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Say Anything (1989):
Ingrid found a few things moving around and even vanishing. First of all, James Court (John Mahoney) gives his daughter Diane (Ione Skye) a ring as a graduation present. From one angle, she slips it onto her finger, telling her father that she loves it and that he's too good to her. The camera angle changes and she's still holding onto it with her other hand. It switches back; the ring's on her finger again.
Second, Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) picks Diane up for the graduation party. She asks him to hold a pocketbook for her and he does. At the party, we don't see the bag any more, but do see Diane asking other students to sign her yearbook. When Lloyd and Diane finally arrive at Diane's house the next morning, neither the bag nor the yearbook are anywhere to be seen.
Schindler's List (1993):
Of all the movies in all the world, a slip had to walk into this one. It's killing me to write this, folks. I know there's probably no such thing as a slip-free film, but I REALLY wanted this to be the one that was. I think it's the most powerful, most moving film ever made, and it's the one film I truly believe everyone (once they're old enough to understand and appreciate it) should see. But you're probably wondering what the gaffe is. OK, here it is: when Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is having sex with an unidentified lady in his apartment, they roll over at one point, and you can see the woman's wearing panties. Now, having said this, it in no way even begins to diminish how incredible this movie is, and if you haven't seen it, and you're mature enough to handle it, GO RENT IT. OK, Sermon's over. Pass the offering plate. Back to the slips.
Scream (1996):
Several gaffes in this one. Pat found that, when Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) is supposed to pick up Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), the clock says 7:15 and it is dark. Yet when stores are closing because of curfew at 9:00, it is still light outside.
And a few more were found by Heather Mills:
When Tatum is in the garage going to get more beer, she turns the
light on which raises the garage door. But when the cat knocks over the garden tools, the door is closed again.
After killing Tatum the killer opens the door that goes back inside. Tatum unsuccessfully tried to open that very door not ten minutes before.
When Sidney was in Dewey's (David Arquette) cruiser, the killer opens the back and comes in to kill her. The problem with that is that being a police cruiser it would have the cage separating the front and the back.
Heather found a couple slips of logic, too:
When Sidney is in the news van with Kenny (W. Earl Brown), she sees Randy (Jamie Kennedy) about to be attacked by the killer. But later when Randy and Stuart Macher (Matthew Lillard) are screaming accusations at each other she points the gun at both of them. She had seen that Randy couldn't be the killer so why'd she point the gun at him too?
Stuart went go get more beer from the garage after Tatum is killed there. Well, if he wasn't one of the killers why didn't he come back out screaming that his girfriend was dead?
And Cathy Homburger found a couple:
When Randy is standing by the door after Sidney and Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) go upstairs "to talk", he says "I think I'll go check on them" and heads for the stairs. However, he never checks on them and ends up on the couch.
Also, when Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) and Kenny are watching the hidden camera, there are some differences in the "Rules" speech.
Liam Gibbs weighed in, too:
When Gale tries to use the gun on Billy,
she gets knocked out, and Billy mentions that she should have taken off the safety. But later, she shoots him and mentions that she remembered to take off the safety. She was knocked out when Billy mentioned the safety before, so how could she have heard him?
The Secret of My Suceess (1987):
When Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox) goes over to his uncle's house, he encounters his Aunt Vera (Margaret Whitton), who tries to seduce him in the pool. Vera pulls off Brantly's swimsuit and if you look closely, you can see the outline of the flesh-colored bathing suit he had underneath. Mandy McCarthy dove into this gaffe.
Seven (1995):
There's a scene where Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and Det. David Mills (Brad Pitt) are chatting while sitting in a car in the rain. Vanessa Emlich noticed that it's raining a lot harder on one side of the car than on the other.
Loyal slip-spotter Heather Mills also found a few gaffes:
When Somerset
goes back to the first victim's house, he cuts the
"Keep Out" sticker that police use to find out if anyone has been inside
the crime scene. The problem is that the sticker was on the wrong side
of the door. If the cops had put the sticker on that side, how'd they
get out? Second, when Mills is talking to
Somerset about the Greed crime scene he says that the victim's
right hand is free. Well, Heather's pretty sure it was his left
hand that was free.
S.F.W. (1994):
Liam Gibbs found a gaffe in the final flashback. When Joe Dice (Jack Noseworthy) is killed, Cliff Spab (Stephen Dorff) magically lifts his hand and aims with an Uzi that he previously didn't have.
The Shining (1980):
Nobody is immune to film gaffes - not even great director Stanley Kubrick, as Joseph Martin tells me. In this film classic, the interviewer at the beginning of the film tells Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) that Delbert Grady's (Phillip Stone) murdered daughters (Lisa and Louise Burns) were "about 7 and 10." However, when the girls are actually seen at various points in the film, it's clear they are identical twins.
Sleepers (1996):
Young Michael Sullivan (Brad Renfro) has brown eyes. Adult Michael (Brad Pitt) has blue eyes.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937):
After Snow White (v: Adriana Caselotti) is awakened by her prince (v: Harry Stockwell), she is sitting on the prince's horse and the prince is lifting the dwarfs so Snow White can kiss them goodbye. Deanna Argent noted that only six dwarfs are lifted to be kissed. What happened to the seventh dwarf?
Spartacus (1960):
Returning to Kubrick films, Joseph says a truck can be seen driving along in the hills during a battle scene. Not only that, many extras can be seen wearing wristwatches. We know the Ancient Romans had an advanced civilization, but this is ridiculous.
Speed (1994):
Boy, everyone was just chomping at the bit to tell me about the slips in this flick. First of all, both Brigette Venne and Kevin J. Turner noticed that, when Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) holds Harry Temple (Jeff Daniels) hostage, Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) shoots Harry in the left leg (the idea being that an injured hostage is a useless one). Later, Harry is limping on his right leg, then on his left again. Must have been a ricochet bullet, or else the film was flipped for continuity purposes and nobody noticed the leg.
That wasn't the only problem with this scene, according to Emili Peterson. When Payne goes out the door into the parking garage, Harry slumps into the corner of the hallway by the door. When the doorway blows, Harry is not in the corner, or anywhere else in the hallway, even though he didn't have time to move.
Emili also noticed a disappearing act when the bus jumps the unfinished freeway span. Throughout the jump, there are people clearly visible inside the bus. When it lands, everyone has disappeared, including the driver, Annie (Sandra Bullock).
Also, Kelcie Guiberson wrote to tell me about a wonderful gaffe that her friend Tom Anderson spotted. It's a plot point that Payne is missing his right thumb. However, at one point he's gesturing with his right hand while on the phone, and, just as his hand's about to dip offscreen, he snaps his right fingers! And that's not all. Trevor Jackson noticed that when Payne looks out the window at the green trash can after the trash man puts the money in it, he has his missing thumb tucked under his fingers.
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997):
Well, if the original had so many gaffes, what can you expect from the sequel? How about a ship landing on two sides of an island? Fred P. Rose noticed that when the ship approaches the island, you can clearly see that they are approaching St. Maarten -- the Dutch side. But when they crash, they "land" on St. Martin -- the French side. That's on the opposite end of the island. Neat trick for a ship that can't turn. Or is it a rotating island now?
Sphere (1998):
Liam Gibbs warns me that this flub is a spoiler, so if you don't want to know the ending, look away and scroll down to skip it.
Anyway, the scientists in the water base make a mistake when creating an algorythm that cracks a code sent by the Sphere, and mistake two letters for another. But that would still screw around with any other word using those letters. For example, a message reading:
HELLO. MY NAME IS JERRY
was actually, with the right letters:
HELLO. MY NAME IS HARRY (The H and A were switched with the J and E)
but the message would have read:
JALLO. MY NEMA IS JERRY (or whatever, but you get the idea).
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977):
Agent XXX (Barbara Bach) has a music box that plays "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago. Agent XXX is a Russian agent. The ever-alert John Elliot knows that when this film was made, that song was banned in Russia.
Star Wars (1977) / Star Wars: Special Edition (1997):
The release of the Special Edition Trilogy has brought the films to the forefront of pop culture once again. Everyone had to rush to see the new scenes and hear the digitally revamped audio track. My good friend Mandy McCarthy called my attention to a blurb in Entertainment Weekly. It seems that for all the work that went into revamping the audio track, they still left in a noticeable gaffe. When Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) returns to the rebel base after blowing up the Death Star, he calls out to Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher). However, the name he calls is "Carrie". I don't know if Lucas' team tried to loop the line for the rerelease and it didn't work, or if they just forgot, but it makes it a flub redux.
A slip-spotter namaed Patti also found a graphical gaffe. Just before the Falcon takes off (after Obi-Wan is killed), Darth Vader's lightsaber is not filled in. As the door closes in front of him, he appears to be holding a white stick.
Swingers (1996):
Sharp-eyed Rob Lopez III noticed some prop problems here. Early in the film, Mike (Jon Faureau) is checking his messages. If you look carefully, at one point the answering machine disappears. And, when Mike is talking to Trent (Vince Vaughn) on the phone, the base of the phone disappears.
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