Best mystery movie audio problems of all time

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Audio problem: When the commissioner gets to the station at the beginning of the movie, a trans greets him, but their mouth does not move when they talk. (00:04:30)

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Audio problem: When the saxophonist talks to Eddie (Albert Finney) before joining his band, which has already started playing, the saxophone can be heard although the player has not yet joined them on stage.

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Audio problem: When Daniel is on top of the tree house, his screams don't always match up to his mouth. (01:23:20)

Ssiscool

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Audio problem: When we see a close up of the LP playing on the gramophone, you can occasionally see the needle is not actually touching the LP but sound is still heard.

Ssiscool

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Audio problem: Near the beginning of the film, when the sheriffs are chasing Kya, she takes her boat through some trees. The main sheriff says "in there," or something similar. His mouth doesn't match what he is saying.

manthabeat

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Audio problem: When the RV starts up and drives to the TV spot after the initial greeting from the manager, the engine noise is a gasoline engine, when it should be a diesel noise, as it's a diesel pusher. (00:07:00)

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Audio problem: When Nico goes to Angel's house, he is confronted by a dog barking at him. The dog is shown aggressively moving its head up and down whilst the camera is focused on it. The camera then cuts to focus on Nico, where the aggressive barking is still heard, but the dog is standing completely still. The dog couldn't have been barking that aggressively if it were standing still; the barks were likely dubbed in. (00:05:12)

Casual Person

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Audio problem: Simone's scream at the end of her game is the same as one used earlier in the scene. (00:06:00)

Ssiscool

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Audio problem: The chef finally gets the bright idea to fire his hunting rifle at Morgan's fleeing vehicle. In a previous scene he was grabbing ammunition for his rifle, and he also loaded it. The rounds appeared to be high power rifle ammo, probably in the 7mm Remington magnum or .30-06 range, very common hunting rounds. When he fires his rifle it sounds quieter than a suppressed shot, however he has no suppressor on the muzzle end of his weapon. (01:09:20)

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Audio problem: When Trevor is explaining to Riley how he wants to rob the storage unit, at one point there's an over-the-shoulder shot where he says "Totally anonymous... nobody's ever seen any one in there... but, like the shit..." If you look closely, you can tell Trevor is saying something completely different. True, his mouth isn't on-screen the whole time, but his jaw movements and his mouth movements don't match the words at all when they are visible, revealing they altered the dialogue in post.

TedStixon

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Audio problem: The helicopter appears in front of the window (like, a few feet away) of the command deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the ship being in full alert and with guards all around the premises but who all somehow missed its deafening arrival. (01:35:50)

Sammo

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Audio problem: During the final test, at one point Marcus says "Shoot this piece of s**t Ezekiel, now." In the first shot, it's clear he's saying something entirely different as his mouth movements don't match the dialogue. The scene then cuts to a closeup mid-line, and the closeup does match... but the first shot doesn't match in the slightest.

TedStixon

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Audio problem: When Baldacci shoots the van that is coming at him full force, the sound bits inserted are of bullets hitting metal. Since he is aiming at the windshield, either his gun does not shoot straight or someone has been very lazy with the sound editing; even if he hit bulletproof glass, the sound it would make would not be like that at all. And a few seconds later his colleague shoots at the van from the side and there is no bullet impact sound at all; to Miss a static target of THAT size from a few feet of distance she'd have to blind as well. (00:43:05)

Sammo

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Audio problem: When Bart is looking through a magazine and starts to rip a page out, the whole page is lifted and obviously already loose; Bart sets it down to look like he is tearing it out, and sound effects are added to make it appear he really is ripping out the page, but the sounds don't really match his motions. (00:31:20)

KeyZOid

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Audio problem: Towards the end of the film when the sergeant is directing the police choir, their mouths are not moving in sync with what they are heard singing.

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Audio problem: Buddy drives a manual truck, but when he goes around a corner, we can hear the truck's gears changing. Buddy's arm stays glued out the window, so he can't be changing gears.

kh1616

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Audio problem: At the police station, Helen and Jake are talking. When the camera is on Jake, Helen says her lines but her mouth and the words are out of sync.

kh1616

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Audio problem: When Deacon is talking to the cop's brother's corpse, he says "you're not talking to me now?" and his lips aren't moving. And moments later, he says "what? You don't want to?" And "you don't talk because..." Same things, his lips don't move.

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Audio problem: When Carrie Fisher and David Soul make out in Trieste, a performer at the local restaurant is supposed to be singing the popular Italian song "Torna a Surriento", but his lips barely even move and it's self-evident that he's not the one singing. (00:11:30)

Sammo

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