The mistakes page

The Table below contains mistakes from various films collected by myself, my friends and partners.

FILM

ACTORS

MISTAKE

Bad Boys

Will Smith

Somebody is referred to as having done something 5yrs ago but when you see his file, it says 3yrs.

Braveheart

Mel Gibson

A Norman is being run-through by one of William Wallace's Celts but the sword slides down his side and is obviously not going to do him much damage despite his screams

Broken Arrow

John Travolta, Christian Slater

When attempting to drop the nuclear warheads out of the B3 you can see that the drum rack holds 6 bombs and the two nukes are in ajacent holders but on the electronic display it shows that they have one compartment separating them.

Contact

Jodie Foster

When sending an E-mail it has finished typing on the screen when she is still typing on the keyboard.

Demolition man

Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock

Wesley hovers a flame over spilled fuel at the beginning, this would ignite the fumes straight away.

Diamonds are forever, James Bond

Sean Connery

After Bond steals the moonbuggy and is driving through the desert he drives off shot, then one of the buggy's wheels comes bouncing back on screen. In the next shot the buggy has all four of its wheels.

Eraser

Arnie

The guy with the beard who is erased at the beginning is later seen in a bar. You see him take his waistcoat off, then from another angle you see it on again, then back at the first angle it is off again. Some bad continuity there.

Fallen

Denzel Washington

At the beginning a guy is being taken to be gassed. When in the gas chamber he sings 'Time is on my side' but when you see his reflection in the glass he is not singing

Goldeneye, James Bond

Pierce Brosnan

When the Russians are shooting at Bond in the library the are shooting through strip bulbs but without actually breaking any.

Jackal

Bruce Willis, Richard Gere

The Gun which Bruce uses to shoot the lads arm off uses such lage rounds at such a high velocity that the shock of the round would kill the guy instantly.

Jurassic park

Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenbourgh

Little lad gets electrified on a fence, He isn't earthed and the wires are connected so one can't be +ve and the other -ve. So how can this happen?

Jurassic Park II-The Lost World

Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenbourgh

In JP1 they claimed to do all the breeding on the one island, now they claim to do it all on the second island

Memphis Belle

John Lithgow, Sean Austin, Eric Stoltz, Harry Connick Jr.

On landing the left wheel can be seen to be retracted still but the right one is down(seen from lower gunners position) but later the left wheel is down while the right one is retracted.

Rambo III

Sylvester Stallone

When the two helicopters attack the Afghan Rebels base one rebel is firing a GPMG at them, when he is shot Rambo takes over the gun but cocks it. This would cause a second round to be forced into the breech making it jam.

Robin hood Prince of thieves

Kevin Costner

Having rowed the channel to somewhere in the south of England Kev' proclaims 'We will be in Nottingham by nightfall'! Despite Nottingham being some 250 miles away.

Terminator

Arnie

Arnie gets in a pick-up truck and goes to ram a cop-shop. One of the coppers looks up at the headlights from the truck but when it rams through the lights aren’t on!

The Living Daylights, James Bond

Timothy Dalton

This picture shows how the truck cannot stay in this position, it is too front heavy.

Tomorrow never dies, James Bond

Pierce Brosnan

After the stealth ship explodes Miss chinky woman is still hanging on the chain despite the other end having nothing to attach to

True Lies

Arnie

When terrorist gets out of car how does he know which toilet to go to?

When on the motorbike there are tyre marks infront of him where he hasn't even been.

When he shoots the toilet cubicles he empties easily 100 rounds into it, an AK-47 can only hold about 25 rounds.

Where Eagles Dare

Clint Eastwood

Having been arrested by the germans Clint and the Commander kill all the germans in the car and then decide to push it off a cliff, on the smooth slope down the cliff the car explodes without even going over a bump. Napalm cars!