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My personal favorite? This scene from Twilight is where teenagers are clearly supposed to be playing Hackey-Sack, but are missing the Hackey-Sack.
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In fact, I love to watch the background actors in movies and TV shows, because oftentimes some nonsense is going on. Like this guy who forgot to play dead in Nobody.
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In the show American Primeval, you can spot a background character drop his spear and just…continue on.
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You can also spot other mistakes by looking in the background or off to the side. For example, in the most recent episode of The Last of Us, you can literally see a crew member hiding in the trees.
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It’s always funny to spot crew members in movies and TV shows. In Saw 3D, you can see a crew member flicking blood on a character.
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You can also see a crew member in this scene in the Oscar-winning Return of the King.
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In this episode of Gunsmoke, you can see a crew member’s modern shoe in the upper left corner.
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In the background of John Wick 3, you can see a person in one of the barn stalls to the left controlling the horse.
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In Stargate, you can see the whole crew in Kurt Russell’s glasses.
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Sometimes you can see the actual camera in movies and TV scenes. You can see a camera rig on the right side in this scene from The Naked Gun.
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And you can see a camera reflection in this scene from The King of Comedy.
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You can actually see the camera in this scene from Troy.
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Some mistakes are just hilariously obvious. This is how a character disables a bomb in Unthinkable.
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And in this shot from X-Men, you can see the screws in Wolverine’s claws.
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Some of the jurors in Daredevil: Born Again are completely replaced.
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In this scene from Resident Evil, the character is using the notepad app to video call.
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This is less obvious, but it feels like a big oversight given that in Wicked, Elphaba very dramatically breaks the patio window. However, a few scenes later, just before Fiyero arrives, the glass isn’t cracked.
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A lot of other errors have to do with continuity. In this scene from The Four Seasons, the table goes from empty to covered in drinks to having a single tray on it between shots.
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The bullet holes in the Terminator’s jacket disappear within seconds in this scene from Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
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The bullet wound is clearly in the center of Tye’s forehead in The Bricklayer — but later on, it’s above her eyebrow.
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This one from Two is even more obvious. Check out the mirror between shots and the very different cracks. It keeps flashing between them, too, making it even more obvious.
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The keys change color multiple times between shots in Friday Night Dinner.
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In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this woman’s tongs change into a spatula, then back to tongs.
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In The King of Queens, Carrie goes from scooping mashed potatoes to picking up chicken with a fork between shots.
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The towel John is using to dry a glass changes colors between shots in Jurassic Park.
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In Avengers: Endgame, when Tony returns Cap’s shield, it’s obvious they shot at different times of day, considering the shadows.
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In Daredevil: Born Again, Matt puts his pants on backwards, but soon after, they’re the right way forward.
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Speaking of Daredevil: Born Again, there are no flowers in the center of the table as Kingpin and Vanessa eat. Then at the end of the scene, there’s a huge bouquet.
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The shape of the glass on Yon Rogg’s ship changes between shots in Captain Marvel.
You can spot it better here.
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This one might take a more eagle-eyed viewer, but in this scene from Fatal Attraction, you can see the headphone cord switch the side it’s on.
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Credits mistakes also take an eagle-eyed viewer, but some are pretty egregious. They literally spelled Keira Knightley’s name wrong in The Phantom Menace.
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Sinners is pretty much a perfect film, but it does misspell San Rafael in the credits.
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It always takes me out of a film when you realize something is straight-up fake. Like this scene from Predator, where this woman’s hands clearly are not actually bound.
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This guy’s breathing tube isn’t even connected in this scene from Elementary, though in a different shot, it is.
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Alex’s hair clearly isn’t actually stuck in this scene from Modern Family. It easily falls away as her head moves.
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You can see Bruce Willis’ flesh-colored socks in this scene from Die Hard.
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Factual errors are always annoying because they feel so easy to just…not get wrong. In Mr. and Mrs. Smith, there’s a notification from the Bronx Zoo about Fiona the Hippo…who actually lives at the Cincinnati zoo.
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Showing the Dow Jones dropping by 500% in G20 is laughable.
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Cars having no headrests in movies (usually so they can fit cameras to shoot from the back) always annoy me. You can see this mistake in action in Sicario: Day of the Soldado — where the headrests actually appear again.
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Sometimes, it’s just SO obvious something is shot in the LA area. In this shot from Prison Break, which is supposed to take place in Wyoming, you can see palm trees, the ocean, and a pier.
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There’s no way to avoid shooting period pieces in modern locations, but it definitely takes you out of it to see modern things on-camera. In the background of this shot from The Last of the Mohicans, you can literally see buses.
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Modern cars in period pieces are fairly common, actually. This is from The Highwaymen, which is set in the ’30s.
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You can also see modern cars in this scene from Dexter: Original Sin, set in 1991.
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The background in the train windows changes instantaneously in this scene from France. The shot doesn’t even change; just the background does.
You can see it better here.
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In Rudy, during the Notre Dame/Georgia Tech match, you can see someone holding up a Boston College flag.
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Blade appears to disappear between shots in Deadpool & Wolverine.
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And both Wolverine and Blade appear to kill the same woman.
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And finally, in Passenger 57…the FBI agent who gets shot has blood on his face before he even gets shot.
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