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Mistakes in major films

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You do realize batman kicked the dude who then shot the guy who looks like he got shot in the stomach as he falls back from being shot.

Guns don't just fire bullets without a muzzle flash. Either way there is something in that shot that is a mistake other than the bad fight choreography.
 
Oh, forgot about that. You're right. You can see them jumping/being dragged, into the same bus. Though would still be a little weird if that guy just right away sets ups his camera to film the Joker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvIew81pJiw
The goons probably wanted them to film it, so he is being forced to set up; or he just wanted to continue filming like he was doing before. Nolan might have noticed he couldn't hide the camera so he justified it.
 
Car in Lord of the rings. Maybe a wizard did it.

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Checking that scene, it just looks like a hut of some sort with smoke coming from the chimney.

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Wooow I didn't even know, just checked on YT --



Damn. It goes right through..

Also, at the end, when the sister and the deer-boy are
running on the bridge because she wants to show him his new sled
, all the people on the bridge are completely still, like they just put the character models on it and didn't not animate them.
 
That's very surprising. The extensive screening these scene's go through, I'm surprised it was missed.
It wasn't missed:
You don't actually see the clipping. Elsa's hair passes through her shoulder while it's obscured by her chest, and it seems rather graceful. Disney wanted her to do something cool with her braid, but they realized that it would be impossible to look nice without subtle clipping.
It was the only way they could get the hair to behave the way they wanted. What's "real" isn't always what's best for the shot or for the film. VFX guys cheat all the time, you've no idea.
 
In the movie Red Lights.....

Robert De Niro's character takes off his sun glasses after getting off the plane, then promptly puts them back on. The whole time while he was doing this, he was staring into the camera. He was playing a blind person. sorta...

It was obviously a script oversight. But was still cringe worthy. :/
 
It wasn't missed:

It was the only way they could get the hair to behave the way they wanted. What's "real" isn't always what's best for the shot or for the film. VFX guys cheat all the time, you've no idea.

I'm going to have to call bullshit on the "only way" part. I'd be willing to bet it was missed and since it didn't look wrong, they didn't change it.
 
I wish I had a video of this, but in Mortal Kombat, there is a scene where Johnny Cage and Liu Kang are hiding behind some rocks, and when Liu Kang sets his hand down on the rock it makes a clear hollow "thunk" sound.
 
Guns don't just fire bullets without a muzzle flash. Either way there is something in that shot that is a mistake other than the bad fight choreography.

You can hear a gunshot in the film. Muzzle flash and bullet impacts aren't consistent in Dark Knight Rises. Take the opening plane sequence where Bane's men shoot an agent; without audio it's as if the agent had a heart attack. Other scenes have muzzle flash and blood mist. Go figure.
 
Yes there's an explanation for it and it isn't a plothole. I'll see if I can find the diagram that shows the explanation because I feel like it would take forever to type on my phone only to have autocorrect have it make complete nonsense.

Here it is:

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Forgot source! http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_Park_Film_Goofs

I'm being dumb here but how come the T. Rex just plods over this? Or is it a different part of the paddock.
 
You can hear a gunshot in the film. Muzzle flash and bullet impacts aren't consistent in Dark Knight Rises. Take the opening plane sequence where Bane's men shoot an agent; without audio it's as if the agent had a heart attack. Other scenes have muzzle flash and blood mist. Go figure.

I don't get that.

I've seen plenty of PG-13 movies have blood and proper gun effects, why muck it up so bad in Batman?
 
Latest Bourne movie, when jeremey renner and rachel weize are boarding a plane to indonesia they sit in the business class section of an American Airlines plane, seen by the logo on the headrests. Yet in the next shot the plane is seen midflight and it is a 747.

American Airlines does not have any 747's in its fleet.
LOL
 
Checking that scene, it just looks like a hut of some sort with smoke coming from the chimney.

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It was digitally corrected as a house/chimney in the second print home release IIRC and/or the extended edition DVDs and all subsequent releases.
 
Forgot about this one from the a-team movie.

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The movie proudly states the location is Frankfurt - Germany, while showing the Cologne Cathedral (which is located in Cologne, duh).

When someone asked the director about it he jokingly said that only Germans will notice that anyway.
 
Gladiator is notorious for this. There are so many mistakes in that movie. People in jeans. Props being visible. People fucking around on set and not realizing they're being filmed. It's crazy.

I think the biggest goof is that Russel Crowe's character and Joaquin Phoenix's character lived 200 years apart from each other.

Maximus was Emperor from 383 AD to 388 AD.. Died in 388 AD

Commodus was born in 161 AD, ruled from 180 AD to 192 AD. Died from a wrestler named Narcissus in 192 AD
 
I think the biggest goof is that Russel Crowe's character and Joaquin Phoenix's character lived 200 years apart from each other.

Maximus was Emperor from 383 AD to 388 AD.. Died in 388 AD

Commodus was born in 161 AD, ruled from 180 AD to 192 AD. Died from a wrestler named Narcissus in 192 AD

Had no idea they were based on real people.
 
I'm incredibly bothered by the prison flashback scene in The Butterfly Effect.

Everytime he flashbacks, history is rewritten with everyone being unaware of the previous timeline. But in the prison-scene when he goes back and stabs his hands to get the stigmata marks, his cellmate is able to see the scars appearing on his hands.

THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE! The rules of the universe mean that when he wakes up in prison, his cellmate wont give a shit because to him, Evan's had the scars since he got there.
 
The Truman Show: the candy bar machine
The Lost world Jurassic park: the entire thing with the Trex on the ship.
The Dark knight rises: at the end the nuke would blind everyone looking at the blast. That hole in the earth that was batmans prison is full of murderers and rapists, why would he lower the rope for them to get out?
 
Army Of Darkness is so bad with Bruce's hair. Especially the whole part of the film where he's going to get the book and then riding the hose away. The length of his hair changes in every shot during that sequence, sometimes 4-5 inches worth of difference.
Oh man, why have I never noticed this? Time to rewatch it again for the billionth time. I remember in the commentary with Bruce and Sam for one of the movies, they talked about how much of a stickler Raimi was for maintaining continuity with the cuts and blood on Ash's face. I wonder why he didn't give a shit about anything else :P
 
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I love Nolan, but boy he needs to improve his bloody nonexistant action skills

the guy who get punched manged to shot the other guy in the leg. That is why he is failing over.

You do realize batman kicked the dude who then shot the guy who looks like he got shot in the stomach as he falls back from being shot.

That's complete bullshit. The dude starts falling before the gun gets pointed at him. Nolan's fighting choreography is terrible.

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Oh man, why have I never noticed this? Time to rewatch it again for the billionth time. I remember in the commentary with Bruce and Sam for one of the movies, they talked about how much of a stickler Raimi was for maintaining continuity with the cuts and blood on Ash's face. I wonder why he didn't give a shit about anything else :P

It happens through out the whole movie, but it is particularly bad and noticable during that part of the movie.
 
Oh man, why have I never noticed this? Time to rewatch it again for the billionth time. I remember in the commentary with Bruce and Sam for one of the movies, they talked about how much of a stickler Raimi was for maintaining continuity with the cuts and blood on Ash's face. I wonder why he didn't give a shit about anything else :P

If I'm remembering the commentary for AoD right, Raimi throws his hands up a whole bunch of times because of things like the mud not matching exactly right, etc, etc. Continuity's never been great in those movies, but I kinda love them for that regardless.
 
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I love Nolan, but boy he needs to improve his bloody nonexistant action skills

The biggest problem with TDKR's choreography is that people swing their guns like clubs. Even when they intend to shoot Batman with them they make these exaggerated motions just to raise and point their guns. This gif is a perfect example. The guy who's "shot" is suppose to shoot the guy who falls swings his arm in a huge arc just to attempt to point his gun at Batman. I still can't unsee the guy who runs up to Batman with his gun raised at the end of the Bane fight.
 
Jurassic Park. dinosaurs aren't real. elaborate joke by god and stuff.

Edit: But for real, why was there a damn cliff after the T-Rex escaped?! Is there any semi-plausible explanation for this crap?
 
How about the fact that in Back to the Future Doc says you can't travel to the future because it isn't written yet, but then goes to the future at the end of the VERY SAME movie...
 
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