{"id":301119,"date":"2025-07-29T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301119\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:54:39","slug":"harry-potter-to-star-wars-the-29-worst-mistakes-in-famous-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301119\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter to Star Wars: The 29 worst mistakes in famous movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amid the praise for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/a>, one eagle-eyed celebrity viewer spotted a glaring historical inaccuracy in the blockbuster flick.<\/p>\n

The moment occurs towards the end of the film, when Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>\u2019s character Rick Dalton is reported to have arrived back in Hollywood from Europe on a Boeing 747. But it was John Travolta<\/a>, who is a plane enthusiast and trained pilot, who said that this would have been impossible given the film is set in 1969. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the 747 had its test flight in February 1969, but it went into service in January 1970. They\u2019re nine months off! He would have been on a Boeing 707!\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

We can forgive Tarantino for that. But it\u2019s hard to believe that some slip-ups \u2013 whether it\u2019s Judy Garland<\/a> without her ruby red shoes in The Wizard of Oz<\/a> or Julia Roberts eating a croissant that gets swapped for a pancake in Pretty Woman \u2013 actually made it through the editing process.<\/p>\n

According to the website Movie Mistakes, Captain Marvel <\/a>\u2013 starring Brie Larson \u2013 features no fewer than 60 errors over its two-hour duration.<\/p>\n

Is there a film where somebody hasn\u2019t screwed up?<\/p>\n

Here, we list 29 mistakes in films that you might not have caught.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Batman (1989)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Batman<\/p>\n

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Batman 1989: ‘Gentleman Let’s Broaden Our Minds, Lawrence!’<\/p>\n

The Tim Burton-directed superhero film has several mistakes, but a major one happens when Joker and his crew deface paintings at a museum. One of his gang members slaps a painting with his hands that are covered in red paint, but in the next shot, the handprints have disappeared from the artwork.<\/p>\n

Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Leonardo<\/p>\n

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in \u2018Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’ (Sony)<\/p>\n

Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, flies back to Hollywood on a Boeing 747. But it would have been a 707. The film was set in 1969 and the 747 went into service in January 1970.<\/p>\n

The Graduate (1967)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Embassy Pictures)<\/p>\n

Dustin Hoffman\u2019s character drives in the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge in San Francisco on his way to Berkeley, California. He is travelling on the top deck of the bridge for traffic going from California to San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Pretty Woman (1990)<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a continuity issue at breakfast when Julia Roberts\u2019s character takes a bite out of a croissant. She\u2019s in the hotel room with her co-star Richard Gere, but when the camera pans back to her, it transforms into a pancake. Then when she takes a second bite out of the pancake, there is only one bite mark in it.<\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/p>\n

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Pretty Woman (Touchstone\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

North by Northwest (1959)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(MGM)<\/p>\n

One of the children playing an extra in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s film covers his ears a few seconds before Eva Marie Saint\u2019s character unexpectedly fires a gun at Cary Grant\u2019s character in the Mount Rushmore cafeteria.<\/p>\n

Pulp Fiction (1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(THA\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Bullet holes can be seen in the walls of the apartment where John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson\u2019s characters go to get a briefcase, but it\u2019s before the shoot-out has happened.<\/p>\n

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Warner Bros)<\/p>\n

John Connor\u2019s Cessna plane numbers keep changing in the film. When he is in the hangar on the runway it is N3035C, but once it\u2019s flying, the numbers change to N3413F.<\/p>\n

The Wizard of Oz (1939)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Judy<\/p>\n

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Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (MGM)<\/p>\n

Judy Garland isn\u2019t wearing her iconic ruby red slippers in the scene where the trees pelt Dorothy and the Scarecrow with apples. Instead, she can be seen wearing plain black shoes.<\/p>\n

\"Video<\/p>\n

American Sniper (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The baby that Bradley Cooper holds while adapting to civilian life after the Iraqi War is plastic. In fact, it looked so fake, even he admitted it was \u201cnuts\u201d.<\/p>\n

Independence Day (1996)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Claudette Barius\/20th Century Fox\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

When computer expert David Levinson, played by Jeff Goldblum, is throwing a tantrum in the hangar housing the captured alien craft, he knocks over a bin that is labelled \u201cArt Dept\u201d. Clearly, a set designer left it there by mistake.<\/p>\n

The Fast and the Furious (2001)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Univeral Pictures)<\/p>\n

In a scene when Jesse and Tran race, Tran is wearing a shirt with sleeves, but in the next shot he\u2019s in a tank top. Didn\u2019t anybody notice when they edited it?<\/p>\n

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2 (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Warner Bros)<\/p>\n

We were always told that Harry Potter had his mother\u2019s blue eyes. But when we see Lily Potter as a child, she has brown eyes.<\/p>\n

Star Wars: Episode IV \u2013 A New Hope (1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Hamill,<\/p>\n

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Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford in ‘Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope’ in 1977 (Lucasfilm\/Fox\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

As a group of stormtroopers enter a control room, one of them accidentally bangs his head on a door. The actor responsible, Laurie Good, couldn\u2019t believe it made it into the final film.<\/p>\n

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Moviestore\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

There is a crew member wearing a cowboy hat and looking out to sea behind Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow on the pirate ship.<\/p>\n

Quantum of Solace (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bond<\/p>\n

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Bond girl: Gemma Arterton with Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace (2008) (Mgm\/Columbia\/Eon\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

A street cleaner behind Daniel Craig\u2019s James Bond is pretending to sweep the road but is holding his broom several inches off the ground.<\/p>\n

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Buena Vista Pictures)<\/p>\n

When Bianca accidentally shoots a gym teacher with an arrow, an extra, who is playing a student, runs off to get urgent help \u2013 but once she thinks she is out of shot, she stops and looks back at the camera.<\/p>\n

Braveheart (1995)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Icon\/Ladd Co\/Paramount\/Kobal\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

There is a modern car in the background of a big battle scene. Considering the film is set in the 13th century, it\u2019s hard to imagine how it stayed in the final cut.<\/p>\n

Django Unchained (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(TWC)<\/p>\n

Leonardo DiCaprio accidentally cut his hand while filming a scene in which he slams his hand on the table and breaks a glass. But rather than shout \u201ccut\u201d, he carried on in character. Tarantino liked it so much that he kept it in the film.<\/p>\n

Captain Marvel (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(AP)<\/p>\n

Many of the mistakes are related to the film\u2019s 1990s time period. These include computers using a wrongly dated version of Windows and Carol Danvers\u2019s memories being jogged by a Nirvana song that wasn\u2019t out until after she left Earth.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man (2002)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Tobey Maguire\u2019s Spider-Man saves Kirsten Dunst\u2019s Mary Jane from a group of attackers. He throws them through a set of windows before he kisses her upside down in the rain. But during their romantic embrace, the windows behind her are perfectly intact.<\/p>\n

Halloween (1978)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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John Carpenter\u2019s slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis was set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, but all the cars have Californian number plates and there are shots of palm trees, as the film was shot in Southern California.<\/p>\n

The Goonies (1985)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

At the end of the cult film, Data tells news reporters that the octopus was really scary, but this actually refers to a deleted scene. It was only added back in for the Disney Channel version.<\/p>\n

Avengers: Endgame<\/strong><\/a> (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eagle-eyed fans have noted that Ant-Man can be seen in two places at once during the final battle scene \u2013 in the van, and in his giant form, fighting alongside the other Avengers.<\/p>\n

The <\/strong>Lord of the Rings<\/strong><\/a>: The Two Towers (2002)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Merry and Pippin are captured by the Orcs at the start of the film, and Pippin is seen in handcuffs. But he doesn\u2019t have them anymore in the fight scene. And then they reappear on his wrists a few moments later.<\/p>\n

Gladiator<\/strong><\/a> (1999)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Ridley Scott\u2019s epic film took place many centuries before fuel-powered vehicles. But during the Battle of Carthage, a gas canister can be seen on the back of a chariot when it flips over.<\/p>\n

The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/a> (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

There is a mix up over whether it is day or night at the beginning of the stock market heist scene in Christopher Nolan\u2019s film. It is clearly daylight, but suddenly, after the police chase, it\u2019s pitch black.<\/p>\n

Titanic (1997)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

When Jack (Leonardi DiCaprio) is painting a naked Rose (Kate Winslet) and tells her to go over by the bed, and then says he means the couch, it was DiCaprio flubbing his lines. But James Cameron kept it in the film because it was funny.<\/p>\n

Jurassic World<\/strong><\/a> (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

The blockbuster featured about 33 mistakes, including a scene in which lead actor Chris Pratt talks to co-star Bryce Dallas Howard without his mouth moving. In another scene, a phone\u2019s broken screen suddenly appears fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-301119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114936392788082188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}