Species (1995)
Goofs
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Boom mic visible (2) |
Character error (2) |
Continuity (7) |
Crew or equipment visible (1) |
Factual errors (2) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (1) |
Plot holes (1) |
Spoilers (1)
Boom mic visible
Visible in the reflection off the glass patio door when Robbie brings Sil back to his house.
Shadow, on the train compartment, above Dan's head.
Character error
Despite dealing with emergency services, hospital staff, hotel staff, etc., at no point are Fitch nor any of his team asked what their authority is for requesting information, surveillance tapes, etc., nor do any of them appear to be wearing any kind of ID.
Through the entire movie, Lennox has been using a Glock handgun. Yet when he is shooting at SIL after he uses his knife to free himself from her, "Breast Tentacles," he is clearly firing a Beretta 92.
Continuity
Sil has a tan line, contact lenses, and pierced ears, all of which she could never have obtained within the movie's world.
Sil is in the process of removing the swimwear from the "hot tub guy" when the good guys show up to get her. But after she notices they arrived for her, the swim short on the guy seems to have been pulled back up to the guy's waist.
When Preston Lennox (Michael Madsen) and Dr. Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger) are kissing while she's leaning against the door to her hotel room, her bathroom can be seen through a doorway to her left. At the same time, Sil (Natasha Henstridge) is shown in the hallway listening at the door. To *her* left (both characters are facing the same direction, they're just on opposite sides of the same door) is the door to another hotel room, instead of a wall that the bathroom would be on the other side of.
The alien's son at the end of the movie is circumcised. Having just been born, and not having the ability to immediately follow quaint US customs, he probably should not have been.
The kidnapped lady suddenly is sitting up as the car rolls down the hill.
The Porter on the train is a rather large lady. Yet her uniform almost perfectly fits Sil when she leaves the train.
Correction: The conductor's uniform is actually a very bad fit on Sil, just as the coat she takes from her first lover. And the clothes she initially steals before the cocoon. Besides limited choices, Sil doesn't really understand how to dress - only that she's covered.
When young Sil, wakes up from a nightmare and is about to eat pudding there are chocolate stains on her lips from previous takes.
Crew or equipment visible
Dressed in black, pushing a dummy out of the car that is speeding down the hill.
Factual errors
When the scientists try to kill young Sil they flood her cell with what is supposed to be cyanide gas. That gas looks like white steam, whereas Cyanide gas is invisible.
The conductor gets half-sucked into the cocoon, resulting in her death. Sil later emerges from the messy cocoon, covered with its fluid and falling right on top of the conductor. But when Sil dons the conductor's clothes, they are spotless.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When Sil ditches the BMW, a police officer finds it later and looks inside. It appears to be out of petrol, but the fuel gauge goes from R to F instead of E to F. However, fuel gauges on BMWs (like most European brands) are labeled "R" for "Refuel" to warn when the fuel tank is depleted. Gauges bearing "E" for "Empty" are customary on American and Japanese marques.
Plot holes
The team goes back to the hotel, and after having drinks they go to their rooms. A member of the hotel staff is seen knocking a door, saying "Housekeeping" and Sil then obtains her keys. However no-one would be making housekeeping rounds in the evening.
Spoilers
Continuity
When the search crew is standing around the dead man in the bloody water of the hot tub, one shot shows the water clean and clear.
