10 Movie Mistakes That Made Characters Look Like Idiots
Black Widow ate five-year-old peanut butter in Avengers: Endgame. Ewww.
Let's face it, the perfect movie doesn't exist, and even your favourite film couldn't help but let a few mistakes slip through the cracks.
From continuity errors to technical issues and straight-up plot holes, it's simply an unavoidable fact of filmmaking that these gaffes will happen. And while most of the time they can be easily shrugged off, every so often they end up accidentally slighting one of the movie's characters. How? By making them look like an absolute idiot, that's how.
The following 10 movie mistakes - largely sourced from the fine folk at /r/MovieMistakes - all had the unintended consequence of making the characters involved seem like pure fools, by having them do something incredibly daft, ill-advised, or downright idiotic.
From failing to operate day-to-day equipment to making basic mistakes in their apparent field of expertise, doing the enemy a favour, or just having no self-preservation instincts whatsoever, these characters seemed astonishingly silly in these fleeting moments.
From frontline protagonists to the most minor of background characters, this motley crew will forever struggle to live down these brief embarrassments, and simply hope that audiences didn't notice the mistake at all...
10. Ian Malcolm Holds Binoculars Backwards - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
God bless Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who despite being a genius mathematician proves himself incapable of correctly operating a mere pair of binoculars in Jurassic Park sequel The Lost World.
Shortly after arriving on Isla Sorna (aka "Site B"), Malcolm grabs a pair of binoculars from Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff) to observe the incoming InGen fleet. However, look closely and you might notice that Malcolm actually holds the binoculars to his face backwards, which would of course make the InGen choppers appear further away.
More than that, it would make it impossible for Malcolm to see the InGen logo on them at all.
Even though the film itself implies that Malcolm uses the binoculars properly, the proof is in the visual pudding. For all of his smarts as both a mathematician and a philosopher, the guy fumbled something so basic.
Then again, one would certainly like to believe that Jeff Goldblum, the quirky so-and-so, just did it on purpose for kicks and managed to sneak it past director Steven Spielberg.