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Movie Mistakes blog

Best mistakes of 1989 (see this week / this month / all time)

Most mistakes in 1989

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1 The Little Mermaid
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In the scene where King Triton destroys the stone statue of Prince Eric, you can clearly see that the statue's face explodes and breaks into pieces as well as the rest of the body. However, at the point a few minutes later when Arielle decides to meet the seawitch Ursula, she caresses the statue's face as a whole again.
2 Field of Dreams
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Joe Jackson batted left-handed in real life, not right-handed as Ray Liotta portrayed.
3 Glory
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When the 54th Mass. marches past a liberated plantation some black children wave them on. One of them is wearing a digital wristwatch.
4 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
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At one point when Clark is flying down the hill through snow drifts on his saucer sled after greasing it up you can see the guide wire pulling the sled.
5 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
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Spock lifts his crew mates with the rocket boots. He passes deck numbers 35 through 78 from bottom to top. First off, deck numbers go from top to bottom. The bridge is on deck 1. Second, the Enterprise of that class only had 23 decks!
6 Back to the Future Part II
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In the beginning when Doc takes Marty and Jennifer to 2015 for the first time, they are descending towards Hill Valley. Doc turns the steering wheel to the left but the car goes right and down.
7 Dead Poets Society
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The film takes place in a private boarding school the 1950's, however one of the students is studying from a 1980's chemistry textbook.
8 Steel Magnolias
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In the scene where Ouiser sits and lets out a belch, if you look in the mirror, you can catch her laughing.
9 When Harry Met Sally
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During the first car ride scene Harry is spitting the seeds out the window. One of the shots shown of the car from the outside shows the window still up after he has rolled it down.
10 Road House
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In the scene where they are discussing why Dalton fired Mr Wesley's nephew (upstairs in the Double Deuce).Mr Wesley´s nephew threatens Dalton with a knife and when Dalton takes a swing at him, there is blood on Mr Wesley's nephew´s face way before contact.
11 The Burbs
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When Tom Hanks is walking down the stairs a chainsaw comes through the wall. If you look at the wall a second earlier you can see a line where the chainsaw is supposed to come through.
12 Tango & Cash
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When Stallone stops the bad guys in the semi full of cocaine, they fly through a windshield that is apparently made of plate glass, and not the safety glass found on almost every other vehicle windshield on earth.
13 Sea of Love
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In Ellen Barkin's apartment, Al Pacino accidently knocks a postcard off of the fridge. A few seconds later, it's back where it was, though nobody picked it up.
14 UHF
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In the beginning during the Indiana Jones parody one of the men pulls a gun on Weird Al with his left hand. Then Al lashes his whip, slicing his arm clean off. Then we see a RIGHT arm fall to the ground, gripping the gun in its hand. <em>[Explanation: The live scene was shot one morning, and the actor who had his arm whipped off was cleared and went home. After lunch the prosthetic arm was delivered, and it was the wrong arm. They were on such a tight budget that they couldn't delay the shot, and flipping the negative (so right becomes left and vice versa) wasn't an option because the scene with the small pond had already been shot, and couldn't now be shown in reverse. This is from Weird Al's website, www.weirdal.com.]</em>
15 Say Anything...
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When Lloyd calls Diane's house for the first time to ask her out, he gives her father his phone number as 555-1342, but later when Diane is reading her list of messages, Lloyd's number is listed as 555-2342.
16 Parenthood
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During the first shot of Larry being pushed out of the car, it's blatantly a stunt double who is taller, thinner and has shorter hair than the actor.
17 See No Evil, Hear No Evil
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Towards the end of the movie Dave takes Walley's jacket and uses it to help them slide down a cable. Before they slid down, Dave tells Walley to hold on, and Walley asks if they're going to be above the ground. Dave tells him no, and off they go. However, Dave is deaf, and reads lips, and Walley is standing behind him when he asks the question. So how did Dave read his lips if he wasn't looking at him?
18 Uncle Buck
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The scene where the elementary school teacher asks his kid what they did that week. After he asks that question and Maizy raises her hand, look at the desk belonging to the girl in the row next to Maizy. It has crayons and other supplies on it. After the teacher calls Maizy's name, the shot goes back to her, showing the girl in the next row's desk completely empty.
19 Weekend at Bernie's
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Right before Richard discovers that Bernie is dead and Larry is talking about drugs becoming a career, "I watch the news. I read." There is a side/back view of Larry talking and neither his gestures or his mouth line up with what he is saying.
20 Fabulous Baker Boys
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Towards the end of the film, Beau and Jeff Bridges are getting into a fighting match in an alley. As Jeff shoves Beau into a chain-link fence, you get a full and un-obstructed view of the boom holder and his microphone on the other side of the fence; just inches from Beau.
21 A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
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In one shot when Alice is in the shower, as she turns for the soap you can tell she is wearing brown underwear.
22 Lean on Me
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When Joe Clark first comes to Eastside High as principal, he takes it upon himself to confront the staff. At one point, as he begins to turn his back, watch his lips. His mouth does not match the words being spoken.

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