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[Markjay]

For those of you who are into this sort of thing...

http://www.moviemistakes.com/

(Just ignore the annoying adverts)

[Gwilym]

And someone sits and watches all these films looking for mistake? What a boring job

[Martin_1962]

And someone sits and watches all these films looking for mistake? What a boring job

Some are really obvious - such as jet contrails in historic films, or fillings.

Railways are the favourite screw up - different trains used for the same train in the film - like totally different - (ie different colours and everything)

But they usually do the wrong era like British Rail coaches before the war.

However most people try now to get it right - there were complaints about the vinyl roof in Life on Mars car, but it was the right age!!!!

[TheBoy]

I guess such mistakes are noticed by people with similar hobbies, eg, the Poker issues with Bond, or trains by someone like Martin....

Its normally simple continuity errors I notice....

[Markjay]

I guess such mistakes are noticed by people with similar hobbies, eg, the Poker issues with Bond, or trains by someone like Martin....

Its normally simple continuity errors I notice....

True... I’d notice car-related mistakes, but no way would I notice if Keira Knightley wore a different laces on her dress in Pride and Prejudice...  

I would have definitely noticed Keira Knightley if she didn't wear a dress though  

[sir moanalot]

evry year i look for the red sports car in the chariot race scene in ben hur ............??

[Gwilym]

evry year i look for the red sports car in the chariot race scene in ben hur ............??

and have you found it?

[Martin_1962]

I guess such mistakes are noticed by people with similar hobbies, eg, the Poker issues with Bond, or trains by someone like Martin....

Its normally simple continuity errors I notice....

True... I’d notice car-related mistakes, but no way would I notice if Keira Knightley wore a different laces on her dress in Pride and Prejudice...  

I would have definitely noticed Keira Knightley if she didn't wear a dress though  

Any vehicles - just that trains are favourites for getting it wrong.

Anyway I have seen a good transport related film - Cars by Pixar

[Markjay]

This is one that I remember spotting at the time when watching the original movie in the cinema many year ago:

James Bond - A View to a Kill – 1985: In the Paris chase, Bond (Roger Moore) drives the front half of a Renault 11 Taxi which apparently still runs. This is impossible even with front wheel drive because the petrol tank would be in the back.

[Martin_1962]

Biggest is either Battlefield Earth, Thunderbirds the Movie or Thomas and the magic tramway

[Martin_1962]

This is one that I remember spotting at the time when watching the original movie in the cinema many year ago:

James Bond - A View to a Kill – 1985: In the Paris chase, Bond (Roger Moore) drives the front half of a Renault 11 Taxi which apparently still runs. This is impossible even with front wheel drive because the petrol tank would be in the back.

Petrol in carb bowl?

[tunnie]

This is one that I remember spotting at the time when watching the original movie in the cinema many year ago:

James Bond - A View to a Kill – 1985: In the Paris chase, Bond (Roger Moore) drives the front half of a Renault 11 Taxi which apparently still runs. This is impossible even with front wheel drive because the petrol tank would be in the back.

Petrol in carb bowl?

Not enough to last the length of the chase when its just the front section.

Can't remember which bond it was, think it was the one were they are in Las Vegas, and bond tips the car on 2 wheels and goes though a thin gap... but comes out the other way around...

[Martin_1962]

No point listing there are hundreds.

One more Battle of Britain used SPanish licence built 109s and they are obviously fitted with Merlins!

[Markjay]

...Can't remember which bond it was, think it was the one were they are in Las Vegas, and bond tips the car on 2 wheels and goes though a thin gap... but comes out the other way around...

Diamonds Are Forever

[Markjay]

No point listing there are hundreds.

One more Battle of Britain used SPanish licence built 109s and they are obviously fitted with Merlins!

Another one I often see is in war movies where the Germans or Russian trucks etc are all USA-made GMC trucks painted in the ‘enemy’ colours… they just don’t bother with proper Opel, Mercedes, or Zil trucks….

[Gwilym]

Being a somewhat experienced mountaineer, I find "Cliff hanger" and other such films annoying due to the incorrect use of climbing equipment.

Still, the scenery is good (even if the storyline isn't)

[CaptainZok]

That old classic trucks exploding when they crash. I didn't know derv was that volatile.

[Markjay]

In Die Hard 2, Bruce Willis tries to convince the airport police captain that these are not petty thieves, but terrorists. He says:

‘That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn’t show up on you airport X-ray machines, and it cost more than you make here in a month.’

Wrong…

Firstly it’s Glock 17, not 7.

Secondly, it is made in Austria, not Germany.

Thirdly, it did receive some reputation as a pistol that can be transported un-detected through airports, but this is because it was made form ‘plastic’ (composite materials) not porcelain.

Number four, this reputation was a myth anyway, because while the pistol did have a composite lightweight main body, it also had a full-size barrel, breach, and slides made from good old steel which would be detected very easily by any metal detector or X-Ray machine. Plus, it needed live rounds, and these are run-of-mill 9mm and are not made of plastic…

And last, when Gaston Glock invented his ‘plastic’ pistol, the main factors were a substantial reduction in parts and use of composite materials in order to reduce the manufacturing cost and achieve a low-cost pistol that will be attractive to military and law-enforcement agencies… the Glock cost at the time was around half that of a comparable Smith and Wesson, Colt, or Berretta.

So many wrong facts in one sentence… No matter, it still sounds good when Bruce Willis says it.

[tunnie]

thats the trouble with films, they spend millions on effects and CGI. But don't get the details right, or the base the entire plot around a stupid idea.

Take Independence Day, good film on the whole, good action film that cost millions to make, but how did the bring down the mothership and their sheilds?? Why infect it with a computer virus of course.

Now if your smart enough to build a ship the size of Wales and can go at light speed, also create sheilds to repel bullets and nukes, i think they might have some form of anti-virus!!!  

Unless they left their wireless network unsecured  

[Markjay]

thats the trouble with films, they spend millions on effects and CGI. But don't get the details right, or the base the entire plot around a stupid idea.

Take Independence Day, good film on the whole, good action film that cost millions to make, but how did the bring down the mothership and their sheilds?? Why infect it with a computer virus of course.

Now if your smart enough to build a ship the size of Wales and can go at light speed, also create sheilds to repel bullets and nukes, i think they might have some form of anti-virus!!!  

Unless they left their wireless network unsecured  

I think that this particular plot twist was homage to H.G Wells War of the Worlds, where the invading Martians were finally brought down by Bacteria, which was an earth life form they did not anticipate.

The difference between the two movies is of course in that the Bacteria was not man-made, and as such the downfall of the Martians was attributed to mother nature and not to mankind, while in Independence Day the world is saved (yet again) by brave  A m e r i c a n s.