Not a plot hole mistake but what’s the biggest continuity and/or stunt person error you’ve ever seen in a movie?

In Dr No chase scenes, they added in tire squeal. Except the roads are gravel...

right? you'd think "just flip the frame when they come out of the alley" - surely breaking the 180 rule is less egregious than what they decided to do

I don't remember which bond movie it is at the moment, one of the Roger Moore movies. There's a fight in a dressing room, and during the fight a mirror gets moved. It's not visible for long, but if you pause, you can see the director, camera and operator and some more crew.

Edit: here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieMistakes/s/mbaSo2LF3b

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Similarly at one point in the Sarlacc pit scene in ROTJ, Luke "force kicks" one of Jabba's minions

Props to the lead stormtrooper who barks "See to him!" at the other troopers like it was planned.

In the same movie, during his duel against Vader, Obi-Wan's lightsaber can clearly be seen as a simple stick without the special effect overlay during many seconds. It still wasn't fixed in the 2011 Blu Ray! They preferred to add awful CGI dancers and Han breaking his neck to dodge a laser. I don't understand why it was not talked about more, it was mind boggling.

https://imgur.com/a/zCjYw 

Similarly, Gandalf wasn’t supposed to bump his head in Bilbo’s house but Sir Ian rolled with it.

Dang nice catch wow

And the windshield in T2! Apparently fixed in a remaster. 

https://youtu.be/WPV9sIEts_Q?feature=shared

What always got me about this scene, was that I noticed, even as a kid, you could see Arnies eye through his sunglasses when he’s talking to the desk cop. This is immediately after the scene where he removes it in the apartment.

That's the only bad thing I can say about that movie

Just rewatched that a couple days ago, and yeah. Best thing I can say about it is that it's right at the beginning and it's followed by a long credit sequence that gives us a chance to laugh about it.

Another weird Scorsese one from Cape Fear - when Max Cady is leaving prison he walks towards the camera until it’s right up his nostril. Maybe not a mistake but really jarring

The director of Madam Web saw this and decided it was the thing to do.

Start looking for this and you'll be shocked how often it happens. TONS of conversation shots that are framed over one actors shoulder will have that actor respond to the other, but their mouths don't move. 

There’s a lot of weird dubbing in fury road. When max sees his his car while strapped to the front of Nuxs he says something like “first they take my blood and now my car” and you see Hardy’s mouth move before his dialogue starts and his mouth doesn’t match up with what’s being said at all. And earlier when the war boys are preparing for battle there’s something weird about Nux and Slits argument I don’t know how to explain.

Not a continuity error but famously this stunt went very wrong in Mad Max ll (aka The Road Warrior). The end over end flipping was caused by the stuntman's leg catching on the overturned car which you can clearly see.

My favourite screw up in The Abyss is during the scene in the special edition where the wave is coming and people on the beach are running in fear, on the left hand side of the screen one of the extras pulls down a guys shorts for a laugh and it was left in the film.

Ive seen this movie 10-20 times and never noticed it! Its almost like you assume its junk getting in the way of the shot cause the sub is all fucked up. Thats hilarious though.

I love James Cameron, I love The Abyss, I love Ed Harris, and I have no idea if it's true or not, but I believe that Colonel Quaritch in Avatar was written for Ed Harris. Don't get me wrong, Stephen Lang is great in the role, but I still get the feeling it was written with Ed Harris in mind.

Why would you do that in the middle of shooting? lol

That one I feel bad for. This was obviously someone telling this poor extra to act like he's sweeping but don't make contact so that they could get clean sound. They probably told him that he wouldn't be visible. Not that dude's fault for sure.

The bigger problem with that scene is that a garage door opener lifted an adult at all.

Scary movies take on that scene is gold. Ghostface face being absolutely bewildered that the bigger girl thought she could get through while he watches her kill herself for him😂

It looked like she could because she actually could and did. Rose McGowan kept accidentally getting through while trying to look like it was a struggle, so they stapled her shirt to the door to keep her in place.

Lol I jsut rewatched it. She goes from her shoulders being outside to back inside the garage and also you can clearly see the mannequin head they made of her I don’t know how to upload a photo

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Completely agree! Honestly, her death hurt so much. I think she represents this kind of safety for Sidney so when she dies there’s a real “shit just got real” feeling. Especially since she’s really the only main character (who isn’t a killer) to die in the entire movie. 

It’s like watching OJ struggle to put on that glove.

I just watched this. Two guys run jnto him. First guy plays dead. Second guy looks like he is going to play dead, but eventually gets back up. Ha.

I noticed that right away too. I actually think it adds to it, since I totally see someone doing that in the reality of the scene too.

My head canon is that he already didn't want to run towards certain death so once he fell, he couldn't find a reason to get back up.

Fun fact, the guy that plays dead wasn't supposed to run into him. It was an actual mistake, and the extra didn't know what to do so he just laid there. But thankfully they just ran with it because it was a very expensive shot to reset, and it works well in the scene. 

To be honest if that happened to me I’d play dead as well, fuck running to your death.

To be fair, if I was up against Batman I’d play dead too.

I think that was supposed to be batman slinging the thug he's holding into the one that falls down, it's just done terribly lol. They never get closer than about 2 feet apart

Not surprised to find out it was post production that was suppose to edit in him being shot

What I notice more in this scene are Anne Hathaway's boots. In most or the movie, she's wearing some sexy, high heel boots. In this fight scene, she's clearly wearing something more practical.

Piecing together stuff from the comments (including a secondhand quote from the stuntman apparently), I think one of those goons is supposed to have a gun and Batman does the "not directly killing you" thing where he redirects a guy's gunfire, so he falls due to that instruction, but they didn't add the gunshot in post.

I'm too busy telling everyone that he broke his toe and deflected a knife I don't have time for this

Smartest Urukai of the whole bunch to play dead like that!

I'll look out for that next time I watch. 

The car in the background was a good spot for the theatre release of FotR. It was then edited out of all future releases of the film.

The audio commentary even has Peter Jackson talking about an urban legend of a car in the background that he says he can't see.

I actually appreciate when the “dead” bodies move a little. Realistically, there’s no way all of them are instant kills. Most will be writhing around dying for seconds to minutes to hours after they’re incapacitated. Boromir himself isn’t an instant kill despite multiple arrows to the torso. Why not one of the Uruk-hai, too?

My go-to flub for LOTR is the scene where the fellowship is first entering Moria. There is a shot looking down at the group from the inside, and you can see the power cable for Gandalf's staff trailing behind him for when he lights it shortly after.

It looks like this might depend on the brightness/contrast on the TV playing it, but yeah, that's not great.

https://youtu.be/EdX7Tf71pWI?si=7XHd6us4gKZNpeHE

I always pointed this one out to people because it was just hilariously bad. Like he's right there, not trying to hide or anything!

That part always bugs me too.

“I talked to Barzini!”

if it makes you feel better, he was actually beating the shit of Carlo. like, IRL. hated the guy. so, he didn't miss on purpose, he just missed.

He was so pissed off he just swung and missed. Could make the point that it's foreshadowing how Sonny can get so angry he stops thinking and just goes off.

When I saw this scene as a kid I had never seen anything more hilarious. Still holds up 100% and make me chuckle every time.

My favorite part about this scene is just before when they are jumping through the gap in the closing door, and you see the door slow down for them and then speed up after they get through.

First time seeing it when I was 9 - it was the scene where the camera man gets hit by the lightsaber that made me lose it 😂

Holy smokes, I just posted this. I thought I was the only person on the planet who noticed that.

Reminds me of mighty dunks when Adam Banks has a breakaway scene and it cuts to the bench and Adam Banks is there, cheering for himself to score.

There is a continuity error in the movie though. They tell Sean Archer ( newly transformed into nic cage's body) he has to be careful because just a strong sneeze will make the chip (that changes his voice) fall out. Throughout the rest of the film, Sean Archer does many violent/jerky movements that would have dislodged the chip (but it didn't)

Interesting. Although while not intentional, that arguably could still work within the context of the movie.

Lol https://youtu.be/78gt7pfjlCU?si=G2HFD8_UHxeaAIF7 2:18

And he looks better without them.

Luke Skywalker air kicked someone in the face in ROTJ, so I’ll let it slide

That entire sequence of is ridiculous for the amount of errors.

In commando you can see the spring boards when Arnold is blowing up the mercs in the last battle.

I won’t listen to these lies. Commando was the greatest awful 80’s action movie and was completely flawless. How dare you!?

Remember when I said I would kill you last? I lied!

I love that movie

He forced his way out of the cuffs.

I’ll leave now.

He also comes up wearing a different shirt

Such an awesome movie. So entertaining. So baaaaad.

Let me ask you a question. Why would someone wearing a shirt that says “Genius At Work” spend all his time watching a children’s tv show?

The best part is this conversation is repeated except without the tongue in cheek attitude all over this website. Especially in fandom subreddits

This is what is called attention to detail, people! This is why we are here at all! Great job!

A wizard did it

The Dark Side is a pathway to abilities that many would consider to be........ unnatural.

The one I always think of is the air cannister you can see in one of the flipped chariots

that movie was a cluster fuck of hijinks I swear. Leaving the camera on and getting phoenix's goofy reactions to the gladiator fight, Reed going on a bender with sailors and killing himself with drink, so they had to rewrite the Proximo ending...

https://youtu.be/gCE5175IkoY?t=87 good one lol

Really? I just rewatched it like 3 times and I don’t think it’s bad at all

He eats shit? Like, for second breakfast?

It was a pretty wide, shot, too. Perfect for a double to throw a couple decently convincing kicks.

It would have been a lot more realistic and cheaper to use computer graphics to add mustaches to the rest of the Justice League

That mustache was definitely worth it though cause goddamn he looks good in Mission Impossible

Watching the background in the war scene in phantom is almost as bad as ep 2. There's a droid and gungan fight over a gun just kinda casually going side to side with it.

They really did that just because of Jürgen Prochnow

This one is nuts because there are like diagrams and blueprints they've released that show how it's possible.

This is a good one. My favorite from Raiders is the guy that is hanging out underneath the opening in the tomb that Indy and Marion have just jumped down from. Also noticeable is the size / length of the staff of Ra that he uses to find the Well of the Souls. When they’re talking about it, Sallah says “about 6 feet”, and then the old wise man says to take even more off that length. Cut to the next day and Indy is walking with a staff that is easily 8’ long.

You think that's bad? Blazing Saddles mishandled their fight scene so badly they interrupted a different film shoot!

This is such a sloppy movie.

If you watch closely, there's a scene where Col Sanders is giving some exposition, and Moranis looks right at the camera and asks the crew if they got it.

Toward the end, when the good guys get captured, if you lean in, you can see it's actually stunt performers in the shot, not the primary actors.

And the product placement is so blatant, it's like they didn't even try to hide it. Shameful. I'm not surprised it was a dangerous set to work on.

The original footage is so funny, she's basically wearing a little orphan Annie wig. It's just so bad.

Also re: the final cut, that's a master class in how to properly remaster your film. The effort that was put in, the work to make the changes truly seamless. It's perfect.

Blast Hardcheese

Also my favorite. MST3K really laid into it. "...I think it's very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzspFQSIKq4

The famous bit in Galaxy Quest is when Gwen is seeing The Chompers for the first time. The "Screw that!" dubbed over her obviously mouthing "Fuck that!"

"Well forget (fuck) that!"