The top mistakes in Planet of the Apes (1968) http://www.moviemistakes.com/film983 en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:55:08 +0000 29217 Most of the posed, fake displays in the ape's museum of natural history contain real people who are slightly moving if one pays careful attention. Especially noticeable are those posing with objects held in - or above - their hands. 5949 The first exterior shots of the spacecraft in the desert lake show the spaceship's hatch door already gone... before the astronauts blow it off with an explosive charge minutes later in the movie. 138678 When the spaceship first springs a leak and begins to sink, the interior shots show it tilting to starboard; Taylor falls against the starboard bulkhead and the other two survivors need to brace themselves from slipping. All of the exterior shots of the ship show it level from port to starboard. 136342 When Cornelius and Taylor are talking over the canyon, the river at the bottom is obviously a photograph. The whitecaps don't move at all. 77597 At the end of the movie when Taylor and the woman find the ancient ruins of the Statue of Liberty, their distance from the statue seems to change between shots. In the first shot (when it only shows them and the torch) they seem to be almost next to it. In the next shot (when it only shows them and the crown) they are farther away. And in the last shot (when it shows Taylor kneeling from behind and the full torso of the statue) he is even farther away from it.