List common movie goofs that make no sense.

[ShotgunSteven]

Anything they do with guns, usually.

One particular one. Loud noises of safeties being moved to the fire position, etc. on Glocks, when there is no such switch. One movie, cannot recall what one right off hand, had a guy with a Glock making three distinctly different noises before the Glock was ready to fire, and all he ever did was draw it and point it.

 

[Spoooon]

That part in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka where they are in the diner and this large, black woman starts doing flips and stuff. They switched to a stuntman and the stuntman was white and had a beard!









I'm just kidding. They had that in the movie but they did it on purpose.

 

[Armitage]

How about in Enemy of the State ... they have a video feed from a security camera of Will Smith. The bad guys are looking at a still frame, and one of em tells the analyst something like "rotate that 180 degrees so we can see what's in his other hand". Just like that, from a 2D image, they spin it around, and we can see the other side of him!

Looks like you guys are posting two different types of movie goofs ... editing & shooting goofs (ponytail on the left, cut away, cut back, ponytail on the right), and logical/physical plot goofs (exploding cars, 100 rounds out of a revolver, sound in space, etc.). A good site for the latter wrt space stuff is Bad Astronomy.

An aside on the cars exploding stuff ... one of my cousins works as an insurance adjuster. He said the first sign of arson is the owner/witnesses saying something like "the car exploded, just like in the movies!" Cars just don't do that.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Might not be a goof, but if they explained it in the movie I missed it:
How did Gandalf get his staff back after his fight with Sauramon in FotR?

He's a bloody wizard d00d. He just like, made one

yeah!!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
That part in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka where they are in the diner and this large, black woman starts doing flips and stuff. They switched to a stuntman and the stuntman was white and had a beard!

I'm just kidding. They had that in the movie but they did it on purpose.

"These are not them! You've captured their STUNT DOUBLES!!"

 

[iamme]

I just read this from Moviemistakes.com:

Charlie's Angels:
When the angels are fighting the "creepy thin man," right before Drew Barrymore lifts up Lucy Liu to spin her around and kick the thin man, to get Lucy's attention, Drew hollers out "Lucy!" even though Lucy Liu's character's name is "Alex."[/b]

I've never seen this movie, but for anyone who has, did you notice this? It seems like a pretty big mistake

 

[DnetMHZ]

Laser beams that move slow enough for people to dodge.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Continuing the car theme...........it's odd when one car runs into the rear of another and launches itself over the first, almost like it had a ramp........without any obvious damage besides the obligatory explosion from the passenger compartment.

 

[LiLxJohnny]

In the movie Iron Eagle,

F-16 rolls onto the runaway with weapons ..<cutaway> F-16 now is taking off (Camera shows the rear of the plane), where are the armaments!?

Not to mention the numerous fight scenes of the F-16s taking on the MiGs but the F-16s are not carrying any weapons.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: LiLxJohnny
In the movie Iron Eagle,

F-16 rolls onto the runaway with weapons ..<cutaway> F-16 now is taking off (Camera shows the rear of the plane), where are the armaments!?

Not to mention the numerous fight scenes of the F-16s taking on the MiGs but the F-16s are not carrying any weapons.

The whole premise of Iron Eagle was such a miserably bad joke, why bother picking on the details?

 

[crumpet19]

Pearl Harbor:
They misspelled the name of an air field.
The two planes that got up didnt have any ammo.
Combined with the fact that i hate Ben Affleck I got really off.

these are more of inacuracies than goofs.

 

[Spac3d]

Back to the Future II bothers me. He goes to the "alternative" future... and even though he has a different father, he still exists. How does that work? Did the sperm jump from his real father to Biff?

Also there is the fact in part three that the other DeLorean was already locked up and they could have syphaned gas or exchanged parts.

I still love the series

 

[Platypus]

Bill and Ted's bar sliding scene

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: Spac3d
Back to the Future II bothers me. He goes to the "alternative" future... and even though he has a different father, he still exists. How does that work? Did the sperm jump from his real father to Biff?

Also there is the fact in part three that the other DeLorean was already locked up and they could have syphaned gas or exchanged parts.

I still love the series

He has a different stepfather in the "bad" future. Biff killed George McFly after Marty was born. Biff says something to Marty like "Two McFly's with the same gun."

 

[abaez]

Fellowship of the ring when frodo and sam are first leaving in the corn or wheat field or whatever it is you can see a car going by in the backgroud

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
How about in Enemy of the State ... they have a video feed from a security camera of Will Smith. The bad guys are looking at a still frame, and one of em tells the analyst something like "rotate that 180 degrees so we can see what's in his other hand". Just like that, from a 2D image, they spin it around, and we can see the other side of him!

That must be using the same cameras that can always zoom into a picture 1000X and it's still clear as day.

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: abaez
Fellowship of the ring when frodo and sam are first leaving in the corn or wheat field or whatever it is you can see a car going by in the backgroud

Near the end when Sam jumps into the water, Frodo pulls him up and they are both dry (IIRC). Must have been the ring...

 

[fr]

How about in Spider-man when Peter's roomate is on his Nokia (3360?) cell phone and the person hangs up on him and he hears the dial tone?

 

[Vortex22]

Independence Day

Well, beside the fact that the entire movie was stupid... They put a "computer virus" in the alien "computer" to disable the shields. Umm, yeah.

 

[KingNothing]

My dad's pretty fond of pointing out changing types of airplanes in a movie. Like, a 747 will be shown taking off and then a DC-10 in flight or something.

I always love the movies where the main character gets all beat up by the bad guy and then rallies his strength all of a sudden and takes out 10 guys.

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: abaez
Fellowship of the ring when frodo and sam are first leaving in the corn or wheat field or whatever it is you can see a car going by in the backgroud

Wow, I'll have to watch for that, that's hilarious.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Spac3d
Back to the Future II bothers me. He goes to the "alternative" future... and even though he has a different father, he still exists. How does that work? Did the sperm jump from his real father to Biff?

Also there is the fact in part three that the other DeLorean was already locked up and they could have syphaned gas or exchanged parts.

I still love the series

His dad is George McFly. Biff killed him, "two McFly's with the same gun" (as you said, fr)

As for the whole thing with the DeLorean, I don't know why they couldn't do that either! Then just change the note saying "had problem with fuel line, it got busted. Here's the list of parts to replace it"

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Mission Impossible II.
Oh how I hated that movie.

Nice link.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: fr

Originally posted by: ergeorge
How about in Enemy of the State ... they have a video feed from a security camera of Will Smith. The bad guys are looking at a still frame, and one of em tells the analyst something like "rotate that 180 degrees so we can see what's in his other hand". Just like that, from a 2D image, they spin it around, and we can see the other side of him!

That must be using the same cameras that can always zoom into a picture 1000X and it's still clear as day.

Yep that's the one.
I think it's the same one they used in Patriot Games that shows an IR picture of a terrorist camp from a satellite. There's a ton of things wrong with this, but the most basic is that the angle the picture is shot from never changes even though the satellite is obviously moving.

 

[scauffiel]

Not so much a goof as just something that bothers me to no end along the line of the "neverending magazine" is the way certain characters in a movie will cock a weapon repeatedly; yet you never see a live round fly out of the gun, you never hear it hit the deck, they just cock it to be cool and appear "deadly". Be it a pistol or shotgun there is never a reason to pass up a chance to make the cool scary noises of cocking a weapon.

Super duper cop cool guy with bad attitude pulls pistol and cocks it menacingly while walking toward bad guy. Super duper cop cool guy with bad attitude threatens bad guy for information while cocking gun again menacingly in bad guys face. Bad guy tells super duper cop with bad attitude "You'll never get anything from me copper!" Super duper cop with bad attitude again cocks gun and places barrel in bad guys mouth while saying something pithy like "You wanna talk now?" Bad guy gets scared look in eyes and motions that yes, he'd LIKE to say something BUT there's a gun in his mouth. Super duper cop cool guy with bad attitude removes gun from said bad guys mouth. Bad guy tells super duper cop cool guy with bad attitude "I can't tell you or he'll (ostensibly the bad guy's REALLY bad boss) kill me!" Super duper cop cool guy with bad attitude cocks gun YET AGAIN and says more suave dialog along the lines of "What do you think I'LL DO???"

Not to go off on a minor rant or anything, but... damn.

S.