Movie Mistakes Thread

[schmoe_128]

I admit I am stealing the format from Dirty Bear, but I asked for permission first and want to give him a big thumbs up for the format.

I also want to thank Molly for her input in getting it set up.

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I had this idea for a new movie thread, I hope you all like it.

The premise of it is that pretty much all shows have mistakes in them whether it be factual errors, continuity errors, visibility errors, whatever.

What I will do is give the movie then list a few scenes from it and what type of mistake it is – factual, continuity, visual, etc. The players will then need to find the mistake in that scene. Some will be obvious, some you will need to dig a little to find. Some movies will have more than others. Some scenes may have more than one mistake, but I’ll be looking for one particular one with each.

Mistake Definitions:

Factual: Information given in the movie is false either because it doesn’t fit in the timeline of the movie, or it is just simply not true.

Continuity: Items change from view to view in the same scene. For example, a clock shows different times when shown repeatedly in the scene

Visible crew/equipment: Equipment or crew can be seen in reflections or by not being hidden well enough.

Revealing: Something happens that is not physically possible. For example, in the movie Titanic - When Rose breaks Jack's handcuffs with an axe she doesn't hit the handcuffs on the pipe but Jack's hand. The handcuffs come apart by themselves.

Other: Could be damn near anything from wrong era clothing to computer enhancement errors.

Once again, I admit to the rip-off ... but for consistency's sake, here are the rules as found in DB's movie mania II thread:

The thread will basically be short comps, and the first to get 25 points wins that comp and the top 3 get awarded gold silver and bronze and get their names in the Hall of Fame, which I will edit into this thread. Once someone gets 25... the scores all revert to zero and we start again. So if you miss some, you will be level soon.

I hope that is clear. Any questions, please don't hesitate to PM me.

OK.. here's the boring bit...

PLEASE note a few rules...
1. You may only answer ONE from each movie in a 24 hour period from the movie being posted ….. But the first one to arrive gets choice of questions. Once that’s answered they gain a point and must wait the 24 hours before answering another.

2. Once all the mistakes for that movie have been answered another movie will be posted and the clock re-sets.

3. You can only attempt to answer ONCE in the 24 hours. So... if you are WRONG..... that is your go used up. You cannot answer again. For example... if someone answered incorrectly, they would be frozen out for the 24 hours. This is to give people offline at the time a chance. The same applies if you answer correctly and just get beaten to the answer.

4. Also... no editing of posts ... even for typos... as we don't know what has been edited. An edited post will be void.

5. Could you PLEASE number your answer, so there is no ambiguity over which one you are answering. Thank you.


First movie up soon …

 

[schmoe_128]

First Movie …

Titanic – 1997

1.Continuity: When Jack and Rose are going down with the ship, there is a man holding onto the flagpole. What happens with this man?
Molly_hunter28

2.Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Jack comes to the first class door for the first time in his tux, what can be seen?
Golden Silence

3.Continuity: When Rose is trying to rescue Jack she spies a fire axe. Smashing all the glass out from the holder she grabs the axe and turns around. What does the next camera shot show?
NorCalMan2007

4.Continuity: Just as Jack begins to draw naked Rose, he draws a dark line down the center of his paper. What happens with this line in the next shot?
DDGirl

5.Revealing: In the scene where the ship tilts to a vertical position, you see people falling and hitting objects on the deck. What is odd about these objects?
Dirty Bear

6.Other: During one side shot of the ship sinking at night, the bow has clearly begun to slide under. There are several ropes hanging off the side of the boat. What is odd about these ropes?
Lexielou2

 

[Golden_Silence]

Titanic – 1997

2.Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Jack comes to the first class door for the first time in his tux, what can be seen?

The camera

 

[Guest]

5. The objects buckle and crinkle... making it obvious they are made of foam, etc....

 

[schmoe_128]

The camera

I was originally looking for a little more dtail than that, but I'll give it to you.

 

[schmoe_128]

5. The objects buckle and crinkle... making it obvious they are made of foam, etc....

Yep

I know some of these are fairly easy, but I didn't want to get to tough right away and scare people off

 

[Guest]

Yep

I know some of these are fairly easy, but I didn't want to get to tough right away and scare people off

I dunno.. it was the only one I could find.

Good to have a mix of both... You want any advice on that sort of thing, please let me know. I've learned through mistakes.

 

[molly_hunter28]

1.Continuity: When Jack and Rose are going down with the ship, there is a man holding onto the flagpole. What happens with this man?

The man's life jacket disappears and reappears

 

[schmoe_128]

1.Continuity: When Jack and Rose are going down with the ship, there is a man holding onto the flagpole. What happens with this man?

The man's life jacket disappears and reappears

You're right Molly ... and a VERY big welcome to you

 

[done_got_old]

Rear Window

I can't remember the exact scene, but the cast is on the wrong leg.

 

[SecretLove69]

I found one but it doesn't seem to fit any of your questions.

one of the people boarding a lifeboat is wearing a digital watch

 

[schmoe_128]

I found one but it doesn't seem to fit any of your questions.

one of the people boarding a lifeboat is wearing a digital watch

Well, according to where I got these questions from, Titanic has over 180 mistakes of varying kinds ... I didn't think people would really want to answer that many before we moved on.

I'll be nice and not count that as a guess too ... So feel free to take a shot at the remaining questions ... which are 3, 4, & 6

 

[schmoe_128]

Rear Window

I can't remember the exact scene, but the cast is on the wrong leg.

What?

 

[lexielou2]

6.Other: During one side shot of the ship sinking at night, the bow has clearly begun to slide under. There are several ropes hanging off the side of the boat. What is odd about these ropes?

They are perpendicular to the boat, not the water, the model must have been filmed when level and tilted digitally.

 

[NorCalMan2007]

3.Continuity: When Rose is trying to rescue Jack she spies a fire axe. Smashing all the glass out from the holder she grabs the axe and turns around. What does the next camera shot show?

When Rose get's the fire ax to cut Jack loose, she breaks the glass. When the camera comes back, more glass is present than what was broken when she first broke it.

 

[schmoe_128]

6.Other: During one side shot of the ship sinking at night, the bow has clearly begun to slide under. There are several ropes hanging off the side of the boat. What is odd about these ropes?

They are perpendicular to the boat, not the water, the model must have been filmed when level and tilted digitally.

Correct Lexie ... and a welcome to the thread

3.Continuity: When Rose is trying to rescue Jack she spies a fire axe. Smashing all the glass out from the holder she grabs the axe and turns around. What does the next camera shot show?

When Rose get's the fire ax to cut Jack loose, she breaks the glass. When the camera comes back, more glass is present than what was broken when she first broke it.

Correct NorCalMan .... and welcome to you as well


Just question #4 left folks

 

[Kylan]

4.Continuity: Just as Jack begins to draw naked Rose, he draws a dark line down the center of his paper. What happens with this line in the next shot?

It's shown that he's sketching a picture of her face?

 

[SecretLove69]

I really like this thread/idea - hope I do better with the next questions.

 

[schmoe_128]

It's shown that he's sketching a picture of her face?

No ... I'm looking for what happens with the dark line he draws in the first shot compared to the second shot

Question #4 is still unanswered

 

[DDgirl]

4.Continuity: Just as Jack begins to draw naked Rose, he draws a dark line down the center of his paper. What happens with this line in the next shot?

It's much fainter and over to the right

 

[schmoe_128]

4.Continuity: Just as Jack begins to draw naked Rose, he draws a dark line down the center of his paper. What happens with this line in the next shot?

It's much fainter and over to the right

Correct DDGirl

And welocme to the thread

 

[schmoe_128]

So here are the scores so far:

Molly_Hunter28 - 1
Golden_Silence - 1
NorCalMan2007 - 1
DDGirl - 1
DirtyBear - 1
LexieLou2 - 1

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Next movie:

The Runaway Bride – 1999

1.Continuity: In one of the last scenes, on the balcony in NY where Julia is telling him all the things she has realised, Richard asks if he needs to be writing these down. What happens in the next shot?

2.Continuity: In the scene where Maggie and Ike are at the church for the first wedding she runs downstairs through the Sunday school room and climbs out the window. What happens when she is climbing out the window?

3.Continuity: When Richard Gere goes into the salon looking for Julia, she notices who he is, and shows her friend the article. The article is laying on the counter. After they finish his hair, you can still see the newspaper article on the counter. Where is the article in the last shot?

4.Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when Julia Roberts and Richard Gere are on his balcony (and "Maggie" proposes). What happens to her earrings?

5.Continuity: In the scene where Julia and Richard are talking outside at the luau, what happens to his lei?

6.Factual error: Trying to cozy up to Richard Gere's character, who she knows to be a Miles Davis fan, Julia Roberts gives him a battered-up LP of Davis's "Kind of Blue" album, which he tells her is very rare. Why is that statement incorrect?

 

[lexielou2]

1.Continuity: In one of the last scenes, on the balcony in NY where Julia is telling him all the things she has realised, Richard asks if he needs to be writing these down. What happens in the next shot?

He is holding a piece of paper that seems to have appeared from nowhere

 

[lovemonster]

4.Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when Julia Roberts and Richard Gere are on his balcony (and "Maggie" proposes). What happens to her earrings?

One disappears and reappears again.

 

[FantasySlut]

5.Continuity: In the scene where Julia and Richard are talking outside at the luau, what happens to his lei?

Richard's flower necklace is in a different place every other scene.