Obvious continuity errors in movies

[E.X.D.]

What about the Indianna Jones movies? At the end of Temple Of Doom he believes in magic at the begining of Raiders he doesn't, Temple Of Doom was a prequel.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

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)

tbf they do have a get out clause in the fact they never referred to weaopon XI as 'deadpool' and thanks to deadpool's power over the 4th wall they can ret-con stuff away with ease...

 

[littlerob]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Start of Helms Deep. Aragorn come running up all bedraggled and exhausted, to tell Theoden and everyone else that ten thousand Uruk-Hai are behind him and will be at the fortress by nightfall. Then elves arrive just before the uruk-hai and help to fight them.

Hold on a minute. The Rohirrim only found out about the attack a few hours ago. How did the elves manage to hear all about it, assemble an army and march from god-damned Lothlorien to Helms Deep faster than the uruk-hai could cover a few miles?

 

[GammaZord]

Also in Dark Knight, when the Joker comes up to Bruce's penthouse: After the Joker drops Rachel from the building, and Batman saves her...we never know what happened to the Joker. I assumed he just went back into the party and had a colorful time with the rest of the guests.

 

[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)

tbf they do have a get out clause in the fact they never referred to weaopon XI as 'deadpool' and thanks to deadpool's power over the 4th wall they can ret-con stuff away with ease...

Wise craking, gun&katana wealding mercanery who likes the red color...yeah it is totaly Blade.
Ok, ok I get it. But still they had the whole movie to make him cool and all we get is one scene of coolness and whole movie of %#@!.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Arnold Schwartzenegger and Alyssa Milano in Commando.

Never mind the terrible dialogue, the hammy acting, nor the complete departures from logic. Look past even the length-changing ammunition belt on Matrix's LMG during the gun-battle scene.

Instead, witness the awe and majesty of the magically self-repairing Porsche 911 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85M2-8ilvQ].

 

[Rigs83]

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

Bubastis was where?

The blue tiger thing in Antarctica.

 

[Xegewrath]

I guess I'm one of the few people that can never ever spot continuity errors. Oh well.

 

[achilleas.k]

Most long gun fights: How come they NEVER reload?

 

[Zero-Vash]

Idk if you would consider it continuity or not; but I bothers me how Luke Skywalker can complete the entire Jedi training in what seems to be a couple of days between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi

 

[sms_117b]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Start of Helms Deep. Aragorn come running up all bedraggled and exhausted, to tell Theoden and everyone else that ten thousand Uruk-Hai are behind him and will be at the fortress by nightfall. Then elves arrive just before the uruk-hai and help to fight them.

Hold on a minute. The Rohirrim only found out about the attack a few hours ago. How did the elves manage to hear all about it, assemble an army and march from god-damned Lothlorien to Helms Deep faster than the uruk-hai could cover a few miles?

Can't Elrond see into the future?

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.

True, although I thought Benders Big Score done rather well.

 

[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.

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...

If you mess up the timeline, then the fans will come down from below and slap you for dicking with the timeline so thoroughly. You will simultaneously be ensured of years of work if the series is liked, or the Executives will join in with the slapping if the show sucks.

 

[xxcloud417xx]

Music and Lyrics. When Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore are having coffe and discussing inside a coffee shop. There is a huge lack of continuity when you notice that as the camera angles change, the actors are holding their coffee in one shot, and not in the next shot, while still maintaining the conversation. The items seem to dissapear from the actors' hands and go to the table and vice-versa during the entire scene.

 

[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.

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.

Well, like I said, the amount of errors that occur is proportional to the amount of exposition given on how time travel works. I haven't seen any of your examples recently, but if I remember correctly, Bill and Ted gave no explanation and didn't use time travel to explain events. This allows them to dick around with time however they want while not having to jump through a bunch of plot holes.

 

[amazinglettera]

Check this strange one out. In the first Hellboy movie, there is a scene in which his rock hand is on the wrong hand! I forget which scene it is exactly, but it's in the latter half of the flick. I assume they shot the scene normally but reversed it for some reason in editing.

 

[randommaster]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Start of Helms Deep. Aragorn come running up all bedraggled and exhausted, to tell Theoden and everyone else that ten thousand Uruk-Hai are behind him and will be at the fortress by nightfall. Then elves arrive just before the uruk-hai and help to fight them.

Hold on a minute. The Rohirrim only found out about the attack a few hours ago. How did the elves manage to hear all about it, assemble an army and march from god-damned Lothlorien to Helms Deep faster than the uruk-hai could cover a few miles?

Can't Elrond see into the future?

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.

True, although I thought Benders Big Score done rather well.

People really seem to like this post of mine for some reason.

Doesn't Bender end up breaking the universe? Also, I have never seen the beginning, so does it explain why he doesn't just travel to the future and get awesome stuff? What they did in BBS was tie up the lose plot points that occur, which many people don't do in the first place.

 

[dontworryaboutit]

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

Now you've lost me.

 

[Leorex]

What about the Indianna Jones movies? At the end of Temple Of Doom he believes in magic at the begining of Raiders he doesn't, Temple Of Doom was a prequel.

hes agnostic.

transformers, we need to protect this magic box thing, lets bring it to a city full of people.

 

[blackshark121]

T2, there are a bunch there. When John is running from the evil Terminator, at one point, he is riding his bike on the edge of a sewer converging towards a point, then it changes and becomes straight. Also, a minute later, the truck's windshield is smashed off, then the next scene, the evil terminator knocks it off.

 

[Vim-Hogar]

I think my favorite one of these has to be from Independence Day. It always seemed a little odd to me that the First Lady was in a helicopter that crashed when DC blew up, yet Will Smith's character's wife manages to find her while driving around ruined Los Angeles. I don't know, just seems like something's not right there, ya know?