Revealing mistake: When the last of the competitors steals an egg from a bird's nest you can see that the bird's legs are tied. (01:17:00)
NancyFelix
28th Aug 2003
Rapa Nui (1994)
26th Aug 2003
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Revealing mistake: When Tommy crumples up the test paper he had written for Andy and throws it into a waste basket the metal container shakes as if he had thrown something heavy. (Telling from the noise it makes the item must have been heavy.) (01:23:30)
26th Aug 2003
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Revealing mistake: It's quite visible that the vine Jack uses to cross the gorge is a rope. (00:39:25)
26th Aug 2003
Night on Earth (1991)
Revealing mistake: When the dead padre is pulled across the ground he lifts his head (not to get hurt?), and when he is finally placed on the bench he blinks and breathes. One of the most most living dead I've seen in a movie. (01:30:00)
25th Aug 2003
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Revealing mistake: On her first evening at the ranch Susannah watches Tristan breaking in a mare. When he falls on the ground you can see that he merely climbs off instead of being thrown. (00:18:00)
25th Aug 2003
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Revealing mistake: When Tristan takes revenge for his brother and scalps two German soldiers you can see that his knife just goes through the hair. (00:44:25)
22nd Aug 2003
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Revealing mistake: When the carriages arrive at Twelve Oaks they turn transparent halfway down the driveway. (00:17:15)
22nd Aug 2003
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Revealing mistake: After Frank Kennedy's death Scarlett is sitting in her room, "mourning" and drinking. When she hears Rhett's carriage she goes to the window. In this moment you see shadows, either from crew members or equipment, cast through the room, especially visible on the bottle on the table. There is also some funny shift of the backdrop outside the window. (00:55:35)
22nd Aug 2003
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Revealing mistake: When Bonnie has her fatal horse accident and breaks through the hurdle you see that the bars are pre-cut.It's a bit unrealistic anyway that they would break at such a soft impact - they should fall but not break. (01:39:45)
22nd Aug 2003
Ben-Hur (1959)
Revealing mistake: During the race Judah runs into the remains of another chariot and almost falls off the cart. You can see that the guy who is doing the handstand on the railing is a stuntman. (00:26:15)
10th Aug 2003
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Revealing mistake: During the war flashback there is a newspaper photograph with Captain Junuh on the shoulders of Savannah's young men. When the camera zooms into his face you can see it's someone else's, only in close-up it switches to Matt Damon's. This is surprising because in all other newspaper pictures Matt Damon is nicely worked in. (00:06:15)
10th Aug 2003
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Revealing mistake: When little Hardy Greaves hits a ball at some golfers the ball actually flies off from somewhere on the right, not from the spot where Hardy is standing. (00:04:20)
30th Jul 2003
Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
Revealing mistake: When Knebel draws a nude on the blackboard you see thin lines that help him complete the drawing. (01:07:40)
27th Jul 2003
Camouflage (2001)
Revealing mistake: Jack pierces the snake owner's hand with his pen with the hidden blade. In close up you see that the hand is a prop: it has a different colour, and there is already a mark where the blade is about to go through. (00:51:20)
27th Jul 2003
Camouflage (2001)
Revealing mistake: When Jack and Marty drive the skinny lady to her inbred folks Jack follows one of them into his house. He has a terrarium where a snake is just swallowing a screaming but otherwise lifeless rat. (00:50:15)
Suggested correction: The rat's last dying gasp? Morticians will also tell you that if you compress a corpse's chest, the deceased will make moaning noises as air from the lungs is forced out and past the vocal chords. Why couldn't the same process happen with a rat?
27th Jul 2003
Camouflage (2001)
Revealing mistake: When Jack and Marty are shot at in the hotel room and the second bullet hits the window the glass pieces are flying from a different spot from where the hole appears. (00:33:25)
27th Jul 2003
Camouflage (2001)
Revealing mistake: When Jack and Marty go back to LA they drive by two stuffed but nevertheless mooing elks. (01:29:05)
27th Jul 2003
Camouflage (2001)
Revealing mistake: When Jack's car falls down into the quarry there is not only the notorious exploding motor but also another explosion in the back for which there is no reason. (01:11:15)
26th Jul 2003
The War (1994)
Revealing mistake: Billy buys about 20 bars of ice-cream, carries them home, and is shown lying in the yard, nibbling slowly on almost the last of them which is still cold and solid. (01:18:20)
26th Jul 2003
The War (1994)
Revealing mistake: In one of the war flashbacks Stephen approaches a helicopter that is about to take off. You hear the rotor move fast, but the grass around the helicopter is completely still. (01:02:00)
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