Movie mistakes, ever catch them?

[steveinaz]

I was watching a movie the other night (damn if I can remember what it was, but a recent movie) and there was a very noticeable glitch in "props." A guy was holding a gun at someone, and everytime the scene would switch from the victim to the bad guy, then gun would change from a Glock to an H&K. I couldn't believe it--they are distinctly different looking guns, can't believe they didn't catch that mistake on the edit.

You ever see a gross mistake?

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

All the time.

[bobman1235]

I try my hardest NOT to notice them, because it really takes me out of the movie. I know some people who look for them, just like some who look for things that are inaccurate in movies; I try m y best to ignore those things because once I start seeing them I might as well shut the movie off.

[steveinaz]

I don't look for them either, but this was so blatant, and a close-up type scene, I just couldn't believe someone didn't catch it. You wouldn't have to know anything about guns to see the difference--

[strider]

I don't try to look for them, but sometimes one will catch my eye. IMDB.com has a section in the write up for each movie that lists ones that people catch. I think the gaff that stands out in my mind the most is the Volkswagen Beetle you see in every frame of the chase sequence in Bullitt.

[hockeyboy]

I love the B movies where you can see the boom and microphone coming in and out of the picture at the top of the screen.

[dorokusai]

There are alot of movies that should never have been filmed in the first place.

[Willow]

M wife thinks it's crazy how I notice them. I don't look for them either. A lot of times it's clothing, one angle collar is up another angle collar is fixed, or drinks, one angle the drink is half full the other angle it's empty or full. I don't understand how a movie can leave the cutting room with issues like that. Don't people get paid money to check for errors?

It really bothers me when I see them as well.

[Strong Bad]

The one I noticed right off the first time I saw the movie Terminator 2 is when the semi (driven by the T-1000) is chasing John Connor (on motorcycle) and drives off the overhead highway and crashes down into the water drainage alley. If you notice, when it crashes down and lands, the front windows fly out of it. Next scene, the windows are there.

T2 has alot of goofs.


John

[Music Joe]

I was watching a movie the other night (damn if I can remember what it was, but a recent movie) and there was a very noticeable glitch in "props." A guy was holding a gun at someone, and everytime the scene would switch from the victim to the bad guy, then gun would change from a Glock to an H&K. I couldn't believe it--they are distinctly different looking guns, can't believe they didn't catch that mistake on the edit.

You ever see a gross mistake?

Yes, that movie you did the quickie review on "The Invisible" had one that stood out to me...the character grabs a double barrel shotgun off a gun rack and walks out of camera view...your hear a distinct pump-action racking in a shell sound effect...heh. Legions of movies have that goofy empty clip open action semi-auto. The slide is back and locked, the unaware actor still in a firing stance. Magically charged and firable after the camera cuts-away then returns.

A good laugh, 'Spaghetti Westerns' with overused richocette sound effects and the cap&ball percussion constantly switching back and forth into a cartridge revolver.

[steveinaz]

Oh yeah, I did notice the shotgun flub, that was pretty classic---I guess it was a "double-pump action"..LOL

[PhantomOG]

isn't there someone on the film crew who's specific job is to catch these kinds of mistakes? Think I remember reading that somewhere.

[treitz3]

The Dukes of Hazzard was notorious with this as well as most action scenes in movies. Front end smashed all to hell one scene, the next....not even so much as a scratch on the bumper. Christine was the only one that could get away with it. All others fail. Some miserably.

[Jstas]

The original Vanishing Point, the car that crashes in the end is NOT a 70 Challenger. The whole movie revolved around a white 70 Challenger. They used a 1970 or 1971 throughout the whole movie until the end. The car that hits the bulldozers in the end is a 1972, 1973 or 1974 Challenger. You can tell by the taillights. I could tell you what year exactly but it's hard to make out the whole tail end with all the smoke and mangled metal.

[Early B.]

Some of the mistakes I catch are the huge flaws in logic of the script. Sometimes, though, it appears the writer meant one thing but the director or film editor 'effed it up.

[bobman1235]

isn't there someone on the film crew who's specific job is to catch these kinds of mistakes? Think I remember reading that somewhere.

It's someone's job to write good movies too but there's lots of real crap that gets released every year.

Some of them are understandable - someone's collar moving between takes, for example, is just something that's going to happen. Modern movies have dozens if not hundreds of scenes with dozens if not hundreds of takes each; while I'm sure they see a lot of the minor (inconsequential) errors in editing it's hardly worthwhile to reshoot a big scene to fix someone's collar so 9 nerds with a pause button don't get upset :)

[shawn474]

The best one that I can remember is in The Great Outdoors with John Candy. There is a scene where a bear knocks down the door and pins John Candy underneath it. You can see the bear handler hitting the bear with a stick to get it to roar. It is classic.

[sophie]

on mr. woodcock there is a time when his shirt is sweaty, then not, then kind of, then not, then sweaty. it switches about every 15 seconds.

[shadowofnight]

I was watching a movie the other night (damn if I can remember what it was, but a recent movie) and there was a very noticeable glitch in "props." A guy was holding a gun at someone, and everytime the scene would switch from the victim to the bad guy, then gun would change from a Glock to an H&K. I couldn't believe it--they are distinctly different looking guns, can't believe they didn't catch that mistake on the edit.

You ever see a gross mistake?


I think the movie you are talking about is Bourne Ultimatum.....I dont go looking for them , but the firearm mistakes are SO common.

Just the other day I was watching Shooter on bluray...you would think with a movie like Shooter they would be spot on with the firearms....nope. Just sitting there talking and spotting with the binoculars...no shots fired mind you ...in half the frames of the same camera scene...the bolt is open ...then closed...then open :p

[Dennis Gardner]

Movies set in Kansas with California mountains in the background always catch my eye. There isn't a mountain that rises from the horizon to be found in that state.

[madmax]

I hardly ever catch mistakes, even when I look for them.

[Ackaroth]

I see them alot, but generally only after seeing a movie multiple times. I like seeing good movies 2 or 3 times to see and hear all the good stuff I missed from the first time anyway.