Worst "goof" you've ever seen in a movie?

PullMyFinger!

There's 2 that really stand out for me as so woeful they're funny

Beverly Hills Cop:

Axel Foley goes into confront Victor Maitland in a restaurant about halfway through the film and gets in a scuffle with the bay guys. When doing so he goes to throw one of them across a table. Now I remember seeing this on VHS as a kid and straight away spotting how bad Eddie Murphy's double is in this scene in real time! When you freeze frame the difference is hilarious. Probably the first goof I ever spotted in a film and still one of the ones that stands out.

Edit: Ive checked it on IMDB, they confirm

Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Axel as he throws the man at the Harrow club.

In fact there's many "obvious stunt double"s on that list.


But the best for me is in Midnight Run and was the one that gave me the idea for this thread.

Crew or equipment visible:

After the off-road open-top jeep chase, Jack and Mardukas flag down Marvin in his car. The in-car shots of Marvin show a sound guy sitting over Marvin's right shoulder in the back seat with headphones on.

Its so visible its gas. The guy is just sitting there! :pac:

Over to you.

I think T2 and Titanic hold the record for the most mistakes in (major Hollywood) films, both of them sharing a director who obviously had other things on his mind

Joeface

Fled
L.Fishbourne and S. baldwin

While speaking to each other in Baldwins flat , every time the camera goes to baldwin he is wearing a Jumper , then Orange Prision uniform , then the jumper , it happens like 5 times

TheIrishGrover

Sean Connery leads the team up to some flaming boiler thing. Says something like "I watched the timing of this for 4 hours to get this right" or something and then rolls between the flames. Then he opens the door for the team to enter. Only thing is, if he was escaping the first time then why did he not just walk out the door he just opened for the team like he just did?

The constant appearence of the boom mic in scenes in the Happening. Annoyed the hell out of me, though I don't mind it when it happens in the first Resident Evil film.

Galvasean

A recent example. The Incredible Hulk.
Liv Tyler's character heartbreakingly sells her locket. Next scene she's taking photos on her ultra stylish digital camera.

the_syco

How about the plane with the camera on it in Pearl Harbour?

Latchy

Remember seeing a film with jack lemmon and think it was called ' the out of towners' about a couple in NYC for a weekend who find themselfs out of sorts .When the couple are walking through central park , the boom mic above their heads can be clearly seen for a few minutes .

LeoGilly

Never noticed this till i read about it

Larianne

I'm a terrible person for pointing out continuity errors in films.:o

There's obviously the famous one of Charleton Heston and his watch in Ben Hur.

Another one that comes to mind is in Beverly Hills Cop3 when Axel is being interrogated in the control room of the theme park and he's tied to the chair and up pops a mic between his legs!

Also, in American Pie in the party scene when one of the characters picks up a blue plastic cup to drink out of (where someone might have squirted something into..?) and then the next shot the cup is red.

obviously not the worst goof in a film but just the ones that come to mind off the top of me head.

zAbbo

Galvasean wrote: »

A recent example. The Incredible Hulk.
Liv Tyler's character heartbreakingly sells her locket. Next scene she's taking photos on her ultra stylish digital camera.

But not just any camera, it was a nicely product placed Panasonic Lumix

Ginger

Commando.. the bashed up car and then its fully repaired

X-Men 2 I think at the end the book on the presidents table was open then closed.. X Men 3.. wolverines t short gets repaired in between shots...

There is a famous one in the 2nd indiana jones film where one of the main characters swallows a bug by accident but continues on regardless

Galvasean

Spider-Man: When Peter climbs up the wall for thefirst time his clothes are gravitating towards the wall.

I read that in the Peter Jackson remake of King Kong one of the sailors is wearing boots that were not produced until 1935. The film was set in 1933.
What kind of sick freak notices that!??

Ginger

The guys at www.moviemistakes.com

Galvasean

I mean theres a giant gorilla tearing the screen up and someone's watching going "Ooh, look at that guys shoes".

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i guess it's to try get women more interested in movie goofs?

Parrish_Crooks

Ginger wrote: »

Commando.. the bashed up car and then its fully repaired

There's so many in this movie we could go on all day, classic stuff!

One that really stands out for me though is the scene in the motel when Arnie's wrestling with a guy and they knock through the wall to another room to reveal a couple coupling. If you watch closely, the GIRL is giving it to the GUY in the doggystyle position!

EDIT
Forgot about one in HEAT. After the shootout at the bank starts and they are driving away, we see a couple of big spiderweb bulletholes in the glass. It then cuts to a shot of the outside of the car from above and the windscreen is fine!

Duggy747

One that irritates the hell outta me is at the end of Con Air when Cyruss is handcuffed to the ladder of the fire engine and goes through the glass bridge. The camera angle from above shows him flying through the other side, the fire engine below still driving, and the subsequent road it is travelling on. Yet, somehow, Cyruss lands at some isolated construction yard on a conveyor belt and gets his head crushed.



Always annoys me!

PullMyFinger!

PullMyFinger! wrote: »

I think T2 and Titanic hold the record for the most mistakes in (major Hollywood) films

I was off by only 19 places

http://www.moviemistakes.com/top.php&no_cj_c=1

L31mr0d

http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Goofs/

The first one I ever remember noticing was this one, mainly because I thought the robotic arm looked so cool at the time and then it suddenly disappears

Jurassic Park: When the Velociraptor egg is first hatching, the robotic arm is holding it in place, in the next shot the arm is nowhere to be seen.

Galvasean

In Jurassic park when Nedry is stealing the embyos both Tyrannosaurus (as 'Tyranosaurus') and Stegosaurus (as 'Stegasaurus').
Interesting they managed to spell Metriacanthosaurus right.

*nerd alert*

PullMyFinger!

Galvasean wrote: »

*nerd alert*

Its ok, you're not as bad it the guy who made these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0Lnyt4m84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKt_9QnBS4

I wouldnt mind but he left out the best goof in the film. In the scene where there's a Bad Dino Fella behind a steel door, and as the camera faces the door full on, not only can you see a Clapper Board in the reflection but someone actually "claps" it

tylerdurden94

Just a couple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ra-7brEEsg

PullMyFinger!

Galvasean wrote: »

I read that in the Peter Jackson remake of King Kong one of the sailors is wearing boots that were not produced until 1935. The film was set in 1933.
What kind of sick freak notices that!??

The same kinda freaks that notice in the first of Jackson's LOTR you can see a car in the distance on a wideshot

grames_bond

fight club:

When the Narrator and Bob are crying together at the support group, Bob is much taller than the Narrator. However, when the two meet in front of Marla's place and Bob tells the Narrator that he is a member of Fight Club, the Narrator is taller than Bob. Edward Norton mentions this on the commentary. He is actually taller than Meat Loaf, but Bob is supposed to be taller than the Narrator. It seems they didn't remember to make him taller in every scene though.

Neo#

There is a really bad double for All Pacino scene in HEAT. I forget which part exactly but Al is bursting into a hotel room and its his double doing it. He is clearly a bad double and you see his face clearly for a few seconds. Last time I watched I thought who is this guy. Then I realised it was supposed to eb AL PAcino!!:D

Cactus Col

In 300:
Mistake Revealing: In the first major battle between the 300 Spartans and the Persians, Leonidas is slaughtering the Persians and the speed of the scene goes from slow motion to fast motion, you see very realistic CGI blood. When the blood hits the the ground it suddenly disappears. This happens many times during this long and awesome scene


When watching the film, this really annoyed me. And is one of the reasons I hate 300.

stevenmu

The best goofs I've seen have to be in Braveheart with cars/vans driving around in the background of a few scenes.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Kill Bill vol 1 (part fantasy, I know, but...) How did Uma Thurman get THAT sword on a plane as hand luggage....?

Finding Nemo: The starfish mumbles when she talks because she's stuck to the glass of the fish tank. After that, though, she talks perfectly, whether she's facing the glass or not.... (and yes, I am aware of the whole talking fish thing!!)

faceman

Larianne wrote: »

There's obviously the famous one of Charleton Heston and his watch in Ben Hur.

AFAIK thats just an urban myth.

My 2 favourites are from Star Wars, which is full of goofs.

The obvious one is where the storm trooper hits his head waking in the door, however it became so popular that Lucas added a sound effect to the special editions so as to make it look intentional.

My fav though is the bit on the millenium falcon, with han, chewie, luke, ben etc in the cockpit. In the background you see one of the crew, poke his head around the corner, realise he can be seen and hide away again! Class!

DirkVoodoo

Spiderman: Peter is testing out his webbing in his room, he grabs the can of coke and pulls it towards himself, swings in his chair and does the same to a lamp shade, which he misjudges and it flies past his head, smashing against the wall. Next scene after he talks to Aunt May and surveys the room, the lamp is sitting nicely on the table.

Gladiator: This one bugged me a lot! When Russel is lying on the ground after his fight with Joaquin, he has his head propped up on a nice raised pillow of sand.

Oh there's so many from Spiderman 3 - Peter wants to make a call so he goes to the payphone. He drops a quarter in and you can clearly hear it dropping into the coin return slot, yet somehow, he magically managed to make the phone call.

Aunt may is pouring everyone tea. She lifts up the pot and pours it in. Also quite visible is the fact that all she is pouring is water.

elekid

Galvasean wrote: »

A recent example. The Incredible Hulk.
Liv Tyler's character heartbreakingly sells her locket. Next scene she's taking photos on her ultra stylish digital camera.

That really bugged me too. Never mind the fact that they are on the run at the time so I don't know what she thinks she's doing taking a digital photo of their current location.

Heisenberg.

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faceman

The Scientist wrote: »

Titanic:
At the end Rose is holding Jacks hand and she promises him she'll bever let him go. 2 seconds later it cuts to Jack and she's after leaving go of him.

hahahaha brilliant!

TheIrishGrover

The Scientist wrote: »

Titanic:
At the end Rose is holding Jacks hand and she promises him she'll bever let him go. 2 seconds later it cuts to Jack and she's after leaving go of him.

Just means ya can't trust Kate Winslet. Lying f***ing b1tch. She held on to the big f***ing necklace though didn't she?

Parrish_Crooks

Ah I don't think Jack was too bothered, he got what he was after!

pixelburp

A recent one I recall was in X-men 3: the Last Stand. Magneto and his crew march across the displaced San Fran bridge during a beautiful summers day. Blue skies abound. They're almost at the end of the bridge, having reached their destination (the big military facility). Suddenly it's in the middle of the bloody night as they step off the bridge! Whoah, whose mutant powers were they?

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

A recent one I recall was in X-men 3: the Last Stand. Magneto and his crew march across the displaced San Fran bridge during a beautiful summers day. Blue skies abound. They're almost at the end of the bridge, having reached their destination (the big military facility). Suddenly it's in the middle of the bloody night as they step off the bridge! Whoah, whose mutant powers were they?

Storm perhaps? It did kinda annoy me first time I saw it but I figured or rather hoped that it was Storm's doing rather than a horrible mistake.

seamus

One I reported to IMDB about Robocop

When Robocop is first brought into the police station, one of the scientists shows a "device" that tracks Robocop's location at all times. This is obviously supposed to be some kind of hand-held LCD screen showing a map and a marker. However, you can clearly see that the "device" is just a tiny printed map with an LED placed in the middle of it.

You won't be able to see anything else now when you watch it

I actually don't remember ever seeing one of these until the Internet arrived and I was made aware that these mistakes exist. The one I'm always noticing is continuity when people are talking - clothing and the layout of the room change constantly.

Parrish_Crooks

Big one in Batman (1989) actually.

During The first appearance of the Joker in Grissom's office, you'll notice a big blotch of purple on his white neck. Apparently some of the white make up on his neck had rubbed off onto the collar of the jacket, so they covered it over with purple polish. Unfortunately, this then rubbed onto his neck! Oops :rolleyes:

pixelburp

Deleted User wrote: »

Storm perhaps? It did kinda annoy me first time I saw it but I figured or rather hoped that it was Storm's doing rather than a horrible mistake.

Yeah perhaps if it were a rainstorm or something, but it just went from day to night; she can't control the movement of the earth Plus at that stage the X-men hadn't turned up iirc so it couldn't have been her.

humanji

I remember seeing that one and no one else in the cinema seemed to notice. When I explained it to my mates afterwards they wouldn't believe me because they said there's no way a goof like that would make it into the final cut!

Vic Vinegar

Deleted User wrote: »

Storm perhaps? It did kinda annoy me first time I saw it but I figured or rather hoped that it was Storm's doing rather than a horrible mistake.

Sure wasn't the whole film a horrible mistake?

Ha, high fives everyone!!! :pac:

pixelburp

humanji wrote: »

I remember seeing that one and no one else in the cinema seemed to notice. When I explained it to my mates afterwards they wouldn't believe me because they said there's no way a goof like that would make it into the final cut!

Yeah, I seemed to be the only one who noticed it too. Though it was SO jarring you'd be forgiven if you blinked and pretended it didn't really happen. I do remember one review I read pointing out the glaring continuity error so it was noticed.

Though by that stage my good will had long since evaporated with that movie. I guess Rattner had been attending the Joel Schumacher School for Crashing Franchises.

The Bollox

maybe not the biggest goof, but it's the most recent for me. in Dirty Harry when he's going after the two bank robbers near the start he fires his .44 Magnum 7 times and then asks the thief "did I fire 6 times or only 5?". I lol'd

didn't count his gunshots in the quarry though, although the bad guy was also using a 6 shooter and he fired off atleast 10 rounds without needing to reload. damn haxx0rz!

Galvasean

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Gladiator: This one bugged me a lot! When Russel is lying on the ground after his fight with Joaquin, he has his head propped up on a nice raised pillow of sand.

I always taught his head was raised so tehy could do that delerious spinny thing

you know to show that he was dying

Galvasean

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Just means ya can't trust Kate Winslet. Lying f***ing b1tch. She held on to the big f***ing necklace though didn't she?

She wanted the necklace as something to remember him by. Not quite as romabntic as say a severed human ear mind.

Fizman

Remember me and a few mates spotted a funny one in Predator (VHS) years ago. One of the African-american actors (Dillan) gets his arm blown off by the Predator. Soon afterwards, below his stump, you can see his arm sticking out the bottom of his jacket.

Theboinkmaster

Can't believe nobody's mentioned the funniest:

Teen Wolf

Last few minutes of the film when everyone's celebrating at the basketball game the camera pans across to reveal a guy in the crowd waving his cockk about - classic!

Not sure if it's been taken out of the dvd but saw it awhile ago on TV, so funny as it's quite obvious

razorblunt

I hate storyline goof that only does clued in on the whole topic would get, like the "Unleash Hell" line in Gladiator and the fact that Romans didnt believe in hell or what have ya.

One that my dad spotted was renting Good Will Hunting after it was first released the classroom scene with Stellan Saarsgaad has a blackboard that keeps being slid up and down repeatedly even though Saarsgaard is sitting on a desk talking to the class.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

Can't believe nobody's mentioned the funniest:

Teen Wolf

Last few minutes of the film when everyone's celebrating at the basketball game the camera pans across to reveal a guy in the crowd waving his cockk about - classic!

Not sure if it's been taken out of the dvd but saw it awhile ago on TV, so funny as it's quite obvious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27iccX8Gm_M

low quality, but lol