6 Movie Mistakes Spotted Before Release

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00:00Who doesn't love a good movie mistake? I mean, there are entire websites and subreddits dedicated

00:05to pointing them out, and UK fans might recall that comedian Robert Webb used to have a TV show

00:11about them. However, the thing about movie mistakes is that they're typically spotted

00:16after the film in question has released, usually when it's available on home media.

00:20This obviously makes it easier to scrub through the film and pick tiny details out,

00:25allowing visual effects screw-ups or continuity blunders to be pinpointed with precision.

00:30But sometimes, very rarely, a mistake might be spotted before a movie's release.

00:35From trailers to clips to early preview footage, distributors throw out so much pre-release

00:41material these days that there's always a chance a blunder will slip through the cracks.

00:46And so, with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture here with 6 movie mistakes

00:50spotted before release.

00:53Number 6. Kylo Ren's Invisible Kate

00:56Star Wars is one of those franchises whose trailers are analysed and freeze-framed with

01:00obsessive levels of scrutiny, and Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker, the grand conclusion to

01:05the Skywalker saga, was no different.

01:08Fans probably didn't expect to find something like this in their deep dives, though.

01:13Shortly after the movie's D23 special look was released in August 2019, eagle-eyed viewers

01:19noticed something unusual about a shot of Rey and Kylo Ren engaged in a lightsaber duel.

01:24Namely, Kylo Ren's cape wasn't visible in the reflection beneath him.

01:29This was corrected in time for its December release, with the cape being added to the

01:33reflection in all its billowing glory.

01:36Now, some speculated that the mistake was due to the cape being CGI and not being added

01:41in time for D23.

01:43While others speculated that it was the reflection that was the digital element, and again, it

01:49wasn't completed in time for the trailer.

01:51We got our answer as the movie inched closer to its home media release, with certain behind-the-scenes

01:57content showing Adam Driver wearing a cape on set.

02:01So why edit his reflection in, then?

02:03Well, who knows?

02:05Number 5.

02:06The Green Lego Is A Lie

02:08Some movie mistakes don't just rock the film fandom, they rock the entire planet.

02:13No, seriously.

02:16This was the case in 2017, when Lego fans the world over were rioting in the streets after

02:24discovering a blunder in the main trailer for It Chapter 1.

02:29In said trailer, there's a quick shot where lead character Bill drops a Lego set on the

02:33floor after being startled by a vision of his dead brother Georgie.

02:37This set featured several 2x2 slopes in lime green, but as pointed out by Lego superfan

02:43Nathan Wells, this piece wasn't released until 2010, whereas the movie was set in 1989.

02:51Acknowledging the fact that the film was now a complete disaster and couldn't be released

02:55under any circumstances, producer Seth Graham Smith responded to the controversy, saying,

03:01We're cancelling the release until further notice.

03:04Which, of course, he never did.

03:06The liar.

03:07Fortunately, this calamitous error did not bring down the movie's reception, and it was a critical

03:14and box office smash upon its release less than two months later.

03:19Number 4.

03:20The Vanishing Necklace

03:21The build-up to Spider-Man No Way Home was absolutely nuts, in the best way possible.

03:27With pop culture fans having gone 2-plus years without a cinematic event on this scale, the

03:33hunger for Tom Holland's third solo Spidey outing was huge, largely fuelled by speculation

03:39that a few other web-slingers might be joining him.

03:42Unsurprisingly then, its trailer was picked apart to a degree that we hadn't seen since

03:46Avengers Endgame, which led to fans uncovering all kinds of weird stuff.

03:51There was the infamous Lizard Punch, spotted in an international version of the second trailer,

03:56and some fans even thought that they could see a disembodied arm in the corner of another shot.

04:02Elsewhere, a genuine continuity error was noticed, revolving around the necklace worn

04:08or not worn by MJ.

04:10At the very end of Spider-Man Far From Home, during the scene where Spidey's true identity

04:15is revealed, MJ is clearly not wearing the broken black Dahlia necklace given to her by

04:20Peter earlier in the movie.

04:22However, as people notice, when No Way Home's opening scene was released the week before

04:27it hit cinemas, MJ suddenly had the necklace on.

04:30Considering that No Way Home picks up right where Far From Home left off, this is a clear,

04:36although admittedly minor, continuity mistake.

04:40The two versions of the scene were probably filmed years apart, and so it's not really surprising

04:46that there might be a few minor details that were accidentally missed by the filmmakers.

04:51Number 3, Vision's missing makeup.

04:54Yes, okay, WandaVision isn't technically a movie, but it's part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,

05:02so we don't feel bad for cheating here.

05:03The MCU's first proper small screen outing was such a trippy show that it was hard to

05:09know what was real and what was part of Wanda's fantasy, which is why some people weren't

05:14sure whether a patch of human coloured skin on Vision's wrist, which was spotted in

05:19a promo during the run up to episode 3, was a blunder.

05:23The shot in question was taken from episode 3's opening title sequence, and you can clearly

05:27see Paul Bettany's human skin through a gap in his shirt.

05:31Obviously, Bettany's entire body wasn't painted maroon, just the bits that were on

05:35show, and so someone clearly forgot that this small portion of his arm would be visible.

05:40Interestingly, the mistake was still present when the episode aired a few days later, but

05:45if you were to watch episode 3 on Disney Plus today, the mistake has been fixed.

05:51And this isn't the first time that WandaVision was edited after release.

05:56The show's post-credits scene was also tinkered with, but why, we do not know.

06:03Number 2, Cameraman Cameo

06:05Crew member caught in the back of a shot is the most common movie mistake around, but

06:10rarely are they as noticeable as this one.

06:13It was far too easy to spot the cameraman lurking in the background of a shot from Godzilla

06:19King of the Monsters comic-con teaser, which released in July 2018, almost a full year before

06:25the movie's May 2019 release.

06:28Now sure, at this point, the film still had a long way to go before it was completed.

06:34But it's still pretty egregious that a gaffe this huge managed to slip through the cracks.

06:38Now some people speculated that it might actually be part of the film, but that idea was quickly

06:43shot down when the director uploaded the same teaser to his Twitter page, with the mistake

06:49edited out.

06:50And that original teaser actually had a second error too, with the bandages on Millie Bobby

06:56Brown's hands disappearing between shots.

06:59Whoops!

07:00Number 1, Shopping Bag Guy

07:02After months of hype and speculation, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is finally

07:09upon us.

07:10From Professor X to Captain Carter, the movie is set to contain a whole bunch of crazy cameos,

07:16and another character who fans are so excited to see is the man, the myth, the legend, the

07:23random extra.

07:25Now this all started when a YouTube user uploaded a video pointing out a pretty funny continuity

07:30error from the movie, where the same bag-carrying extra can be seen running through a scene

07:36four different times.

07:38This extra, who we shall affectionately dub Shopping Bag Guy, was first spotted in an officially

07:44released clip of Doctor Strange battling an enormous monster on the streets of New York.

07:49Maybe he's just caught in a time loop, or maybe it's just a genuine continuity blunder,

07:53but let's be honest, if we were in this guy's shoes, we would also be trying to get as

07:58much screen time as possible.

08:00And that concludes our list.

08:02If you can think of any that we missed, then do let us know in the comments below, and while

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08:18I've been Ellie with WhatCulture, I hope you have a magical day, and I'll see you real soon.

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