Sammo

11th Jan 2025

Bad Boys for Life (2020)

Visible crew/equipment: During the chase, Zway-Lo attacks the Bad Boys with a car that is being towed, causing it to explode and fly off the bed of the truck like a projectile. Complete implausibility aside, every time you see a glimpse of the men in the truck cabin, there is a 0 reaction from them. The truck goes on as normal, nobody flinches in the frontal view, the guy in the passenger seat barely glances to the left when Will Smith drives his bike past the window, stone-faced. (01:18:50)

Sammo

11th Jan 2025

Bad Boys for Life (2020)

Visible crew/equipment: In the opening shot of the foot race preparations, when Mike says that stretching is cheating, the camera casts a visible reflection on the sidewalk when it pans. (00:14:55)

Sammo

7th Jan 2025

Bad Boys (1995)

Visible crew/equipment: When Will Smith breaks through a window when the bad guy lurking at the madam's place throws him into it, in the second shot of the stunt (the one with the camera at ground level), the camera wobbles, hit by the debris right before it cuts to the side view. (00:33:05)

Sammo

7th Jan 2025

Bad Boys (1995)

Visible crew/equipment: When the bait hooker gets out of the car at the beginning of the movie, the lighting rig is reflected in the right car door. (00:01:55)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: When the main character and his family are first seen making their way to the train, the rightmost one in a row of three eerie blonde pageboy-haired children keeps looking into the camera. Generally, throughout the movie, there are plenty of instances of child actors looking into the camera, mainly young Malcolm (Lorenzo Aiello). (00:05:15)

Sammo

3rd Nov 2024

Matlock (1986)

Matlock mistake picture

The Angel - S1-E10

Visible crew/equipment: On the last day of the trial, Matlock, his daughter and Angel all rise at the arrival of Judge Richard Cooksey. The boom mic pops up at the top of the screen (spotted in the DVD version). (00:35:05)

Sammo

4th Oct 2023

Kojak (1973)

Siege of Terror - S1-E1

Visible crew/equipment: When we see the first patrol car reaching the crime scene, the robbers are startled and fight the cops. But if you look in the background when the patrol car pulls over, you can see there is already at least one policeman on foot. However, he's in the background - a real-life cop stopping traffic so the scene can be filmed. (00:03:40)

Sammo

6th Jan 2023

Hard Times (1975)

Visible crew/equipment: In the fight with Street, Chaney gets knocked down by a double axhandle to the back. When he gets up in close-up to tackle Street, a shadow cast on the wall (probably camera equipment) moves independently of him and does not appear in the other shots. (01:25:25)

Sammo

10th Nov 2022

Tantei monogatari (1983)

Visible crew/equipment: Naomi Arai snuck back home from the window. When she walks down the stairs to go in the dining room, you can see on the upper floor wall to her left the shadow of the camera crew following her. (00:01:20)

Sammo

The System - S1-E2

Visible crew/equipment: Jim Phelps gets the disk system from the locker. He then takes a step back and looks around the room figuring out where to sit to play the recording. As the camera moves to follow, a boom mike gets in frame in the right corner. (00:03:00)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: When Brown's limo leaves the scene following Speed's police car, set lights and camera crew are reflected in the side of the vehicle. (00:59:25)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: Inside the house under construction, the Black Ninja drops a bunch of dirt from the top of the stairs (an action she will repeat later). The rubbish hits the camera that shifts slightly towards the end of the shot. (01:08:50)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: Christie pushes Secord down on the couch, straddles the guy and tells him that he's 'very sexy' when he is angry. Her hand in the second shot is suddenly on his left shoulder. Small continuity error aside, notice the shadow of the cameraman on the right side of the couch as the camera closes in. (00:27:20)

Sammo

15th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Visible crew/equipment: Jack just fished some junk out of the "Lost Angeles" sea. Reflected in the hubcaps, what appears to be (on the empty part of the beach) the camera crew. (00:07:50)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: In the opening sequence, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung is scavenging the dead soldiers (with one hilarious twist) - however, when he is holding the ring, in his sunglasses you can see several very much alive crewmembers standing. (00:02:45)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: When the businessman parks the car to bring the blackmail money, several bystanders crowd the sidewalk and stare at the camera crew. (01:13:00)

Sammo

28th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: The vindictive alligator demolishes the bad guy's car; in the shot where the tyre flies off, you can spot the jack under the car. (01:17:05)

Sammo

26th Mar 2022

Alligator (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: In the opening shot of the movie, several people (presumably the film crew) are reflected in the eye of the titular reptile. (00:00:15)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: The car with the Boynton clan nearly runs over a member of the British Parliament. Tragedy is averted, but Emily replies with a scoff and "Blaaah." In the car window, you can see behind Lauren Bacall some guy with a red baseball cap that doesn't quite fit the setting and doesn't appear elsewhere (reasonable to assume it's the cameraman). (00:38:15)

Sammo

Visible crew/equipment: Poirot and Race pass by the camera to reach the top deck and investigate the noise they heard after the attempt on Poirot's life. When they go up the stairs, you can see a shadow from the camera equipment go slightly up when the camera goes up with them. (01:28:20)

Sammo

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