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Kevin Spacey Movie Goofs
Seven (1995)
In the scene where Det. Mills is chasing John Doe through the streets they end up in an alley and Doe knocks Mills down with a crowbar. As Somerset runs up, Doe runs off and Mills drops back down to the ground and rolls onto his stomach. As he does so you can see a red colored tube running from the back of his jacket/collar, across the back of his head to his forehead, supplying ‘blood’.
In the scene where Mills hears the phone ring while they are investigating the killer's house, Mills runs down the hallway and slides on his knees to get the phone. Knee pads can be clearly seen on his right knee.
When Somerset slaps John Doe in the desert, he misses Doe’s face by about an inch.
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Outbreak (1995)
The “African" monkey that they're chasing around is actually a South American species. It's also Marcel from ‘Friends’.
When Kevin Spacey is rushed into the hospital after collapsing, the medical people rip his shirt off to apply ice bags. In the next shot they are stuffing ice bags up under his intact shirt.
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LA Confidential (1997)
When Kevin Spacey is alone in the bar looking at the $50 bill in a close up, it's a bill dated from the 80's or 90's.
When Jack Vincennes goes to the hotel to stop actor Matt Reynolds from sleeping with the DA, he finds Matt's dead body on the floor with his throat slit. In the close up of Matt's face, you can clearly see the living actor's pulse in the left side of his throat.
When Kevin Spacey goes looking for the maroon Mercury Coupe, he drives up to the house where it is and the garage doors are closed. When he sneaks up to the house one of the doors is open.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
When the Lady Chablis crashes the debutante ball she leaves her purse on the table while she dances, and then forgets to retrieve it before she makes her exit.
When John interviews Jim in prison his tape recorder suddenly appears on the table when the camera angle changes.
Jim takes John to the ballroom to show him a piece of his collection, the dagger with which Rasputin was killed. John puts his half-empty champagne glass down, and when Jim opens the box with the dagger inside, the glass is almost full again.
When Jim plays the organ for John he switches to a lively piece at the end of his performance, but he stops moving his arms and hands.
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The Negotiator (1998)
In one scene Kevin Spacey goes up the building in a pair of dark trousers and comes down in a pair of light trousers.
Although the plot is set in Chicago, the seal of the City of Chicago is shown frequently, but all of the badges, vehicles, and uniforms show only "Metropolitan Police". In the band scene at the funeral, the Chicago Police Emerald Society logo on the bass drum has been covered.
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American Beauty (1999)
In the scene where Carolyn threatens to divorce Lester the bedclothes on the bed are halfway up, then down, then halfway up again.
When Lester is drinking from the blender in the kitchen, the bottles in front of the kitchen window are rearranged in between shots.
As Carolyn and Lester pull up to their driveway while talking about the paper Lester has to write, a reflection of the camera and its operator are visible in the passenger door, below Lester.
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The Shipping News (2001)
When the protagonists fly kites on the cliffs Bunny is wearing red shoes. When they come back her shoes are grey.
When the drunken Quoyle comes to Wavey's house in the heavy rain, his face and jacket are dry once he is inside the house.
When Quoyle capsizes his boat, after reacting to the sight of the headless corpse, he swims over to a cooler floating a few yards away. As the camera pans back, showing a helpless Quoyle floating in the ocean, there is no sign of the corpse in the shot.
When the Quoyle house gets blown away by the storm all second floor windows are open. In the next shot the windows are closed.
When the protagonists come back to have a look at the remains of the house there is still a lot of rubble. When the camera pans back for a view of the entire cliff, the people are visible but there are no traces of the house.
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K-PAX (2001)
When Prot visits the doctor's house, he thanks the wife and the camera is zoomed into his sunglasses. The reflection of his glasses shows the doctor looking at him, but the doctor is standing behind him.
When Prot takes his sunglasses off for his "return" to K-PAX, he places them on the nightstand upside-down, with the ear piece flush to the table. Two subsequent shots show the sunglasses right-side-up.
In one of the first family scenes, the youngest daughter shows she has lost a tooth. The next shot, the tooth is back in her mouth.
The taxi ride to the planetarium begins in a Ford Crown Victoria but ends in a Chevy Caprice.
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The Life of David Gale (2003)
When Jamie tells David that he has something important to ask him, the quilt is pulled up to Jaime's chest, but when the camera angle changes to a close-up, the quilt is pulled down to his stomach.
When Constance and Gale are making love, she has zero bruises. However, both before and after the scene, there are many bruises on her, especially on her legs.
When David is talking to his son about when his mom will be home and what he can have for breakfast, the child's hands change position drastically between camera angles.
Toward the end of the movie when Bitsy is racing to get to the prison before the execution, she has car trouble. She tries the key again before giving up, grabbing the video tape and running down the road. This same car trouble and run down the road is shown in the opening scene of the movie, but Bitsy exits the car immediately after it stops. There is no delay to allow for her to try the key again or grab the video tape.
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Superman Returns (2006)
When Lex Luthor tests the crystal fragment, it knocks out all the power on the airplane Lois is flying in, yet the flight attendant's amplified voice can still be heard over the speakers.
In the scene where Lois Lane is holding her son while Lex Luthor is revealing his plan to her, the ring on her left hand switches back and forth between her middle and ring fingers.
When Lois Lane and Lex Luthor are talking on the ship, the knot on Luthor’s tie changes throughout the scene.
In the sequence with the kryptonite continent, Superman plunges under water, when he comes back up, his hair is soaked, then throughout the next few shots, his hair switches back and forth from, being out of place to being "super" hair.
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 The 'Newfies' themselves joke that they have four seasons: fall, winter, misery and summer. We were pretty much in misery the whole time!" -- Kevin Spacey on location, 'The Shipping News', Cigar Aficionado, February 2003 |
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