CLOSER
This 2004 romantic drama film was a star-studded production. Indeed, with names like Natalie Portman, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Jude Law, you can bet your bottom drawers that this didn’t go straight to DVD. The film was about two monogamously-challenged couples who engaged in a bit of partner-swapping. Of course, as anyone would have expected, complications arose and jealousy ensued.
Natalie Portman, who plays a stripper, does the unexpected and stays clothed (to some degree) for most of her scenes, but there was one scene where a wardrobe malfunction gave the audience an eye full. In one scene, Portman does a little leg-crossing to seduce Clive Owen’s character, and her bra slips a few inches too far, allowing the audience to catch a glimpse of what she was hiding underneath.
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Here’s another one from the Indiana Jones franchise. This was the franchise’s third installment and was directed by Steven Spielberg. And, just like every other Indiana Jones movie that came before it, it was a huge commercial success, raking in $474.2 million at the box office—not too shabby for a film that was produced on a $50 million budget.
Nevertheless, mistakes were made, and here we are to report on them, like the feckless, hyper-critical people that we are. In particular: some Nazis in the film can be seen wearing World War 2 medals, despite the film was set long before World War 2 began. That $50 million budget could have been maximized more if there was a better money management that took place. A dependable research team could have given so much help.
VANILLA SKY
Get ready for more stories of nip slips. Because in this 2001 science fiction psychological thriller, we get just that, and from Cameron Diaz, no less—you know, that girl from Charlie’s Angels and.. well, some other movie! There was one scene where Tom Cruise’s character ties Julie (Diaz) to the bed, and she tries to free herself by flipping herself over.
Well, she succeeded instead in shaking her top garment away, revealing her headlights for a few nano-seconds. We’re pretty sure she didn’t mean for it to happen, given how she frantically fixed her gown mid-scene, with full cognizance of what had just occurred. But I guess the director thought that it was, to some degree, just fine, considering it was decidedly left in the final cut.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
This swashbuckling pirate fantasy film was the third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and starred the very eccentric and weird Johnny Depp. Just like every other previous installment, it raked in millions of dollars—this one in particular was the highest-grossing film of 2007—and made Depp richer than he already is.
While everyone involved in the film deserves credit for this fun addition to the franchise, one weird thing about the plot was that it revolved around our favorite swashbucklers heading to Singapore. But someone should have reminded them that they’re living in the 1700s, which means that all their exploits to get to Singapore predates the existence of the place by a hundred years.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
This was a 2005 romantic film that was directed by Joe Wright and was based on Jane Austen’s novel of the same name. Keira Knightly played Elizabeth Bennet, the lead character of both the film and the novel. To some degree, creative liberties were taken that made the film slightly different from the novel, but the plot was nearly the same.
It was about five sisters whose lives made a dramatic turn when a wealthy bachelor took up residence in their neighborhood. Alas, despite the film’s almost universal acclaim, the rubber boots we see Lizzie strutting in didn’t exist until more than 50 years after the film was set. It was a slight oversight, to be sure, but an oversight nonetheless.