Walking Tall

There is a Christmas scene. When outside shots are shown, the trees still have leaves on them.

Wall Street

The opening shot (of the New York Stock Exchange's trading floor) has the subtitle "1985," which might lead one to expect that at least the action in the first few scenes takes place in the year 1985. However, when Charlie Sheen is talking to his nimrod broker buddy the nimrod jokes that the day the Challenger exploded Gekko was on the phone "selling NASA stock short." The Challenger exploded in January, 1986, not 1985.

In the scene where Gecko is talking to the board of Blue Star Airlines in Bud's apartment, Michael Douglas is wearing a suit, but white sneakers can be seen on his feet. In the next shot, he is wearing dress shoes.

Waiting to Exhale

In the scene where one of the four women is chatting/flirting with her ex-husband in her apartment, one of her very large earrings disappears on and off through the whole scene.

The War of the Roses

In one scene in the Lawyer's (played by Danny DeVito) office, Michael Douglas calls the lawyer "DeVito"

Wargames

When they launch the F-16s the picture shown is of an F-15.

The beginning starts out with two Strategic Air Command officers in a Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Launch Control Facility (LCF) going through the strict procedures for launch of an ICBM. The crypto messages are being received by the LCF, the launch officers pull the launch sequence and confirm the crypto launch command (encoded message) matches that which is contained in the launch sequence - all very secret, and all very realistic. However, the missle they show in the movie powering up for launch is a Titan ICBM, and how you launch a Titan from a Minuteman LCF is beyond me.

Waterworld

If dirt is so hard to find, why are all of the characters so filthy?

Can planes, boats and jet-skis run on plain crude oil? There's no real petrol ever mentioned.

If the world is completely covered with water, what happened to all of the fish? The only form of sea-life that we see is that huge fish-beast thing. And couldn't they eat the meat off it, instead of having to share the eye?

If The Mariner is mutating into a sea creature, and can breathe underwater, why does he have that nifty diving bubble? Don't tell me he was expecting company.

How far ahead in the future are we anyway? Hundreds or maybe thousands of years? Do you know how long tankers like that can stay at sea? Twenty or thirty years at the most. That's a rather short time for everyone to forget about dry land.

The bad guys have many cans of Smeat laying about. Why won't they eat it (besides the obvious, I mean)?

All of the bad guys smoke, hence they are called The Smokers. Dirt is really hard to come by, so plants are even harder. Even if this is only thirty years in the future, how are they growing the tobacco for all of those cigarettes?

At one point, the mariner trades a handful of dirt for water and a potted plant that has more dirt in it than he originally traded.

Right before the Smokers show up, you can see land on the left hand side of the screen.

There isn't enough water in the icecaps to submerge the Earth. Even if there was, the salt water would be diluted enough to drink.

He is screaming along on a port tack (sailing term). The camera pans out, and he is now on a starboard tack.

When they leave the land where Anola lived, they come upon a trader. The trader offers him paper to trade for 30 minutes with the woman. When his ship is destroyed and he recovers his valuables, he finds some National Geographic magazines. If he had so many magazines, why did he want the few pieces of paper?

What about Bob?

When Richard Dreyfus' character walks towards his daughter on the dock, he is empty handed. However, a second later when he gets to her, he has the family puppets in his hand in order to give her a lecture.

When Harry Met Sally

Throughout the movie, Meg Ryan's hair changes styles to depict the different eras. But in a montage of her and Billy Crystal, when she is doing yet another of her long winded menu requests to an exasperated waiter, he hair is straight and almost waist length. This is her hair style at the very end of the movie, when she and Billy are telling about their wedding cake with the coconut and rich chocolate sauce.

In the scene where they have just had sex, Meg goes to get out of the bed and is supposed to be naked, but when she puts on the bathrobe you can see she is wearing some type of slip or nylon panties.

Their cross-country drive supposedly took place in 1976 or '77, so how come when they stop at the diner, the credit card decal on the door advertises "VISA." Bank Americard didn't change its name to VISA until 1979.

Also on the trip, there's a conversation scene in the car, in which the camera flips back and forth from Billy to Meg as they chat/argue/flirt. Although the action/dialogue (and therefore the movement of the car) is continuous, the lock button on the driver's side door alternates between "up" and "down" with almost every camera cut.

When they are playing win, lose, or draw, Sally is trying to draw baby talk, and if you keep your eye on the drawing the baby looks different all the time and has eyes, and then doesn't have eyes, etc.

When they are with their friends arguing over the ugly coffee table, Sally is wearing blue jeans. When she goes outside to talk to Billy Crystal, she's wearing black trousers.

At the beginning of the movie, they are leaving the campus of the University of Chicago to drive to New York. The next shot is of the car driving north on Lake Shore Drive, north of downtown. This route would take them to Evanston, not New York city.

While You Were Sleeping

In the scene where Lucy first enters Peter's hospital room, you can hear a respirator, and he is not hooked up to one. Also, the respirator noise is much faster than an unconscious human should be breathing.

When Lucy drags the nurse in the hall after they meet the family, the camera goes back and forth from Lucy to the nurse. First Lucy has a sweater and a tee shirt on, then no tee shirt, then a tee shirt again.

In one of the hospital scenes she has her purse across her chest, then the camera goes back and it's hanging from her shoulder.

When Sandra Bullock is sitting on her bed looking at Peter Gallagher's things, she dumps a can of cat food out of a paper bag.  She turns it over, and you can see that there is nothing on either side. When she goes to his apartment to feed the cat, she pops the can open, but she would've needed a can opener.

White Christmas

There's a mysterious moving pitcher of buttermilk and a tray of sandwiches in one of Bing's scenes in the Inn.

White Squall

When the servivors of the sunken ship are floating in the life raft, Geig makes a comment while observing the cloudless night sky: "look, there goes Shephard..."(something to that effect, in reference to the recent launch of Allen Shephard in the first Mercury manned-space flight). In actuality, Shephard's flight was a day launch and a sub-orbital flight lasting only few minutes. He never achieved orbit and therefore would not be visible traveling in the night sky.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

In The Ink and Paint Club, when Jessica is about to do her number, just as the curtains open, her dress snaps off for a split second, then reappears. This can only be seen in slow motion on the laserdisc version, however.

When Judge Doom is about to dunk the squeaky shoe into the Dip, it seems to stick itself for him, even though it looks rather scared.

When R.K. Maroon gets shot, he gets shot in the back from a window. The window is on the second floor, with no staircase leading to it. How did the shooter get to that window?

The film takes place in the year 1947. Near the end, when Benny is examining the remains of Doom, he says that he's been a cab for thirty-seven years. American Taxi cabs didn't look anything like that back in 1910.

Another scene of Jessica's exposure can be found when Benny the cab crashes into the lamp-post after sliding through the puddle of dip. She and Eddie are thrown from the car, and spin around. As Jessica spins, she is seen to have no panties on.

White Men Can't Jump

In the scene where Rosie Perez is on Jeopardy, her score is shown at about 7800. In the next wide shot, her score is at about 4500. In the next scene, her score goes back to around 7800.

Wild America

When J.T.T is on top of the moose riding on his antler's, it is SO obvious that it's a dummy or someone else of greater and different size.

J.T.T. is supposedly "getting back" at his brothers by scrubbing their toothbrushes in the toilet. He scrubs the green and yellow brushes quite vigorously inside the toilet bowl. Later on, when the three boys are brushing their teeth, J.T.T. is using one of the brushes that he put in the toilet.

The Wild Bunch

One of the bounty hunters was carrying a 1903-A3 Springfield rifle. This was a cheaper version of the 1903 rifle made in WW-II.

Wild Things

Later in the movie when Officers Ray Duquette and Gloria Perez are in the police station, they walk through a door marked Display ID beyond this point. In this scene, although everyone else is displaying a clip ID on their chest, Duquette and Perez are not wearing ID tags or their badges at all.

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

If you look closely at several scenes, Veruca Salt's and Violet Beauregard's hairstyles change. For example, Violet's hair is wavy, then it is even curlier.

Willow

When they are at the Nutmar camp in the mountains, Val Kilmer tells Willow "Get on that shield!" but when they go over a 6, 7, 8 foot drop when they are sledding down the snow, you can clearly see runners on the shield.

Witchboard

When the two male leads are contacting David on the dock, barrels break off and roll over them, knocking one of them into the water. He emerges all right, only to be struck in the face with a hatchet. He is struck with the blade running from his hairline diagonally across his nose. When his friend finds him, however, the cut is across his cheek.

Wizard of Oz

During the sequence where Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, Dorothy's pigtails were first short (above her shoulders) and as the song progresses her hair gets longer (below her shoulders), then short, and then long again.

When the witch scares the people in the town where Dorothy lands, she disappears into a cloud of smoke she creates. But you can clearly see her sneak down into a trap door below.

In the beginning, when the twister is coming to Dorothy's house and she is trying to get in to the cellar, on the first shot, there are three metal buildings in the background. On the next shot the fields have been harvested and the buildings are gone.

When the Wicked Witch first appears in the smoke, Dorothy has a lollipop in her hand. In the next shot, she doesn't have it anywhere near her.

Several times you can see the wire that makes the Lion's Tail wag.

During the Tin Man's dance, you can see a stagehand caught unaware as he dashes behind the chessy tree props as he tries to hide.

The characters change places from one shot to another as the wizard gives the tin man his heart, etc.

If you get one of the original copies of the movie, you can see a small figure behind the blue screen in the background climbing up something, then slip, and then swing across the background. Again it is quite small. It happens shortly after the wicked witch of the west throws a fireball at Dorothy and her pals.

The album "Dark side of the moon" by Pink Floyd seems to be in sync with the Wizard of Oz if you start it right after the lion roars the second time. Example: the song "brain damage" starts right when you see the scarecrow the first time and the first line is "the lunatic is on the grass".

When the wizard is getting ready to take of in the balloon, while most people watch Dorothy climb out of the basket and go after Toto, the Tin Man is unravelling the thing holding the hot air balloon down, then he "accidentally" lets go.

Right - final comment, and no arguments, because I've had more mails saying this than anything else. The object in the background which some people think is someone hanging themselves is in fact some kind of bird. Definitely.

You can clearly see that Toto is wired to the curtain that he pulls back to reveal the real wizard.

Updated 29/5/98 by JWES