Revealing mistake: One of Peter Boyle's teeth on his lower jaw was painted black for that "broken grin" look. It can be seen reflecting in some scenes: when Frankenstein enters the cell with the monster and it cries, and later when the monster screams while killing the jailer. (01:15:30 - 01:28:40)
Phoenix
1st May 2004
Young Frankenstein (1974)
3rd Apr 2004
Angel (1999)
3rd Apr 2004
Resident Evil (2002)
Revealing mistake: On the DVD commentary, the director says that he only had a handful of the experiment cubes in Dining Hall B and used cardboard cutouts for all the others. This is most obvious when Rain is walking through the hall alone to check on the first zombie: the cubes in the distance don't match the rigid rows of the ones in the foreground. (00:38:20)
3rd Apr 2004
Resident Evil (2002)
Revealing mistake: As the team gets off the subway and heads for the door into the Hive, the Red Queen's POV shows a nifty infrared display in the lower left corner that marks their locations - it obviously matches up to the ones on screen. But the dots are static, while the people are moving. (00:19:20)
2nd Apr 2004
Alien 3 (1992)
Revealing mistake: As Ripley and Dillon lure the Alien into the piston chamber, Morse closes them just in time. Watch closely - he misses the switch. (01:38:15)
24th Mar 2004
King Kong (1933)
Revealing mistake: As one plane swoops at King Kong on the Empire State Building, another flies behind his head that is much larger than it should be relative to him.
24th Mar 2004
King Kong (1933)
Revealing mistake: As the men walk past the downed stegosaurus, the camera moves faster than they do (judging from the background) but they stay at the center of the screen. Obviously the camera on the model of the stegosaurus moved faster than the camera on the men.
24th Mar 2004
King Kong (1933)
Revealing mistake: When Kong crushes the scaffolding in the island village, it collapses not into a heap of splinters but in a neat panel of solidly bound wood.
24th Mar 2004
King Kong (1933)
Revealing mistake: The figures dropping from Kong's cliff into the river are obviously limp dummies.
22nd Mar 2004
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Revealing mistake: When Huggy Bear meets Starsky and Hutch in the alley to supply information, there is a closeup on his face as he sits in his car and just before he leaves. In this shot, it is very obvious that the facial hair on his cheek is attached with a glue strip. (00:27:55)
1st Mar 2004
Angel (1999)
Revealing mistake: Supposedly the demon Merl has no tongue, but when he is telling Angel the apology he wants, it can be seen. (00:01:00)
25th Feb 2004
Angel (1999)
Revealing mistake: When Wesley accidentally turns off the power, the room briefly goes dark, then lights up with moonlight/streetlight from outside. In the real world, that light would have been visible the whole time in the background. (00:01:45)
24th Feb 2004
Angel (1999)
Revealing mistake: When Alonna is kidnapped, there is a vampire on the left side of the screen who is not wearing any mask over his face, though sunlight is falling on him. (00:26:00)
4th Feb 2004
The Gold Rush (1925)
Revealing mistake: When Chaplin is performing the Oceana Roll, the edge of his white makeup is visible on his right cheek.
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