Best movie mistakes of 1988

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Continuity mistake: When Steven is doing his "Singing in the Rain" routine, his scarf is about to fall off his neck, but in the next shot it's knotted around his neck. The quick shot of Lila in-between does not prove to be enough time for him to re-tie it.

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Continuity mistake: When Dexter is at the bar after the faculty party, he's not wearing glasses. After he speaks to Sydney and asks her to have a drink with him, he's suddenly wearing glasses.

ChiChi

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Continuity mistake: When Larry and Rocket are about to go one-on-one in a shoot-out, the car behind Larry is empty. When the shooting starts, the car is full of people. (01:46:20)

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Visible crew/equipment: When the General is explaining to the scientist that everyone in the immediate area must be killed to contain the virus, the shadow of a crew member is seen on the wall behind the General.

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Revealing mistake: The "Great Train Robbery" actually took place on a two-track railway near Cheddington - the West Coast Main Line. However, the filming took place on the Great Central Railway steam line near Loughborough, which only had one track at that time. They laid a second track for the filming, but omitted to cut down a large tree at the end of the rails, which would block the path of a train. This is blindingly obvious, especially as they show this "atmosphere shot" twice. The tree is still there the second time.

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Continuity mistake: When fleeing from the bar where she has been gang raped, Jodie Foster is wearing sneakers. In later flashback scenes of the rape itself you can see she's high heeled.

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Continuity mistake: When Bill Pullman is poisoned he has a defined red cross painted on his forehead. He stumbles around for a while and the cross smears to the point where it looks like a big red blob. But when he finally dies and looks at the camera, the cross isn't smeared at all. (01:16:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Beau Bridges runs past the hooker on the street he has no bow tie. In the next scene as he approaches the telephone booth, the bow tie is back and he removes it after entering the booth.

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Continuity mistake: Better Midler's "country" character spills syrup on her white jacket and tries to rub it away. The size and shape of the stain change as she leaves the restaurant and is seen in the hotel lobby.

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Factual error: "Kemo" is in the kitchen preparing food while everyone is studying. We see him putting raw meat (brains) in a pan, and then in real time we see him having a discussion with Pancho, and Pancho walks out. Kemo then says the food is done and asks if anyone wants some - but there's been no more than 60 seconds since he put it in.

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Continuity mistake: When Pee-Wee and Winnie are having the picnic under the tree, he wipes a big gob of something from his face onto her dress. In the next shot, there is absolutely nothing on her dress.

wizard_of_gore

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Audio problem: When Bourne rescues Marie, he fires a silenced pistol at the man who was trying to rape her, but the sound is of an unsilenced gun. (01:01:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Chevy Chase gets out of the water after he jumps into the lake from the fishing boat, he walks directly to his car completely soaking wet and sits in it. Less than 15 seconds later, his wife, who was chatting with the Sheriff walks back to the car and he is almost completely dry, except for his hair.

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Character mistake: When the little boy is reading his report about Abraham Lincoln, he states that Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Illinois. Lincoln was actually born in a log cabin in Kentucky.

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Other mistake: When Satsuki enters the shot when she, Mei, and their father visit their mother in the hospital, Mei seems to be constantly staring up at their mother with her mouth gaping wide open.

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Continuity mistake: When Garfield is entombed within the pyramid, Odie comes along and frees him by dislodging one of the pyramid wall's stones - the second one nearest the corner. But when viewed from Garfield's perspective an entirely different stone is missing from the wall, about two spaces closer to the wall's center. (00:12:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Hambleton is rescued in the huey by Capt Clark, he drops his walking stick as he is hanging half in half out of the chopper and it falls out of the chopper. A few seconds later he has his walking stick as he is still trying to get in the chopper.

Steve Kozak

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Continuity mistake: After Chuck Norris throws away the pimp during the initial evacuation of the embassy, the man pulls out a gun and shoots Chuck Norris from behind. The bullet hits him in the right shoulder but at the next moment - seen from his front - the wound is on his left side.

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Visible crew/equipment: When a very powerful gust of wind blows Jack out of the castle, a support wire can be seen attached to him.

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Factual error: The sequence showing the moon is incorrect as it shows the Moon as it looks from the northern hemisphere. It should be inverted.

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