Little inaccuracies that ruin in a film...

fretmeister

We've all seen them.
Sunglasses in Django Unchained
Certain model Gibsons that didn't exist at the time in Back to the Future...

but the very best nerdy one I've seen...

Fuengi

Night Arrows!!

BigBearKris

Too much spare time on hands thread... ;-)

not_the_dj

Tokyo Sex Whale?

pigface

not_the_dj said:

Tokyo Sex Whale?

I guess after South African struggle figure "Tokyo" Sexwale.

not_the_dj

pigface said:

not_the_dj said:

Tokyo Sex Whale?

I guess after South African struggle figure "Tokyo" Sexwale.

Everyday’s a school day

phil_b

coffee cup of the north

Roland

Martian winds which are strong enough to blow things over

ICBM

The helicopter at the end of the battle in Full Metal Jacket is a British Westland Wessex and not the similar Sikorsky H-34 - it has a large turbine exhaust tube on the side, whereas the H-34 was piston-engined. Later, when they're supposedly flying in it, the shadow on the ground is of a Bell Jet Ranger.

[/Aviation geek]

fandango

Little inaccuracies like that in the film U-571? Such as Americans taking centre stage in capturing a German Enigma machine, when in reality it was the British who did so? And this was before the Americans had even entered the war. What an insult to the British war effort.

It's what irks me about a number of American films - that they invariably re-invent history at the expense of us Brits.

Oh, and in real life it wasn't U-571, it was U-110. And somewhere along the line, the Poles were involved. Not that you'd know by watching the film.

Scotty55

fandango said:

Little inaccuracies like that in the film U-571? Such as Americans taking centre stage in capturing a German Enigma machine, when in reality it was the British who did so? And this was before the Americans had even entered the war. What an insult to the British war effort.

It's what irks me about a number of American films - that they invariably re-invent history at the expense of us Brits.

Oh, and in real life it wasn't U-571, it was U-110. And somewhere along the line, the Poles were involved. Not that you'd know by watching the film.

I believe that the Poles gave Britain an Enigma machine before the war and we shoved it in a basement and forgot about it. Could be wrong, though.

VimFuego

ICBM said:

The helicopter at the end of the battle in Full Metal Jacket is a British Westland Wessex and not the similar Sikorsky H-34 - it has a large turbine exhaust tube on the side, whereas the H-34 was piston-engined. Later, when they're supposedly flying in it, the shadow on the ground is of a Bell Jet Ranger.

[/Aviation geek]

one of the things that gets me about some Kubrick films is they were set in the US but filmed in the UK. So the 1st part of FMJ was filmed at Bassingbourne barracks in Herts, if you look when they're running around, the road markings are wrong. Same with Eyes Wide Shut. 

scrumhalf

There was that biopic about Hendrix that had him on his knees whilst magically using his wah-wah.

sweepy

The remake of Dunkirk, might as well have been a Disney film, utter garbage 

EricTheWeary

BigBearKris said:

Too much spare time on hands thread... ;-)

The OP just trying to fill the grumpy old man void left by the temporary ban of EmpFab.

Jalapeno

Alien mothership in Independence Day just happened to use TCP/IP as a networking protocol

tony99

I'm going to keep saying it and people are going to keep coming up with lame excuses for it, but he cannot put that poster back over the tunnel once he's escaped in the Shawshank Redemption.

Nitefly

EricTheWeary said:

BigBearKris said:

Too much spare time on hands thread... ;-)

The OP just trying to fill the grumpy old man void left by the temporary ban of EmpFab.

Yeah, Free the Swansea One!

Funkfingers

Scotty55 said:

fandango said:

the Poles were involved. Not that you'd know by watching the film.

I believe that the Poles gave Britain an Enigma machine before the war and we shoved it in a basement and forgot about it. 

According to the Sebag-Montefiori book on the subject, the machine that was captured near the beginning of the Second World War had one encoding wheel fewer than the machines used throughout most of the war.

Polish resistance was involved in purloining the German coding wheel permutation books.

Funkfingers

Nitefly said:

the Swansea One!

In Twin Town, Swansea is erroneously described as “pretty, shitty city”. This is only 66.67% accurate.

zepp76

Just about any film with motorcycle chases where the engine sound seems to swap between a two stroke  to an inline 4 stroke when the bike is actually just a single cylinder!