Episode 10 Great Movie Mistakes

There was once a noble quest undertaken by Tommo and Ben,

two hairy men from the Midlands, and Matthew the painfully white.

Bravely, they sought out motion picture mishaps,

cinematic screw-ups and filmic failures.

They travelled as far as Odeon and through the many caverns of Vue,

where they have returned with their prey,

captured on shiny golden rings known as DVDs.

Fine, fine, I know they're not gold.

Join them now as they celebrate Great Movie Mistakes.

-Continuity.

-What? When you have trouble with your bowels?

No, that's incontinuity.

-When you resume drinking a cup of PG Tips?

-No, that's continue-a-tea.

Errors, like those two "jokes",

are things that should never have happened

-and continuity errors are the bread and butter of movie mistakes.

-What?

When you move some Eskimos to the Home Counties?

-No, that's Kent-Inuit-ee.

-Enough!

Some inspired performances in Hitchcock and, luckily,

some brilliant bloopers.

Alfred Hitchcock is in the middle of a chapter of Psycho

when Alma rudely interrupts him.

This could be the one, Hitch.

I'll read it later.

But now, he's reading from the start of the chapter.

-I sometimes have to reread things if I'm interrupted.

-Re-reading, eh?

That's just showing off twice.

Here's Hitch in a napkin, reading a paper

-and displaying terrible table manners.

-I can't see anything wrong.

I forgot to tell you...

Well, look, the paper's gone and he takes off his napkin.

But here they're both back.

And just to confuse and alienate Alma, they're both gone again!

Well, the actual mistake here is that he only sips at the wine.

He should drink it all before it goes off.

Now, I'd be the last person you'd think would enjoy

a high school movie about a cappella groups.

-No, you wouldn't.

-I'm not shocked.

But check out the smart and sassy Pitch Perfect.

See how there's no-one sat behind the judges.

Well, now, there are two people and in just a tick,

there's only one of them.

And he's moved seats.

Undecided about how to wear your hair in the finals of a high school

a cappella music competition?

-Always.

-So, do as Aubrey does. Wear it up...

..then down...

-..then up again!

-Genius, thanks, Matthew.

-Tom, you don't have any hair.

-Not on my head.

Yes! It's time for action thriller Jack Reacher.

I bloomin' love this film.

Out of the car!

Jack Reacher's my third favourite Jack after Daniels and E Collins.

Now, Jack's first concern in any high-speed car chase is safety.

See this Pennsylvania car safety inspection sticker?

The date on it starts off as September 2012.

But that nine soon changes itself to a six.

And then to a blurry eight.

Then seven.

And then back to nine.

Meaning he has his car safety-inspected a whopping

five times in just the one admittedly far too long chase.

The great thing about this show is that it can really ruin

action films for you on a more-or-less permanent basis.

You're welcome.

Now, look at this parking meter.

At first, it's a ten-hour limit.

Then it's just 30 minutes.

He really is a law unto himself.

-By "he", do you mean the continuity guy?

-Sure.

It's you, the guy from the car.

-This bad guy plays by no rules, not even the rules of time.

-How's that?

Check out his phone.

-Are you hurt?

-No, she's going to be if you're not here in one hour.

The duration of the phone call changes from the mid-20s

to the low 10s.

It's perverse.

It's time for the awesome Iron Man 3 and my lifetime hero, Tony Stark.

Don't get too upset by this, Ben,

but it's not quite an ironclad addition to the movie franchise.

What?!

See this young lady? She takes off his glasses

and without turning them round, places them on her face!

No wonder he looks so confused.

Anachronisms.

-The fear of spiders.

-No!

Anachrophobia is the fear of spiders.

Anachronisms are when you have the political beliefs of a spider.

Actually, it's when something from the wrong time period

appears in a film.

Ever since the digital watch in Ben-Hur,

eagle-eyed movie mistakes legends, such as ourselves...

Guilty as charged.

..have been spotting anachronisms, circling them in red pen,

pointing at them, laughing at them and high-fiving.

More mistakes from the brilliant Argo.

We're virtually Argo-nauts!

Now, check out that broken Hollywood sign.

Factually accurate.

Oh! You're wrong, Matthew.

Sure, it fell into disrepair in the '70s,

but, it was famously refurbished in 1978,

a full year before the Iranian hostage crisis began.

Amateurs.

The long and serious Lincoln again

and here's proof they had electrical sockets in the 19th century.

They did?

Well, they must have done, see? There it is.

As we all know, Spielberg is a details man.

OK, boys. What's wrong with

this scene? Listen close.

The war will take our son.

A sniper or a shrapnel shell, or typhus.

Same as it took Willie, it takes hundreds of boys a day.

He'll die uselessly...

-Something about Willie taking hundreds of boys a day?

-No, no, no.

She used the term sniper.

As we all know, this term wasn't used in the US

until well after the Civil War.

She would have meant sharpshooter.

-I didn't know that.

-Nor did I.

Well, that fact brought the house down at my

live action role-playing club!

Guys?

Who's up for a very petty anachronism from

the powerful, violent but underwhelming Lawless?

-Not me.

-Please, no.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, that camera is

a Kodak Brownie Target Six-20,

which wasn't in production until 1946,

nine years after he used it!

-Is it over?

-Yes. Thank God.

You've got to keep steady...

We weren't talking business yet.

We were discussing my curiosity.

Cor, Django Unchained!

I love an explosive, bloodthirsty tour de force!

I love how Quentin Tarantino plays fast and loose

with the rules of filmmaking.

You mean how he subverts the conventional

tropes of the Western genre?

No, how he gives DiCaprio a straw for his drink.

They weren't commercially available until 1888.

This is set in 1858!

-People used hollow reeds back then.

-Wow.

What a maverick.

You don't make it sound too flattering, but more or less, yes.

Here's Charlie Sheen in the whimsical '70s clunker

A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III.

-Catchy title.

-Set in the '70s, you say?

-Yes.

Well, I'm sure Galaga and Ms Pac-Man weren't around till 1981!

They should've shown a space hopper and an Etch A Sketch instead! Ha!

We shouldn't be too hard on the editors

responsible for these movie mistakes.

They're just having a bad day at work.

Yeah, like when I worked as a greeter at Hamleys

and attempted to fashion a noose out of modelling balloons.

Or when I worked in a pub

and accidentally poured £600 worth of beer

in my mouth.

Yeah.

Or when I tripped over mid-shift and spilt hot soup over everyone.

Didn't know you worked as a waiter, Tom.

No, sadly I was a midwife.

Good Lord.

Let's have a look at some more poorly-made movie bloopers.

The biggest mystery in the now overstretched

and underwhelming Bourne series

is not who Jason Bourne is,

or why he turns into Jeremy Renner,

but how the anyone missed this woman's glasses

appearing out of nowhere.

Specs-less.

Specs-ful. Brilliant.

She's not pulling this off on her own. Who the hell is helping her?

Now, Mama - the gloomy but visually stunning horror.

There's little I wouldn't do to

that bloke from Game of Thrones.

He's got a jawline carved from marble

and he'd make me feel safe.

Wow. Anyway, watch this.

See? It's a carpet tile!

The snow isn't real snow!

Carpet diem, eh, folks?

-Back to sleep, Ben.

-Can do.

Now look at the shadows coming towards us

from the sun, as Burnsie discovers the cabin.

But what's this? Ha! A shadow on the door!

Which could only have come from something reflecting light.

-Like a tree?

-A tree that reflects light?

-Could be metal.

-There's no such thing as metal trees.

Hello...?

A silver birch?

MATTHEW SIGHS

Cracking film here - The Master, with Joaquin Phoenix

and Philip Seymour Hoffman doing some impressive heavyweight acting.

Props to the actors.

But not to the props department, sadly. Look at this.

Phoenix, having a diva-like strop, kicks a toilet to pieces,

but no water comes out.

Hoffman does not look impressed.

Here's a terrible gaffe with a darkroom kiss.

The weird smoochy sounds carry on after they finish kissing!

I sometimes pretend I'm still doing it, even though I've finished.

-Kissing?

-Er...Yeah.

Freddie, stand in the middle of the room, please.

Now, look at the handkerchief in the right hand switching to the left.

You're about to see a continuity masterclass

from the brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman.

He's thrown us off the scent with that hand change...

But then, bang!

It's in his right hand again!

Academy Award-winning clanger work there.

He's certainly the handker-chief of mistakes!

-Matthew, that was awful.

-I'm so sorry.

-MAN: Just feels like glass.

-That's cos it IS glass.

A cheeky clunker

from the pleasantly surprising fantasy thriller Byzantium.

Here's a customer visiting lady-of-the-night, Clara.

But before anything happens, he breaks down crying.

That happens to me a lot.

And somehow, without anyone having pulled them down,

his trousers are suddenly around his knees!

That happens to ME a lot.

Mike, I understand, but the bottom line is...

It's Snitch, everyone! Another nondescript and forgettable film

starring the brilliantly charismatic Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

The Rock's a multitasker - actor, wrestler,

telephone answerer

and golf-putterer.

But check out the putting green - suddenly it's gone missing!

Sloppy work. They should have just putting green-screened it back in.

And that's you lot.

See you soon for some more Great Movie Mistakes!

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