Movie Mistakes
It takes a lot of time and effort to create a movie from start to finish. However, sometimes it doesn’t matter how much funding a producer pours into a film, there are just some things that go unnoticed. Things that no one catches, until they do. And usually when they do, it’s too late. In this situation, all we can do is look at these errors and cringe. It’s far too late for a quick re-shoot or edit.
You probably never even had a clue that some of your favorite films, some of the world’s most celebrated movies, have huge mistakes in them! Warning…if you read through this list, it could ruin these movies for you, but now, you’re probably dying to know what exactly is messed up in these films. Most of these mistakes you would not expect a multi-million dollar film to leave uncorrected. Somehow, all of these errors went unnoticed. Yes, mistakes happen, but these could likely affect how you see these iconic films or at least certain scenes. It can be hard to pretend you don’t see these glaring mistakes after hearing about them. So, sorry in advance, but we tried to warn you!
Listen, these mistakes go above and beyond. That’s why they could potentially ruin the film for you and lower the quality of your next viewing experience significantly. From the production assistants to the director and film engineers, you would think one person would have seen these monstrous errors. Maybe it’s sort of comforting to know that even the big shots can mess up big time. Next time you make a mistake at work, try to comfort yourself by remembering these huge movie mistakes on multi-million dollar films. Now, let’s get on to the mistakes. From Pirates of the Caribbean, Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Grease, She’s All That to Harry Potter and so many more. Seriously, these are critically acclaimed, classic movies with big movie mistakes that you never even noticed. So, get ready for your world to be flipped upside down! These are monumental. We wonder if the famous stars of these films ever noticed these movie mistakes themselves! Surely, that could really bother them too. We hope they didn’t see these, for their own sanity. Anyway, it’s time to take a look at these epic movie mistakes that made it to the big screen.
‘Pretty Woman’ – Transforming Breakfast
This error is pretty easy to catch actually! There’s a scene showing Julia Robert’s character eating a croissant for breakfast but in the next shot, she’s eating a pancake. Smooth.
Pretty Woman’ – Transforming Breakfast
‘Dallas Buyers Club’ – The Lambo
Dallas Buyers Club is a masterpiece, there’s no denying that. There is however ~one~ major movie error though. You see the film is set in 1985 but in the office of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey’s character), you can see a poster of a 2011 Lamborghini Aventador on the wall. Uh oh.
Dallas Buyers Club’ The Lambo
‘Reservoir Dogs’ – Changing Handcuffs
Marvin Nash is a bit like Houdini in this scene. Basically, he’s being dragged to the super secret hideout with his hands cuffed tightly behind his back. After taking a bit of a beating, the next scene shows that Nash’s hands are now cuffed in front of his body.
Reservoir Dogs’ – Changing Handcuffs
‘The Dark Knight’ – Newspaper Typo
Maybe at first glance, you’d look at this image of this particular headline and you’d think there was nothing wrong with it. However, you’d be very wrong. The writer of this fake newspaper misspelled the word “heist” and the editors didn’t change it.
‘The Dark Knight’ – Newspaper Typo
‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ – The Cowboy Crew Member
The whole Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is a humorous, nail biting, total cholesterol rising, swashbuckler film saga. But there’s one scene in particular in the first film where Captain Jack Sparrow yells out, “On deck, you scabrous dogs!” You immediately see the characters run out of the scene, leaving a single crew member wearing a cowboy hat. We’re about 99.99999999999% certain that cowboys didn’t exist during the Pirate era.
‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ – The Cowboy Crew Member
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ – Infamous Head Bump
There’s no way you missed this movie mistake – no way. In Star Wars IV: A New Hope, a Storm Trooper extra accidentally bangs his head on a sliding door but it was never edited out of the film! We hope someone sent that extra a gourmet fruit basket or something.
‘Star Wars A New Hope’ – Infamous Head Bump
‘Gladiator’ – Motorized Chariot
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.” Whenever that line gets delivered in this iconic, epic, legendary, (insert a million more kick a** descriptive words here), hearts everywhere thump a mile a minute. There’s no doubt that Gladiator and Russell Crowe are beyond brilliant but we still can’t forgive the ~one~ crucial movie mistake. There’s a fight scene that takes place in the Coliseum and a chariot overturns, underneath it shows a gas canister that had fueled the chariot. Gas canisters never existed during the Roman Empire and no one ever edited the mistake.
‘Gladiator’ – Motorized Chariot
‘Grease’ – The Magic Lightswitch
There’s no doubt about it, Grease was well ahead of its time and is still adored by many to this day. Which is why have to point out the scene where the waitress completely misses the light switch when walking into the kitchen but the lights come on anyway. Like we said, ahead of its time.
‘Grease’ – The Magic Lightswitch
’10 Things I Hate About You’ – The Archery Scene
The scene where Bianca shoots her gym teacher with an arrow and the teacher sends a student for help. The student sprints off to “get help” but makes the mistake of stopping short of the stops exiting frame. She assumed she was out of shot and no one caught the error. Oh my.
’10 Things I Hate About You’- The Archery Scene
‘Pulp Fiction’ – Bullet Holes
You remember the whole, ‘English, do you speak it?’ scene? Yeah, of course you do. But did you happen to catch the one horrible movie mistake? No? Well, here it is, the wall is riddled with bullet holes well before the shooting war takes place.
Pulp Fiction Bullet Holes
‘North by Northwest’ — Mount Rushmore Shootout
Prop guns are loud, any actor will tell you that. In the shooting sequence at Mount Rushmore a child extra in the background covers his ears — before the gun ever goes off. The kid probably had to sit through the same prop shot multiple times, thus causing this gaffe.
‘North By Northwest’ – Mount Rushmore Shootout
‘Bad Boys’ – The Camera Man
We’re not talking about Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, we’re talking about the film starring Sean Penn. Basically the movie scene error is during a fight scene. For quite some time, you can clearly see the camera man up front and center during the close up shots. Whoops.
‘Bad Boys’ – The Camera Man
‘Matrix’ – The Pre-Broken Pillars
During the scene where Neo and Agent Smith battling it out in the warehouse in the first Matrix film, there’s a pretty crucial mistake. It shows a shot where a certain stone pillar gets punched with a bare fist clean through. But when Neo ducks under Smith’s blow, it reveals that the stone pillar was already busted.
‘Matrix’ – The Pre Broken Pillars
‘Dirty Dancing’ – Magic Gearshift
No doubt about it watching Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing had every girl swooning. But the scenes where Swayze is driving that sexy car, show that the gear shift is in park while they’re filming a scene that clearly shows the car is moving. What a magical car.
‘Dirty Dancing’ – Magic Gearshift
‘Braveheart’ – Watch for Cars
Braveheart unfortunately had a ton of editing and technical mistakes but the car one has got to be our favorite. Take a look below at this epic fight scene and pay attention to the bottom left.
‘Braveheart’ – Watch For Cars
‘Lord of the Rings’/The Hobbit – Legolas’ Eyes
The dreamboat that is Orlando Bloom falls into this list, here’s why. During the original trilogy of Lord of the Rings, it is exceptionally clear that Legolas’ eyes were a bright, clear blue. But somehow in The Hobbit, his eyes are a dark brown. Even though it’s the same actor/character and the same director.
Lord Of The Rings/The Hobbit – Legolas’ Eyes
‘Tombstone’ – Fake Rain
Creating fake rain is apparently harder than we thought. Pay attention to how the rain pools when the camera moves further down the street. Usually, the farther away from the camera then the drier the set should be, showing that the rain was hosed in.
‘Tombstone’ – Fake Rain
‘American Sniper’ – The Fake Baby
When Bradley Cooper portrayed the sniper Chris Kyle, everyone was mesmerized. Not just because of his stellar acting skills and the movie as a whole but mainly because of one particular scene. It features Cooper interacting with a very, very fake baby. The story is that the real “actor” baby was too sick so the crew improvised.
‘American Sniper’ – The Fake Baby
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ – Modern Extras
It seems wrong to pick on Indiana Jones and the brilliant Raiders of the Lost Ark film but alas, we have to. After Marion’s truck explodes, Indy is seen drinking at a bar. However if you look in the background, there’s a guy wearing jeans and a white t-shirt walking around.
‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ Modern Extras
‘Back to the Future’ – Marty McFly’s Guitar
During this particular scene, McFly is back in the year 1955, and he’s playing this killer guitar which is a bit weird considering the ES-345 didn’t debut until 1959.
Back To The Future – Marty McFly’s Guitar
‘She’s All That’ – Tattoo
Remember when Taylor got a heart tattoo? Where did it go by the time the prom scene came up later on?
She’s All That – Tattoo
‘Clueless’ – The Reappearing Mirror
As you should remember, during Cher’s driving test, she runs into another vehicle, destroying her sideview mirror. It literally flew off. Yet, in the next scene, that same window is magically replaced.
Clueless – The Reappearing Mirror
‘Encino Man’ – Swap
Another driving scene, eh? If you recall Link (Brendan Fraser) takes off while in a driving test car. Then you see Dave (Sean Astin) runs after him and jump into the car through the back window. However, the next scene shows that the man behind Link isn’t Dave.
Encino Man – Swap
‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’ – Lily Potter’s Eyes
Throughout the entire book series, Harry Potter was constantly told he had eyes just like his mother’s. They were a beautiful green; however, in the final film, the actor portraying Lily Potter had brown eyes.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Lily Potter’s Eyes
‘Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls’ – Chess
Just about the funniest movie ever doesn’t escape this list. There’s a screencap clearly showing a chessboard with pieces. However when the scene cuts, you cab see the chessboard empty. Whoops is an understatement.
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls – Chess
‘Grandma’s Boy’ – Banana
Try to remember the scene in Grandma’s Boy where a tray of food is being put into the oven. Notice the banana in the top image? Somehow that banana just disappears once the food is removed from the oven, look at bottom photo.
Grandma’s Boy Banana
‘Scary Movie 3’ – Arm Changes
Welp, this mistake is clear as day! The right arm can be seen in the top image however the next scene clearly shows the left one.
Scary Movie 3 – Arm Change
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ – Reflection
Yup, another mistake from Raiders of the Lost Ark! You can clearly see the snake’s reflection in the glass which is separating it from Indiana Jones.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark – Reflection
‘You’ve Got Mail’ – Missing Olive
Just like the image below says, the olive disappeared. We watch as Tom Hanks’ character puts an olive in his father’s Martini but then in the next scene, there is a cut to his father and then back to Hanks’ character. Tom has put the same olive back in the martini.
You’ve Got Mail – Missing Olive
