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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 traumatising, 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
01:32playing the 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 theorised that this was most likely a VFX-related gaffe. That part of the shot was massed to
02:14enhance the background of the scene, likely adding more archers behind Aragorn, with the sword's
02:20blade accidentally getting erased also. For a film that's so meticulously crafted, it's quite the
02:26odd mistake, and yet the moment passes quickly enough that it's relatively easily missed amid all
02:31the battle's excitement. Now I want to know what is your favourite moment in The Lord of the Rings?
02:36Was it the Battle of Helms deep or something else? Or none of it, you do you. Either way,
02:41let me know in the comments section below what you think. 8. 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 false
03:16lip. When Bubba and Forrest are riding in a chopper in Vietnam as they go to war, look closely at
03:22Bubba and his lip isn't sticking out at all. Quite what went wrong here is anyone's guess. Hell,
03:28perhaps the prosthetic just fell off Williamson's lip during filming, and nobody caught it while
03:32cameras were rolling. A minor mistake, for sure, but one that'll nag you every time you watch it now,
03:38so sorry for that. 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 instance of
03:49a young actor accidentally breaking character in the middle of a take. Roughly 40 minutes into the film,
03:55Sean 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 glaring
04:08mistake, it's worth pointing out that Mikey and Bran talk over each other during this exchange,
04:14so 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.
04:22We can assume the director Richard Donner didn't hear it during editing, or felt it was concealed
04:27enough through their banter that it didn't need to be re-dubbed in post-production.
04:316. The Premature Bloodstain – The Matrix
04:34Like any effects-heavy blockbuster, The Matrix has a mind-boggling number of moving parts,
04:40and 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,
05:36though, and we thank you for that. If you like what you're watching, then hit that subscribe button down
05:40below, my friends.
05:41Number 5, The Visible Contrail, Marie Antoinette
05:44Shooting a period film is just a massive pain in the ass, really, and one of the many reasons
05:49that historical movies tend to have higher budgets than contemporary fare is the effort
05:54they must make to accurately capture the period. And even accepting that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
05:59is willingly packed with anachronistic music and fashion choices, there is one scene where an
06:05out-of-time artifact was most certainly not intended. Roughly 85 minutes into the film,
06:10when Marie is playing outside in a meadow with her daughter, a low-angle shot shows her looking
06:15up to the sky, where the contrail of an aircraft is very obviously visible cutting through the
06:21skyline. This is the sort of gaffe which could be removed with relative ease on even home computers
06:26these days. And yet back in 2006, Coppola either simply didn't notice, or didn't consider it
06:32disruptive enough to spend any of the movie's svelte $40 million budget correcting it.
06:38Number 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
06:58denominations, 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
07:15oligarch Dimitri, he says,
07:17Never argue with an idiot they'll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience,
07:22before attributing the quote to Mark Twain. However, if you look at Woody Harrelson's mouth
07:27movement, it's incredibly obvious he doesn't say Mark Twain. And if you're even a half-skilled
07:33lip reader, you can probably tell that he's actually saying George Carlin. It's a baffling
07:38redub, honestly. Firstly, because it would have been completely consistent with Harrison's character
07:43to incorrectly attribute the quote to Carlin, and the quote doesn't even belong to Twain anyway.
07:48This is one of those head-scratching mistakes you'll never be able to unsee on repeat viewings.
07:53So, uh, sorry about that.
07:55Number 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,
08:09failing to operate a pair of binoculars. Despite his doctor Ian Malcolm being a genius mathematician,
08:15shortly after he arrives on Isla's sauna, he picks up Eddie Carr's binoculars to look at the
08:20arriving InGen fleet. Yet he's actually hilariously holding them to his face backwards.
08:25In reality, this would only make the choppers look further away, and certainly ensure he couldn't
08:30spot the InGen logo on them. Yet the film itself suggests that Malcolm is indeed operating the
08:36binoculars as intended. What a guy. One can't put it past Goldblum for seeing what he could get away
08:41with here, and accidentally getting a minor prank into the final cut of the movie. But at the same
08:47time, it's entirely possible he just fumbled 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,
09:03It creates an absolute cluster headache for the filmmakers themselves. Because higher resolution
09:09releases ensure that audiences can pick out mistakes, which were not visible on lower detail
09:14earlier versions. Case in point, we have Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Roughly 30 minutes into
09:20the movie, Indy heads to a Venetian library in pursuit of his father, Henry. And when he climbs a
09:26staircase and discovers the giant X on the library's floor, take a look at the bookshelf behind him.
09:31In the 4K version of the film in particular, it's hilariously obvious that the bookshelf is just
09:36a thin facade. With the books all being superficial semblances of actual books at absolute best.
09:43Fans went decades never noticing this on prior releases of the movie. But in its ultra HD glory,
09:49it's incredibly obvious. Sure, you can try to convince yourself that it's a mere intentional
09:54decoration in the world of the movie itself. But let's be honest, it was simply that the production
09:59designers never expected that viewers would be able to fixate on a crystal clear high resolution
10:04screen grab of their work. But here we are!
10:07Number 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
10:28the soundstage where the scene was shot is blatantly visible at the top, complete with
10:32the lights used for the scene. Evidently, a VFX artist forgot to mask out the roof of the
10:37soundstage and replace it with something that made sense. Possibly because this scene wasn't
10:42completed during post-production for the theatrical version, and only hastily finished for the home
10:47video extended cut later on. Either way, considering how damn cool this shot is otherwise, it's a shame
10:53that due diligence wasn't undertaken to actually get it done properly. Then again, how many of you
10:58liked this movie enough to even bother with the extended cut at all? Sorry, Joe.
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