Conference bookie::movies

    Well, in The Empire Strikes Back, as Han Solo is about to be frozen, we
    see him being lowered into the chamber with his hands tied in front of
    him.  When the frozen Han is then brought back up, we see his hands are
    free and up in a defensive position.  What happened to the string around
    his wrists?
    
    And did anyone notice the fuzzy dice in the cockpit of the Falcon in
    Star Wars?  Chewie hits his head on them but in subsequent scenes, the
    dice aren't there.
    

>     And did anyone notice the fuzzy dice in the cockpit of the Falcon in
>     Star Wars?  Chewie hits his head on them but in subsequent scenes, the
>     dice aren't there.

	Obviously Chewie took the dice down after hitting his head
	on them once :-)

    
    My favorite, from Star Wars is a scene that occurs on the Death Star.
    Luke, Han, Leia, and Chewie are stuck in the trash-masher; meanwhile
    C3P0 and R2D2 are back in the control center when a group of Storm-
    troopers break open the door and come marching in. 
    
    If you watch the storm-trooper on the far right of the screen, when 
    they come marching in, he marches straight into a low-hanging support
    beam and it clips the whole top of his head, with a resounding "thunk"
    evident on the soundtrack. Apparently, Luke wasn't kidding when he
    said you couldn't see anything in those helmets.
    
    I've watched this scene a hundred times, and he bumps his head every
    time!
    
    
    Whitney.
    

Never seen this one, but it's the one everyone quotes:

In Ben Hur, there's one scene with warring armies charging at each other across
a massive plain... with a large lorry driving along a road in the background.

Scott

    In North by Northwest, just before Cary Grant gets "surprised" and shot
    a few times (with blanks) there's a kid at a table (toward the front,
    close to the action) that covers his ears before the shots go off.  
    Apparently, they had to "shoot" the scene a few times and ...
    
    Steve

  In older TV and Movie westerns set in the late 19th century: countless cases
of jet trails in the sky. Also countless cases of "6-shooters" firing more than
6 shots without reloading and people hiding behind bailed hay. Hay bailers were
not invented until the 20th century and were not widely used until after the
depression. 

  George 

     In Commando,After the a car chase the yellow Porche had one side all
    smashed up,then when Arnie drives away the smashed side is in perfect
    condition  
    
    
       SCott

    In Aliens, while Sigourney is in the APC, when the Aliens start to
    attack in the power substation, she has a head mike on, we jump to the
    alien fight, back to her (now without the head mike), back to the
    fight, and back to Signourney with the mike on again.

    	Sean "Marko" Connery and Kevin "I love my Whitney Houston haircut" 
    Costner in "The Untouchables". Costner follows Connery home, and 
    Connery takes his tie off. The top button on his shirt is either 
    buttoned or unbuttoned, the director couldn't decide- and neither
    can the viewer.

    re:-4
    
    what is a lorry?
    
    

    an 18-wheeler or truck

    
    In the first Terminator movie, Arnold gets burned with a cigar in the
    chest.  But the mark mysteriously vanishes in the next scene!
    
    Anne
    
    

While Nolte and Murphy are driving around in the caddy at the beginning of
48hrs, you'll see Murphy's Porsche Speedster, that is supposed to still be in
the storage/parking garage. Never heard this mentioned in any other source.

Barry    
    

    In STAR TREK II : THE WRATH OF KHAN, Kirk is in sickbay after Khan
    attacks the Enterprise for the first time, and Peter Preston (Scotty's
    nephew) is on the sick-bed, Peter reaches up and puts his hand on Kirks 
    "lapel" or "bib", and it is stained with blood from Preston's hand. 
    When Kirk walks back on to the bridge, the stain has moved considerably, 
    yet maintaining the same hand-shape!
    
    

    
    Another from 48 Hours:  Nolte and Murphy are driving in the
    convertable.  Murphy is in handcuffs and is asking Nolte to un cuff
    him.  Cut to far scene of car driving down street with Murphy's left
    arm drapped on back of seat - no cuffs.  Cut back to car - Murphy is
    still in cuffs:
    
    Star wars series - where do you start... :^)
    
    Empire Strikes Back:
    
    Freezing chamber:  Han is wearing a vest in some scenes and not in
    others.
    
    Return of the Jedi:
    
    Only nudity in the Star Wars series:  When Jabba drops the slave girl
    in the pit, she falls out of her top before falling in.
    
    At the beginning, when the Emperor's "parade" is going on outside the
    Death Star, watch the two groups of tie fighters that come from behind
    you from the right and then fly in to join the other ties flying around
    the Death Star.  One of the groups disappears.
    
    When the Millineum Falcon flies into the oncoming tie fighters during the
    finnal battle scene, watch the scene where the ties pass it and they
    switch to a front view of the Falcon.  All the ties pass behind the
    Falcon except two tiny ones that pass IN FRONT of it.  Look near the
    bottom of the Falcon in the center - it's quick.
    
    Terminator II:
    
    When the truck jumps off the bridge and lands in front of John Conner,
    the windshield falls out.  In all the following scenes its back.
    
    Arnie was real smart in this movie.  How did he know that...
    
      ...the Harley was owned by the biker he took the keys from?
    
      ...John Conner would be in the hallway behind the video arcade?
    
    And where did Arnie get the ammo for the shotgun?

      Young guns:The gun fight where Charlie Sheen gets shot;When the
    shooting start a member of the crew can be seen running across the
    back ground.
      In another scene,There is a shot with just Lou Diamond Philips and
    his horse,The Horse lifts it's head back and and a crew members arm can
    be seen holding onto the horse.
    
    
     SCott

Re: .11


>    an 18-wheeler or truck

Not necessarily.  A lorry can have any number of wheels, and can be as small or 
as big as they go.

    RE: .15  by 18583::LEBEAU 
    
    >Only nudity in the Star Wars series:  When Jabba drops the slave girl
    >in the pit, she falls out of her top before falling in.
    
    What about the scene in "The Empire Strikes Back" where Chewbacca takes
    off his ammo belt?
    

    In Willow....
    
    again, a movie with a lot...
    
    when Drizell is the rodent (can't remember what kind) she is climbing
    into the cage where Willow and Mad Mardigan are being held, and you can
    see someones hand pushing this animal into the cage.
    
    when Willow is changing Drizell, she turns into a crow and you can tell
    it's foot has been tied down so that it will stay put, but flap it's
    wings in frustration
    
    when Mad Mardigan grabs the sheild and he and Willow slide down the
    mountain, you can tell that Willow is actually a dummy, very stiff and
    the wig just doesn't want to stay where it belongs

    RE .17
    
    Pardom me while I rathole....
    
    Thats what the OR was for!

    In The Empire Strikes Back, when Chewie is reassembling C-3PO, 3PO
    complains he can't see b/c his eyes aren't lit up (an indicator that
    his vision is functioning).  But, in Star Wars, 3PO's eyes are unlit
    for most of the film.  Was he running around blind?
    
    Also, one of the scenes where 3PO and R2 have been picked up by the
    Jawas has a one-eyed Jawa.  Apparently one of his eye lights was not
    functioning.
    

    one-eyed Jawa
    
    maybe he got some sand in his eye !
    
    :')

     Biggest movie error ever...
    
    ...Highlander II.


    SCott

Last night, I saw an egregious error in Rising Sun:

John Connor (played by Sean Connery) says goodbye to Web Smith (played by
Wesley Snipes):

"Good bye John Connor!"

I heard people behind me saying, "But wait a minute, *he* is John Connor!"

    And everytime I hear the name John Connor, I think they're
    talking about Terminator. :^)
    
    Jodi-

    In one of the early scenes of
    Scent of a Woman..
    
    the kid is meeting Slade for
    the first time in the dingy 
    little apt. in which Slade is
    living.
    
    Pacino (Slade) has a tumbler of
    Jack Daniel's, which is almost
    empty, on the arm of the chair.
    The camera moves to the kid and
    back to Pacino, and the tumbler 
    is full.

    And according to this week's "Entertainment Weekly"
    
    May be a spoiler...
    
    "In the scene where Slade changes into his uniform to 
    prepair for suicide, he starts not wearing a necktie.
    But after a brief reaction shot of his travelling
    companion, Charlie, Slade is sporting a necktie he
    has knotted completely." 
    
    "Less than 3.5 seconds to assemble a cravat? Hoo-ahh!"
    
    Jodi-

    I *never* notice this stuff!
    
    Just call me unobservant, I guess!  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    I only notice errors like this when (a) the movie's so bad that there's
    nothing else to watch [see "Attack of the the Eye Creatures" - yep,
    that's how the opening title is spelled!], or (b) when the error
    touches one of my hot buttons and/or areas of expertise - "I know this,
    it's a Unix system!", to mention a recent example. I've noticed that
    when people point out the former category, everybody laughs, but when
    people point out the latter category, there's a rousing battle of
    "Don't take it so seriously - it's only a movie" vs. "But it wouldn't
    have cost them anything to do it right; why did they do it wrong?".
    
    Small continuity errors - cuts showing someone with sunglasses
    off/on/off, head turned/straight/turned, or (my favorite) the people
    who've just been rescued from the water whose clothes and hair go from
    wet to dry to wet in ensuing scenes - bother me only to the extent that
    I really, really like the movie; in such cases I'm miffed that whoever
    had such a good story/cast/etc. couldn't be bothered with details. For
    lesser-quality films, it's kind of like finding typos in cheap books;
    annoying but not unexpected...
    
    -b

    I have a list at home of nits and errors (and personal observations)
    from ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, starting with the first scene in
    the prison. If I get time, I'll type them in and post them. There are
    about 70 or so...
    
    Catherine
    

    	In TERMINATOR II Arnie could have asked the guy where the
    motorcycle was....
    
    In GHOST when Demi is doing pottery and both she and Swayze get clay
    all over thier hands and arms. They jump into bed in the same scene and
    the clay is magically gone....

  And then there is the old stand by from Ghost that has been discussed before,
if the Ghosts could pass through walls and other solids, why didn't they fall
through the floors? And if it was because gravity didn't effect them, why
didn't they float around instead of walking? 

  George 

>     	In TERMINATOR II Arnie could have asked the guy where the
>     motorcycle was....

	I'm confused, how was this a blooper?

    
    spoiler:
    
    
    
    	In the scene where Ryan is attacked by the terrorists Annapolis,
     he has to use his keys to unlock the car door, and has trouble
     starting  the car.
    
    	The error is when he drives away, the passenger side front
     window is rolled down, which it wouldn't be if the car was
     locked.
    
    	You have to look carefully, but the window is definitely open. I
     assume it was open to allow shooting the scene of Ryan starting the
     car.
    
    
    Tom
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    Here's an old one...
    
    
    In the movie Cujo, Cujo jumps up to a window and then gets down and
    away from the window.  You can see the trainer pulling the dog out of
    the window.
    
    I have to admit, I tend not to notice a lot of bloopers but one thing
    that really iritates me (and it happens in a lot of movies and on a
    lot of t.v. shows) is when someone is wounded and they have the bandage
    on one side (i.e. left arm) and then in the next scene they have it on
    the other side (right arm).  How difficult can it be to remember what
    arm the bandage was on?
    
    

    re: .35
    <spoiler>
    
    Well, you couldn't well expect that he'd be able to get away quickly
    from the terrorists by going in the passenger side.   After all, 
    there was this camera crew there with a camera poking in ...  ;^)
    
    Steve

    re .32  (Ghost)
    
    Surface tension.
    
    
    
    kim

RE   <<< Note 284.38 by 12035::MDNITE::RIVERS "Are you safe, Miss Gredenko?" >>>

>    Surface tension.
    
  What's Surface tension?

  Why is it on stairs and couches but not table tops or doors?

  George

    Serena - maybe when they cut the negative and put it back on they but
    it in backwards - watch the hair styles, too.  Notice how the part of
    someone's hair might change from side to side during a single episode
    (be it movie or TV).
    
    -sandy
    

RE:                  <<< Note 284.39 by 25415::MAIEWSKI >>>

>>  What's Surface tension?
>>  Why is it on stairs and couches but not table tops or doors?

     Actually, if you noticed the effect they experienced whilst passing
through doors (and on the subway), it does sort of imply a certain amount
of surface tension.  It appeared no worse than moving through gelatin, but
perhaps that would be enough to support such an entity.

                                   Greg

    Just about everything has surface tension, some things more than
    others.  Surface tension is the result of the strength of molecular
    bonds being sufficient to contain pressure.  I.e. the "dome" of water
    or milk above the rim of a full glass.  technically there is slightly
    more liquid in the glass than the glass has volume, but that extra
    volume is prevented from spilling over the sides by the strength of the
    bonds between the fluid's molecules.
    
    As to the question about why Ghosts did not fall through floors, etc,
    that is not too difficult to rationalize outside of the obvious expense
    of the constant fx needed.  Much of what Ghosts are purported to do is
    directly related to their memories and life habits.  What is more of a
    habit than walking on the ground?  The ghost is not actually affecting
    the world, not actually putting pressure on the floorboards, just
    acting in a fashion that they remember acting in.  As soon as they try
    to affect the material world, their status as non-material beings
    becomes obvious, but it does not affect their expectations and
    therefore, their actions.  
    
    Andrew
    

  That's kind of a reach. If floors have surface tension, then walls would
have surface tension. If remembering not to fall through floors is all that's
needed to repel their feet, then remembering that things move when they picked
them up should have allowed them to move objects.

  There's an inconsistency there, obviously caused by the fact that it would
be far too difficult to film the movie if floors behaved like walls.

  George

    Yeah, but remember George, he had to kinda push to get through the
    walls.  If he pushed hard enough, perhaps he'd go through the floor.  
    
    Anyway, surface tension works for me.  I try not to think about it too
    much.
    
    kim

   While flipping through the channels the other day, I caught 20 minutes of a
spoof of a Western starring Kirk Douglas.  Kirk fell off his horse and had to
get back on.  You could see a small trampoline come into view at the bottom of
the screen (under the horse) to allow Kirk to "jump" back onto his trusty steed.
(Sadly, that was the funniest part of this alleged comedy :-).

Michael

    
    How about the scene is Die Hard II where Bruce Willis calls his
    Wife from Washington D.C. from a Pacific Bell pay phone.
                                                

    missed my point.  The Ghosts walking "on" the floor was not a matter of
    affecting the floor.  They were not putting weight on the floor, they
    were merely poditioning their manifestation where it "should" have been
    if they were alive and subject to natural laws.  Trying to pick up and
    object, or turn a door knob, or anything of that sort involves
    affecting a the object, since they have no mass with which to affect
    the object, they must do so with focused mental/spiritual energy. 
    quite a different thing.  Just remembering that you should be able to
    pick something up will not make it so, while remembering and expecting
    the ground or floor to provide a barrier to prevent sinking through or
    falling down will cause a non-physical, mental/spiritual being to
    conform to that expetation without actually affecting the physical body
    they believe or expect to be affecting them.
    
    Simple really
    
    Andrew
    

  If that were the case, then it should have been as easy for them to be pushed
by something moving as it would for them to stand on the floor. Yet when the
stretcher came down the hall in the hospital, it went right through the ghost. 

  George

    There were two mistakes in Highlander II
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    The Start and the Middle.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    The End was the best bet.
    

    
    
    in scent of a women when pacino 1st meets the school kid, the glass
    of J.D. keeps changing amounts
    

    RE: .50  by 29169::FINIZIO 
    
    >in scent of a women when pacino 1st meets the school kid, the glass
    >of J.D. keeps changing amounts
    
    You didn't notice the IV hookup?
    

    In Back to the Future 1, when Marty is in his fathers room, in the
    'Darth Vader' suit, the hairdrier kept changing places on his belt. 

Also in Back to the Future, check out the odometer every time they
show a picture of the speedometer heading for 88 mph.
It's all over the place!

    How about another one in Ghost...
    
    When Sam is on the subway and the other ghost is beating him up for
    being on "his train".  The other ghost throws Sam down the aisle, he
    "goes through" the poles and the side of the train, but somehow Sam is
    stopped by the next car and he hits his head.
    
    
    and of course there's the infamous one in "Three Men and a Baby"
    
    In the scene where Jack's mother is admiring Mary, The cameraman kind
    of scans around the mother .. in the background behind one of the
    curtains, you can see the figure of a boy.  "Supposedly" they say that
    the boy was never there.  The story is that there was a small boy who
    fell out of that window and was killed ... I'm sure you can guess the
    rest.
    
    Holly
    

The reason this myth didn't start until the movie hit home video is
because, with the full resolution of the movie, it's clear that the
thing seen through the window is the cardboard standup of Ted Danson
seen elsewhere in the movie.  I'm told that, with close inspection,
it's possible to make this out with a VCR, too (though I'm sure a
laserdisc into a projection TV would make it easier).

    Like I said, "Supposedly".. I didn't believe it either .. but I had
    never heard your reasoning. 
    
    Thanks.
    
    Holly
    

    re .56, there was a major discussion of this in the previous
    incarnation of the Movies file, now regrettably lost for all time. :-)
    
    Lorna
    

- In E.T., Henry Thomas (Elliot) messes up his first line of the film (the
  pizza party scene).

- In Empire of the Sun, there is a subtle glitch in the "Norman Rockwell"
  scene, when Jamie's parents are tucking him into bed.  If you look
  carefully, you see a discontinuity, as if two takes were spliced together.

    In "Road House", my favorite macho action flick (starring Patrick
    Swayze), Swayze and a thug are getting in one of the film's many
    fistfights.  Before Swayze socks the guy in the nose, there's blood on
    the thug's lip.  
    
    

    In Rocky three, they flash-back on several fights after his loss to Mr
    "T"...  One quick glance shows Rocky wearing Red, white, and blue shorts.
    
    Of course he didn't get those shorts until the last fight of the picture 
    from Creed...

    And who could forget the final scene in "The Green Berets" where the
    sun is prominently featured setting in the East (over the ocean in
    Vietnam)?
    
    - Dave

    In "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation", when Jimmy Stewart (Mr Hobbs) is
    talking to Mrs Turner through the bathroom door.   He tells his wife
    to go down to the kitchen to shut off the water, and after she leaves
    he calls through the door to Mrs Turner, "just a minute, Mrs Hobbs".
    Mrs Hobbs calls back "Mrs Turner!", and Stewart says, "I mean, Mrs
    Turner."
    
    It sounds like an obvious slip to me, but I can't figure out why they
    did not reshoot the scene.  "Mrs Turner" is not even visible, being
    inside the bathroom, and it makes sense that they would shoot all the
    out-in-the-hallway scenes together, then intercut them with the
    in-the-bathroom scenes later.

    
    Just a couple from Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.
    
    1) When they return from Jerusalem and arrive  on the beach at Dover,
    Robin says to Azeem that they would arrive at his fathers home before
    sun down. Nothing wrong with that statement you say, one small problem!
    They are in Dover and Locksley is approx 165 miles away and they are on
    foot. So you see unless you are superman this little trek would be
    impossible.
    
    Another small error would be when he and Azeem are on their way to
    Locksley they happen to get on to the subject of why Azeem was in
    prison in the first place, which as it turned out was because of a
    woman! Just at that time Robin comes to a tree which he claims is a
    mistletoe tree and that he has won many women because of that little
    tree. Well there is no such thing as a mistletoe tree, mistletoe is a
    small bush that lives on OTHER trees. 
    
    
    Jim G
    

    
    Not to mention that Hadrian's Wall and Nottingham are at opposite ends
    of Grest Britian.
    
    (That first fight, where he meets the boy).
    
    DFW

    
>    Not to mention that Hadrian's Wall and Nottingham are at opposite ends
>    of Grest Britian.
    
and Hadrian's Wall runs east/west not north/south so east could not possibly
have been where costner's character said it was !

	I at last saw this on Sky on Saturday, and enjoyed every minute.

	I know much of Northumberland, from where most of the 'scenic'
	shots were filmed - not quite what I'd have expected of
	Nottinghamshire those many years ago but to have filmed it
	much nearer Sherwood Forest would have been a director's
	nightmare avoiding all the more modern roofs & roads etc.

	Anu

    In The Firm. When Tom printed from Macintosh to the laser printer, it
    sounded like a noisy dot matrix  printer.

    In Demolition Man, the monitor on Stallone's chest keeps moving even
    though he is encased in ice. 

    I just watched "Double Indemnity" with Fred MacMurry (sp) and Barbara
    Stanwyck.  In it Neff, (the MacMurry character) falls in love with
    Phyllis (Stanwyck), it is played that he is single, yet about half way
    through the movie there is a shot - held for a few minutes, which
    clearly shows a wedding band on Neff's left hand - it diostracted me
    through out the movie because the error was never caught and it
    happened it many otehr scenes.
    
    Jt

    
    RE: -.1 despite that it was a blindingly good film.
    
    I hadn't noticed but when I watch it next I look for it.
    

    Oh yes, it was definitly and excellent movie - lots of twists and
    turns, like a good mystery should be...just that I found myself looking
    for the ring for the rest of the movie.
    
    Jt

  I'm not sure that was really an error. Back in those days, movies were more
like plays that were filmed. There was much less emphasis on making the thing
look realistic. 

  Cops were all good guys, criminals were all bad guys, the big name actor
always played the character with the white hat, everyone in the wild west
had a neatly clipped 40's hair cut, etc.

  If an actor did take off his wedding ring for a movie it probably would have
been the scandal of the decade.

  Those were up tight times, sort of a return to the Victorian time as a back
lash to the roaring 20's.

  It was a good movie. I really liked the short guy with the cigar.

  George

    Haahhaha The short guy with the cigar....very funny George dear, sorry
    I didn't mention Edward G. Robinson :^}
    
    I wasn't planning on giving a full review nor list the cast - I was in
    the movie error note so that what I wrote about - pickypicky :^)
    
    Jt

  Edward G. Robinson, right, that's the name.

  He was outstanding, stole the show. He gave one of the best performances
I've ever seen.

  The rest of the movie was good, but Robinson made it great.

  George

	Electra Glide in Blue shown on TNT the other night....

	The intro shotgun shooting sequence...
	Scenes include a frying pan and two pork chops...

	Scene 1: Shows two raw pork chops being placed slightly overlapping
		 in the hot pan
	Scene 2: Shows chops being turned over
	Scene 3: Shows chops cooking on second side
	Scene 4: Repeat of scene 3 (you can see the raw sides of the chops)
	Scene 5: Repeat of scene 4
	Scene 6: Someone eating chops...

	I take it they had to pad out the sequence and there's only so many
	exciting things you can do with chops...8^)} 

    
    I watched Indiana Jones (the 1st one) lastnight.  I've seen this
    movie meny times...but lastnight was the 1st time I noticed that
    when Jones jumped down into the pit of snakes and he came face to face
    with a cobra - you could see the glass between jones and the snake
    and you could see the reflection of the snake in the glass.

>    with a cobra - you could see the glass between jones and the snake
>    and you could see the reflection of the snake in the glass.

Well, would you voluntarily go face to face with a cobra *WITHOUT* a sheet of 
glass between you ????

    
    No, I would'nt...but Indiana should be able to handle it :<)

"Blue Chips", with Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnel, Shaqille O'Neil, and Worcester's
own Bob Cousy, premiered last night in Worcester, MA.

In one scene, Nick Nolte's character, the basketball coach of Western
University, is being harassed by the head of the alumni association as he
heads for his car.  He unlocks the door with his key and gets in the 
car, shutting the door behind him.  The head of the alumni association
immediately sticks his head in the *open* window and keeps ranting.  Seems
a little funny to have locked the door but left the window open...

                                              Tracy

    I was watching Pinocchio with my son this morning (for about the
    umpteenth time), and towards the beginning of the movie when he "comes
    to life" and is playing with the candle, his left index finger catches
    on fire.  When Gepetto is putting the fire out, he submerges
    Pinocchio's right index finger in the fish's bowl...  I never caught
    this before, but had to rewind and watch the scene again to see if I
    got it right.
    
    Barb

    A fairly glaring error in Hudson Hawk is when our heroes, having gone
    to rescue the damsel in distress, climb Leonardo Da Vinci's castle in
    what appears to be broad daylight, only to (in the next scene and the
    one's following) to be doing the rescuing at night.  
    
    Same sort of thing happens in reverse in one of the last Roger Moore
    James Bond films (For your eyes only, I think), where Bond chases a
    villian from a pier and a warehouse being raided at night, through a
    tunnel and proceeds to push the car off the cliff in broad daylight. 
    Musta been a loooong tunnel.  :)
    
    
    kim

FYI, I found and gave to my S.O. for Christmas three books containing numerous
film (and some TV) errors.  The author/compiler's name is Bill Givens, and the
titles are:

	Film Flubs
	Son of Film Flubs
	Film Flubs: The Sequel

The copyright date of the third one is 1992 (I think, or maybe 1993), so 
they're fairly up to date.  Many of the errors mentioned in this topic string
are included in at least one of the books.

They're smallish softcovers.  I found them (quite by chance) at the 
Toadstool Bookshop in Milford, NH.

						-- Nina

Anyone notice that part of the film takes place during Mardi Gras (February),
but in Washington DC, all trees have leaves on them (summer)?

-Bruce

Did anyone else notice this when it was shown on UK TV last week ?

Tom Sellick (sp) character gets introduced to local headmistress at party,
who has smudge of caviar on her nose. Switch to shot of him for his dialogue,
profile of her, no caviar smudge on nose. Switch back to full face of her,
caviar smudge is back. Back to him, NO CAVIAR. Back to her, smudge on nose,
wipes it off at last.

Couldn't believe this one because the gag was based on the caviar smudge !

Is that continuity person still in a job ?

TKS

    Who was Sylvia in Three Men & a Little Lady??
    

    Re: -1   Who was Sylvia in Three Men & a Little Lady??
    
    Nancy Travis. I believe she was in the first one, too. She's also
    starring in GREEDY, with Michael J. Fox and Kirk Douglas, due to be
    released in the next couple of weeks.
    
    Catherine
    

    
    	Wasn't she the wife in "I Married an Axe Murderer" also?
    
    							GTI
    

    "The Railway Children" (a UK film made back in the early 70's I think,
    with Jenny Agutter) is set in the late 1890's and features a number of
    long distance shots of an old train chugging through the countryside.
    
    I have seen this film three or four times - it is well worth seeing -
    but only noticed recently that in one of the "train" shots, a road is
    in view in the distance and this features a number of 1970s cars
    travelling at far greater speed than is safe for humans (at least over
    nine miles an hour).
    
    andy

    
    re 88
    
    Yep, she was in that movie, she's also been in others like "internal
    affairs".  She's a babe!
    
    			Ian

    In the Pelican Brief...
    
    When Denzel and Julia are calling all the people that are mentioned in
    the story that will run in the next mornings paper.  Julia has on her
    wedding ring.

    How come in "Diamonds are Forever", Bond descends to level five in the
    elevator at the desert installation, but when he breaks out in the moon
    buggy he's at ground level?
    

    How about in "The Vikings" (Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, et al) where one
    of the extras in 6th century Scandinavia is wearing a gold wristwatch.

    First Knight has a couple of continuity gems as well:
    
    1. Early on in one scene, a telegraph pole can be seen in the distance.
    
    2. In a scene where Richard Gere is chasing a runaway horse, power
       cables and a junction box can be seen lying on the ground.
    
    I'll put the third one behind a spoiler
    
    
    Are you sure?
    
    Positive?
    
    Okay then.
    
    3. When King Arthur's funeral boat in drifting out across the lake at
       the end, it starts smouldering before the archer fires a burning arrow
       to ignite the pyre.
    
    Clive

    Re. -1
    
    
      I did catch the prematurely burning pyre, and asked my husband when
    they lit it, and then saw the archer shooting the flaming arrow.
    
    I missed the other 2 "gems".
    
    
    Marilyn

    Sorry, put write instead of answer when first posting this, and the mod
    has moved it the RUNNING MAN topic.
    
    The error.
    When they are advertising the running man game on the big screen, one
    of the clips show Arnie and Maria Conchita Alonso, diving out the way
    of DYNAMO'S car.
    A scene that appears later in the movie.
    
    John.

I just noticed this topic and it reminded me of something I saw in Goodfellas.
A scene opens at an airport, Idlewild I think, and there's a subtitle
to introduce the scene that says: "Idlewild Airport, October, 1963." The scene
is a closeup of Ray Liota leaning up against a 1965 Chevy Impala.
They could have had him leaning against a 1964 Impala, which would be brand
new, but not a '65.

-Steve

    My wife noticed this in the middle of the movie "Heat" -
    
    There was a yellow tag on the end of the sleeve of a suit that one of
    the bodyguards was wearing.  Kris asked me if it was a wardrobe tag,
    and sure enough, that's what it was!  Suit had to go back at the end of
    the day, but please take the tag off next time!
    
    NAZZ

    Or what about the movie Speed? 
    There were a few obvious continuity problems in that flic. Watch the 
    disappearing reappearing billboard on the side of the bus. In one shot
    its on crooked, in the next its off completely, the next its back on
    but straight this time.
    
    Warning spoiler
    
    
    Remember that awesome jump the bus took on the unfinished ramp? Watch
    the police on the flat bed truck when the bus takes the corner
    (supposedly at a high speed).
    
    -E
    

    Another good one is in Star Wars. At the end of the movie after Luke
    Skywalker saves the universe fom the evil Empire by destroying the
    mighty Death Star with one fatal shot(not so mighty huh?). After Luke
    lands on the planet alderon(sp?) and everyone is celebrating, he gets
    out of his X-Wing Fighter and spots the princess, the princess spots
    him. She yells to him "Luke!" He yells back "Carrie!"....
    
    -E

>    him. She yells to him "Luke!" He yells back "Carrie!"....
    
Really? no way... I can't believe it! And nobody noticed...

/scott

    You don't expect it so you have to listen for it. When I first heard it
    I rewound it about a hundred times. Still cracks me up.
    
    -E

    
    All right - I'm going to check that out on my Laser Disc.  That's
    unbelievable!

    >
    >
    > him. She yells to him "Luke!" He yells back "Carrie!"....
    
    	I find this hard to believe -- I mean, it's not as if
    	sound editors wouldn't have heard it.
    

    re .104
    
    I checked my widescreen version of A New Hope, and in the relevant
    scene(Luke has just climbed out of his X-Wing after landing) he does
    seem to call out "Carrie!". It certainly sounds more like "Carrie!"
    than "Leia!".
    
    Clive

    
    You all have me intrigued.  I am anxious to get home to fast forward
    and hear that. Imagine, all these years of rewatching and not catching
    that one!
    
    Another blooper - In the last Indy movie - The Last Crusade, Indy as an
    adult is aboard the ship trying to retrieve the gold cross he happened
    upon as a teenager.  In the struggle that ensues on deck during a
    blinding storm, Indy takes a shot in the mouth that leaves the left
    side of his mouth bloody.  Indy and the thugs are then washed over by a
    giant wave and when you see him again the trickle of blood moves from
    the left to the right.  I always chuckle when I see that.  :^)
    
    Velda
    
    

    
    Well I went home and checked the tape last night and he is not saying
    "Leia" - he says something that sounds like "Carrie", but it clearly is
    not "Leia"!!
    
    Velda
    
    

    
    	I got 1/2 way through it last night and was too tired to watch
    	the rest, so I shut it off and went to bed.  So I don't know
    	WHAT he said.  8^)
    

    in the movie Cape Fear..the remake with deNiro and Lange.....in the bar
    scene where deniro picks up the woman from the court house...her blouse
    is buttoned all the way up...then in the next scene the top buttons are
    undone..then it's buttoned then it's undone...it's downright
    distracting!...........;')..........and very amusing........./k

    In the movie Casper, the scene where Kat is at the front of the class
    introducing herself...
    
    You see the feet of the snobby girl together and firmly on the floor
    while Casper is tieing her shoe laces together.  The very next scene
    her legs are crossed, her feet are far apart and laces are tied
    correctly.  The scene after that, her feet are back on the floor and
    the laces are tied together and when the class bell rings she gets up
    and falls flat on her face (along with the rest of the class) when she
    tries to walk.
    
    /Susan

    
    
    Recently seen in Nine Months...
    
    Tom Arnold and Hugh Grant get earrings.  One scene the earring is in
    Hugh's right ear, the rest of the movie it's in his left.
    
    I've seen this particular type incedent in a lot of movies.
    
    

    You also have to take into account that sometimes the camera can do a
    "mirror image"...so it might have actually been his left.