God is in the details.
April 29, 2009 4:37 AM Subscribe
OCD or amazing? Or both?
You know who else was a Grammar Nazi.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:47 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:47 AM on April 29, 2009
Hitler's speechwriter?
posted by chillmost at 4:52 AM on April 29, 2009 [49 favorites]
posted by chillmost at 4:52 AM on April 29, 2009 [49 favorites]
Philip Seymour Hoffman — Height: 5' 9½
Truman Capote — Height: 5' 3
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:55 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
Truman Capote — Height: 5' 3
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:55 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
Errors in geography: When Harper Lee leaves the villa in Costa Brava, the license plate on the cab that picks her up has red numbers. License plate numbers on Spanish cars have always been white.
Actually, they are black on white background.
Diplomatic and some embassy staff cars' plates are white on red background.
posted by CautionToTheWind at 4:57 AM on April 29, 2009
Actually, they are black on white background.
Diplomatic and some embassy staff cars' plates are white on red background.
posted by CautionToTheWind at 4:57 AM on April 29, 2009
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the opening wide shot of the wheat fields, we can hear strong wind gusts, but the field is still.
'Cause it's Art baby. Art.
posted by From Bklyn at 4:59 AM on April 29, 2009
'Cause it's Art baby. Art.
posted by From Bklyn at 4:59 AM on April 29, 2009
I love these lists. Some of those details might be minor but some of those annoy me when I'm watching a movie.
posted by MrBobaFett at 5:03 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by MrBobaFett at 5:03 AM on April 29, 2009
Capote would never have stood for such fiddling with facts.
posted by pracowity at 5:18 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by pracowity at 5:18 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
The two Capote movies have blurred in my mind - just like those two volcano movies.
Eventually, the Capote movies and the volcano movies will blur together as well. That should be interesting.
posted by Joe Beese at 5:18 AM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
Eventually, the Capote movies and the volcano movies will blur together as well. That should be interesting.
posted by Joe Beese at 5:18 AM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
You say OCD, I say, animating principle of the entire Internet.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 5:19 AM on April 29, 2009 [20 favorites]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 5:19 AM on April 29, 2009 [20 favorites]
Anachronisms: When Capote purchases baby food to nurse Perry Smith back to health in the 1960s, several of the soup can labels on another shelf have UPC bar codes and ring-pull tops.
Grammar: soup can labels cannot have ring-pull tops. This should read "several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels and ring-pull tops".
posted by fleetmouse at 5:20 AM on April 29, 2009 [7 favorites]
Grammar: soup can labels cannot have ring-pull tops. This should read "several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels and ring-pull tops".
posted by fleetmouse at 5:20 AM on April 29, 2009 [7 favorites]
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the opening wide shot of the wheat fields, we can hear strong wind gusts, but the field is still.
That seems pretty factual, actually. Just unusual, in the post-processed sound world.
posted by DU at 5:21 AM on April 29, 2009
That seems pretty factual, actually. Just unusual, in the post-processed sound world.
posted by DU at 5:21 AM on April 29, 2009
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies. There are clearly people who notice them. I would imagine some are in the industry. Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
posted by FuManchu at 5:25 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by FuManchu at 5:25 AM on April 29, 2009
This makes me think how much fun it would be to make up incorrect factual errors.
Anachronisms: In the scene where Capote enters the space elevator, he is wearing a white polyester suit. Polyester wasn't invented until 1982.
posted by jbickers at 5:25 AM on April 29, 2009 [23 favorites]
Anachronisms: In the scene where Capote enters the space elevator, he is wearing a white polyester suit. Polyester wasn't invented until 1982.
posted by jbickers at 5:25 AM on April 29, 2009 [23 favorites]
In the scene where Capote does the twist, Hoffman starts on the right foot. Capote never started on the right foot, but made a point to start on the left foot.
posted by Dr-Baa at 5:27 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by Dr-Baa at 5:27 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
The soup cans have UPC bar codes on their ring-pull tops?
posted by intermod at 5:28 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by intermod at 5:28 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
In the scene where Capote utters "Rosebud" in reference to his in reality being a man, in the background Dumbledore can be seen to die, but only by Bruce Willis who is himself already dead.
posted by DU at 5:32 AM on April 29, 2009 [18 favorites]
posted by DU at 5:32 AM on April 29, 2009 [18 favorites]
JESUS, DU, PLEASE MARK YOUR SPOILERS I WANTED TO SEE CAPOTE AND NOW IT'S TOTALLY RUINED
posted by Dr-Baa at 5:34 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by Dr-Baa at 5:34 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
In the scene where Capote is talking about your mom having sex with farm animals, he mentions rimming a horse. Your mom only rims pigs and donkeys.
posted by Meatbomb at 5:35 AM on April 29, 2009 [18 favorites]
posted by Meatbomb at 5:35 AM on April 29, 2009 [18 favorites]
If you print the stills from that soup can scene, blow them up, and scan them with a barcode reader, they spell out "Truman Loves Michelangelo".
posted by pracowity at 5:38 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by pracowity at 5:38 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
In all the scenes featuring Capote, he has been replaced by an actor named Philip Seymour Hoffman.
posted by DU at 5:38 AM on April 29, 2009 [46 favorites]
posted by DU at 5:38 AM on April 29, 2009 [46 favorites]
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where Capote is giving the speech to the graduating class of Eastside High, his voice is replaced with a high-pitched whine and a Lou Reed sample.
posted by jbickers at 5:45 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by jbickers at 5:45 AM on April 29, 2009
If these were indeed written by the same person, then yes, OCD. As they are submitted one by one by disparate and individual, observant viewers, then no, not so much.
I actually submitted one of these one time. I noticed that in The American President, Annette Benning's character is in a limo supposedly heading from the Whitehouse to her Georgetown home, yet she is traveling eastbound on Independence, in other words towards Capitol Hill, the other side of town. Of course it was because they wanted to get a shot of the Whitehouse and Washington monument through the limo window
I'm not sure if I should be more embarrased that I submitted one of these marking me forever as one of "those" or that I actually watched The American President.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:47 AM on April 29, 2009
I actually submitted one of these one time. I noticed that in The American President, Annette Benning's character is in a limo supposedly heading from the Whitehouse to her Georgetown home, yet she is traveling eastbound on Independence, in other words towards Capitol Hill, the other side of town. Of course it was because they wanted to get a shot of the Whitehouse and Washington monument through the limo window
I'm not sure if I should be more embarrased that I submitted one of these marking me forever as one of "those" or that I actually watched The American President.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:47 AM on April 29, 2009
My favorite thing about this post is that at the very bottom of the page it says: "« Older ! ! ! !!!... " As if metafilter is REALLY excited about the next post.
posted by inigo2 at 5:48 AM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by inigo2 at 5:48 AM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
In the scene where Capote utters "Rosebud" in reference to his in reality being a man, in the background Dumbledore can be seen to die, but only by Bruce Willis who is himself already dead.
So wait, does that mean that Luke Skywalker making out with Harper Lee was incest?
posted by Pollomacho at 5:56 AM on April 29, 2009
So wait, does that mean that Luke Skywalker making out with Harper Lee was incest?
posted by Pollomacho at 5:56 AM on April 29, 2009
Well I've stopped seeding this torrent. I don't mind being accused of illegal file sharing, but I draw the line at spreading dangerously inaccurate information of martini glass dimensions.
Sorry to all effected, but that's the way it is.
posted by mattoxic at 5:57 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Sorry to all effected, but that's the way it is.
posted by mattoxic at 5:57 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
You know who else was a Grammar Nazi
Hitler's mother's mother?
posted by MuffinMan at 6:06 AM on April 29, 2009 [6 favorites]
Hitler's mother's mother?
posted by MuffinMan at 6:06 AM on April 29, 2009 [6 favorites]
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies. There are clearly people who notice them. I would imagine some are in the industry. Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
At some point, I'm sure The Movie People say "this is good enough, who's going to notice?"
The answer, of course, is The Internet. The Internet sees all and knows all, and isn't shy to tell you so.
posted by filthy light thief at 6:28 AM on April 29, 2009
At some point, I'm sure The Movie People say "this is good enough, who's going to notice?"
The answer, of course, is The Internet. The Internet sees all and knows all, and isn't shy to tell you so.
posted by filthy light thief at 6:28 AM on April 29, 2009
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies. There are clearly people who notice them. I would imagine some are in the industry. Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. The point of telling a story is to give the audience an engaging narrative, not to lecture viewers on minutiae. Capote was a movie about a writer, not about what soup cans looked like in the early sxities.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:38 AM on April 29, 2009 [2 favorites]
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. The point of telling a story is to give the audience an engaging narrative, not to lecture viewers on minutiae. Capote was a movie about a writer, not about what soup cans looked like in the early sxities.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:38 AM on April 29, 2009 [2 favorites]
This should read "several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels and ring-pull tops".
Ambiguity. There are bar codes on the labels and on the ring-pull tops?
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:40 AM on April 29, 2009
Ambiguity. There are bar codes on the labels and on the ring-pull tops?
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:40 AM on April 29, 2009
The reflection stuff doesn't bother me, but continuity stuff I notice all the time. And nonsense like having plastic bottles in the wrong decade is just lazy.
This might be why my wife doesn't like watching movies with me.
posted by paisley henosis at 6:41 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
This might be why my wife doesn't like watching movies with me.
posted by paisley henosis at 6:41 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
The sad thing is that the telephone handset jack thing pissed me off to the point that I elbowed my friend in the theater and whispered, testily, "modular handset cord," which almost certainly struck him as another sign of my frustrating technophobophilia and hatred of big Hollywood bullshit (even though I liked the film just fine, other than it being essentially a science fiction film about an out of control time machine subtly altering the past).
Other than the fact that the show sucked, I could never stand to watch "That 70s Show" because of those glaring white cones in the stereo speakers behind the couch in the basement, which convinced me that the creators of the show really didn't give a shit about setting the thing when it's supposed to be set, or were too high in the seventies to remember what it was actually like then.
Also, Margaret Houlihan's Farah Fawcett hair, the plywood horse carriages on "Upstairs, Downstairs," pretty much everything in "Happy Days," the weird seventies-style apartment in "Laverne and Shirley's" sad last seasons, and the streetcar accident in front of the Senator Theater in Avalon, and…hell, I give up. Everyone just squints at me and asks why I can't just shut up and enjoy what I'm watching, anyway.
But I think Erin Grey will dress just like that in the future, and there will be stupid flat aluminum Apple keyboards at the end of human history for the Doctor to use, and no industrial designer in the Federation will grasp that glass touchpanels require more frequent windexing than a mid-eighties Bang & Olufsen CD player, and will then be interviewed, Jonathan Ive-style, about the wonderful human-machine synergy of glass touchpanels while Windex Co. becomes the dominant OEM cleaning chemical supplier to Starfleet.
posted by sonascope at 6:49 AM on April 29, 2009 [15 favorites]
Other than the fact that the show sucked, I could never stand to watch "That 70s Show" because of those glaring white cones in the stereo speakers behind the couch in the basement, which convinced me that the creators of the show really didn't give a shit about setting the thing when it's supposed to be set, or were too high in the seventies to remember what it was actually like then.
Also, Margaret Houlihan's Farah Fawcett hair, the plywood horse carriages on "Upstairs, Downstairs," pretty much everything in "Happy Days," the weird seventies-style apartment in "Laverne and Shirley's" sad last seasons, and the streetcar accident in front of the Senator Theater in Avalon, and…hell, I give up. Everyone just squints at me and asks why I can't just shut up and enjoy what I'm watching, anyway.
But I think Erin Grey will dress just like that in the future, and there will be stupid flat aluminum Apple keyboards at the end of human history for the Doctor to use, and no industrial designer in the Federation will grasp that glass touchpanels require more frequent windexing than a mid-eighties Bang & Olufsen CD player, and will then be interviewed, Jonathan Ive-style, about the wonderful human-machine synergy of glass touchpanels while Windex Co. becomes the dominant OEM cleaning chemical supplier to Starfleet.
posted by sonascope at 6:49 AM on April 29, 2009 [15 favorites]
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies. There are clearly people who notice them. I would imagine some are in the industry. Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
I watched Fight Club once with the commentary on, and one of the interesting things to me was how they talked about all the "continuity" errors that the movie making people caught (but were actually supposed to be there). So they definitely have people reviewing all that stuff...
posted by inigo2 at 6:49 AM on April 29, 2009
I watched Fight Club once with the commentary on, and one of the interesting things to me was how they talked about all the "continuity" errors that the movie making people caught (but were actually supposed to be there). So they definitely have people reviewing all that stuff...
posted by inigo2 at 6:49 AM on April 29, 2009
This might be why my wife doesn't like watching movies with me.
It is. Care to guess why she doesn't like doing anything else with you either?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 6:56 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
It is. Care to guess why she doesn't like doing anything else with you either?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 6:56 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
I would definitely say that one of the worst things is watching a movie set in a place you know well. You know, the couple walk past Buckingham Palace, turn left and jump onto a tube just by the Houses of Parliament before emerging at Notting Hill, from where a couple of side streets leads to Soho.
posted by MuffinMan at 6:59 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by MuffinMan at 6:59 AM on April 29, 2009
Most boring movie since My Dinner With Andre. Could not, for the life of me, stay awake through it.
posted by Afroblanco at 7:03 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Afroblanco at 7:03 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
If a movie is a stinker, then you start to notice and are bothered by the little things that aren't quite right. For me, this movie was quite good and I was more interested in watching the performances of the actors than THE FUCKING PHONES!
posted by digsrus at 7:08 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by digsrus at 7:08 AM on April 29, 2009
I would definitely say that one of the worst things is watching a movie set in a place you know well.
This is a real problem when you live in Vancouver. It frequently happens that I'm watching a courthouse scene or something in a movie that's supposed to be set in New York and suddenly notice "Hey, Main Library at UBC, where I used to study!".
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:10 AM on April 29, 2009
This is a real problem when you live in Vancouver. It frequently happens that I'm watching a courthouse scene or something in a movie that's supposed to be set in New York and suddenly notice "Hey, Main Library at UBC, where I used to study!".
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:10 AM on April 29, 2009
That's like the town hall in "Back to the Future" which pops up in just about every other Universal movie.
posted by MuffinMan at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by MuffinMan at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2009
Also, in addition to paying attention to anachronisms (note to That 70's Show: nobody said "that sucks" or "that bites" at the time), please, movie people, find a way for the characters to avoid giving 555 telephone numbers! Or else be consistent, and when the character is asked for his address, have him say "123 My Street, Anytown USA".
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:13 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
If you want to feel like killing yourself, innocently tell someone who lives in San Francisco that you "really enjoyed that chase scene in Bullitt".
posted by Jody Tresidder at 7:29 AM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by Jody Tresidder at 7:29 AM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
The Alec Baldwin/Nicole Kidman clunker "Malice" was set at a small New England college, and filmed a lot of its location exteriors in and around Amherst and Northampton, MA. I was in school there at the time (around 1991) and it was a big to-do. Everybody had a story about running into one of the stars, Tom Cruise played touch football with the Amherst PD, the crew painted a faux-aged "EASTERN R.R." logo on one of the railroad overpasses in town that I think still may exist to this day.
We all flocked to see the film when it opened. It opens on a shot of a pretty co-ed riding her bicycle home after a day in class. She bicycles through downtown Northampton, turns the corner, and is suddenly and magically transported all the way across town.
The audience howled.
Turns out that was the high spot of the film.
posted by Spatch at 7:40 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
We all flocked to see the film when it opened. It opens on a shot of a pretty co-ed riding her bicycle home after a day in class. She bicycles through downtown Northampton, turns the corner, and is suddenly and magically transported all the way across town.
The audience howled.
Turns out that was the high spot of the film.
posted by Spatch at 7:40 AM on April 29, 2009 [3 favorites]
This should read "several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels and ring-pull tops".
Ambiguity. There are bar codes on the labels and on the ring-pull tops?
This is where that moderately obscure "which" construction we were discussing on the Green last week comes in handy:
"Several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels, which cans also have ring-pull tops."
OK, you could also say "Several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels. The cans also have ring-pull tops." But why pass up a good chance to use a moderately obscure grammatical construction?
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:42 AM on April 29, 2009 [2 favorites]
Ambiguity. There are bar codes on the labels and on the ring-pull tops?
This is where that moderately obscure "which" construction we were discussing on the Green last week comes in handy:
"Several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels, which cans also have ring-pull tops."
OK, you could also say "Several of the soup cans on another shelf have UPC bar codes on their labels. The cans also have ring-pull tops." But why pass up a good chance to use a moderately obscure grammatical construction?
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:42 AM on April 29, 2009 [2 favorites]
Propane is heavier than air, despite what Panic Room would have you believe. And even then, it's close enough to the density of air that it's going to mix more or less evenly throughout the room, rather than just settling in a layer on the floor.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:46 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:46 AM on April 29, 2009
How about "Several of the soup cans on another shelf have ring-pull tops and labels with UPC bar codes."
*The G-to-tha-N representin'*
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:47 AM on April 29, 2009
*The G-to-tha-N representin'*
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:47 AM on April 29, 2009
Still ambiguous: is that parsed as "(ring-pull tops) and (labels with UPC bar codes)" or "(ring-pull tops and labels) with UPC bar codes"?
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:49 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:49 AM on April 29, 2009
Oh, stop being such a... never mind. Okay:
"...have ring-pull tops, and labels with UPC bar codes."
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:58 AM on April 29, 2009
"...have ring-pull tops, and labels with UPC bar codes."
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:58 AM on April 29, 2009
Which cans? Witch tits?
posted by polyhedron at 7:59 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by polyhedron at 7:59 AM on April 29, 2009
As a former resident of both San Francisco and Seattle, I can attest to grievous geographical manipulations in movies like Pacific Heights and Sleepless in Seattle. The backdrop of Frasier will not be mentioned here. On advice of counsel and my therapist.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 8:02 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 8:02 AM on April 29, 2009
It's the unnecessary word "labels" that is causing the problem here. Where else would the bar code be on a soup can?
"Several of the soup cans on another shelf have ring-pull tops and UPC bar codes." The end.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:11 AM on April 29, 2009
"Several of the soup cans on another shelf have ring-pull tops and UPC bar codes." The end.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:11 AM on April 29, 2009
note to That 70's Show: nobody said "that sucks" or "that bites" at the time
Sure they did. My sister had a shirt that said, "Mondays Suck" on it in 1975.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 8:13 AM on April 29, 2009
Sure they did. My sister had a shirt that said, "Mondays Suck" on it in 1975.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 8:13 AM on April 29, 2009
The backdrop of Frasier will not be mentioned here
Many people in DC that (still, for some reason) watch 24 feel the same way about that show right now.
posted by inigo2 at 8:19 AM on April 29, 2009
Many people in DC that (still, for some reason) watch 24 feel the same way about that show right now.
posted by inigo2 at 8:19 AM on April 29, 2009
Back in the 70's I remember many people mentioning that Disco sucks.
posted by rfs at 8:29 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by rfs at 8:29 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Where else would the bar code be on a soup can?
The ring-pull top. DUH.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:37 AM on April 29, 2009
The ring-pull top. DUH.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:37 AM on April 29, 2009
I could never stand to watch "That 70s Show" because of those glaring white cones in the stereo speakers
Those, my friend, are JBL 12" woofers from - very much from the 70's.
Mine still work great.
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 8:45 AM on April 29, 2009 [2 favorites]
Those, my friend, are JBL 12" woofers from - very much from the 70's.
Mine still work great.
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 8:45 AM on April 29, 2009 [2 favorites]
• Errors in geography: WTF?!? THIS ISN'T KANSANS, IT'S FRICKING SELKIRK!!! THAT'S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT COUNTRY!!!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:55 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:55 AM on April 29, 2009
Goofs:
* Crew or Equipment Visible: The Jingle Dogs handler is visible on the right side of the screen holding a treat up for Jeff Fahey during the bar scene.
* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Baht Nuesef looks into Walter's ear and diagnosis him with "skeleton cancer".
* Incorrectly Regarded As Goofs: Many believe the sunset in the final scene is a picture of a sunset being held by a gaffer based on the shadow of a person covering most of the sun. It is possible the shadow is being cast by a planetary body and a second sun on the day of shooting. And also that the first sun, the original sun, stopped being made of light and is made of like a red goo.
* Crew or Equipment Visible: The Jingle Dogs can be heard starting and stopping "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" several times during the death scene.
posted by FatherDagon at 8:57 AM on April 29, 2009
* Crew or Equipment Visible: The Jingle Dogs handler is visible on the right side of the screen holding a treat up for Jeff Fahey during the bar scene.
* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Baht Nuesef looks into Walter's ear and diagnosis him with "skeleton cancer".
* Incorrectly Regarded As Goofs: Many believe the sunset in the final scene is a picture of a sunset being held by a gaffer based on the shadow of a person covering most of the sun. It is possible the shadow is being cast by a planetary body and a second sun on the day of shooting. And also that the first sun, the original sun, stopped being made of light and is made of like a red goo.
* Crew or Equipment Visible: The Jingle Dogs can be heard starting and stopping "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" several times during the death scene.
posted by FatherDagon at 8:57 AM on April 29, 2009
Not as many goofs in Infamous. I'm just sayin'.
posted by bitterkitten at 8:59 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by bitterkitten at 8:59 AM on April 29, 2009
I'm always amused when every car in a period movie/tv show is in pristine condition, because they've just been rented in from a classic car collection. The otherwise brilliant Red Riding Trilogy was a prime offender - during the 70s, at least in the UK, every second or third car was complete rust-bucket.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:06 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:06 AM on April 29, 2009
I'm always amused when every car in a period movie/tv show is in pristine condition, because they've just been rented in from a classic car collection.
And the plague of just passin' penny farthings in every Dickens...
posted by Jody Tresidder at 9:12 AM on April 29, 2009
And the plague of just passin' penny farthings in every Dickens...
posted by Jody Tresidder at 9:12 AM on April 29, 2009
If you want to feel like killing yourself, innocently tell someone who lives in San Francisco that you "really enjoyed that chase scene in Bullitt".
A chase scene so intense that the Dodge Charger somehow lost five hub caps.
posted by mosk at 9:19 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
A chase scene so intense that the Dodge Charger somehow lost five hub caps.
posted by mosk at 9:19 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
This reminds me of something a friend once proposed, and that's adding IMDB-style "goofs" for children's movies. The best one by far was for Finding Nemo:
Factual Error: Fish cannot talk.
posted by explosion at 9:21 AM on April 29, 2009 [9 favorites]
Factual Error: Fish cannot talk.
posted by explosion at 9:21 AM on April 29, 2009 [9 favorites]
Over the years [Yasujirō] Ozu and Tatsuo Hamada, his long-time art designer, designed a shot which pleased them both and which appears again and again... Action, if there was any, occurred in the middle third of the picture, and Ozu was sometimes heard to express appreciation of the scene's simplicity.
Decorating the set was not so simple. Ozu, his art director, actors, friends—anyone who wanted to—brought low tables, hibachi, bottles, pots, pans, and other objects in actual use to the set. When a pile had been collected, Ozu set about furnishing the house. As the pile got smaller Ozu would call out and ask what was left. If a bottle was left, for example, he then found a place for it in the kitchen. Though the Shochiku prop department was rarely called upon, Ozu maintained a certain standard for his furnishings. He used only "good" things, though occasionally if someone he liked had given him something "bad," he used that, too. Often he brought objects from his own Kita-Kamakura home (seen in abundance in Equinox Flower), placing an expensive bizen pot and an empty beer bottle with the same care. The care was always with the same end in mind: satisfactory composition.
Ryu recalled that long before the set was completed, Ozu would be busy with the viewfinder. Even if only a pillar or two were up, the director knew what his compositions would be. Masahiro Shinoda, now a well-known director himself, remembers that when he was assistant director on Late Autumn, Ozu used to rearrange all the interiors to suit himself. "He used to say that he particularly disliked all of those straight tatami edges in a row. He'd take a number of zabuton pillows and push them along with his feet until they had added what he wanted to the general composition of the scene." He also recalled how surprised he was to discover Ozu changing the arrangement of objects within a single sequence:
"There was this table with beer bottles and some dishes and an ashtray on it, and we had shot the scene from one side and were going to shoot it from the other side when Ozu came up and began shifting the objects around. I was so shocked that I said that if he did that he would create a bad break in continuity, that everyone would notice that the beer bottles were now on the right and the ashtray was on the left. He stopped, looked at me, and said: 'Continuity? Oh, that. No, you're wrong. People never notice things like that—and this way it makes a much better composition.' And he was right, of course. People don't. When I saw the rushes I didn't notice anything wrong with those scenes."
—Donald Richie, Ozu: His Life and Films, pages 124-126
posted by koeselitz at 9:25 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
Decorating the set was not so simple. Ozu, his art director, actors, friends—anyone who wanted to—brought low tables, hibachi, bottles, pots, pans, and other objects in actual use to the set. When a pile had been collected, Ozu set about furnishing the house. As the pile got smaller Ozu would call out and ask what was left. If a bottle was left, for example, he then found a place for it in the kitchen. Though the Shochiku prop department was rarely called upon, Ozu maintained a certain standard for his furnishings. He used only "good" things, though occasionally if someone he liked had given him something "bad," he used that, too. Often he brought objects from his own Kita-Kamakura home (seen in abundance in Equinox Flower), placing an expensive bizen pot and an empty beer bottle with the same care. The care was always with the same end in mind: satisfactory composition.
Ryu recalled that long before the set was completed, Ozu would be busy with the viewfinder. Even if only a pillar or two were up, the director knew what his compositions would be. Masahiro Shinoda, now a well-known director himself, remembers that when he was assistant director on Late Autumn, Ozu used to rearrange all the interiors to suit himself. "He used to say that he particularly disliked all of those straight tatami edges in a row. He'd take a number of zabuton pillows and push them along with his feet until they had added what he wanted to the general composition of the scene." He also recalled how surprised he was to discover Ozu changing the arrangement of objects within a single sequence:
"There was this table with beer bottles and some dishes and an ashtray on it, and we had shot the scene from one side and were going to shoot it from the other side when Ozu came up and began shifting the objects around. I was so shocked that I said that if he did that he would create a bad break in continuity, that everyone would notice that the beer bottles were now on the right and the ashtray was on the left. He stopped, looked at me, and said: 'Continuity? Oh, that. No, you're wrong. People never notice things like that—and this way it makes a much better composition.' And he was right, of course. People don't. When I saw the rushes I didn't notice anything wrong with those scenes."
—Donald Richie, Ozu: His Life and Films, pages 124-126
posted by koeselitz at 9:25 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
OCD or amazing? Or both?
neither.
check out moviemistakes.com if you like obsessive.
(titanic:199 mistakes, lord of the rings:260 mistakes...)
Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
yes.
posted by sexyrobot at 9:54 AM on April 29, 2009
neither.
check out moviemistakes.com if you like obsessive.
(titanic:199 mistakes, lord of the rings:260 mistakes...)
Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
yes.
posted by sexyrobot at 9:54 AM on April 29, 2009
What does it say about me that I noticed both the RJ-22 and the use of APX-400 while watching the movie?
posted by scruss at 10:07 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by scruss at 10:07 AM on April 29, 2009
I remember seeing Siskel & Ebert review The Untouchables mostly by pointing out all the contintuity errors in that movie.
"Now look at Sean Connery. His collar's buttoned. Cut to Kostner. Back to Connery, collar unbuttoned. Back to Kostner. Back to Connery, collar buttoned again."
It was the first time I wanted to write a thank-you letter to Roger Ebert. Keeping track of the continuity errors in that movie was about the only thing that made that film entertaining. It's a movie about Al Capone and Elliot Ness, for crissakes, and they still made it boring. You'd think that'd be physically impossible.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:27 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
"Now look at Sean Connery. His collar's buttoned. Cut to Kostner. Back to Connery, collar unbuttoned. Back to Kostner. Back to Connery, collar buttoned again."
It was the first time I wanted to write a thank-you letter to Roger Ebert. Keeping track of the continuity errors in that movie was about the only thing that made that film entertaining. It's a movie about Al Capone and Elliot Ness, for crissakes, and they still made it boring. You'd think that'd be physically impossible.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:27 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
Did they see fit to point out the entirely subtle error that an Irish cop had a BROAD SCOTTISH ACCENT?
Only marginally more absurd than Connery pretending to be a Spanish nobleman WHO BIZARRELY HAPPENED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN ONE OF EDINBURGH'S LESS GLAMOROUS NEIGHBOURHOODS.
posted by MuffinMan at 10:40 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
Only marginally more absurd than Connery pretending to be a Spanish nobleman WHO BIZARRELY HAPPENED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN ONE OF EDINBURGH'S LESS GLAMOROUS NEIGHBOURHOODS.
posted by MuffinMan at 10:40 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies.
Because so many people enjoy finding them and telling people and feeling superior.
My grandma (RIP) used to complain bitterly about all of the horrible language in movies -- every week when she went back to them.
It was one of the things that kept her going (until 96).
posted by msalt at 10:41 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Because so many people enjoy finding them and telling people and feeling superior.
My grandma (RIP) used to complain bitterly about all of the horrible language in movies -- every week when she went back to them.
It was one of the things that kept her going (until 96).
posted by msalt at 10:41 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Factual Error: Fish cannot talk.
In the event that a fish does talk, we urge you to disregard its advice.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:02 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
In the event that a fish does talk, we urge you to disregard its advice.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:02 AM on April 29, 2009 [5 favorites]
You'd think that'd be physically impossible.
Coppola is a very talented director.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:20 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Coppola is a very talented director.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:20 AM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Did they see fit to point out the entirely subtle error that an Irish cop had a BROAD SCOTTISH ACCENT?
Well, anytime Sean Connery opens his mouth I hear "Yes, I think sometimes a woman merits getting smacked." So the accent doesn't matter that much to me.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 11:36 AM on April 29, 2009
Well, anytime Sean Connery opens his mouth I hear "Yes, I think sometimes a woman merits getting smacked." So the accent doesn't matter that much to me.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 11:36 AM on April 29, 2009
Did they see fit to point out the entirely subtle error that an Irish cop had a BROAD SCOTTISH ACCENT?
Only marginally more absurd than Connery pretending to be a Spanish nobleman WHO BIZARRELY HAPPENED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN ONE OF EDINBURGH'S LESS GLAMOROUS NEIGHBOURHOODS.
Or, my personal favorite, the King of England.
posted by stinkycheese at 11:39 AM on April 29, 2009
Only marginally more absurd than Connery pretending to be a Spanish nobleman WHO BIZARRELY HAPPENED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN ONE OF EDINBURGH'S LESS GLAMOROUS NEIGHBOURHOODS.
Or, my personal favorite, the King of England.
posted by stinkycheese at 11:39 AM on April 29, 2009
FuManchu: I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies. There are clearly people who notice them. I would imagine some are in the industry. Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
Because (*GASP!*) the people who make big-budget movies aren't very careful and don't care that much about small details!
posted by koeselitz at 11:43 AM on April 29, 2009
Because (*GASP!*) the people who make big-budget movies aren't very careful and don't care that much about small details!
posted by koeselitz at 11:43 AM on April 29, 2009
Did they see fit to point out the entirely subtle error that an Irish cop had a BROAD SCOTTISH ACCENT?
Only marginally more absurd than Connery pretending to be a Spanish nobleman WHO BIZARRELY HAPPENED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN ONE OF EDINBURGH'S LESS GLAMOROUS NEIGHBOURHOODS.
Or, my personal favorite, the King of England.
Don't forget a Lithuanian submarine captain!
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 11:43 AM on April 29, 2009
Only marginally more absurd than Connery pretending to be a Spanish nobleman WHO BIZARRELY HAPPENED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN ONE OF EDINBURGH'S LESS GLAMOROUS NEIGHBOURHOODS.
Or, my personal favorite, the King of England.
Don't forget a Lithuanian submarine captain!
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 11:43 AM on April 29, 2009
Or Agamemnon!
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 11:49 AM on April 29, 2009
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 11:49 AM on April 29, 2009
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies. There are clearly people who notice them. I would imagine some are in the industry. Is it just too expensive to remain completely loyal to the period?
posted by FuManchu at 5:25 AM on April 29 [+] [!]
Capote (2005)
Production Budget: $7 million
I know $7,000,000 is a lot of money, but it is considered a very small budget for a feature film. This is especially true given the number of locations/sets used in this film.
posted by basicchannel at 12:05 PM on April 29, 2009
posted by FuManchu at 5:25 AM on April 29 [+] [!]
Capote (2005)
Production Budget: $7 million
I know $7,000,000 is a lot of money, but it is considered a very small budget for a feature film. This is especially true given the number of locations/sets used in this film.
posted by basicchannel at 12:05 PM on April 29, 2009
It's a movie about Al Capone and Elliot Ness, for crissakes, and they still made it boring. You'd think that'd be physically impossible.
Especially considering it's based on a very exciting non-fiction book written by Elliot Ness himself.
posted by eye of newt at 12:47 PM on April 29, 2009
Especially considering it's based on a very exciting non-fiction book written by Elliot Ness himself.
posted by eye of newt at 12:47 PM on April 29, 2009
Those JBLs may well have been very much from the 70's, but I would doubt they'd have been affordable on allowance money, and the fad of having your speakers sitting uncovered was a decade away. Under funky brown waffle foam grilles, maybe, but to set them up bare is as seventies as constantly saying "I am soooo not doing that," and any of the other linguistic atrocities of the show. It's a subtle thing, that.
posted by sonascope at 12:47 PM on April 29, 2009
posted by sonascope at 12:47 PM on April 29, 2009
I don't know what's sadder. That someone made that list or that I had to stop myself from reading the whole fucking thing.
posted by Skygazer at 2:45 PM on April 29, 2009
posted by Skygazer at 2:45 PM on April 29, 2009
I don't understand how so many anachronisms are allowed to go through in big budget movies.
We are talking about the industry that made the motion picture Krakatoa: East of Java here.
posted by Sidhedevil at 3:33 PM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
We are talking about the industry that made the motion picture Krakatoa: East of Java here.
posted by Sidhedevil at 3:33 PM on April 29, 2009 [1 favorite]
Those of us with OCD don't really appreciate the armchair diagnosis of anything extremely complex or detailed as a mental disorder.
posted by agregoli at 6:51 PM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by agregoli at 6:51 PM on April 29, 2009 [4 favorites]
Those JBLs may well have been very much from the 70's...
Point.
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 8:10 PM on April 29, 2009
Point.
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 8:10 PM on April 29, 2009
Or this guy!
posted by jquinby at 12:01 PM on April 29 [2 favorites -] Favorite added! [!]
Every so often, my husband finds a way to trick me into clicking on a link that leads to a picture of Sting... as he was in Dune. Example.
I think I have just found a way to up the ante. Many thanks.
posted by andeluria at 11:46 PM on April 29, 2009
posted by jquinby at 12:01 PM on April 29 [2 favorites -] Favorite added! [!]
Every so often, my husband finds a way to trick me into clicking on a link that leads to a picture of Sting... as he was in Dune. Example.
I think I have just found a way to up the ante. Many thanks.
posted by andeluria at 11:46 PM on April 29, 2009
It's a movie about Al Capone and Elliot Ness, for crissakes, and they still made it boring. You'd think that'd be physically impossible.
Especially considering it's based on a very exciting non-fiction book written by Elliot Ness himself.
Well, there's the problem right there. I dunno about this Elliot fellow, but the director (Brian "Coppola" De Palma) might have been better served to use source material by the Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness.
Or possibly something by Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:06 AM on April 30, 2009 [2 favorites]
Especially considering it's based on a very exciting non-fiction book written by Elliot Ness himself.
Well, there's the problem right there. I dunno about this Elliot fellow, but the director (Brian "Coppola" De Palma) might have been better served to use source material by the Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness.
Or possibly something by Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:06 AM on April 30, 2009 [2 favorites]
« Older 'a screamer, a gasper, a startler or (sorry) a... | Jimmy Smith on the BBC Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
I remember experiencing a deep sense of unease during this scene, and now I realize this must have been the cause.
That said, I applaud this level of attention to detail. But then I'm a Grammar Nazi.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 4:42 AM on April 29, 2009