Can mistakes and "goofs" ruin a movie?

Zeiken, I can understand what your saying. If I saw a few boom mics sneak in the camera in Signs, it would kill the reality and the feel of the movie. If I was so into a movie and glued to my seat and I caught I glimpse of a boom mic, it would just take me back to reality and kill the mood. "Oh yea, I forgot. It's just a movie *sigh*."

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One that always gets me is in Speed - the second greatest of Keanu Reeve's many masterpieces - when the lift thingy beeps an extra time; I have no idea why but it drives me nuts.

Yes there are goofs in a certain movie but i try hard as hell to avoid it. but if im making a review of that movie, i wont avoid those things..

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It doesn't worry me at all

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it most certainly does bother some people...like when I notice an error...I jump up out of my seat...yell out loud "they f'd up!" then proceed to rewind, play, pause, rewind, play, pause, until I am confidently proud of myself and continue on with the movie, forgetting where we left off



my girlfriend HATES that

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Um so would I

If it's a good movie the goofs and mistakes don't really bother me(being a good movie meaning good story line and such. If it's already a good movie with no mistakes or goofs then obviously they don't ruin it). I can't think of one movie where the mistakes ruined it though, so I guess the question "Can mistakes and "goofs" ruin a movie?" is no.

I would've guessed that my informative rant would only warrant gratitude and appreciation!

I usually don't see mistakes or goofs until a repeat-repeat-repeat-repeat-(you get the picture) viewings. Usually, my dad and I only notice things that are impossible in real life and not production mistakes.

Ex. In Armageddon, the two shuttles take off within less then half a mile of each other. Yea, right. (Then again, it wouldn't be a movie if it was possible)

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I realize this thread is older than some of my grandkids, but . . .

Continuity mistakes can be immensely entertaining, especially in a really cheesy guilty-pleasure B- (or C- or D-) movie. So I'm sorry to say I almost never notice even glaring continuity mistakes, no matter how many times I watch the movie (and no matter how funny I think the mistake is, once it's pointed out to me).

Factual errors are a different story. For example, I'll either accept or reject wild historical inaccuracies depending on how seriously the movie takes itself. On the other hand, an anesthetized patient moaning while intubated (in Happy Birthday to Me) is really jarring. And, as common as it is, hearing sound in outer space has always driven me up the wall! (A couple of other common ones in horror movies are translucent blood, and killers attacking people with the blunt edge of the machete.)

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Going to film school, you tend to notice these things a lot more than not. I would point them out to my wife and now she notices them. I've ruined movies for her.

Like in Mrs. Doubtfire when Williams grabs the fruit and throws it at Brosnan. It reappears after he's thrown it.

It gets funny when it happens in something like LOST and people are thinking it has some sort of deeper meaning.

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I dont go looking for them like some people do but I do notice sometimes. Doesnt ruin a movie for me, though. Just makes me think someone looking after continuity is lazy. I mean how hard is it to get right how much wine is in a glass or what shoes the actor is supposed to be wearing. I really liked it in Sharknado though. It was like one big homage to continuity errors.

Continuity errors make me nuts but I can usually set them aside. Don't they pay somebody to look out for that stuff?

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If they're excessive and noticeable then yes.

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They would have to be REALLY noticeable to ruin an entire movie...I know whenever I looked at the "mistakes and goofs" section of a movie's IMDB page, if they hadn't written about it, I never would have known about it...I don't know why, but some details I'm very picky about and others I don't notice at all.

I don't think so. There are mistakes and goofs in every single movie, and I never notice them.

It's terrible really but I can't think of any proper goofs or errors, and certainly not ones that are bad enough to ruin something.

The only one that comes to mind is a 'repaired' mistake in the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie. Paul McGann delivered the Doctor's scripted line "I have twelve lives" when it should have been thirteen. This was post-synched but, as it's a fairly big close-up, he's obviously saying twelve.

A mistake has irked me significantly in a few movies, even though I try to ignore them. An example: in a scene in Goodfellas that takes place in the early 60's, a DC-10 is shown in a shot of an airport. There were no DC-10's in the early 60's. That is a mistake that I felt a fine filmmaker like Scorsese, with a big budget, should not make. It has irked me all these years, but I still admire the movie.


When I was a kid, I wrote to the makers of "The Six Million Dollar Man" television show about a continuity error in the program. They sent me an autographed photo montage of Lee Majors leaping, running, etc., that I still have somewhere.

Would most people notice or even know that? Things like that tend to be very specific to the viewer. It's not like they have iPhones running around.

I don't tend to notice those things unless it's very obvious. Like the iPhone analogy.