43 Glaringly Obvious TV And Movie Mistakes You Won't Be Able To Unsee
1.In Thor: Love and Thunder, the positions of the seeds on Gore's face change frequently and even disappear then reappear:
2.In Captain America: Civil War, Hawkeye's sleeveless arm seems to change sides:
3.In this Stranger Things scene, Nancy pulls the planks from this door, even though it's clearly a door you push to open (which the planks wouldn't stop her from doing):
4.In Unthinkable, an FBI agent uses Excel to hack a nuclear weapon — and you can also see a movie script pulled up:
5.In this scene from Speed, you can see a camera operator in the reflection of the door:
6.In this scene from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, this extra is clearly using imaginary arrows:
7.In this scene from Home Alone, Kevin's dinner changes from mac n' cheese to a TV dinner after he leaves the room:
8.After Frenchie picks a lock in an early episode of The Boys, you can see that it's just a lock face glued on a door:
9.In Jurassic Park, we see the Jeeps parked and waiting for the helicopter to land, but once it does and the passengers get out, there's a shot of the Jeeps arriving:
10.In this One Piece scene, Zoro's scabbard bends:
11.A car vanishes in this Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One scene. It's there when Grace turns the corner but not when Paris turns it a second later:
12.In Dune, you can see Timothée Chalamet look back, but then in the next shot, he's looking forward and again turns to look back:
13.In The Abyss, you can see a cameraperson wipe the lens:
14.In Toy Story, Buzz's fingers clearly aren't on his laser button when he activates it:
15.In this Oppenheimer scene where he gets in a car, you can see the boom operator in the reflection of the car window:
16.Jerry O'Connell's mic pack falls from his pants in this Stand By Me scene — you can see him sort of awkwardly shuffle right afterward:
17.You can see the camera in this Beverly Hills Cop scene:
18.In this scene from The Big Bang Theory, the headrests are missing (they were likely removed so they could film from the backseat, and then they forgot to replace them):
19.AJ's necklace disappears between shots in this scene from The Sopranos:
20.The place where the poster is cut changes slightly between shots in this V for Vendetta scene:
21.In The Hurt Locker, Eldridge's name is spelled differently on his jacket vs. his helmet.
22.In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Jim Carrey's shirt pattern slightly changes from scene to scene:
23.In Ghostbusters II, you can see a crew member and their camera:
24.In this scene from the show Dark, you can see the metal rod coming from the top of the tunnel moving:
25.You can see a modern car in this scene from The Holdovers (set in 1970):
26.This helicopter from The Holdovers was also not made until 1979:
27.In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal's character has a bandaged hand in one scene due to an on-set injury he received — he tried to hide his hand behind his back so it's not visible, but you can see it here:
28.JFK's tie changes color in this Forrest Gump scene (as the scene used multiple different pieces of footage of JFK):
29.Roger leaves his hat behind as Pongo drags him off in this 101 Dalmations scene — but then a moment later, he's wearing it again:
30.In this scene from Equilibrium, the photo with "freedom" written on the back becomes much less wrinkled — and the pen much darker and more legible – in a later scene:
31.You can see Antonio Banderas just miming moving imaginary controls in this scene from Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams:
32.In The Best Christmas Ever, this map made by a 10-year-old prodigy (who has been accepted at Harvard) labels Washington as "WY":
33.In Black Hawk Down, you can see the cameraperson running after the actors in this shot from above:
34.In Die Hard, both sides of this ambulance misspell "fire department" as "fire deparment":
35.This man's photo in Smallville is very obviously glued/taped on rather than printed as a part of the newspaper:
36.In Windtalkers, you can see the whole crew in this shot:
37.This woman's necklace changes between shots in The Surrogate:
38.In Elf, you can see a crew member realize he's on camera and try to hide in a doorway:
39.In Wild Wild West, the ear trumpet General McGrath is wearing disappears, then reappears:
40.In Iron Mask, Arnold Schwarzenegger's name is misspelled:
41.In this scene from Independence Day, you can see that this garbage can is clearly a prop:
42.This kid is playing video games without a game cartridge in Rumble in the Bronx:
43.And finally, in Scooby-Doo, to match the footage of Daphne and Velma with the monster's CGI explosion, the editor has clearly reversed the footage and played it again:
What glaring TV or movie mistakes have you noticed? Let us know in the comments!
H/T: r/MovieMistakes