Movie screwups you like
03-24-16, 05:23 PM
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Movie screwups you like
Spotting bloopers and mistakes in movies is a sport, but are they any that you get a real kick out of? It can be for any reason.
I'll go first. There is a huge, honking error in "Finding Nemo." It's the fish tank in the dentist's office. As someone who kept fish for years and has been in many a fish store, I spotted it immediately.
Nemo and the other fish were ocean fish. They should be in a salt water aquarium. But the design of the tank is distinctly fresh water. Bottom line is a salt water tank has to create an oceanic ecosystem, much more than fresh water and Pixar got this totally wrong.
Fresh water tanks use brightly colored fake rocks. Salt water tanks use ocean sand.
Fresh water tanks use brightly colored, fake plastic plants, although the trend lately is live plants, which are all green. Salt water tanks use coral, anemonae and other living organisms.
The airstone for creating aeration, aka Mt. Wannahawkaloogie, is only used in freshwater tanks.
The filter that Nemo has to gum up is a distinctive freshwater design. Salt water filters are electric and vastly more complicated.
The funny thing is I once spoke to a Pixar executive (long story, don't feel like telling) and he had no idea. He was shocked when I pointed all of this out.
It doesn't bother me at all. It's funny to me because Pixar are usually so good at the fine details, but they pooched this one big time.
So what's yours?
I'll go first. There is a huge, honking error in "Finding Nemo." It's the fish tank in the dentist's office. As someone who kept fish for years and has been in many a fish store, I spotted it immediately.
Nemo and the other fish were ocean fish. They should be in a salt water aquarium. But the design of the tank is distinctly fresh water. Bottom line is a salt water tank has to create an oceanic ecosystem, much more than fresh water and Pixar got this totally wrong.
Fresh water tanks use brightly colored fake rocks. Salt water tanks use ocean sand.
Fresh water tanks use brightly colored, fake plastic plants, although the trend lately is live plants, which are all green. Salt water tanks use coral, anemonae and other living organisms.
The airstone for creating aeration, aka Mt. Wannahawkaloogie, is only used in freshwater tanks.
The filter that Nemo has to gum up is a distinctive freshwater design. Salt water filters are electric and vastly more complicated.
The funny thing is I once spoke to a Pixar executive (long story, don't feel like telling) and he had no idea. He was shocked when I pointed all of this out.
It doesn't bother me at all. It's funny to me because Pixar are usually so good at the fine details, but they pooched this one big time.
So what's yours?
03-24-16, 06:32 PM
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Donald Glover falling in The Martian
Leo cutting his hand in Django Unchained
Leo cutting his hand in Django Unchained
03-24-16, 06:52 PM
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For me, it's a very minor scene in Evolution (2001).
When Jones and Duchovny park their cars at the college where they work, it's on the campus of my old college, CSUF. But where they're parking isn't a lot; it's the main quad on campus. You'd never see a car there.
When Jones and Duchovny park their cars at the college where they work, it's on the campus of my old college, CSUF. But where they're parking isn't a lot; it's the main quad on campus. You'd never see a car there.
03-24-16, 07:02 PM
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where Star-Lord presents the Orb to the Collector, and drops it, only to cooly pick it back up as if nothing went wrong was a flub and they used the take anyway.
03-24-16, 07:18 PM
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The Rock
When the hostages are put in the jail cells. The cells are HUGE and it's funny to see multiple people placed in them. In real life, the cells in Alcatraz are about the size of a closet.
When the hostages are put in the jail cells. The cells are HUGE and it's funny to see multiple people placed in them. In real life, the cells in Alcatraz are about the size of a closet.
03-24-16, 07:24 PM
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The actor playing Luca Brasi in The Godfather being so terrible he had to read his lines off cards. Rather than re-casting him, Coppola fixed the problem by later shooting the scene of Luca practicing his congratulations to the Don, so it would look like the character was nervous instead of the actor not working.
Was that not in the script? I still get a kick out of that line.
03-24-16, 08:53 PM
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Macy flubbed the line, but it works even better as he is pissed and not thinking straight.
In Blade Runner when Pris is startled by JF arriving hoe she runs, slips and her arm goes through his car window. On set accident that seemed part of the scene.
In Blade Runner when Pris is startled by JF arriving hoe she runs, slips and her arm goes through his car window. On set accident that seemed part of the scene.
03-25-16, 03:52 AM
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Martin Sheen punching the mirror and cutting his hand open and smearing the blood all over himself in Apocalypse Now.
03-25-16, 08:49 AM
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03-25-16, 10:04 AM
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I was watching Indiana Jones and Last Crusade the other night and noticed when Indy and his father are on that Zeppelin or whatever it is, his father is reading the paper but it is upside down. Has anyone else ever noticed that?
03-25-16, 10:39 AM
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Never noticed that in Crusade. Funny. I suppose it could be intentional since he is using the paper to hide, not to read, but it's a funny bit either way.
It was staged this way so not sure who's mistake it was, but I've always enjoyed the scene in The Godfather where the car turns around on the bridge to Jersey. It goes from the far right lane to make a u-turn. The car next to it stops well ahead of it to give it space to make the turn. You could argue that the car in the left lane was "escorting it" and was filled with other mobsters for protection, but the movie does not say so, and then the driver is congratulated for his good driving.
I'll never not look for the storm trooper who bumps his head in Star Wars.
It was staged this way so not sure who's mistake it was, but I've always enjoyed the scene in The Godfather where the car turns around on the bridge to Jersey. It goes from the far right lane to make a u-turn. The car next to it stops well ahead of it to give it space to make the turn. You could argue that the car in the left lane was "escorting it" and was filled with other mobsters for protection, but the movie does not say so, and then the driver is congratulated for his good driving.
I'll never not look for the storm trooper who bumps his head in Star Wars.
03-25-16, 11:57 AM
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03-25-16, 12:07 PM
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There is a scene in the abysmal Days of Thunder where Rowdy's wife says "Hi, Tom!" to Tom Cruise's character. Lots of hilarious goofs in that shit fest.
03-25-16, 02:40 PM
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I'll always have a soft spot for the bearded, pot-bellied "Russian" cyclists in "American Flyers". I love it when you know a little about the topic of a movie and it's clear that the film makers know nothing about that topic.
03-25-16, 05:20 PM
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The actor playing Luca Brasi in The Godfather being so terrible he had to read his lines off cards. Rather than re-casting him, Coppola fixed the problem by later shooting the scene of Luca practicing his congratulations to the Don, so it would look like the character was nervous instead of the actor not working.
