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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
00:09excitement 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.
00:3210. The Lifeguard's Magic Shoe, Jaws
00:35Steven 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!
01:389. 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. Fans have theorized
02:10that this was most likely a VFX-related gaffe. That part of the shot was masked to enhance the
02:15background of the scene, likely adding more archers behind Aragorn, with the sword's blade
02:20accidentally 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 favorite 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
03:23and his lip isn't sticking out at all. Quite what went wrong here is anyone's guess. Hell, perhaps the
03:28prosthetic just fell off Williamson's lip during filming, and nobody caught it while cameras were
03:33rolling. A minor mistake, for sure, but one that'll nag you every time you watch it now, so sorry for
03:39that. 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
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
04:23to Richard 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.
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 surprised 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
05:19and a crew member either forgot to clean the blood from the wall,
05:22or the Wachowskis simply assumed that nobody would notice.
05:26Again, we did.
05:27Either way, it's very much a glitch in The Matrix itself that Neo's blood smears itself on the wall
05:32before he's even made contact with it.
05:34You showing up here is no glitch, though, and we thank you for that.
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05:40Number 5. The Visible Contrail
05:43Marie Antoinette
05:44Shooting a period film is just a massive pain in the ass, really.
05:48And one of the many reasons that historical movies tend to have higher budgets than contemporary fare
05:53is the effort they must make to accurately capture the period.
05:56And even accepting that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is willingly packed with anachronistic music and fashion choices,
06:03there is one scene where an out-of-time artifact was most certainly not intended.
06:08Roughly 85 minutes into the film, when Marie is playing outside in a meadow with her daughter,
06:13a low-angle shot shows her looking up to the sky,
06:17where the contrail of an aircraft is very obviously visible cutting through the skyline.
06:22This is the sort of gaffe which could be removed with relative ease on even home computers these days.
06:27And yet, back in 2006, Coppola either simply didn't notice,
06:31or didn't consider it disruptive enough to spend any of the movie's spelt $40 million budget correcting it.
06:37Number 4. Woody Harrelson's Blatant Dubbing, Triangle of Sadness
06:41Generally speaking, Automated Dialogue Replacement, or ADR,
06:45is a basic enough part of movie production that audiences can't tell when an actor has re-recorded their lines.
06:52Most of the time, that is.
06:54But despite winning the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and scoring numerous Oscar nominations,
06:59including Best Picture,
07:01recent class satire, Triangle of Sadness, features one of the most egregiously bad instances of ADR
07:07in any major recent movie.
07:09And yet, you probably somehow missed it.
07:11When the imperiled ship's captain is shown discussing politics with Russian oligarch Dimitri,
07:17he 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.
07:25However, if you look at Woody Harrelson's mouth movement,
07:27it's incredibly obvious he doesn't say Mark Twain.
07:31And if you're even a half-skilled lip reader,
07:34you can probably tell that he's actually saying George Carlin.
07:37It's a baffling redub, honestly.
07:39Firstly, because it would have been completely consistent with Harrelson's character
07:43to incorrectly attribute the quote to Carlin,
07:45and 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,
07:57The Lost World Jurassic Park
07:59Okay, now this one is real funny, folks.
08:02Can you even remotely blame Jeff Goldblum for goofing around on the set of The Lost World?
08:07Or, if you want to be less generous to him,
08:09failing to operate a pair of binoculars?
08:11Despite his Dr. Ian Malcolm being a genius mathematician,
08:15shortly after he arrives on Isla's sauna,
08:17he picks up Eddie Carr's binoculars to look at the arriving InGen fleet.
08:22Yet he's actually hilariously holding them to his face backwards.
08:25In reality, this would only make the choppers look further away,
08:28and certainly ensure he couldn't spot the InGen logo on them.
08:32Yet the film itself suggests that Malcolm is indeed operating the binoculars as intended.
08:38What a guy.
08:38One can't put it past Goldblum for seeing what he could get away with here,
08:42and accidentally getting a minor prank into the final cut of the movie.
08:46But at the same time, it's entirely possible he just fumbled picking up the binoculars and ran with it.
08:51Because why not?
08:52Number 2, Obvious Library Facade is obvious.
08:56Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
08:58Much as we all love watching 4K restorations of classic movies,
09:02I know I do,
09:03it creates an absolute cluster headache for the filmmakers themselves.
09:08Because higher resolution releases ensure that audiences can pick out mistakes,
09:12which were not visible on lower detail earlier versions.
09:16Case in point, we have Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
09:19Roughly 30 minutes into the movie,
09:21Indy heads to a Venetian library in pursuit of his father, Henry.
09:24And when he climbs a staircase and discovers the giant X on the library's floor,
09:29take a look at the bookshelf behind him.
09:31In the 4K version of the film in particular,
09:34it's hilariously obvious that the bookshelf is just a thin facade,
09:38with 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,
09:47but 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 movie itself,
09:56but let's be honest,
09:58it was simply that the production designers never expected that viewers would be able to fixate
10:02on a crystal clear high resolution screen grab of their work.
10:06But here we are!
10:07Number 1.
10:08The Visible Soundstage, G.I. Joe Retaliation
10:11The extended cut of G.I. Joe Retaliation opens with a longer fight scene
10:15between Snake Eyes and his apprentice, Jinx.
10:18But amid the snappily edited fisticuffs,
10:21you'll kick yourself for not spotting this outrageous mistake.
10:24When Snake Eyes flips away from one of Jinx's attacks,
10:27the rigging of the soundstage where the scene was shot is blatantly visible at the top,
10:32complete with the lights used for the scene.
10:34Evidently, a VFX artist forgot to mask out the roof of the soundstage
10:38and replace it with something that made sense.
10:40Possibly because this scene wasn't completed during post-production for the theatrical version,
10:45and only hastily finished for the home video extended cut later on.
10:49Either way, considering how damn cool this shot is otherwise,
10:52it's a shame that due diligence wasn't undertaken to actually get it done properly.
10:57Then again, how many of you liked this movie enough to even bother with the extended cut at all?
11:02Sorry, Joe.
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