Top 10 Movie Mistakes

Who knew a movie about a teenage werewolf played by Michael J. Fox would become such an overnight success? Apparently, one extra didn’t think so, or else he probably would have thought twice about exposing himself for all the world to see. In one of the last shots of the game, just as Teenwolf scored the winning shot, his dad runs out of the crowd to congratulate him. But the fan behind him is doing more than just cheering Teenwolf on!

When Pirates of the Caribbean came out, it took the world and the box office by storm. So you’d think in the 2003 sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the crew would have spent more time making sure they weren’t appearing in the film themselves! Yet there’s a part in this movie where you can clearly see over Captain Jack Sparrow’s shoulder a crew member in a cowboy hat just staring out to sea.

It’s easy to underestimate just how difficult it is to avoid continuity errors in the movies. With countless cuts, re-edits, props and costume changes meaning that almost every film has some minor inattentive hiccup every now and again. However, it is hard to forgive one as obvious as seen in the 1999 teen comedy hit American Pie. With high school Jock Steve Stifler sleazily wooing a girl, he offers her a glass of beer to drink, a clear plastic glass that is. However as we cut back to the girl the appropriate beverage holder has turned itself into a blue cup, I guess with all the teen exuberance going on someone on the crew simply got beer eyes, how else could you explains such a glaring error?

James Cameron’s Titanic is a phenomenal movie, though it is a big too long for some viewers. I, however, find it to be an entertaining movie about love and death. It’s also a pretty historically accurate movie, as Cameron wanted to make sure he was putting his investor’s money into something that wouldn’t be laughed out of the water. However, any Titanic historian can tell you no passenger was allowed on the bow, making Leonardo DiCaprio’s “I’m the King of the World” bit nothing but fiction.

Is Star Wars IV: A New Hope the greatest movie of all time? A lot of people seem to think so, so it’s somewhat amusing that in this movie there’s one big glaring goof. When Luke and Leia are escaping some Stormtroopers across a pit in the Death Star, one of the Stormtroopers bumps his head on the door and his helmet nearly falls right off! Isn’t that hilarious? Well, maybe not. It’s hard to find fault with this movie.

Cow! Cow! This is a good one. While Paxton and Hunt are fleeing in the red truck, it's struck by a giant...thing...seriously damaging the windshield. What happens in the next shot? It's all better!

With the later DVD release edited to include a thumping sound effect to match, the original Star Wars served up one of the finest space gaffs in movie history. With our favourite star fighting heroes under siege, the formidable gang of Storm Troopers burst into the control room, ready to take out their arch enemies. Unfortunately one of them clearly got carried away and had the unfortunate disadvantage of being a few inches taller than his fellow troopers, as he proceeded to slam his head into the frame of the door. Hopefully for him Darth Vader doesn’t find out about that one any time soon.

Her first morning at the hotel, Vivian chows down on a croissant...then a pancake...Then the pancake is mysteriously whole and untouched again. What gives?

Arnold Schwarzenegger is without doubt a special man! He’s saved the future of mankind in Terminator and even gone on to become Governor of California, though I never knew that his mere presence could heal a car, but that is exactly what happens in the 1985 movie Commando. After an explosive chase to capture Sully, who is working for the evil Warlord Arius, Arnie’s yellow Porsche is battered and bruised on its left side, but as he drives away it’s as if he just took it straight from the show room.