Best movie mistakes this month (see this week / all time)

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Rank Title Mistake
1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull In the warehouse scene, the lights and other metal objects are affected by the box's magnetic field. Yet the soldiers easily lift the box into a metal truck to load it and slide it forward. If the box's magnetic field was as strong as suggested, it would have dragged the soldiers forward as it was magnetically attracted to the truck, and it would have taken much more effort for them to slide it onto the truck bed once it was stuck there.
2 Iron Man In Tony's workshop is a silver clock resting on a shelf with his model airplanes. At one point, this clock is stopped reading a little after midnight (a stopped clock is a common technique used by filmmakers to keep continuity problems to a minimum between shots,) and it is rational that Tony would display the clock for its artistic or sentimental value even if it was broken, but later the clock reads about ten past nine, showing that someone has changed the time.
3 Sex and the City: The Movie In the scene where Big and Carrie meet in their cars after Big fled the wedding you can see down the street in the distance a huge amount of SATC fans have gathered to watch the filming.
4 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl On the way to Isla de Muerta aboard Interceptor, during the storm there is a close-up of Jack's hand holding the compass. There are many other close-ups of Jack's hand in the movie, but in this particular close-up, it is not Johnny Depp's hand holding the compass. Depp's fingers are slim and normal looking, but in this close-up Jack's thumb is stout and has a severely enlarged/deformed metacarpal at the base of the thumb joint (likely arthritis).
5 Epic Movie When the White Bitch pours Edward the 40 oz. beer, in the next shot, it's gone.
6 Titanic The day after Jack saved Rose's life, they are walking by the upper deck, and you can see the shadows of the smoke that came out of the smokestacks over them and the ship. However, in the next shot, you can see the shadows have totally disappeared, and in the next shot they reappear, but much more faintly. Also it would be technically impossible for the shadows to be over Jack and Rose, due that the sun is coming at the LEFT side of Jack & Rose, so the smoke shadows should have been at the other side of the ship and not over them.
7 Baby Mama When Kate gives Angie a ride back to Kate's house/apartment, the outside scene shows a road sign for PA-51. PA Route 51 is a road in southwestern Pennsylvania, not a road near Philadephia, which is where the film is set.
8 The Incredible Hulk When Dr. Ross and Bruce were in the hotel room, Banner empties the purse on the bed and there is some cash inside the wallet. As they are about to leave he picks up the cash which isn't in the wallet anymore.
9 Kung Fu Panda When Shifu performs the Wuxi finger hold on Po, in one shot, we see all of Po's fingers, except the one Shifu is holding, are closed to his palm. In the next shot, all his fingers are open.
10 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King At the drinking game, after Éomer says, "No pauses," in the next shot facing Legolas, when Éomer continues to say the two words, "No spills," his lips are closed. Even as he turns his head, his hair does not obstruct the view of his closed lips. (Extended Edition)
11 Rocky III Just before the second fight with Clubber and just after the pre-fight brawl, when the camera switches to the shot of Rocky and Apollo you can see a director's chair at the top right of the screen with "Mr. T" written on it.
12 Happy-Go-Lucky In the title sequence, Poppy rides her bike down Kingsway, along the Strand, and south over Blackfriars Bridge. The next shot of her shows a street with an EC1 postcode (north of the river) and the following shot an SE1 postcode (south of the river again).
13 Saw III Just before Amanda shoots Lynn her gun switches from her right hand to her left.
14 Shrek The chain around the dragon's neck disappears after Shreck uses it to climb on to her.
15 Night of the Living Dead (1990) In the opening scene where the zombie kills Johnny. When they fall against the tombstone you can tell it is a dummy.
16 Wanted When the Mustang lands after flipping over the limo, the front drivers side suspension and chassis collapse from the impact, but in the next shot, the Mustang is OK again.
17 Get Smart When Max talks to the woman in the bakery, the plate of bread she places on the counter moves depending on the shot.
18 Tiger Cruise The hull numbers of the Constellation change throughout the film between CVN-74 and CVN-68.
19 27 Dresses In the final scene of the movie when Jane gets married on the beach, you see guests arriving and Tess is handing out programs. She hands a program to a blond girl with a brown polka dot dress. In the next scene, we see Tess taking to George and the same woman arrives again and Tess hands her a program again.
20 Cleaner Eddie comes to see Tom at the bathroom clean-up job and convinces Tom to confide in him. Eddie tells Tom that he'll, "See what Wallace knows". There is no character named "Wallace" - he was supposed to say "Vargas", the investigator on the case. The subtitles correctly reference Vargas.
21 Rambo III After Rambo crash lands the helicopter, he and his colonel buddy start heading north-east. The Russians start heading south-east and yet they manage to run into one another.
22 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian When the Telmaries are building their war machines, there is a shot of a two-man saw being used to cut timber. There is no sawdust falling from either the saw blade or the wood itself.
23 3:10 to Yuma After Evans was shot near the end of the movie, Ben Wade jumped out of the train to look at him. If you look over Wade's shoulder, you will see that Nez (the Apache) had already arrived at his spot, and Campos (the Mexican sharpshooter) threw Wade's gun belt to Charlie Prince. After the movie cut a couple of times, Nez was shown walking up, throwing Wade's gun belt to Campos, who then threw it to Charlie Prince.
24 Before The Devil Knows You're Dead When the robber is killed, he falls back and breaks the glass door with a blind. The first time we see the scene, the position of the blind differs from the repetiton from a different view from the flashback.
25 American Pie: Beta House During the very last scene, where everyone follows Bull into the pool, Ashley is one of the people who jump in after Bobby. However, after she has jumped in, the next shot is of her and Erik on the side, after which she jumps in again.
26 Twister During the first tornado, Beltzer says the twister is about three miles away. You later see Bill turn the truck off the road directly onto that dirt path, not ten yards away. The tornado then arrives and sucks Jo's truck into the air. After the tornado, Melissa is driving along and says, "Oh my God" as the tornado disappears, back to about three miles away.
27 I Am Legend Will Smith is standing atop an airplane hitting golf balls. Sam sees a deer in the streets below. Will Smith picks up his gun and looks through the scope. When he does this the flashlight is on the right side of the gun. Later in the scene Will Smith and Sam follow the deer into the dark old bank, Will Smith enters with his gun raised, but the flashlight is now on the left side of the gun.
28 Catch and Release Gray is at the office and wants to call Dunn Hamilton Investments Customer Relations on the note pad but the 1-800-INVEST isn't enough digits for a complete phone number.
29 Untraceable The FBI in the movie has the ability to "blackhole" an IP address, which makes that computer unavailable to the internet. If they can blackhole the computer acting as the <i>web</i> server, they could also blackhole the computer acting as the <i>name</i> server (DNS), thereby taking down the web site and preventing additional users from connecting.
30 The Strangers The candles never burn down the entire movie. They stay the same height, and never have any wax running down them as if they were just lit.

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