10 Strangest Mistakes Kept In Movies

[@ScanloncommaJ]

History buffs will point out that Roland Emmerich directed The Patriot.

[@jakmrnd]

Also Mel Gibbons character in the movie is fictional/composite so his attack never actually took place so in reality no one survived because they didn’t exist in the first place

[@FosterWolf]

Mel Gibson didn't direct The Patriot. Roland Emmerich did.

[@richardjamesgallardojr.7584]

In Batman returns the Danny DeVito penguin goes to visit his parents grave and when he brushes against one of the tombstones it wobbles like it's made out of cardboard or foam😂😂😂

[@dannywebster1427]

Michael Keatons eye make up disappearing before he takes his mask off gets me everytime

[@Left-handed-liberal]

I have see The Abyss many times and never noticed this. Now I'm going to find the DVD and check this out

[@GetIrked]

I thought the entire movie was the strangest mistake in Borderlands... 🤔

[@taguewilkins4066]

Roland Emerich directed The Patriot

[@and16942]

You totally missed Henry Cavil’s arm reload giving him a shirt pocket all of a sudden

[@lukeswan7776]

OH shit!

[@desireegreverud3723]

which if true and not a trick of the light, would seem to indicate 2 separate shots digitally stitched together possibly from a reshoot

[@and16942]

@ just rewind to the beginning of the video.. once you see it, you can’t un-see it

[@trinaq]

I never noticed Anne Hathaway slinking awkwardly off camera at the end of "Les Miserables." I'll never be able to unsee it.

[@PhantoMace2012]

I’ve always noticed it. Just thought it was intentional. Only now that it has been pointed out as a mistake do I realize how awkward it looks

[@mrgraham5521]

In Halloween, Michael also walks backward while getting shot and somehow ends up on top of a 3-foot railing before falling over.

[@erikadogmomanddoc]

this i had to watch again - ya, wtf!??

[@DaLumpy1]

I genuinely laughed aloud at the pizza arm reload lmao

[@whitedevil2]

Jean Valjean dies?! thanks for spoiling it for everyone!!

[@TonyA552]

One of the best known technical errors that was kept in a movie occurred in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). There is a scene in which Frank Sinatra is doing a long soliloquy but the camera is out of focus. This was not intended but Sinatra's performance was so good that the director used it over the other takes he did. This scene was later praised by critics who interpreted the blurry shot as visualizing his character's conflicting emotions.

[@RenderEngine]

In Star Wars revenge of the Sith. After Kenobi shoots Grevious, he looks to his gun and says "how uncivilised" at that moment there looks to be a glitch on the gun. It just doesn't look right. Later in the film, during the epic Kenobi vs Skywalker fight. As skywalker grabs kenobi throat. The light saber changes from Anakins to Kenobis then back again.

[@darkhobo]

4:18 Halloween II isnt an actual mistake. Per se. Your'e just seeing the first gunshot a second time. The first gunshot is from Michaels perspective. Cut to outside. Then the first gunshot as seen from outside the house. Then 5 more gunshots. So theres 7 shots total but the first two are the same gunshot from 2 different perspectives.

[@rogolone7718]

You left out Gladiator! There's a crew member working with a horse in the camp as Commodus does his sword work. Then a propane tank on a chariot in the arena. I've heard of others but couldn't find them. But please, check out the Man in Jeans as mentioned above!

[@SuperCosty2010]

As Maximus is feeding his horse with an apple after the initial battle with the Germans, in one frame a man in jeans is standing behind the horse as it moves aside. In the "are you not entertained?" scene as the camera shows the crowd around, a person in jeans is clearly visible standing to the left in the middle tribune. I think, cars and/or planes are visible in some moments too

[@RH1812]

The sound man/boom mic when Jackman wanders up the snowy hill to meet Bowie in The Prestige

[@Frink108]

Funny how they go after the sound design guys for not watching 10 seconds of the film to get it right, meanwhile they didn't take 10 seconds to lookup who directed The Patriot. But I also thought Gibson directed it too.

[@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326]

In LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, you find out that these Hobbits are quit some innovating inventors. In the scene where Frodo and Sam has left their village and comes to the field with the scarecrow, you can spot a car driving in the background. On the Extended Blu-ray release, you get that car kicking up a lot of dust at 44min 33sec.

[@FCastro-wm5yv]

3:49 ever changing license plates in that seagal movie lol

[@CashelOConnolly]

Every Seagal movie is a mistake 😂✌🏻

[@hyrinshratu]

"Alone In The Dark" has an even worse corpse movement. The dead body sits up in the foreground as everyone is walking by, so your eye is already drawn to that spot when they move.

[@euzy83]

The one obvious mistake I don't think I have even seen mentioned anywhere is from Jurassic Park. When Alan Grant is climbing down the cable with Lex on his back, the cable is very clearly draped on and over the camera. It seems like such a simple thing to say "wait, the cable is visibly on the camera lens can someone move it, please?" but they didn't and it was kept in the final edit

[@FrontDeskMatt]

I’ve never noticed anybody point out that shot in Return of the King where smoke goes into the chimney. I’ve also never really noticed anybody point out that in The Running Man - Arnold says, “I will not harm helpless human beings.” But at the end of the movie when a ‘recording’ of this scene is played, he says “I will not harm helpless people.”

[@MasterHigure]

Similarly, there is a wide shot of Edoras where all the waving in the flags goes the wrong way. Or are we talking about the same shot only we noticed different details?

[@FrontDeskMatt]

⁠@@MasterHigureI think that might be the same shot! The flags looked weird to me, too. It is Edoras, though. Just an establishing shot played in reverse.

[@baxterwilson368]

I watch Gareth’s videos at 1.5x speed and he sounds like he’s talking normal speed.

[@BuhurtUK]

Tried it, didn't like it.

[@jamesallan5914]

The car in the distance early on in LOTR Fellowship of the Ring. PJ denied it at the time and it got edited out for the DVD release but I remember what i saw in the cinema.

[@syntrilliumc.e.p.9326]

The car is still featured in the Extended Blu-ray release at 44min 33sec.

[@fredbyoutubing]

Jurassic park: in wide shots of the scene when Tim gets electrocuted, we can see that the electric fence just ends a few metres away.

[@oberstul1941]

You seem to be implying that Patriot was directed by Mel Gibson, which was certainly not.

[@Brad2325]

Similar to #7, in True Romance, Clarence fires seven shots from a six-shooter during the scene in which he kills Drexl and his henchman.

[@jonvass3133]

Darkman 3, you can see a stuntman catch alight during the big finale explosion. I’ve always hoped they came away from that without being badly hurt

[@GetIrked]

In the famous car chase in 1968's Bullitt - often credited with creating car chases in movies - one of the bad guys' cars loses FIVE hubcaps from its FOUR wheels...

[@realbadger]

I believe it's also _Bullitt_ in which the car passes the same VW beetle several times due to multiple cameras filming the shot.

[@profoundwanderer1441]

That waterfall scene would have taken less than 5 minutes to edit..😅

[@ericthompson3982]

Mystery of Chess Boxing: the villain's arms are suddenly 7 feet long.

[@rome8180]

Punch-Drunk Love has a lot of cinematography designed to give a subjective view of Barry's consciousness. There's a scene where the entire screen is filled with colors. I'm sure PTA just felt that the camera bump was in keeping with this kind of subjective cinematography.

[@Rmlohner]

In Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes, the entire climax was changed. Unfortunately, they didn't think to alter Nicolas Cage's big speech at the end which directly references the original way things went down.

[@realbadger]

At the end of the first _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movie, a smiling cowboy hat wearing crew member wearing sunglasses stands behind the crew on deck.

[@fwonderpop9742]

In Star Trek 6, at the start, it is mentioned that Captain Sulu's ship the Excelsior, is carrying gas detecting equipment, due to a specific survey mission. This equipment isn't standard. Yet at the end, it is mentioned that this equipment is on the Enterprise, and the survey mission is referenced as being the enterprise's (which is impossible), and as such Kirk and co use it to win the final battle.

[@DarkAngelBluejay]

I love that any talk of the reverse waterfall ignores the reverse smoke on the boat as well.

[@Terastas]

In Gladiator, during the Battle of Carthage, when one of the chariots runs too close to the wall, loses its wheel and flips over, the back of the chariot also breaks off and reveals what appears to be a gas tank.

[@andymcguire237]

There's a scene in the OG Punisher (with Dolph Lundgren) where one of the villains-- some kind of doctor I think-- inexplicably is wearing women's stiletto heels. He was never established to be someone who wears heels, and no one comments on them as well.

[@keithedwards649]

In Shoot To Kill (aka Deadly Pursuit) there is a scene where Tom Berenger finds a bunch of bodies in some water.They are supposed to be in the middle of nowhere, yet in the background a car drives by. In some versions they zoom in on this one shot, like on the European Dvd, creating a blurry shot for a couple of seconds instead.

[@Rmlohner]

There's a much more obvious moving dead person in The Searchers, where the extra playing a dead Comanche who John Wayne uncovers decided to take a very visible deep breath right as the rock was taken off.

[@danvastator8984]

In Batman & Robin, when Poison Ivy is trying to drown Robin in a paddling pool, the same shot is played forward and backwards, including audio.

[@Tharkz]

Legolas eyes are legit. Elf eyes will always turn out as light blue whenever facing the direction of the Silmarils.

[@quantonica5348]

I saw The Man in the Iron Mask in the theater and in an early shot of a group seated and talking you could see the top of the set and the boom mic going between whoever was talking.

[@storymark]

Did you guys just, like, not check to see who directed The Patriot?

[@mitchell_lippiatt]

In the end scene of ‘300’ - when the camera holds on Leonidas’s body riddled with arrows, as the camera pulls away a lot of the cgi arrows weren’t anchored properly and they drag across Leonidas’s legs and in other places to.

[@mitchell_lippiatt]

Also, in the scene where Leonidas is eating an apple. You can see an extra on the ground before he is stabbed, raise his knee and just chill and swing his knee side to side haha

[@enoraskye6020]

A couple more in Abyss, if you have the VHS version of the movie, when Lindsey and team are looking for the USS Montana, you can see a film crewman in the shadows of the mini sub she's in one of the shots. On the VHS, it's pretty apparent there's a cameraman back there. This was apparently fixed in later DVD and digital releases, and that area was blackened. Also in the Abyss, the Deep Core drilling platform is actually missing from the long range establishing shot at the end, when the alien ship emerges. Deep Core should be somewhere on its surface, but it's not.

[@musickbed]

In one of the original Star Wars films trilogy, I forget which one, I saw a Storm Trooper bump his head/helmet on the door frame entering a room. This was hilarious and I’m surprised no one else has noticed this gaffe.

[@Rmlohner]

The special editions even added a "bonk" sound effect due to how famous it had become.

[@Cutpear]

On that note, no one could see out of the stormtrooper helmets, at least not in the first movie. Hence the head bonk and the tripping. Luke complaining that he couldn’t see anything while wearing the helmet wasn’t in the script - Mark Hamill couldn’t see the cameras were rolling and he was actually saying that to Harrison Ford

[@Fayanora]

Mistakes are like tribbles: for every one you catch and destroy, ten more pop up in its place.

[@charlesteton]

David Lynch Eraserhead, in a whole scene you can see the 15mm support rods/bars in the bottom of frame, panning as the camera moves, he darkened down the scene to try and hide but they are still visible. Mistakes like this are common on low/zero budget films so no disrespect. C

[@baxterwilson368]

No one ever points out in “Hancock” when Charlize’s character is leaving Hancock’s trailer, it looks like she’s getting into an SUV, even though she flew there. In the very next shot, the SUV is gone and she flies away. (She drove there in the unrated version, but flew there in the theatrical version. It’s still a jarring mistake.)

[@joshuahlaitala]

I definitely thought number one was going to be the final seconds of Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ where the physical damage to the film caused that weird light-flare that Scorsese liked and decided to keep

[@samanthamarcus9486]

In the 1986 Rutger Hauer film ‘wanted: dead or alive’ the sound operators boom is seen several times during a phone box scene, bobbin in and out of the top of the shot

[@davidstevens-k6f]

There are many movie mistakes to be had in the world of cinema, and the most glaring of them are movies that shouldn't have been made, or hailed by critics.

[@iamte1833]

Never noticed cavills beard but seen his chest pocket show up out of no where when he pumped his arms

[@chadb9270]

In the fellowship of the ring, on Weathertop, one of the ring wraiths looks to the side and you can see the cloth covering the face. Every other time it’s black silhouettes you don’t know what’s on the inside. But I always found that funny.

[@PhantoMace2012]

I always noticed Legolas’ eye color being different across scenes. But I just never questioned it because… well… it’s Lord of the Rings!

[@diabeticsrule1763]

I think this is actually a pretty well-known mistake but I find it hilarious so im going to mention it. In the Mummy Returns, Alex is too old. Rick and Evelyn meet in 1926 in the first movie but in the second, they have an 8-year-old son, Alex, by 1933. Alex would have had to be born in 1925 to be 8 in 1933. I think this error may come from when the movie first shows Rick, it is 1923 and whoever reviewed the movie before making the sequel saw this and forgot/didn't realize that the majority of the movie takes place in 1926.

[@mpulsivity]

The t-rex scene in Jurassic Park has bugged me since I first saw it in the theater. In every scene by the t-rex pen the ground is completely level behind the fence, until the moment it becomes a 60 foot drop off where the vehicle is tossed of the side of the road into a tree while almost hitting Grant and Lex on the way down. I think it was a deliberate choice because you couldn't have the visual t-rex standing beside the fence eating the goat if there was a massive drop off and there was no way that Explorer would have landed in a tree unless it was dropped of from a higher point. In rereading the book, it states that t-rex tossed a Toyota Landcruiser into a tree that was beside the road, but I think the logistics of trying to get that to happen visually in the movie would have been impossible, so they went for the push off the side of the road approach. Spielberg rightly guessed that most people wouldn't notice the change in geography and I hardly ever see anyone make a big deal about it online.

[@patrickarseneault7407]

fun fact.. he kept his arm reload in deadpool and wolverine but that changed to a claw reload

[@Tacktickle]

In the 2013 Corey Feldman movie The Zombie King, when all humans are supposed to be dead, you can see a car traveling on a road in the background.

[@realbadger]

In _The Wizard of Oz,_ the Lollipop Guild members teleport and bi-locate throughout the Munchkinland sequence. Jerry Marin (who gives Dorothy the lollipop), runs with the small group waving goodbye to Glinda's bubble, despite in the very next shot ("My: people come and go so quickly here"), he's standing directly behind her. Harry Earles (in blue) can first be seen coming from around the Gale house, but moments later he is emerging from a black-lidded manhole in the middle of the Yellow Brick Road, and while we later see the Yellow Brick Road from its start point to the border of the Munchkin village, we never see the black manhole again... After the extremely out of step soldiers escort Dorothy to the Mayor (Charlie Becker), the time on his large watch changes a few times.

[@karatefella]

At the start of the final battle scene in Enter The Dragon (1973), Bruce Lee kicks a guy several times in the head. An extra in the background bursts out laughing.

[@blackc1479]

In aliens, when theyre escaping in the air ducts, at one point Vasquez is shooting at the xenos, and you can plainly see brass being ejected from her m41. (If youre not a total nerd, the weapons were described as 10mm caseless.)

[@jameswysocki6806]

Midern revolvers or "six shooters," depending on caliber, can hold between 4 and 8 bullets in most calibers. Smaller calibers can hold over 12. So calling them "six shooters" isn't always the best. I also don't think the "7th" shot was a mistake, but simply a difference in perspective. Loomis shoots and then the scene switches to Michael's perspective, and shows the 6 shots. Or his revolver had 7 bullets, who knows...

[@marccadec6978]

In the opening football match in was Craven's shocker, you can see the entire camera crew on the football pitch.

[@MrK_87]

In Alien Resurrection, Call throws a pair of boxing gloves and one of them hits the camera causing it to shake

[@SilverSpectre266]

"I count six shots" "I count two guns"

[@CaptTrylaScott]

In the sixth sense the little ghost girl's arm drops from below the bed when Cole walks into the room. It's before she jump scares him and gives him the vhs tape

[@DrIgnacious]

In Tremors 2 there's a boom mic visible in one shot. A lot of folks have more recently pointed out a puppeteer arm being visible during the scene where the shriekers are searching for Burt; however in the original aspect ration I don't believe this was visible.

[@dishman4694]

The only uncool part about this is that I have no plans on ever watching any of these movies for the first part lol

[@Barzena77]

In Terminator 2, during the helicopter chase scene, the bullet holes in the police van door that Sarah is hiding behind change from three large ones, to a bunch of smaller ones, then back to three large ones.

[@eric98292]

It's not a mistake, but kind of funny. At the end of footloose, there's a scene where 2 guys and a girl are next to some stairs. Both guys have their arms on the stairs behind the girl. One guy moves his arm and it looks like the guys were actually holding hands.

[@CoJoGrizzlo]

*I thought the Lord of the rings was going to be about Gimli‘s boot falling off*

[@markgordon6216]

In Young Guns, the morning after they take the peyote one of the gang is sitting on his horse talking about the size of an imaginary giant chicken. He then fires his gun and as the horse rears up you can briefly see a hand holding the reins then suddenly withdraw.

[@FelixxileF1990]

In the first Pirates of the Carribean toward the end during the moonlight ship ambush, there's a soldier fighting nobody. Just swinging a sword around aimlessly while everyone else is fighting skeleton pirates. FX crew missed a spot.

[@josephrobinson6215]

American Ninja 2, when they go in the office to talk with the CO, the lead actor changes.

[@okami36]

Anaconda also features a bolt action rifle you can shoot multiple times without working the bolt...

[@MSheen-ef3ly]

I bet noone noticed that Gimlis face changes slightly throughout the movies. Mainly this is around his eyes. John Rhys Davies had an allergic reaction to the makeup, im guessing that at certain times the reaction was bad and his eyes were swelling then time would pass reaction would go down and his eyes look more open.

[@chrisquint3656]

When people die, they don’t immediately stop moving… that was probably more realistic to have them twitch

[@Mike-fq1jl]

Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen. In the car chase after Sam finds out that girl is a decepticon the pillars of the building next to them go by twice. If that’s not good enough when Sam drops his school work on the steps the same girl walks by him going down the steps twice

[@tacobeartaco7140]

Maybe there were still just six shots in the Halloween movie. I believe the scene of Loomis shooting the first shot is just a recap, but the 6 heard from the outside is the one we saw plus five more. They should've just ended the inside shot with Loomis aiming, then switch to the exterior....... but, I also never watched it.... 😅

[@paulromney8368]

In one scene in Braveheart, you can see a truck in the background.

[@Mgarcia136]

The first Ant-Man. Towards the end of the film the ants stop a Glock from firing by stopping the external hammer from moving. Glock don’t have external hammers

[@lonzoextragold]

Mel Gibson directed the Patriot, Roland Emmerich was the star everyone knows this

[@efnissien]

In the background of one of the resident evil movies (the one set in las vegas- there's been that many I've lost count.) a busy highway can be seen in the background of a supposedly post apocalyptic landscape. In Alien, as Ash is malfunctioning - after he rips a handful of hair from Ripley's head and throws her to the ground, the camera pans around Ian Holm and backs down a corridor and as it does, the cameraman (or camera) strikes a toy hanging in the doorway and you can see and hear it. Holm momentarily glances at the object before grabbing Ripley and continuing his attack. In the movie Moon, while Sam is watching a video message from his wife, one of the crew can be seen standing in shot... it's actually joked about by director Duncan Jones in the DVD commentary.

[@x3r0prime45]

shooting 7 times with a 6 shooter is possible because while revolvers are often refereed to as 6 shootersmay infact hold a different number, like 5 or 7... I myself have a S&W .357 that holds 7. while it is an error because they were trying to recreate the original scene in which 6 shots were fired, being a revolver alone does not make shooting 7 times impossible.

[@fredgarvinism]

Never understood the issue with the arm cocking thing. I have done that most of my life to pop my joints and help with sore muscles..

[@maddalonefarms]

What about Jurassic Park

[@Left-handed-liberal]

In US Marshall', the crew is visible in the reflection of a car door opening.

[@BerylliumGold]

In Last Action Hero, when playing chicken in the alley, you can see the cables on the car

[@murphylaw8803]

Cavill also grows a pocket in that scene.

[@Curtiz2008]

There are some revolvers that have seven or eight chambers in the cylinder.

[@seaberry11]

CGI was not at the point of isolating a specific thing on screen when anaconda was made.

[@generybarczyk6993]

An error I enjoy catching is the direction of flow of the Rio Grande when characters, usually in period westerns, cross the river to or from Mexico .The river flows from northwest to southeast so crossing from Texas into Mexico, the river would be flowing from right to left, and from left to right when crossing back into Texas. I've noted the wrong-way river in a number of flicks, at least one of John Wayne's, though the title escapes me.

[@stevehak]

Mel Gibson did not direct The Patriot, as others have pointed out already.

[@Ogrematic]

The Smith & Wesson 686 carries 7rnds of .357mag.

[@partofthetribe3277]

People's eye color can just change sometimes mine used to change from green to blue

[@OLBICHL]

3:55 XD but didn't you hear what he said??? he said: "I shot him 6 times... I SHOT HIM 6 TIMES... I shot him in the heart... 6 TIMES... he's not HUMAN!!!" XD gosh I love that movie and the acting

[@diamonddead8162]

Tokyo drift the last race the 350z loses both headlights then in the next shot it has a headlight 😂😂😂

[@thegraydirewolf9325]

Maybe it WAS a magic waterfall🤔. How tf else would a snake get that big?