Friday OT - Get It Together

[Angie]

Thank you so much to @madguy30 for this topic! I always appreciate a suggestion via PM or someone starting an OT thread, and love seeing where peoples minds go!

Copying and pasting here because I can’t do it as good of justice. I’m not going to steal his example, though!

What are some gaffes/mistakes in movies, like objects, camera folks or prop people left in the frame.
--also acceptable are incorrect geographical or even time references, like shoes that wouldn't have existed at the 'time' in the movie.

 

[JP4CY]

Everyone remember the Three Men and a Baby urban legend?

 

[bluestarcyclone]

 

[GMackey32]

I remember seeing this the very first time I watched the movie and it still bothers me to this day.

 

[cytor]

Lots of them in Wizard of Oz...

• Dororthy's hair changes lengths
• The crown on the Lions head falls off and bounces on the Yellow brick road (supposed to be a broken flower pot)
• Dorothy knocks on the Emerald City doors 3 times and 4 knocks are heard.

I could go on and on with that movie.

 

[cytor]

Original Footloose movie.... fight seen outside dance near the end of the movie. Ren and Willard get into a fight against Chuck and his boys, getting dirty in the process. They later walk into the dance and they are all clean!

 

[madguy30]

Prime example of prop person being in the scene. A hand comes from behind to make the raptor stand up in the kitchen scene. They could CGI entire herds of dinosaurs but not take the hand out.

 

[VeloClone]

In Titanic Jack Dawson recalls fishing in Lake Wissota in Chippewa Falls. The Titanic sunk in 1912. Lake Wissota is a manmade reservoir - made in 1917.

 

[somecyguy]

I'm too lazy to look for a picture of it, but in the original ghostbusters, the scene of them standing outside Dana's apartment building when pieces of it start raining down on them, one particularly large chuck of "concrete" bounces off a wooden barricade.

I love pissing off Sheridan fans of 1883 by telling them that the majority of the "issues" they faced such as river crossings were already well known by that time frame with route maps.

 

[CYdTracked]

There are a bunch of them in the Back To The Future trilogy, some I didn't even notice until I started reading on them then I can't help to notice them every time I watch now. Some examples

10 Mistakes That Made It Into The Back To The Future Movies

 

[Al_4_State]

Brainerd PD wouldn't be investigating an incident with this background

 

[cyclones500]

"Forrest Gump" has several timeline inconsistencies.

A notable one (summarized) is Gump getting a letter from Apple Computer Inc., dated Sept. 23, 1975, regarding investment in the company. Apple wasn't formally established until April 1976 and wasn't available for public trading until 1980.

 

[dahliaclone]

This always kills me. The lightswitch she turns off with her elbow is like six inches away

 

[cytor]

Little House on the Prairie TV show.... electricity in the huts (light bulbs hanging from the ceiling). Electricity was not invented yet.

 

[cycloner29]

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Along with actor showing tattoos in shows of this era.

 

[Joe4Cy]

I couldn't find a good image.

In Better Off Dead, during the final ski scene, you can catch the tips of the camera operator's skis near the bottom of the frame a number of times.

 

[Gonzo]

School Ties... I was surprised to learn that Adams was making branded chinstraps in the 1950s, lol

 

[CYCLNST8]

In Terminator 2, the tow truck has already sustained significant damage to its bumper and grill before it jumps the overpass into the LA River. Yet right before it smashes the traffic barrier, you can see the nose is still mint. That always bothered me, ha ha!

 

[fsanford]

Simpson episode about Marge is expecting Maggie. Notice photo on the left

Simpsons are good about predicting things, so maybe AI Maggie

 

[coolerifyoudid]

The original Twister has a bunch.

The most memorable for me are :
- when Joe and Bill's windshield gets smashed by an auger arm and is intact after that




- when they drive into a house on it's side, they somehow drive up stairs (even though they wouldn't be going up at that point) and then after going "up" stairs they emerge from the house at ground level