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Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995):
There's a flashback to the crucifixion of Christ. The film shows him as having been crucified by the hands. But, as Liam Gibbs points out, the bible clearly states Christ was crucified by the wrists.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990):
When Donatello (Leif Tilden) is skateboarding in the sewer, and he does a 360, you can clearly see a human hand pass by the screen. Liam Gibbs warns that you may have to watch it in slo-mo in order to see it.
Tequila Sunrise (1988):
Jo Ann Vallenari (Michelle Pfieffer) drives up to the police station, and Frescia (Kurt Russell) drives up and parks behind her. They go into the station and talk. When she leaves a few minutes later, he walks her out, and she drives away. Frescia's car has disappeared. Kerri Wallace found the vanishing act.
The Three Amigoes (1987):
When the German (Kai Wulff) challenges Ned Nederlander (Martin Short) to a gun duel, Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase) is disguised in a brown poncho and brown sombrero. There's a cut to Lucky Day (Steve Martin) escaping from jail, then back to the duel, and now Dusty is in his Three Amigoes outfit, including a fancy black sombrero. OK, he was wearing his costume underneath and could have removed the disguise (though he did have a gun to his head), but one sombrero underneath another? No way!
My brother Dan pointed out another gaffe in this scene: Jefe (Tony Plana) gives Ned a "man's gun", placing the "sissy gun" in Ned's belt. Ned places the new gun in his holster. When he shoots the German with the second gun, the force from the blast sends him zooming back against a wall. The gun flies from his hand and is caught by Lucky. Ned then takes the first gun from his holster and starts shooting.
Thunderball (1965):
John Elliot noticed an instance of something being caught on camera that shouldn't have been. During the parade in which James Bond (Sean Connery) is being chased by agents of SPECTRE, a dog in the background can be seen relieving himself. And in an inside joke, the people in the parade are carrying banners which read 007.
Titanic (1997):
This epic film is a true box-office phenomenon - the highest-grossing movie in history, the first to make over a billion dollars worldwide, etc. And this is partly caused by people going back to see it over and over. (I confess - I've seen it 5 times.) But other things seem to be happening more than once, as well. When Lewis Bodine (Lewis Abernathy) shows the computerized reenactment of the Titanic's sinking, the lights on the ship go out in a closeup, and then again in a long shot. And when Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) climbs over the railing to get onto the first-class deck, there's a boy playing with an old-fashioned string-wound top in the foreground. He throws it to the ground, and the top spins. It switches to a reverse angle - and the boy, now in the background, throws the top again, without having had time to retrieve it and re-wind the string.
My cyberfriend Magenta298 found that things in the ship's hold are a lot steamier than they should be. When Jack and Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) are in that car, the windows shouldn't have fogged up like they did because the front window was open. Also, when the ship is breaking in half and people are sliding down it, you can see some of the rollers they're using to make the fall less painful.
Tommorrow Never Dies (1997):
Neal Krummell found a few things out of place. In the film's opening sequence, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) goes in to take the plane with the bombs on it. As he slides under the plane, he knocks the ladder up to the cockpit off balance, and after the cut, it is back up and level. Later on, towards the end in the stealth boat, Bond uses a rocket launcher to fire at the bad guys. He fires one shot, turns the appartus around, and appears magically on the oppisite side after the cut.
Dan Cotto-Thorner uncovered a glaring gaffe: As Bond and the Chinese agent, Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh), arrive at the stealth boat, they ride their dinghy between the pontoons, and are unnoticed for a few minutes. We can see the bottom of the boat deck hung between the pontoons. They manage to kill a few bad guys, and though Wai Lin is captured, Bond sneeks in. A few minutes later, after Stamper (Götz Otto) has chained Wai Lin and tries to stop Bond from blowing up the cruise missile, he drops Wai Lin directly into the water below. The interior of the stealth ship is open to the sea. But wait! We saw the bottom of the ship when they tried to sneak in! What happened to the bottom of the boat?
Travis Jackson noticed a helicopter defying the laws of physics. When Bond and Wai Lin are in the alley and the chopper is chasing them, it leans forward so that the blade will cut them up. But in real life a helicopter can't do that; it would only fly forward.
Top Gun (1986):
Todd Elliot found three slip-ups in this classic film. When Charlie (Kelly McGillis) hands Maverick (Tom Cruise) the note saying "Meet me at my house at 5:30 sharp" or something to that effect, if you look carefully you can see that when she hands him the note there'a a lot of print on it, but when he looks at it in a close-up, the note is blank except for her writing.
Next, in a scene soon after Goose dies, Maverick's flying with his new partner. You can see the call sign on his partner's helmet, but when they're on the ground talking, all the letters on the helmet are gone.
Lastly, there's a scene where a guy says, "Maverick, you and Goose get your butts into Viper's office now." When the scene is a close-up on the guy, there's another man standing to his right, but when they go back to a wide shot, the man is on his left.
Not to be left out, Mike Summer weighed in with a flub of his own. Seems Maverick looks at his watch a few times during the volleyball scene. However, at several points during the game, it's clear he's not wearing a watch anymore.
Toy Story (1995):
I am extremely mad at myself. I own this film, and there was a rather glaring gaffe I should have caught, but didn't. Oh, for shame! Fortunately, Shannon Braly and Bart Hendrick are quicker than I am. They both noticed that, when the toy soldiers use the baby monitor to spy on Andy's birthday party, they take the wrong end. Baby monitors, after all, are not walkie-talkies; they can only transmit sound one way. The soldiers have the listening end.
You know, there's one piece of ill logic here that's always bugged me: if Buzz Lightyear (v: Tim Allen) really and truly thinks he's real, and not a toy, why does he freeze whenever a human comes around? Why wouldn't he ask Andy (v: John Morris) for help in getting him back to the far reaches of the galaxy, or wherever he's going? Just a thought.
Speaking of Buzz, there's a marvelous inside joke in the film. Sid's (v: Erik von Detten) tool box is made by Binford tools. If you don't get that one, you're not watching enough TV.
Transformers: The Movie (1986):
Extremely dedicated slip-spotter Liam Gibbs found many gaffes in this animated flick:
There are scenes where Sunstreaker, an Autobot (those are the good Transformers) appears in Autobot City, but later flies Optimus Prime (v: Peter Cullen) to the same city.
Also, a Dinobot, Snarl, appears in only one 'camera' angle, but doesn't appear in the rest of the movie, leading one to believe he died before the movie.
Also, when Astrotrain (v: Jack Angel)is flying the Decepticons (the evil Transformers) to Cybertron (their home planet), he says they have to lighten their load or he won't make it. He's in space, so even if he shuts his thrusters off, as long as he's pointed in the right direction, he won't stop floating until he hits Cybertron.
In the final scene when the Autobots and their human friend Danny (v: David Mendenhall) are inside of Unicron (a Transformer planet that eats other planets) he meets his dad, along with Jazz (v: Scatman Crothers), Bumblebee (v: Dan Gilvezan), and Cliffjumper (v: Casey Kasem). They're about to be dropped into a smelting pool of acid along with everyone else whose planet or moon Unicron has eaten. Danny manages to close the cover of the vat of acid, but only those four previously mentioned land on the vat cover. No one follows, even though they weren't the last ones whose home was eaten.
Turk 182! (1985):
At the start of the film, Terry Lynch (Robert Urich) is accidentally blown out of a window. Stuntman Dar Robinson does the tricky backwards fall. Watch as he is coming out the window, you see the black wig leaving his head. Lynch (still Robinson) lands on the roof of a station wagon. The wig had been put back on but the darn thing falls off again, and actually lands inside the car through a broken rear window. Sean Maguire felt that the makeup crew needed to do a better job adhering the rug to Robinson's scalp.
Twister (1996):
Tornadoes are everywhere in this special effects blockbuster - and one apparently got into the editing room. Vanessa Emlich noticed that, in the opening scene showing shots of Oklahoma, there's a shot of a wheat field. The wheat stalks blow around in the wind, then suddenly sit up straight, and back and forth like that.
And, a slip spotter who goes by the name of Mark told me of another gaffe in the film: During the scene with the two water spouts, when they cut to Melissa (Jamie Gertz) in the truck, you can see a two lane highway out the window behind her. But when they cut to an exterior shot of the truck, it's on a one-lane dirt road running between two bodies of water!
Also, Shannon Colacurico wrote in to talk about a point in the film when several trucks are circling inside a tornado. A window in one of the trucks breaks, but in the next scene it's whole again.
And how's this for technological trickery? Bobby O'Neill noted that there's a woman who talks on a cell phone throughout the move. Her's must be very advanced; a cell phone doesn't work in a
thunderstorm, let alone a tornado!
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