10 Obvious Movie Bloopers We Can't Believe We Missed First Time
Die Hard, The Lord of the Rings, and Jurassic Park are all guilty of subtle mistakes.
Making any movie, especially the latest Hollywood blockbuster, is a massive operation. Such is the dizzying amount of coordination and planning needed for even the smallest details, there are times that fairly sizeable errors manage to get through the entire process unnoticed. Only once the films hit cinemas or arrive on streaming do we notice the clanger that has been dropped in, and even then we might not spot them right away.
Some of these mistakes have become famous in their own right. Everybody knows about the stormtrooper knocking his head off the doorway in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. The hapless street sweeper in Quantum of Solace has also become something of a legend in his own right. These are so relatively obvious that fans were quick to pick up on them. Other more elusive mishaps, however, have gone undiscovered for quite some time.
Like almost all movie mistakes, you can never unsee them once they are finally noticed. But that doesn't mean you were always so wise to what now feel like glaring errors. Jurassic Park, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and even The Lord of the Rings are not immune to such mishaps, so here are 10 movie bloopers that are so obvious that you will wonder how you ever missed them in the first place.
10. The Changing Plane Numbers - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
You would be hard-pressed to find a Terminator fan who would argue that Terminator 3 is a better movie than either of the two previous entries. It isn't terrible (indeed, James Cameron went on the record as saying he enjoyed it), but it had the impossible task of following up two of the most iconic sci-fi movies of their respective decades. Perhaps this pressure shows in more ways than one, as there is a frustrating continuity error around ninety minutes in.
As John Connor (Nick Stahl) and Kate Brewster (Claire Danes) take off in a blue Cessna aeroplane, the registration number reads N3035C. It is also the same number when they eventually land. Mid-flight however, the plane displays a completely different registration number - N3973F. Perhaps it isn't the most distracting mistake the first time around, but even so, it is amazing that it was never noticed before the film was released.
The Terminator films have their fair share of crazy stunts, but we can safely assume that John and Kate didn't decide to change planes mid-air. As such, this has to be put down to a fairly basic continuity mistake, not to mention one that becomes increasingly annoying with every fresh viewing.