36 Movie Mistakes So Bad You Won’t Believe You Missed Them
21 Home Alone: Tide detergent disappears from Kevin’s bags
In the movie, Kevin goes to a grocery shop and purchases a large bottle of laundry detergent. As he heads back home the two plastic grocery bags in his hands burst and the contents are all spilled. If one could notice, there is no bottle of detergent that he bought among the spilled contents. (source)
22 Nobody: The background actor forgets to play dead
One of the background actors in an action scene forgot to play dead before cameras started rolling.
23 Tremors 2: Puppeteer controlling a tongue
This is the scene when Burt is in the bucket of the backhoe and the Shriekers are searching using their tongues. A puppeteer’s head and hand controlling one of the tongues are visible in the scene. (source)
24 The Goonies: Mikey calling Brandon by the actor’s actual name
When the Goonies are in the basement of the restaurant and arguing, Mikey played by Sean Astin makes a huge error. He calls Josh Brolin by his actual name, Josh, instead of his character name, which is Brand or Brandon. (source)
25 Nacho Libre: Orphans’ shirts switch to tank tops
Chancho and the orphans are wearing their day clothes when they’re first watching Nacho on television. Although, after the shot of Chancho covering the television, all the orphans are wearing their pajamas or tank tops. (source)
26 101 Dalmatians: Father of the puppies is a neutered dog
Pongo, the dog is about to father 15 puppies in the movie. However, the dog who plays pongo cannot really be a father because he is a neutered dog.
27 Shawshank Redemption: Andy’s replaced shoes
In the movie’s scene when Andy Dufrense is moving back to the cell before he escaped from the prison, he is wearing Warden Norton’s polished black shoes. Also in another scene, just before the alarm rings Norton opens up the shoe box and finds Dufrense’s old brown shoes.
This is because Andy had replaced them with Warden’s black shoes that he was supposed to polish. However, when Andy escapes the prison through the sewage pipeline he was wearing his old brown shoes.
28 Wolf of the Wall Street: Switched hands in the “sell me this pen” scene
Leonardo DiCaprio makes a subtle hand mistake in his iconic sell me this pen scene. In the first frame, one can see DiCaprio holding the pen in his right hand. Then in the next moment when the angle of the shot changes, he is holding the pen in his left hand.
29 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Cowboy on an 18th-century ship
The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) has a lot of small mistakes. One of them is in the movie’s final scene when Jack Sparrow is standing on the deck at the wheel of the Black Pearl. Just over his shoulder, a man in a cowboy hat and dark glasses can be seen briefly. This looks unusual in an 18-century sailing vessel.
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