10 Strangest Mistakes In Movies
8. Green Screen Gone Wrong - He's All That
If you didn't bother watching Netflix's recent gender-swapped remake of '90s teen comedy She's All That, not a single solitary soul could possibly blame you. It's terrible, seriously.
And because He's All That can't settle for simply being a bad movie, it's also a technically incompetent one.
Shortly after the film's release, viewers began to report on social media that it contained numerous head-scratching technical mistakes, suggesting the film employed far more use of green screen compositing than the naked eye would immediately believe.
In an early scene, social media influencer Padgett (Addison Rae) is singing at a party, and eagle-eyed viewers might notice that her raised hand just... vanishes.
For whatever reason, it appears that the scene was actually shot in front of a green screen, and because the VFX team screwed up their masking layers, Padgett's hand disappears into thin air for a few moments.
That's not the only mistake, even: roughly 64 minutes into the film, keep an eye on the background as Padgett and Cameron (Tanner Buchanan) are talking.
For some reason the background, comprised largely of schoolkids washing cars, is playing in slow-motion, while the foreground unfolds at regular speed.
While it's obvious that the two principal actors recorded the scene against a green screen and were composited in, why the hell is the background in slow-mo?
Either this was a shambolic mistake by an editor, or they simply didn't shoot a long enough background plate for the scene and had to slow it down to make it last.
While this is definitely one of those "you'll never un-see it" mistakes, it's also highly unlikely most will ever even give the movie a second viewing.