Fire the Script Supervisor!

[Oz]

Was just thinking after reading the Lost in Translation thread about how some errors get past whole film crews only to be found by a bewildered few in the audience.

Have you spotted an incongruity in a movie before? What were they and from what film?

Remember, don't cheat and look one up on the 'net. This has to be something you've spotted on your own whether in the past or recently.

Well alright, I'll go first. In the final battle between Blade and Stephen Dorff's vampire character in the first Blade film, look for some odd make-up results. You'll find that the blood on Dorff's face will be on one half of his face, then jump to the other half, only to return again throughout the fight scene. Check it out!

[combatJJ]

In "Gangs of New York". I noticed that at the beginning when the boy is naming all the gangs to Leo, Leo's bag is jumping from over his shoulder to in his hands. There is lots of little things I noticed in that movie. I love that movie though.

[vovka]

Just saw "Enemy at the gate " agin and notce lots of bad details. (don't even speak about historical acuracy).
Example, main russian hero Vasilij Zaicev walking with his propoganda officer to meet Chrushev, one shot he had scrach on head, other it already has bande on it ... argggg bande in second world war, and it mistiresly apear on his had

[David Jimerson]

The first one I ever remember seeing is the money changing positions on Bill Murray's chest in the pushups bet scene in "Stripes."

After that, the list is long, long, long . . .

[Oz]

Just saw Mystic River for the first time today. Incredible movie. But I did catch a boom microphone again, this time over Sean Penn early on in the movie. I'll have to double check though when the DVD comes out.

I've never seen Stripes, I'll have to do so one day. Didn't see the other mistakes you guys mentioned - some good eyes there.

[Staven]

A good one is in the big battle in Braveheart. Not sure if it's the first one or not, but as Mel and his band of Scottsmen run screaming toward the English Army, check out Mel's weapon. It varies from shot to shot. The type, where it is held, what hand it's in etc.

As for boompoles, I'm sure by the time it hits DVD they should be digitally erased, but for real bad boompole, (can't believe I'm admitting I saw this in the theater) "Undercover Brother" had the worst boompole mistakes ever. Two times it drops into wideshots, and it isn't for a gag. It's one thing to have a shadow or it peaking into frame, but a whole microphone drop on a locked down wide shot... the rest of the takes must have really sucked.

Another funny one that was pointed out to me is really a major script error. In "The Rock", Sean Connery escapes Alcatrez by going through some sort of old fire burning furnace. To get back in he goes back through, then opens a door and lets all the agents in. Why the F**k wouldn't he have taken the door when he escaped???

[jumar]

When you see boom poles come into shot in the theater it is because the theatre hasn't set up the screen properly. The gate on the projector is on the wrong aspect ratio, or the screen itself is matted wrong. A 35mm frame has much more to it than you see on the screen, so if they don't matte it properly, you see more than what was intended.

When I first saw The Ring, I had to leave half way through because almost every shot had the boom pole in. I complained, then saw it at a different theatre and it was fine.

[Mike_Donis]

That's true...most films are "soft matted", meaning they expose the full 4:3 frame, and only compose for the 1.85 image area, so a lot of the time projectionists can make a misalignment and show the wrong 1.85 section of the 4:3 frame.

That said, I'm sure there are a FEW spots in big movies where they just flubbed up!

[Guest]

In Vanilla sky at the end when they are on the huge building, in the first shot they are way north of the park, around 116th and Manhattan Ave, and in the next shot, its about 60 blocks further south, near 58th and Park.

[Phil]

In the Transporter, he is wearing a stethescope to hear inside the cargo bays, they vanish every now and then.

In Swingers, he puts Lorraine's card on the calendar so he doesn't call her, when its close up its like one day away, when its far its like 3...