Making a movie is no easy feat, and requires thousands of hours of planning, setup, and rehearsal to pull off. However, that leaves plenty of room for error, especially when the very human element of making movies comes into play.
Sometimes mess-ups happen, and sometimes they make it past the editing room, whether we want them to or not.
Here are 20 movie mess-ups and bloopers that made the final cut, for better of for worse.
1
In Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, a Stormtrooper hit his head on a low door.
2
Emma Watson mouths the lines of many other characters in the first Harry Potter movie.
3
Tom Cruise breaks his leg in a rooftop jump stunt in Mission Impossible: Fallout. The shot of his jump gone wrong was kept in the film.
4
First episode of Breaking Bad. What is that thing on Walter’s back? He was wearing nothing but tighty whities and a shirt. Looks like a microphone pack.
5
There was a stuntman in one of the Mad Max movies who hit his ankles on a bar while flying through the air and broke both of them. This shot is in the movie. The story is that his first reaction was, "did you get the shot?"
6
Chris Pratt actually did drop the orb in Guardians of the Galaxy.
7
In Charlie’s Angels, Drew Barrymore’s character shouts “LUCY!” to Lucy Liu, instead of her character name.
8
In Django Unchained, Stephen is making out a check. However, in multiple shots the check is different.
9
In Gladiator, there is a man in jeans in a crowd shot.
10
In Midnight Cowboy, Dustin Hoffmin really almost did get hit by a Taxi, and improvised the famous “We’re walking here” line.
11
In Pulp Fiction, there are bullet holes in the wall before a shootout occurs.
12
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones’s gun goes from a revolver to a magazine pistol multiple times.
13
In a shot from Doctor Strange, there is a crew member standing obviously visible in the background.
14
A crew member is visible in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
15
Tora! Tora! Tora! - during the attack on an airfield, there's a scene where people are running for their lives from a burning airplane. That's not a stunt - the plane was radio controlled and had gone out of control, and those stunt people were actually running for their lives.
16
In Die Hard, As John McClane climbs down the ventilation shaft and tries to reach across for the next one, he misses and falls and grabs another shaft. The original plan was to just grab that first ledge, but the stunt man missed and fell. The editor worked some magic to keep it in the film.
17
In Mission Impossible, Henry Cavill instantly grows a beard, and changes shirts.
18
In one of TV’s most infamous mess ups, a Starbucks cup is left in shot during Game of Thrones’ final season.
19
In Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts goes from eating a croissant to a pancake.
20
Stuntwoman Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon smashed into the pillar in Back to the Future Part II falling twenty feet face-first into the concrete shattering her face and severely damaging her wrist requiring intensive reconstruction surgery.
