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Post by Spock on Feb 22, 2017 3:10:16 GMT
I reported a goof in the movie My Cousin Vinny. The FBI forensic chemist said he used a "flame analyzation detector". There is no such thing. He probably meant a "flame ionization detector", which is very common. They did not post it.
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Post by JHA Durant on Feb 22, 2017 5:41:35 GMT
The Thin Red Line. There's so many camera crews visible in the film it's almost as if they're intentionally there. Also, a patrol boat from Papua New Guinea's navy can clearly be seen just offshore (PNG didn't even exist until 1975), not to mention the Ripcurl surfboard on the beach during the beach landing. Back in 2006 I met someone who was an extra in the film, and the scene that he's in also contains a cameraman running alongside the soldiers.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 7:41:47 GMT
Surprised no one mentioned Jurassic Park with its blunder of of all blunders. The T-Rex paddock clearly doesn't have a massive drop-off, it's where the animal came from to begin with. After the attack, suddenly there's a 100ft. drop for them to fall over.
I reported one in X2: X-Men United a few times and it kept getting refuted, I'm assuming by cat lovers or something. In the scene in the kitchen when the cat startles Wolverine, he pops his claws and nearly kills a cat. They do a humorous scene of the cat licking his claws--only his claws move visibly when the cat licks them. The cat's tongue should have been shredded if it was applying enough force to move adamantium claws that can slice through steel. I always got shot down for stupid reasons though, like "oh a cat's tongue's surface is made so it can do stuff like that" blah blah.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 12:13:32 GMT
Any Ed Wood film, He'd always say, "neverming, it adds to the realism! Keep going! Keep rolling!"
Bride of the Monster (the doorway wall bumping/moving)
Plan 9 From Outer Space has plenty, tombstones falling over and just silly stuff like the cops going into and coming out of the same bushes on the other side instead of it being a new area.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 15:01:40 GMT
Surprised no one mentioned Jurassic Park with its blunder of of all blunders. The T-Rex paddock clearly doesn't have a massive drop-off, it's where the animal came from to begin with. After the attack, suddenly there's a 100ft. drop for them to fall over. I reported one in X2: X-Men United a few times and it kept getting refuted, I'm assuming by cat lovers or something. In the scene in the kitchen when the cat startles Wolverine, he pops his claws and nearly kills a cat. They do a humorous scene of the cat licking his claws--only his claws move visibly when the cat licks them. The cat's tongue should have been shredded if it was applying enough force to move adamantium claws that can slice through steel. I always got shot down for stupid reasons though, like "oh a cat's tongue's surface is made so it can do stuff like that" blah blah. There's another big goof involving the T-Rex. It's clearly established that this thing is so heavy, it makes "booming" sounds as it walks. Yet, in the conclusion, the T-Rex is in the very same room with everyone, and nobody notices until it juts out and grabs a Raptor! What's wrong with this picture? |
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Post by tarathian123 on Feb 24, 2017 20:21:24 GMT
To me it has to be the Heroes of Telemark
Just a few notes on this variation from reality to show why.
a) Why was it necessary to hijack a ship to get the scientist (Kirk Douglas) from Norway to England? The Germans found it impossible to patrol the thousand mile Norwegian coastline. Ergo there was a regular 'underground' ferry service from Norway to the Shetland Islands called the 'The Shetland Bus Service'. Plus the fact that London already knew about the Hydro plant and what was being produced. The invented Kirk Douglas role just wasn't needed.
b) What happened to the story of the parachuted four man advance team which spent months preparing the way, and which all almost starved doing it? All Richard Harris said about this epic tale of survival of an horrific winter on a remote ice plateau was "I'm starving". He sure didn't look it. The real guys certainly did. For a while they had to resort to eating reindeer moss.
c) Why the silly and hackneyed love complication when there wasn't one? If the movie had kept to facts it wouldn't have been needed.
d) There wasn't a Nazi infiltrator. The Germans knew nothing about the operation until after completion.
e) After the aircraft & glider catastrophe, there was no sudden change of plan. A new plan was carefully worked out in London with SOE (Special Operations Executive). The saboteurs didn't need a horny professor to show them where to place explosives. As one of the real saboteurs said afterwards, "I knew the plant better than my own garden". They all knew, they'd been studying the layout for months from accurate models.
f) There weren't any German guards inside the plant at the time of the raid, just one Norwegian, who was held at gunpoint (as was actually shown). There wasn't even any reaction from the sound of muffled explosions.
g) There was no gunfire battle before during or immediately after the raid, not even one shot fired. The saboteurs just walked in, placed the explosives and walked out again. And no saboteurs were killed. Indeed not only did they all survive the operation, but they survived the war and on into old age. Of course Americans aren't satisfied unless a war movie is filled with carnage and guns blazing. That's what comes of having a gun culture. Intelligence and subterfuge aren't really their strong points.
h) It took the Germans 3 months to get back into heavy water production after the saboteurs' raid, not just 2 weeks as mentioned.
i) The ferry 'Hydro' didn't immediately sink bow first. It keeled on to its side, and then stern upwards. As the captain said afterwards. "I walked on the side, and jumped into the water from it". Nor were any passengers warned. But then Kirk Douglas just had to play the hero to please the American audience didn't he? But no such heroics happened on the sinking ferry. There just wasn't time, not even for a lifeboat to be lowered. However there were fishing boats around which picked up any survivors there were.
j) Names of characters in the credits don't give surnames. I'm sure real participants in the operation were very relieved.
I could go on and on with the contortions of truth displayed in this movie, but to conclude, it's not such a bad movie in itself. However don't treat it as a guide to what really happened. Facts here are few and far between. You may not believe me, so find out what the actual saboteurs thought of the movie. They've all said, "Most of it just didn't happen that way". They weren't very impressed with it. Nor am I. The real story is far more inspiring, and the real heroes deserve a far better epitaph than this Americanised movie gives them.
I'm not sure about actual production goofs, but this movie is just one big goof.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 3:43:48 GMT
The "Lord of the Rings" and the "Harry Potter" movies have a lot of goofs. I was reading some of those last year, I never got all the way through it because there were so many. But LotR is still great. |
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Post by tarathian123 on May 23, 2017 17:00:16 GMT
The Imitation Game is one goof after another.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 25, 2017 10:29:50 GMT
Surprised no one mentioned Jurassic Park with its blunder of of all blunders. The T-Rex paddock clearly doesn't have a massive drop-off, it's where the animal came from to begin with. After the attack, suddenly there's a 100ft. drop for them to fall over. I reported one in X2: X-Men United a few times and it kept getting refuted, I'm assuming by cat lovers or something. In the scene in the kitchen when the cat startles Wolverine, he pops his claws and nearly kills a cat. They do a humorous scene of the cat licking his claws--only his claws move visibly when the cat licks them. The cat's tongue should have been shredded if it was applying enough force to move adamantium claws that can slice through steel. I always got shot down for stupid reasons though, like "oh a cat's tongue's surface is made so it can do stuff like that" blah blah. There's another big goof involving the T-Rex. It's clearly established that this thing is so heavy, it makes "booming" sounds as it walks. Yet, in the conclusion, the T-Rex is in the very same room with everyone, and nobody notices until it juts out and grabs a Raptor! What's wrong with this picture? There's also a jumpcut in the T-Rex car chase. And the everlasting mystery of how the T-Rex managed to eat people inside the ship's bridge in The Lost World. The T-Rex is just one giant goof magnet. |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 5, 2017 4:18:01 GMT
I remember Pearl Harbor (2001) getting huge backlash for its inaccuracies.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jun 9, 2017 7:27:20 GMT
When I was new to the Internet I frequented a website that listed film goofs, and if I remember correctly, "The Shawshank Redemption" had the most. Even if I am remembering correctly, another film might have come along later to replace it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2017 1:09:11 GMT
In the first Star Wars movie there's a scene where Kenobi says to a Stormtrooper "These aren't the droids you are looking for," and the Stormtrooper agrees. But actually, if you've been paying careful attention to the movie so far, you'll see that in fact those almost certainly are the droids he was looking for!
George Lucas sure screwed up on that one!!!
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Post by Commander_Jim on Jun 11, 2017 8:51:28 GMT
the dark knight
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Post by karryon99v2 on Jun 13, 2017 5:01:49 GMT
Independence Day is full of goofs
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Post by deembastille on Jun 14, 2017 1:52:53 GMT
In the first Star Wars movie there's a scene where Kenobi says to a Stormtrooper "These aren't the droids you are looking for," and the Stormtrooper agrees. But actually, if you've been paying careful attention to the movie so far, you'll see that in fact those almost certainly are the droids he was looking for! George Lucas sure screwed up on that one!!! surely you jest... please tell me you are kidding! and if you weren't... it was a jedi mind trick. |
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Post by alfromni on Nov 29, 2017 4:12:53 GMT
One big goof that comes to mind is that the movie "Becket" (and the play it was based on) depicts Becket as being a Saxon. He wasn't...he was a Norman.
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Post by divtal on Mar 5, 2018 0:06:56 GMT
In the scene in Hitchcock's North By Northwest where Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant in the restaurant just before she fires the gun a boy in the background seated at a table against the wall puts his hands over his ears. Either no one including Hitchcock himself noticed it in editing or it was decided that it didn't matter. Also, in NBNW ... - Hitchcock establishes that the train is on its way west, from New York to Chicago, with an exterior shot that shows it moving into a deep-pink sunset. The following scene ... in the dining car ... takes place in broad daylight. - The same shot of the train moving into the deep sunset is used AFTER the dining car scene. - In one of the final scenes, during the chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore, Cary Grant tosses the figurine to Eva Marie Saint. She, obviously misses the catch, but is seen holding it, firmly, in the next shot. |
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