Revealing mistake: When Joan is about to get in the bus at the airport, there's a man in a red shirt walking from right to left who can't help staring at the camera and grinning all the time. (00:19:25)
Sacha
28th Jan 2013
Romancing the Stone (1984)
21st Jan 2013
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Revealing mistake: When the [superimposed] pink slime and the bending tub try to attack Dana and Oscar, watch the tiles on the wall in front and you'll notice that they're not being reflected, just an empty space.
21st Jan 2013
Les Miserables (2012)
Revealing mistake: During the singing at the inn, when Sacha Baron Cohen raises the bottle, stage lighting screens are reflected on the glass.
4th Jan 2013
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Revealing mistake: When Talos grabs the Argo and sailors start to fall, they disappear in the wide angles, revealing the ship to be a model.
6th Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the 3 heroes exit the mine cart and escape from the water flood in the mine, Harrison Ford is replaced by an obvious stuntman.
6th Nov 2012
Breaking Bad (2008)
3rd Nov 2012
Superman III (1983)
Revealing mistake: After Clark defeats Evil Superman, he flies to the Statue of Liberty. The whole landscape is a still image with the ripples and the boats completely static.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When Indy is hanging off the bridge and is punched by Mola Ram, Indy's safety wire attached to his belt is very noticeable. (01:47:45)
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the water tank falls over, the vapour fumes are moving in slo-mo, despite the whole scene moving at a normal speed.
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Revealing mistake: When the water floods the mine, some shots of the 3 heroes are an obvious composite of their blue screened image over a set. Problem is, when Indy tells the two to run towards a tunnel on the right with a log blocking the way, Indy and Shorty run through the log as if they were ghosts.
3rd Oct 2012
Titanic (1997)
Revealing mistake: When the cop find Rose's necklace in the coat, Jack says "he put it in my pocket" and Cal tells him to shut up. Right then, he turns his head and the glue of his wig is noticeable around his temple. (01:41:30)
3rd Oct 2012
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Revealing mistake: When ET is grabbing things from the fridge, in the close-up his fingers swap from thin and long to chubby and short, obviously a puppeteer's glove.
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Revealing mistake: When the movie starts and J is about to neuralyze the people, the skyline on the background is a blatant backdrop. (00:06:10)
12th Sep 2012
Knight & Day (2010)
Revealing mistake: After Roy abducts June in the diner and shoots Rodney he takes off and skids the car. Skid marks with the same pattern are all over the pavement from previous shots.
Revealing mistake: When Indy and Mutt ride on the bike in the college gardens, there's a wide aerial angle that reveals that the distance to the red banner is very short, yet in every following angle they're repeating the same route over and over again (3 times at least) to make it look way longer and increase the suspense.
26th Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Revealing mistake: During the party, the second time Gordon gives a speech praising Dent, a lighting screen is reflected on his glasses, which disappears in opposite shots.
26th Aug 2012
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Revealing mistake: When Blake and Gordon watch Bane on TV during Gotham's siege, a grey (sometimes white) square is reflected on Gordon's glasses. It's either a lighting screen or the proof that the TV is turned off and the image on it is added on post-production.
13th Aug 2012
Jumanji (1995)
Revealing mistake: When the monkeys are in the garden, running away, just after Judy says "Beware", they cast no shadow either on the paved entrance, nor on the grass, plus they move as if in stop-motion, instead of the perfect movement they did before.
8th Aug 2012
Jumanji (1995)
Revealing mistake: When Alan's merged with the floor and the first huge spider shows up, there's a thin wire coming out of its rear to make the animatronic move.
31st Jul 2012
Last Action Hero (1993)
Revealing mistake: When Arnie flips his car sideways to avoid the Texaco truck, the stunt driver is very obviously not Arnie.
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