Here I discuss the technical errors, both big and small, that I1 have noticed in movies, television shows and games. Most of these errors involve inconsistencies in the storyline, editing, or the real world. “Reality” can be a tricky category because the movies, shows, and games discussed here are usually fictional, and fiction doesn’t always follow the rules of reality. But that certainly isn’t going to stop me from pointing them out!
In some cases what could be considered a technical error was intentionally done, usually for comedic purposes – Those scenarios are not going to be referenced here. For example in “You May Not Kiss the Bride” when Masha mixes the epoxy resin and dumps the bucket over the bad guy. That should have been a lethal action. The chemical burns would have been unbearable and his ability to breath or see would have been cut off. Instead he ended up wearing a hat/mask2 made of poured epoxy that happened to not cover his glasses and allow him to see and breath.
I don’t usually allow these technical errors to keep me from enjoying movies, it’s kind of fun to find them and analyze how they could’ve done it better.
Caution – The Following Technical Error Details Probably Contain Spoilers!
Movies and Television
One of the errors I see repeated over and over in movies and television is the cell phone hang-up. The character is on their mobile phone, talking to someone else. The person at the other end of the line hangs-up and now the character on their phone has a dial tone. There are two problems here: mobile/cell phones don’t have a dial tone, not even when they were first introduced decades ago; and the other problem is that on any phone, mobile or good old copper landline, when the other person ends the call, the person left hanging doesn’t suddenly hear a dial tone. At best they’ll hear clicks and then the end of call tones on a mobile or a rapid busy-like tone on a landline.
17 Again
When Ned Gold is at the restaurant with Jane Masterson, there is a noticeable continuity error involving Jane’s menu. During their conversation, whenever the camera is positioned behind Jane looking toward Ned, Jane is holding her menu up as though she is reading it. However, when the camera switches to a shot from behind Ned looking toward Jane, the menu is lying on the table, with Jane’s hands either folded or gesturing as she talks. The camera switches between these angles several times during the conversation, repeatedly showing the menu changing positions between shots.
Animal House
When John is up on a ladder looking in the second floor windows of a sorority house, he sees the ladies up close and personal. We’re going to ignore that they don’t see him, even when one of the them walks up to the window and seems to be peering out or at least looking at her own reflection. The inconsistency I’m pointing out here is that the full scene camera view, where we can see most of the house like from street level, the windows are completely covered and we only see silhouettes. Whenever the camera view is close to John, the windows are clear, and not blocked except for curtains pulled to the sides. Obviously we’re ignoring the hopping action to move the ladder between windows. It might be possible to some degree, but not like shown.
At the toga party, when Boon is with Mrs. Wormer, she kicks off her shoes. When the second shoe hits the glass table, we hear a glass-shattering sound effect, but the table itself does not break. The sound effect implies that the glass was shattered, yet there is no visible damage to the table, making this a noticeable sound-effect error.
When the Delta boys and their dates go to a bar, the couples sit at a round booth. A man comes over and asks the boys to dance with their dates. The man then removes the table for the booth. It has a standard square base which normal just sits on the floor, however the breaking sound is played to suggest that the table was ripped from the floor.
During the parade, one of the Delta boys shoves the drum major out of the way in front of the marching band. As the camera pulls back and pans toward the alley where the band is being led, the drum major is nowhere to be seen. At the same time, the parade security personnel continue walking casually, seemingly unaware that anything has happened. The sudden disappearance of the drum major, combined with the lack of any reaction from security, creates a noticeable continuity issue.
Armageddon
At about 12 minutes into the movie, the scene changes to Harry driving golf balls off of the oil rig platform. At first a Srixon brand ball is shown with small dimples (like on practice and mini-golf balls) and no number. The camera view shifts to his view and then back to the ball. The ball now is a number ‘3’ Srixon with a larger dimple pattern. camera view is changed to show the swing and when returning to the ball for the club hit, the ball is still a number “3” of the larger dimple styling, but it is now turned into a different position.3 At least they kept the brand the same. The tee style and placement height changes between each shot, too, piling on to this technical error.
During the psychiatric interviews of Harry’s men, when the camera view is from behind the interviewer towards the door, lights can be seen in the corners on either side of the door. In one of the shots of Rockhound during the ink blot review, the light in the left corner is missing, it is present in all others.
This moment was clearly included for comedic effect, but it lacks consistency with what happened earlier in the scene. Harry asks Colonel Sharp if there are any bullets left in the gun. However, no shots had been fired, so the gun should still have contained all of the bullets with which it was originally loaded.
Whenever global footage is shown during the initial meteor strikes early in the movie, and again toward the end, the people in every location around the world are shown in daylight. However, at any given moment, only about half of the Earth is experiencing daylight while the other half is in darkness. Therefore, some of the locations shown in the global footage should have been experiencing nighttime. Showing every location in daylight is a technical error in the depiction of the events occurring around the world.
As Good as it Gets
About two-thirds into the movie, Carol is driving with Simon in the front seat and Melvin in the back. The convertible roof of the car is down. Simon offers to explain what happened to the relationship with his parents. Carol decides to pull over and give Simon her full attention. The camera view changes to outside the vehicle as it rounds the curve and Carol pulls over to the side of the ride. During this part of the sequence, the car’s top is up.
Austin Powers
In the first installment of Austin Powers (International Man of Mystery), Dr. Evil killed Mustafa closer to the end of the movie. In the second movie (The Spy Who Shagged Me) Mustafa is alive again. It’s the same actor with the same manorisms.
In the first movie, present day (1997), Dr. Evil is introduced to his son, Scott, who was created in a lab using Dr. Evil’s specimen. Scott’s age is never disclosed, but he is either a late teenager or best case in his early twenties. Then in the second movie, Dr. Evil goes back in time to 1969 where he and Frau have a romantic moment which turns out to be when Scott was conceived. That means Scott should have been in his late twenties in 1997. This aging error aside, if Scott were naturally conceived in 1969, then why would they have introduced him as a lab creation so late in his life?
Back to the Future
In Back to the Future Part II, when Doc encounters his 1955 counterpart at the “weather experiment,” the younger Doc is shown tightening a bolt on a bracket supporting the wires. However, he is visibly turning the bolt in the wrong direction to tighten it. Instead, he appears to be turning it in the direction that would loosen the bolt, making this a small but noticeable technical error.
Back to the Future Part III contains an interesting paradox involving Shonash Ravine, which is known as Clayton Ravine in the future. In the movie, Doc saves Clara Clayton from falling into the ravine, preventing her death and, consequently, preventing the ravine from being named after her. Later, after Marty portrays as Clint Eastwood, the ravine is eventually renamed Eastwood Ravine. That part is not necessarily a problem, but it leads to a much more interesting paradox. Clara is identified as Doc’s beloved on the tombstone that Marty sees in the future. That tombstone is what motivates Marty to travel back in time to save Doc from being killed. However, Doc only saves Clara because Marty traveled back to 1885. Although Doc would have been living in 1885 regardless, he would not have been at the location where Clara fell into the ravine. Marty’s arrival in 1885 led to Doc being at that particular location while the two were working on a way to return to the future. Without Marty traveling back in time, Doc would not have been at the ravine when Clara arrived. Clara would have fallen into the ravine and died, meaning she would never have met Doc, fallen in love with him, or become his beloved. This creates a paradox: the tombstone identifying Clara as Doc’s beloved is what motivates Marty to go back in time, but Clara only becomes Doc’s beloved because Marty went back in time and caused Doc to be in the right place to save her. Without Marty going back, Clara dies; without Clara surviving, there is no tombstone identifying her as Doc’s beloved; and without that tombstone, Marty has no reason to go back in the first place.
Backdraft
This movie is filled with technical errors when it comes to fire and firefighting. For the sake of the movie, however, I won’t get into those issues, considering I only spent three decades serving as a volunteer firefighter.
During the Backdraft scene at about 8.5 minutes into the movie, the aerial view of the explosion shows debris being blown from the house directly toward the front yard and road. However, the victim’s car is actually parked on the road across from the breezeway—the space between the houses—not closer to the front of the house as it appears in the aerial shot. Despite the car’s apparent change in position, the aerial view of the explosion shows only small pieces of debris striking the vehicle. The larger debris, including what could have been the victim’s body, is shown landing on the road to the left of the car. When Brian arrives at the scene, however, the victim is shown as having been thrown through the windshield of the vehicle. Based on the direction and location of the debris shown in the explosion, the victim’s position in the car does not appear to be consistent with what we see immediately afterward.
Batman Returns
After Penguin dies, we watch as the penguins slide his body into the water. During the shot, however, we can see the rolling platform that his body was lying on continue moving beneath the water away from him. The problem is that Penguin died on the ground, not on a rolling platform. There is no apparent reason for the platform to be underneath his body or to move with him into the water, making its appearance a noticeable technical error.
The Beastmaster
During the scene where the Jun Horde attacks Dar’s home village there are several inconsistencies between takes. Specifically character poses at camera changes. For example, Dar’s “father” is shown holding the sword at the ready to his right when the camera view is from his front, but in other camera views he is holding the sword at his left.
In that same fight sequence, Dar gets knocked out. His dog, Koto, pulls him away from danger. In several camera views, the dog is pulling on Dar’s left shoulder, but in some Koto is pulling on Dar’s right shoulder. About in the middle of the dragging sequence, Koto lets go to get a better grip on Dar’s shoulder, but Dar’s body miraculously keeps moving.
Later in the movie, two slave girls are swimming in a pond. Their clothing is still on while swimming, which of course means that the clothes are wet. Kiri hastily gets out of the water, it is obvious that her clothing is wet as she runs past the camera. Our camera view is immediately changed to see her running from the camera into the woods in dry clothing.
Beauty and the Beast (Live Action – 2017)
The introductory narration explains that the Enchantress saw there was “no love in his heart” and cursed the Prince. The narration then states that the memories of those he loved were wiped from their minds. This raises a continuity question: if the Prince truly had no love in his heart, then who were the people he loved whose memories were supposedly erased? If he had loved people enough for them to have their memories of him erased, then there must have been some love in his heart before the curse.
Beverly Hills Cop II
During the A-crime (Adriano’s robbery), as the blonde is leaving the jewelry store she shoots down the chandelier. You hear four shots and the chandelier falls. She then turns around and there are two more shot sounds heard even though no one is firing their gun.
Axel is driving down the road, just before he “steals a house”, the movie shows cars parked on both sides of a two-lane (plus parking lanes) road with another car behind him. The view changes to an aerial shot of him turning around on a much narrower road – just two lanes with no room for side parking lanes. Plus the car that was behind him is gone.
The Big Bang Theory
Most of the technical errors found in The Big Bang Theory are story-line inconsistencies with a few other errors spattered about.
S03:E22 – During Leonard’s story to Penny about moving in with Sheldon, and the roommate agreement. In the flashback, Sheldon explains that one of Leonard’s responsibilities is to drive him places. Leonard asks him about driving and Sheldon responds he can, but chooses not to drive. Sheldon does not get his learner’s permit and driver’s license until later in the series, therefore he can’t (legally) drive and making that statement untrue, or an error. The driving discrepancy comes up multiple times throughout the series. This technical error spans multiple episodes.
S02:E05 – Sheldon gets learner’s permit S03:E08 – Sheldon drives Penny to hospital (Learner’s permit) S03:E16 – Sheldon goes to traffic court for an automated ticket for running a red light in S3:E08. He gets points on a driver’s license he doesn’t have. S06:E09 – Raj says to Sheldon “You don’t have a car. You don’t even drive.” Later in the episode Sheldon says that Howard can use his parking spot “until such time as I learn to drive or get a bat mobile.” S10:E16 – Sheldon admits to Amy that he has had his driver’s license for two years. (We’ll call that Season 8) S11:E04 – Howard is out with Sheldon, teaching him to drive. Sheldon hands his license to the police officer that pulled him over. S12:E21 – Sheldon offers to pickup Leonard’s mother from the airport. He is reminded that he doesn’t drive.
S04:E10 – Amy is dissecting a human brain while wearing gloves, presumably either to protect herself from chemicals or bacteria on the brain or to prevent contaminating the specimen. While describing her symptoms to Sheldon, however, Amy handles and eats food without removing or changing her gloves. She then returns to working on the brain while still wearing the same gloves. This creates a clear hygiene and continuity issue, since the gloves that were in contact with the brain should not then be used to handle food.
S09:E02 – When Leonard asks how much marriage counseling costs, Howard gives him a specific price. Raj then asks how Howard knows the cost. In S08:E09, however, Howard and Bernadette are talking about what they love about each other when Raj interrupts and says, “That’s just like when we were in couples counseling.” Although a funny statement, it demonstrates that Raj should understand that Howard knows the price of counseling, because they did it together previously.
S10:E20 – Sheldon speaks Hindi to Raj, then Raj tells him to say it in English since Raj never learned Hindi. This doesn’t make sense, since Raj was born and raised in India. Nonetheless, in an earlier episode (S03:E09) he was telling the guys about when he called into an Indian Radio Station and said the phrase that pays in Hindi. Plus only a half-season later (S11:E14), Raj is telling Sheldon Hindi translations for some English words as requested by Leonard.
S12:E03 – This technical error starts in episode 2 of this season. Episode 2 is ended with Stuart going on a date, bright orange from a spray on tan. Episode 3 is the following day, based on the conversation with Howard and Bernadette, but Stuart’s skin is his normal skin tone instead of the spray-on tan orange. We know he was unable to remove the excess tan spray, because they discussed that in episode 2.
Caddyshack
In the scene where Judge Smails is dedicating his boat, Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) drives his boat directly toward a man in a fishing boat. The shot then changes to a close-up view of the bow cutting through the water. Instead of the water splashing outward as the bow moves forward, the water appears to be flowing back toward the bow, revealing that the shot was reversed.
Charmed
I really enjoyed the earlier seasons of this show. I am not going to touch on the differences between real witchcraft and what is used unless it is particularly and extremely incorrect.
S01:E04 – When Piper and Mark are running away from Tony Wong, they get into Piper’s car. Although we do not see Mark open or close the door, we clearly hear two car doors being opened and closed, implying that he entered through his own door. This becomes a continuity error because Mark is a ghost. He cannot physically interact with objects, including opening or closing a car door. The inconsistency is reinforced later at the police station, where Piper opens and closes the car door for Mark. Since he is a ghost, he would have no ability—or need—to operate the door himself.
S01:E21 – At several points in the series, including S02:E22 and S03:E09, Leo explains that he cannot heal someone who is dead. However, in this episode, Piper uses a spell to switch powers with Leo and then uses his healing ability to bring him back to life—hours after he died. If Leo himself cannot heal the dead, it is unclear how Piper, even while possessing his powers, is able to heal Leo after he has died. At the end of the episode, Piper has Leo’s military dog tags. Since Leo was killed in action during World War II, there is a problem with the fact that he still has both tags. Under the military practice of the time, one dog tag would remain with the deceased, while the second would be removed and collected for administrative purposes. Therefore, Leo should not have had both tags to give to Piper. This observation also ignores the larger continuity issue that, as a Whitelighter, Leo would presumably have no practical use for—or ability to retain—his military dog tags in the first place.
S02:E08 – When Leo is unable to heal Piper’s poison oak, he explains that the Elders control what he is and is not able to heal. In S03:E02, Leo also states that he cannot heal animals. However, in S04:E05, he heals the P3 sign after it is damaged when the nightclub is renamed “The Spot.” This creates a continuity issue with the stated limitations of Leo’s healing ability. If the Elders restrict what he can heal, and his abilities are limited to living human beings, it is unclear how he is able to heal a damaged sign and not a poison oak rash.
S02:E15 – Near the end of the episode, Prue is playing with her new camera equipment. When talking to her sisters, she mentioned about photography being digital, blah blah blah. The camera she is using is a Nikon F5 and Kodak Professional DCS combination unit. When Prue takes a picture we hear the shutter and mirror action, and then we hear the sound of a film winding motor. There is no film to wind in a digital camera. This mistake is duplicated every once in a while for follow-up episodes. In Episodes 18 and 19 of this same season, Prue uses a dark room for developing pictures, and I’m not talking about Adobe’s photography software.
S07:E06 – This episode references the astronomical phenomenon known as a Blue Moon. The characters state that a Blue Moon occurs only once every 50 years, but that is incorrect. A Blue Moon, commonly defined as the second full moon occurring within the same calendar month, happens approximately once every 2–3 years, or about every 33 months. There is another error involving the Blue Moon in this episode. The three witches transform into violent beasts when the Blue Moon rises on each of three consecutive evenings. The full moon is only a one day4 occurrence in the moon phase cycle, not three days. Therefore, having the Blue Moon “rise” as a full moon on three separate nights is a technical error.
S06:E15 – In this episode a demon uses a genie to wish the Charmed Ones dead. Their souls then appear floating above their bodies—Piper, Phoebe, and Paige. When Piper calls out to Leo, who is unconscious, he moves his hand and apparently heals her. Since Leo cannot heal the dead, and there was no injury to heal, we’re calling this a technical error.
S07:E07 – Near the end of the episode, Leo heals Piper and Phoebe after they have been stabbed. During the healing process, the blades are still visibly lodged in Piper’s abdomen, and Leo does not remove them. However, once he finishes healing them, the blades have mysteriously disappeared. (Ignoring the larger issue of Leo being unable to heal someone who is already dead.)
Contact
When Dr. Eleanor Arroway arrives at her hotel about an hour into the movie, she is talking on the phone when she receives a fax during the conversation. Since Ellie is a scientist who would likely need to be online for research and other work, it is reasonable to assume the room had a second phone line, so the simultaneous phone call and fax are not necessarily a technical error. The actual error is with the fax machine itself. The faxed document is shown coming out of the machine through the document-feeder exit rather than the printer output tray, where the received fax should actually appear.
The Cutting Edge
Although these issues do not take away from the movie itself, the editing contains a number of technical continuity errors throughout. For example, near the beginning, when Douglas is hanging from the wall opening header and hammering nails, the position and even the presence of the nail changes several times throughout the sequence. The positioning of his arms and various body movements also change noticeably between shots.
Dances With Wolves
When John Dunbar is heading toward the Indian village for the first time, he finds Stands with Fists in the process of slitting her wrists. In the initial close-up from the front, her left hand and arm are visibly covered in wet blood. The camera then switches to John’s perspective from a distance. In that shot, Stands with Fists reaches up and brushes her hair back with her left hand, but her hand and arm are completely clean of blood. When the camera cuts back to the close-up of her from the front, her left hand and arm are once again covered in blood.
When John Dunbar returns to the fort later in the movie, Two Socks comes to visit. John offers the wolf some meat, and as Two Socks cautiously approaches to accept it, the camera repeatedly switches between views from behind John, behind Two Socks, and from the side. During these different shots, the piece of meat changes noticeably several times in its straightness, size, and overall shape. It appears that the scene was filmed over multiple takes, but the filmmakers did not maintain consistency in the piece of meat between shots, resulting in an obvious continuity error.
In the scene where Stands with Fists makes love to John, there is a noticeable difference in the shading of the skin on her back in the area where a bra or bikini top would normally cover. It appears to be a tan line that the filmmakers attempted to conceal with makeup, but the makeup does not quite match her natural skin tone, making the difference visible on camera.
Dirty Dancing
The first time that Baby dances with Johnny at the clubhouse, at the end of the song Johnny spins Baby and walks away; Baby is seen clapping and then stops, hanging her hands down. The camera view changes to a close-up of her and she is still clapping.
About three quarters into the movie, Lisa walks up to a cabin with a towel on door knob. The towel is still on the knob as she opens the door. The camera view changes to seeing inside the cabin. When the view returns to the exterior view, Lisa’s hand is still on the door knob, but the towel is missing.
The very next scene starts with a closeup of a record player and music is playing – a continuation of the song from the previous sequence. The needle progresses onto the trailing groove at the end of the side. This is usually silent (or has soft static), but the song is still playing. The needle arm lifts and the song abruptly stops during a chorus verse.
Edward Scissorhands
When Edward first goes into Kim’s room, he discovers the waterbed. He notices the fluid movement, how wavy it reacts. Edward then punctures the bed and gets sprayed with water. He put a stuffed animal over the hole. Later he is laying in the bed, still in tact and obviously not getting wet.
Ed is lying in Kim’s waterbed when she comes home early. She screams when she notices him; he panics and punctures the bed multiple times. Although water is shooting out of the bed, the surface of the bed is firm, not wavy like demonstrated earlier.
The Experts
This long-forgotten classic has plenty of absurd moments that could easily be considered errors, but I’m not going to get into those. Instead, I’ll focus specifically on the continuity errors, along with a sprinkling of other notable mistakes.
When Mr. Smith is riding around New York City in a taxi, the shots from inside the cab clearly show that it is raining outside. However, in the exterior shots of the taxi, there is no rain at all, and the streets are completely dry. The weather changes depending on whether the camera is inside or outside the cab, making this a continuity error.
During the job interview training, Mr. Smith insists that English must always be spoken. However, on the flight from New York to the Soviet Union, he speaks Russian with the flight attendant and even speaks Russian to himself. This contradicts his earlier insistence that English be used at all times.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Jeff Spicoli has a pizza delivered to his history class. When the delivery man arrives, he asks, “Who ordered the double cheese and sausage?” However, when Mr. Hand allows the students to take slices—and even takes one himself—the pizza is clearly just cheese. The sausage that was supposedly part of the order is nowhere to be seen, making this a noticeable continuity error.
Fifty Shades of Grey
At Anna’s graduation, a photographer takes a picture of Anna and Christian together. We can clearly hear the camera shutter when the photograph is taken, and Anna has a beautiful smile on her face at that moment. However, the photograph that is later printed in the newspaper shows Anna with a completely different expression—her mouth is open and not a smile. The photograph in the newspaper does not appear to be the same picture we saw the photographer take.
The Fifth Element
Before boarding the ship to Fhloston Paradise, David inserts a multi-pass into the identification slot, and the attendant verifies that he is Mr. Dallas and congratulates him on winning the contest. A moment later, Korben Dallas appears, takes the multi-pass, and says, “I was so afraid I wasn’t going to make this flight, so I sent…” He then looks at the multi-pass and continues, “David here to pick up my boarding pass.” The scene seems to imply that Korben takes the same multi-pass David had just used and pushes David away, then uses his own multi-pass to board. This creates a continuity problem. If the original multi-pass was actually David’s, then the attendant mistakenly accepted the wrong identification and somehow verified David as Korben Dallas. On the other hand, if the multi-pass David was using was fraudulent and actually had Korben Dallas’ information on it, then how did Korben get David’s name and information onto the pass in the first place? Either way, the scene leaves an unexplained question about whose identification was actually on the multi-pass David initially presented.
Full Metal Jacket
During recruit training, the Drill Sergeant is hollering at the privates as they work their way through an obstacle on the PT course. He yells that they should be able to negotiate the obstacle “in no less than 10 seconds.” Based on the obstacle itself and his other comments, he clearly means “in less than 10 seconds.” Saying “no less than 10 seconds” actually means they should take at least 10 seconds, which is the opposite of what he appears to be demanding.
At about 55 minutes into the movie, the Viet Cong soldiers raid the Marines’ base at Da Nang. During the attack, many of the Viet Cong soldiers can be seen running and firing their weapons directly toward the ground rather than toward the American soldiers. I realize that it is common in movies for the “bad guys” to be terrible shots, but this seemed excessive enough to stand out as a technical error. They weren’t just missing their targets—they were seemingly aiming at the ground.
Ghostbusters
In the original Ghostbusters, there is a noticeable continuity error during the scene in Dana’s kitchen. When the eggs pop out of their shells and land on the kitchen counter, the fried eggs appear in different positions during the close-up shots compared with the wider shots. The continuity issue becomes even more noticeable when Dr. Venkman returns to the kitchen. At that point, the positions of the eggs, along with some of the other groceries on the counter, have changed again.
Here
The premise of this movie was to display life’s moments from one specific viewing point across several different eras, ranging from the time of the dinosaurs all the way through the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a very well-crafted concept, although it could be a little difficult to follow at times because of the frequent jumps through time.
There is one point in the movie where rainwater is coming through the ceiling of the room that serves as our viewing point. We see a man on a ladder trying to deal with the water pouring in. It seemed a little out of place to me, since the logical first place to address rainwater entering a house would be at the actual point of entry. Of course, showing that point would have interfered with the movie’s intent of keeping us in the same fixed vantage point throughout the different eras.
Where I see the continuity error comes in with this rainwater event is at the end of the movie. We eventually leave the house and float away, looking back at it from the outside. At that point, we can see that the house is two stories tall and has a fairly large attic space. If water was truly coming into the first floor at the rate we saw, just imagine how bad the water situation must have been in the attic and on the second floor.
Home Improvement
S04:E18 – When Heidi is demonstrating how to turn off the natural gas supply, she explains it correctly “quarter-turn so that the wrench is perpendicular to the pipe.” However, her demonstration ends with the wrench parallel with the pipe – in other words, she turned the gas on.
Hot Dog … the Movie
About three-quarters into the movie, Squirrel and a woman get into the ski lift car. Their skis are put into bins on the outside of the car. On some of the external shots during the ride up the mountain, the skis are not on the car.
Ironman
At a party, Tony Stark puts a tip in the glass as he orders a Martini. A woman comes up and starts talking to him. When the camera view changes to allow view of the tip glass, the money Tony put in is missing.
It’s Complicated
At the end of the movie, Jane comes out of her house in the pouring rain and meets up with Adam under the pop-up. The rain is continuing to pour, but many of the camera views show deep shadows cast by brightly lit plants – most of the footage was shot on a bright sunny day, though some of it was overcast or perhaps closer to twilight. I actually see this technical error in lots of movies.
Karate Kid (2010 Remake)
Dre visits Mr. Han at his house, while Mr. Han is experiencing an emotional breakdown. Dre encourages Mr. Han to continue training with him, by using the poles with rope loops at the end. These are the ones used earlier in the movie for training Dre. Mr. Han started with his hands out of the rope loops, but as the sequence progresses, he is shown with his hands through the loops sometimes, while other times not through the loops. I’m not talking about once or twice – I’m talking about changing back and forth multiple times throughout the sequence.
Karate Kid II
When arriving at the military base in a taxi, looking for Tomi Village. The soldier says he never heard of it, then asks a nearby Sargent who responds “You’re standing on it, get them out of here.” The soldiers then tells them to go down the road and turn right, miraculously knowing where to go.
When Mr. Miyagi and Daniel are at the dock, Mr. Miyagi is pulling up the double-spiked empty net return to let Daniel try to “no be there” block with drum technique. The net return already has a cork stopper covering the spike while he is pulling it up, but then we see Mr. Miyagi putting the stopper on the spike.
Helping a villager bring his harvest to the trader (Chozen), Daniel puts the basket on the scale. In doing so, he toppled some of the weights from the scale. Daniel picks up one of the damaged weights and easily snaps in into pieces. The villagers get angry with Chozen for cheating them. The weights were able to be broken, meaning they are likely lighter than the weights that would normally be used. Chozen would have to use more “weights” to measure the harvest, ultimately cheating himself instead of the villagers.
During the massive storm, a beam lands on Sato, pinning him to the ground. After Miyagi saves him, Chozen tells Sato “I thought you were dead.” Daniel went to help the bell-ringing girl who was stuck at the top of the bell tower. Sato instructed Chozen to help Daniel, but Chozen let his pride get in the way and declined to help Daniel. As Daniel is struggling to bring the girl to the shelter, Sato went to his aide. Once back in the shelter, Sato tells Chozen, “Now I am dead to you.” At the Bone Dance, Sato tells Chozen that hate is wrong and to not carry on with his actions. Chozen responded, “I can not hear you, Uncle. I am dead to you. Remember?”
Knight Rider
While recently binge watching Knight Rider, which I haven’t watched in decades, I have spotted a large number of technical errors. Such a high number, I’m not going to bother listing episode by episode, just a basic summary.
Randomly, KITT’s hood will be slightly opened. The distance of being open is consistent with being stopped on the safety latch. As camera views change within driving scenes, sometimes the hood will be open in one or two of the camera shots.
When cars drive off a cliff, for example, the car in the below view as the car flies off the cliff tends to be a different model vehicle – not even similar looking.
The towing hardware under KITT is randomly visible on the vehicle. Just like the hood open error, in the same driving sequence, this hardware will be present in some camera views, but not all of them.
There are auxiliary headlamps within the front bumper of KITT. Well – sometimes there are auxiliary headlamps, most of the time they are not present.
I found it funny how the production team used recycled video game sound effects and graphics whenever KITT did something special, like showing nearby villain vehicles or connect to a remote system.
Lethal Weapon
When Riggs is on the ledge of a building with a jumper, he tricks the man into taking a cigarette so that Riggs can hand cuff them together. As they are jumping off the building, the cuffs separate – The prop broke and you can see the men jumping off the ledge, no longer cuffed together. (As shown below)5
“I don’t know. He’s hurting. He’s in pain… there’s something eating away,” says the police therapist to Murtaugh. There are two problems with the phone conversation. First, even in the late 1980s, confidentiality would have prevented the therapist from talking to Murtaugh. Second, she claims to not know what Riggs’ psychological issue is, although she and the Captain both know that Riggs’ wife recently died – they were discussing it earlier in the movie.
In the scene where Murtaugh and Riggs are at the shooting range, Murtaugh shoots a hole in the middle of the target’s head. Riggs then moves that target further down the range to shoot several holes, making a smiling face. There are two problems with the prop in the scene. First, when a bullet pierces a paper target, it doesn’t create a clean perfect circle, but instead pushes the paper to tear a hole, usually circle-like and indented. Second Murtaugh uses a larger caliber bullet than Riggs, but all of the holes in the paper are the same size perfect hole.
When Murtaugh confronts Riggs about being suicidal, Riggs tells him he thinks about eating a bullet. He even has one with a hollow point to do the job right. At the start of the movie, we see Riggs load a single round into a handgun and put the barrel in his mouth. The bullet was not a hollow point, but instead a standard full metal jacketed round. At the end of the movie, Riggs presents a bullet for Murtaugh and states he doesn’t need it anymore. The implication is that is the suicidal round; he was surrendering it to never be used for that purpose. Again, it wasn’t a hollow point.
Lethal Weapon 2
About 90 minutes into the movie, Riggs is using his pickup truck to pull one of the stilts out from under the hillside house/office of the South African consulate. This is Southern California. These types of structures are designed to withstand an earth-quake. One pickup truck is not going to pull the stilt out. The action would rip apart the truck first.
A neat maneuver, but when Riggs and Murtaugh start the car within the container and send it through the pallets of money and closed container doors – I don’t think that would have worked. We see the doors fly open as the car and cash pours out. Where did the pallets go? In order for that to work, the car would need more than the couple feet it had to gain speed and momentum. Then of course, there is the theatrical explosion as the car is launched through the air. The sparks are seen in the front wheel wells initially, but then the next camera view, the sparks are in the rear wheel wells and under the back end of the car. What’s a Hollywood movie without unrealistic explosions and fireworks.
The Longest Yard
As Paul Crewe is leaving his girlfriend’s house, he has a six-pack of beer in his hand. He finishes one of them and throws it on the ground as he walks to her car. When he is pulled over by the police, he is drinking a beer and hands it to an officer. After backing his girlfriend’s car into the police cruiser, damaging both vehicles, Paul tells the cop to finish the beer, he has five more. Must have been a baker’s half-dozen.
Speaking of damaging the police cruiser and his girlfriend’s car – As Paul is being chased by the police, there is no damage on the back of the car.
Mannequin
During the scene where Mr. Richards and Felix, the security guard, are chasing Jonathan and Emmy, Emmy is shown (as a mannequin) flipping the bird with her right hand.6 If she cannot be animated while in view of other people, then how was she able to make this gesture?
I’ve seen reports that the car color for that chase changes from black to green. I thought I should point out that the paint on that car can easily reflect gray/black depending on the lighting conditions. At the beginning of the sequence, when the car appears black, look at the highlights on the roof edges – they’re showing a darker shade of the green that the car actually is. Sorry guys – it isn’t a technical error after all.
When Hollywood is fending off the security guards with a fire hose, he uses an occupant-use fire hose which do not offer the pressure or volume of water as shown in the movie. During this sequence, the security guards’ shirts change colors. At the beginning of the sequence, and at most points throughout, all of their shirts are dark blue, but in a couple frames, some of the guards are in light blue.
Men In Black
About two-thirds into MIB, the Morgue Attendant, played by David Cross, was killed by the alien bug. He is recast as Newton, in the video store, for MIIB.
At the end of the first Men in Black movie, J is seen wearing a more modern suit; buttoned tall mandarin style collar, no tie and stylish sunglasses. In MIIB (second movie) J is back to the original suit for MIB, which is also worn for the third installation.
Monk
You’d think a show about technical details would be all about making no technical mistakes. They’ve had three different actresses play Monk’s dead wife Trudy – not including the “young” Trudy in one episode.
S2:E10 – In this episode, Monk’s neighbor Kevin wins the lottery – Forty-three million dollars. At the end, he is seen no longer wearing glasses, presumably having laser surgery, and acting differently due to his new money. Later this season, and for several episodes afterward, Kevin is wearing glasses again and just as geeky as before he won the lottery.
S4:E04 – Whenever Mr. Kemp’s office is shown from the first floor cafeteria, it is shown with full height windows (floor to ceiling). From the cafeteria, you can see most of the side of his desk, even the tops of his shins and bottom side when he is sitting. Whenever shot from within his office, the windows were at least 30 inches (standing hip height) from the floor. From the angle of the cafeteria downstairs, with 30 inches before the windows, looking into Mr. Kemps office one might see the top of Mr. Kemp’s head when he was sitting at his desk.
S6:E06 – Monk and Troy are buried in Troy’s car at a quarry. When the suspect turns off the bulldozer (after burying them), it is parked about ten feet from the buried car. Next view of the scene is daylight and the bulldozer is at least 20 feet from the car. We return to inside the car. Monk is panicking and trying to open the car door. During his panic, the camera view is bouncing around like the car is shaking. The problem is, with all the gravel on top of the car, the shocks would have bottomed out and the vehicle wouldn’t move due to Monks movements.
Moulin Rouge
During the stage show near the end, when Satine is raised from below the stage, her left leg is showing through a split in her skirt. The camera changes view and the skirt is closed, no longer showing the leg. Another camera change view and her left leg is seen again. Since she wasn’t dancing around yet, the change wasn’t due to her movements, but instead a continuity mistake in editing alternate takes together.
Near the end of the movie, when Toulouse (the dwarf) is hanging in the rafters, yelling his line “All you have to learn…” the special effects team forget to edit out his legs. For those that don’t know, John Leguizamo is an average height man who had to walk on his knees for Moulin Rouge. His legs were removed by special effects, except in this one spot where they missed it.
My Best Friend’s Wedding
At the baseball game, Julianne is handing out cups of beer from a tray. After having given out three cups, we can see that they are missing from the tray, leaving ten cups unevenly spaced. Julianne then hands out two additional cups. When Michael’s little brother stands to give her a hug, the tray is has the appropriate number of eight cups, but they are now evenly distributed. She hands out one more cup of beer and then another spectator takes a cup from the tray, leaving just five cups.
When Julianne is sitting in the hallway outside Michael’s hotel room door smoking a cigarette, she takes a drag of the cigarette while it is in her left hand. Just then he opens the door and she falls in. Now the cigarette is shown in her right hand.
Paulie
The blue-crowned conure that stars in Paulie is shown in various stages of flighted and clipped wing feathers throughout the movie. Since his feathers would grow back after being clipped and the movie is staged over a large period of time, it makes sense that the feather lengths would vary. The technical error is when he starts flying about 40 minutes into the movie. In this scene Paulie is shown with clipped wing feathers as he walks up, but then suddenly he has full flight feathers and begins flying.
Princess Diaries II
At the end of the movie when Queen Mia is dedicating the new children’s center, a close-up of the sign next to the door shows that it says “Children of Genovia Society”, but the very next shot of the same sign show it now saying “Genovian Childrens Center”.
Private School
When Mr. Leigh-Jensen ride to the school for the open house, he and his new wife, Bambi, have sex in the car en route. (The chauffeur is driving no safety issues here.) After they arrive at the school we see them walking away from the car and we see Bambi is wearing panties, because the panty lines quite easily seen. Then Bambi’s panties are seen on the rear deck of the car.
When the Rolls Royce is running wild down the hill at the Cherryvale Parents’ Day, the camera view is frequently changing between an outside view and an inside view. During the outside views, we can see the stunt driver rapidly steering the car back and forth. All but one of the inside shots, Bubba has his back or side against the steering wheel and his hands are not on the it.
During the love scene on the beach between Jim and Christine, a few times we catch a glimpse of her side-boob7 and the tape that covers her nipples. The least they could have done is use flesh colored tape, though I’m not sure why she was being so shy; after all she showed her stuff in Fast Times at Ridgemont High only a year prior.
Rain Man
About 50 minutes and 35 seconds into the movie, Charlie is following Raymond down an off-ramp from the highway.8 We see cars moving on the road which they will be entering from the off-ramp. The car is on the wrong side of the road. The yellow line is to the right of the car, with the white line to the left. After Raymond gets into the car, Charlie enters the main road by driving on the shoulder.
Revenge of the Nerds
During the Greek Games, after the tug-rope competition, the score is Alpha Beta 30, and Tri-Lamb 20. The next competition is the belching contents, which the Tri-Lambs clearly win. The Alpha Betas and Tri-lambs are the only competitors shown, but afterward the score is Alpha Beta 40, and Tri-Lamb 25. Were Alpha Betas unfairly given 10 points for losing the competition while the Tri-lambs only got five points – or was this a continuity error in the filming?
The answer to the last question is a continuity error, probably in editing and possibly the filming. The very next event is the Javelin Throw. As the first toss is shown, we can see in the background the score board. Alpha Betas are at 25 points and Tri-Lambs have 10 points. Rho and ROTC teams also went backwards in score. Ignoring the illegal and likely not effective javelin used, Tri-Lambs got the furthest distance and were awarded 10 points, but looking at the score board the Alpha Betas were also given 10 points, bring them to 50 and the Tri-Lambs to 35.
Revenge of the Nerds II
When Poindexter goes to the pool bar to order drinks, he asks for “Two Rum and Cokes”. The bartender picks up two bottles with pour spouts and starts filling a glass. neither bottle is rum or cola.
Risky Business
When the Porsche door is opened at the body shop, a lot of water and even sizeable fish come out of the car. Even under water, with the doors and windows closed, there is no way for these fish to get inside the passenger compartment. The car would have been drained before leaving the scene, or at least naturally drained while being towed.
When Guido (Lana’s “Manager”) is selling Joel his household stuff back, the last thing that is purchased is his mother’s crystal egg. At this point, there is still a sofa and a few other items on the truck. The lady on the truck throws the egg and we still see those remaining items in the truck. We see Joel jump over the sofa, now on the lawn, in the sequence to catch the egg. After Joel catches the egg, the camera view returns to Guido, he is sitting in the truck and there are no items remaining.
Smokey and the Bandit
About an hour into the movie, Sheriff Justice gets out of his car and leaves the driver’s door open. While he is talking to a tow truck driver, a truck comes down the road and knocks the door off the car. The error is when the truck driver sees the Sheriff’s car and decides (allegedly) to hit the door, the door was closed, instead of open.
Something Borrowed
A small story continuity issue in Something Borrowed revolves around the affairs of one character as it relates to another character. This may be a spoiler alert – just warning you! After the fourth of July weekend, Darcy asks Rachel if Marcus is circumcised. The question was genuine as presented during the movie, as was the response to the answer. Near the end of the movie, Darcy tells Rachel she knows that Rachel lied to her about Marcus, because she knows Marcus is not circumcised. Darcy knows this, because of her own relations on Fourth of July weekend with him, which timeline-wise occurred prior to her asking Rachel about the topic.
Star Trek: Next Generation
I was recently binge watching Next Gen and I caught a significant error on Episode 12 of Season 2. In this episode, USS Enterprise picks up a piece of a NASA shuttle which displayed the NASA name above an American Flag. The star field contains 52 stars, based on the visible pattern, and stripe configuration of the flag has the middle red stripe below the star field, instead of being to the right of it. Originally, I though this was an error. It is then determined that the craft was from a period in our not too distant future. I assume that in the future a couple of United States territories become states and the flag is slightly redesigned.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
About an hour into the movie, Spock is using rocket boots to elevate himself with McCoy and Kirk through the turbo-shaft. As they rapidly ascend we see the deck numbers displayed – Deck 35, 52, 64, 52, 77, 78, 78 just before reaching the top. In case you missed it, review the number sequence again.
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
As Anakin is being treated for his injuries, near the end of the movie, we see the Darth Vader mask and helmet being installed. When the camera view shows him in the bed, panned out so that we see his knees and up, the shielding around his neck is not present. The camera view then changes so that we only see his shoulders up, and the neck shielding is in place.
Star Wars: A New Hope
When Ben Kenobi and Luke Skywalker are talking after Luke was attacked by the sand people, Ben says “I don’t seem to remember ever owning a droid.” But in the prequels (Episode I, II and III) Ben works with R2-D2 frequently. Even if he didn’t “own” R2-D2, he definitely should have remembered him, at least slightly.
Ben gives Luke his “father’s light saber” that his father wanted him to have, but Luke’s uncle wouldn’t allow. The light saber that Ben handed over looks more primitive than what was used in the prequels and that which he retrieved from the ground near Anakin in Episode III.
“These blast points; too accurate for sand people. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.” as stated by Ben – apparently he has never seen an actual Stormtrooper attack. They’re lucky to hit the side of a barn. Perhaps the sand people are such poor shots that they couldn’t hit the side of a mountain.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Luke uses his lightsaber to free himself from the ice cave, as he is leaving there is a sound-effect of the lightsaber powering down, but it was still extended through the sequence of him leaving the cave.
Ben Kenobi visits Luke, as he is struggling to survive the cold, to tell him to go to Dagobah for Master Yoda to train him in the Jedi Arts. Ben tells him that Yoda instructed him, but according to the prequals Qui-Gon is the Jedi Master that trained Ben.
When Luke leaves his Jedi training to save Han and Leia, Ben Kenobi states that Luke was their last hope. Yoda responds that there is another. Ben was there when Luke and Leia were born; he knows Leia exists. Later in the movie he and Luke have a conversation about Leia.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
When Luke asks Leia if she remembers her real mother, Leia responds, “A little bit. She died when I was very young.” Their mother died shortly after naming them in Episode III.
Stripes
During revelry, a beautiful sunrise is shown with wispy clouds and blue sky, but a thunderstorm soundtrack is playing and when camera view changes to inside the barracks, the windows show very heavy rainfall.
When the men bunked the night before, Sargent Hulka tells them they will have a 10-mile run after locker box inspection in the morning. When he appears in the morning, he announces a 5-mile run which gets changed to 10-miles when John Winger annoys the Sargent.
The Thomas Crown Affair
At the start of the movie, Mr. Crown is crossing the street and nearly gets hit by a truck. When the camera view is showing from the driver’s perspective, there are vehicles stopped several feet in front of the truck. Even as Thomas waves the truck on to pass in front of him, we see the stopped car is still there. Then the truck driver proceeds rapidly and keeps going. The traffic is magickally gone.
When Thomas Crown steals a Monet painting from the museum, he puts the painting in a briefcase which forced the painting to be folded in two – snapping the canvas frame at the fold point. The aged canvas fabric would not be able to tolerate being stretched across the break points and would have torn at those edges. Even new fabric wouldn’t tolerate this abuse.
In his home office, Mr. Crown opens the briefcase, takes out the Monet painting and puts it in a hiding spot behind a print of “The Son of Man.” The Monet painting is intact, with no tears in the canvas mid-length on the edges and no apparent damage to the canvas’ wooden frame.
After Thomas Crown is shown admiring his stolen artwork, the movie goes back to the museum where police are investigating. Clearly, Thomas had no time to repair the canvas frame or canvas, ignoring the fact that we just watched him take it out of the briefcase in which the painting was folded. He definitely didn’t have time for a copy to be made.
Look at the screen captures9 shown above for referencing my comments about this technical error.
Top Gun
During dog-fight training exercises, the sweep angle of the F-14 wings changes between shots within the same sequence. This is seen when the view changes between Interior view and external view. Example captures10 shown from the dog-fighting sequence leading into the crash of Maverick and Goose. The external view shows the F-14 wings swept forward, quick change to Maverick’s (inside cockpit) view of Iceman’s plane, the wings are swept back. Upon return to external view, the wings are forward again. The wing conversion does occur during flight in normal operation, but not as rapidly as they are switching camera views in the sequence.
In the same sequence as above, during the crash incident, Maverick and Goose’s F-14 is shown in a barrel roll (stunt control) and then shown in a flat spin. I question this chain of events, but not knowing enough about F-14 behaviors prevents me from calling this a technical error; however I suspect it is an error.
Twister
Leaving a visit with Aunt Meg, Jo is driving the truck and Bill says “Let’s get you wired” and then the camera shows Jo with the headset already around her neck. Clearly they merged takes, because we then see Bill unwrapping a headset and starting putting it around Jo’s neck which only has a necklace.
When Jo and Bill are on the road driving away from the F5 tornado (about 93 minutes into the movie) A columbine falls onto the road in front of them. The shoot from the columbine punches a hole in the passenger-side, front windshield of the pickup truck. Each subsequent view of the pickup truck shows only the driver-side damage from a few tornadoes prior. The windshield is intact otherwise.
As Jo and Bill are running away from the same F5 tornado, the picket fence is shown with the slats individually coming off the fence vertically. Since the nail holding the slats to the supports are horizontal, the slats should have come off horizontally or diagonally. Then again, if the tornado winds were strong enough to cause the slats to individually come off the fence, how were Bill and Jo able to stay safe on the ground as they were running and passed through that very same fence?
Two Lovers and a Bear
Lucy and Roman are in extreme cold environments, but sometimes during dialogue in the cold air we cannot see their breath. For example, when they were in the hallway of the abandoned military installation.
Two Weeks Notice
In the scene where Lucy goes into the RV to use their toilet, two-way traffic is shown on the elevated highway that is jammed with traffic. The problem is that it was actually a one-way ramp. A solid white line is between the two (opposing direction) traffic lanes and the yellow line is on the right side of the RV. This technical error was probably unavoidable to make this scene work in the urban New York City environment.
UHF
When the shop teacher cuts his thumb off with the table saw, the camera angle and his hand positioning allow us to see his thumb folded into the palm of his hand.
Under the Skin
When the Female is picking up a man from the street at about 16 minutes into the movie, while she is talking to him we see her buckle her seat belt, including the audible click. Then as he agrees to a ride, we see her buckle her seat belt, including the audible click. She was not shown taking off the seat belt in between these two events.
Untamed Heart
After Caroline helps the two men with the cigarette machine, she walks away with two packs in her left hand and gives the key to her co-worker Cindy. As she is walking away, we see that she is no longer holding the two packs of cigarettes. Where did they go? This is of course ignoring, that she didn’t undo the lever inside the machine that allowed her to pull multiple packs from the front of the machine. So now everyone can get free cigarettes.
When Caroline brings Adam some cookies, it is raining. Well – it is raining right there. It is obvious by the shadows and sky that this sequence was filmed on a bright, sunny day.
WarGames
“Who are you going to Paris with?” … When David is questioned about an hour into the movie, Mr. McKittrick explains that David has reservations for two people to Paris. However, earlier in the movie, when David makes the reservation, he books the trip for two under Jennifer’s name rather than his own. This creates a continuity issue: if the reservation was made under Jennifer’s name, it is unclear how Mr. McKittrick would know that David had reservations for two people. On the other hand, if Mr. McKittrick knew the reservation belonged to David, then he would presumably already know with whom David was planning to travel.
What Dreams May Come
We don’t normally see too many production technical errors – about twelve minutes into What Dreams May Come, a car accident happens on the road entering the tunnel. Chris Nielsen witnesses the accident and runs in to aid the victims. As the camera moves in to follow his path, you can see a shadow of the camera lift on the left wall of the tunnel.
As Chris is running through the fields of the painting the plants are not moving around him, but instead through him. Along the same lines, when Albert Lewis is stomping around in the water there are splashes – he is clearly interacting with the water, but there are no ripples in the water caused by his presence and actions.
When Chris is underwater in the painting, none of the underwater elements appear to be “painted”; everything is shown as real-life footage. Even the surface of the water above him is presented as real rather than painted. This contradicts the other scenes in which Chris interacts with objects that are clearly part of the painted world.
Wild Wild West
This movie is filled with technical inaccuracies, however most of them are intentional and are part of the fun in the movie – such as Artemis knitting a chain-mail “impermeable” vest.
While James and Artemis are bickering on the train, the first time, James flips a lever underneath the train that flips the chair in which Artemis is sitting upside-down under the train. Since Artemis was not strapped into the chair, he should have fallen off the chair as it flipped or even once it was upside-down. Of course, there is question to why would that lever be down there in the first place?
While Artemis is carrying one of the magnetic collars that was removed from himself and James, he is suddenly dragged a hundred feet or so as the magnet is attracted to nearby railroad tracks. I know this is one of the fun technical inaccuracies built into the movie, however it is still very wrong that they weren’t attracted to the machine that throws the blades – or anything else for that matter. At least not until James’ magnet polarity was reversed – which isn’t possible simply by banging the apparatus which a magnet is firmly attached.
The Wrestler
At the strip club, Randy meets Cassidy in the private dance area. She gives him a hug and asks “How ya been?” – at this point they are both standing and dressed. The camera then cuts to behind Cassidy as Randy starts to tell her about a match. At this point he is sitting down and she’s dancing topless for him. At first I thought the technical error was that they retook the segment and fouled up their wardrobe and positions, but after replaying the scene a few times for details to be posted here, I think this was just a poor cut. Likely, they needed to trim some time out of the movie, so they cut part of this scene and didn’t bother to do a continuity check.
Games
Candy Crush Jelly
In late 2016, King introduced a daily bonus program for free special items in Candy Crush Jelly. To get the bonus items, the player must visit the game daily and “Water” Elsa. Notice I put water in quotes – that’s because that is the word on the button. For day one though, Elsa asks for Soda. But this is the Jelly version of the game.
Technical Errors Disclaimer
Screen captures displayed on this page to illustrate and discuss technical errors are intended to fall within the Fair Use provisions of United States copyright law and the applicable Fair Dealing provisions in other copyright jurisdictions.
This document “Technical Errors” was originally published by me on 9 March 2017. The “Published” date is changed to the current date each time the article is updated.
This is not a compilation of observations made by other people; it consists solely of things I have personally noticed. That means there are undoubtedly errors that others have identified that I missed or chose not to include. In some cases, I may have simply decided not to repeat something that had already been mentioned on other sites.
