Continuity and C**k Ups on TV
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Blue Peter
Here‘s one I made earlier. Yet we watch entire episode and no they didn’t make it earlier. Is time travel involved?
Here‘s one I made earlier. Yet we watch entire episode and no they didn’t make it earlier. Is time travel involved?
DRM
Guru
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- West Yorks
Ice cold in Alex, near the end of the film, they drive past a Series 1 Land Rover, looks like an early to mid fifties model, not even the earlier model introduced in 1948
Alex321
Guru
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- South Wales
They never said anything about making it earlier "in the programme". Even when I used to watch it as a 10 year old, that was quite obvious that they meant they had prepared it off-air so whatever drying or setting was needed had happened before we started watching.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
They did when I watched it as a kid. Different generations I guess.
Alex321
Guru
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- South Wales
Possibly.
I have no idea how old you are, but I was watching mainly in the era of Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves. Lesley Judd replacing Valerie Singleton for the last few years I watched.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
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- ...Norwich over the water.
Thank you
Seevio
Guru
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- South Glos
The film Se7en has so many mistakes that I can't be sure the title isn't a typo.
The ones I personally noticed are the parts where it is a monsoon on one side of the windscreen for one character and is a light drizzle for the other character. I didn't notice that the people outside weren't using umbrellas or coats.
The other one I saw was near the start, they enter a crime scene that has been sealed by the police. The do not enter tape is on the inside and the door opens inwards which makes you wonder how the guy sealing the scene got out.
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The ones I personally noticed are the parts where it is a monsoon on one side of the windscreen for one character and is a light drizzle for the other character. I didn't notice that the people outside weren't using umbrellas or coats.
The other one I saw was near the start, they enter a crime scene that has been sealed by the police. The do not enter tape is on the inside and the door opens inwards which makes you wonder how the guy sealing the scene got out.
More at https://www.moviemistakes.com/film1127
matticus
Guru
Well they should have got an expert in to check the script over. This is basic stuff on big budget movies 🤦♀️
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Sort of my point. Time travel films make their own rules but in BTTF they establish the rules and then break them themselves.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
The paper coffee cup in the final Game of Thrones scene.
One thing that ALWAYS bothers me because it ALWAYS happens is the windscreens and other windows of vehicles seen on TV and in movies. They are, with very few exceptions, too clean to give the authenticity the director is looking for.
Whether low-key TV drama or big blockbuster film, the vehicle being shown - usually with the hero or some shadowy stalker-type figure driving - has a gleaming windscreen. This is because the production company hired the appropriate vehicle needed (from a car-hire firm if a contemporary setting - or vintage car-hire firm specialising in older cars) and the company they use pride themselves on sending out cars/vehicles of a high standard and this obviously includes polishing the windscreen.
The production company has the appropriate vehicle for a minimum amount of time to save on costs and to further save on costs, they don't bother to put a film of dust on the windscreen before having the wipers swipe off the arc of cleanliness you'll all no doubt be seeing on your own cars next time you get in to them (exception being is you've just had it through the car-wash - obvs). This is to further save hire-car costs by not sending back the vehicle in a 'dirty' state and they don't have time, or the staff, to send it through a car-wash. The costumes are always authentic looking, the make-up artist and hairdresser has done a superb job but then you get a glaring continuity error by having a car - sometimes having driven through a desert or being driven for days on end - with a shiny freshly polished windscreen.
Whether low-key TV drama or big blockbuster film, the vehicle being shown - usually with the hero or some shadowy stalker-type figure driving - has a gleaming windscreen. This is because the production company hired the appropriate vehicle needed (from a car-hire firm if a contemporary setting - or vintage car-hire firm specialising in older cars) and the company they use pride themselves on sending out cars/vehicles of a high standard and this obviously includes polishing the windscreen.
The production company has the appropriate vehicle for a minimum amount of time to save on costs and to further save on costs, they don't bother to put a film of dust on the windscreen before having the wipers swipe off the arc of cleanliness you'll all no doubt be seeing on your own cars next time you get in to them (exception being is you've just had it through the car-wash - obvs). This is to further save hire-car costs by not sending back the vehicle in a 'dirty' state and they don't have time, or the staff, to send it through a car-wash. The costumes are always authentic looking, the make-up artist and hairdresser has done a superb job but then you get a glaring continuity error by having a car - sometimes having driven through a desert or being driven for days on end - with a shiny freshly polished windscreen.
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
Give Mad Max a whirl, the new one especially! But they did make their own I suppose.
matticus
Guru
Likewise the Aston Martin in early scenes of NTTD. Windows less than immaculate ...
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
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- The real Northern Powerhouse
In virtually every car chase in the original Starsky and Hutch series they drive around the same corner and the same truck is in the background...
