21 Movie and TV Mistakes That Snuck Past Editors
Making a movie or television show requires hundreds if not thousands of hours of meticulous planning. It's understandable that small mistakes slip through the cracks, but that's why there are editors carefully watching every frame to catch them... except when they don't. From iconic blockbusters to small projects, these 21 movies and shows all allowed mess-ups to make it through to the final cut.
Although a scene might look like a continuous take from start to finish, that is often far from the truth. Different camera angles, splicing and even reshoots can easily lead to hard-to-catch continuity errors. For example, in a scene from The Whole Nine Yards, Matthew Perry’s character hands his menu to a waitress twice in consecutive shots, despite holding what appears to be an ongoing conversation at the same time. In a clip from Taika Waititi's popular FX show What We Do in the Shadows, one character is holding a book, loses the book, and regains it, all while a character in the foreground hardly appears to go through a cut at all.
But as small as these mistakes might be, it's somebody's job to catch them, and they didn't. Here are 21 movie and TV mistakes that made it through to the final cut.
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“The Whole Nine Yards”: Waitress takes Matthew Perry’s menu twice. -
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“The Sopranos”: AJ's necklace disappears. -
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“The Departed”: Costigan Jr.'s date of birth changes when Sullivan logs in for a second time. -
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“The Departed”: Costigan Jr.'s date of birth changes when Sullivan logs in for a second time. -
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“Unthinkable”: FBI bomb defusal laptop uses Excel to hack into a nuke. -
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“Hocus Pocus”: Emily Binks moves while dead after getting the life sucked out of her by the Sanderson Sisters. -
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“The Goonies”: The character’s name is Brand, the actor’s name is Josh. -
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“Zulu”: Person on the back of the truck disappears between cuts. -
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“Rumble in the Bronx”: This kid plays his SEGA Game Gear with no game cartridge inserted in the cartridge port. -
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“Wild Wild West”: General McGrath’s ear trumpet disappears then reappears in the next shot. -
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“The Best Christmas Ever” -
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“101 Dalmatians”: Pongo puts Roger’s hat on the bench and drags him off, but then Roger is wearing the hat. -
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“Gladiator”: In the colosseum fight scene versus Tigris, Maximus is shown horizontally flipped from right hand sword, left hand shield arm, to an incorrect left hand sword, right hand shield for a split second. -
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“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”: Miles lets his suit disappear within a second. -
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"The Boys": (S1E4), Frenchie picks a deadbolt lock, but it's just a lock face glued onto the door with no deadbolt. -
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“The Founder”: Michael Keaton is on one side of the order window, then the other magically. -
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“The Killer”: The titular character shops in Florida but exits a Breaux Mart, a supermarket chain found only in New Orleans. -
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“Men in Black II”: When K takes his watch back from the Locker people and J gives them his new one, there is a quick cut that shows the old watch. -
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“Kingdom of Heaven”: There is a visible marker post and a rope showing the formation where to stop marching. -
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“Watchmen”: Wade’s hat switches the position between cuts. -
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“What We Do in the Shadows”: (S3, E2) Laszlo rips a page out of a book while holding it, then it’s gone. -
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“The Fall of the House of Usher”: Scene takes place in 1980, but the Klondike slogan is from 1982.
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