10 Surprising Reasons Movie Scenes Were Ruined

10. Orlando Bloom "Forgot" To Wear His Coloured Contact Lenses - The Lord Of The Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a monumental achievement beyond compare, but it was only inevitable that such a gargantuan, ambitious production with so many moving parts would let some mistakes slip through the cracks.

Most of these gaffes weren't noticed by the overwhelming majority of viewers, though many fans did point out the distracting inconsistency of Legolas' (Orlando Bloom) eye colour throughout the films.

Between movies and even between individual scenes featuring Legolas, his eye colour has a tendency to change from bright blue to his natural brown.

According to Peter Jackson, this was due to Bloom struggling to wear the coloured contact lenses during the shoot and outright "forgetting" to put them in for some scenes, hence the colour shift, which Jackson evidently didn't notice until it was too late.

For Bloom's role in the latter two Hobbit films, then, Jackson decided to colour Legolas' eyes digitally, and though they remain consistent across the Hobbit films as a result, many felt the bright blue tint of his eyes was garish and inconsistent with the colouring in the Rings trilogy.