The following are some mistakes that I have found in movies.  When I see a mistake like this, I lose total interest in the movie.

Air Force One: On a plane the left side has a red light while the right has a green light - this is known has navigational lights.  This is universal on all planes because a pilot can tell which way an airplane is traveling across the sky by seeing a red or a green light.  For instance, if a pilot see a red light, then that plane is going from right to left across the sky. A green light means that the plane is going left to right across the sky.  However if the pilot sees both lights, the plane is headed right for him.  In the movie, Air Force One, in one scene the lights are positioned correctly, however in the next scene, they are backwards.

Back To The Future: When Marty, Michael J. Fox, is at the starting line getting ready to back to 1986, you could see the odometer reading a lower number then it did at the beginning of the movie at Twin Pine Mall (later called Lone Pine Mall since he knocked the tree down). This is because the end of the movie was shot before the beginning.

The Matrix – Part 1. The officers break into the room Trinity is in and pull out their guns. However the movie people added the sound of gun safety's going off and there are not safety's that make a metallic sound.

Drum Line – The two actors are having a drumming contest between each other.  There happens to be a computer attached to the drum, which records the hits and transfers it into “paper music”.  Well they are playing and then all of the sudden they hear a Dot-Matrix printer printing (sounds like muffled automatic weapon fire).  They walk over to the printer and it is an ink-jet printer, which doesn’t make that kind of sound.

 There was a movie in which a couple and their son, “Adam” lives in a nuclear fall out center under there house.  There was really no nuclear war, instead it was just a military airplane that hit the house which made them think a nuclear war happened.  Do you know what movie I am talking about?  The pilot ejects from the aircraft, the control stick goes to the left, while the airplane banks to the right.  The control stick should have gone to the right.

The Man - This is an excellent case of how when movie people redo certain scenes.  The two main characters ??????? and ??????? were talking in the black Cadillac car, ??????? will have a seat belt on in one scene, and the next he will not have it on.  Then the next scene he would, then the next he would not.  This happened at least five times.

November 12, 2006