Movie Mistakes - new entries

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:09:47 +0000

When Alice is driving Bella to the Volturi, she is wearing a headscarf and sunglasses. During the scene the way the headscarf is tied changes; the size and shape of the knot (and the colours on the knot) are different.

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:08:23 +0000

Tinker Bell constructs a boat that has a paddle wheel made out of playing cards that are folded in the middle and attached to each other with paper clips. After she crashes the boat, the cards come loose and, as she falls, her head pierces one of the cards. The card no longer has a crease in it.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:07:58 +0000

In the very end of the movie, when Scrat rides the rocket back to the ice world, it smashes a hole through the ice layer. Two mistakes follow: First, bits and pieces of ice fall away from the rocket. One can conclude that the hole is slightly bigger than the ice slab above, yet they fit perfectly together when the ice falls back down. Second, how can the ice separate from the rocket and fall exactly where it was before?

2012

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:07:23 +0000

American officials, including the president himself, continually refer to the other G8 leaders as "heads of state". They are, in fact, heads of government. The United States is the only G8 country which combines the head of state and head of government into a single position. The others have a separate prime minister (or chancellor in Germany) and president (or sovereign in the UK, Canada and Japan). No American official is likely to make this mistake in reality.

Scooby-Doo

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:02:05 +0000

Daphne wears three types of boots in the movie: 1) When she is wrestling with the blue costumed guy at the end, when she jumps over the railing to kick him, it goes to a close-up of her foot hitting him and the heel squishes in. (I'm assuming that this was done so as to not hurt the wrestler being hit with her foot. 2) At 1:10:42, she kicks up and she is wearing pink flats. 3) In the rest of the film, she wears normal pink go-go boots with a solid heel.

The Patriot

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:53:42 +0000

In the fight scene between Benjamin and Tavington near the end of the movie, just as Benjamin is about to stab Tavington in the throat, the "blood" on his left sleeve appears to be green. In the next shot (as he turns away) it is a dark red. This was seen on a HD television broadcast.

Knowing

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:53:00 +0000

During the class at the beginning, the teacher says, 'Yesterday, the staff selected the winning idea' for the opening contest. It would take a lot longer than 24 hours for them to build the time capsule, the hole in the ground and the lid to cover it.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:52:41 +0000

During the underwater battle, one of the pilots for the G.I. Joes' ship gets hit. He is ejected/blown-up (hard to tell), and you can hear him screaming. In reality, you cannot hear anything underwater (except for high pitched noises, etc.), let alone a perfectly made-out scream.

Four Christmases

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:51:27 +0000

When Kate enters the room with the cot at Brad's father's house, she unbuttons all three buttons and begins to open her coat. The shot then changes to Brad's face for some time. On the return shot of Kate, she's beginning to unbutton the coat all over again, starting with the first button.

K-911

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:49:35 +0000

When Dooley looks at the photo of himself, Jerry Lee and his wife Tracey, it's obviously a still shot from the first movie, as the angle the picture is taken from was obviously not taken by anyone else as they were the only two in the apartment with Jerry Lee at the time.

The Wicker Man (2006)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:49:11 +0000

When Malus is talking to the female cop about the station wagon crash, he asks her who the woman and child were, even after she has told him that there are no bodies to identify, and no car registration.

2010

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:30 +0000

The filmmakers here forgot how a centrifuge works to mimic the effects of gravity. It is centripetal force wherein an object is pulled away from the center of rotation (you feel its effect on a merry-go-round when it spins really fast and you are tossed off by the centripetal forces). No gravity is actually created. So when the two astronauts are walking along the outside of Discovery and Curnow announces he is getting heavier, it is impossible. First, he's not within Discovery (and if he were, the force would pull him toward the ends of the ship - correctly depicted later when the men are shown walking on the inside of the pod bay doors). The area they are walking on is dropping away from their feet. Both men should be motionless in space as the ship falls away 'below' their feet, then rotates around and kills them when it clobbers their heads half a rotation later.

Cars

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:40:28 +0000

When Snot Rod and the other Fast and Furious inspired cars are fooling around with Mack, the camera does a closeup shot of Snot Rod revving his engine, and you can see the throttle butterflies closing when he revs higher. They should be opening, not closing, with higher revs.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:39:50 +0000

When Daisy, now in her 20s, is dancing for Benjamin at night, after their dinner, in a gazebo, she's dropped her coat right by her shoes approximately in the middle of the gazebo. They can be seen as dark silhouettes near Daisy's feet. Cut to a long shot, the pile has moved to her right, way off center. Cut back to a medium shot and it has returned to its first position.

The Running Man

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:36:14 +0000

This is in regards to a previous correction. A submitter pointed out that in the video footage of the helicopter incident shown to the crowd, the last shot of Arnie getting knocked out was seen from his perspective and as such could never have been filmed by any camera. The correction stated that Killian's men could simply have doctored the footage, probably as a way of showing what happens to criminals. But the problem is, the footage showing Arnie being knocked out is the undoctored one shown at the end of the film by the Rebels, which hasn't been tampered with by anyone. So this is a valid mistake.

Twilight

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:33:02 +0000

On the day Edward returns to Biology, there is a microscope on the table. It is sitting at an angle on the table when Bella walks into the classroom. When she sits down, it has moved and is now straight, parallel to the table's edge.

Heat

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:32:45 +0000

When Neil talks to Chris about Chris' marriage, Neil's hand holding his coffee cup moves up and down between shots.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:32:30 +0000

When the T-800 scans the vehicles outside the saloon at the start of the film, it identifies the Ford LTD as a Plymouth sedan. Considering the car has readable emblems on the rear panel, this error isn't one of "incomplete historical data" but rather that he either can't read or chooses to ignore the obvious. This doesn't seem very efficient.

Star Trek

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:31:30 +0000

During the skydiving mission, Chekov announces the team is at 5800 meters when the screen he's reading from indicates 5400 meters. He does not make the announcement at 5800 meters.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:30:24 +0000

Dennis and Neville are push-starting Oz's car after they have stopped for a break. This wouldn't help, as the car has an automatic gearbox. The automatic gear selector on these cars (Ford Zephyr) is on the steering column and can be seen when they break down on the motorway.

V

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:27:34 +0000

After the transformation, Elizabeth is brought home. She lies asleep on the sofa. Who had the time to apply makeup to her? Her nails are shining, which means that someone has applied some polish on them. It is obvious that no actors (even male) will ever play without makeup; however, they should not have applied such an evident makeup to Elizabeth.

One Tree Hill

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:26:41 +0000

In episode 12, season 5, 'Hundred', Nathan is watching Haley walk down the aisle, but when the camera pans to Nathan for a face shot, it is Lindsey's head that goes past the camera, and Lindsey he is looking at.

Highlander

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:04:32 +0000

Tessa finishes Duncan's sentence saying that the last time he wore a tuxedo was on the deck of the Titanic, however, in a previous episode he's shown wearing one at a New Year's Eve party in the present day. After fighting another Immortal, he puts on the jacket to hide the bloodstain on his shoulder before returning to the party just in time for the countdown.

South Park

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:00:51 +0000

When Roy gets caught in Stan's bear trap, he is seen hanging in front of the clubhouse. Yet the next day, when Stan, Clyde, Bebe and Wendy are playing Truth or Dare in the clubhouse, Roy is not shown hanging outside the clubhouse anymore.

Titanic

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:04 +0000

When Jack describes taking Rose to the Santa Monica Pier, he specifically mentions riding on the roller coaster. Although the pier itself did open in 1909, the land for the amusement portion of the pier was not even purchased until 1916.

Punisher: War Zone

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:28:27 +0000

In the dinner shootout scene, The Punisher hangs from a chandelier upside down using his legs, and starts shooting people while spinning for about 20 seconds, but there is no apparent force which makes him spin so much in the first place; he doesn't even make a "first turn" with his body in order to start spinning.

For Your Eyes Only

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:27:29 +0000

As Columbo is chasing Kristatos up to the helicopter at the end of the film, he grabs his foot twice as they fall up the stairs in continuing shots.

Up

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:10:42 +0000

When Carl and Russell first arrive on the plateau they both fall out of the house and barely save it from the edge of the cliff. When they make the decision to walk the house over to Paradise Falls, suddenly Carl has his walker, with no way to have gotten into the house, suspended dozens of feet in the air, to retrieve it.

Monk

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:08:58 +0000

"Mr. Monk and the Badge": During Monk's therapy session with Dr. Bell, his right arm instantly changes positions - from extended to bent and resting in his lap - between takes.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:27:23 +0000

In the scene where Galloway parachutes out of a C-17, Major Lennox asks Galloway if he is "familiar with the standard MC-4" parachute as he is helping Galloway don said parachute. The parachute that actually deploys when Galloway pulls the ripcord is not an MC-4, as MC-4 parachutes have rectangular canopies (shown correctly later in the film as the NEST team descends into the desert).