Top 10 Biggest Continuity Errors in Movies
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I always liked the iconic pottery wheel scene from Ghost. There they are, getting all dirty and, next second, they are doing the nasty, but they aren't… nasty. Noticed it the first time I saw it as a kid.
My favorite: In the scene in THE UNTOUCHABLES when Kevin Costner comes to convince Sean Connery to join the team, Connery's shirt collar keeps buttoning & unbuttoning throughout the scene.
I love the film, but it's one of those little things that, once you notice it, you can't stop seeing it.
Kirsten Dunst Boobs!
Back to the Future
Some letter writer spots an 80s hair dryer on Marty's belt when he's scaring his father with the radiation suit in the 50s. Calls out an error because Marty wouldn't bring one.
"That was no error," say the documentary film-makers, citing a deleted scene where it's revealed that the Doc had the hair dryer in his luggage.
"Yes, it was," say those of us who noticed that it changes position on Marty's belt with every cut and even vanishes in some shots.
In It's a Wonderful Life no finance institution will tolerate an employee missing $8,000 dollars. In real life he'll be fired & make pay the missing money.
I never get tired of seeing Kirsten Dunt's pointy nipples.
hans hands were bound and then not. that wouldve been a better one
All of these are shit movies anyway (except #1)
the bullet holes were supposed to already be there in Pulp Fiction
okay so do you think maybe, just maybe that tarantino put the bullet holes first on purpose? and maybe the gun was actually loaded with blanks ? i feel like that would be a little sneaky thing he’d do.
Now I'm thinking the Pulp Fiction "mistake" was on purpose and we all just missed it when we watched it originally. It adds to the scene.
You guys forgot a famous one in "Casablanca". In the scene when Rick and Sam are getting ready to leave Paris, he receives the letter from Ilsa and it is pouring down rain. Rick is soaking wet. Then, in the next shot, Rick is completely dry as the train pulls out of the station.
Hydraulic vortex? Just saying "vortex" would have been sufficient.
In Return of the King, they ride horses to the Black Gate. Aragorn gives his speech on horse back. When they charge, there are no horses to be seen anywhere. No explanation in the extended cut either.
They forgot 1 more big messup in the Han Solo Carbonite scene….
Han goes into the freeze with his hands bound….
But comes out with his hands held up in front of him
I think list should be ordered by how great the movie. With that in mind, citizen kane, the godfather and Casablanca deserve the top three spots.
11. The YouTube comment section.
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"Scenes Incorrectly Regarded as Errors Because WatchMojo Didn't Bother To watch The Whole Movie"
These don't seem like the biggest continuity errors in movies. They just seem like standard mistakes like you'd fine in any movie.
I didn't notice #4 the first time I saw it in the movie theater but on cable I said Wtf and had to rewind. Sloppy work. The editor should have caught those bullet holed
Ever considered they rushed off Bespin in such a hurry Lando had no time to grab his own clothes?
On Pulp fiction, how is that a continuity error? The holes were there before the shooting, dont line up with where the shooter was pointing, and are too big to be bullet holes. They were obviously drill holes. It was an obviously part of the characters warped judgement.
I know this is quite old video but I got one. How about James Bond's magic tux? I've seen 007 infiltrate without so much as scuffing his shirt or wrinkling his suit.
"The Doctor is 'Real In'" … "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Has anyone mentioned the scene in Nacho Libre when the orphans are watching Nacho's wrestling match on tv (the orphans are wearing long sleeve colored shirts), but right before the short monster thing reveals Nacho's true identity, Chancho stands in front of the tv to keep Ignacio's true identity a secret (the orphans immediately lose the shirts to wearing white tank tops)? I thought that was a pretty big inconsistency that stood out like an eye sore.
The bathroom mirror sequence in Poltergeist (original) is a good one you missed. it is full of inconsistencies.
Thunderball has quite a few. Leiter is supposed to meet Bond in the punching sequence, but a later party sequence got moved to before the punching scene and Bond is in the background talking to Leiter. Also, watches change makes and Leiter is wearing long pants or shorts in the same scene depending on the shot!
The Jurassic Park goof has been explained over and over, here's a picture that shows how the scene was shot. http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130219053746/jurassicpark/images/a/ae/Tumblr_m8tqn6T4FK1rsiohpo1_1280.jpg
I may be wrong, but I recently watched the Kong Skull Island movie. It seemed to me when looking at the ship going to the island, there were only a few helicopters on the decks. Yet when they were flying the crew into the island, there were many more. Where did the extras come from? Another ship? Then when so many got destroyed, there were still a lot left for the evacuation. Am I correct?
In Aliens, when Ripley is driving the APC extracting the ambushed Colonial Marines, an alien jumps on the front of it. It shoots its jaws through the windshield before she slams the brakes and throws it from the vehicle. She then runs it over, which there and afterwards you can see the windshield is repaired.
A continiuity error i noticed in a movie is, in the final part of The Hobbit movies, the dwarves run out from the mountain with a huge bell swinging from behind them, yet in the next shot from further away, the bell isn't behind them, ahead of them, on the ground, nothing, it's simply vanished in a split second, now I've seen this once it sticks out so bad every time!
Also, i do wanna say, any time i watch Jurassic Park one of the best scenes in the movie is ruined for me by yes, the paddock being on level ground enough you can see into it clearly and a T-Rex can easily step onto the track outside it, then suddenly it's deep enough to have Brachiosaurs in it and only their heads would poke over, like, wheut XD
Yeah most of these are simple continuity errors…. that Jurassic Park one is a straight up plot hole/fuck up… and it only got an honorable mention. It makes NO SENSE.
deadpool would make number 1 if they remake this to the latest one.
It never ceases to amuse me how people try so desperately to explain away the glaring continuity error of the bullet holes in Pulp Fiction, as if QT is some deity that is incapable of making mistakes. Every theory people come up with pertaining to that error never makes any sense and is so far fetched that it becomes delusional. Some say the Seinfeld looking dude was shooting blanks instead of real bullets just to fuck with Jules? Wtf? So how did the bullet holes get there to begin with? He just shot away at the wall before Jules and Vincent showed up? Then why don't we see the bullet holes earlier in the scene? Stupid. Another theory is the bullet holes were already there because of divine intervention. Which, still makes no sense as the guy didn't even fire the damn gun yet when we first see the bullet holes. The only semi-reasonable theory is we see the bullet holes before the gun goes off because God decided beforehand that the guy would miss and we get a slight glimpse of that before it happens. I suppose in a story where the meaning of life is questioned and time is deconstructed, that this jump in time would make at least a little sense…but it's still far fetched and I doubt seriously QT did that on purpose considering he has NEVER explained this in an interview or elsewhere. It's a mistake, people. All filmmakers make them. Accept it please.
How about the breakfast scene in Pretty Woman?
I'm sorry but in the Lord of the Rings The Two Towers movie there is a scene where it shows them cutting their hands free when Aragorn said their bonds were cut i guess you should have paid better attention
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the black pearl Secne where Jack Sparrow uses his chains as zipline
Didn't Merry cut his bindings and then untie Pippin? I swear that scene was in the movie :/
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