Best movie revealing mistakes of 2015

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Revealing mistake: Near the end, during the night-time bridge exchange scene, the Americans enter from one end of the bridge and the Soviets enter from the other end. Suddenly, the Soviets switch on multiple flood lights directly behind the Soviet party, which should have cast shadows from their bodies dozens of meters in length. Instead, the shadows from the Soviet party are quite short, only a couple of meters, indicating that the primary lighting is out-of-frame, far above their heads.

Charles Austin Miller

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Revealing mistake: When the team attends Han's funeral, Deckard Shaw is watching the team in a Maserati Ghibli with tinted windows. When Dom notices him he then chases Shaw in his muscle car. During the chase the Maserati Ghibli is seen twice with clear windows with a man in a mask behind the wheel. When Dom and Deckard come face to face with the cars and then crash into each other, the Maserati Ghibli is then seen again with clear windows. After the crash when Kurt Russel makes his entrance the crashed Maserati Ghibli still has clear windows. (00:25:00)

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Revealing mistake: At the very beginning of the movie when Billy is getting his hands wrapped as Eli is taping his right glove, part of the H in his fighter tattoo has been rubbed off from when his arm was resting on the chair while they wrapped his hands. (00:02:40)

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Revealing mistake: When the Nazi doctor starts to torture Solo in the electric chair, he turns off all lights in the room except for a single dim light bulb over Solo's head; so, we know that the background is uniformly dark. Moments later, when Ilya comes to the rescue, a lighted control room appears behind the doctor, off to one side. After they strap the Nazi doctor into the electric chair, there is now a lighted control room directly behind the chair.

Charles Austin Miller

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Revealing mistake: The idea is that the characters are in some super remote area where there are no working phones and nowhere to get help, but throughout the movie you can see a town in the background with buildings.

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Revealing mistake: Throughout the movie, we are reminded repeatedly that Harrison and Travis are naive 9-year-old boys who have absolutely no knowledge of guns or gun safety. Near the end, when the two boys are trapped in the backseat of the cop car, they clumsily try to blow out the window with a 40 caliber semi-auto handgun, but they can't even figure out the safety mechanism. When they do release the safety moments later, young Travis suddenly takes aim and fires with a perfect two-handed forward presentation. We see the gun and Travis's hands in close-up, and he's properly holding the semi-auto with trained dexterity just before it fires. This appears to be a skilled stand-in firing the gun.

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Revealing mistake: When Victor arrives with the drum he says is full of jet fuel, it's very obvious the barrel is empty by the way he's handling it.

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Revealing mistake: From the sound made when the car hit the deer, as well as the deer's overall appearance, it was obvious the deer was fake. The fake deer's body was almost uniformly brown, but the "dead deer" on the road had a white underbody that went part way up its side and along its legs, which should have been visible on the "fake deer." (00:10:19)

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Revealing mistake: In the Senior Citizen bus tour scene, just when the bus stops and almost hits the piece of construction equipment, Sofia Vergara is fixing her handcuffs. She adjusts them because one has visibly fallen off her wrist.

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Revealing mistake: When Johnny (Utah) and Samsara are in the ocean at night, the lighting appears to be in daytime. If you look at the surface when they come out of the little cave opening there is a bright sun-like shape.

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Revealing mistake: The group ambushes a German patrol with a half track and a tank. After the fight is over Dolph sits on the ground leaning to the tracks of the tank. The Lieutenant comes back alone holding his Thompson submachine gun. You can see that the barrel is plugged with an aluminum insert to enable the operation of blank cartridges. (01:00:00)

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Revealing mistake: When Verdean is scrolling the Wikipedia page for the Israeli wrestler "Johnny Jerusalem", the page itself is a well thought out fake one (the wrestler in question is non-existent), but the prop person who made this fake did not bother going all the way through editing the wording of the footnotes ("References" paragraph), that display instead the name of the real wiki page they edited as foundation. The webpage is an edit of the real Wikipedia page of The French Angel, the real life pro-wrestler who was also rumored to be an inspiration for the look of cartoon orc Shrek. All the names and dates have been slightly altered ("Paul Blowzier in New York" instead of Paul Bowser in Boston, "Carl Pohiello" instead of Karl Pojello, etc). (00:37:20)

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Revealing mistake: When the car goes off the road, there is CGI smoke which is visible above the tinted window, but is missing from through the window which isn't completely blacked out.

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Revealing mistake: At the cocktail party in his honor, Rita Richards introduces herself. Joaquin Phoenix's scotch is in a transparent plastic cup, and you notice what happens in most movies, here with particular clarity; when he brings it to his mouth, he does not take even a sip, but just pretends. (00:06:05)

Sammo

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Revealing mistake: Just before Madison is about to be pulled up the stairs, it's quite too obvious that is isn't Kennedi Clements, rather a stunt double.

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Revealing mistake: When Bradley come in the restaurant and ask the guest to apologise, he is starting to take the table cloth with everything on it but, while he is doing that, behind him you can see that the view of the restaurant it has a blue screen all over. You can even see the bushes outside.

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Revealing mistake: The protagonist is in the interrogation room. The clock on the wall shows 10:10, and stays that way throughout the scene, which lasts longer than a minute, close to two. (00:19:40 - 00:21:30)

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Revealing mistake: In the flashback of the death of Noah's parents, besides the obvious clichè of insta-explosion on impact, it's obvious in the second shot that the car is exploding from within the passenger seats. (01:09:55)

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