The seemingly smallest of movie mistakes can sometimes affect a plot in the strangest of ways. Here are nine movies with plots that don’t hold up once you notice one tiny incongruity.
Orlando Bloom was one of
This happens during a reenactment of the Battle of Carthage in the Colosseum. The dust settles on a fallen chariot and you can see the tank that may have gotten it to flip over.
The Romans may have been technologically advanced, but the movie certainly does not address how they invented elaborate gas cylinders that look strikingly like the ones we have today.
That kid visiting Mount Rushmore off to the right, behind the protagonists, seems to predict the future and know a gun is about to go off. Otherwise, why plug his fingers in his ears?
The movie really should have been about this psychic child. The stakes of the plot really sputter out when you know that there is a character with superpowers.
This actually seems to happen twice in the classic film. The more noticeable moment occurs during a battle scene (pictured above).
The other time is far less noticeable, but certainly messes with the period illusion. After William Wallace leans in to kiss Murron’s body at her funeral, he stands up and a car can be seen driving in the distance, over his shoulder.
Freedom would have been a much more easily achievable goal if Mel Gibson had ran the enemy over in a truck.
See the smile on that one bucket hat-loving beachgoer? “Jaws” was actually a fun summer romp!
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