he narrowly misses all the "I" beams that support the roof of the ballroom.
Ghostbusters
The Stay Puff Marshmallow guy has a red bow tie on as he walks down the streets of NYC, then he doesn't, then he does......
When Dana is "strapped" to the chair and pulled into the kitchen, you can clearly see the track in the floor upon which the chair is riding.
After the battle with Gozer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man, if you pay close attention, you can see that the marshmallow goo covering Ray varies in amount, especially after he apologizes for the barbecued dog hair comment.
There's a scene where Dana's building is falling apart and stones and stuff are falling to the street below. One of the huge boulders bounces off a wooden police barricade in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
When Ray and Winston were driving across the Brooklyn Bridge around midnight in the Ectomobile, Ray quoted a verse of Scripture claiming to be "Revelation 7:12". Although in actuality the verse that contains "...opened the sixth seal...and the sun became as black as sackcloth, and the moon became as blood..." Actually was Revelation 6:12. The writers were one chapter off!
Great Expectations
Hawke rides the subway twice during the film. Both times Hawke takes the "G" train. Unfortunately the G doesn't go through Manhattan where he is, it only goes through Brooklyn and Queens.
Gremlins
In the scene where the cop car flips over, if you pay attention, you can see the metal plate that's welded under the car that helps it flip over.
When the policemen get back into their car, the gremlin has let the fluid out of the brakes. The policemen drive off, but can't stop. Remarkably however they seem to have no trouble in the next scene stopping car and turning left.
In the first shot of the hi-tech phone box, behind it on the right is the time machine from the film The Time Machine. There are people standing around it, while it starts to spin. In the next shot of it, it is gone.
Halloween
At the very beginning, Michael Myers' sister and her boyfriend "go upstairs." Michael then sneaks around the house, picks up a knife, and follows them. As he is about to go upstairs, his sister's boyfriend leaves. He then proceeds upstairs, and finds his sister nude. The actual time elapsed from proposition to his exit is about one minute and fifty seconds. Is this really enough time to go upstairs, get undressed, go about your business, and get dressed again?
At the end, Dr. Loomis shoots Michael Myers in the chest seven times with his six-shooter.
Michael Myers escapes from prison when he is 21. He is able to drive a car even though he has been incarcerated since childhood. Where did he learn to flawlessly drive a car during those years?
Even though the story is set in Haddonfield IL, all of the cars have California license plates.
After Linda and Bob are done talking to Laurie on the phone, when Linda starts to walk you can see her stumble on something on the floor. In the long shots there is nothing there - it's probably a wire from the filming.
When Laurie is in the closet she stabs Michael with the hanger and leaves it up there. When they show all the locations at the end of the movie, in the shot of the living room look near the floor up close - you can see part of the hanger there, even though it was left upstairs.
When Annie is taking her clothes off, her underwear is a solid colour, but in the laundry room it is polka-dotted.
When Laurie is walking home the sidewalk instantly goes from wet to dry.
There is a scene that's supposed to take place at 6pm and it's still very light out. At the end of October, it's dark by 5 pm.
When Jamie Lee Curtis gets into the car with her friend (Hugo Green), his shirt is blue. As she leaves the car, his shirt is white.
There is a scene where Michael Myers is hiding behind a hedge bush and Laurie and her friend go to investigate. Laurie turns around and talks and you see cigarette smoke go by the camera. It came from one of the camera crew members shooting the scene.
In the closing credits, Michael Myers is said to be 23 years of age, he was actually 21.
In the scene where Tommy sees Michael outside through the window, the porch light is off, but when it cuts back to the shot where Michael is gone, the porch light is on.
This is just an observation but almost everyone Michael Myers kills (or tries to kill) sings to themselves when they are alone - maybe that just really annoyed him or something.
Happy Gilmore
In the final round, when Happy and Shooter McGavin are about to tee off on the first hole, they show a picture of the 18th green with the Volkswagen Beetle already crashed into the TV tower. However, this doesn't happen until Happy gets hit by the car later in the game.
The gold putter Happy gets from Chubbs keeps changing brand names.
In the beginning of the movie he is not taken onto the hockey team. After he is hustling at the driving range he goes to toughen up. As he is toughening up, Chubbs unplugs the machine. The kid tries it, but he never plugged it back in and the machine still manages to work.
In at least one scene, you can see the ruts that the filmmakers made in the greens to make Happy's putts go where they wanted them to.
When Happy is trying out for the hockey team, he sends a slapshot in front of the coaches and it breaks the glass. In the next scene the glass is intact.
When they are playing in the Micholob Invitational, Shooter McGavin's caddy is wearing the vest for the Visa Everglades Open. The flag (in the hole) also shows this same event. They play another tournament before they get to the Everglades.
In the first tournament and throughout others Happy is wearing a Boston Bruins ice hockey shirt, with no collar. This would mean he is breaking the dress rules for playing golf, as one must wear a collared shirt.
There is no way that Happy could get on the pro circuit by just winning one minor amateur event. He'd either have to go through the arduous task of being a pro's apprentice or by winning a major amateur tournament.
A spectator who broke a player's club would be swiftly removed from the course. Anyone heckling the players would also be given the boot. No one would ever be required to hit a ball off another man's foot, if the ball actually landed there, it would prabably be deemed an 'unplayable lie' and Shooter would have got a drop with two club lengths (I think) with a one stroke penalty. The TV tower would be deemed a man-made obstruction. If it could be moved it would be, otherwise Happy would have got a free drop out from behind the obstruction, no closer to the hole.
When he is talking with the four golfers in the PGT room, everyone is talking at first, but near the end of the conversation everyone is watching them.
The exact same shots of the golf ball sailing through the air are used two or three times, especially during the last golf tournament.
When Happy has to talk to Doug after punching Bob Barker, he meets him in his office. Why does Shooter McGavin has to be in the office too? I mean, he's a pro, but its really none of his business.
In the scene where Shooter is with the other pro golfers, (the ones with the gold jackets) and they're drinking wine, Happy interrupts them wearing an ACDC top. Notice Shooter's wine glass switch hands a number of times, and when he tells Happy to meet them on the 9th green, the wine glass has disappeared totally.
I doubt an alligator would be waltzing around the golf greens so close to a group of spectators, without anyone noticing it. Even if it is near water, officials wouldn't accept a dangerous animal like that.
Haunting
While they're all having their first dinner at Hill House, everyone has a little red wine. The wine levels in Lili Taylor's glass go up and down between different shots.
Liam's character tells everyone that the gate is locked everynight by the housekeeper and her husband when they go home for the night,and that no one can get out. There is an accident and the next scenes show Liam's character with keys opening the gate. Later, when trying to escape, the gate is rammed by the car. Where is the key? The chain on the gate appears to have changed size, the links were smaller in the beginning of the movie.
The scene where the others really do see something supernatural for the first time, they barely react: there are hands coming out of the evil former house-owner's huge head above the haunted girl's bed. But as it is computer graphics added after the scene was shot, the others, coming to help the girl, do not even seem to notice the head.
Right after Ursula, or whatever the main character's name is, sends the evil demon guy to hell, Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones come out of hiding behind a pillar. As Liam puts his hand on the pillar, it squishes in as if it was made of foam rubber, instead of stone.
HighSchoolHigh
Home Alone
House Arrest
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Independence Day
Will Smith's girlfriend avoids an explosion by ducking into a janitor's closet inside a tunnel, yet the special effects show the beam knocking over buildings, and there's even a shot of the entire city being levelled. The next day, however, there's all sorts of debris and survivors left behind.
When Will Smith is trying to fly the craft, he pushes forward and the ship rams against the back wall. He then laughingly turns the "instruction sheet" taped in front of him upside down. This would also reverse left and right, as well as forward and backward.
You cannot put disks from a Macintosh into an IBM and have them work, yet Jeff Goldblum is able to send a virus from a Mac into a completely alien system which, for all we know, may not even run on electrons. [A very good point raised by one keen viewer: They've had the ship since 1947 - surely they've learned something about it's systems in that time? Who's to say that all modern computers aren't based on the alien technology?] [And yes, I know you can get PC disks to work in a Mac, but go with it...]
If these aliens are technologically advanced enough to travel distant worlds, create bio-mechanical suits, and have an organised docking system, how come they still rely on the mother ship, full of civilians, probably, for the shield power to hundreds, maybe thousands, of fighters?
When the fleet of alien vessels is wiping out the army base, they fire hundreds of shots, yet we never see any of them hit the ground, except to blow up a few planes.
The wedding ring was huge. It wouldn't have fit Jasmine's fingers.
Why did the aliens take up position over the First Interstate building in downtown L.A.? This is not the centre of L.A., nor is it a pivotal role in the functioning of the city, like the White House. Come to think of it, neither is The Empire State Building in New York City. These don't sound like very practical tactical positions. They must really hate bankers.
When Dr. Okun and the group of other scientists are operating on the alien, its head springs open. Dr. Okun then says "...and now comes the really icky part." The last aliens that were operated on were the ones from the crash in Roswell, New Mexico, back in 1947. How would he know how icky it was? He was a child the last time that aliens were cut open. [He could have seen documents or videos about dissecting aliens].
Before the ships arrive, the Secretary of Defence offers to blow the ships up, then a general advises against it for fear of turning one falling object into many. This still applies at the end when sizeable chunks of the ship are plummeting to Earth, but no one is worried about being struck by them.
When the alien wakes up, how come the alien doesn't try to escape through the glass, since the glass isn't bullet proof? [Bullet proof glass can now be a liquid crystal which is bulletproof from one side but is not from the other! Hence they could shoot through but the alien could not break through].
Why doesn't the Mother Ship recognise the 1953 model of the Alien Space Ship? Don't they make improvements on their models every year?
As Will Smith's girlfriend walks out of the tunnel, there are two palm trees still standing. If the flame bursts flatten buildings, how could two palm trees avoid being flattened? [Palm trees can lie almost flat in high winds, buildings can't].
How is it that Will Smith's girlfriend could live through the gigantic fireball that barrelled its way through the tunnel she was in? A fireball of that size would no doubt cause all the oxygen in the tunnel to either burn up (leaving her nothing to breathe) or become super-heated and kill her that way.
Will Smith's girlfriend finds an abandoned truck - why didn't the gasoline in the tank explode when it came in contact with the fireball? There is no way that fireball missed a truck that size sitting so close to the opening of the tunnel.
When jets are sent in to attack the giant UFOs, a missile is fired at it and is shown to turn one way, but when it flips to another angle the jet and missile are shown turning in opposite directions as to a few seconds before.
When Randy Quaid flies his jet into the giant ship, the ship was directly over top of the base where all the American military leaders were. As he blows the ship up, it falls to the ground. Now keep in mind, the UFO was 15 miles in diameter - how could it NOT land on the base?
When the First Lady is hopping in the helicopter to fly out of L.A., another helicopter is nearby. It flies past a building that has a large IBM logo on it. People are standing on the top of the building, giving the impression that it is one of the first buildings to blow up. Remember that the movie was sponsored by Apple.
Many people refer to the alien ships as "UFO's", yet UFO stands for "Un-identified Flying Object" These ships were clearly identified as alien craft, and are therefore in no way UFO's. [You could argue that "UFO" has become a bit of a generic term]
In the opening scene, the footprints on the moon are covered up as the Mothership flies by. How could this be? Without an atmosphere, no wind can be created, and in order for vibrations to disturb the moon dust, a part of the ship would have to be touching the moon. [It could be a large gravitational force moving quickly close to the moon, making the entire moon resonate]
In the scene with Will Smith ad Jeff Goldblum in the cockpit of the alien ship, watch Will Smith's hand as he holds the cigar up. His fingers are together from one camera angle, but they are separated from another.
When Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are in the alien Mothership and they think they are going to die they light up their cigars. However after they escape and land in the desert they are still smoking them! They must have continued smoking them throughout the entire escape of 30 seconds and coming back into the earth's atmosphere. [Unlike a cigarette, a cigar will go out very quickly if left unattended (ie: dropped on the floor of spaceship). Then all you have to do is find them, and relight them.]
When the President's assistant is waiting for him the first morning she is reading U.S.A Today. On the back there is a weather map and it is blue and green, the colours for cold in U.S.A Today. It was a hot July day!
When the fighter shot the nuclear missile at the ship, the radar showed that the plane was very close to the blast when it hit. The shockwave would've either destroyed the plane or killed the pilots within milliseconds! How could the jet possibly survive that?
When Jeff Goldblum and Judd Hirsch are playing chess, the radio next to them says it's 97 degrees outside. Yet the two men are both dressed as if it were winter time.
The three helicopters hover by the alien space ship. The ship then shoots a beam to destroy all 3 of the helicopters. But the two smaller helicopters start to explode from the inside before they are hit with the ray.
The ship in D.C. covers a significant portion of the city and doesn't move. It's raining when Jeff Goldblum and Judd Hirsch get there. Shouldn't the ground be dry under the ship?
When Jeff Goldblum is getting drunk and he's talking to his ex-wife, at one point he slams the bottle down on the counter and a little liquor sprays up out the opening, then they talk for a second, and he picks the bottle back up to pour himself more, but he now needs to unscrew the cap which was just lying next to the bottle.
When the dad stands up to talk about his flight experience and says that he was taken by aliens 10 years before, everyone laughs. Well we know there are aliens, so why is everyone laughing?
While evacuating the white house thy used choppers - METAL choppers. The First Lady gets in one of those on the ground, 20 metres from where the beam hit, which has enough heat to blow up buildings by itself. The chopper should have heated up to at least 3000 degrees - more then enough to vaporise the First Lady.
When Jeff Goldblum is throwing a tantrum in the hanger housing the captured alien craft he knocks over several plastic garbage cans one of which is clearly labelled "Art Dept" - kind of odd for a top secret underground government military research facility.
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When Will Smith is in his aircraft being chased through the canyon by by the alien fighters, I believe his airspeed indicator reads approximately Mach 2 or Mach 2.2 (or something in that range). As anyone who knows anything about flying and/or fighter aircraft knows, there is no way in hell an F/A-18 can go anywhere even close to Mach 2. I believe they have a maximum speed of between Mach 1.3-1.6, and that is from flying straight and level (or probably straight down) at an altitude of 35,000 feet. The actual numbers are classified. The bottom line, however, is that the only way an F/A-18 is going to go Mach 2+ is by crashing.
Even if we suspend our disbelief of the aeroplane's speed capabilities, and we say the plane was actually capable of going Mach 2, the pilot would still have to contend with the following:
1--The pilot would have to have superhuman reflexes to manoeuvre through a tight canyon at 1500 mph (or to put it in more down to earth terms: 2200+ feet per second). By the time the mind acted on the need to turn the plane, it would be too late.
2--Making radical turns through a canyon at that speed would rip the wings off the plane (thus causing it to crash). But that is a moot point because a plane going that fast would not be able to make tight turns, so being in such a tight canyon he would have just crashed into the side of the first turn he encountered.
3--The positive G forces from rapid manoeuvring would force all the blood out of his brain making him black out (and subsequently crash)
4--The negative G forces from rapid manoeuvring would force extra blood to his brain causing him to haemorrhage to death.
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When the alien ship over New York blows up the Empire State Building you see the blastwave spill out in the street in front of the Empire State Building. This is in that part of the city that's built in a grid pattern. In front of the Empire State Building there's just another building, not a street where the blastwave and debris can spill into. All the people who are way down the street, looking at the building being hit by the beam just can't be there.
Anything hovering that huge over the earth would cause tidal waves.
In the movie, when Jeff Goldblum is sitting on the floor in the hanger where the alien ship is housed, he has had a bottle of alcohol and is falling down drunk. He even knocks over several trash cans. Then, he gets the idea to implant the virus and is perfectly fine two seconds later. That's the fastest sobering up I've ever seen!
I think there's a comment about modern technology being based on alien technology. How, given that they only recently got power to the ship?
When Will Smith was flying over the remains of El Torro, there is nothing but rubble. It's flattened with only a few palm trees remaining. But when Jasmine comes to the gate, you can clearly see planes (in good condition) behind her.
In the scene when Jeff Goldblum is getting drunk and he's talking to his ex-wife, he opens the door to the mini-fridge to get the liquor out and the door is full of condiments. When he reaches into the fridge to get it out the second time, the door is almost empty.
After Bill fights the Aliens in the fighter plane he lands to see a lot of people cheering and happy. If you look at his hair when he is walking through the long white hallway, it is messed up and not perfect. A second later, when he walks into the "Command Center", Jeff Goldblum's wife and Will Smith's wife ask to see if their husbands are okay, if you look at Bill Pullman's hair, it is now slicked back and perfect.
When Will Smith goes out to get the paper, the paper has a string around it to keep it closed, yet he opens it up as if it was only folded.
In the same scene (look carefully) just before Will notices the alien ship, all of his neighbors are packing up and leaving. There is a mailmain delivering the mail to one of the neighbors. Always delivering, come rain, shine, or aliens....
Will Smith mentions that the missile launcher is similar to the AMRAAM launcher on the stealth. Firstly he's a Marine F/A-18 pilot, and would have NO experience with either the F-117 or B-2, ... and also both US "stealth" aircraft are bombers, and can't launch AMRAAMs (an air-air missile).
The alien ships are 15 miles wide, and at least hundreds of feet high, so why are they using air-air missiles, which have a warhead of about 20 pounds, instead of bombs with 1000 pounds or more?
If the alien is in a hard protective space suit, how can Will Smith knock him unconscious for so long by just punching him? Must have been quite a hard punch.
El Toro base is shown being at the end of a long desert road. El Toro is in the middle of completely developed cities in Orange County. The desert is about 50 miles away over a few mountain ranges.
The President shoots 5 rockets with his fighter at the last big dogfight, normally there are only 4 rockets on a fighter.
In the scene where Jeff Goldblum is getting the alcohol out of the fridge, he opens the fridge door and it is full of food. When his ex-wife puts the bottle back in the fridge, it's virtually empty. It's full again when Jeff reaches back in to get the bottle back.
When Jeff Goldblum is explaining "line of sight" to the President, he hands the same piece of paper to him three times.
When Jeff, the President and everybody gather to see the dead preserved aliens, Dr. Okun states that they have eyes, ears but no vocal cords and communicate telepathically. But several times during the movie sounds emanate from the aliens. When the alien is being shot through the glass after giving the President a migraine, it clearly makes several noises. Later when Jeff and Will are about to launch the nuclear weapon the alien at the control desk looks at them quizzically and makes a noise of surprise. How if they have no organ for vocal communication?
Jaws
When the girl is being attacked, she seems to do an incredible job of acting in pain. The thing is, she is not acting. The scene was done with divers under the water pulling the actress with ropes. They pulled the girl so hard that she broke several ribs.
People don't usually go to the ocean in the winter, but in Jaws, you will notice that everyone is in their swimsuits and bikinis at the beach, in the water, yet there are no leaves on the trees. The only reason that would be is if it was winter time.
Richard Dreyfus is driving the boat then playing cards then driving again.
There is a scene where Chief Brody is standing on the boat almost ankle deep in water with a pump in his hand. He throws down the pump and is about to climb up the ladder when (we presume) the shark hits the boat making it list to the right. When they show this scene again, not only is there no water in the boat, the deck is dry.
Chief Brody is at the wheel of the boat and Hooper and Quint are trying to fix the engine. Brody can only turn the wheel (in his words) about 3 inches. Just then some of the yellow barrels surface and they stop what they're doing to start the boat to chase the shark. The boat steers fine.
When the shark is harpooned to some rope, Brody & Hooper tie the rope to the stern cleats, causing the boat to be dragged backwards. Quint gets a machete to cut the rope to limit the boat's damage. At this point the sea is somewhat choppy. He throws the machete making it stick into the edge of the boat. The sea in the background is completely calm.
In one of Richard Dreyfus' first scenes, Brody asks him to help with the group of men crowding into a small boat. Hooper says that the officer wants him to tell them that they're overcrowding the boat. They show the men climbing in and there's a fat guy in a blue jacket climbing down the ladder into the boat. He waves his arm and says "what do you care?" They then show Hooper asking if they know a good restaurant or hotel on the island. When they show the men again, uttering the line "Yeah, walk straight ahead." the man in the blue jacket is on the deck again and is again descending down the ladder.
Another scene that is proof that the film was made in either early spring or late fall is the scene where the mayor is arguing with Hooper and Brody about the existence of a shark in front of the graffiti covered sign. It is supposed to right before July 4th, yet everyone is in coats and jackets.
Quint comments to Hooper about the tranquiliser dart: "you gonna get that little needle through his skin?" looking at the hypodermic needle that Hooper is filling. Then later, the actual shark dart has a point far thicker, looks like it would pierce the skin of a battleship!
During one of the shark scares at the beach, Chief Brody is running along the shoreline telling everyone to get out of the water. There are several frames where the Chief and a man with a mustache are at the waters edge. If you look closely you will notice that the man is laughing.
On the boat, "Orca", there is a giant fishing chair, fastened to the deck of the boat which Captain Quint uses during his first attempt to catch the shark. Shortly after those scenes, the giant chair mysteriously disappears and is never seen again.
In the absolutely brilliant boat scene towards the end of the first film, there is a medium shot of the rear of the boat when Jaws comes right out of the water. If you look carefully under the shark model as it leaves the water, you can see the mechanical wheel they used to manouvre the model.
When Quint and co. are tracking the shark, they use harpoons tied to barrels to tire the shark. But when the shark comes up onto the boat to have lunch, namely Quint, the barrels and lines have disappeared. Also noticable when the shark is approaching Brody, just before he shoots it.
Jerry Maguire
Jerry receives a fax containing Ray's contract. Everyone is angry at how small a salary it is, but Frances gives Jerry a lecture, and everything works out. When Frances is talking, you can see the hands of one of the crew members in the glass of a poster in the background.
In the beginning when Jerry shows up to have a meeting with Marcy (Tidwell's wife) the secretary states that she is late for her plane back to Arizona. SMI sports management is in California. The meeting finishes and he goes out to lunch and gets fired, it takes about 5 minutes, max. He goes back to the office and starts calling all his clients, when he gets ahold of Tidwell, Marcy is standing in the kitchen with Tidwell. How did she get back to Arizona so quickly?
In the play before the final touchdown play, the announcer says it's now second and whatever, but the down marker in the background is set to first down.
When Tidwell gets the wind knocked out of him at the Christmas Eve game, and he is lying in the end zone, he is clutching the ball to his chest. When the camera pans out to a distance shot, his arm is outstretched and the ball is lying off to the side. When the camera comes back in for a close up, it is clutched to his chest again.
In the scene when he arrives at the top star's house to make sure he's still staying with him, he arrives in a eagle vision car, but later leaves in a Pontiac grand prix.
When Jerry comes out of his office with all his stuff he has a leather bag over his shoulder and he is carrying a box. He puts the box down and makes his speech and takes the fish and then leaves with Dorothy but he never gets the box back from where he set it down.
When Jerry's at Dorothy's house, Dorothy and her sister bump into each other and Dorothy gets pizza on her shirt. When she's changing, there's a shot of her sister handing her the black top, then about a second later it cuts to a shot of Dorothy with the top on, fishing her hair out from the collar - how did she get it on so fast?
When he gets a punch in the eye and has a scar from it, Dorothy puts something on it, but the next day he has no scar.
After they return from their date, on the porch Jerry ties Dorothy's dress. A couple of seconds later the knot is entirely different.
In the scene where they are at Dorothy's house and Tom Cruise is waiting to go to dinner with her, first he has 5 buttons done on his shirt. The next shot he has only 4 buttons done, and then when the camera turns back he has 5 buttons done.
Jurassic Park
The correct spelling of stegosaurus is steg"o"saurus yet when Nedry steals the embryos, the freezer says steg"a"saurus.
When Nedry is trying to escape, and his jeep gets stuck on the mud bank, the camera shows the road below him, and there's an arrow pointing straight ahead. A bit later, the camera shows it again, and the arrow's pointing left.
In the scenes where there's a video link to the docks shown on computer, there's a bar moving along the bottom of the screen, showing us that it's actually a video that's just playing on the computer.
When the group is crawling into the ceiling to avoid the angry Velociraptors, Adrianna Richard falls through a loose panel, but is able to catch herself. If you watch her arms, they suddenly get incredibly muscular. [This is due to the stuntwoman taking the place of Adrianna (obviously enough), but they had to digitally superimpose her face over the stuntwoman because she looked up].
In the scene where the kids and Dr. Grant are walking through a field, they are then followed by a "flock" of dinosaurs. They then duck under the log and turn round to find a T-Rex attacking the dinosaurs. At one point one of the flocking dinos is seen jumping through the neck of the dinosaur. His top half disappears for a moment, then reappears after he has landed from jumping through the T-Rex.
When the helicopter is flying around, they show two cars and a big rock behind them. In another scene they show the cars backing up, but they couldn't because of the rock!
In the scene where the lawyer jumps out of the jeep (just before the T Rex approaches) he leaves the jeep door open. In the next 2 shots the jeep door is closed, but when the T Rex shows up, the boy moves to the door and closes it.
In the scene right before we meet the T-rex, outside of the cage, the jeeps are wet before it starts to rain.
When the caged raptor has ahold of the black guy, another guy is trying to pull him away from the raptor. While he's trying to pull him away some other people are shocking the raptor with cattle prods. Everybody would be shocked since all the people are touching each other.
When they are referring to when Disney Land had some troubles when they first opened, they say it opened in a certain year. This is wrong. It actually opened in a different year.
When the T-Rex has a raptor in his mouth at the end, on the laserdisc in one of the frames, the raptor disappears completely from the T-Rex's mouth then reappears in the next frame.
The beginning supposedly takes place in San Jose, Costa Rica. Through the trees, you can see the ocean. San Jose is at 3000 feet and more than 150 miles from the Pacific. Even the book makes this error.
In an early scene, Samuel L Jackson's character is struggling to get the computers up, and he is smoking away. A full cigarette, then half, then full, all without lighting a new smoke.
In the scene where the tour trucks are stopped outside the Tyrannosaur paddock, we are shown a goat in a cage (inside the paddock) that appears to be at the same level as the road (outside). However, when Dr. Grant and Lex go over the wall, the ground is several stories down.
The average 'Raptor' was only about three feet high, and about six feet long. The dinosaur in the film more closely matches the dinosaur known as "Deinonychus", which was 6-7 feet high and 12-13 feet long. However, this is not entirely incorrect, because, just a few months before the film was released, scientists discovered a Velociraptor that was almost 10 feet long and about 5 feet high, so there are 'raptors' that big, they are just rare.
Take note when the vehicle starts chasing Sam Neill and the kid down the tree. When it first starts to fall, it smashes a headlight. Then in the nest scene the headlight is on, with no damage.
In the scene where the baby dinosaur is born, one minute the robotic hand is there laying the egg down and the next scene it is gone.
When Dern is eating ice-cream with the professor, she reaches for the ice-cream and takes a spoonful with no problem. Then the camera shoots a scene where we can see both him and Dern and the rectangular table. The ice-cream bin is at least 6 feet away. There is no way she could have just reached that far.
When Dern turns the power back on and is running out of the building from the Velociraptor, she opens the gate and goes through. To the right, you can see a sign on the gate that says 10,000 volts (or something like that) If the power was turned on, wouldn't she be electrocuted? [No - it's a warning for the contents of the building, not the fence itself. If the fence was electrified, how would you be able to get in to turn the power off?]
When John Hammond and Dern are eating the ice cream when the power is off, the ceiling fans are rotating.
In the scene where Hammond arrives at the dig site in the badlands inside the trailer you can see the shadow of the boom microphone on the ceiling.
In one scene where the T-rex is trying to grab the kids through the top of the truck it breaks a big chunk off the corner of the window. In the next shot it's back together.
During the scene when Laura Dern is running away from the Velociraptors towards the main door, you can see that she's dragging along a torch attached to her waist. However, in the next scene as she steps outside, the torch is gone.
In the scene where Sam Neill and the little boy are climbing down the tree, the car keeps crashing down a few branches at a time behind them. Why are they in such a hurry? If the car is falling in such a straight line, wouldn't it be easier to climb around to the other side of the tree, where they would be safely out of danger?
A live bull is lowered in a sling to feed the raptors in the pen, but when the shredded sling is brought back up, there's no blood on it. How could they have shredded the sling without drawing blood on the bull?
When Ellie and Muldoon are looking for them at the Tyrannosaur paddock, Ellie looks down over the wall and calls to Muldoon. But in the very next scene she is shown inspecting the wrecked tour truck at the bottom of the tree.
Where Alan and the kids are about to climb the fence, when he throws a stick at the fence, his hair is messed up, it is sunny and windy. In the next scene his hair is combed, it is shady, and it is not windy.
When they are on the dinosaur's bones, 2 of the cords attached to the bone Lex is on come out, the bone starts to fall, and Lex lets go of it, but in the next scene she is hanging on. When Ellie falls off her bone, if you look closely in the lower left of the screen, you can see her boot in the air, as if the floor's 4 feet away. In the next scene, if you look closely, you see that her feet were clearly on the ground. In other words, she fell from a standing position.
Have you ever seen the hand that holds the person back from falling into the camera at the very beginning of the movie when they are taking the raptor out of the crate? When you run the movie in slow motion you can see it very clearly when the guy falls off the top of the crate.
When the group is first entering Jurassic Park at the huge door, Malcolm says,"What have they got in there, King Kong?", but, if you look closely, his lips do not move. This happens again later in the movie where Adrianna Richards and Joseph Mazzelo are in the car when they encounter the T-Rex. Lex has the flashlight, and Timmy tells her to turn it off. She then says "I'm sorry", but her lips don't move.
The tour cars run on an electric track in the middle of the road. When the tour starts, the cars pass the tyrannosaur paddock, which is then on their left. Later, they stop to check out the sick triceratops. Then when they get back in the cars and head back to the visitors' centre, they again pass the tyrannosaur paddock, only now it is on their right. When and how did the cars turn around if they are on a track in the road meant for a one-way tour ride?
The whole movie is based on the fact that they cloned extinct dinosaurs by using their blood which was sucked by mosquitoes and preserved in fossilised tree sap (amber.) How, then, did they clone extinct plants? (Several times Dr. Sattler talks about extinct plants that they have growing there.) [Amber comes from plants].
When everyone arrives at the park, they get out of the helicopter in an order which is in sharp contrast to the seating arrangement while they were flying.
According to the subtitles at the beginning of the movie, the island is 120 miles WEST of Costa Rica. However, at the end of the movie, they are flying into the sunset...in the evening. If they had enough fuel, they'd be heading to Hawaii.
When Alan throws a stick at the electric fence to see if it's on, nothing would have happened even it was on, because the stick wasn't grounded (the same reason birds don't get killed by sitting on telephone wires) and also it's wood and wouldn't have made the fence go off. Also, the little boy wouldn't have been thrown off when the fence came back on.
When they are on the tour, the very first dinos they want to see are dilophasaurs, but when they look in the tropical forest you can see a jeep - you can only see the grill and the lights. Second forest shot, on the left.
In the scene when Lex and Tim are in the car and the T-rex is attacking them, at one point the T-rex smashes through the roof of the car and the pane of glass falls through on top of Lex and Tim. Well at one point it's a whole pane of glass, then the T-rex breaks the glass with his teeth, but in the next moment it's a whole piece of glass again.
In the scene where the T-Rex is chasing the Jeep (and Jeff Goldblum is sitting in the back, due to a broken/destroyed leg), the camera shows the outside rear-view mirror on the driver's side. The mirror has the wording "OBJECTS IN MIRROR MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR" or something to that effect. The problem is that this wording is only found on the passenger side mirrors on American vehicles, NOT on the driver's side.
The two leads are named Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler. Two real dinosaur book authors are named Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, from books too old to have copied names from the movie.
The spitting dinosaur is, in real life, around 30ft. high. [Apparently not - the film's portrayal is right]
Near the beginning of the movie when they feed the T Rex, they leave a goat out for it. The Rex snatches the goat without the people maybe forty to fifty feet away hearing or seeing it. Yet when the T Rex makes its dramatic debut later, the ground shakes with the force of its footfalls. How did something so big move so quietly earlier without shaking the ground?
When the first dinosaur stands to get at a top tree branch the people on the ground stagger, BUT when the dinosaur comes back down on all fours, you HEAR the tremor but no-one staggers.
When the doctor is showing off the piece of amber that they have gotten the DNA from, there is a problem. The mosquito in the amber is a male, as one can tell by the antennae. Because it is only the female mosquito that feeds on blood, the male should only have nectar in it's stomach. To make it worse, in that species if mosquito, Toxirhynchites, both the males and females are flower feeders, and should therefore have no blood, or dinosaur DNA in their stomachs.
In the scene when Ellie, Lex, Tim and Grant are in the computer room fighting to keep the raptor from entering. We keep seeing close-ups of the raptor's claws trying to open the door. In one-2-second shot we see the puppeteer's head.
The movie is based on the fact that they cloned dinosaurs by using their DNA and then combined it with frog DNA, when actually the closest modern relatives of dinosaurs are birds.
Where the kids are being chased by the raptors in the kitchen, when Timmy hides behind the counter where all the spoons are, he holds them so not to make noise. He doesn't grab hold of the ladle, but if you look closely it looks as if someone moved it so that it would fall. Look where the ladle is hanging, looks like a finger moves it.
In the scene where Samuel L. Jackson's character is trying to gain access to Nedry's computer to figure out why the park's facilities are shutting down, he is typing in DOS. Earlier, the interfaces to the system were clearly shown in a Macintosh platform. This is impossible since DOS runs in Windows and not in the MAC OS. Later, when they shut down the power and bring it back up, the computer boots up in DOS, again impossible for the same reason. Also, at the end of the movie, the little girl clearly says, "This is a UNIX system" when trying to get the network back up. This is impossible, there is no UNIX system for the Macintosh. [There are actually several UNIX systems for the Mac].
After a night on their own in the park - when it has rained and the terrain is muddy - Sam Neill and two children have taken shelter up a tree. As the morning breaks the sun comes out and as the camera pans back on the three sitting in the tree you see the soles of their shoes. Sam Neill's shoes are as clean and spotless as the day they were taken out of the box, and have definitely not spent a night in a muddy field or up a tree.
As the survivors are flying away from the island (and the camera) at the very end of the movie you can see a crack in the glass right in front of the camera. It stays there until fade-out.
The spitting dinosaur in real life doesn't kill its food, it takes leftovers from other dinosaurs' killings.
The whole theory on the T-Rex not being able to see people when there are not moving is wrong. If that is true then the T-Rex can't see a fence, a building or even a solid brick wall.
Muldoon ends up getting eaten by the raptors. No-one witnesses this yet no one shows even the slightest bit of concern when he has gone missing. This despite the fact that he was nothing but helpful right up until his untimely demise.
When the T-Rex rolls over the Jeep with the kids inside, one can clearly see a safety special effects cable underneath the Jeep.
On the tour in the jeeps, they arrive at the T-Rex area by exiting a tunnel and stop by the goat, yet on the way back, when the group stop by the goat again and are subsequently attacked by the T-Rex, the survivors drive off, chased by the T-Rex, and the tunnel seems to have disappeared.
KingPin
In the middle of the movie, Roy is flossing his teeth by himself. In the mirror as well as when he turns around, you can see his hand holding the hook, if you look closely.
When the people put Woody's hand in the machine to cut it off you can see the 1979 ring is on his hand that is cut off, but later the ring is back on his fake hand.
During the movie, which is based in '79, Roy has a Rhino bowling ball. Rhinos weren't made until '91.
The ball return the hustlers put Woody's hand in would NOT cut off or chew up his hand, maybe peel off a little skin....
In front of Woody's apartment, (supposed to be in Scranton, eastern Pennsylvania) you see a telephone pole with a PAT bus sign. Pat is the Pittsburgh system, in western Pennsylvania.
Amish country is in central Pennsylvania, not Scranton area, 75 or so miles east.....
In the scene near the beginning of the movie (Roy is grown now) Roy gets out of his car at the local bowling alley. He is putting his jacket on and he rips it. If you look carefully, one minute Roy is facing the camera, and the next minute you get a side view of him.It's a pretty bad skip in the film that almost anyone will notice.
Ishmael (Randy Quaid) clearly has a tattoo of a four leaf clover on his chest when he is rescued from the strip club, well before they even make it to Reno, where he allegedly gets the tattoo.
After Roy rescues his landlord from the robber, he is meeting with the robber in his room in the next scene to pay him. If you look closely, you'll see Roy's fly is open.
Kiss The Girls
Morgan Freeman falls in a water hole while chasing the bad guy. In the next scene his shirt is completely dry again.
Lake Placid
Hector is supposed to be this skilled crocodile hunter/trapper. In one scene, he accidentally traps the sheriff in the old fashioned rope-in-the-tree-leaves-the-sheriff-dangling-from-the-tree trap. Now this is a trap designed for small animals or people, how effective would this trap be to a 30 foot crocodile?
During the scene where Hector finds himself with the 30 foot crocodile, he blows up a raft and leaps on board his helicopter and takes off to find that the crocodile has bit down on one of the pontoons. The crocodile clearly bends the pontoon with its teeth. But when the helicopter finally goes airborne, the pontoon is fully intact, only the tarp covering in ripped.
It is never explained how the supposedly Asian crocodile gets to Maine.
Lethal Weapon
Riggs handcuffs himself to the depressed businessman. They jump off the building but they're not handcuffed to each other anymore. [I've heard this is because they used plastic cuffs which could separate during the stunt in case anything went wrong - they broke a bit too easily...]
The first time we see Riggs he is lying in bed with a cigarette, almost finished, in his mouth. He gets up and goes to the toilet. When we see him in the toilet, the cigarette looks like it has hardly been smoked at all.
When Mel Gibson is talking about the special bullet, kept as the suicide special, he describes it as a hollow point - to do the job right. When he shows the bullet you can see it is a full metal jacket.
In the scene where the girl jumps to her death from the balcony, it shows her hitting the car towards the right halfway onto the windshield. Then in the next scene, it shows her laying right in the middle of the roof of the car.
The businessman to which Mel is handcuffed in the jump scene is the same actor who gets cuffed to the vehicle and burned to death as retribution in the first Mad Max film. Coincidence?
[This is from one of the LW films]
Their car goes round the corner and the police light falls off the roof and dangles, yet is back on the roof a second later.
In the Director's Cut version, when we first meet Riggs, he is depressed and throws something at the TV, destroying the TV. He goes to work, and that night is shown to be watching a Warner Bros cartoon on the TV, which shows no sign of damage. [But later in that version, we see him arrive home with a new TV].
The Lost Boys
All the vampires have their canines in the wrong spot - they should be one spot back.
When Michael first comes home after becoming a vampire he gets some milk out of the refrigerator and when he collapses the whole top of the carton busts open but when his mom comes home and picks it up only one side of the carton is open.
ManOnTheMoon
An opening note - there is a disclaimer at the start, saying that some creative license was taken for entertainment purposes. Fair enough, but there are still mistakes, and even the creative licensed bits might prove interesting....
In the scene that depicts the infamous Andy Kaufman vs. Jerry Lawler match, the movie has Jim Ross as the play-by-play man for the match. In the actual match it was the ring announcer in the movie, Lance Russell, who was the original play-by-play man, not Jim Ross.
Pyro effects weren't used in pro wrestling until the late 80's. The Lawler/Kaufman match took place around 1983.
In the David Letterman scenes, Paul Schaeffer's head is shaved, which he just did recently (maybe within the last year to year and a half).
When Andy is in the club with his future manager in the audience, he tells the crowd (in his Foreign Man persona) that he is going to imitate President Carter. After hooking up with his manager, he gets a gig on the first episode of Saturday Night Live, which debuted in 1975. Jimmy Carter wasn't President until 1976.
In the film, Andy plans the Carnegie Hall gig after learning he has cancer. The actual concert took place in 1979, when Kaufman's popularity was at its highest, not near the end of his life and career (1983-84.)
Lorne Michaels didn't orchestrate the phone-in poll that banned Andy from SNL, as he wasn't SNL producer from 1980-85. Short-term SNL producer Dick Ebersol was behind it.
Tony Clifton was supposed to guest-star on a "Taxi" episode from the first season. On the set, one can see Christopher Lloyd and Carol Kane, who didn't join the show until the second and third seasons, respectively.
Andy didn't meet his girlfriend Lynn when he was wrestling women on the Merv Griffin show. They actually met in 1981-82, when his "wrestling career" was dying down (incidentally, if you rent the movie "My Breakfast With Blassie", you actually see Andy meeting, and hitting on, Lynn for the first time. They had never met prior to the filming of their improvised scene. It's pretty funny-rent it!)
In one scene supposedly set in the late '70s (Andy was about to get/just got "Taxi"), Andy is playing Ms. Pac Man. I may be wrong here, but didn't Ms. Pac-Man come out in 1982 or 1983?
When Andy and Jerry Lawler are on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, Dave looks like he does now (eyeglasses, a lot less hair.) At least the "Taxi" cast members used hair dye, makeup, and '70s clothes to somewhat blend in.
Matrix
When Trinity runs sideways up the wall in the lobby under massive gun fire, the marble tiles on the wall move.
In the movie, several people die in the 'virtual world' because they can not get to a hard-wired phone (eg., not cellular). However, if the world is virtual, wouldn't all of the phones and phone lines be virtual too? My point is this: if the entire world that they go into is virtual, there is no such thing as a hard wired phone. They could just pull people in and out of the world as they wish. [One contributor said: Actually, I would argue that they couldn't just pull anybody out of the Matrix anytime they wanted to. I mean, it's designed to keep people trapped in it forever. The "hardwired phones" are most likely backdoors the people in the real world snuck into the Matrix. It would make sense for them to be few and far between, to keep the Matrix and the Agents from finding them and eliminating them.]
In the scene where Neo and Morpheus spar in the Dojo, Morpheus misses a strike and comes down hard on the floor leaving a dent in the wood. When the scene cuts back a minute or so later there is a hole there, and not a dent.
In the scene with Laurence Fishburne fighting the agent in the bathroom of the building they were trapped in, the agent punches through a brick wall, yet next time we see the wall, there is no damage.
When Keanu first meets Fishburne, Fishburne extends his right hand with his other hand behind his back, next shot shows him with his left hand at his side, and when he withdraws his hand, it is back behind his back...talk about fast hands!
Those pillars that got shot up when Neo and Trinity get into a shootout in the government building where Morpheus is held sure heal fast - they're fine when they show the elevator crashing to the ground later and flames pour out around pillars that are brand new.
When Morpheus and Neo are walking down the street in the lady in the red dress similation, Neo (Keanu) walks past the Commonwealth Bank Logo, with the yellow square on the side. The very next sceen, there is an Americian police officer issuing a ticket. Now how this be when the Commonwealth Bank is an Australian Bank?
When Agent Smith is integgorating Morpheus you can see the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Tower. All the accents are Americian but they walk past an aboriginal elder on their way to the Oracle. Notice all the Aussie companies; MMI, National Bank, Suncorp.... [One or two people have mentioned that given that it was filmed in Australia, there's really not that much that could be done. Alternatively, someone suggested that the machines don't know human history very well, so they mixed up some Australian things in with American things].
In the scene with Morphius and the Agent fighting after they are set up (exits get blocked off by bricks and they are fighting in a bathroom) Morphius headbutts the agent and his glasses fall off. About 1 or 2 seconds after that it shows the agent (from behind) headbutting Morphius back but he has his glasses on.
In the scene where Neo is at the office. While in his cubicle, he gets an express delivery. As he signs for it you can see another arm laying on the desk behind him. In the next scene he hands back the clipboard, you see it is only him and the delivery man.
Look at the ladder they use in their "ship". It's just a standard home depot type extention ladder. Notice the slanted rungs?
Why do the enemy agents communicate verbally? if they are AI within a computer it would be far more efficient to communicate electronically. What was the bug they put in Keanu's stomach for? And why do they have trouble finding the good guys? Surely they can track someone inside their computer program? The good guy at the console could do it easily enough.
Why could Morpheus break the chain so easily after he saw Keanu, but not before? Either way he knows its not real.
If you die in the matrix cause your brain thinks its real, why didn't Neo die in the jump program - surely it was just as real to his brain? [Because the ground wasn't solid - it stretched like a trampoline]
When Neo and Trinity are in the helicopter, there is a shot of Keanu spraying bullets ALL OVER the room with the minigun, Morpheus would've been killed for sure.
When on the roof, Neo fires at the enemy agent, who dodges all his bullets, but the windows of the building behind him are undamaged.
When Trinity asks for the helicopter pilot program to be loaded she rightly wants one for the model on the roof, a late version of the Bell Huey family. But back on the ship, going by the graphic display as the guy loads it, is the program for the Bell Jetranger - a somewhat different aircraft.
How is the rat faced traitor able to get in and out of the Matrix to meet Agent Hugo Weaving without anybody on the ship being there to do the telephone business to insert and extract him?
Neo and Trinity kill all those soldiers on the roof before the agent comes to fight them. The agent shoots at Neo and during the whole dodging bullets scene every single corpse is gone!
When Neo has discovered his power at the end, he does a standing kick that sends the agent flying. Then it shows a shot of Neo standing there with his leg in the air, but it's not his leg! The angle that the leg is lowered down to makes it impossible for it to be his own leg. It's very funny to think that there's a guy crouched down next to Keanu Reeves holding a fake leg!
When Tank asks Neo what he needs, Neo is talking to him in a mobile phone. But in the beginning of the movie they don't need phones to talk through the construct.
During the fight scene between Neo and the agent in the subway station, after Neo incapacitates the agent and flips out of the way of the oncoming train, you can see where the wire harness connected to his back.
Neo is "the one", notice how Neo is an anagram for one.
In the scene where Morpheus is being interrogated by the agent alone, the camera switches from behind Morpheus, to just forward of him and back a few times. If you look at the agent's hand on Morpheus's head, you can see that his fingers switch from behind his ear to both sides of his ears as the camera changes.
Men In Black
The alien devours the insides of a farmer and saves the skin which he consequently puts on. Now, he wears this 'costume' throughout the whole movie. At the end when he comes out he is shown as having many spikes and sharp points on his body. Why didn't these sharp points rip through the skin especially seeing as how the alien was very mobile. Also, why didn't these parts show through the skin seeing a how the skin was under considerable strain.
How could a huge alien warship send an extremely powerful beam to the North Pole of the Earth and neither be detected by geologists nor meteorologists.
When "Edgar" walks into the morgue, he's carrying a shotgun. He sets it down by the side of the window. Later, J walks in and starts ringing the bell. You can clearly see there is no shotgun there. Also, when he has the revolver to the lady's head, he doesn't have the gun. So where did the shotgun go?
When K and J are driving the car along the roof of the tunnel, Will Smith's ankles are white.
At the very beginning, when Will Smith is chasing the alien around the building, he is running one direction around the building, and when the shot changes, he is running the other way.
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are known as J and K, they even have the letters printed on their lockers, but during the credits they are billed as Jay and Kay.
At the end, how does the woman work out how to use the alien gun to blow the bug up so fast?
In the beginning, when Will Smith is chasing the alien around the city, he jumps off a bridge onto a moving tour bus and stumbles forward upon landing, ending up on his hands and knees. In the real world, since the bus was moving much faster than he was, he would have landed, fallen backward onto his arse, and then probably slid toward the back of the bus until he hit the wall.
At the end of the film, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones blast the Bug, getting covered with entrails, intestinal contents, etc. Then in the next scene, when Jones is passing the neurolizer to Smith, they are both clean, while Linda Fiorentino is still messy.
In the end when the bug leaves with his UFO, the 2 Mibs are going to shoot it down. When they fire, Will is on the left side. After the shot he is on the right side.
Mission Impossible
After retrieving the NOC list from Langley, and escaping to London, Krieger pulls the disc from his pocket and attempts to blackmail Ethan. Ethan responds by making another disc vanish in a feat of magic. Krieger, angry, storms from the room and chucks the disc he had into the wastepaper basket. It clearly breaks into several pieces. You can even see a chunk fly up out of the basket, yet when Ethan pulls it once again from the basket, it's perfectly intact.
When Tom Cruise is talking to Krieger and the other guy on the train about breaking into Langley, he clearly states that any noise above a whisper would trigger the alarm system, but the noise he makes when he's getting pulled up from the room is much louder than a whisper.
Max@Job 3:14 is an illegal e-mail address.
Claire leaves the firefighter uniform in the closet but is seen wearing it again in the truck while leaving.
During the scene where Ethan is hanging in the bank, he can't talk or he'll set off the sound-sensor; he can't touch the ground because of the weight sensor; and he can't cause the room to get too hot because he'll set off the heat sensor. If there were a vent, the temperature would most likely change. Why isn't there a motion detector?
In the secure room, why didn't they just knock the guy out and tie him up? Then they wouldn't have had to worry about alarms at all! Claire wouldn't of even had to go inside and they wouldn't have needed all that computer technology. Ethan was hanging right over top of him and easily could have handled it.
When Tom Cruise walks along the bridge just before he jumps into the water to escape - it took them 25 takes and 2 hours to get that right.
The first time he mails to Job 3:14, later he mails twice to Job 3:15.
A lot of technical stuff surrounding this, but basically any depiction of the train at the end is wrong, what with tracks, overhead wires, luggage carriages....you name it, it's wrong.
In the scene where Ethan is in the NOC list room Krieger starts to drop him and Ethan is hanging there for a little while. Suddenly some sweat starts to drip down his glasses and he catches the drop with his hand. If you look at how close he is to the floor this move would be impossible.
Liverpool Street Station is shown as more or less deserted in the hours of daylight. The only way this could be achieved in real life is by phoning in a bomb threat.
Mouse Hunt
The character played by Nathan Lane says to a gentleman in Arabian dress, "Hakuna Matata," a line of Nathan's in The Lion King as the voice of Timon.
It takes less than 3 minutes to fill the house with water using a mere garden hose? I mean come on...
Mummy
In the scene where the brother picks up the scarab, it breaks open and the beetle inside starts to crawl under his skin. We see Brendan Fraser tear the brother's shirt and we see a knife and can only assume they cut the beetle out of him. However, in the very next scene, we see the brother walking into the temple, his shirt is intact and there is no blood to be seen.
When the bi-plane crashes in the desert, the plane sinks in "quick sand". Now I my be wrong, but I thought quick sand was only in the jungle not the desert. [There is quicksand (or something very similar) in Egypt, particularly in the Qattara Depression]
In the part where Imothep's priests are chasing the trio in the hall right before they get to the book of Amun-Ra, the guy in black is blasting away with a machine gun. When they reach the room with the statue, Brenden Fraiser hands the man in black his shotgun. The machine gun has disappeared.
I counted only 6 plagues.
Brendan Fraser is wearing captain's bars in French Foreign Legion uniform. The majority of Legion commissioned officers have always been French. Some were from central or eastern Europe, but I've never heard of an English-speaking officer, particularly not one so patently lacking in officer potential as Fraser!
Egypt in the 1920s was dominated by the British. The prisons would have been run by British officers, and hangings would not have been so arbitrary. British-style prisons are run by 'governors', not 'wardens'.
What is the 'Royal Air Corps'? It was the Royal Flying Corps until 1918, and has been the Royal Air Force ever since.
The pilot is wearing an unidentifiable cap badge (it's certainly not RAF). He is also wearing his pilot's brevet (wings) on his right breast pocket; the RAF, like most air forces, wear their brevets above their left breast pocket. The RAF presence in Egypt was still very much there in the 1920s: there were several stations, not simply one elderly pilot who had been forgotten about.
What happens to all the British when the plagues arrive? All the people affected seem to be Egyptian. Where are the army and police?
Why did the pharaoh's guards create something which was so dangerous that they had to devote their lives and those of their descendants to making sure it did not escape? Seems like pretty poor planning!
Why were the descendants of the pharaoh's guards apparently Moslems? Surely they would have preserved the old ways.
The biplane is a DeHavilland Tiger Moth from the 1930s, too modern for the period of the film. But then again the Tiger Moth has stood in as a generic biplane countless times - it almost seems too late to worry about now!
The Mummy takes a man's eyes, but the man needs glasses for him to see clearly and the mummy can see perfectly well without glasses afterwards.
Toward the end of the movie, when Imothep is talking to Anck-Su-Namum, when they show a close up of her face and neck you can see her neck move with her pulse.
In the scene in the library, when Evie is putting back the books. She leans over to put the book back, but it falls to the ground and she is balancing on the ladder. When the camera cuts back to show the whole ladder, the book is nowhere to be found on the floor.
In the scene towards the beginning where the librarian knocks over all the bookshelves, she's wearing glasses. She never wears glasses after this, even when reading.
When the biplane sinks into the quicksand, why don't any of the parts around it sink as well? For that matter, why did the plane suddenly start sinking after staying in a fairly stable position for at least 15 seconds? [Quicksand's weird...]
On the DVD version of the movie there are some deleted scenes - one would have explained two mistakes that occured towards the end of the movie. Mistake one was that there was a hole in the ground when Jonathan and Rick are at the base of the statue of Horus. You can see the hole clearly when Rick lights the TNT - but without the missing scene there is absolutely no reason for that hole to be there and it just sort of appears.
The second mistake is why there is no salt acid bobby-trap protecting the gold book like there was protecting the black book. In the missing scene some of Imhotep's priests burst through the floor/ground and attack Jonathan and Rick, who get tossed aside. The priests then open the gold book's hiding place and get burned all up by the salt acid. You can even see when Rick grabs the TNT that there is smoke rising from the hole.
When O'Connell (Fraser) flies back to Hamunaptra he is wearing a black scarf like thing around his neck. In the following scenes the scarf disappears then returns a few times.
Also when the beetle goes into the brother it goes in his left arm, Fraser rips the shirt, and cuts him in the forearm. Just before he cut we saw that the beetle was closer to the shoulder area. In the following scene the brother has blood on his right arm, his shirt is no longer torn and he has a bandage on his left hand.
Just out of curiosity, where did the bandage come from on Fraser's hand at the end of the movie?
Why don't they have to wait for the rising sun to be "shown the way" to Hamunaptra when they flew there towards the end of the movie? They had to wait for it at the beginning, right?
If, towards the end of the movie, Imhotep, Beni, and Evie flew in on a whirlwind and Jonathan, Rick, and Winston flew in on a plane, where did the camels come from that they rode off on?
The mummy Imhotep looks completely different the first time we see him (the dummy version) than the next time (the CGI version).
As Jonathan, Rick and guy in black enter the gold room, they engage in a mummy fight with Imotep's priests. During the fight they blast the mummy priests to pieces. During the last scenes in the room of gold, what happened to the pieces of the mummy priests - shouldn't they have been scattered all over the path to the stairs? Someone must've been standing by with a broom...
Mystery Men
In the scene where Invisible Boy becomes invisible, we see his clothes just drop to the floor as if he wasn't even there. Now if I remember right, he just turns invisible, not intangible. So he would have to take his clothes off like normal people do.
When the Mystery Men barge into Cassanova's mansion with their tank, they activate the super magnet and attract all the guns and weapons of the various gangs in the room, and later we see the Japanese gang use their guns while they (the guns) are still stuck to the magnet. This brings up one question, how could the Blue Raja and the Shoveler get out of the tank while the magnet was on without their weapons (forks and shovels) being attracted to it?
