Movie Mistakes of 2008

Posted by Alex in Movies & SciFi on December 31, 2008 at 2:16 pm


Despite costing hundreds of millions of dollars to make, Hollywood movies are filled with "mistakes" (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero even parodied these mistakes by purposely incorporating them in the film).

But one man’s mistake is another man’s bread. To wit, here’s MovieMistakes, a website dedicated to documenting the glaring, silly, and obscure mistakes that occur in some of Hollywood’s greatest hits. Here are their list of 2008 Movies with the Most Mistakes:

  1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – 67 mistakes
  2. The Dark Knight – 46 mistakes
  3. Mamma Mia! – 45 mistakes
  4. Twilight – 42 mistakes
  5. High School Musical 3: Senior Year – 40 mistakes

… and the list for the Best Movie Mistakes of 2008:

  1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    At the beginning when Indy is talking to Spalko, his hands keep alternating from being in his pockets to just resting at his sides between shots.
  2. Iron Man
    When Iron Man and Iron Monger are fighting, Iron Man catches the SUV, and you can see the family inside the car. Although the car is completely vertical, the hair of the people in the car seem to defy gravity.
  3. Solstice
    The moon is full every night the highschoolers are at the lake house.
  4. 10,000 B.C.
    After Evolet got hit by the arrow and presumably dies, D’leh is staring at a mammoth. Behind the mammoth, you can see that the background is a picture.
  5. Meet the Spartans
    When Britney Spears gets pushed into the Pit of Death, you hear her talk and scream but her lips are not moving.
  6. The Dark Knight
    At around an hour and a half into the movie, during Batman’s interrogation of Joker, when he picks him up and slams him against the wall, for a very brief moment you can see the camera and the cameraman in the reflection of the mirror on the right.

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17 comments to "Movie Mistakes of 2008"

  1. EPK
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    The biggest mistake in the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was the plot.

  2. cooties
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    'When Britney Spears gets pushed into the Pit of Death, you hear her talk and scream but her lips are not moving.'

    Isn't that called irony? It's been her stage show for YEARS...

  3. Gauldar
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Mistakes like these wouldn't have been made in this amount of high budget films before CG, and now that movies depend on it we are too lazy to touch up our mistakes.

  4. LisaL
    December 31st, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    Meh.... just lazy editors not doing their jobs.
    But yeah, totally agree with EPK....

  5. DOJ
    December 31st, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Thank you EPK

  6. Justice Shields
    December 31st, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    To add to the "The Dark Knight Mistake" in the same scene where Batman is slamming The Joker against the wall, you can see the Jokers hand change, during one clip his thumb is up and during the next clip his hand is just 'flopped out' because of Batman overpowering him, his hand changes every time the scene splits between him and Batman

    I have a good eye : ]

  7. rich
    December 31st, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Its not an editing mistake in Crystal Skull, its a continuity error. Hard to catch while shooting. But if the material is compelling enough, then they are hard to notice. Obviously the material wasn't compelling enough.

  8. Johnny Cat
    December 31st, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    Continuity is a specialization job in film production. You'd think Spielberg would have the best on hand, but then again, he really didn't want to do this movie. It was all Georgie.

  9. liphttam1
    January 1st, 2009 at 2:44 am

    I noticed some of theese. But in the back of my head more. That site wasnt so good though. There was alot of adds. A good one is eegs.com

  10. semi
    January 1st, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Why are people fascinated by silly continuity mistakes? It's got to be the most boring topic in the world, right up there with actors talking about acting.

    Who cares if the protagonist's hands were here in one shot, and there in another? That stuff happens all the time, and sometimes it has nothing to do with the continuity person not doing their job. Sometimes in editing a shot is used out of its intended sequence, or shots are jumbled around because it works better in an order that doesn't match the shooting script. Big deal.

    A much bigger mistake was the stupid "magnetic shotgun pellets" in Indiana Jones. Now that's just plain stupidity, and no excuse for that.

  11. Rocky Rook
    January 1st, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    I find it fascinating that people want movies to be flawless and "real" ... Don't we go to movies to escape reality? So these little errors shouldn't matter.

  12. sloane
    January 1st, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    There is a scene in Steel Magnolias with Julia Roberts getting a manicure and she puts her hand on the table twice. Drives me crazy everytime I watch it.

  13. ted
    January 1st, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    But, Rocky, sometimes continuity errors and other mistakes prevent us from entering that state of escapism.

    It's called "suspension of disbelief". A good movie can make you not worry about the errors. A bad movie is only made worse by such errors.

  14. DOJ
    January 2nd, 2009 at 12:18 am

    agreed ted

  15. Jake D.
    January 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 am

    Semi said what I was about to say. You edit a film not for continuity, but for the right emotional beat to progress the film. Continuity errors are always going to happen, and they're more common on big budget films because there's so many God damn people behind the camera that one scene will take forever to shoot.

    It's a frustrating part of film-making, but there's no way around it. An editor has to use the best shot for a scene, and usually an actor appropriately delivering a line or emoting in a way that best relates to the situation is more important that if his hands were in or out of his pockets.

    But yeah, I heard the new Indy flick was a bore anyway.

  16. Chris Johnston
    January 2nd, 2009 at 6:49 am

    A great many of the "mistakes" listed on IMDb are only visible for one or two frames, so it would appear that somebody went through the whole film using the 'Step' function on their media players.

    On the commentary for "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," John Cleese mentioned that one take, that he thought was funnier, didn't get used because something was visible on the far side of the frame. Cleese was telling the director and editor, "They're attention is going to be over HERE, they're not going to notice that over THERE!"

    When I read these silly lists, and check up on them, Cleese was right: I would have NEVER noticed these things if somebody hadn't been anal enough to point them out.

  17. Chris Johnston
    January 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 am

    * “Their attention is...


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