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Post by marianne48 on Apr 23, 2021 15:18:10 GMT
Maybe not a goof, exactly, but just something a character did or said that you thought was "off."
Examples: In When Harry Met Sally, Sally declares that sets of day-of-the-week underwear don't include a pair for Sundays, because it's blasphemous. These underwear sets have always had a Sunday pair.
Sally informs Harry that Casablanca is airing on TV; he asks her, "Channel, please?" She tells him that it's Channel 11. Of course, viewers around the world who watch this today wouldn't find this odd. But two New York dwellers in the pre-TCM era in the '80s would know that Casablanca always aired on Channel 11; he wouldn't have had to ask.
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 23, 2021 16:16:55 GMT
If you take a look at the "goofs" link on the database for "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - unless that's been deleted too - you will find a mountain of mistakes and anachronisms in vehicles, weapons, and dress as well as enough mistakes in uniforms and the wearing of insignia, medals, and rank to give a military buff seizures. Just goes to show that the producers didn’t care a fig about authenticity when they had so much action to get to.
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Post by Isapop on Apr 23, 2021 16:52:31 GMT
Whenever I hear someone in a movie call their sister "Sis" I wonder how common that really is. I've never heard it in real life.
Is it for real, or did the movies invent it as a convenience to let the audience know the relationship?
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 23, 2021 18:52:25 GMT
Outside of the movies, did elderly people ever refer to youthful people as "young whippersnappers"? I think, now that I'm older, I'm going to start using that phrase, just to get younger people to watch old movies.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 23, 2021 21:28:10 GMT
If you take a look at the "goofs" link on the database for "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - unless that's been deleted too - you will find a mountain of mistakes and anachronisms in vehicles, weapons, and dress as well as enough mistakes in uniforms and the wearing of insignia, medals, and rank to give a military buff seizures. Just goes to show that the producers didn’t care a fig about authenticity when they had so much action to get to. Thank god. |
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Post by marshamae on Apr 23, 2021 22:03:39 GMT
Whenever I hear someone in a movie call their sister "Sis" I wonder how common that really is. I've never heard it in real life. Is it for real, or did the movies invent it as a convenience to let the audience know the relationship? My Irish family had a boy and girl . They were Sis and Bud . Then my mom was born , long after, and she did not get a nickname. But the Sis thing was very common in the early 1900’s and it lasted longer in some families and some parts of the country
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Post by timshelboy on Apr 23, 2021 22:22:51 GMT
Outside of the movies, did elderly people ever refer to youthful people as "young whippersnappers"? I think, now that I'm older, I'm going to start using that phrase, just to get younger people to watch old movies. I'm 60 next month and use it all the time. Flibbertigibbet can also be very a satisfying addition to any wrinklies' vocabulary, especially when applied to young female whippersnappers. 
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Post by Isapop on Apr 23, 2021 22:26:11 GMT
Whenever I hear someone in a movie call their sister "Sis" I wonder how common that really is. I've never heard it in real life. Is it for real, or did the movies invent it as a convenience to let the audience know the relationship? My Irish family had a boy and girl . They were Sis and Bud . Then my mom was born , long after, and she did not get a nickname. But the Sis thing was very common in the early 1900’s and it lasted longer in some families and some parts of the country I'm glad you weighed in with some solid info. My horizons need some expanding.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 30, 2021 16:18:58 GMT
If you take a look at the "goofs" link on the database for "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - unless that's been deleted too - you will find a mountain of mistakes and anachronisms in vehicles, weapons, and dress as well as enough mistakes in uniforms and the wearing of insignia, medals, and rank to give a military buff seizures. Just goes to show that the producers didn’t care a fig about authenticity when they had so much action to get to. I came across an interview with Derren Nesbitt and he talks about that in detail with anecdotes!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 30, 2021 16:55:17 GMT
Maybe not a goof, exactly, but just something a character did or said that you thought was "off." Examples: In When Harry Met Sally, Sally declares that sets of day-of-the-week underwear don't include a pair for Sundays, because it's blasphemous. These underwear sets have always had a Sunday pair. Sally informs Harry that Casablanca is airing on TV; he asks her, "Channel, please?" She tells him that it's Channel 11. Of course, viewers around the world who watch this today wouldn't find this odd. But two New York dwellers in the pre-TCM era in the '80s would know that Casablanca always aired on Channel 11; he wouldn't have had to ask. I can imagine a script conference: "Anyone in New York would know it's always on 11." - "Yeah, but people in Peoria or Amarillo won't. They'll be wondering why he didn't ask her what channel."I used to notice something similar in shows like Dragnet and Adam-12. They'd use real L.A. street names, but in fictional ways: " Suspect approaching intersection of Van Nuys Blvd and Fairfax Ave."
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Post by london777 on Jun 30, 2021 16:58:46 GMT
Whenever I hear someone in a movie call their sister "Sis" I wonder how common that really is. I've never heard it in real life. Is it for real, or did the movies invent it as a convenience to let the audience know the relationship? My mother's elder sister was always called 'Cis' (sic). It was not short for either of her forenames so could only have meant 'sister'. What is strange is that only now, fifty years after her death, has it occurred to wonder why it was spelled that way (for example, on cards and presents). Families are weird.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 30, 2021 17:02:21 GMT
My Irish family had a boy and girl . They were Sis and Bud . Then my mom was born , long after, and she did not get a nickname. But the Sis thing was very common in the early 1900’s and it lasted longer in some families and some parts of the country I'm glad you weighed in with some solid info. My horizons need some expanding. Now that "Bro" is so ubiquitous, "Sis" will make a comeback. EDIT: That sentence was supposed to include a "maybe." I try to stay away from predictions.
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Post by london777 on Jun 30, 2021 17:12:01 GMT
My Irish family had a boy and girl . They were Sis and Bud. I trust not respectively?
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Post by Rufus-T on Jun 30, 2021 18:06:50 GMT
In The Wizard of Oz, The Scarecrow got it wrong.
"The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side."
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Post by phantomparticle on Jul 2, 2021 4:13:46 GMT
Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood complaining about "movies with big bugs." The scene takes place when Wood meets the actor in 1952. Them, the first big bug movie wasn't made until 1954.
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Post by sostie on Jul 2, 2021 9:35:24 GMT
The recent Vin Diesel film Bloodshot had a number of scenes set in London. However, they shot most of the scenes in South Africa. During a car chase its as if they are hoping none of the audience has visited or are from the UK. Streets, road signs, police cars, number plates, everything is wrong. Also a scene in a specific location, Soho in London, it's obvious no one involved has ever visited the real location. Or seen a picture of it
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 4, 2021 18:24:48 GMT
Anytime they show someone cooking in a fast food place, or someone working in the back of a restaurant.
It's always them just standing around basically. But in real life you have to move really fast , of course. Until you have a heart attack from exhaustion.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 4, 2021 19:27:58 GMT
Okay, Krakatoa is west of Java. Okay, maybe that's not such a little thing.  |
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jul 10, 2021 3:52:53 GMT
Damn near every movie in the 1960s-'80s featuring military characters with hair that's too long.
A simple five-minute trim from the crew's stylist was all that was needed, but nope... Couldn't be bothered. (And thus destroying any realism a scene was striving for.)
Colonels and generals with hair over their collars and Elvis sideburns... Bah!
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