10 More Movie Mistakes You Can't Believe You Didn't Spot
1. The Visible Soundstage - G.I. Joe: Retaliation
The Extended Cut of G.I. Joe: Retaliation opens with a longer fight scene between Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and his apprentice Jinx (Elodie Yung), but amid the snappily edited fisticuffs, you'll kick yourself for not spotting this outrageous mistake.
When Snake Eyes flips away from one of Jinx's attacks, the rigging of the soundstage where the scene was shot is blatantly visible at the top, complete with the lights used for the scene.
Evidently a VFX artist forgot to mask out the roof of the soundstage and replace it with something that made sense, possibly because this scene wasn't completed during post-production for the theatrical version, and only hastily finished for the home video Extended Cut later on.
Either way, considering how damn cool this shot is otherwise, it's a shame that due diligence wasn't undertaken to actually get it done properly. Then again, how many of us liked this movie enough to even bother with the Extended Cut at all?