Out of Pod Experience

Just hopefully a fun little thread.

Post your favorite goofs in movies, preferably ones you have actually found yourself, or really good ones you read about.


One of my favorites was in a Tom Cruise film in either the late 80s or early 90s (I didn't watch the whole thing), and a perusal of IMDB pretty much narrows it down to "The Firm". So.....Tom takes a flight at one point to Washington DC's Dulles Airport. There were several instances of that fact uttered previously, so they made it quite clear that he was flying into Dulles. So, he gets off the plane and realizes he needs to make a phone call. He walks up to a row of pay phones (remember rows of payphones ?) and calls his boss. The camera setup shows the phones, absolutely everyone of which is clearly labeled Pacific Bell.

In Tim Burton's "Batman", when Nicholson's Joker is making his initial TV appearance in Gotham City, America, he holds up an aerosol can generically labeled as (British) "Hair Colouring".

It may have finally been fixed, but in "LOTR:FOTR", when Aragorn is defending Boromir from that last big bad Orc, the Orc throws something at him and Aragorn knocks it out of the way with his sword. An edit immediately cuts to a camera filming from a different angle, and the cut begins with him knocking it away a 2nd time. It's a very quick cut.

In "Gravity", when Sandra "let's go" (that's all I'm gonna say), those ropes are absolutely not pulling her back to the station. Even the one wrapped around her ankle is gone, and rest of the mess of ropes are just hovering way int the background, where a few seconds ago they had been all splayed out everywhere. Egregious error IMHO. (And I'm one who forgives the "physics mistakes" otherwise).

Those kilts in "Braveheart" didn't come around for a few more hundreds of years.............(sigh).

"Jurassic Park"- when the children are in the electric car, and the goat leg hits the windshield and sticks. They scream. the goat leg is never seen again.

Steve McQueen in "Bullitt". san francisco, and the incredible 20 minute car chase up and down the hills. Closeups of hubcaps flying off the car happens no less than 7 times.

At the beginning of "Raider's of the Lost Ark", Harrison swims over to the escaping "boat plane" and emerges from the water into the plane.....absolutely bone dry.

American Army base in "Full Metal JAcket" has clearly British signage and spellings.

"Alien" - John Hurt clearly has some kind of hood on inside his spacesuit. Yet when they remove the melted helmet, it's gone.


That's all I can think of for now.

"American Army base in "Full Metal JAcket" has clearly British signage and spellings."



that's because it was filmed at canary warf in London
and the training scene where where they go over the assault course was filmed there . you ask how I know ?

I was based when it was filmed


ironicly the assault course was off limits to us recruits as it was deemed ....unsafe .

the all time classic has to ben hur ... you younlings wont remember it ...it starred Charlton Heston ...anyways theres a chariot race (epic in its day)

but if you observe closely you can see above the race a film crew filming the race in a modified british MG Midget

budget constraints probably

try shortening it at bit.ly

"Pearl Harbor" (the Ben Affleck thing)
-Japanese admirals are making a speech on a podium. Banners behind them are like something from samurai times (or really more like banners for modern ramen shops). Nothing like the modernized, "Westernized" Imperial Japanese Navy would use. Worse, one banner has a completely random Japanese character on it (the one for the word "star"). The other one has something equally dumb, such as "horse."

-First CGI scene of the harbor shows about 10 times the amount of USN ships than were actually there.

-That's where I turned it off. But I'm sure the list could go on and on.

And then there's Richard Linklater, who had 2 songs removed from the soundtrack of "Dazed & Confused", as it was discovered the songs were not released until a month or two later that summer.


Oh. Another LOTR:FOTR. When Merry and Pippin try to escape the orcs, Pippin does not finish cutting his bound wrists free. But when the horse rears up and comes down on him, his arms are clearly out-thrust to the sides. Next time we see him, his wrists are bound again.

Yeah. And most folks are like me and would not know the difference anyway

They are indeed hard to spot (easiest is people drinking at a bar or at poolside, and the drink levels are all over the map). I'm most embarrassed it took me almost 20 years to catch the obvious Wyoming plate in CE.


ed: My dad was always pointing out erroneous military insignia. To a point of being irritating, in fact. That's the kind of thing where I had to just take his word for it.

don't forget some of the guys in the race were wearing watches