Continuity Police: Your favorite movie mistakes

[Thundarr]

Lots of people enjoy pointing out mistakes made in movies. These are some of my favorites . . .

Speed: Keanu Reeves shoots his partner in the right leg to save him from Dennis Hopper, but during the rest of the movie he limps with his left leg.

Nacho Libre: When Ignacio and Incarnasion are eating toast and talking in Ignacio's room, in one shot his toast is halfway eaten and the next only a couple of bites had been taken out of it.

Conan The Barbarian: When Conan, Valeria, and Subotai are riding away with the kidnapped princess, they are riding from the left to the right of the screen. When Thulsa Doom shoots at them with the snake-arrow, the only way the arrow could hit them is from their right side. But when Conan pulled the arrow out of Valeria, he pulls it out of her left side.

Carlito's Way: Carlito and his girlfriend run into a cafe to get out of a rainstorm. When they run into the cafe, they're soaking wet. Seconds later when they sit down at a booth, they're bone dry.

Friday The 13th Part 5: When "Jason" kills the mental patient in the woods by wrapping a leather strap around his head and twisting it, when he first starts twisting it he's twisting it clockwise. When the kid's skull is crushed and the leather strap breaks, he's twisting it counter clockwise.

Those are all I can think of right now. What are some of your favorite continuity errors?

 

[obin_gam]

My favourite is in Evil Dead 2 when Ash is being chased through the cabin and we see the sides and roof (or rather, lack of it) of the set all the time ^^

 

[Drizzle]

My all time favorite is the Stormtrooper bumping his head in Star Wars.

 

[Thundarr]

In Cape Fear when Nick Nolte's secretary is in the bar flirting with Robert Denero. In one shot her blouse is buttoned all the way up, then in the next shot the top two or three buttons are left undone.

 

[King K]

Batman (1989) The Joker and his thugs destroying all the fine art with paint. They are walking up the stairs dancing to Prince and a thug throws a whole can of green paint on a painting, very next scene in the background is that same painting untouched without any paint on it.

 

[SuperFerret]

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Not the best movie, by far (though perhaps the best MST3K), but still, that's just... unforgivable.

 

[mclay18]

The Da Vinci Code - Early on in the plane scene, Paul Bettany is trussed up with tape on his mouth. The tape is removed, but magically reappears a few moments later.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie - During the MegaZord formation sequence, the CraneZord locks in place two times.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Ian McKellan bumping his head on the low ceiling of Bilbo's house.
The Dark Knight - After the Joker sits down on the table after the pencil trick, you can clearly see the multiple holes in the table from the different takes. (Oh, and how Bruce's hair goes from mussed to combed and back again in both movies. The first is when Rachel slaps him and then in TDK when he rides his motorcycle to stake out the funeral procession.)

 

[Thundarr]

My all time favorite is the Stormtrooper bumping his head in Star Wars.

That was funny, though technically it's not a continuity error.

 

[Thundarr]

The Da Vinci Code - Early on in the plane scene, Paul Bettany is trussed up with tape on his mouth. The tape is removed, but magically reappears a few moments later.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie - During the MegaZord formation sequence, the CraneZord locks in place two times.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Ian McKellan bumping his head on the low ceiling of Bilbo's house.
The Dark Knight - After the Joker sits down on the table after the pencil trick, you can clearly see the multiple holes in the table from the different takes. (Oh, and how Bruce's hair goes from mussed to combed and back again in both movies. The first is when Rachel slaps him and then in TDK when he rides his motorcycle to stake out the funeral procession.)

Wasn't that scripted in for comic relief? Or at least Ian adlibbed that in for levity? I watched the movie with feature commentary and I don't remember anything being said about it being accidental. And again, technically not a continuity error.

I think I remember someone saying that there was a scene in Speed where the advertisement on the side of the bus changes from one shot to the next.

On TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the Halloween episode of Season 2 when everyone turns into their costumes. Willow turned into a ghost and was able to walk through walls, yet unable to manipulate objects. When she and Giles found Ethan's Chaos Shrine and Giles sends her away because he doesn't want her to see what he was about to do to Ethan, you can hear her open and close the door to the costume shop.

 

[Doctor Jones]

That was actually on accident. Jackson kept it in.

TDK's has alot of continuity errors. And we all know about them.

 

[Squidboy]

X-Men: The Last Stand. 'Nuff said.

 

[Thundarr]

X-Men: The Last Stand. 'Nuff said.

Not a great movie, I grant you that. But what were the continuity errors? Was Wolverine chomping on a cigar in one scene, then in the next just pulling one out and lighting it? Was his cigar almost used up in one shot, then practically freshly lit in the next?

This is a thread about continuity errors on the part of movie editors, not on errors of judgement on the part of movie executives who greenlight utter crap like 1998's Godzilla remake. Just saying.

 

[Thundarr]

Showdown In Little Tokyo: Near the end of the movie, Dolph Lundgren is shot in the shoulder. Brandon Lee asks him if he's okay and he says "Yeah, I'm fine. The bullet went right through." Then when he's fighting the head of the Yakuza in a katana duel, there's clearly no exit wound on the back of his shoulder.

Dungeons & Dragons II: Wrath Of The Dragon God: When Barek smashes his way through the wall with his enchanted sword in Malek's Vault, he's clearly wielding a different sword than what he entered with, yet he never changed swords.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Series: Season 2, in the episode when Spike and his gang attacked the school on Parent Teacher Night. When Spike discovers that Angelus was working for the goodguys now he says "You were my sire, man! You were my . . . YODA!" Then in Season 5, when Spike's telling Buffy about how he became a vampire, it was Druscilla who sired him, not Angelus.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

 

[spider-neil]

the matrix

agent smith interrogating neo. you can see the reflection of neo in agent smith's glasses, then neo's mouth closes shut and he gets up (panicking) and moves to the corner of the room and the two agents grab him, the camera cuts back to agent smith with the reflection of neo still in his glasses

 

[Thundarr]

the matrix

agent smith interrogating neo. you can see the reflection of neo in agent smith's glasses, then neo's mouth closes shut and he gets up (panicking) and moves to the corner of the room and the two agents grab him, the camera cuts back to agent smith with the reflection of neo still in his glasses

Good one! I didn't even notice that one.

 

[Ratcrawler]

Not a great movie, I grant you that. But what were the continuity errors? Was Wolverine chomping on a cigar in one scene, then in the next just pulling one out and lighting it? Was his cigar almost used up in one shot, then practically freshly lit in the next?

This is a thread about continuity errors on the part of movie editors, not on errors of judgement on the part of movie executives who greenlight utter crap like 1998's Godzilla remake. Just saying.

How about the X-Men flying from NY to San Francisco in about the same it took Magneto to reroute a bridge? And Angel just taking slightly longer to get there without the jet.

 

[Squidboy]

Not a great movie, I grant you that. But what were the continuity errors? Was Wolverine chomping on a cigar in one scene, then in the next just pulling one out and lighting it? Was his cigar almost used up in one shot, then practically freshly lit in the next?

This is a thread about continuity errors on the part of movie editors, not on errors of judgement on the part of movie executives who greenlight utter crap like 1998's Godzilla remake. Just saying.

I was referring to the continuity of the previous films, haha. Things such as Logan's rate of healing in this movie in comparison to the previous ones, or certain of the character's sudden full control of their powers for some scenes. Phoenix having no fire-based aura, as opposed to the end of X2. Just a mess in general, as far as the in-movieverse continuity. My bad.

 

[Ratcrawler]

Oh yeah, and Ice Man can suddenly ice up like it was never a big deal.

 

[Golgo-13]

XMO Wolverine - Wolverines dog tags don't match the ones he had in X1, 2 and 3.

QOS - Bond is wearing a different suit when the scene at the begin of Qos is supposed to take place minutes after the one in Casino Royale.

 

[Squidboy]

When Wolverine fought 'Spyke' in the forest, he was stabbed in the abdomen with two bones, but yet after the wounds heal, his shirt is no longer ripped or bloody when we see it next.

When Jean is vaporizing Xavier in her home, Logan climbs on the ceiling to try and get to them and it appears that he opens the door to the room they're in, because when Jean is about to bombard him with broken glass, Logan screams out "NO!", but yet after the scene, Storm and Wolverine have to run into the room to get to Xavier, despite him having just been in the doorway.

 

[SuperFerret]

How about the X-Men flying from NY to San Francisco in about the same it took Magneto to reroute a bridge? And Angel just taking slightly longer to get there without the jet.

Supersonic jets and Angel had enough time to be around there from whereever he was earlier, and maybe he can fly that fast, it's never said what his max speed is.

Oh yeah, and Ice Man can suddenly ice up like it was never a big deal.

Time passes between the movies, maybe he learned something new.

 

[Squidboy]

Time passes between the movies, maybe he learned something new.

The X-Men video game that was meant to bridge the gap between X2 and X3 showed that he'd been training to become an X-Man, so he learned how to use his ice slide and everything since the last movie. That is, if we consider it in-continuity, which it was claimed to be.

 

[SuperFerret]

Even if not, it's not that much of a stretch to think that he learned something in the time between the movies, particularly due to the fact that he lives in a school.

 

[Squidboy]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Gambit is knocked out by Logan in the bar brawl, only to reappear on the rooftops, to helicopter back down into the fray