10 More Movie Mistakes You Can't Believe You Didn't Spot

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You'll never see these movies quite the same way again.

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00:00These movie mistakes certainly seem obvious when they're pointed out like this,

00:05even though the overwhelming majority of viewers have seemingly been too wrapped up in all the

00:10excitement to notice. And in some cases, you have to wonder what the cast and crew were thinking,

00:15during both shooting and editing, that they ended up missing something so blatant.

00:21All the same, they are well and truly in your brain now, because I am Gareth,

00:26this is WhatCulture, and here are 10 more movie mistakes you can't believe you didn't spot.

00:32Number 10, The Lifeguard's Magic Shoe, Jaws.

00:36Steven Spielberg's Jaws is such a perfect organism of a movie, that it's incredibly easy to forgive

00:41its flaws, or perhaps even gloss over them entirely. Case in point, almost exactly halfway through the

00:48film, the shark enters a pond area and attacks a man who is out rowing a boat near Michael Brody.

00:54The man's boat is overturned and he falls into the water with the shark fast approaching him,

00:59at which point we can clearly see that the man is barefoot and definitely not wearing any shoes.

01:05Except a few shots later when the shark devours him, and we see his severed leg hit the bottom

01:10of the ocean floor, he's very clearly wearing a white tennis shoe. Considering how iconic and to

01:16kids of a certain age traumatizing, the shot of the severed leg actually is, it's honestly surprising

01:22that more viewers haven't noticed this discrepancy over the years. We can assume there was probably

01:27some miscommunication between Spielberg and the movie's prop team here, or that the actor playing

01:32the victim simply removed his shoes without anyone noticing. But we have now.

01:38Number 9, Aragorn's Vanishing Sword, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers.

01:42Now this one's really weird, and will forever change how you view the Battle of Helms Deep in

01:48the second Lord of the Rings movie. Early on in the battle when Aragorn signals his archers to fire,

01:54he does so with his sword, which strangely vanishes into thin air on the downstroke.

01:59As Aragorn swings it towards the screen, only the hilt remains visible in his hand,

02:05with the actual blade component of the weapon magically nowhere to be seen.

02:09Fans have theorized that this was most likely a VFX-related gaffe. That part of the shot was massed

02:14to enhance the background of the scene, likely adding more archers behind Aragorn,

02:19with the sword's blade accidentally getting erased also. For a film that's so meticulously crafted,

02:25it's quite the odd mistake. And yet the moment passes quickly enough that it's relatively easily

02:30missed amid all the battle's excitement. Now I want to know, what is your favorite moment in

02:35The Lord of the Rings? Was it the Battle of Helms Deep or something else? Or none of it,

02:40you do you. Either way, let me know in the comments section below what you think.

02:438. Bubba's Lip – Forrest Gump

02:45Michael T. Williamson gives an unforgettable performance in Forrest Gump as Forrest's

02:50tragically ill-fated war buddy Bubba. And one of the character's most distinctive physical

02:55characteristics is his prominently protruding lip. This wasn't achieved by simply having

03:00Williamson jut out his lip for the entirety of the shoot though. He actually wore a subtle lip

03:05prosthetic during filming, so he didn't have to consciously perform the affectation at all times.

03:11And yet there's one scene where the production presumably forgot to fit the actor with the

03:16false lip. When Bubba and Forrest are riding in a chopper in Vietnam as they go to war,

03:21look closely at Bubba and his lip isn't sticking out at all. Quite what went wrong here is anyone's

03:27guess. Hell, perhaps the prosthetic just fell off Williamson's lip during filming,

03:31and nobody caught it while cameras were rolling. A minor mistake, for sure. But one that'll nag you

03:37every time you watch it now, so sorry for that.

03:40Number 7. Mikey Calls Bran, Josh, The Goonies

03:43The Goonies is one of the greatest films of the 1980s, and one that touts an hilarious

03:48instance of a young actor accidentally breaking character in the middle of a take.

03:53Roughly 40 minutes into the film, Sean Astin's Mikey says to Bran, played by Josh Brolin,

03:58there's something buried under there, Josh. Unintentionally referring to the actor by his

04:03real name. Ah, it happens. While you might not understand how you could have missed such a

04:08glaring mistake, it's worth pointing out that Mikey and Bran talk over each other during this

04:13exchange, so the word Josh is ever so slightly gabbled when it comes out of Sean Astin's mouth.

04:19All the same, once you know it's there, there's no unhearing it at all. We can assume the director

04:23Richard Donner didn't hear it during editing, or felt it was concealed enough through their banter

04:28that it didn't need to be redubbed in post-production. Number 6. The Premature Bloodstain,

04:33The Matrix. Like any effects-heavy blockbuster, The Matrix has a mind-boggling number of moving

04:39parts, and so it's little surprise that the film is packed to the gills with momentary mistakes

04:44that the Wachowski sisters simply hoped you'd be too enthralled to pay much attention to.

04:49This being the internet, though, of course people spotted each and every single one of them.

04:54There is one especially noticeable continuity gaffe late in the film,

04:58when Neo is shot twice by Agent Smith and stumbles backwards into the wall behind him.

05:04Look closely as Neo stumbles, though, and you'll see that there's already a bloodstain on the wall,

05:09which Neo is then falling backwards into, despite prior shots of the wall showing no blood whatsoever.

05:15Clearly this was a continuity issue, where the shots were filmed out of order and a crew member

05:20either forgot to clean the blood from the wall, or the Wachowskis simply assumed that nobody would

05:25notice. Again, we did. Either way, it's very much a glitch in The Matrix itself that Neo's blood

05:30smears itself on the wall before he's even made contact with it. You showing up here is no glitch

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05:40down below, my friends. Number 5. The Visible Contrail, Marie Antoinette. Shooting a period film is just a

05:46massive pain in the ass, really. And one of the many reasons that historical movies tend to have

05:51higher budgets than contemporary fare is the effort they must make to accurately capture the period.

05:57And even accepting that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is willingly packed with anachronistic

06:01music and fashion choices, there is one scene where an out-of-time artifact was most certainly

06:07not intended. Roughly 85 minutes into the film, when Marie is playing outside in a meadow with her

06:13daughter, a low-angle shot shows her looking up to the sky, where the contrail of an aircraft is very

06:19obviously visible cutting through the skyline. This is the sort of gaffe which could be removed

06:24with relative ease on even home computers these days. And yet, back in 2006, Coppola either simply

06:30didn't notice, or didn't consider it disruptive enough to spend any of the movie's spelt $40 million

06:36budget correcting it. Number 4. Woody Harrelson's Blatant Dubbing, Triangle of Sadness.

06:41Generally speaking, Automated Dialogue Replacement, or ADR, is a basic enough part of movie production

06:48that audiences can't tell when an actor has re-recorded their lines. Most of the time,

06:53that is. But despite winning the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and scoring numerous Oscar

06:58nominations, including Best Picture, recent class satire Triangle of Sadness features one

07:04of the most egregiously bad instances of ADR in any major recent movie. And yet, you probably

07:10somehow missed it. When the imperiled ship's captain is shown discussing politics with Russian oligarch

07:16Dimitri, he says, never argue with an idiot, they'll only bring you down to their level and

07:21beat you with experience, before attributing the quote to Mark Twain. However, if you look

07:26at Woody Harrelson's mouth movement, it's incredibly obvious he doesn't say Mark Twain. And if you're

07:31even a half-skilled lip reader, you can probably tell that he's actually saying George Carlin.

07:37It's a baffling redub, honestly. Firstly, because it would have been completely consistent with

07:42Harrison's character to incorrectly attribute the quote to Carlin, and the quote doesn't even belong

07:47to Twain anyway. This is one of those head-scratching mistakes you'll never be able to unsee on repeat

07:52viewings. So, uh, sorry about that.

07:54Number 3. Ian Malcolm Can't Handle Binoculars The Lost World Jurassic Park

07:59Okay, now this one is real funny, folks. Can you even remotely blame Jeff Goldblum for goofing

08:05around on the set of The Lost World? Or, if you want to be less generous to him, failing to operate

08:10a pair of binoculars? Despite his doctor Ian Malcolm being a genius mathematician, shortly after he arrives

08:16on Isla's sauna, he picks up Eddie Carr's binoculars to look at the arriving InGen fleet. Yet,

08:22he's actually hilariously holding them to his face backwards. In reality, this would only make the

08:27choppers look further away, and certainly ensure he couldn't spot the InGen logo on them. Yet,

08:33the film itself suggests that Malcolm is indeed operating the binoculars as intended. What a guy.

08:39One can't put it past Goldblum for seeing what he could get away with here, and accidentally getting

08:43a minor prank into the final cut of the movie. But at the same time, it's entirely possible he just

08:49fumbled picking up the binoculars and ran with it. Because why not?

08:52Number 2. Obvious library facade is obvious. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

08:58Much as we all love watching 4K restorations of classic movies, I know I do, it creates an absolute

09:05cluster headache for the filmmakers themselves. Because higher resolution releases ensure that

09:10audiences can pick out mistakes, which were not visible on lower detail earlier versions.

09:15Case in point, we have Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

09:19Roughly 30 minutes into the movie, Indy heads to a Venetian library in pursuit of his father,

09:24Henry. And when he climbs a staircase and discovers the giant X on the library's floor,

09:29take a look at the bookshelf behind him. In the 4K version of the film in particular,

09:34it's hilariously obvious that the bookshelf is just a thin facade, with the books all being

09:39superficial semblances of actual books at absolute best. Fans went decades never noticing this on

09:45prior releases of the movie. But in its Ultra HD glory, it's incredibly obvious.

09:51Sure, you can try to convince yourself that it's a mere intentional decoration in the world of the

09:55movie itself. But let's be honest, it was simply that the production designers never expected that

10:01viewers would be able to fixate on a crystal clear high resolution screen grab of their work.

10:06But here we are! Number 1, The Visible Soundstage, G.I. Joe Retaliation

10:11The extended cut of G.I. Joe Retaliation opens with a longer fight scene between Snake Eyes and his

10:17apprentice, Jinx. But amid the snappily edited fisticuffs, you'll kick yourself for not spotting

10:22this outrageous mistake. When Snake Eyes flips away from one of Jinx's attacks, the rigging of the

10:28soundstage where the scene was shot is blatantly visible at the top, complete with the lights used for

10:33the scene. Evidently, a VFX artist forgot to mask out the roof of the soundstage and replace it with

10:38something that made sense. Possibly because this scene wasn't completed during post-production for

10:43the theatrical version, and only hastily finished for the home video extended cut later on.

10:49Either way, considering how damn cool this shot is otherwise, it's a shame that due diligence wasn't

10:54undertaken to actually get it done properly. Then again, how many of you liked this movie enough

10:59to even bother with the extended cut at all? Sorry, Joe.

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