Will Smith is one of the finest actors in Hollywood and there is no doubt about it, so let’s take a look at a blunder in his fast action political thriller, “Enemy of the State”. This movie has some really fast action that would keep you on the edge of your seat but there are many goofs in the movie that go unnoticed. In one of the action scenes we see that Zavits is trying to flee on a bicycle from National Security agents and in an attempt to do so he jumps across the fence on the other side of the road but he is hit by a fire truck. If you take a look at that scene again you will see that Zavits already clears the fence safely and fire truck is at a safe distance and the next scene that follows shows Zavits hit by a fire truck.

Another good thriller that received a lot of appreciation was Flightplan that had Jodie Foster in one of her best roles till date. The movie is entirely shot inside an aircraft, at least that is what we see in the movie, but there are still some mistakes that are made in the movie and that we missed out as well. Just before Jodie Foster is about to enter the aircraft with her daughter in the beginning of the movie she tells that the aircraft has 4 engines but later on when she enters the cockpit we see only 2 engine instruments. Quite strange, isn’t it?

Final Destination is considered as one of the best supernatural horror movies which created a new trend of movies where college teenager became the victims of death. The very first Final Destination movie which was released in the year 2000 had a classic action scene where a BC Rail train smashes Carter’s car. Well, nothing wrong in that but as per the movie the story happens in New York while the BC Rail runs only in Canada.

Mel Gibson is known for making sensible movies that not only are technically good but they have a strong script to backup their project. Apocalypto which was released in 2006 took us back into Mayan age but during one scene where Jaguar Paw is being hunt by Mayan. We see that Jaguar Paw hides in the tree which the camera is focused on the torch lights burning appearing in the distance. At that time a close up of Jaguar Paw reveals that his labret (lip piercing) is missing, but appears in the next scene immediately.

A Serious Man might have received a lot of appreciation at the Golden Globes and at various other award ceremonies but in one of the scenes we see that Larry Gopnik receives a mail that has address with a zip code 55401. As per the movie, Larry Gopnik teaches at a suburban college but the zip code 55401 is in downtown Minneapolis.

A Mighty Heart was a hard hitting drama based on a true story that took the world by storm. However, there are many scenes in the movie where you see Fiat taxis and trucks with Indian number plates which shows that the movie was shot in Pune and Mumbai and not in Karachi.

Do you remember the movie called Babel? Of course, it had superb editing and direction but there is a scene where after the movie, Amelia and her nephew along with Jones children try to enter USA using Tecate border where they get lost in the desert. However, in reality Tecate border is a mountainous region and there is no desert. The shot shown in the movie is Arizona border crossing.

Coming back to Will Smith again this time for Bad Boy 2, where he and Martin Lawrence are the bad boys who bust the drug mafia. In one of the scenes, we see that they find money in the coffin but look again this time, the money clearly has a print on it saying – For Motion Picture Use Only.

We all know the animation movies are imaginary but still there are many animation movies where blunders happened. Madagascar which was released in 2005 was an instant hit with the audience, but Madagascar: Escape to Africa shows Alex’s paw having a birthmark, than why wasn’t it shown in the earlier installment.

In another Academy award winning animation movie named Wall-E we see that when the scout ship storms out of the earth’s atmosphere millions of smaller satellites are just standing still. However, in reality satellites need to keep on hovering because if they stand still they will be pulled into Earth by its gravitational force.

Find Him and Kill Him

I am sure most of you must have definitely watched Memento by Christopher Nolan where a man loses his ability to make any new memories and prefers tattoos on his body instead of using a notepad to remember important things that should be follow up. Find Him and Kill Him is  one of the craziest tattoos I have ever seen in movies where the hero of the movie keeps reminding himself that he still has not killed the murderer of his wife. Crazy one, isn’t it?

Chaos

When we are talking of tattoos we cannot afford to forget XXX where Vin Diesel as Xander Cage turned into a new generation James Bond who would save the planet from destruction. Vin Diesel is seen sporting a kind of American and tribal tattoo that really makes no sense at all. Though, you can see good detailing work but those designs have no resemblance with the movie. Also you would see Chaos design with flames on Vin Diesel’s stomach. So what does chaos and flames on the stomach mean? Hunger?

Darth Maul

Well, this one does have an originality but if you can find some meaning about this black and red tattoo than definitely do write something about it. To some extent this red and black tattoo looks like a muscular diagram of human body. The red and black combination does look attractive but certainly this is one of the craziest tattoos that have been appreciated by many people.

Battling Demons

Now this tattoo looks like a fire alarm symbol when you see it from far but the tattoo is known as battling demons. The tattoo is sported by none other than Keanu Reeves in his supernatural thriller Constantine where he plays the title character who has the ability to see and drive demons and ghosts. The tattoo is a circle with a triangle inside which has a symbol of fire and three arrows at the bottom of the triangle. Even the film makers of Constantine decided not to give out any information about the tattoo because there is no meaning.

Nordic Rune

Although, we all know what Nordic runes are but the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban were quite confused how to use these symbols and therefore they used them as silly tattoos that were sported by Gary Oldman who played the role of Sirius Black in the movie. Even the book did not mentioned anything about the tattoo but something hit the directors and they decided to add the tattoo to their movie to make the character more interesting, but instead the film makers had to satisfy themselves with mixed reactions from the public about the unnecessary use of tattoos on the body of Sirius Black.

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The House of the Dead

A motion picture that will live in infamy! The movie that effectively introduced the movie-watching world to a mad German named Uwe Boll and we have never been the same since. Trash talking before the release about how his film was going to kick Resident Evil’s ass – way to set the bar high there, Uwe; trash talking Internet fan boys after the release for decrying his magnum opus as an incompetent and incoherent debacle that has only the faintest ties to the plot less video game on which it is based.

Why was it funny?

At least it is lively, something that cannot be said of a few other Boll-infused snoozers. This deliriously insane mess verges so sharply into Edward D. Wood, Jr., territory on so many occasions House of the Dead may very well be Plan 9 from Outer Space for the 21st Century. Boll tried putting out a “funny version” of this film that wasn’t even 1/100th as intentionally funny as his crowning achievement was unintentionally so.

I know who killed me

Four words: non-religious identical twin stigmata. A high concept movie in the sense that everyone involved with the making of it had to have been high. In Lindsay Lohan’s case, that’s a given. What is everyone else’s excuse? This level of jaw-dropping WTF-ness requires serious effort. You simply cannot make a movie that achieves the levels of badness that this surreal schlock does without having started out with loftier goals and without question, I Know Who Killed Me was clearly a Herculean effort on the part of its makers.

Why was it funny?

A perfect storm of cinema gone wrong: a tabloid fodder actress trying to change her on-screen image even though it’s her off-screen image that needs changing and an off-the-charts preposterous screenplay, which not even a director created by Dr. Frankenstein from the parts of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Tod Browning, and Brian De Palma could make into a workable film. Simply has to be seen to be believed!

The Happening

Mark Wahlberg has given the best performance in the history of cinema by being an actor behaving like a man suffering from a concussion not actually playing a character suffering from a concussion. Zooey Deschanel is doing the most uncanny impression of a perpetually startled lemur you will ever see; philosophical arguments in defense of the hot dog; people trying to outrun and even outsmart the wind.

Why was it funny?

A loopy ecological thriller about pissed-off plants that cause people to commit suicide in the most preposterous manner possible; to think when the decade began M. Night Shyamalan was being compared to the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg.

Ultraviolet

So why isn’t Ultraviolet one of the top ten instead of a runner-up? Ultimately, that characters are these mutant vampires called “hemophages” was more an excuse to explain why everyone fights with superhuman abilities than it adds a horrorific vibe to this Skittles-colored world of tomorrow. Therefore, a dishonorable mention is in the cards. Rest assured, though, Ultraviolet is one of the worst films of the past decade of any genre.

Why was it funny?

Vampires. Cyberpunk. Anime aesthetics. Kung fu. Gun fu. Flaming sword fights. Milla Jovovich in spandex. What’s not to love? Everything! What was meant to be a visual tour-de-force ended up being an unwatchable mess made all the more intolerable by its insufferably smug look-how-cool-I-am attitude. Of all the movies listed here that I saw in a theater, Kurt Wimmer’s masturbatory case study in putting style over all the stuff that makes a movie watchable was the only one that led to the most walkouts – over two thirds of the audience were long gone before the closing credits rolled.

Alone in the Dark

A screenplay so indecipherable Dan Brown could pen a new novel about the world’s greatest screenwriter setting off on a mystery quest to piece together the clues trying to make sense of it all. A film so confounding Uwe Boll had to add an opening text crawl longer than the closing credits of some movies explaining what the hell was going and this text still marked the first, last, and only time Alone in the Dark bordered on coherent. So illogical a film even Dragon Wars could make fun of how nonsensical it was – that’s saying something.

Why was it funny?

You would expect even a truly bad movie boasting monsters from another dimension, zombies, centipede-like parasites, sand worms, paranormal commando units, Christian Slater doing Matrix-style kung fu, and Stephen Dorf getting blown to kingdom come would still find a way to be entertaining to some degree. However, Dr. Boll manages to bore even, as he piles convolution on top of convolution on top of convolution and not even Tara Reid comically miscast as an allegedly brilliant anthropologist, who cannot even correctly pronounce “New Foundland” could salvage it.

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Indeed, because of the animated Disney film, the character Mulan has become one of the most recognizable symbols of Chinese culture worldwide. Baby girls adopted from China have been named Mulan by their American parents. Disney has staged musical versions of the movie Mulan from Mexico to the Philippines. And posing for a photo with Mulan is a must for hordes of tourists at Hong Kong Disneyland. (See China’s long road to prosperity.)

Although it was too American for audiences in China (where it performed abysmally), Disney’s Mulan was a smash hit in the rest of the world, where it reeled in $300 million. That didn’t sit well with some Chinese, including Guo Shu, executive president of Starlight International Media Group, an entertainment company based in Beijing. “We commit ourselves to be a media with a sense of national responsibility,” she told the state-run People’s Daily. “Now that foreigners can produce a popular movie out of the story Hua Mulan, why can’t we Chinese present its own to the world?”

In 2006, she announced the production of a Chinese Mulan, and now that version has opened to reclaim the global Mulan-mania. On Nov. 27, the $12 million, mainland-funded live-action war epic premiered in mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia. It will hit screens in Hong Kong this week, and negotiations are on the table for release dates in the U.S. and Europe. (See pictures of Shanghai.)

The film’s Hong Kong director, Jingle Ma, says the new 115-minute Mulan is a sweeping melodrama that depicts the central character as an action hero, dutiful daughter and wistful romantic. The film stars Vicki Zhao Wei, who shot to fame in the late 1990s playing the wide-eyed lead role in the television series Princess Pearl. Zhao may have gotten the role because of her tomboy image in action films such as Red Cliff and So Close, but in Mulan, she appears with full makeup and long, glossy fingernails — even as a soldier.

While the Disney film wove comedy into a Disney-esque plot about a young girl breaking out of the confines of tradition to pursue her own destiny, the new Mulan focuses on patriotism, filial piety, romance and the difficulties of war. The formula is part of an evolving mainland genre that has seen filmmakers incorporating more nuanced, entertaining storytelling into patriotic plots. “China is anxious to be part of the global community. There’s a lot of concern over soft power right now,” says Poshek Fu, professor of cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Movies are a strong projection of that desire.”

The new Mulan is at least the 10th film version of the Hua Mulan tale (”Hua” is the heroine’s surname). Many of the previous films — like Mulan Joins the Army, released in 1939 in Japanese-occupied Shanghai — carried political messages during turbulent periods in the country’s history. In 1956, after the Communist Party had banned American films and nationalized the country’s film studios, a state-sponsored Hua Mulan was released, touting the party’s egalitarian gender policy. After many Chinese filmmakers fled communist-controlled China, the Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong gave overseas Chinese audiences a vision of a unified China in its 1963 film The Lady General Hua Mulan.

The latest Mulan is not the only post-Disney attempt to remake the folktale. In 2003, there was talk of a version starring Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat. In 2006, the Weinstein Co. announced a big-budget Mulan film that would star Zhang Ziyi. Director Ma says his version comes at just the right time. “Eleven years ago, just because someone else made this film didn’t mean that we had to come back and make our version right away,” he says. “It was better to wait for things to cool down before we made our own Mulan. Back then, the Chinese market wasn’t mature yet, but now it’s ready.”

But there’s a foreign presence even in this Chinese attempt to take back its own. The Russian entertainer Vitas plays the role of a singer from a distant land held hostage by the nomadic and militant Rouran tribe, which is set on invading Chinese territory. The casting choice, Ma explained, was a simple marketing decision. Starlight International represents Vitas in China. And, who knows, the Russian actor could be key to the new Mulan’s conquest of foreign audiences. Take that, Disney.

Should that stateside estimate hold up, “2012,” will inch out Emmerich’s previous opening day record for 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow” which clocked in at $23.5 million. In play at 3,404 theaters, “2012″ also marked the second best first day for a Sony release outside the summer season, following last November’s “Quantum of Solace” which generated $27 million.

The final three-day weekend for “Tomorrow,”which unspooled over the Memorial Day frame, was $68.7 million.

Booked in 58 territories abroad, “2012″ reeled in $36 million on Friday, putting its international total at an estimated $58.4 million and its worldwide tally at $82.1 million.

After a soft opening weekend, “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”slipped 38% from its opening day a week ago, grossing $5.6 million off 3,683 in second. The current B.O. for the motion capture film starring Jim Carrey stands at $46.6 million.

Placing third, Overture Films’ “The Men Who Stare at Goats” took $1.95 million off 2,453, down 58% in its second Friday for an eight-day cume of $19.2 million.

Lionsgate’s expansion of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” surged over two fold from its limited bow a week ago in 18 locales, reaping $1.92 million from 174. The Lee Daniels drama currently counts a domestic B.O. of $4.7 million.

Universal’s sci-fi thriller “The Fourth Kind” landed fifth at the onset of its sophomore sesh with $1.8 million, down 65% on 2,530 and a running B.O. of $17.6 million.

Focus Features’ Blighty comedy “Pirate Radio” fell outside the top 10 with $882,000 from 882 for a per site of $1,000.

Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” from Fox Searchlight drew $72,000 from four sites for a boffo theater average of $17,880. Lending their voices to “Mr. Fox” are George Clooney in the title role and Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox as well as other thesps from Anderson’s cinematic repertoire including Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Willem Dafoe.

Cobra Assault Cannon

Robocop, 1987

The Robocop trilogy was one of the breakout hits of the ’80s, and the walking tin can more than made up for his slow movement with his over-the-top firepower. The Cobra Assault Cannon was used by both the criminals and the cops, and for good reason. Basically, a sniper rifle that shoots grenades, this bad boy destroys cars, the giant robot ED 209, and nearly takes out Robocop himself. “State of the art, Bang Bang!” Indeed.

Railgun

Eraser, 1996

Schwarzenegger has shot more than a couple guns in his films, and it was tough to nail down the action star’s best-known firearm. In terms of sheer inventiveness though, the title belongs to the Railgun featured in the ‘96 film Eraser. Capable of looking (and shooting!) through solid walls, the gun brought a dangerous, no-place-to-hide energy to the film, and the concept of a gun that fires through walls has become a fixture in films and video games ever since.

Noisy Cricket

Men In Black, 1997

The Men In Black films featured all sorts of wild gadgets, including guns of every shape and size. While the cannons used through the movie are great, one of the films greatest laughs comes when Will Smith gets handed this tiny powerhouse. The even greater surprise is the huge firepower this little gun really packs.

M203 Prosthetic Gun

Planet Terror, 2007

What could beat a machine gun in the event of a zombie breakout? How about if that machine gun was attached to Rose McGowan? The ultimate prosthetic for the discerning zombie killer, this machine gun all but stole the show during Grindhouse. This wildly inventive weapon rewrote the book on zombie apocalypse (how is she firing that thing?) We’d say that’s good enough for our No. 7.

The Guitar-Case Gun

Desperado, 1995

All three movies in the Mexico trilogy are packed with high-powered shootouts and good old-fashioned gunslinging. The image of guitar cases packed with firepower has become something of a joke among musicians. The defining moment of the trilogy, where El Mariachi is joined by his two friends, is a massive firefight featuring guitar cases packed with machine guns, and one packing a rocket launcher. The ol’ gun-in-the-guitar-case trick weighs in at No. 6.

Predator Shoulder Cannon

Predator, 1987

The Predator series is full of insane weaponry, from the humans toting a giant mini-gun nicknamed “Ol’ Painless” to the Predator’s disc blades. Nothing, however, can top the awesomeness of a gun that you don’t have to hold. This little turret of death is all the backup a Predator needs.

The Boomstick

Army of Darkness, 1992

Shotguns have been a fixture of action movies since the days of Wild West films. They’ve more than earned the action-hero seal of approval, but you can’t ask for a better shotgun than Ash’s Boomstick. You know a gun is worth its weight when a guy with a chain

The Phaser

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979

Whether you’re a Trekkie or not, there’s no denying Star Trek’s popularity. Thirty years after the first feature film, this summer’s Star Trek film is still one of the biggest blockbusters. Fanboys will debate the “greatest” gun in the Star Trek universe, but there’s none more recognizable than the phaser. Set to stun or to kill, the phaser takes third place for us .

My Little Friend (M16 with M203 Grenade Launcher)

Scarface, 1983

Scarface is full of memorable moments and quotes, but nothing beats the moment the world said “hello” to this little guy. It’s almost mandatory to quote that iconic line when handling a firearm. As far as quotes about guns, there’s only one gun that can outgun Tony Montana’s Little Friend, and that gun is…

.44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29

Dirty Harry, 1971

It’s a fact of science that nobody has ever handled a firearm without uttering either the “Do I feel lucky?” speech or the famous line: “Go ahead, make my day.” We know, the second line is from Sudden Impact, which features another gun (the .44 automag), but the image of “Dirty” Harry Callahan brandishing this monster revolver remains the most famous firearm in cinema. Both quotes were in AFI’s top 100 movie quotes of all time, with “Make my day” taking sixth spot, and “Do I feel lucky?” at No. 51. In fact, in a poll of movie weapons by FOX, the .44 came in second to only the lightsaber. Among guns, however, this handcannon to end all handcannons reigns supreme, nearly 40 years later.

The Psychological One: Triangle

The story: A group of friends run into trouble when their yacht hits a storm. Abandoning ship, they seek refuge on a passing ocean liner. Only there’s nobody on board, and Jess – our hot female lead – swears she’s been on this boat before. Which wouldn’t be particularly terrifying, unless people started getting killed. Which they do.

The scary thing: It’s one of those ‘psychological’ horrors, so the real beast is within the characters’ minds. Though there’s also a scarecrow-esque character running around who doesn’t look too friendly.

The hot girl: Aussie actress Melissa George is the primary crumpet. She started out in Home and Away back in the ‘90s, and has more recently been seen playing a doctor in Grey’s Anatomy. She’s the film’s leading lady, and thus ought to be running around sweatily and screaming in a pseudo-erotic fashion.

Release: October 16

The Funny One: Zombieland

The story: It’s a zombie comedy starring Woody Harrelson, set in a post-apocalyptic future. And in that respect, it’s fair to say it’s one of a kind. It definitely owes something to Shaun of the Dead. Possibly money. Via a court hearing.

The scary thing: Zombies! Shitloads of bloody zombies hungry for soft, moist brains! In keeping with modern times, they’re the fast-moving variety, rather than the slow, shambling undead of classic ‘70s horrors like Dawn of the Dead.

The hot girl: Though Emma Stone has a bigger part, we’re more into Amber Heard, even though she plays (in her own words) a “hideous, disgusting, cool monster”.

Release: October 7

The ‘Seriously, Another One?’ One: Saw VI

The story: With the feds closing in on him, Mark Hoffman – prodigy of the sadistic Jigsaw serial-killer – sets up another series of organ-splatting death games. Amazingly, the film only began shooting at the end of March this year. Which gives you a clue as to the kind of depth and complexity we’re dealing with.

The scary thing: As ever, it’s the devious, twisted traps that’ll have gorehounds tripping over their own entrails to get to a screening. The centrepiece involves a spinning carousel into which six people are strapped, with another participant forced to off all but two of them with a shotgun. Splendid!

The hot girl: We’re sticking our necks out a bit here, but it’s got to be 46-year-old Betsy Russell. She’s back as Jill Tuck, Jigsaw’s ex-wife. AND she’s been in the A-Team. The ultimate older woman?

Release: October 23

The Unapologetic, Corpse-Raping One: Halloween II

The story: Same as the 1978 original, which Rob Zombie is apparently happy to take a massive dump on.

The scary thing: Mega-murderer Michael Myers, played in rather unsubtle fashion by ex-pro wrestler Tyler Mane.

The hot girl: Sheri Moon Zombie – director Rob Zombie’s wife. Pretty safe to say that those two must get up to some really weird shit.

Release: October 9

Harry at AICN heard rumors of Christopher Nolan shooting the third Batman movie entirely in the IMAX format.  You may remember he filmed select scenes for The Dark Knight using the 70mm cameras, which made the film that much more impressive on the huge theaters.

There are a number of reasons why this is probably not happening.  I’ll list a few for you:

1. It doesn’t make financial sense. Warner Bros made the last movie for roughly $200 million and it earned over $1 billion worldwide.  There’s no reason (other than a coolness factor) to incur the massive costs of shooting scene after scene in IMAX for a movie many people will see any way.

2.  IMAX locations aren’t equipped to handle the demand. There are only about 400 IMAX screens and some of those are the Fake IMAX theaters masquerading as the giant screen experience.  It makes no sense to go through all the trouble, so select audiences can be overwhelmed.  It’s not cost effective for Warner Bros to front the bill for it and IMAX isn’t going to shell out the difference.

3. Logistically it’s almost impossible. An IMAX reel only holds about two and a half minutes of film, so cameras would need to constantly be switched out.  Plus the weight and noise are issues, especially the latter when shooting quiet dialogue.  Not to mention there aren’t many IMAX cameras even in existence yet.

4.  Christopher Nolan hasn’t even signed for a third Batman (as far as we know).  The director himself and all his creative team have repeated the mantra “he’s focusing on one film at a time.”  Right now Nolan is still shooting and then editing Inception.  I doubt he’s thought about Batman down to planning camerawork.

With all that being said, there is the marginally teeny tiny slim chance Nolan demands it and WB makes him happy.  But it’s about as likely as Megan Fox playing Catwoman, another ludicrous rumor floating around.

The actress is in negotiations to join the Ben Stiller-Robert DeNiro comedy “Little Fockers.” She’d play the role of an attractive pharmaceutical rep whose looks wreak havoc on male characters in the story.

Paul Weitz is directing the third installment in the Universal and Tribeca Productions franchise. Universal is banking heavily on “Fockers,” one of the studio’s few go-to franchises and an important one given its shaky summer. Production is set to begin in the next few months, with a 2010 release date more than likely.

The picture is expect to pick up where 2004’s “Meet the Fockers” left off, with Stiller’s Gaylord Focker and Teri Polo’s Pamela Byrnes having a child (or children — reports abound that they could be having twins). John Hamburg penned the latest version of the script.

Even if Alba’s role isn’t huge — and with so many other big actors (Stiller, DeNiro, Wilson) already set, it may not be — the move is a shrewd bit of casting for Universal. The franchise needs to rope in young men, and with the movie’s promise of babies and family — not always said demo’s main interest — it could use a Maxim-esque presence.

The WME-repped Alba, incidentally, is set to star in the Robert Rodriguez thriller “Machete” for Sony as well as Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day” for New Line. Both are also movies that could — and need to — bring in the boys. That’s what she does. The focker.