Hollywood's Lesser Evils: Fun Mistakes in Major Movies

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This isn't whorellywierd but in the original American release of Godzilla, the Big Guy picks up a rail car in his mouth. The shot from inside the car shows dust falling from the ceiling. The Japanese must not have taken much pride in their railway cars.

Another one I like is Apollo 13. During the launch, there are multiple views of the first stage engines. What I'd like to know is, what's keeping the Saturn V launch vehicle from falling through the opening of the pad. The real pads had mounts that looked like inverted 30-60 triangles and those four mounts took the entire load of the vehicle.

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This isn't really a mistake, but it's interesting all the while. It's trivia from "9 to 5". Got it from IMCB.com:

In the middle of the film, Dolly and her colleagues send a nosy secretary to the Aspen Language Center in Colorado, to learn French. The particular TWA 747 shown in the film later was used in reality on the ill-fated flight of TWA 800, which exploded off of Long Island, NY.

[martin_fierro]

"THUH MONGOL WHORE IS MINE, MY MOH-THER."

[fredhead]

"Then, as it lands on its left side with the wheel hub skidding in the sand, they used the sound effect of a car skidding on pavement."

It's amazing how the same sound came from the Gereral Lee in "Dukes of Hazzard" TV series when they were on dirt roads.

[GermanBusiness]

I heard that the director of "The Godfather" publicly apologized for letting those two hippies into the film. I also heard that the causeway on which Sonny dies hadn't yet had its name changed to what it was in the film. The building where Michael protects his father on a stretcher has a notice saying the NYC Fire Commissioner is the one that existed in 1970 when the film was made.

Regarding "Titanic":

From MovieMistakes.com: The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is Lake Wissota, a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1918 when a power company built a dam on the Chippewa River, six years after the Titanic sank.

Factual error from the same site: When Rose is arriving in New York half asleep, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same colour as now (green). But if you visit the statue of liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change colour. The statue of liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been partly brown. Also, the flame was replaced in 1986 (for its 100th anniversary) with a gold flame. The film shows the Statue holding a torch with a gold flame, not the original.

[najida]

Yep,
right up there with Tony Curtis' line in the movie, 'The Vikings'...."Yonda lies da castle of me fadda."

[martin_fierro]

It'd be easier to name that which was not mistaken about this venture.

[Muleteam1]

I have no specific mistakes but ever notice that in modern movies set in the 1950s or 1960s, the only cars on the streets are the classics that are very collectible, e.g., convertibles and 2-door hardtops. Having lived during this period, I happen to know that most people had frumpy old 4-door sedans.

Muleteam1

[najida]

I know it's a bad western when I can see zippers in the dresses and tell that a fake hairpiece was slapped on the back of a starlets beehive hairdoo.

[scott7278]

It's amazing how the same sound came from the Gereral Lee in "Dukes of Hazzard" TV series when they were on dirt roads.

Knight Rider, also.

[NRA1995]

Death Wish: Frank Gardenia is interviewing a mugging victim who was rescued by Charles Bronson. In the shots where Gardenia faces the camera, the victim is wearing a hat. In the shots showing the victim's face, he isn't wearing a hat.

[HeadOn]

My favorite: In one of the street scenes in "Gone With the Wind", you can see a light bulb in one of the gas street lamps in the foreground...

[chae]

This isn't movie mistake, but it is a famous piece of soap opera legend. Back in the early seventies (I think), on the soap opera All My Children, the oldest son of the characters Jack and Ruth Martin went upstairs to his room to wax his skis and was never seen again.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Wasn't it on that same show that one character discovered that he had been sterile all his life. Which got him to wondering why his son bore a family resemblance. Only to discover that his brother had been bopping his wife.

[chae]

Probably, but that happens on every soap opera...

[WeddingPlanner]

My two that I always look for, since TNT is good at running movies over and over and over ad nauseum, is: (1) in Commando, the little yellow sports car keeps crashing into the side of the other car it's chasing and has it's whole side battered in - some of the time. When Arnie lifts it up to drive off in it, the side is smooth as a baby's bottom; and in (2) the Bruce Willis film (can't remember name right at the moment) where he's supposed to be in Washington DC and the telphone booth says Pacific Bell on it.

[HitmanLV]

At the end of 'The Professional,' Natalie Portman takes the Roosevelt Island tram to Wildwood, NJ. I still haven't figured that one out.

[Larry Lucido]

In Airplane, that's not a real automatic pilot - it's just an inflatable doll.

[Larry Lucido]

And "Jive" isn't a real language.

[hattend]

It's a UN team. The guy of whom you speak is part of the Canadian contingent. There are also Russians and Germans who have had a part in the show.