The Goonies (1985) - 80 mistakes
Directed by Richard Donner, starring Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, John Matuszak, Jonathan Ke Quan, Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton, Robert Davi (add more)
Revealing: In the scene where all the kids are in the basement and Chunk knocks the water jug over, Mikey starts to bang on the ground with a bar and Brandon (older brother) stops him and Mikey calls him by his real name Josh. This is verified in the Goonies DVD by Sean Astin himself on the commentary.
Continuity: In one scene after he is told to go get the cops, Chunk flags down a car for help, only to find Jake Fratelli, who begins to sing loudly in Italian. Chunk screams as Jake continues singing. There is a side view mirror next to Chunk, and while we hear Jake singing, in the reflection, he is smoking a cigarette silently.
Other: When Andy plays the bone organ, the musical score on the back of the map clearly shows a melody consisting of single notes with only one or two chords. Still, Andy presses multiple keys on the organ to create chords EVERY time, not some single notes as the code shows. The code should not have worked if a person was playing only chords.
Visible crew/equipment: During the opening, while going to Mikey and Brand's house, you can see the director, Richard Donner's trailer on the street below. You can see it again after Mr. Finster comes to drop of the papers and Mikey and Brand are hugging on the porch, the trailer is in the lower right corner.
Other: In the end of the film, watch when Sloth swings from the rope to grab the two kids that are tied up on the plank. You can clearly see that the kids are fake dummies. You can notice this before Sloth grabs them and when he grabs them. On the DVD Commentary, Director Donner and Corey Feldman (Mouth) explain why 'dummies' were used. This is still a mistake though.
Continuity: When the kids discover Chester Copperpot, they take an old lantern from him that somehow still works. They light it, and then one of them takes a dunk in the well with the lantern. It stays lit somehow. What is even more amazing is that in the subsequent scenes they have two lanterns somehow.






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