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Can't Buy Me Love (1987):
Mike Walker found some swift beer consumption at the New Year's Eve party. Three guys are holding cans of Miller. The camera moves to Bobby Hilton (George Gray III), then back to the threesome, and now they're holding Budweiser. (This is so obvious, Dan suspects it may have been intentional.)
Carrie (1976):
Denise, Mike, and Debi Statland shared information they learned when taking an amateur film class. The sequence where Sue Snell (Amy Irving) is having the nightmare was filmed in reverse and played backwards to give it the surreal quality of a dream. (i.e.: she was filmed walking away from a car, and when the film was run, she was walking towards it.) When Sue is standing near the street, a bright red vehicle can be seen driving backwards, off in the distance.
Chasing Amy (1997):
When Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) is in the coffee shop, ashes from his cigarette get all over the leg of his black pants. The color contrast makes it easy to see the ashes vanish and reappear several times.
Cleopatra (1963):
Wayne C. Weatherred couldn't help but notice that Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) walked underneath a majestic arch that was built 300 years after she had died.
A Clockwork Orange (1971):
Not all gaffes are accidental. At the beginning of this Stanley Kubrick classic, Joseph Martin tells me, the dishes on Alex's (Malcom McDowell) table change positions between shots. However, Joseph says that this was deliberate; it was meant to give the viewer a feeling of disorientation and unfamiliarity before it is worked out who Alex's character really is. An interesting move by Kubrick, wouldn't you say?
Then again, sometimes a slip is just a slip. In the film's opening scenes, there's a black mark visible on the leg of one of Alex's "droogs", Dim (Warren Clark). However, Joseph points out that when Alex and Dim get into a fight by a river, the mark disappears.
Clueless (1995):
Here's a new one: a packaging gaffe! the back of the video box describes Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) as "the most popular and glamorous girl at Beverly Hills High". However, in the movie, it's quite clear that the school is named Bronson Alcott High. Anthony D. Edgeworth found the renaming.
Commando (1985):
Kevin J. Turner reminded me of an oft-mentioned flub: Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) drives a car that had been flipped over on it's right side, which was badly scraped up. When he rights the car and drives off in it, you can briefly see that there is no sign of damage.
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