Dances with Wolves
When Timmons and Dunbar get to the deserted camp, Timmons has pieces of egg all over his face in the close shots, but none at all in the farther away shots.
The piece of meat that Dunbar offers the wolf changes shape and size dramatically throughout that scene.
Dante's Peak
When they are driving up the mountain to get to her kids, they cross a river and they get hit on the passenger side of the truck shattering the window, but later when they show them going up the mountain there is a new window there.
When they are crossing the river in the boat, the acidic water is eating through the blades of the motor, so Pierce Bronson wraps his shirt around his hand to help them paddle manually, and nothing happens to his hand. Yet when Grandma, in her final heroic effort, leaps into the water to pull the boat ashore, she recieves 3rd degree burns all over her legs.
When Graham and his sister are driving in the truck, there is ash and dirt falling from the sky. But at the same time when Harry and Rachel are driving in their truck to look for the kids, there is no ash or dirt falling.
Dark City
In the scene where Murdoch falls off the building, you can see the rope that is holding him up, twice.
Dave
At the end of the film, Dave Kovic addresses Congress, just before he has his "second stroke." The camera often shows the congressman in their seats, as well as shots which show the balcony, where spectators and the press sit. If you watch closely you'll note that in some shots the balcony is jammed packed with people and in others it is completely empty.
When Dave and the First Lady escape from the White House, you can see that Sigourney Weaver is holding a bag of groceries before they get to the grocery store.
Dave is watching Jay Leno but you can see the Grandfather clock on the wall, and it's not time for Leno.
After he has his 2nd stroke, he is rushed to the hospital in daylight, yet he arrives at night time.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The man from Mars is in an elevator with a woman when the power goes out. He tells her he cut the electricity and gas powered engines all over the world for a half an hour. They proceed to show clips of the power out in different parts of the world. When they get to Big Ben in London, you can see a motorboat cruising down the river in the background.
Daylight
Vanessa Calloway loses her Jamaican accent on every other sentence she utters.
When the security guard is trapped underneath the truck, in daylight the amount of water he is drowning in changes. From the front angle he is also most covered in water and from the side angle he has more time.
Days of Thunder
At one point Tom Cruise's character is referred to as "Tom". His character is named "Cole".
Dazed and Confused
When they are initiating the freshman girls after school in the parking lot you can see a red Camaro or Firebird with IROC wheels that did not come out until the mid 80's. The film is set on the last day of school 1976.
In the scene in which Matthew McConaughey is wearing a frilled lace mock polyester shirt, while offering his profound theory upon living, you can see the bulge of cigarettes, in his upper left pocket, a moment later, they're gone.. then when the camera angle reappears on him, they're back.
Benny's Black Chevrolet Truck has a "modern" looking steering wheel that appears on later models.
Dead Again
Ken Branagh and Emma Thompson go into a restaurant, where they greet the owner as Ray. Ray then tells them that the place has no drinks licence and no music because Al the piano player is sick. Minutes later Branagh exclaims "What's going on? I can't believe it. No booze, and Ray's sick."
At the end we find out that Emma Thompson was in fact the Kenneth Branagh character in the past, but under hypnosis she relives a conversation between Emma Thompson and Andy Garcia (next to the swimming pool)....how can she have known about this conversation if she was really the Branagh character in the past and wasn't there during the conversation?
The Deadly Mantis
At one point, the gigantic title character knocks over a city bus. For a moment, the word TONKA can be seen on the underside of the vehicle.
Dear God
During a newscast, a reporter says "And now, over to Angela." Angela speaks, then signs off, but under a different name.
Death of a Salesman
In the flashback scene where Dustin Hoffman is in the hotel bathroom on the floor, he puts a coffee mug on the toilet, then the view switches and when it comes back the mug is gone, never to be seen again.
Death Becomes Her
Goldie Hawn and Meryll Streep are fighting over Bruce Willis. Goldie Hawn is wearing a tight shirt and tight pants. Meryll is wearing a shirt with a skirt thingy attached and tight pants. Goldie has a hole through the middle of her abdomen where Streep has shot her earlier. They both grab shovels and start fighting. Bruce Willis starts to walk upstairs and he looks over the side and sees the shadows of the two women fighting. The hole is supposed to be on the shadow with the tight skirt which is Goldie. Instead, the hole is shown on the body with the skirt attached to the shirt, which is Meryll.
Death Race 2000
When Machine Gun Joe (Stallone) is about to run over a guy he knocked down from a ladder, you can see a bus and some cars in the background, commuting as on a normal day, not a day when everyone is supposed to be avoiding the racers who kill people for points.
As Machine Gun Joe runs slowly runs over a fisherman in a small brook, he stops and "peels out" on his head. You can see a film crewman in the driver's seat doing the actual carnage.
When the navigator of Frankenstein (Carradine) asks him what flavour an energy drink is, he says his taste buds were destroyed in the crash of '97. This is after the scene when Frankenstein admitted to his navigator that he was a different, new Frankenstein than the others who suffered in past crashes.
When Frankenstein is with his navigator in a hotel room, he takes off his costume, including his mask. About a minute later, when he asks his navigator to dance, he still has his mask on. The "hotel room" is also obviously a gym, complete with the doors with the big steel handles!
The Deer Hunter
The Pittsburgh, PA steel-mill neighbourhood scenes were filmed in the Cleveland, OH steel-mill neighbourhood.
The boys go deer hunting somewhere in the Appalachians, but the geology is all wrong. It looks more like Glacier Park than anything remotely resembling eastern mountain ranges.
Desperado
When the bar villains jump over the bar to get the Mariachi, one of them yells, "Come, mes amis!" which is French. They're all supposed to be Mexican.
How does Banderas shoot the bad guys falling back off the building? It's impossible from the angle he's at.
During the bar gunfight, Banderas is shown shooting on top of the counter but somehow winding back up in the same place twice.
If Bucho is Antonio Banderas' brother, why didn't he recognise the letter of his brother when he wrote "looking for Bucho" in the cantina?
The Devil's Own
In the beginning of the movie Brad Pitt's character's mother is serving the dinner. She gives them all dinner except herself, and then sits down. Then the father says the prayer, and when he does that you can see the whole table, and there is food on the mother's plate.
They're having a party at Harrison Ford's house about half way through the movie. Sitting on the table is a 2 litre bottle of Pepsi with the new logo. The scene's supposed to be taking place in 1993.
Dirty Dancing
When Baby and Johnny are driving back from their "dance" at the Shelldrake Hotel, the gear shift is in the uppermost position, which is park, not drive.
When Johnny and Baby have the conversation about 'Have you had many women', Johnny gets out of bed totally naked. However, when Baby rolls over you can see that she is wearing underwear. This isn't very probable if they have just had sex.
Dirty Harry
In the scene where Harry is practicing with his magnum, his black friend sneaks quietly by while parking his car. As the car stops, we see the reflection of the camera man on his window.
Delores Clayborne
In some scenes in the background, the cars have Nova Scotia licence plates where it was filmed... not Maine, where it supposedly took place.
In one scene someone is smoking a DuMarier Canadian cigarette which was taken from an American cigarette package.
In one scene when Salena telephones Peter, the cuffs on his sleeve alternate between being open and done up.
Donnie Brasco
A group of guys are walking into a hangar at some airport....when they are walking into the door you can see a jet moving behind them... it is a Continental Airlines jet with a their new Continental logo on the tail. I believe they updated it in the last two years...the movie was set in 1978 and this logo obviously wasn't on the jets back then.
When Johnny Depp and Al Pacino are driving in the car (I believe it's the first time Depp drives Pacino around), they pass an MCI billboard - the one that continually updates the figures as to how much money you'd save if you had MCI long distance phone service. MCI didn't exist in 1978.
When Depp makes a phone call to his wife on a pay phone, the price of the phone call - $.25 - seen on the phone. Phone calls didn't cost that much in 1978.
Don't tell Mom the babysitter's dead
When Walter falls from the roof and is hanging on the edge, his feet are the only part which are in front of the window, when shot from outside. Yet the shot from inside the house, looking out the same window, shows Walter from the waist down.
Down Periscope
Capt. Dodge (Kelsey Grammar) is on the deck of the sub and is sending a crewman up a ladder to attach a lamp onto the periscope. To attach it, he uses duct tape. However, when they show him climbing, the duct tape is still in Dodge's hand. Then, a second later, it is magically in the crewman's hand.
When Grammar is welcoming his new crew on board, between the time the first crewman has walked up the gangplank and Grammar is talking to the second and receiving his papers and telling him to get on board, you can see that a third has already boarded and the number of envelopes held by the ensign has jumped from one to three.
When Grammar is being taken by launch out to see his sub for the first time, you see between shots that he's going two different directions at different times of day. As they cut back and forth, one set of footage is a live shot, the other is against a screen. The end of the scene is a shot taken either in early morning or late afternoon whereas the preceding were more at midday.
Dracula
In the party scene where Lucy is receiving her guests the 'cowboy' character leaves his hat on the sofa, where it is sat on. A moment later he is holding it in his hand and it is in perfect shape.
When Renfield bites Dr. Seward on the neck in the asylum he bites one side but when they cut away John is holding the other side of his neck.
Dragnet
This has the old T.V. show style "it was 6 a.m. on January 7th we ... " beginnings to the scenes. Pay attention to those times and dates. They're not even close to being in sequence. I mean days, not just times.
DragonHeart
When the peasants are taking archery lessons from Quaid, the friar picks an arrow with all white plumage, but when he brings the arrow up to his face to sight his target, the plumage is white with brown stripes.
When Gilbert takes aim at the target, he loads up an arrow with black and white feathers. When he shoots the arrow, its feathers are completely white.
Driving Miss Daisy
Miss Daisy is upset that her driver stole a can of salmon. When he arrives at her home for
work he has brought a can to replace the one he ate. He then explains to her that he
didn't want to eat the left over porkchop. The movie makes a big point of Miss Daisy being
Jewish, so why would she have left over porkchops?
Duck Soup
Harpo Marx (made up like Groucho), breaks a huge mirror, with glass shards falling everywhere. This sets up the sequence where Harpo pretends to be Groucho's mirror image. The shards of glass have magically disappeared from the floor. The brothers are both in stocking feet-so their feet would have been cut up. It also would have been very noisy with the glass still on the floor. It's also interesting to note that the huge mirror has a room behind it - was it hanging in mid air?
Dumb and Dumber
You have to know Colorado to get this one, but the two guys are on a trip to Aspen to return the suitcase to the woman. But when they finally arrive, they are not actually in Aspen like you are supposed to assume they are. The whole Aspen scenario actually takes place in Breckenridge ski resort.
In the scene where Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are in the restaurant just before they encounter the "Gassman" and right after they call the waitress "Flo", Jeff's coke glass is on his right side. The next shot shows it on his left, then his right, then his left again, without him touching it.
In the scene where they have left the cafe without paying, and Lloyd has to pee, Harry's hair is blowing in one scene because the window is down and in the next scene the window is up and his hair is not blowing. This goes back and forth for the duration of the scene.
In the scene where Lloyd drops Mary off at the airport and hugs her goodbye, in the background there are two men walking towards them. The camera changes to the angle behind Mary then behind Lloyd and then back to the side. When it returns to the side view the two men are farther away but still walking toward them.
When Lloyd goes to drive away he shifts the gear shift down one notch. Wouldn't that be reverse?
When the airbag blows it stays inflated. It should instantly deflate.
Updated 29/5/98 by JWES