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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 03-22-2002, 03:29 PM:
The oter day, I was watching a program about a "watchdog" group that moniters films for glitches. Some of these glitches are quite funny, and there are several internet sites devoted to this topic...so I guess I will start it off 
!1933 King Kong w/Ray Wray. In the jungle scene when Kong comes for Fay Wray. The "natives" are scampering for cover! One "native" jumps off of an elevated portion of the set and lands in a prop. His "Afro" wig gets tangled in the prop and comes off revealing an actor in black-face!
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 03-23-2002, 04:44 AM:
Best glitch I ever saw and laughed at to death...Menace II Society...
SETUP: Poker game, four men playing. One calls the other a cheat, he claimes innocent. The accuser gets up and pulls out a six barrel revolver.... and shoots...... BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG..... eight times, without reloading, and then turns to the other two and says.... "anyone else want a piece of this"... they both respond... "no way man... .youre cool" both with fear in thier eyes.....
I don't know if I would be afraid of a gun that already owed me two bullits.
Dave
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 03-23-2002, 09:52 AM:
Maybe the gunman had a 9mm with a full clip and one in the chamber.That's the one scene of Menace II Society that I recall: The man says "Kiss my motherf&$)!*' ass" and gets blown away, still in his seat.
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 03-23-2002, 10:29 AM:
One "glitch" I thought should have been fixed was in Goodfellas. There's a scene where Conway (De Niro) is in a phone booth, and just learns that DeVito (Joe Pesci) has been "wacked." He steps just outside of the booth to tell Hill (Liotta.) Conway is so upset, that he pounds his hands on the booth.You can just see the phone booth tip over, but it does go out of frame. Ray Liotta even glances at it as it goes over, and you can hear the sound of it crashing to the ground.
Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 03-23-2002, 04:50 PM:
Ray Liotta is one swole gangsta, dawg.
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-23-2002, 10:23 PM:
High Plains Drifter -- The scene where Clint is teaching the townspeople how to ambush the "bad guys". Clint is standing on the boardwalk, drinking a beer, while the other men are shooting at a wagon full off dummies from the rooftops...1) Shot of Clint drinking a beer. The glass is half full.
2) Cut away to a shot of the guys shooting at the wagon.
3) Cut back to Clint. Glass is full.
4) Cut away to shooting, then back to Clint. Glass is almost empty.
5) Another cut. Glass is full again.
So, does Clint have a magic beer glass?
Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 03-24-2002, 07:07 AM:
Stormtroopers bumbing his head in Episode IV. Frickin awesome, It is even better now because GL had a line dubbed in for the Special Edition having another Stormtrooper saying like "look after him"...
Here is a site just devoted to Star Wars bloopers http://www.egosystem.com/starwars/anh/anh09.htm
That particular page has the picture of the Stormtrooper hitting his head...
Funny StuffBTW, John, that version of Goodfellas that you were watching, was it Pan&scan? I just popped it in the DVD player and I could see the phone booth topple over. It appears that it was supposed to happen in the film. A pan&scan version may have that cropped out.
Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 03-24-2002, 11:06 AM:
In "Last Action Hero" there's a shot of a car blowing up and of course becoming airborn in the process. As the car goes airborn, you can very plainly see the hydraulic cannon-lift device that propels it in the air.
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 03-24-2002, 01:40 PM:
Worst glitch "King of King's" Roadshow...As they are being led across the desert in the distance you see a plane flying over the mountains. 
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 03-24-2002, 07:36 PM:
Chris: How could a guy just push a phone booth over! Another one I liked was in Close Encounters. The cops chase spaceships through a toll plaza where a guy is yelling at them to stop and pay. The clock behind him is backwards showing that the image was reversed. But you couldn't see it for many years on the VHS version because they were all pan n' scaned. Speiberg was interviewed by Tom Snider about 6 months after the film came out and asked him about it. Speiberg replied that time doesn't have any meaning to people who can travel faster than light, so.... !
Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 03-24-2002, 08:36 PM:
On an extremely low budget film I worked on in 1973 ( I was the sound mixer,did the pressbook + poster stills, edited the trailer, did the radio ads, and mounted the 35 release prints that debut in the "better" drive-ins ) had a scene where a white van blows up....well it was a Chevrolet ( mine ) and a split second later turned into a Ford for the blast....the Ford had no engine and someone forgot to bring a cable to pull it into the shot...so Chevrolet to the rescue. 
Richard Fowler
TVP-Theatre & Video Products inc. www.tvpmiami.com
Posted by Josh Kirkhart (Member # 1046) on 03-25-2002, 12:25 AM:
Ok, I have to reply to David. Last Action Hero.The blown up car takes place in the movie characters world, not the world of the boy and the real Arnold. Hence, OF COURSE you can see the hydraulic lift, he also never loads, gets shot, or curses like normal man getting shot at would. Anyway, just thought I'd let loose there.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-25-2002, 01:30 AM:
One of last year's most enjoyable films...JoyRide, the CB radio antenna keeps changing sides of the trunk. Also, the CB channel keeps changing, sometimes in mid conversation.Regarding reversed shots, check out Terminator 2 when the 18 wheeler runs over the bridge into the canal (for you "film" guys, that would be in reel 2). The shot where the truck busts through the wall of the bridge there is a street sign that is in the background and very prominent. However, if you look closer, the word "Freightliner" on the hood of the truck is backwards. Apparently no one felt it would be noticed and they only reversed the street sign. (Joe, is that visible in your DVD for a screen shot?)
Christopher, if you get an original "Episode 4" tape you will notice there is the sound of static as the Stormtrooper hits his head. Pretty funny, as obviously the sound guys noticed it!
Here is what Joe came up with from the DVD.
Posted by Mike Spaeth (Member # 524) on 03-25-2002, 03:40 AM:
For a comprehensive list, visit www.movie-mistakes.com.
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-25-2002, 07:39 AM:
In Howard's End the reflection of a Volkswagen Beetle can be seen in a window during one of the street scenes (the film is set in 1911).There's also a 1980s Schwarzenegger film (can't remember which one) in which Arnie is driving a sports car being pursued by the police. As the car approaches the apex of a bend, heading towards the camera, it hits a rock and is knocked onto its side. The car then negotiates the bend (and passes the camera) on its side and then falls back onto four wheels. As it drives away, you can clearly see that the side of the car which had scraped along the tarmac at 70mph plus was spotlessly painted, without a scratch on it!
Posted by Aaron Haney (Member # 747) on 03-25-2002, 07:54 AM:
IMDb has a "goofs" section for every movie, and it's by far the most extensive set of such lists I've seen.
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-25-2002, 11:22 AM:
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Leo Enticknap: As it drives away, you can clearly see that the side of the car which had scraped along the tarmac at 70mph plus was spotlessly painted, without a scratch on it!
Yes, but, Leo, you have to remember... This is "Aah-nold" we're talking about! He can really do those kinds of things in REAL LIFE! 
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 05-05-2002, 04:30 AM:
This goes back to my MENACE 2 SOCIETY posting where the revolver shoots eight times and people are still afraid of the gun. It was suggested that..."Maybe the gunman had a 9mm with a full clip and one in the chamber.
That's the one scene of Menace II Society that I recall: The man says "Kiss my motherf&$)!*' ass" and gets blown away, still in his seat."
I just watched this scene again today. The gunman in question pulls out a snubnose 38 with a six shot revolving chamber. And actually the guy who gets shot says "suck my dick" just before getting shot eight times.
And on the case of LAST ACTION HERO, the film was shot with 43 intentional goofs. This was part of the actual production, and not actual glaring goofs. It is kind of fun to go looking for them.
Dave
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 05-05-2002, 06:07 PM:
Came across another one today in The Cat's Meow.When Wm. Randolph Hearst is looking for a doctor after shooting William Ince, "The Chief" pores through a directory with addresses that end "Los Angeles, CA". The Cat's Meow is set in 1926. "CA" is a US Postal Service abbreviation -- not put into common use until the late 60's/early 70's.
Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 05-05-2002, 08:58 PM:
My favorite but nit-picky item is from L.A. Story (1991) where Steve Martin goes to pick up his pants in the pouring rain, and you can see in the reflection of the store windows that it's bright, dry and sunny everywhere else on the street. The another scene when Steve Martin's doing the old highway gun shooting bit -- and they pull back to reveal the opposite lanes of freeway completely empty.FILM-FLUBS (or one of them) pointed out that in a scene in L.A. Story where Steve Martin gets into the passenger side of the car, he then emerges later from the drivers side of the car. This 'flub' was sooo incorrect because during the course of the car driving itself, Steve Martin says "hey .. let me not drive!' and switches sides of the car.
Don't we all just know everything about our favorite films?
-Scott Neff
Posted by Tao Yue (Member # 836) on 05-05-2002, 09:43 PM:
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"CA" is a US Postal Service abbreviation -- not put into common use until the late 60's/early 70's.
Are you certain that it wasn't used before the '60s? Many people addressed envelopes with abbreviations before the postal standards came into use. I've seen old letters with NY for New York (obvious), NJ for New Jersey (also obvious), and O for Ohio (sent in-state so confusion with Oklahoma or Oregon not a problem).
Of course, you're probably right (for the 1920s, Calif. is a more likely abbreviation than CA). However, sometimes we "know" things about a time period that surprisingly turn out to be wrong. The abbreviation doesn't qualify automatically as an anachronism unless there's supporting evidence from other materials from that time period.
I don't catch all that many goofs in films, but quite a few "Inaccurately reported as goofs" on IMDB were sent in by me.
Posted by Adam Fraser (Member # 1074) on 05-05-2002, 11:50 PM:
Smokey and The Bandit, Sally Fields looks at the speedo in Burt Reynolds Trans Am and says something like "you are going 100 miles an hour" the shot then goes to the speedo and it clearly says 70 miles an hour. Still by far one of my favorite movies though.------------------
Adam Fraser www.pinestheatre.com
Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 05-06-2002, 05:07 AM:
The best one I'd seen in a long time was in THE UNTOUCHABLES.
The scene were Kevin Costner was trying to talk Sean Connery into joining up with them in Connery's apartment.
Close up of Costner doing the sales pitch, Connery's shirt buttoned at the top.
Goes back to Costner, with more sales pitch. Switches back to Connery, with shirt unbuttoned.
This occures about 2 more times.
Someone asleep at the switch?
Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 05-12-2002, 10:21 AM:
I'm surprised noone mentioned the Scorpion King boo-boo. About 50-55 minutes into the actual movie (I didn't watch the whole movie, but it's something like his knee gets hurt, then healed up, then they find some crazy old guy, then they get captured and go to a village or something) in the middle of the screen horizontally, towards the lower third vertically, you can see a camera man. He comes out from behind a rock (not The Rock) wearing a white t-shirt and a black hat. He's crouched over carrying a camera. Can't miss him.------------------
"Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson
Posted by Kyle Caudill (Member # 1252) on 05-12-2002, 10:15 PM:
The last childs play movie. I cant remember, but someone gets hit by a semi truck at some point in the movie. The body explodes before the truck hits the body.
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 05-13-2002, 03:04 AM:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - after Humphrey Bogart has shot Tim Holt and is stalking through the jungle pursued by Indians, he looks round in a 180° arc. As the camera pans with his point of view, you can just see the outline of a large studio searchlight-type arc lamp on the edge of the set.