17 Stupid Mistakes that Somehow Made it into 2016 Movies

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Movie mistakes can be fun to catch: there are entire communities online who make a sport out of it, but then again, sometimes a gaffe is just so lazy and careless that you'll be left rolling your eyes more than laughing.

For the most part, these mistakes showed up in big-budget Hollywood productions that should know better and also have the resources to fix the problem, but they instead banked on most people not caring enough to point the errors out.

Of course, the beauty of the Internet is that these daft mistakes have been shared online for all to see, proving that no matter how much money goes into a production, there's always going to be someone keen to cut as many corners as possible.

Here are 17 stupid mistakes that somehow made it into 2016's movies...

17. Tommy Lee Jones' Dialogue Visible On His Notepad - Jason Bourne

In the very first scene where Tommy Lee Jones' Robert Dewey appears, there's a shot of him clearing various objects into his briefcase.

Eagle-eyed viewers who look to the right of the shot will see a notepad, which contains all of Jones' lines for the scene.

Squint and you can make out "This is Dewey" (though Jones actually just says "Dewey" in the scene's final cut), followed by, "How badly?", "Is there any atttribution?" and "I want a briefing in my conference room in one hour."

There's also an additional line included that doesn't appear in the scene (which begins with "OK" but the rest is illegible), presumably cut for one reason or another. At least this goof's pretty interesting, right?

16. Spock's Incorrect Rank - Star Trek Beyond

After young Spock (Zachary Quinto) is notified of the death of Spock Prime (Leonard Nimoy), he's handed a tablet which displays a memorial image.

This is all well and good until you glance over at the text on the bottom-left, which lists him as "Second Officer - USS Enterprise", which is odd considering that any Trekkie worth their salt knows that Spock was in fact the First Officer.

It's a weird mistake given how finicky the filmmakers know Trekkies to be, though if you asked them about it, one suspects they'd come up with a convoluted timeline-related reason for Spock's rank being altered.

Either way, it's not cool.

15. Michelle Sleeps For 24 Hours? - 10 Cloverfield Lane

In the movie's first scene, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is talking to her ex-fiancee Ben on the phone, and the time is clearly 6:27pm.

Michelle crashes her car moments later and wakes up in Howard's (John Goodman) fortress. She reaches for her phone and we see that it's 6:29pm.

This creates two possibilities: Michelle crashed and Howard, who's hardly the most athletic of men, pulled her from the car, cleaned her up, connected her to an IV and chained her in his fortress inside of two minutes, or she slept for 24 straight hours, which would probably mean she's suffered severe brain damage from the car accident.

The third possibility, of course, is that it's a silly goof the filmmakers didn't expect anyone to notice. Oh, how wrong they were...

14. Pixar Doesn't Know What "Near-Sighted" Means - Finding Dory

An uncharacteristically absent-minded gaffe from Pixar comes when clumsy whale shark Destiny (Kaitlin Olson) is introduced approximately one-third through Finding Dory.

A tour guide mentions that she's "near-sighted", which would imply that she can see objects up-close just fine but struggles with distant objects. Nothing weird or "off" about that, right?

However, Destiny's most memorable trait is that she has trouble seeing things up-close and frequently bumps into them, which would in fact suggest that she's far-sighted, which is the total opposite.

It's strange that nobody corrected this at the scripting stage, considering the rigorousness people tend to expect from the beloved animation studio.

13. Day Or Night? - Now You See Me 2

When Dylan (Mark Ruffalo) heads to the prison where Thaddeus (Morgan Freeman) is held and escorts him out, it's clearly night time, but later in the movie when the FBI realise what he's done, the security camera clearly shows the prison break happening at 2:10pm.

Now, these movies are all about magic and suspending your disbelief, so there's a little wiggle room there, but it's still a dumb mistake considering that someone in post-production had to actively think about the time code applied to that surveillance video, and would it have killed them to just quickly ask someone when the scene was shot?

12. Modern-Day Thermostat - Free State Of Jones

After plantation owner James Eakins (Joe Chrest) swears an oath, he returns to his home and, upon opening the door, a modern-day thermostat is clearly visible on the wall, out of focus but still easy to spot.

While some might try and argue that the thermostat did actually exist by the 1860s, it would've looked incredibly crude compared to the compact, clearly relatively new thermostat hanging on that wall.

It may not be a deal-breaker (though the film itself is quite tedious itself), but it's pretty hilarious all the same, especially given the historical context and clear effort put into making it feel as authentic as possible.

11. London Calling (Two Years Early) - The Conjuring 2

The first scene after the movie's opening title sequence takes place in Enfield in 1977, with The Clash's iconic tune "London Calling" playing over a montage of London's most famous monuments.

The problem? London Calling didn't actually come out until the tail-end of 1979, making the movie two years early. You can argue that director James Wan was merely trying to evoke a certain mood, but it's not like the UK music scene was exactly wanting for smash hits back in 1977.

Why not just use something by The Sex Pistols instead, like "Anarchy in the U.K." or "God Save the Queen", which released in 1976 and 1977 respectively?

10. J.K. Rowling Missed A History Lesson - Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them

When Newt (Eddie Redmayne) meets up with Tina (Katherine Waterston), she mentions that he spent some time in Equatorial Guinea, and he adds that he was out in the field writing a book about those titular beasties.

However, this is an anachronism, as Equatorial Guinea was known as "Spanish Guinea" until 1968, when it gained independence. Remember, of course, that Fantastic Beasts takes place in 1926, so this is unquestionably a mistake.

No doubt some Potter fans will conjure up a magical or alternate universe explanation, but they might just have to accept that even the seemingly infallible J.K. Rowling isn't without her flaws.

9. Disappearing Flip-Flops - Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates

Now, this might seem like your standard "magically disappearing item" continuity error that doesn't really deserve its own mention given how common a mistake it is.

However, this was an insanely noticeable continuity error that you'd basically have to be blind not to notice, and it's really a testament to how challenging it is to edit a comedy movie, given the improv and off-script work that often gets thrown into the mix. As such, it gets its own entry on this list.

Anyway, at the end of the film, Dave (Zac Efron) walks over to Alice (Anna Kendrick), who is sat on a park bench bare-footed. She then grabs Dave, makes out with him on the bench and straddles him, at which point the next shot shows her wearing flip flops which seem to have materialised out of nowhere.

Then the next shot again shows her in bare feet. This one's obvious enough you don't need to out yourself as a foot fetishist to catch it.

8. Phantom Text Message - London Has Fallen

The movie opens with terrorist Aamir Barkawi (Alon Moni Aboutboul) holding a wedding for his daughter, but a western agent has managed to infiltrate the soiree, and sends a text message reading, "BARKAWI ON SITE", mere moments before the area is bombed beyond recognition.

Look not-so-closely and you'll see that the message isn't being written to any recipient or phone number, and you can't even argue that the agent adds the contact after this shot, as the very next image shows him sending it.

Would it really have killed them to just add a random name in the top box? Or were they just assuming nobody who bothered to watch this film would actually notice something so lazy?

7. VistaVision Comes Early - Hail, Caesar!

As Hobie Doyle's (Alden Ehrenreich) movie Lazy Ol' Moon begins screening, the bottom-left corner shows that it was filmed in VistaVision, a widescreen version of 35mm created by Paramount in 1954.

However, look closely and you'll also see that the movie's copyright credit lists the year as "MCMLI", which is Roman numerals for 1951, a whole three years before the tech ever became available.

The Coen Brothers are typically lauded for their impeccable attention-to-detail, but this is one of their rare slip-ups. Of course, some of their fans will inevitably refuse to believe it wasn't on purpose, just to keep fans of classic cinema on their toes and all...

6. German Police In Bucharest - Captain America: Civil War

When Bucky (Sebastian Stan) is in Bucharest, Romania, he's spotted and assaulted by a SWAT-like police squad. The soldiers, however, are wearing "Polizei" identifiers on their clothing, whereas the Romanian equivalent would in fact wear "Poliția".

Though some fans have come up with their own explanations (namely that capturing Bucky could've been a joint German-Romanian op), the truth is more likely that, as Berlin doubled for Bucharest during shooting, the production only had German-style SWAT outfits sitting around, and couldn't source any legit Romanian ones in time.

It's no deal-breaker, but you'd be surprised how many people have been bugged by it since release.

5. Romit's Ever-Changing Hair Style - The Divergent Series: Allegiant

It's hard not to be distracted by the constantly changing hair-style of supporting character Romit (Andy Bean) in the latest Divergent movie.

Sometimes the sides of his head have been shaved extremely short, and sometimes it clearly hasn't been shaved much at all.

This isn't just apparent in individual scenes but also between shots in the same scene, suggesting that significant portions of the film were re-shot, and either Andy Bean couldn't shave his head again due to conflict with another role, or perhaps more likely, nobody bothered to check that his haircut matched.

The series' sloppy narrative is one thing, but this is just ridiculously careless.

4. Shoddy Journalism - Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice

In Batman v Superman's epilogue sequence, Perry White (Laurence Fishburne) reads the Daily Planet's latest newspaper, which notes that Clark (Henry Cavill) was killed reporting the movie's climactic battle, and contains an obituary.

However, the same wall of text is basically just repeated a few times instead of some Warner Bros. intern actually coming up with a proper article.

Considering that Zack Snyder and co. surely knew fans would screenshot this image the second the movie was out on VOD, it's pretty shameful that they didn't put more effort into actually making it totally convincing.

Compare it to the far more detailed (and not at all repetitious) Lex Luthor article on the right. Clark's obit was clearly churned out on a Friday afternoon when work drinks were looming.

3. The Disappearing "Glory" Hole - Don't Breathe

Anyone who's seen this past summer's pulse-racing thriller won't forget the sequence in which the blind man (Stephen Lang) kidnaps Rocky (Jane Levy), cuts a hole in her pants and plans to inseminate her with his own refrigerated semen.

However, at the very end of the movie as Rocky is crawling around in the trunk of her car, it's clear that there's no cut in her clothing at all.

While you need to be at least a bit of a perv to even notice this one, nobody's really expecting Levy to bare all for the sake of one gratuitous shot. It's just weird that director Fede Alvarez would choose such an unnecessarily exposing shot when there were so many other options.

2. Deadpool's Hand - Deadpool

Deadpool is apparently the most mistake-filled movie of 2016, but also one of the funniest and most financially successful.

This mind-bogglingly stupid mistake takes place after the titular hero (Ryan Reynolds) has sliced his left hand off with a knife.

As he tears away from Colossus (Stefan Kapičić), Deadpool flips over the bridge, and when the shot cuts, his left hand is suddenly in tact and his right hand is the severed one.

How incredibly strange considering the rather obvious geometry of the scene and the CGI-based nature of Deadpool's fall into the truck making it so much easier to fix in post. Then again, if any superhero movie can get away with it, it's the most meta one of all.

1. Inaccurate New York Skyline - Sully

And finally, despite being acclaimed as an affectionate document of the Miracle on the Hudson, Sully contains one mistake that's sure to be majorly distracting to New York residents in particular.

During the flashback scenes of the incident, 432 Park Avenue's skyscraper is plainly visible numerous times despite construction taking place from 2012-2015, while the incredible event happened way back in 2009.

Given how many films in the past have edited the New York City skyline, often to reflect a pre-9/11 world, it's just straight-up lazy that Clint Eastwood's Tom Hanks-starring drama honestly hoped people wouldn't notice something so huge in the sky. Come on, Clint. Not good enough.

Which stupid movie mistakes most bothered you in 2016? Shout them out in the comments!