I guess it's spending years as a "What's scientifically wrong with this picture" analyst, but when I watch movies/shows and I see something wrong, it just drives me nuts. I was just reading folks' comments about Jaws and I'll never forget seeing the line in the water from the transom of the Orca out to the barrels that were "supposed" to be chasing the boat, but we all knew they were probably being dragged by the boat itself during filming. Don't get me wrong, Jaws is a great movie and an early one by Spielberg so I did allow some artistic license, although how the water would go from dead calm to a choppy 15 times in one scene was also disconcerting...
However I caught a real doozy the other day while watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for probably the 100th time!! In the scene where the German fighter planes are chasing Indy and his Dad, one plane drops a bomb. If you look closely, that "German" bomb has "Japanese" writing on it!! I guess Spielberg and Lucas lifted that 1 second clip from Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, but come on!! With all the CGI work in that movie, the trivial exercise of removing a few kanji characters from a short clip like that would be less than a rounding error of the total CGI budget. I guess they figured no one would notice, or maybe they didn't even notice????
So post your favorite or most irksome movie/show errors/slips/incongruities here!!
However I caught a real doozy the other day while watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for probably the 100th time!! In the scene where the German fighter planes are chasing Indy and his Dad, one plane drops a bomb. If you look closely, that "German" bomb has "Japanese" writing on it!! I guess Spielberg and Lucas lifted that 1 second clip from Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, but come on!! With all the CGI work in that movie, the trivial exercise of removing a few kanji characters from a short clip like that would be less than a rounding error of the total CGI budget. I guess they figured no one would notice, or maybe they didn't even notice????
So post your favorite or most irksome movie/show errors/slips/incongruities here!!