6 Movie Mistakes Spotted Before Release
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00:00Who doesn't love a good movie mistake?
00:02I mean, there are entire websites and subreddits dedicated to pointing them out,
00:07and UK fans might recall that comedian Robert Webb used to have a TV show about them.
00:12However, the thing about movie mistakes is that they're typically spotted
00:16after the film in question has released, usually when it's available on home media.
00:20This obviously makes it easier to scrub through the film and pick tiny details out,
00:25allowing visual effect screw-ups or continuity blunders to be pinpointed with precision.
00:30But sometimes, very rarely, a mistake might be spotted before a movie's release.
00:35From trailers, to clips, to early preview footage, distributors throw out so much
00:40pre-release material these days that there's always a chance a blunder will slip through the
00:45cracks. And so, with that in mind then, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture here with
00:496 Movie Mistakes Spotted Before Release.
00:536. Kylo Ren's Invisible Cape
00:56Star Wars is one of those franchises whose trailers are analysed and
00:59freeze-framed with obsessive levels of scrutiny. And Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker,
01:04the grand conclusion to the Skywalker saga, was no different.
01:08Fans probably didn't expect to find something like this in their deep dives, though.
01:13Shortly after the movie's D23 special look was released in August 2019,
01:18eagle-eyed viewers noticed something unusual about a shot of Rey and Kylo Ren
01:22engaged in a lightsaber duel. Namely, Kylo Ren's cape wasn't visible in the reflection beneath him.
01:29This was corrected in time for his December release,
01:32with the cape being added to the reflection in all its billowing glory.
01:36Now, some speculated that the mistake was due to the cape being CGI and not being added in time
01:42for D23, while others speculated that it was the reflection that was the digital element,
01:48and again, it wasn't completed in time for the trailer.
01:51We got our answer as the movie inched closer to its home media release,
01:55with certain behind-the-scenes content showing Adam Driver wearing a cape on set.
02:01So why edit his reflection in then? Well, who knows?
02:055. The Green Lego is a Lie
02:09Some movie mistakes don't just rock the film fandom, they rock the entire planet.
02:14No, seriously.
02:16This was the case in 2017, when Lego fans the world over were rioting in the streets
02:24after discovering a blunder in the main trailer for IT Chapter 1.
02:29In said trailer, there's a quick shot where lead character Bill drops a Lego set on the floor
02:34after being startled by a vision of his dead brother Georgie.
02:37This set featured several 2x2 slopes in lime green,
02:41but as pointed out by Lego superfan Nathan Wells, this piece wasn't released until 2010,
02:47whereas the movie was set in 1989.
02:51Acknowledging the fact that the film was now a complete disaster and couldn't be released
02:55under any circumstances, producer Seth Graham-Smith responded to the controversy saying,
03:01We're cancelling the release until further notice.
03:04Which, of course, he never did. The liar.
03:07Fortunately, this calamitous error did not bring down the movie's reception,
03:13and it was a critical and box office smash upon its release less than two months later.
03:194. The Vanishing Necklace
03:22The build-up to Spider-Man No Way Home was absolutely nuts, in the best way possible.
03:27With pop culture fans having gone two plus years without a cinematic event on this scale,
03:33the hunger for Tom Holland's third solo Spidey outing was huge,
03:37largely fuelled by speculation that a few other web-slingers might be joining him.
03:41Unsurprisingly then, its trailer was picked apart to a degree that we hadn't seen
03:46since Avengers Endgame, which led to fans uncovering all kinds of weird stuff.
03:51There was the infamous lizard punch spotted in an international version of the second trailer,
03:57and some fans even thought they could see a disembodied arm in the corner of another shot.
04:02Elsewhere, a genuine continuity error was noticed,
04:06revolving around the necklace worn or not worn by MJ.
04:10At the very end of Spider-Man Far From Home, during the scene where Spidey's true identity
04:15is revealed, MJ is clearly not wearing the broken black Dahlia necklace given to her
04:20by Peter earlier in the movie. However, as people noticed when No Way Home's opening
04:25scene was released the week before it hit cinemas, MJ suddenly had the necklace on.
04:30Considering that No Way Home picks up right where Far From Home left off,
04:35this is a clear, although admittedly minor, continuity mistake.
04:40The two versions of the scene were probably filmed years apart, and so it's not really
04:45surprising that there might be a few minor details that were accidentally missed by the filmmakers.
04:503. Vision's Missing Makeup
04:54Yes, okay, WandaVision isn't technically a movie,
04:58but it's part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so we don't feel bad for cheating here.
05:04The MCU's first proper small screen outing was such a trippy show that it was hard to know what
05:09was real and what was part of Wanda's fantasy. Which is why some people weren't sure whether
05:15a patch of human-coloured skin on Vision's wrist, which was spotted in a promo during
05:20the run-up to Episode 3, was a blunder. The shot in question was taken from Episode 3's
05:25opening title sequence, and you can clearly see Paul Bettany's human skin through a gap in his
05:30shirt. Obviously, Bettany's entire body wasn't painted maroon, just the bits that were on show,
05:36and so someone clearly forgot that this small portion of his arm would be visible.
05:40Interestingly, the mistake was still present when the episode aired a few days later,
05:45but if you were to watch Episode 3 on Disney Plus today, the mistake has been fixed.
05:51And this isn't the first time that WandaVision was edited after release. The show's post-credits
05:58scene was also tinkered with, but why, we do not know.
06:03Number 2. Cameraman Cameo
06:05Crew member caught in the back of a shot is the most common movie mistake around,
06:10but rarely are they as noticeable as this one. It was far too easy to spot the cameraman
06:16lurking in the background of a shot from Godzilla King of the Monsters' Comic Con teaser,
06:21which released in July 2018, almost a full year before the movie's May 2019 release.
06:28Now sure, at this point, the film still had a long way to go before it was completed,
06:33but it's still pretty egregious that a gaffe this huge managed to slip through the cracks.
06:38Some people speculated that it might actually be part of the film,
06:41but that idea was quickly shot down when the director
06:45uploaded the same teaser to his Twitter page, with the mistake edited out.
06:50And that original teaser actually had a second error too,
06:54with the bandages on Millie Bobby Brown's hands disappearing between shots.
06:59Whoops!
07:00Number 1. Shopping Bag Guy
07:02After months of hype and speculation,
07:05Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is finally upon us.
07:10From Professor X to Captain Carter, the movie is set to contain a whole bunch of crazy cameos.
07:16And another character who fans are so excited to see is the man, the myth, the legend,
07:23the random extra.
07:24Now this all started when a YouTube user uploaded a video pointing out a pretty
07:29funny continuity error from the movie, where the same bag-carrying extra
07:34can be seen running through a scene four different times.
07:38This extra, who we shall affectionately dub Shopping Bag Guy,
07:42was first spotted in an officially released clip of Doctor Strange
07:45battling an enormous monster on the streets of New York.
07:48Maybe he's just caught in a time loop, or maybe it's just a genuine continuity blunder,
07:53but let's be honest, if we were in this guy's shoes,
07:56we would also be trying to get as much screen time as possible.
08:00And that concludes our list.
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