Movie-mistakes.com

[Larry_OHF]

Go to this site and have fun browsing through the errors that were made during movie making.

Example #1: Return of the Jedi: In the scene where Han Solo is frozen in carbonite, he is wearing brown trousers, BUT when he is rescued in Jabba's palace, he is wearing blue trousers with a yellow stripe.

Example #2: Lord of the Rings: In the scene where Sam and Frodo are in the field with the scarecrow, you can plainly see a car cruising past in the distance, from right to left.

Example #3: Harry Potter: At the start of term feast, after Harry is sorted into Gryffindor, he sits down on the right side of the table next to Ron. When the feast appears, Harry is on the other side of the table, next to Hermione.

Movie mistakes

[ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

[fable]

Yeah, there are some surprising slipups in films, even given the extensive shooting schedule that usually includes hundreds of small, noncontiguous takes. I remember a horrible Italian gladitorial movie from the 1950s, set in Ancient Rome, that plainly showed telephone poles in the background. And there was even a Laurel and Hardy feature where the director's clapboard (that old standby, a small slate with the take info on it, and a striped bar that "clacks" at the beginning of shoot) lying on a table in full view!

[Epona]

My personal favourite movie site is the Internet Movie Database.
Search for a film, then use the menu at the left of the page - trivia, goofs and quotes sections are particularly worth checking.

http://us.imdb.com/ for US site

http://uk.imdb.com/ for UK site

(both sites are the same, but 'mirror' sites for quick access)

[ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: Epona ]

[Lavindathar]

nice one larry!!!

But if it is LOTR mistakes you are after, just ask Donut!!!

He is a master of them, and , he found them all himself

[sylent]

Heya Larry!
I think the film with the most errors, from what I read in the newspaper here, was Gladiator or something. I must admit, a lot of the things there were pointing out, were things like "The sword which Maxamus was wielding in the second Arena scene, was not invented until fifty years after the event was supposed to take place", so not really a blooper type thing. But the number of errors was 200+.

I must admit that I didn't notice any major bloopers in Lotr, but then again, I wasn't actually looking out for them either


::Argh:: Having just read the list of top bloopers, I see that Gladiator had but 95... oh well, not to worry

[ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: sylent ]

[Hayashi]

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Originally posted by Lavindathar:
nice one larry!!!

But if it is LOTR mistakes you are after, just ask Donut!!!

He is a master of them, and , he found them all himself

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Actually, by comparison LOTR had few mistakes compared to other movies - iirc 37. Titanic otoh had something like 150?

[fable]

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Originally posted by Hayashi:


Actually, by comparison LOTR had few mistakes compared to other movies - iirc 37. Titanic otoh had something like 150?

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Modern filmmakers (with some notable exceptions) aren't particularly concerned with rendering accurate detail of the past. There's some film out now, for example, (Someone and Alexandria?), that has a time traveler who goes back to 1880. He corrects an operagoer about Puccini's opera, La Boheme--a little touch of atmosphere that would be more effective if only Puccini didn't compose the work sixteen years later.

[Sir Byronas]

LOL LOL LOL! Good page Larry [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] ! That site made me laugh all the time.

[Donut]

My favourite nitpick is from the film 'North by Northwest'. In a scene in the restaurant at Mt Rushmore Cary Grant and Eva Marie-Saint are having an argument. In the background a small boy is watching and all of a sudden he sticks his fingers in his ears. Seconds later Eva pulls a gun from her handbag and fires it. The boy had obviously remembered how loud it was.