movie with the MOST mistakes ?

[electroaddict]

...bad edits
...goofed up dialog
...instant night and day changes
...countless shots of the boom mic
...stage hands walking in front of the camera

what movie have you seen with the most errors in it?

--e

[Vermin Boy]

Plan 9 from Outer Space, hands down. If you've never seen it go here...

http://hem.passagen.se/mwrang/bloopers.htm

...to see what I'm talking about (on second thought, if you've never seen it, hop in the car right now and rent it!)

[Chadzilla]

The Swarm - Two hours and thirty-five minute of error (were talking technical, logistical, plot, character, costume, whatever you can think of).  Writing the review of this movie nearly killed me, there was about three goofs for everyone I pointed out.

[Dano]

"The Great Train Robbery" was the first actual film ever made with an attempt at a plot (as opposed to "Horse Running" or "Man Jumping Rope").  I'm pretty sure it was less than 20 minutes long and it had over 120 mistakes of this nature.  You can see it in its entirety at the Edison Museum in Orange, NJ.

[Skeeeepy]

evil dead 2 has a lot

[systemcr4sh.]

Video Violence - TONS of boom mic shots, lots of goofups, tons of stage hands in reflections, in the shot, etc. Too many to count.

Invasion From the Inner Earth - Lots of errors, boom mics, etc. also makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well it does but it still sucks ALOT.

-Dan

[Fearless Freep]

Well, I just saw Natilus this week and while it doesn't  have any technical mistakes I could see, it has enough plot holes and logic mistakes to sink a submarine

[BoyScoutKevin]

If one goes to www.movie-mistakes.com, a website dedicated to finding mistakes in movies, the movie there with the most mistakes is "The Matrix" with 174 identified mistakes. The movie I've seen with the most mistakes is the second one on the list, "Titanic" with 149 mistakes.
As for "The Great Train Robberty" the classic mistake there for me, which would be repeated countless times thereafter, is the one where the man firing his gun at the camera pulls the trigger seven times, but, his gun only has six bullets in it.
Enjoy!

[Dano]

watch the first 60 seconds of Road to Perdition.  A boy stands on a beach (Lake Michigan I think) and we hear the waves lapping at the shore.  But the wave sound is much too slow and about three waves hit the shore for every wave the audience hears.  Then they show the same shot at the very end.  Kind of a funny, glaring mistake in what is far from being a bad movie.

[jmc]

I guess the longer and more complicated the movie, the more chance for mistakes.  

Those little mistakes don't bug me as much as stupid, illogical behavior...the main thing I remember about ROAD TO PERDITION was the scene where the cop runs up to the guy firing a weapon and says, "Hey, what do you think you're doing?"  No gun drawn, nothing....Also the scene where the gangsters just stand there while a machine gun is fired at them, as if their feet are stuck to the ground.  They don't run for cover or anything [even though they're right next to a vehicle that would at least provide some level of shelter,] they just stand there and fire their peashooter weapons as they're gradually mowed down.
Even the most third-rate action movie hack would know better....

[peter johnson]

Oh, well, nobody responded to my post about "The Rats", which I found just chock full o' goodies like this -- Please do read & respond if you saw the picture --
Robert Quarry's "Count Yorga, Vampire!"  has a special place in my heart for the absolutely perfectly shot scene of 3 crew-members standing around a kleig light -- one is holding a clipboard -- in the background while vampires invade a home.  I mean, this is not even a "glimpsed" shot:  They are simply boldly standing there.
"Children of The Corn" on the big screen -- you cannot see this on the  video pan & scan -- has a series of shots wherein the entire camera crew is seen in shadow on the ground:  Not just a boom shadow, but the boom, the camera, the chair the camera guy is sitting in, the camera guy himself, and the boomguy.  Just amazing. . . .
I did a seminar with Tom Logan (The Hardy Boys) once for an acting class, and he ran a single 4-minute clip from "Kramer vs. Kramer" -- the scene wherein Dustin Hoffman confronts Merril Streep in the restaurant -- and we ran it again and again & found 23 continuity & placement errors.  I couldn't believe it!
peter johnson

[Dano]

I forget the name of the movie, but I'm pretty sure it was a Dirty Harry.  There's this whole long scene where Harry is talking to some guy next to his car and for like three solid minutes you can sit there and watch the camera man reflected perfectly in the car's window.

It's painful because the scene is so damn long.

[Chadzilla]

That might be Magnum Force (i.e. Dirty Harry 2), there's lots of talking next to cars in that one...

[D]

What about "Jaws"? I recall a lot of missing watches, tans disappearing, and some dates about Quint's service in WW2 being somewhat off.  Would this count?

[Chadzilla]

Naw, Jaws troubled shoot (we're talking something that, in its day, was as nightmarish as Waterworld or Titanic) led to A LOT of continunity errors (Lyz also points out similiar problems in Jaws 2).

Speaking of giff, gaffs, and goofs in Jaws movies...

Note that one lingering shot in the Undersea Kingdom tube in Jaws 3-D (the part where a little girl's looped in voice says "Daddy, look at the big fish!") the exterior of the tube is a pale green - they forgot to matte in the underwater footage.  Also, the tour guide clearly seen leading the group out of the attraction is, in the next shot, seen running behind everybody else as the panicked crowd flees.

My wife and I laughed at the boom mike that bounced into the shot during one of scene of Octopus 2: River of Fear.

Jaws the Revenge has the crappiest looking shark in the series (and that is saying A LOT), at one point the crane hoisting it up is clearly visible behind the submersible it's *ahem* ramming.  Also the color of the water changes from shot to shot (blue in the long shots, grey in the close ups) - cloud and sky changes.  In the 'new footage never seen in US theaters' the paint on the studio backlot skyline is clearly visible, as is the water lapping against it.  Michael Caine climbs out of the ocean with wet hair and a dry shirt...the list is endless.