Obvious continuity errors in movies

[darkless]

As the title say's whats the most obvious continuity error you have ever seen in a movie?

For me it's the movie I'm watching right now, It's called Manticore not a high budget movie but it's alright now in three scenes directly after one another the following happened.

A helicopter crashes in the back ground the rotor blades fly off clearly cutting a man in half at the waist, in the following shot you see him fall over and his head comes off, in the next scene some people run over to him and his legs are gone with no sign of his previous injuries.

 

[MrBrightside919]

Spiderman 3 is one giant continuity error...

 

[Gado911]

Spiderman 3 is one giant continuity error...

That's the truth!

 

[randommaster]

Any movie with time travel will mess up the mechanics at least once. The number of mistakes is proportional to the time spent explaining how time travel works.

 

[darkless]

Spiderman 3 is one giant continuity error...

Spiderman 3 had much bigger problems than continuity errors.

 

[MrBrightside919]

Spiderman 3 is one giant continuity error...

That's the truth!

A pumpkin bomb can "kill" venom and yet it only scars Harry's face? The freaking thing went off right next to him!

Eddie Brock jumped into the symbiote at the last second, practically making him Venom again. Why did the bomb completely disintegrate Venom when he is basically unbeatable unless exposed to the high pitched sounds? How was that supposed to work?

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

In Watchmen that completly failed to explain why Bubastis was there, one of the only glaring flaws in the transition.

Bubastis was where?

 

[MrBrightside919]

Spiderman 3 is one giant continuity error...

Spiderman 3 had much bigger problems than continuity errors.

I just want to forget that movie ever happened and move on with my life...

Oh look, Spectacular Spiderman cartoon series. Spidey, you have been redeemed...

 

[darkless]

In Watchmen that completly failed to explain why Bubastis was there, one of the only glaring flaws in the transition.

Bubastis was where?

In the savant's antartic lair, they just slapped bubastis in there no explanation of what it was or where it came from it was just there.

 

[Usagi_dono]

Wolverines claws in First X-men movie and in his own movie, among other... things

 

[Trivun]

Any movie with time travel will mess up the mechanics at least once. The number of mistakes is proportional to the time spent explaining how time travel works.

Oh yes, this is true. UK Escapists may be aware of an ITV show called Primeval, involving anomalies - portals through time and space. Well, in the season 3 finale last weekend, Helen Cutter (main villain) tries to eradicate all humanity to prevent an apocalyptic future and save the earth (she has a serious God complex) by travelling through anomalies to the time of the hominids and kill the first ancestors of humanity. She fails, of course, though I won't say exactly what happens because of spoilers. However, no reference is ever made to the paradox that would occur. As a human, she can't kill the hominds because if she does so, she wouldn't exist to kill them, so they wouldn't be dead, so she'd go back and kill them, and you see the circle emerging.

On a similar note, another character, Connor, finds in the future technology developed by his own research team to control the opening of these anomalies. It's never stated explicitly, but it's hinted that if not for the events of the finale (again, spioilers so no comment on details), then he'd have reverse engineered the technology to invent it in the first place. This makes no sense and creates another paradox, where there's no point of origin for the technology as to create the technology, it must first exist already. Lost is also guilty of this in season 5, with Locke, Richard and the compass...

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

In the savant's anartic lair, they just slapped bubastis in there no explanation of what it was or where it came from it was just there.

He was there, he was killed in the final part along with what Ozy believed Dr. Manhatten.

Oh right. Sorry, I've not seen the film I've only read the comic so I wasn't sure what you meant. Quite why they had to change the whole monster thing I'm not sure. I guess that had to leave out most of the stuff at the newsstand too so they couldn't really do that. Especially seeing how that was all like frame in frame.

 

[Mozared]

There's a couple of movies that have obvious errors if you think about them. The most notorious one in my list would be from The Dark Knight; I realize a lot of the movie is fantasy, but the idea of Joker managing to fill up two huge boats with explosives without anybody noticing until they've actually left the shore seems a little lame to me.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Why wolverine doesn't have a massive hole in his skull in the X-rays in X-men...

 

[Nightflight51]

Men In Black 2; after K gets de-neuralized, wouldn't he remember everything about the Light of Zartha if he used a neuralizer to forget it in the first place? Or does the neuralizer create mental partitions?

 

[darkless]

In Watchmen that completly failed to explain why Bubastis was there, one of the only glaring flaws in the transition.

You mean the dog lion dear tiger?

Actually it's a genetically modified lynx.

 

[achilleas.k]

Any movie with time travel will mess up the mechanics at least once. The number of mistakes is proportional to the time spent explaining how time travel works.

Well time travel is tricky and you can't really blame them. I mean there are a bunch of ways to handle it. Terminator style, Back to the Future style, Bill and Ted style.

That being said, I think the only movie I've ever seen that uses time travel and doesn't screw it up in any way is Twelve Monkeys.

But yeah if you want continuity inconsistencies, just aim for time travel for an easy target. I mean, having your actions in the future CAUSE your birth!?

Again though, it all depends on what your view on time travel is, because it can be imagined several ways.

EDIT: Sorry for being off topic.

 

[short_name111]

most obvious one i can think of is Terminator series. After the second film....things just went a little too much off the rails with the "time travel" thing

 

[Calobi]

most obvious one i can think of is Terminator series. After the second film....things just went a little too much off the rails with the "time travel" thing

The rules seem pretty obvious to me. If it's not organic, it can't travel.

Unless it's got a nuclear core in its chest.

Or, if it's an advanced terminator made out of metal which can change its shape. Pretty standard, really.

Really, anything based on something else (book movies, game movies, comic movies) which take anything from the source material. This is especially true of comic movies since comics are, by themselves, broken continuity-wise most of the time. Also, sequels if the time between the movies is too wide since directors tend to add their own "artistic vision" to classics.

 

[lordsandro]

Deadpool in the new Wolverine movie. From the initial cast, trough the bad scrip and in the end just fucking up the role. Just plain screwing one of the few cool things Marvel has made.
And yes I am not a big comic fan, Deadpool is kind of exeption from the rule.
(The elevator scene does not count)