Fight Club Goofs

[Guest Morecello]

I was watching fight club today and thought I saw a few strange things while watching the dvd. Basiclly what I saw was were the film crew had screwed something up but didn't catch it. I went to IMDB to confim my suspciouns and found a list. Check it out.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Tyler *69s Jack at the payphone. While all the Paper Street house phones are rotary, you can dial "1169" from a rotary phone with the same effect; it's likely that Tyler would still refer to this as "*69." And while *69 might not work on a pay phone, this scene is not entirely as it seems, for reasons that become clear by the end of the movie.

Factual errors: When Tyler splices porno frames into family films, the audio track would have only a barely noticeable 1/24 second interruption (as shown) and would stay in sync. However, the flash and sound are shown simultaneously, when in fact, if they were on the same frame, they would be about 3/4 seconds apart. The sound for a 35mm film is read by a head located about a foot past the projection lamp, so the soundtrack for a given frame is also located about a foot past the frame. (Incidentally, the splice is not necessarily at a changeover point; those are discussed only to explain why a projectionist must be present.)

Continuity: Near the end, Jack tries to smash a window with a bench but fails. After shooting through the window (trying to hit Tyler Durden), he climbs through the broken window and the bench used earlier is gone.

Continuity: When Jack is quitting his job, the thermostat changes between silver and black as the shot cuts back and forth between Jack and his boss. Also, the distance between the chair and desk with files on it in the background changes between shots.

Continuity: When Tyler throws Jack down the stairs, the event is supposedly caught on a security camera. When you see the footage at the security desk the camera that was supposed to have filmed the fight is visible in the security footage. The event is shown from an angle where there's no camera on the wall.

Revealing mistakes: When the narrator talks to his doctor, the x-ray on the wall behind him is not only back-to-front, but also upside-down, though we have one claim this is a common real-world error.

Continuity: Blood on Tyler's face early on during his fight with Lou the bar owner.

Revealing mistakes: In the 'Jack interrogation/ball harvesting' scene, the USA National Bank blueprint is supposedly in Bradford, UN, 198090 - which doesn't add up to anywhere...

Revealing mistakes: Bob's pants fall down as the Space Monkeys run out of the hotel bathroom, revealing the "fat suit" he wears under his clothes. (The fact that the pants fall down is not a goof, even if it was unplanned.)

Miscellaneous: When a Fight Club member sprays the priest with a hose, the camera briefly shakes. This happens because the cameraman couldn't keep himself from laughing.

Revealing mistakes: During the fight scene in the garage between Tyler and the narrator, the concrete wall moves when the narrator is thrown against it.

Continuity: In the talk between Tyler and the narrator after the first lovemaking of Tyler & Marla, Tyler's cigarette switches from burning to not burning to burning again.

Continuity: The sweat around Jack's collar when he's in the dry cleaner's looking for Tyler.

Revealing mistakes: After discovering the bunk beds in the cellar, Jack turns and looks up the staircase after Tyler, yelling "Why do we need bunk beds?" Tyler gets to the top and, as he exits, the walls shake, revealing it's a set.

Continuity: During the fight in the garage, Tyler puts the narrator's head through the passenger side mirror of a van. The mirror then changes position when Tyler looks in it.

Crew or equipment visible: When the Narrator is getting off the table in the police station after getting the gun, the wireless mic pack is visible and connected to his underpants.

Continuity: When the narrator is talking to the woman on the plane concerning his job, we see just blue sky in the window behind her. The next time we see the same shot, we see the lights from the planes wing and evidence that the plane is flying.

Revealing mistakes: When they bring in Bob's body and lay him on the table, he is clearly still breathing even though the back of his head was blown open and he's supposedly dead.

Audio/visual unsynchronized: While the Narrator was pressing the number to call Tyler from the public phone, the beeping number sound from the phone is clearly not 555-0153

>>> WARNING: Here Be Spoilers <<<

Goofs below here contain information that may give away important plot points. You may not want to read any further if you've not already seen this title.

Continuity: SPOILER: Bob is shot in the back of the head while running, but when we see him on the gurney, the back of his head is blown out, not the front.

[fineintent]

People have too much time on their hands, just accept the fact that it was a decent movie and move on.

[Kaney]

People have too much time on their hands, just accept the fact that it was a decent movie and move on.

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I agree. I hate reading goofs stuff on IMDB, it tends to spoil the film for me (Not spoil in the sense of spoilers, but it ruins the enjoyment) but the trivia is alright. I didn't realise till my third time watching the film that in the earlier scenes of the film, there's a shot of Tyler spliced in somewhere in the background, but I always watch out for it now

[Guest Morecello]

I thought the whole moving wall thing was supposed to happen. It was very cool looking.

[K]

People have too much time on their hands, just accept the fact that it was a decent movie and move on.

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I agree. I hate reading goofs stuff on IMDB, it tends to spoil the film for me (Not spoil in the sense of spoilers, but it ruins the enjoyment) but the trivia is alright. I didn't realise till my third time watching the film that in the earlier scenes of the film, there's a shot of Tyler spliced in somewhere in the background, but I always watch out for it now

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there's multiple shots of both tyler, and other 'things' >_> spliced in.

[Kaney]

People have too much time on their hands, just accept the fact that it was a decent movie and move on.

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I agree. I hate reading goofs stuff on IMDB, it tends to spoil the film for me (Not spoil in the sense of spoilers, but it ruins the enjoyment) but the trivia is alright. I didn't realise till my third time watching the film that in the earlier scenes of the film, there's a shot of Tyler spliced in somewhere in the background, but I always watch out for it now

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there's multiple shots of both tyler, and other 'things' >_> spliced in.

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I've heard of the other 'things' >_> but I've never noticed them myself. I wasn't sure if it was just rumour or not, so uh, yeah.

[tristy]

I hope there are some hidden shots of penises in the new Nine Inch Nails video for Only!

[Pander Opiate]

I've never understood how people never saw the Tyler's and the penis at the end. I don't know if I caught all the Tyler's but I saw quite a few and when I mentioned it to my friend he looked at me as if I was insane, the same with the penis.

[AJ]

I like to read the trivia and the goofs but I only usually do it with movies I've already watched a million times. I find the trivia about pixar movies quite interesting.

[Lowerdeck]

It wasn't a bad movie, and people really have too much time on thier hands if they look into things this much.

However, I kinda noticed they never directly mentioned Wilmington, Delaware as the base city, but it seemed like it Wilmington was there. But at the end, looking out the window over the city ... sure didn't look like Wilmington.