10 Strangest Mistakes In Movies

9. The Self-Repairing Porsche - Commando

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Though continuity errors are generally common in Hollywood, sometimes they're so egregiously obvious that you have to wonder if every department head was asleep at the wheel.

And so we present perhaps the worst continuity error to ever appear in a major movie, in the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring action classic Commando.

After John Matrix (Schwarzenegger) chases down the villainous weasel Sully (David Patrick Kelly), Sully's swanky yellow Porsche is left thoroughly scuffed-up.

Matrix then kills Sully and hops in his car, where the full extent of the damage to left-side door is clearly visible. Hilariously, though, in the very next shot as Matrix and Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong) drive off, this side of the car miraculously looks as good as new.

Obviously two different cars were used to shoot the sequence, but considering how glaring the difference between their condition is, it's truly flabbergasting that not a single crew member, not even Schwarzenegger himself, pointed out the mistake.

It's all the more baffling given that the start of the shot only shows the right-hand side of the car, so had the director simply cut a few seconds earlier, they actually would've gotten away without showing the left side.

And because that's not enough, when Matrix and Cindy arrive at a motel in the next scene, the left side of the car is damaged once again. It never ends.

This is a truly bizarre mistake, albeit one that also lends added goofy charm to one of the most purely entertaining action films of the '80s.

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