Favorite Movie Gaff

[MrScorpio]

TRUE LIES - With a chase scene that starts off in DC's Georgetown, takes 30 seconds to run seven miles away through Lafayette Park and ends at the top of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, California.



Yours?

[sakabatou]

1. OK

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:
Just as Jack says, "On deck, you scabrous dogs," to the very left edge of the screen over Jack's shoulder is a grip crew member with a tan cowboy hat, white short sleeve tee shirt and sunglasses, just standing there looking out to sea.



Gladiator:
Gas canister in chariot:



The Matrix
When Agent Smith is interrogating Neo, after Smith has sealed Neo's mouth shut and he is backed into the corner, when the camera cuts back to Smith you can clearly see a reflection in his glasses of Neo still sitting down in the chair.

[charlie and algernon]

2. Transformers 2

The heros all go to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia and when they go out the back door, they're suddenly in the desert with snow capped mountains in the background. It's hard to take any movie seriously when they think you won't notice that the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range moved to Northern Virginia. :banghead:

[mikeytherat]

3. "Rumble in the Bronx." The whole damn movie, which was shot in Vancouver.

Either that, or I somehow failed to notice all those snow-capped mountains the last time I was in NYC.

mikey_the_rat

[NewJeffCT]

4. I think it was Die Hard 2

I remember this one from seeing it in the theater. But, Bruce Willis' character was in Washington DC and he raced to a pay phone and the pay phones were labeled PACIFIC BELL.

[hobbit709]

5. I can't remember which of the old westerns it was

but you can see jet contrails in the sky.

[HopeHoops]

6. Smokey & The Bandit - Police car going off the bridge with the guy fishing.

There are a LOT of gaffs in that movie, but this is my favorite because it is a DOUBLE gaff:

1) The car that starts chasing the Bandit down the dirt road is a Dodge. The one that goes off the bridge is a Pontiac.
2) The cop yells "Oh shit" or something when he realizes there's a turn right at the bridge and he doesn't have time to stop. The car goes off backward and not at a very high speed.


My second favorite gaff in that movie would be the first time the Bandit gets chased. It is raining like hell. He makes the 90 degree right turn and gains just enough time to hit the next street over and pull up over the curb to hide behind a shed with his lights off. At this point, everything is dry and he's got the windows and t-roof open.

There are a lot of other great ones in that movie, but who gives a shit - it's a fun movie anyway.

[sarge43]

7. Romancing the Stone

Location South America, captured, caged cockatoos. Wrong. They're from SE Asia and Australia. If TV programs are allowed, the first season of Rome - parrots from South America and Australia.

[NewJeffCT]

9. From Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull crapfest

or whatever it was called...

they were in south or central America and Indy yells out "siafu" - however, siafu are driver ants from eastern Africa. I think siafu is even a swahili word.

[gratuitous]

8. Diamonds are Forever

The car chase scene in Las Vegas, James Bond turns his car up on two wheels using a loading dock ramp to squeeze between two buildings and lose the pursuers. He goes into the slot on the passenger wheels, comes out the other side on the driver's side wheels.

[kick-ass-bob]

10. Yes!

One I actually noticed :D

[book lady]

11. In Chain Reaction, Keanu Reeves runs into the Field Museum in Chicago

and runs out of the Science and Industry Museum, also in Chicago, but miles apart...