I've been told that there's a scene in The Vikings where a mass of Viking Warriors hoist their swords upward...revealing several wristwatches!!!

A theatre usher told me years ago that during hundreds of viewings of Gone With The Wind he noticed several electrical wall outlets connected to lamps. He also told me that in Dr. Zhivago you can spot jet streams in the background skies & sunsets!

I have the laserdisc and it looked much better to me.

In Terminator 2, when Ah-nold grabs the shotgun from the biker guy on the porch of the bar, we see an over-the-shoulder shot of him grabbing the weapon away. In the reverse angle from behind the biker, Ah-nold reaches up and snatches it again. The guy must've somehow drew two shotguns within a half-second of each other.

Some of the ones i've spotted:

These three in one sequence alone.

When Arnold is hit by the car in the mall parking lot he loses his wallet,and does not pick it up.In a later scene he has it back.

When Arnold is holding David Patrick Kelly over the cliff,a safety cable is very visible attached to his leg holding him up.

After the car chase through the hills Arnold flips the yellow Porsche over and major damage to the left side of the car is visible.In the next shot of the car speeding away the left side of the car undamaged.

Later in the film:

During the attack in the courtyard on Val Verde island.Arnold kills the same soldier numerous times yet he continues to reappear.

And that's only a few of them.
Watch the film for yourself and see how many you can spot.It's hilarious.

In Spartacus many of the slaves in the big battle scenes are wearing tennis shoes.

I found one in Twister. They're chasing down a road they say is in Oklahoma, but they pass a Texas State Highway sign. Also, when they're on the dirt road (in the sequence with the multiple waterspouts), as the camera points into Bill Paxton in the truck, you can see a 4-lane highway in the back, with cars going the other way.

There are tons more. I'll have to try and find those books.

Kevin

In one of the Jaws movies, I think "Jaws the revenge" with Michael Caine, there are loads of shots underwater of the mechanical shark and you can see quite clearly the mechanism at the bottom of the screen. Its hilarious...I think its most obvious when it attacks Caine underwater while he surveys a wreck!
I was watching "The Mephisto Waltz" starring Alan Alda and Jaqueline Bissett and I was amazed at how many times the boom microphone was visible at the top of the screen! This happens in quite a few films I've noticed.

Well, that was less of a deliberate blooper than a studio-imposed reediting (the picture had a lot more story in it when the director finished it, but apparently much of it was incoherent. Now ALL the story is incoherent. Ah well. The great Rowdy Herrington.)

My favourite goof? Take out your Empire Strikes Back cassette. Fast-forward to the part when C3PO's parts are moving on the conveyor belt on Bespin (when Chewie finds them). When his golden head is in the middle of the picture, go to pause mode. Now stare on it for 10 minutes, and you will eventually (it's not easy) see the camera man reflected in the head.

Do I have to mention Plan 9 From Outer Space?

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Originally posted by Gae:
mechanism at the bottom of the screen...boom microphone was visible at the top of the screen

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Might not be a real blooper in the movie. On TV, many movies are shown full-screen, i.e. in 4:3 format. If a movie is originally shot in widescreen (1.85:1 or 2.35:1 most of the time), it is often still recorded in 4:3 format, but with black bars at the top and bottom. Now you have 2 choices for showing it on TV (or rather 3, the third being showing it letterboxed, with black bars, which is the ONLY way that should be allowed): By enlarging the picture and thus leaving off parts of it on the sides, or by removing the black bars and displaying what is "behind them" - which often includes microphones.

In Lethal Weapon 2, when Mel Gibson is drilling bullet holes into a thug, and calling off all the names of cops that the South Africans killed off...we see blood splatter on the wall and on the guy's shirt. Next cut..as the guy falls down and we see the blood stain on the wall...but there's no blood on the shirt. He managed to change it before the scene was over. Wierd, huh?

Or the famous storm trooper bumping his head while he was chasing Han Solo around the Death Star in Star Wars IV.

And here's my favorite. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, when Lucy is holding a party for her suiters, the Texan is seen holding his hat while greeting one of the other three...in the next cut, the one he was greating apologizes, "So Sorry about Your hat." and hands him a now bent out of shape hat that the Texan used to be holding, implying that it was originaly sat on. Hmmm...not how did the hat jump from the Texan's hand to underneath the suiter's ass to be crushed? Very wierd.

How about bloopers-incorrectly-regarded-as-bloopers?

1. When Bond and Felix are hovering over the estate in the helicopter (I believe this is the correct scene), Felix's entire wardrobe changes in the middle of the scene.

2. When Bond is underwater during the big fight, his (orange?) goggles are knocked from his face. He grabs another pair that are blue and puts them on. In the very next shot and for the rest of the sequence, his original orange goggles are back.

More Raiders ones.

1. During the desert chase, when the truck plows through the construction area and knocks over the ladders and stuff, the rectangular rails atop the truck cab come loose and almost fall off. Throughout the rest of the sequence, it's back in place.

Didn't anybody notice this???

NEVER watch this while driving or operating heavy equipment like a toaster oven.

In Star Trek IV, when they crash the Klingon Bird of Prey in San Francisco Bay (hey, that rhymes - possibly a song title there! ), Kirk says to blow the escape hatch. As it blows open, during one of the lightning flashes you can clearly see the scaffolding and the roof of the soundstage.

Kevin
NP - Blue Planet

When Indy and Marion escape from the Well of Souls, Indy pushes a huge block of stone out of a wall in order to get to the airstrip. Watch the shadow of the stone as it falls out of frame. You can see the thing actually bounce when it hits the ground!

I hope Indy didn't strain himself pushing it...

Talk about continuity errors!

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
Most recently in SCARY MOVIE, they show a severed head that goes on talking even after it's cut off! You KNOW that's impossible! BIIIG BLOOPER! That whole movie's credibility went RIGHT out the window at that point!

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Ah, come on, Roc. That's been done a lot of times before: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3, CHILD'S PLAY, 8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG.