When Timmons and Dunbar get to the deserted camp, Timmons has pieces of egg all over his face in the close shots, but none at all in the farther away shots.
The piece of meat that Dunbar offers the wolf changes shape and size dramatically throughout that scene.
When they are driving up the mountain to get to her kids, they cross a river and they get hit on the passenger side of the truck shattering the window, but later when they show them going up the mountain there is a new window there.
When they are crossing the river in the boat, the acidic water is eating through the blades of the motor, so Pierce Brosnan wraps his shirt around his hand to help them paddle manually, and nothing happens to his hand. Yet when Grandma, in her final heroic effort, leaps into the water to pull the boat ashore, she receives 3rd degree burns all over her legs.
When Graham and his sister are driving in the truck, there is ash and dirt falling from the sky. But at the same time when Harry and Rachel are driving in their truck to look for the kids, there is no ash or dirt falling.
In the scene where Murdoch falls off the building, you can see the rope that is holding him up, twice.
In the beginning, the blood trickle running down Rufus Sewell's face changes position and direction once or twice.
At the end of the film, Dave Kovic addresses Congress, just before he has his "second stroke." The camera often shows the congressman in their seats, as well as shots which show the balcony, where spectators and the press sit. If you watch closely you'll note that in some shots the balcony is jammed packed with people and in others it is completely empty.
When Dave and the First Lady escape from the White House, you can see that Sigourney Weaver is holding a bag of groceries before they get to the grocery store.
Dave is watching Jay Leno but you can see the Grandfather clock on the wall, and it's not time for Leno.
After he has his 2nd stroke, he is rushed to the hospital in daylight, yet he arrives at night time.
The man from Mars is in an elevator with a woman when the power goes out. He tells her he cut the electricity and gas powered engines all over the world for a half an hour. They proceed to show clips of the power out in different parts of the world. When they get to Big Ben in London, you can see a motorboat cruising down the river in the background.
Vanessa Calloway loses her Jamaican accent on every other sentence she utters.
When the security guard is trapped underneath the truck, in daylight the amount of water he is drowning in changes. From the front angle he is also most covered in water and from the side angle he has more time.
At one point Tom Cruise's character is referred to as "Tom". His character is named "Cole".
When they are initiating the freshman girls after school in the parking lot you can see a red Camaro or Firebird with IROC wheels that did not come out until the mid 80's. The film is set on the last day of school 1976.
In the scene in which Matthew McConaughey is wearing a frilled lace mock polyester shirt, while offering his profound theory upon living, you can see the bulge of cigarettes, in his upper left pocket, a moment later, they're gone.. then when the camera angle reappears on him, they're back.
Benny's Black Chevrolet Truck has a "modern" looking steering wheel that appears on later models.
In the scene where Pink, Anthony, Mike, and Cynthia are sitting around going over the pledge, Mike says something about neo-McCarthyism and Anthony says "Neo-McCarthyism, I like that." And Mike says " that's good, Tommy" he calls him the wrong name. I watched it with closed captions to check.While they're driving around town talking about college, you see the three guys in the back seat, the camera goes to another angle, then a few seconds later, you see them in the back seat again, but the guys have switched places.
Ken Branagh and Emma Thompson go into a restaurant, where they greet the owner as Ray. Ray then tells them that the place has no drinks licence and no music because Al the piano player is sick. Minutes later Branagh exclaims "What's going on? I can't believe it. No booze, and Ray's sick."
At the end we find out that Emma Thompson was in fact the Kenneth Branagh character in the past, but under hypnosis she relives a conversation between Emma Thompson and Andy Garcia (next to the swimming pool)....how can she have known about this conversation if she was really the Branagh character in the past and wasn't there during the conversation?
At one point, the gigantic title character knocks over a city bus. For a moment, the word TONKA can be seen on the underside of the vehicle.
During a newscast, a reporter says "And now, over to Angela." Angela speaks, then signs off, but under a different name.
In the flashback scene where Dustin Hoffman is in the hotel bathroom on the floor, he puts a coffee mug on the toilet, then the view switches and when it comes back the mug is gone, never to be seen again.
Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep are fighting over Bruce Willis. Goldie Hawn is wearing a tight shirt and tight pants. Meryl is wearing a shirt with a skirt thingy attached and tight pants. Goldie has a hole through the middle of her abdomen where Streep has shot her earlier. They both grab shovels and start fighting. Bruce Willis starts to walk upstairs and he looks over the side and sees the shadows of the two women fighting. The hole is supposed to be on the shadow with the tight skirt which is Goldie. Instead, the hole is shown on the body with the skirt attached to the shirt, which is Meryl.
When Machine Gun Joe (Stallone) is about to run over a guy he knocked down from a ladder, you can see a bus and some cars in the background, commuting as on a normal day, not a day when everyone is supposed to be avoiding the racers who kill people for points.
As Machine Gun Joe runs slowly runs over a fisherman in a small brook, he stops and "peels out" on his head. You can see a film crewman in the driver's seat doing the actual carnage.
When the navigator of Frankenstein (Carradine) asks him what flavour an energy drink is, he says his taste buds were destroyed in the crash of '97. This is after the scene when Frankenstein admitted to his navigator that he was a different, new Frankenstein than the others who suffered in past crashes.
When Frankenstein is with his navigator in a hotel room, he takes off his costume, including his mask. About a minute later, when he asks his navigator to dance, he still has his mask on. The "hotel room" is also obviously a gym, complete with the doors with the big steel handles!
The Pittsburgh, PA steel-mill neighbourhood scenes were filmed in the Youngstown steel-mill neighbourhood.
The boys go deer hunting somewhere in the Appalachians, but the geology is all wrong. It looks more like Glacier Park than anything remotely resembling eastern mountain ranges.
When the bar villains jump over the bar to get the Mariachi, one of them yells, "Come, mes amis!" which is French. They're all supposed to be Mexican.
How does Banderas shoot the bad guys falling back off the building? It's impossible from the angle he's at.
During the bar gunfight, Banderas is shown shooting on top of the counter but somehow winding back up in the same place twice.
If Bucho is Antonio Banderas' brother, why didn't he recognise the letter of his brother when he wrote "looking for Bucho" in the cantina?
When the bad guys try and kill Antonio Banderas in the bookstore, after killing about the third bad guy, you can clearly see his gun lock on an empty chamber, but there's a cut and he immediately carries on shooting.
In the beginning of the movie Brad Pitt's character's mother is serving the dinner. She gives them all dinner except herself, and then sits down. Then the father says the prayer, and when he does that you can see the whole table, and there is food on the mother's plate.
They're having a party at Harrison Ford's house about half way through the movie. Sitting on the table is a 2 litre bottle of Pepsi with the new logo. The scene's supposed to be taking place in 1993.
Throughout, but most noticeably when outside Harrison Ford's wife's real estate shop, there are green leaves on the shrubs/trees...they drive a short way to their home and there is snow around and no leaves on the trees. It keeps changing seasons.
When the partner-cop of Harrison Ford is killed there is shortly a scene where the dead guy is on the "table" at the hospital/morgue and you can see his jugular throbbing.
When Baby and Johnny are driving back from their "dance" at the Shelldrake Hotel, the gear shift is in the uppermost position, which is park, not drive.
When Johnny and Baby have the conversation about 'Have you had many women', Johnny gets out of bed totally naked. However, when Baby rolls over you can see that she is wearing underwear. This isn't very probable if they have just had sex.
When Baby and Johnny leave the resort to go and practice balancing over the creek in the forest, it's pouring rain when they're leaving. however, when Johnny realizes that his keys are in the car, he goes over to knock the pipe out of the ground with his foot and it's sunny over there, three feet away from the car.
In the scene where Harry is practising with his magnum, his black friend sneaks quietly by while parking his car. As the car stops, we see the reflection of the camera man on his window.
In some scenes in the background, the cars have Nova Scotia licence plates where it was filmed... not Maine, where it supposedly took place.
In one scene someone is smoking a DuMarier Canadian cigarette which was taken from an American cigarette package.
In one scene when Salena telephones Peter, the cuffs on his sleeve alternate between being open and done up.
A group of guys are walking into a hangar at some airport....when they are walking into the door you can see a jet moving behind them... it is a Continental Airlines jet with a their new Continental logo on the tail. I believe they updated it in the last two years...the movie was set in 1978 and this logo obviously wasn't on the jets back then.
When Johnny Depp and Al Pacino are driving in the car (I believe it's the first time Depp drives Pacino around), they pass an MCI billboard - the one that continually updates the figures as to how much money you'd save if you had MCI long distance phone service. MCI didn't exist in 1978.
When Depp makes a phone call to his wife on a pay phone, the price of the phone call - $.25 - seen on the phone. Phone calls didn't cost that much in 1978.
When Walter falls from the roof and is hanging on the edge, his feet are the only part which are in front of the window, when shot from outside. Yet the shot from inside the house, looking out the same window, shows Walter from the waist down.
Capt. Dodge (Kelsey Grammar) is on the deck of the sub and is sending a crewman up a ladder to attach a lamp onto the periscope. To attach it, he uses duct tape. However, when they show him climbing, the duct tape is still in Dodge's hand. Then, a second later, it is magically in the crewman's hand.
When Grammar is welcoming his new crew on board, between the time the first crewman has walked up the gangplank and Grammar is talking to the second and receiving his papers and telling him to get on board, you can see that a third has already boarded and the number of envelopes held by the ensign has jumped from one to three.
When Grammar is being taken by launch out to see his sub for the first time, you see between shots that he's going two different directions at different times of day. As they cut back and forth, one set of footage is a live shot, the other is against a screen. The end of the scene is a shot taken either in early morning or late afternoon whereas the preceding were more at midday.
In the party scene where Lucy is receiving her guests the 'cowboy' character leaves his hat on the sofa, where it is sat on. A moment later he is holding it in his hand and it is in perfect shape.
When Renfield bites Dr. Seward on the neck in the asylum he bites one side but when they cut away John is holding the other side of his neck.
This has the old T.V. show style "it was 6 a.m. on January 7th we ... " beginnings to the scenes. Pay attention to those times and dates. They're not even close to being in sequence. I mean days, not just times.
When the peasants are taking archery lessons from Quaid, the friar picks an arrow with all white plumage, but when he brings the arrow up to his face to sight his target, the plumage is white with brown stripes.
When Gilbert takes aim at the target, he loads up an arrow with black and white feathers. When he shoots the arrow, its feathers are completely white.
Miss Daisy is upset that her driver stole a can of salmon. When he arrives at her home for work he has brought a can to replace the one he ate. He then explains to her that he didn't want to eat the left over pork chop. The movie makes a big point of Miss Daisy being Jewish, so why would she have left over pork chops?
On the way to the party, near the end, they are supposed to be in Alabama when the car gets pulled over, but the officer's badge, shoulder patch, and car all say Georgia State Police.
Harpo Marx (made up like Groucho), breaks a huge mirror, with glass shards falling everywhere. This sets up the sequence where Harpo pretends to be Groucho's mirror image. The shards of glass have magically disappeared from the floor. The brothers are both in stocking feet-so their feet would have been cut up. It also would have been very noisy with the glass still on the floor. It's also interesting to note that the huge mirror has a room behind it - was it hanging in mid air?
The raiding party approaches the French ship in small boats without using muffled oars which was a must to approach silently. Oars were wrapped with cloth to deaden the sound.
You have to know Colorado to get this one, but the two guys are on a trip to Aspen to return the suitcase to the woman. But when they finally arrive, they are not actually in Aspen like you are supposed to assume they are. The whole Aspen scenario actually takes place in Breckenridge ski resort.
In the scene where Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are in the restaurant just before they encounter Seabass and right after they call the waitress "Flo", Jeff's coke glass is on his right side. The next shot shows it on his left, then his right, then his left again, without him touching it.
In the scene where they have left the cafe without paying, and Lloyd has to pee, Harry's hair is blowing in one scene because the window is down and in the next scene the window is up and his hair is not blowing. This goes back and forth for the duration of the scene.
In the scene where Lloyd drops Mary off at the airport and hugs her goodbye, in the background there are two men walking towards them. The camera changes to the angle behind Mary then behind Lloyd and then back to the side. When it returns to the side view the two men are farther away but still walking toward them.
When Lloyd goes to drive away he shifts the gear shift down one notch. Wouldn't that be reverse?
When the airbag blows it stays inflated. It should instantly deflate.