BAD COCK-UPS IN FILMS

[360boy]

I was watching the dramatisation of The Moors Murders on TV a few nights ago. Very harrowing.
But, I couldn't help noticing a glaring cock-up.
When the evil two went to court (in 1966), the van shown driving them to court had a G registration (two years newer).
Just occured to me that there must be thousands of laughable cock ups in films.
Someone told me that there is a VW Beeetle in the background of Ben Hur and one of the gladiators was wearing a watch!

Let's see some good ones.

[Eric Mc]

Post war American Bell 47 helicopter used by Germans in WW2 film, "Where Eagle's Dare".

Aircraft contrails visible in numerous Western movies.

[paulie-mafia]

The surfing scene in the last James Bond movie that looks like a shonky 1980's blue screen job. Pitiful considering the digital effects they used to turn the Vanquish invisible.

[maxf]

Withnail and I - modern cars can be seen in the background when they drive to their 'holiday'.

Star Wars - Stormtrooper nearly knocks himself out on a door!

[Dakkon]

When watching Aliens, you can see the cases coming out the rifle when Vasquez is in the tunnels, yet Gorman claims earlier in the film that they fire caseless rounds. The best bit is when the guy with all the ammo gets set on fire by Apone and falls down the stairwell you can see the safety crew rushing in with fire extiguishers

[dick dastardly]

In Commando Arnie smashes the hell out of a Porsche, practically writing it off when he drives it into a tree. You then see him in the next shot driving off in a sparkling new one.

[Tyre Smoke]

Ben Hur - Red Alfa Romeo during chariot race.

Shogun - Helicopter shadow visable on the sea

Wizard of Oz - 20 seconds edited in in reverse so runs backwards, deemed too expensive to put right at the time so left.

[Mr E]

360boy said:

Someone told me that there is a VW Beeetle in the background of Ben Hur and one of the gladiators was wearing a watch!

Fiat 500 I thought.

[FUGatso]

dick dastardly said:

In Commando Arnie smashes the hell out of a Porsche, practically writing it off when he drives it into a tree. You then see him in the next shot driving off in a sparkling new one.

When he holds the guy over the cliff you can see the cable attached to his ankle. In fact even though it is one of my favourite sensless mayhem action movies, it is one of the worst for gaffs and continuity errors. There is a website somewhere that posts all these type of gaffs for most movies

[madbadger]

maxf said:

Withnail and I - modern cars can be seen in the background when they drive to their 'holiday'.

Also on the way to holiday they pass a sign for the M25. The film was set in the closing weeks of '69, and the M25 was built in '75.

[gingerpaul]

paulie-mafia said:

The surfing scene in the last James Bond movie that looks like a shonky 1980's blue screen job. Pitiful considering the digital effects they used to turn the Vanquish invisible.

The funny thing is they spunked over £10M on that surfing effect!

[planetdave]

360boy said:

I was watching the dramatisation of The Moors Murders on TV a few nights ago. Very harrowing. But, I couldn't help noticing a glaring cock-up. When the evil two went to court (in 1966), the van shown driving them to court had a G registration (two years newer). Just occured to me that there must be thousands of laughable cock ups in films. Someone told me that there is a VW Beeetle in the background of Ben Hur and one of the gladiators was wearing a watch! Let's see some good ones.

Isn't it a FIAT 500 in Ben Hur?

And I know of an extra that was plucked from a crowd scene in Spartacus and asked to hold the reins of the horse of Kirk Douglas when he arrived. Huge crowd all in place....horse arrives....extra reaches out to hold the reins revealing THE WATCH up his sleeve.

Cue pandemonium from the directors chair and guy banned from set.

[Plotloss]

Iron Eagle III or some such shit you can see a hand holding one of the wings of the plane...

[darrent]

Mission Imposs II - bike chase. They have slicks then when they get to the beach they have big chunky off road tyres.

[cotty]

In some of the racing sequences in The Wraith you can see the shadow of the boom mike on the road

[Raify]

There are millions of mistakes like this, and thousands of websites devoted to spotting them. I thought I'd spotted a cunning one in Terminator 2, but it was already posted.

Worst one I can remember was in Pearl Harbour (yeah, I know it sucked anyway). Beckinsale gives Ben the Flick a scarf to remember her by whilst he's off winning the battle of Britain. He wraps it around his neck and then:

It's gone
It's back again
No, it's gone
It's back!

Or how about the obviously not severed arm in Predator?

[dick dastardly]

FUGatso said:

There is a website somewhere that posts all these type of gaffs for most movies

www.imdb.com/Sections/Goofs/A

[FourWheelDrift]

There are many films where they use a gas cylinder and ram (usually a large wooden post) to flip cars or trucks over these are very often seen. Although most embarrassingly noticed in Gladiator when one was use to flip a chariot over

Chase scene from Bullitt, the Dodge Charger seems to lose a lot of wheel trims for a 4 wheeled car and of course the amazing green Beetle they pass 4 times

[moreymach]

FUGatso said:

. There is a website somewhere that posts all these type of gaffs for most movies

www.slipups.com/

[Dakkon]

FourWheelDrift said:

There are many films where they use a gas cylinder and ram (usually a large wooden post) to flip cars or trucks over these are very often seen. Although most embarrassingly noticed in Gladiator when one was use to flip a chariot over Chase scene from Bullitt, the Dodge Charger seems to lose a lot of wheel trims for a 4 wheeled car and of course the amazing green Beetle they pass 4 times

And when it was supposed to crach into the petrol station yet seems to in fact drive to one side of it

But Gladiator was good enough that you don't notice things like that.

>> Edited by Dakkon on Friday 19th May 14:12