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Movie Mistakes blog

Best mistakes of 2008 (see this week / this month / all time)

Most mistakes in 2008

You may have noticed the "vote" buttons after every mistake on the site (and by the entries below). If you've got a favourite mistake, vote for it to help it to the top of the leaderboard, or if something's listed that doesn't deserve it, vote it down. To help with the voting, visit the quick pick page, where you can see random entries and vote them up or down.

Rank Film Mistake  
1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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At the beginning of the movie where Indy is talking to Spalko, his hands keep alternating between being in his pockets and just resting at his sides between shots.
2 Iron Man
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When Iron Man and Iron Monger are fighting, Iron Man catches the SUV, and you can see the family inside the car. Although the car is completely vertical, the hair of the people in the car seem to defy gravity.
3 Solstice
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The moon is full every night the highschoolers are at the lake house.
4 Meet the Spartans
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When Britney Spears gets pushed into the Pit of Death, you hear her talk and scream but her lips are not moving.
5 10,000 B.C.
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After Evolet got hit by the arrow and presumably dies, D'leh is staring at a mammoth. Behind the mammoth, you can see that the background is a picture.
6 Sex and the City: The Movie
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In the scene where Big and Carrie meet in their cars after Big fled the wedding you can see down the street in the distance a huge amount of SATC fans have gathered to watch the filming.
7 Cloverfield
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When he's walking in the subway, Rob's shirt has a dark triangle of sweat (and dirt) on the back. In one clip the triangle is barely visible and the shirt looks a lot cleaner than before. In the next clip, the triangle is very clear again.
8 Doomsday
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In the beginning, during the riot outbreak, there is a scene with a soldier being pulled down from climbing a fence. In the next shot as the crowd is pushing forward, you can see a concrete road block tip over. If you look closely at the bottom of the block, you can see that it's not a real concrete block, but a prop made of wood planks and grey painted rubber.
9 Step Up 2: The Streets
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When Chase pulls out the key to MSA, you hear the sound of many keys clanging together. However, if you look closely, there is only one key on the ring.
10 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
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When the Pevensies are outside their treasure chamber in Cair Paravel, Peter tears off a piece of his shirt to make a makeshift torch. A few shots later, once they're in the chamber, the missing piece has gotten bigger.
11 Mamma Mia!
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In the shot in the bathroom, Tanya has a small diamond necklace but in the next shot in the bedroom the diamond appears larger.
12 Wanted
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When the red car lands after flipping over the limo, the front driver's side suspension and chassis collapse from the impact, but in the next shot, the car is intact again.
13 Definitely, Maybe
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In the scene where the camera shows Times Square, visible on the right of the screen in the front of the shot is a poster for the Broadway show "The Lion King". The Lion King just celebrated 10 years on Broadway and was not playing in 1994.
14 Be Kind Rewind
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In a scene early on where Mike is behind the video shop counter and Jerry is in front of it, the positions of the videos on the shelves behind Jerry alter from shot to shot.
15 Speed Racer
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When the GRX crashes in the Grand Prix, a few shots later, the remains of the car are gone.
16 The Dark Knight
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When Joker puts the smoke bomb inside the bank manager's mouth, watch a green sign behind lying on the floor, with a tree painted on it. It has a stick on top which moves around between shots with no one touching it.
17 Rambo
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In the final shootout scene, when Rambo takes over the truck mounted machine gun, he shoots the driver, whose blood splatters a lot over the metal guards on the gun. If the blood splattered that much on the guards, it should be all over the interior of the truck which is revealed to only have blood on the floor - none all over the dash or doors.
18 21
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When Prof. Rosa calls Cole, Terry answers the phone and places Rosa on hold. However, when Cole takes the phone from Terry, he does not take Rosa off of hold and proceeds to talk to him.
19 Happy-Go-Lucky
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In the title sequence, Poppy rides her bike down Kingsway, along the Strand, and south over Blackfriars Bridge. The next shot of her shows a street with an EC1 postcode (north of the river) and the following shot an SE1 postcode (south of the river again).
20 The Incredible Hulk
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When Dr. Ross and Bruce were in the hotel room, Banner empties the purse on the bed and there is some cash inside the wallet. As they are about to leave he picks up the cash which isn't in the wallet anymore.
21 Vantage Point
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In Barnes' perspective, when Taylor asks him if he saw the shooter, Barnes replies, "No, but I saw something, like a flash of light." In the Howard Lewis perspective, Barnes doesn't say "No, but..."
22 College Road Trip
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In the scene where Chief James Porter is watching his daughter dancing through the window, the curtains are all the way closed. When he gets a ladder to climb up, the curtains are a 1/4 of the way open.
23 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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In the scene where the fat man walks in on Peter naked in bed, the sheet protecting Peters modesty is covering him in one frame, and the next moment it has vanished completely.
24 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
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At the beginning where Trevor is looking through Max's stuff, he sets the glove on the table. In the next shot the glove is back in the box.
25 Fool's Gold
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After the boat has blown up and sunk, Ben swims over to it and checks it out, very little to anything is even a little charred, with that big of an explosion everything would be burnt, and black.
26 Hancock
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When Hancock puts the woman on the hospital bed near the end of the movie when he walks out he walks into the metal bar holding the window in place and as a result it bends. In the next shot where you see the frame it doesn't even have a scratch let alone being bent.
27 Untraceable
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The FBI in the movie has the ability to "blackhole" an IP address, which makes that computer unavailable to the internet. If they can blackhole the computer acting as the <i>web</i> server, they could also blackhole the computer acting as the <i>name</i> server (DNS), thereby taking down the web site and preventing additional users from connecting.
28 27 Dresses
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In the final scene of the movie when Jane gets married on the beach, you see guests arriving and Tess is handing out programs. She hands a program to a blond girl with a brown polka dot dress. In the next scene, we see Tess taking to George and the same woman arrives again and Tess hands her a program again.
29 The Bank Job
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We see Jason Statham walking into a shop in 1971 which has a Visa/Barclaycard logo on the door. Only problem with that is that the name Visa wasn't brought in until 1977.
30 Get Smart
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In the plane's bathroom, Max shoots himself several times with the mini-crossbow: in the cheek, ear, etc. After landing on the ground, all traces of the dart punctures are gone.

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