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My opinion is always changing, but at the moment, here's my twenty favorites.
Spartacus (1960)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 30, 2018
Plot hole
In the scene where the Romans try to locate the rebel leader Spartacus in the captured slave army, most of the other slaves also identify themselves as being named "Spartacus". The movie never explains this coincidence.
Rashomon (1950)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 26, 2018
Continuity
The scene of the murder is shown multiple times from different viewpoints, but the actual events shown each time are incompatibly different.
Notorious (1946)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 28, 2018
Plot hole
The movie repeatedly cuts to a dwindling set of champagne bottles to create tension about what will happen when none are left. However, there is no actual tension as the movie repeatedly shows there are plenty more bottles in the wine cellar.
Star Wars (1977)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 29, 2018
Revealing mistakes
Although the opening text declares the movie is about "a galaxy far, far away", scenes are obviously shot using normal movie lenses and not with the extremely long telescopic lens that would actually be necessary to film events so far away.
Big (1988)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 31, 2018
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
The changing appearance of Josh (David Moscow & Tom Hanks) is not a mistake. Switching between two actors in the same role has a rich history in avant-garde cinema such as Mulholland Dr. (2001) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
Planet of the Apes (1968)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 31, 2018
Plot hole
It is never explained how or why the Statue of Liberty was transported from Earth to the planet of the apes.
North by Northwest (1959)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 27, 2018
Revealing mistakes
At the end of the movie, when Cary Grant's character pulls Eva Marie Saint's character up from dangling off Mount Rushmore, the following reverse shot of him lifting her reveals that they're actually in a train.
(by @sckhko)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 30, 2018
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Continuity
The character played by Julia Roberts has no legal training. However, seven years earlier she was in her 3rd year of law school in The Pelican Brief (1993).
(by @JOHNTULLAR)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 31, 2018
Amélie (2001)
Audio/visual unsynchronized
The characters speak in the French language, but the words which are displayed at the bottom of the screen to show what they are saying are written in English.
(by @rygorous)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 29, 2018
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Revealing mistakes
When Gonzo is thrown out of a production company's office during "You Can't Take No for an Answer", his arms flop around in anatomically-impossible ways, revealing the shot was filmed using a lifeless dummy.
Back to the Future (1985)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 28, 2018
Anachronism
Marty McFly drives a DeLorean DMC-12 in 1955, but the DeLorean was first manufactured in 1981. (inspired by @citizen_sane)
(by @euan_burns)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 31, 2018
The Shining (1980)
Production error
In some shots it is possible to see that the pages Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) has written for his novel actually just have a "lorem ipsum"-style sentence repeated over-and-over.
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) August 16, 2018
Factual error
Once the Red October receives its official mission orders, the crew switches from speaking Russian to speaking English. A real Russian submarine crew would continue speaking Russian for the entire mission. pic.twitter.com/pKKIK6tFDU
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) August 3, 2018
Anachronism
Israel in 4 B.C. had no tanks or submachine guns.
(by @sparrk)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) August 6, 2018
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Not actually a goof
When Nigel (Christopher Guest) shows his amplifier to Marty (Rob Reiner), he says it is louder because it goes to 11. Marty offers a complicated theory in which 10 is just as loud as 11. In reality, 11 is louder than 10. pic.twitter.com/QHnXfJNz5b
(by @AndyMyers101)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 31, 2018
Inception (2010)
Production error
In all currently available releases of the movie, the final few seconds of the final scene are missing.
Police Academy (1984)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) August 11, 2018
Revealing mistakes
In several scenes with Larvell Jones (Michael Winslow), it appears that the sound effects/foley team made noises with their mouths instead of using the correct sound effects. pic.twitter.com/16jVGWaEQB
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 28, 2018
Factual error
This is only the second movie in the Blade Runner franchise. (by @KarlWalmarx)
Star Wars (1977)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) July 25, 2018
Continuity
Ben Kenobi says that Luke's father is dead. Throughout the rest of the movie we see that Luke's father is alive and well.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) August 17, 2018
Plot hole
Everyone thinks Riggan (Michael Keaton) is the superhero Birdman, but this makes no sense since the two are ONLY ever seen in the same room together. pic.twitter.com/dWIcJi9yRw
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
— movie_goofs (@movie_goofs) August 4, 2018
Production error
The credits for Thor: Ragnarok incorrectly state that the character of Odin is played by Anthony Hopkins. In reality, Odin is played by Loki Odinson (Tom Hiddleston).