From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: * Movie Goofs list Candidates
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:51:02 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

These are the goofs I have received since the time I was in Spain. If
you have aprobelm with any of these, let me know so that they are NOT
placed in next month's goof list. Thanx!
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# Lambada
-In the last dance scene, there is a sequence shot with a low camera angle 
whilst girls are spinning past. The girl's underwear can easily be seen. One particular female is wearing a very scanty pair of knickers that are held up with a piece of sticky tape in the front.

#Raising Arizona
- During the scenes in which Hi and Ed are chasing the Lone Biker of the
Apocalypse, the car they're driving switches back and forth between Hi's
big brown car and Ed's police car, flashing lights and all.

# Raiders of the Lost Ark
-When Indy is packing for his trip, he packs a Navy Colt revolver.  Then when
 he fights the Nazis at Marion's tavern he has a semi-automatic pistol. (You
 can tell especially when he runs out of bullets)  But in a few quick views,
 he once again has his revolver.

# Back to the Future III
-How did the crossing signal get triggered if the train had not yet
 materialized?

# The Big Easy
-At the end, just before the boat blows up, Dennis Quaid and Ellen
Barkin are running off the dock to avoid being blown up. Just as 
they leap to safety, you notice that it's not them, it's stunt
persons. It's a full frontal head to toe shot, real easy to see
their faces, and the faces are neither Quaid's nor Barkin's.

# Mary Poppins
-During the song "A Spoonful of Sugar" Mary extends her arm out the 
 window and a red-breasted Roobin flies onto it, and takes part
 in the song.  That bird is a North American bird, and does not
 live in England.

# Chariots of Fire
-The film's main plot line is centered around the 1924 Olympics.  American
 flags (on the sweatshirts of the US Team, held by spectators, etc.) have
 50 stars on them; there were only 48 states at the time.

# Die Hard
- When the body of the terrorist is discovered in the lift, watch as Gruber
  (Alan Rickman) pushes the corpse's head to one side.  The eyes of the dead
  man close just before the hand reaches his face.

#Wizard of Oz
-After Dorothy and Scarecrow meet up w/ Tin Man and they go dancing off ot 
see the wizard, away from the camera; look at the back drop between the 
trees, you'll see a guy fall off a scrapling and hang himself on a rope. 
Because the film was behind schedule and over budget they left it in. He did 
die from this and you will see him swing on the rope and turn sideways.

GOODFELLAS.  In an establishing shot early in this chronologically
ambitious movie, we get the subtitle "Idlewild Airport, 1963."  
The planes flying over are uniformly jumbo jets (not introduced
until 1969, not widespread until 70s) and our heroes are standing
around a '68 Chevy.  

# Goodfellas
-Continuity problems between normal/reverse angle shots of Morrie (the wig man)
 (not) talking on the phone: phone changes hands.

# Pure Luck
-When Campenella falls out the back of the jeep, the tailgate falls down.
 Subsequent view of the back of the truck show the tailgate up.

# Superman IV
-When Lex is stealing Superman's strand of hair from the museum, just after
the side of the glass box is smashed, a circular piece of wood falls out of
the bottom of the box when the broken glass lands on it.  This is obviously
because the _polystyrene_ (or similar) 'tonne' (?) weight would not smash
through the wood.

# Batman
-When the Batmobile first drives itself automatically, you can see someone's
 hand on the steering wheel through the tinted windscreen.