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# Rocky Horror Picture Show
-In the scene where Brad and Janet are being undressed, Brads Sweater is
 removed and his shirt is already unbuttoned. Later Riff Raff walks by, and
 then Magenta unbuttons it.
-When Brad and Janet are putting on their robes in the lab, at one
 point, Brad's robe is wide open, he turns around, and it somehow gets
 completely closed.
-During the Time Warp, one of the Transylvanians hands another an
 hors d'ouevres tray, and then immediately has it back in his hands again.
-During "Dammit, Janet", Janet drops her purse in back of her.  Later
 in the scene, when she bends down to get the ring, it is in front of her.
-Frank does not hit Eddie with the pick until he is well within the freezer,
 but when he emerges, there is a long trail of blood leading into it.
-At the end of the movie, Brad and Janet carry Dr. Scott out of the castle -
 no wheelchair.  But later, as the scene begins to spin, you can see
 Dr. Scott lying on the ground next to his crushed wheelchair!

# Scarface
-Set in 1980, the movie includes a billboard for a 1984 Corvette
 and a vending machine for USA Today, which began in 1982.

# The Sea Hawk
-after the first battle, when stuff is being moved from the captured ship,
there
 is an overhead shot of the two ships side-by-side, with lots of men carrying
 stuff across planks set up between the two ships.  Watch closely, and you'll
 see a couple of guys fall off one of the planks! The guy following them
pauses,
 as if he is expecting the director to yell "cut", and then finally continues
 across.

# See No Evil/Hear No Evil
-Pryor & Wilder are on the run from the police.  They ditch the
 stolen police car that they were driver into a muddy bog.  Their clothes
 end up being covered in mud. In next scene, they show up squeaky clean.

# The Shining
-During the opening with the aerial view of the car climbing up the
 lonely mountain road, the shadow of the helicopter is visible for more
 than just brief moment.
-Jack Nicholson hacks through one of two thin panels in a bathroom door.
 In a later scene, you can clearly see that both panels have been hacked
 through.  According to Maltin, Kubrick cut the film by 4 minutes after
 its premiere.  I guess more ax work by Nicholson must have been what was cut.

# A Shock to the System (Michael Caine)
-A detective questions Michael Caine's secretary and writes down his
 telephone number on a piece of notepad paper for her.  Later, when she decides
 to call him, she has his business card.

# The Silence of the Lambs
-When Jodie Foster goes into the first girl's room, her father says
 that the room has been left the way it was when she died. But, there's
 a Debbie Harry "Def, Dumb & Blonde" poster on the wall; that album was
 released in 1989, 3 years(?) after the girl died.
-When we first see Dr. Lector in the "courthouse cage", we hear his
 cassette player playing. I looked very closely, and noticed that the
 tape wheels on the cassette are *not* turning.
-Toward the end of the movie, when Buffalo Bill is sitting in front of
 the leading lady in the dark, he can see her because he has night vision
 goggles on.  The audience is shown what he supposedly sees, but there is
 something that we see that we shouldn't: shadows resulting from the
 really bright lights behind the camera to create this view!

# Silent Running
-Someone hits Bruce Dern's left leg with a shovel.  Later, his
 right leg is the one that is injured.

# The Sons of Katie Elder
-Early in this film various characters run out of ammunition after firing
 six shots from their revolvers.  So far, so good.  But, in the climactic
 gunfight at the end, John Wayne loads up his six gun and then goes out and
 fires fourteen shots.  This is in the Paramount home video.  I could swear
 that when I first saw this on film, he fired 15 shots, THEN reloaded and
 fired 3 more. (different editing?)

# Spartacus
-Watch for the truck driving along the hills behind a battle scene.
-Same scene:  the directory utilized college students as extras in some of
 this "cast of thousands" scene. If you look quickly, you can see slaves
wearing
 wristwatches.

# Splash
-When the mermaid (Daryl Hannah) steps on land for the first time,
 she is supposed to be totally nude. The director tries to convey her
 nudity WITHOUT actually showing her nude body thus:
 As she walks towards that crowd, the camera alternates between
 her bare back (waist upwards) and her bare legs. EXCEPT that in the
 first shot, you can see Hannah wearing blue jeans (!!) and in the
 second, she is wearing a long brown(?) shirt!! Someone was very
 careless somewhere!

 Ed Note: This is due to the fact that the 'safe area' was not covered
  in the home video version.

-Scene where Tom Hanks has the lid off the outboard motor while
 he is trying to start it.  The motor starts suddenly, throwing
 him overboard.  Next shot has the boat spinning around with the
 lid magically back on the motor.

# Star Trek The Motion Pictue
-During the climatic scene outside of the Enterprise (inside of V'ger),
 Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are all wearing jackets with a colored band on
 the sleeve.  Just after the return inside the Enterprise and are back
 on the bridge, the colors (red & blue, I think) on Spock and McCoy are
 swapped.
-The scene of Spock on Vulcan clearly shows two moons hanging in the sky
 despite Spock's statement in the Star Trek episode "Charlie X" that
 Vulcan has no moon.

# Star Trek II
-The blood-stain on Kirk's uniform (from Scotty's dying relative) changes
 size & position.
-During the battle in the nebula, Khan pulls debris off of a comrade,
 who says something to him and dies with his eyes open. As Khan leans
 over him the dead man's eyes briefly follow his face and then close when
 Khan puts his arms around him.

# Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
-When Sarek and Kirk are talking in Kirk's home, there is a wall display
of several dueling pistols.  During the scene, the arrangement of the
guns changes.

# Star Trek IV
-In the dinner scene, the candle in the middle of the table changes postion
 all the time.
-After the President gives his warning, Kirk gets up to talk to Spock.
 You see a boom mike for an instant.


# Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
-Well, the whole was a goof when you get down to it, but in the opening
 sequence when Kirk falls off the cliff, Spock catches him before he goes
 splat. Right after he's caught, take a close look at Kirk's shirt. You
 can see at least one part of his shirt puffed out where wires are attached
 to keep Shatner from swaying back and forth.
-Star Fleet Headquarters is in the same time zone as Yosemite, when
 Kirk, Spock and McCoy leave Yosemite it's dark, when there are
 aboard the Enterprise talking to the 'Bob' from Star Fleet it's
 daytime in the background.
-When Spock, McCoy, and Kirk shoot up the accessway aboard the Enterprise while
 attempting to escape Sybok's men note that the decks are numbered.  Also note
 that they seem to pass (I believe it's) deck 52 twice.

# Star Wars
-when Ben watches Leia's holographic message, the items placed on the table
 change.
-After Luke buys R5-D4 it explodes. He points to R2-D2 and as Artoo's
 head turns, you see the previous shot of the Jawas prepping R5D4 BEFORE they
 take him away.
-A major consistency point in the movie is C3P0's dent in his
 forehead, which is consistently on one side of his head.  However,
 during the final battle when he and Princess Leia (and several
 others) are looking into that round pool-thing, a couple frames are
 backwards and C3P0 is standing on the wrong side of Leia with the
 dent in the wrong side of his forehead.
-When the stormtroopers break into the control room, one of them bangs his
 head on the door.
-The shots of the twin stars of Tatooine CLEARLY show them at different
 distances apart in two different shots. Note this is not explained by a
 different time of day as the time between shots is seconds.
-In the trash compactor, Carrie Fisher is anticipating her cue by
 getting ready to lift the metal(?) bar BEFORE the compactor begins to
 close (a good second or two.)
-After Luke destroys the Death Star and lands, Leia runs up to him yelling
 "Luke!". Luke's response is "Carrie!" (as in Carrie Fisher).
-After Vader kills Ben, there's a shot from the docking bay towards Vader. They
 forgot to color in his lightsaber.
-In the final scene, when Luke, Han and Chewie are getting their medals, in the

 very beginning of the scene some of the Troops lining the aisle are very
 obvious mattes.  This shows on letterboxed versions.

# Stateline Hotel
-During the middle of the getaway scene the driver and passenger in the Mustang
 suddenly switch sides in the car, and then switch back.  This is convenient,
 however, as the steering wheel in the Mustang switches too!

# The Sting
- In the scene where the FBI guy is talking to Robert Redford in the
 warehouse, at one point he leans forward to speak to RR.  At this
 point the camera is aimed over his shoulder.  The camera angle shifts
 to a full-face shot, in which we see him lean forward again.

# Stranger Than Paradise
-Just before the end of the scene where Eva is throwing away the dress, you can
 see a shadow cast by someone stepping in front of the lights.

# Stripes
-During the part of the film where Harold Ramis stops Bill Murray from
 deserting, there is a "goof". From one angle, while Murray is laying
 on the ground with Ramis on top of him, Murray has his pack under
 his head, while in another angle, it is to his side.

# Sudden Impact
-In the scene where Harry is practicing with his .44 AutoMag, and his partner
 sneaks up in his car, we get to see the camera, dolly and operator
 reflected in the car window just before the door opens.

# Supercarrier
-Aircraft regularly change paint schemes (including serial numbers)
 during flight.

# Supergirl
-The posters show her flying over New York City near the Statue of
 Liberty... and the Statue is holding her torch up in her *left* hand.

# Superman IV
-When the Statue of Liberty is thrown down on the street, we see it clearly
 fitting easily between two high-rises, and it seems to be only three or
 four stories high.
-Capes of both supermen ruffle when they are on the moon.

# Terminator
-In the scene where Arnold goes to kill Sarah in her apartment (but
 ends up killing her roommate), her roommate accidentally knocks the
 phone off the table (you can see and hear this).  Shortly after,
 the phone rings.
-After Arnie says "I'll Be Back", the clerk looks up to see headlights coming
at
 him. When we see the front of the car, the headlights are OFF.
-Also in the scene inside the police station.  A guy steps out of a
 doorway to shoot at Arni and gets blown away.  The camera is
 positioned at the bottom of the floor at the foot of the dead cop.
 Arni walks past and turns to the door on the left and blows some cops
 away.  Watch real close and you'll see the "dead" cop jump at the
 noise of the gun.

# Terminator 2: Judgment Day
-In the beginning of the Bike Chase scene: When Arnie turns out from the
 garage and into the street, he gets followed by a red car which in turn
 crashes into another car as a result of Arnie's hazardous left turn. The
 red car is already wrecked BEFORE the collision.
-When the T-1000 flies the tow truck into the gulley, the windows pop
 out as it hits the ground. Next scene: they're still in place.
-The Bike Chase: Sparks emerge from the truck BEFORE it scratches the wall.
-At the car park where Arnie and John have their little tete-a-tete, the
 automatic pistol is cocked and uncocked alternatively.
-Sarah's Escape: When she knocks down the guard (or what ever) he bleeds
 on the floor. Next time we see the floor, the blood's gone.
-When John tries to ease Sarah down because she nearly killed Dyson, his
 watch shows different hours from 10:35 to 12.
-When Arnie takes the teargas gun it is half empty. When he steps outside to
 fire it, magically it's full again.
-On their escape from Sky Net, the SWAT truck has its right backdoor open.
 But all subsequent shots of the truck show its left back door open.
-The Truck Chase: When the SWAT truck tilts over on the bridge, its front
 window is thrown out and smashed. When we see the N2-truck pass by, the
 front window is almost intact and back in place.
-When Arnie is thrown from the Cryoco truck, you can CLEARLY see the
 matte.

# Thelma and Louise
- In the scene in the bar, Geena Davis's glass of coke is delivered full, she
 picks it up and it is half empty.  Then she puts in down, and it is 3/4 full
 again.  Also, she takes a large drink from her shot glass, and in the next
shot
 we see her sipping from a full glass.
- When Thelma shoots the 'air-holes' in the police car's trunk, she
 does so at roughly a 45-degree angle. Later when we see a closeup of
 the holes they are perfect circles, as though they were drilled
 (or the gun was fired straight down at the trunk).

# That Was Then, This Is Now
-At the end of the film, the protagonist (not Estevez) gets off a bus to visit
 his girlfriend at work (behind the counter in a hospital cafe).
 The shot looks out the hospital doors as the bus pulls up and
 the protagonist climbs off.  The buses marquee clearly reads
 "Chartered".

# Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
-The scene with the train: in the background, right in the center of some
 shots, are those concrete towers typical of nuclear power stations...

# Three Men and a Baby
-About 60 mins into the movie, Ted Danson is showing off the baby to
 his mother. The camera pans across a window, and you see a cardboard
 cutout of Danson's character

# Thriller (Michael Jackson):
-As he's walking with his girlfriend and singing (after they leave the movie
 house) you'll see the shadow of the camera cart in view.

# Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
-In the scene where they're hitchhiking, and the crazy guy with the rabbits in
 the trunk picks them up, when the car crashes you can see one of the
 rear wheels come off and roll away from the crash.  They drive the car away
 shortly thereafter...

# Time Bandits.
-The scene where the bandits are trapped in the cage
 by "Evil" over what appears to be a bottomless chasm.  They make their
 escape by cutting small strips of rope off of the support rope and
 makeing a long rope from the fragments.  Then, one of the bandits is
 lowered out of the cage and is swung up to the next cage.  During the
 scene where they are trying to get the swing high enough for the
 guy on the end of the rope to grab ahold of the other cage, you can
 easily see the floor of whatever set they are on.  The bandit appears
 to be only a few feet off the floor.   Oops...

# Top Gun
-At the beginning, an officer comes in and says Good morning, which means
 Maverick meets the MiG in the morning.  However, at the end of the fight,
 they trap at the carrier and it is NIGHT!  Gee, must have been about a
 12 hour fight.
-At the beginning, Stinger (the bald guy from Back to the Future, James Tolkan)
 has a slew of ribbons on his chest that disappear, reappear then disappear.
-The armament of the F-14s change in midair a lot of times during the movie.
-When Merlin says, "we're running low on gas", he taps the fuel guage.  Unfor-
 tunately, the fuel guage tapped is in the front cockpit, and Merlin is in the
 REAR.
-Near the beginning of the film, when Maverick is going to land on the
 carrier, but then decides to go rescue Cougar, who has been shaken up
 by the Migs, his tail hook has been lowered for the carrier approach.
 As he decides to abort the landing, his tailhook has been retracted!
 (This was obviously to prevent the F-14 from inadvertantly catching
 a wire as it did a touch and go on the carrier deck)
-When Charlie is giving Maverick a pep talk in the airport bar, Maverick's
 ice water gets more ice in it as the scene progresses!!
-When Maverick (as Alert5 aircraft) is launched to help Iceman in the
 climatic battle near the end of the movie, he is more than 110 miles from
 Iceman.  Once he goes supersonic, he says "Maverics supersonic, I'll be
 there in 30 seconds."  Well, supersonic is about 730 mph, so it would take
 the airplane at least 9 minutes to go 110 miles!!!  Even at the F-14's
 maximum speed (around Mach 2), it would still take 4 1/2 minutes!!!
-When Iceman is shot at, he gets hit near the cockpit, yet the engine catches
 fire and they say they were hit in the right engine.
-At the end of the movie when maverick lands on the deck after shooting
 down all the baddies, Slider(iceman's partner) picks maverick up sort of
 bear hug style. Well before he picks him up maverick doesn't have his
 sunglasses on, but when he has been lifted up they have magically
 appeared on his face! If you don't believe me check it out!!

# The Town that Dreaded Sundown (Ben Johnson)
-Near the end of the movie, during the climactic chase, on foot,
 the killer manages to run in front of a freight train and put
 it between himself and his pursurers.  A long shot shows train
 and characters running and then close shots from the train show
 the characters running along side.  In the long shot, the
 camera used in the close shots (and the camera man) can be seen
 on a flatcar.

# Total Recall
-In the 'elevator' scene, Richter and his men are running to the elevator...
 past a blue screen.
-Just after Arnie has killed his first four he goes back to his apartment and
 talks to his wife.  He places boths hands on either side of her head and
 pretty much immediately afterwards he shows her his blood covered hands.
 She doesn't of course have any blood on her face! (NB. This may not be
 a goof, but a clue to show that Arnie is only dreaming. That's the
 continuity man's story anyway...)
-Doug has the hologram when inside the alien nuclear reactor, and a bunch of
bad
 guys encircle the holographic image and fire upon it at point blank with
 automatic weapons- and guess what- not one bad guy gets hit!  If they
encircled
 the 3D image, at least a few bad guys would have been hit by their own men.
-In the last scene in the movie, Arnie and his Dream Girl are kissing, the
 camera pulls back to show the Martian landscape... except for the lop left
 hand side of the screen where the clips holding the back projection screen
 are visible (may not be visible if the projector is not lined up right).
-guns magically appear to be either close-range blunderbuss weapons or highly
 accurate longer-ranged weapons, whichever is needed
-incredible speed and windlessness of the re-atmosphering of the entire planet

# Tremors
-As the camera is panning up the side of Michael Gross' and Reba McEntire's
 "fortress", it goes past a window. In the window you can make out a
 reflection of some guy standing on the ground nearby wearing a red hat
 and white shorts. Due to the nature of the plot at this point, it is safe
 to say that he *ISN'T* supposed to be there.
-(Near the end of the movie) As one of the brave men makes a run for it,
 you can see the ground beneath his feet WOBBLE as if he had run across a
 ditch covered by a piece of plywood.  Oops, now we know how they did the
 mechanical effects for the underground monsters :-)

# True Stories
-David Byrne is cruising around in his jumbo red convertible. His rearview
 mirror is present in the interior shots but removed for shots through
 the windshield. Very common in movie scenes where a car is driven.

# Twins
-During a conversation between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny
 DeVito in a bar restroom, a bottle of beer shifts from one
 towel dispensor to another.

# The Two Jakes
-Although the film is set in 1948, Jack Nicholson strolls past
 an automatic teller machine.

# 2001
 (Loads of 'technical' goofs, relating to vacuums, weightlessness
 and space physics. These would not be noticed by most people. Here's
 some of the more obvious ones to keep the 2001 fans at bay:-)
-The rotating space station changes its direction of rotation three times.
-Stars in the background drift slowly past the spaceship.
-The hibernating astronauts are shown lying in different positions at
 different times.
-as Dave Bowman climbs into HAL's logic center to shut him off, the seal on his
 suit's left hand is hanging open.

# The Untouchables
-When Sean Connery is talking to Kevin Costner in his (Connery's)
 room, Connery's shirt collar alternates between being buttoned and
 and unbuttoned in the several shots of that scene.
-When the knife-man is sneaking into Sean Connery's apartment, there is a POV
 shot as the camera approaches a window.  The camera and cameraman are clearly
 reflected in the window.  (He is wearing a white shirt and a red cap, as I
 recall.)

# The Viking Queen
-One of the characters in this 1st Century AD epic is clearly wearing a
 wristwatch.

# Wall Street
-As the movie opens, it tells us that it is set in 1985.  A few minutes
 later, Charlie Sheen's coworker makes a remark about how bad the stock
 market was after the Challenger blew up.  The Challenger disaster was in
 1986.

# War Games
-The General yells "Send out the F-15's", and footage shows F-16's
 taking off.

# Water
-Near the end of movie : When Ms. Baxter speaks to her husband by megaphone her
 voice sounds equally amplified albeit the distance between mouth and
 microphone ranges from 10 to 60 cm.

# Weekend at Bernie's.
-In one of the scenes where the two guys are trying to deal with Bernie's
 corpse inside his house, Jonathan Silverman is alternately barefooted and
 wearing shoes every 2 seconds, as we switch from medium to long shot.
 Fire that continuity person!

# When Harry Met Sally
-When leaving from the Univ. of Chicago to drive to NYC at the beginning
 of the movie, the Chicago skyline is shown.  The Univ. of Chicago is
 South of downtown Chicago, and the way to leave for NYC is South/Southeast.
 (unless you want to drive through Wisconsin and Upper Michigan:-)
-Harry says "I'll open the window" and does so immediately.  The next shot
shows
 the outside of the car and the window is closed.  The next shot is inside the
 car and he spits grape seeds out the window directly at the camera!

# Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- In one scene, Judge Doom is walking towards Eddie Valiant, and we can see
 that there are some ping-pong balls in front of him.  In the reverse angle
 shot, the balls have disappeared.

# The Witches of Eastwick
-Watch carefully near the end of the movie when Susan Sarandon falls
 off the balcony. Just before she hits the floor you can see the
 wires holding her up.

# The Wizard Of Oz
-In the wonderful dance scene where Dorothy meets the Scarecrow,
 you will notice her hair length change quite a few times.
-The wire holding the Lion's tale is visible during his solo
 "If I Were King of the Forest".
-After the "Off to See the Wizard" song, when Dorothy waves goodbye
 to all the munchkins, look behind her at the yellow brick broad stretching
 off into the distance.  This scene is obviously painted on a wall; you
 can see a line where the wall meets the floor.
-As they prepare to skip down the road in the closing shot, look
 in the woods in the far background. You can see a person scrouching
 down, possibly a camera man. He can be seen twice clearly.

# Working Girl
-Once scene has Melanie Griffith stepping off a bus wearing panty-hose.  In a
 subsequent scene, they have changed color.
-Check me on this -- does the financial shark/love interest remove the
 usual forest of pins from that brand-new shirt when he changes clothes
 in the office?

# The Wrong Box
-The Victorian-age London houses have TV antennae on them.

# Xanadu
-An early scene in the movie has Gene Kelly at the beach sitting
 on a rock, playing his clarinet, as the sun rises over the
 (Pacific) ocean. (No, it wasn't Australia.)

# Young Guns
-Twice in the film, one character calls another a "geek." (I can't remember
 who the offenders were)  "Geek" was a word back then, I believe, but it was
 used as a term for a side-show freak, not a general insult.

# Zulu
-In this reenactment of the 1879 stand at Rorke's Drift, several of the
 Zulu warriors are wearing the wrist watches the extras had been paid with.