Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Bank Job





































  • Anachronisms: Although the film is set in 1971, signs on various shop doors seen in the film advertise that credit cards "Visa" and "Mastercard" are accepted. The name "Visa" was not used for the charge card before 1977 (replacing Barclaycard in the UK); "Mastercard" was "Master Charge" until 1979.

  • Anachronisms: The white police car (jaguar) has orange stripes down the side. These were not introduced until the late 1970s.

  • Anachronisms: Paddington station is shown as restored with new British Rail signs. In 1971, the station would have been rather dirty from the steam days and many of the main signs would have still been original. Also, the train carriage is of 1973 vintage.
  • Anachronisms: The underground train used in the film would have only been used on the newly opened Victoria Line and would have looked brand new in 1971. In 1971, Both the Northern Line and Bakerloo linewould have had red underground trains possibly dating from the 1930s to the 1950s.
  • Factual errors: On the end credits, the characters are grouped into categories. The category "VILLAINS" is misspelled as "VILLIANS".

  • Anachronisms: The Revox tape recorder used by the ham radio operator is too new. It appears to be a series IV Revox A77. In 1971, he would have had a series I or II.

  • Anachronisms: During the scene where Terry is talking to his wife after robbing the bank, there is a lamp in the background that has an energy saving light bulb in it. This would be impossible as they were not introduced until the late 90's.

Untraceable

Factual errors: The movie takes place in 2008, as seen when the killer types the death dates of his victims. However, early in the film, after an Internet thief is captured, Jennifer Marsh says "Sunday is his father's birthday". She is referring to January 10, which was a Thursday in 2008.

  • Factual errors: One of the victim's lifespan is seen to have been June 14, 1955 to January 15, 2008. It is said that he is 55 years old, although in reality he would have been 52.

  • Revealing mistakes: When Jennifer walks in on her daughter playing the horse computer game, you can see that it is been played via a PC, then in a quick shot of the computer screen, you can see that the game is in fact a Play Station game because of the types of buttons which appear on the screen.

Factual errors: SPOILER: At the end of the movie when they show the website, the posts on the website are entered as being posted >1 minute, when they should be <1 minute since they were just posted seconds ago.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed



































Trivia:

  • The movie has a complicated production history. It was originally pitched to Ben Stein as "Expelled", a documentary about "Darwinism and why it has such a lock on the academic establishment when the theory has so many holes" (in Stein's words). It was presented to scientific interviewees as a Rampant Films production entitled "Crossroads", about how "the conflict between science and religion has unleashed passions in school board meetings, courtrooms, and town halls across America and beyond". When the movie began to be publicly promoted, it was back to the title "Expelled", was produced by Premise Media, and describes how "under a new anti-religious dogmatism, scientists and educators are not allowed to even think thoughts that involve an intelligent creator". The evolutionary biologists depicted in the movie have objected to the misrepresentation of the movie, andto the inter-cutting of their interviews with footage of Hitler and Nazi stormtroopers. In response, the producers have labeled these scientists "hypocrites".


  • Preview screenings for the movie were held for churches and other Christian groups months in advance, and by invitation only. After a movie critic was inadvertently allowed to view the film early, resulting in a negative review, a policy of requiring viewers to sign nondisclosure agreements was implemented at these screenings. Closer to release, an "RSVP" site was set up to allow members of the public to view the movie in a near-finished state. One of these was evolutionary biologist and Expelled interviewee PZ Myers. Although ejected from the screening, his anonymous guests -- including fellow interviewee, biologist Richard Dawkins -- were able to view the movie.

  • The film sets up the lecture scene as if it were an actual university lecture. While filmed at Pepperdine University, the auditorium had been rented by the producers and the lecture was not an officially sanctioned event. Pepperdine officials confirmed that the audience was made up of paid extras with only "two or three" actual students attending. Pepperdine administration claims that their student body, while overwhelmingly Christian (Pepperdine is a private Christian college), accepts evolution and does not accept the concept of Intelligent Design.

Leatherheads

Anachronisms: At the end of the movie, a radio announcer refers to a pass as a 'Hail Mary.' The term was coined by Roger Staubach in 1975, referring to his pass at the end of a Dallas Cowboys game on December 28, 1975.

  • Anachronisms: When we first meet Lexie Littleton, she lights up a filtered cigarette in her boss's office. Filtered cigarettes were not widely available until the mid 1950s.

  • Anachronisms: On the train, one of the Leatherheads leaves the restroom while zipping up his fly. The movie takes place in 1925; zippers were not used as closures on men's trousers until the 1930s.

  • Revealing mistakes: At the end of the movie, the series of newspaper headlines state some related information, but all of the articles contain generic paragraphs, none of which have anything to do with the headline or the plot.


  • Factual errors: There are several key historical errors. For one, the NFL did not have a commissioner until 1941, and he was not appointed by Congress. Moreover, he would not have had the power to deal with the media as he does in the film.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene where they are being chased through the building after leaving the speakeasy, a glass and blue lit modern "exit" sign was clearly visible above the doorway. Also, modern fire sprinklers where seen in the ceiling of the same shot.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene where they are leaving the commissioner's office, they get in an elevator and push a button to go to the ground floor. All elevators at that time had operators who controlled elevator movement. Push buttons did not come in to use until the 1950's.

  • Continuity: We see Carter Rutherford's arm catch on fire in the hotel lobby, and then he and Dodge go outside to fight. There is no damage to his shirt sleeve or arm.

  • Revealing mistakes: After Carter and Dodge have repeatedly and for an extended period of time punched each other in the face, neither has any marks whatsoever at the end of the fight.

  • Continuity: Just before the police raid the speak easy. Lexie and Dodge are having a drink and Lexie's hand changes position between camera angles. Her hand is up then down and back and forth between camera shots.

  • Anachronisms: In a wide shot over the stadium during the final game, modern freight cars are seen in the distance.

Street Kings

Continuity: The position of the sun changes in the last scene.

  • Continuity: When Captain Biggs sits across from Ludlow at Ludlow's desk and begins conversing with him, Biggs' necktie alternates from being outside of his lapel to under it, even though he does not move.
Trivia:
Oliver Stone were attached to direct the film at various stages of pre-production. James Ellroy wrote the screenplay in the mid-1990's inspired by the O.J. Simpson trial. Over the years, Spike Lee, David Fincher, and Sean Penn was once attached to star. John Ridley contributed to an early version of the screenplay.

21

Continuity: During the first meeting with Ben, the cards that Micky deals alternate from face up, face down, and missing altogether.

  • Continuity: When Ben's mom is serving birthday cake to Ben and his friends, she serves Cam twice.

  • Errors in geography: There are multiple errors in Vegas hotel locations -- seeming to be in one hotel when the shot from the window makes it clear they are elsewhere, particularly when visiting a suite said to be at the Hard Rock but clearly the view is from a tall Strip hotel. The Hard Rock Hotel is neither.

  • Errors in geography: In the montage scene showing the "extravagant" lifestyle of the group, the film cuts to scenes at the blackjack table, inside of clubs, etc. It's supposed to happen in or around the Planet Hollywood Casino/Hotel, but many of the locations shown are from Red Rock Casino game room and the
club "Cherry". Red Rock is about 12.5 miles northwest of the Strip, surrounded by houses and deserts.

  • Continuity: When Ben is handed his earnings from the first night a five dollar bill is seen on the outside of the bundle. Moments later a $100 is on the outside.

  • Continuity: During the opening credits, while Ben is riding his bike on the road, you see the same orange PT cruiser go past twice.

  • Continuity: When Prof Rosa calls Cole, Terry answers the phone and places Rosa on hold. However, when Cole takes the phone from Terry, he does not take Rosa off of hold and proceeds to talk to him.

Nim's Island

Trivia:

Lulu Mickelson, the daughter of producer/screenwriter Paula Mazur, appears briefly in the airport scene as a passenger waiting in line at the security checkpoint.

  • The Australian sea lions used in the film are named Selkie and Galileo. Both reside at Sea World Australia.

88 Minutes

Continuity: Jack's Porsche has 15 spoke rims when it leaves the underground parking garage at his office. When he arrives at the university his car has 5 spoke rims.


  • Errors in geography: Although the film is set in Seattle, a Shoppers Drug Mart store can be seen early in the movie. Shoppers Drug Mart is a Canadian chain of drugstores, the movie was shot in Vancouver, BC.

  • Errors in geography: Although the film is set in Seattle, an orange "24 Hours" newsstand can be clearly seen when Jack Gramm is getting into the taxi at the beginning of the movie. 24 Hours is a newspaper published only in Vancouver, and Toronto.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The name Jon Forrester is spelled Jon at the beginning but in another scene it is spelled John on the name MSNBC interview.

  • Crew or equipment visible: At 36'37" into the film, as Jack Gramm stops the motorbike at the car park barrier, a crew member can be seen in the background wearing combat patterned trousers and a black T shirt.

  • Continuity: After Jack receives his first phone call whilst giving his lecture, he places his mobile phone screen down, then when it rings again it is facing up with the screen visible.

  • Continuity: Around 45 minutes in to the film, Jack answers a cellphone, first with his left hand, then in the next shot its in his right hand, and in the last shot its back in his left.

  • Anachronisms: The scene depicting Gramm's sister as a child took place when Gramm was in his twenties, which puts it 20 to 30 years ago. Despite this, modern vehicles are seen in the background.

  • Continuity: Although most of the film transpires during "88 minutes", Jack's hair length changes between long and short several times.

Prom Night

Factual errors: After the fire alarm is pulled, Donna goes up to the 3rd floor from the ground floor using an elevator. It's against building codes to have elevators move after a fire alarm has been pulled. After a fire alarm has been sounded, all elevators go to the first floor and stop working, in order to ensure no one gets stuck in the elevator if a fire is actually occurring.


  • Audio/visual unsynchronized: During a scene where Donna is exiting her hotel room, she runs into Clair and both scream. However, Clair's scream cannot be heard, but an odd screeching sound is played in place of her scream, which continues even after her mouth has been closed.

  • Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, Donna and her friends are seen at the hair salon getting their hair done and recolored. However, near the end of the movie, which is that same night, her brunette roots can clearly be seen through her blonde hair.



  • Continuity: Despite being one of the few slasher films with a PG13 rating, whenever someone is stabbed, their bodies show no stab wounds when they appear again in the movie. The only character with blood stains where they had been stabbed has no holes in their clothing where the stab would have been, only blood stains.

  • Factual errors: When the fire alarm is pulled all of the moving lights in the party room stop and become stationary up against the wall. These lights would be on a totally different circuit and would not have been affected by the alarm.

  • Plot holes: Despite Claire's and Michael's very audible screams, none of the other guests on the floor check to see what is going on or alert security.

  • Continuity: While on the dance floor, Donna asks her boyfriend for the room key. When he hands her the key, shown from the long shot, it is the master key that the house keeper had which was white with a green circle, not the regular room key which is gray.

  • Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene when Miss Waters is about to announce Prom Queen and King, when Crissy says "Where the hell is she?" (referring to Lisa), her lips do not even come close to matching what the audio says.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Continuity: When Peter removes a piece of coral from Aldous' leg, blood immediately starts flowing from his wound, one second later the wound is not bleeding and the blood is gone even though Aldous has not moved.

  • Continuity: Rachel is feeding Peter some dessert, he eats a few bites and remarks about how good it is. The camera pulls back and shows a cake perfectly intact.

  • Continuity: When Peter is talking to his stepbrother in the kitchen, (before he goes to Hawaii) the cereal in the container on top of the refrigerator changes position several times as does the container after Peter talks about Sarah giving it to him.

  • Continuity: In the first scene with Peter and Sarah, she is seen with a bobby pin but later on the bobby pin in her hair disappears. Before she leaves you can catch a glimpse of it again.

  • Continuity: When Peter is talking to Chuck at the Surf Board rental stand, he alternates from having a drink in his hand to having no drink visible in the shot.

The Forbidden Kingdom

Continuity: Jason and the Silent Monk disagree about proceeding immediately, or waiting two nights for the new moon. Jason leaves that night, but the moon is waxing, not waning, and won't be new for weeks.

Trivia:

  • Based on the Chinese epic story 'Journey to the West', one of the four great classic novels of Chinese Literature. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legends around the Buddhist monk Tang Sanzhuang's pilgrimage to India during the Tang dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Many programs have been based on this tale, such as television show "Saiyûki" (1978), and anime series "Dragon Ball Z" (1989/I) holds a few loose facts from the same story.

  • The characters are mostly taken from Chinese mythology and adventure pulps. Lu Yan is a famous Taoist Saint. The Jade Emperor is the ruler of the Heavens in Chinese myth. The Monkey King is from a 16th Century fantasy epic by Wu Cheng En. Golden Swallow was the name of the character played by Cheng Pei Pei in a
number of Shaw Bros films like Da zui xia (1966). The White Haired Demoness is the anti-heroine of a pulp novel by Liang Yusheng (filmed twice) with the same title.

  • This movie marks the very first collaboration between martial arts masters Jet Li and Jackie Chan.

  • This is the very first movie that Jackie Chan has made in Hollywood where he hasn't served as martial arts choreographer.

  • This movie went through five script re-writes before it was completed, many of which were done in the middle of filming.

  • Jason Tripitikas' last name is derived from Tripitaka, the monk whom Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, accompanied in "Journey To The West".

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Cassandra's Dream


Mistakes: The ashtray and the cigarette pack keep appearing and disappearing on the table when Terry is eating with his whole family in the beginning of the movie.

Trivia: Colin Farrell said in an interview that he "thinks he did as many takes for this whole film as I did for one scene in Miami Vice





Disturbia

Factual errors: The menu on Kale's Xbox is much larger than the normal Xbox menu. (Most likely to make the "Connect to Xbox Live" button easier to see).

  • Revealing mistakes: While seated in the car, Turner's dubbed dialogue and his lip movements don't match.

  • Continuity: There's a scene where Kale is shown putting stickers on his ankle bracelet. In a following scene, you can see the ankle bracelet, but there are no stickers on it.

Continuity: The first time that Ashley goes into Kale's room when Kale and Ronald are trying to clean it up, Kale puts a shirt on top of the tower of Twinkie, but in the next two scenes the Twinkie tower is uncovered then covered again.
  • Continuity: When Kale breaks into Mr. Turner's house with the garden shears, he cleanly knocks out the full pane of glass. But, when Officer Gutierrez responds to the call, he sees large shards of glass still in the window pane of Mr. Turner's house

  • Factual errors: When Ronnie pops the lock on the suspicious neighbor's car, it does not re-lock. All late model Lexus vehicles automatically and instantly re-lock upon popping the lock. Further, the alarm would go off.

  • Revealing mistakes: When Kale's Xbox Live account gets closed, he tries to log back in and gets a "ACCESS DENIED" message. But if his account was closed, he should've gotten a log in error message, saying that his username or password was incorrect.

  • Continuity: When the police arrive while Kale is trying to rescue Ronnie from Turner, the officer calls Turner by name even though he never said what his name was.

  • Factual errors: When Kale replaces the jack on his iPod when Ashley unplugged it, the iPod continued playing. iPods have a feature that when a headphone jack is unplugged, it automatically pauses the track. If the headphone is replaced, the play button should be pressed to continue.

  • Factual errors: When Robert got into Ashley's car and locked the doors via the key less transmitter so that she couldn't get out, after talking to her, he exited the vehicle without unlocking the door. The alarm wouldn't have sounded because he had started the car but he still should have had to unlock it before getting out first.

  • Factual errors: Kale sees Mr. Turner's reflection on the Apple Cinema display in his room. Apple LCD displays have a non-glare finish so a reflection would not have appeared. The display didn't appear to have a reflective surface in earlier shots.

  • Factual errors: When Kale gets the text message from Ronnie to "look at his TV", the phone icon on his phone is on vibrate mode, so he shouldn't have heard the "Me So Horny" ring-tone.

Fracture

Continuity: When Willy Beachum, visits Jennifer Crawford in the hospital for the first time, his watch reads 6:15 while the clock on the wall says 12:50. When Willy is called and told to appear at the arraignment at 3:00, which is "in 15 minutes," his watch clearly shows the time to be 12:40.

  • Factual errors: By the expert's testimony in court we are informed that Ted Crawford's bullet pierced through the frontal cortex in the temporal lobe coming to rest upon the upper side of the brain against the skull. Yet when we see wife Jennifer's head hit the floor for a brief moment in a close-up, there is no injury visible at all. Furthermore in another scene Ted points to his left cheek bone when he describes where he shot his wife. Such an injury is very different from that described during the trial. The shot was fired at close range with a powerful .45, which makes it very unlikely that the bullet would come to rest within the skull.


  • Continuity: In the sequence that introduces Willy's character he is wearing a gray three-piece suit and red striped tie. Later in the film and the plot he is shown once again dressing in the same exact outfit in a montage leading up to his arrival in court and is seen arriving in court wearing it. However, the next shot reveals him in the courtroom wearing a brown two-piece suit and brown striped tie.

  • Factual errors: At the beginning of the movie when EMTs are working with Jennifer Crawford, they are heard saying "she has a pulse" and then administering chest compressions. According to BLS, when the patient has a palpable pulse, chest compressions are not administered.

  • Errors in geography: When Willy Beachum is rushing to the hospital to serve the court order, he is shown clearly driving on the 10 freeway and then exiting to go to the hospital. The hospital is St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach which is nowhere near the 10 freeway.

  • Continuity: Towards the end when Beachum calls on Crawford, Crawford looks in a security monitor. Under the monitor there is a security panel for an alarm system. When the shot changes, the panel is gone, then appears again.

  • Continuity: When Willy is walking into Crawford's house he is talking on his cell phone, which is in his left hand. He pauses and leans by a door frame and then straightens up to continue walking, this time holding his cell phone in his right hand, with no time to have switched hands.

  • Revealing mistakes: As Jennifer Crawford pulls into her driveway, she passes a sign that reads "Parking Lot Full", apparently referring to the Crawford's property.

  • Revealing mistakes: In the scene immediately after Willy's first visit to the victim in the hospital, there is a pan of the Hollywood sign as he's driving. The blue license plate is a negative (all letters and numbers backwards), which means the scene was flipped.


Battlestar Galactica Razor

Continuity: In the scene where soldiers are putting together their rifles while blindfolded, the soldier that Shaw orders to fire on her originally takes his blindfold off completely. Following shots switch between the blindfold being pushed down around his neck and completely off.

  • Continuity: On an outside pan of the Pegasus, written below the name is BS 62, instead of BSG 62.

Shooter

Factual errors: The Stars and Stripes flag hanging vertically on the wall of the US military hangar is the wrong way round. The stars field should be on the upper left, not the upper right.

  • Continuity: When the three men are torturing Memphis they shove water down his throat but when they pull it away the bottle is full.

  • Continuity: When Swagger backs the car into the river, the trunk is open and you can see that there is no upholstery and it is empty. While in the car wash we see there are miscellaneous items and upholstery in the trunk.

  • Continuity: When Memphis is being tortured, there is a considerable amount of blood around his mouth and teeth where he has been repeatedly hit, however when Swagger arrives to rescue him, his mouth and teeth show no signs of any injury -- in fact, his teeth are pearly white!

  • Continuity: At the start of the film when both snipers are first seen watching the road, a close shot shows Bob Lee's rifle bolt open, another shot shows it closed. When the order comes through to fire, Bob then loads the rifle.

  • Factual errors: The pick up truck that Swagger stole has PA plates on it front and back. In PA there is only one plate on the vehicle, not two.

  • Continuity: When Memphis is taken away in the van you can see he drops his phone in the middle of the sidewalk, in the next shot when the van is driving away it is on the curb.

  • Errors in geography: Camp Lemonier is in Djibouti, not Ethiopia.

  • Continuity: When Memphis is in the computer room checking the VIN that Sarah gave him, he picks up the photo and begins to type in a string of numbers on the number pad. When the shot changes to the computer monitor the VIN being entered has no numbers it only shows LFMY. However the complete VIN of LFMYU70E4YUA65879 is already displayed in a grayed out window to the left.

  • Continuity: In the beginning, Donnie spots a target referred to as "Jefe" and Swagger shoots the target in the head, killing him instantly. In the next scene the same target is clearly alive and kicking. You'll recognize the white scarf.

  • Continuity: In the scene where Swagger advises Payne not to call his dog, you can see that there is no license plate on the front of the vehicle, however when Swagger comes out and takes a photo with his cell phone, it is magically there.

  • Factual errors: The Medal of Honor comes in a wooden box, not a standard vinyl medal box.

  • Continuity: In the scene where Sarah fixes Swagger's bandage at the kitchen table, in the first several frames her front hair is held back by a clip, but suddenly the clip disappears and her hair is simply back behind her ears in the rest of the scene.

  • Factual errors: When Bob Lee is shooting at the helicopter with the Barret M95 it is clear that he's firing blanks since there is low recoil.

  • Errors in geography: When they are in Lynchburg, Virginia; we see mountains that are not located in Virginia.

  • Errors in geography: The pipeline shown at the beginning of the movie clearly shows "head pipes" on the support structures on either side of the pipeline. These prevent permafrost from melting from the frictional heating of flowing oil. Permafrost heaving is not a major concern of Ethiopian pipeline builders.

  • Errors in geography: When the Crown Vic is backed into the river, various camera angles show a very flat topography which is consistent with Philadelphia. After the car is in the river, the first shot back toward the bridge clearly shows tall mountains in the background. No such mountains exist near Philadelphia.

  • Errors in geography: While Swagger is in Baltimore he walks down the steps of Federal Hill. He enters a taxi cab on Battery Avenue that drives towards the Inner Harbor. Battery Avenue is a "one-way" street that goes in the opposite direction (away from the harbor).

  • Continuity: The first shot Swagger makes, kills an enemy standing in the back of a truck. The man falls into the back of the truck. In the next shot, when the truck falls over, the dead man in the back suddenly disappeared.

  • Errors in geography: When Swagger approaches the pickup he is about to steal, a large cable-stayed bridge is visible in the background. No such bridge is located anywhere near Philadelphia.

  • Continuity: When Swagger is being chased by the cops, all of the cars chasing him have both front and rear plates to identify them. However when he goes down a hill and two cop cars are following him, the second car has a plate with a number on the front, the first car has a blank plate. The car would have a number on the front to identify the car, not just a blank plate.

  • Factual errors: The car Swagger drives in the Chase scene has PA plates but with tag numbers in the style 9999 AAA. Pennsylvania plate numbers have three letters followed by four numbers, not vice versa.

  • Revealing mistakes: In the bathroom scene where Swagger creates the makeshift IV, you can clearly see the areas where make-up was used to cover Wahlberg's tattoos, one on each arm and around his neck.

  • Continuity: As Nick Memphis is leaving the meeting with Sarah, he is shown putting on his suit coat twice.

  • Errors in geography: When Swagger is being chased by police in the stolen FBI vehicle he makes a right off Front St. onto Girard Avenue heading south. When he glances in his rear view mirror, a McDonalds can be seen through the windshield in front of him. That McDonalds would only have been visible if he made a left onto Girard heading north.

  • Factual errors: In the Pennsylvania scenes NO vehicles portrayed in the movie have the required Vehicle Inspection or Emission stickers on the lower left outside of the windshield.

  • Continuity: Mountaintop scene where the supposed exchange is about to happen: the blue helicopter's rotor is alternately rotating / not rotating between shots.

  • Factual errors: At the mountaintop exchange scene, not one of the actors seems to be effected by the considerable down-force caused by the still spinning rotor blades of the helicopter as they get out of it. Even Fenn's shoulder-length hair moves only slightly and the snow beneath their feet seems completely unperturbed by the wind caused by the helicopter. A helicopter touching down in a snowy location would cause a small blizzard and anyone getting out would at the very least be hunkered down and making some attempt to cover themselves from the wind and snow, rather than casually strolling along.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Fenn fires the senator's sidearm on the mountaintop, only 3 rounds are fired before the gun clicks empty and the slides goes back, meaning that either the senator had been busy with his gun earlier or he's in the habit of carrying around a barely loaded weapon.

  • Factual errors: As Colonel Johnson leaves the Department of Justice conference room near the end of the movie, there is a US flag and a Washington, DC city flag (white with 3 red stars and 2 red stripes - based on the coat of arms of George Washington's family) in the hall. A Federal office building would not display the Washington, DC flag, only the American flag (and perhaps a Department of Justice flag).

  • Factual errors: Swagger is referred to as being a "retired" Marine Sniper. In order to be retired, you must have 20 years of service in. He may have been Honorably Discharged, but is doubtfully "retired".

  • Factual errors: In the opening scene with Swagger and Donny covering the mercenaries' retreat, the uniform Swagger is wearing under his ghillie suit is an Army Combat Uniform. The Marine Corps has it's own digital camouflage pattern, and since Swagger is a Marine, he wouldn't wear an Army uniform.


Spiral

Trivia: Russ Tamblyn appears in this film as an extra.

Suburban Girl

Continuity: The scene in which Brett is in the car with Archie shows her with the seat belt over her shoulder. Then, when the camera moves, you see her seat belt around her upper arm. This happens throughout the entire car ride.

The Darjeeling Limited

Continuity: When Peter is reading Jack's short story on the train, in the first shot he is reading the first page. In the next shot, he is reading a different page (the page has been turned to hide the paper clip that is holding the story together), in the next shot, the first page is showing again and has not been folded back.


  • Continuity: When Peter throws the belt at Francis in the train cabin, he has shaving lather on his face. But when Francis retaliates immediately after, the lather is gone.

  • Continuity: When Jack is smoking out the window of the train, Rita's cigarette changes lengths. When we first see her it is just a butt, but the next cut shows a full cigarette.










  • Continuity: When the brothers are in the dining car the first time, the camera cuts between Francis and Peter several times. In the shots of Francis we can see the back of Peter's head and that his fingers are on his temples. However, when the camera is facing him they are gone (it all happens too fast for him to have moved his hands up and down).

  • Continuity: When we're first introduced to Jack's iPod, it's a 3rd generation iPod with no click wheel. Few moments later, a click-wheel iPod is in its place.

  • Continuity: Around 27 minutes into the movie, a scene is shown from Jodhpur, as one can see "The Umed Palace", this is not possible as the train is shown leaving Jodhpur in the beginning of the movie.

  • Factual errors: In the dining car scene, Peter is reading Jack's short story, Luftwaffe Automotive. The story is written on stationary from the Hotel Chevalier, in Paris. The logo of the French flag on the stationary is incorrect; from right to left, the colors are red, white, and blue. The French flag is blue, white, and red.

The Hitcher

Continuity: The broken windshield of the 442 continuously changes throughout the movie. In some scenes it is slightly broken while in others it is completely shattered.

  • Continuity: After Jim wakes up from the nightmare and looks around for Grace he finds her standing next to a small cliff. The camera zooms close to her back and her arms and crossed, then it goes to a wider shot of her hands and they are in her back pockets. Then it goes back to the first shot with her arms crossed again.

  • Continuity: When Jim and Grace wreck down the ditch, a tree branch goes through the windshield that was broken earlier. But in this scene Jim smacks his head against the windshield and it's completely crack-free after being broken earlier.




  • Continuity: The tracks of blood on the station wagon father's chin change between shots when Jim sits in the back with him as he dies.

  • Crew or equipment visible: When the car does the 360 spin, you can quickly spot the cameras and crew tied to the roof of the car whilst it's spinning.

  • Revealing mistakes: When Jim pours the water on the windshield to get the dead bug off some water hits the camera lens.

  • Continuity: When Ryder shoots Lieutenant Esteridge, he is holding the stainless steel Beretta model 92 that Grace took from Esteridge's holster. When Grace shoots Ryder, and he goes down, the gun is still the stainless 92, and the slide is closed. However, in the top down shot right after she shoots him, the gun laying beside him becomes a black Glock with the slide locked open.

  • Continuity: In the shot when the family car passes Jim and Grace there is a little girl in a car seat. When they come on the car on the side of the road again, the little girl is not in the car nor in the car seat when Grace tosses it out. The little girl is never seen again through out the movie. In the special features section of the DVD is a clip of the news report of the family's murder - the girl's body can be seen in the rear with her brother's body. There are several differences between the news report and the events in the film: It states the family was found off highway 110, but in the film Grace and Jim drove the car to the diner; the children are said to be "between 8 and 12 years old", in the film, the girl is seen in a car seat, far younger.

  • Continuity: When the police are chasing Jim and Grace in the stolen police car, the rear driver side taillight of the stolen car is shot out as is the driver's side mirror. The taillight can later be seen unbroken along with the side mirror.

  • Continuity: After John takes out the police cars and helicopter there is a shot of him coming up behind Jim and Grace as seen in the rearview mirror. However the rear window of the car was shattered, so there wouldn't be a clear view as shown in the mirror.

  • Continuity: When John rear ends the station wagon, the side rear glass breaks. In the next shot, the glass is unbroken.

  • Revealing mistakes: After almost hitting John Ryder in the beginning and then driving away, we can see it raining on the windshield of the car. However, at the speed they are traveling the water should be moving upwards on the windshield due to the air rushing against the car but instead travels downward as if the car was sitting still.

  • Continuity: When Jim and Grace break into the motel room, they enter room 12. However, when Grace comes out of the room, it is room 11. This is result of a deleted scene that can be viewed on the DVD, where Grace goes into the room 11, thru the connecting door, to find a couple murdered.

  • Errors in geography: In the convenience store scene the guys says that Tatum is 15 miles away. Just before they get to the store there's mountains everywhere. There are no mountains or interstates anywhere near Tatum.

  • Continuity: After Grace and Jim push the Hitchhiker out of the car, as soon as he is pushed, and shows him outside, you can see Grace leaning out and shutting the door. But when it shows them back in the car, she is still in the back seat, then moves to the front, and shuts the door, although she already did.

  • Continuity: Just after the scene where John Ryder kills all of the cops, Jim and Grace get out the car. As it is stopping you can clearly see that the tyre has worn away from where it was shot but then a different camera view shows the tyre still intact. It then disappears again.

  • Continuity: During the car chase, a 2001 or newer model Crown Vic is spun sideways by the hitcher. However, when the same car is shown rolling over, the Crown Vic flying through the air is a late 90's model.

  • Continuity: When Grace is in the bathroom pulling paper towels out of the dispenser, she stops and looks out the window, and sees John Ryder's red truck. She goes to lock the door and there is paper towel hanging out of the dispenser. When it cuts back, there are now no paper towels hanging down.

  • Continuity: When Grace is in the police station, she is being questioned and then when the officer leaves the room, she walks around but then eventually leaves the room where she sees a German Shepherd rounding the corner, When it goes to a different view we see the dog going around the corner again, although it already has.

  • Continuity: When Grace is in the police station and being questioned, the police officer leaves the room and Grace stands against the wall where we see a big bloody cut on her shoulder, when she walks to the mirror, the cut is gone.

  • Continuity: When Grace has just been attacked by John Ryder and hides in the bathroom, she comes out to go look for Jim, she comes out of the room 11 even thought they originally went into room 12. When the camera view is on Grace coming out of the bathroom, the door is on the left of the screen and when she is completely out of the room and outside the door is on the right.

  • Continuity: When Grace is in the questioning room at the police station she sees the door handle wiggle and we see that the handle is on the right side of the screen as if she would open it with her right hand and would open to her right side. When she opens it and peeks out she opens it as if the handle was on the left side of the door and it would open to her left.

  • Continuity: When Jim is filling his gas tank he says "pump 7" but when he returns out side he was filling at pump 3.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the car chase scene, the helicopter pilot radios that another car (the one the John Ryder is in) is approaching. He describes it as a "Late Model" Trans Am, however it is a late 70's model, not a newer one.

  • Continuity: When Jim is eating his hot dog outside the gas station, the size of it keeps changing from smaller to bigger between shots.

  • Factual errors: When the Oldsmobile 442 flies off the road, the airborne car crashes very hard nose first into the ground. Jim and Grace are not wearing seat-belts yet somehow they manage to remain seated without slamming into the dashboard or windshield.

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep





  • Revealing mistakes: When Jim, the skipper, is beheaded and thrown over-board by the wire, we see the actor swimming in the water. Moments later, we see him again moving around in the water as the Kraken's tentacles grab him.

  • Continuity: When Ray and Nicole climb onto the boat after getting the mask, Nicole's diving balaclava changes from pure black to black with a purple stripe. She also gains and loses repeatedly her diving goggles from the top of her head

P2



  • Crew or equipment visible: When Tom first enters the Enterprise Car Rental shop looking for Angela, after a shot of his stun gun the camera goes to a shot of Tom as he walks across the lobby of the shop. You can very clearly see the shadowy reflection of a crew member in the window behind Tom moving around.

  • Revealing mistakes: When Tom is trying to break the window with chairs in the rent office, we can clearly see the window breaks before the chairs hit it.

Eastern Promises

Continuity: When Anna visits Nikolai in the hospital after the knife fight, he is shown lying in his bed, and he turns his head to look at her, but when the camera shifts back to him, his head hasn't moved and he is still looking straight ahead.

  • Revealing mistakes: When Nikolai is cutting the fingers and thumbs off of the dead body, the finger quivers like it is made of rubber. Also, when this body is first shown on the lake shore it appears to still have the left thumb attached.

  • Factual errors: Azim and his nephew Ekrem are all apparently Turkish characters and Azim is part of the Turkish mafia. However, the Turkish spoken by the actors is heavily broken and pronounced entirely improperly, the Turkish words and dialog are clearly phonetically memorized.


  • Continuity: In the last river scene, the baby is alternately crying or sleeping as the camera angle switches back and forth.

  • Factual errors: In the end credits, “Make up” is listed as "Maek up" at one point.

  • Miscellaneous: When Nikolai is in the hospital, the green number (blood pressure or pulse rate?) on the screen next to his pulse reading increases dramatically (~20) between shots.

  • Revealing mistakes: While at the party, Nikolai has the young girl on his lap. They are drinking what appears to be a fifth of vodka. The girl seems to take a drink, but the vodka never reaches the neck of the bottle. She never makes a motion to swallow and immediately she kisses Nikolai. He motions for her to feed him some of the vodka. Again the vodka never reaches the neck of the bottle.

  • Continuity: After being admitted to the family, Nikolai goes to the cellar to tell Kirill. They both drink brandy from a bottle and its content varies from almost full to half empty between shots.

  • Crew or equipment visible: When Anna approaches the Trans-Siberian Restaurant for the first time, a crew member's arm and equipment are visible reflected in the shiny brass plaque to the left of the door.

  • Continuity: When Nikolai is sitting in the chair in the brothel, his jacket sleeve is pulled up to his elbow. When Kiril pulls Nikolai to his feet, the sleeve is pulled all the way down.

  • Continuity: When Nikolai and Semyon are drinking vodka during the diary exchange, Semyon empties his glass, but when he puts it back on the table it is full.

  • Continuity: In the scene where Nikolai is returning the bike to Anna at one point he pulls out a black cloth and wipes off one of the handlebars. A few seconds later however the cloth has vanished.

  • Errors in geography: The scenes involving the football crowds make no logical sense for a real match at Stamford Bridge. In the first shot, the crowd is exiting the ground via the Britannia Gate on Fulham Road after a game. In the second shot, the crowd is moving from Fulham Broadway along Fulham Road towards the Britannia Gate (as it would before a game); in the third shot, a crowd of people is crossing Lillee Road and entering Brompton Cemetary via the north gate (as it would before a game) but in the next shot (in the cemetery itself), the crowd is moving in the opposite direction, towards the north gate and away from the ground as it would after a game.

  • Continuity: When Nickolai is offered his stars, he is shown in the restaurant getting a tattoo on his knee and one on his right shoulder. Later in the bath house, the tattoo on his knee is missing.



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Factual errors: In one scene, Cam appears to have locked her keys inside her car, a silver Toyota Prius. However, the Prius uses a key-recognition system to prevent such occurrences from happening.

  • Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Cam ejects the roof of the car, in the back you can see the police escorts lights flashing.

  • Revealing mistakes: When Chuck is playing Xbox 360, you can see the controller is not on. There is a green light in the center of the controller that comes on when the controller is "connected."
















  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Cam's speech about penguin mating rituals pertains to Emperor Penguins. All the penguins in her habitat are Gentoo or Chinstrap penguins. Both which have mating rituals that involve nests of stones and shared incubation duties not the months-long endurance trial that Emperor males have to go through.

  • Continuity: When Cam walks into the metal post she hits it with one side of her face. After she falls down and Chuck comes to help her, Cam is rubbing her hand on the wrong side of her face.
  • Factual errors: SPOILER: Chuck couldn't casually book an air ticket to Antarctica as he did in the movie. The only way to fly to Antartica from the United Stares is to pre-book a flight through a charter service or a paramilitary organization such as the New York Air National Guard. And even if he did he would never make the connecting flight to Anataricia because he would never pass a strict gear check.

  • Factual errors: SPOILER: Cam only going to Antarctica for a week is ludicrous for a low ranking researcher. Flying back and forth would take at least a week. A typical stay for a researcher at Antartica is at least six months because the window of opportunity for planes to land there is very short.







Interview

Revealing mistakes: Katya's wireless microphone rig is clearly visible as a rectangular bulge just below the small of her back in several scenes soon after they go to her apartment.

  • Continuity: In the last scene, when the camera turns, Katya doesn't wear the cardigan she just had on.

  • Continuity: Right before Pierre asks to use Katya's bathroom, she jumps onto her couch and then fixes her right shoulder strap on the top she is wearing. In the next few scenes, the strap alternates positions.


Beowulf

Trivia:

Screenwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary began writing the script in May 1997.

  • Paramount Pictures hired Knott's Berry Farm in Orange County, California, to produce a walk-through maze based on the new "Beowulf" movie for its 35th Annual Halloween Haunt, held every October at the theme park. Sony Pictures The Grudge 2 (2006) was the only previous maze produced at the Haunt by a major movie studio.

  • According Ray Winstone, he and his fellow cast spent days filming in blue skintight suit, "showing up all your lumps and bumps in all the wrong places. Which can be hard when you're standing in front of Angelina, who looks stunning in hers."

  • According to visual effects supervisor Jerome Chen, close to 300 cameras were used, compared with 64 to 72 for The Polar Express (2004).

  • In some areas, Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake 'Sally'.

  • In some areas, release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title 'Epic'.

  • Most of the time when Grendel is talking in the movie, he is not speaking English but Anglo-Saxon, the language in which the original Beowulf-epic was written in.


1408


  • Continuity: During the scene where Mike unplugs the clock radio from the outlet, the liquor bottle that he was given disappears from the table for a few shots, then eventually returns.

  • Continuity: While Mike Enslin is lying on the floor, his hand goes in and out of the bed comforter repeatedly.

  • Continuity: When Mike Enslin is on the ledge outside, the size of the ledge changes. When there is a shot of just his feet, he appears to only be able to fit half of his foot on the ledge at most, however when there are long shots which include Enslin’s feet, they are fully on the ledge and are given about an inch of space.

  • Continuity: When Lily Enslin gets into the cab, the medallion number changes from the outside shot of her entering the vehicle, to when she is shown on the inside.

  • Continuity: The amount of blood on the door from Mike's left hand changes between shots.


  • Continuity: Throughout the movie, the door to room 1408 changes between a right side hinged and a left side hinged door. This is first noticed when the "engineer" comes to the room to check the heat / ac thermostat. When Michael opens the door, the doorknob is on the right but when he goes to close it the door knob is on the left. Then in later shots it is back on the right.

  • Continuity: After being in the heating ducts, when Mike falls out of the ceiling grate he is still soaking wet but when he stands up, immediately after, he is almost dry.

  • Revealing mistakes: Mike's notebook computer runs Microsoft Windows XP. In one scene it crashes and displays a "blue screen", which rapidly changes into a blue screen from Windows 98.
  • Continuity: SPOILER: The clock on the nightstand repeatedly shows "60:00" before the shock of the clock setting itself to 60:00 actually happens.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: After Mike has lit the room on fire, the sprinklers come on. Right before he throws the ash tray out the window, his hair goes from messy to slicked back to messy again.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: In the scene where Mike Enslin is lying on the floor in the cold wrapped in the comforter, you can see the bottle of liquor very close to his head. In the next scene when he hears Lily Enslin on his laptop and gets up to try to talk to her, the bottle is much further away.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: When Mike Enslin sees his daughter in the room for the last time, when she's crying and hugging him, the streak of blood coming down from his right ear changes repeatedly between shots.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: When Mike Enslin sees his daughter in the room for the last time, when she's crying and hugging him, her arms go from being on his shoulders to under his arms back and forth several times.

  • Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Mike Enslin is holding his "dead" daughter and they move to a close up on her face, you can see her eyes twitch.





Paranoid Park

  • Continuity: When Alex walks home after writing "Paranoid Park" in his notebook, the notebook disappears (in the shot from behind) and then reappears.

  • Continuity: When Alex goes to Rebel Skates he gets a board with white wheels. Later after the scene where Alex and Jennifer discuss condoms, the board Alex carries is a different board with green wheels. Later he has the board with white wheels again.

There Will Be Blood


  • Continuity: When Eli enters Daniel's office to ask about the blessing, as he starts to sit down his hands are starting to tent together, but when the camera changes his hands are at his side and when only after he sits down does he tent his fingers.

  • Crew or equipment visible: During the tracking shot from the train tracks that follows the car of Daniel Plainview, you can see the dolly track for a moment when the camera pulls back, just before the camera pans to the right.

  • Anachronisms: Daniel Day-Lewis' pierced earlobes are apparent in close-up profile shots.

  • Anachronisms: A bright modern warning light is visible under the dash of one of the cars when a door is opened early in the movie. Several vehicles also display number-plates incorrect for the period.

  • Revealing mistakes: When H.W. fires his gun during the quail hunt, there's no recoil.

  • Crew or equipment visible: Just after Daniel gives H.W. the alcohol laced milk, Daniel and Henry step outside to talk and you can see the reflection of the camera and the camera operator in the glass on the front door.

  • Continuity: In the bowling alley scene, Eli is clearly visible placing Daniel's refused drink above the center panel on the paneled divider. After the cutaway to Daniel, the drink is not above the center panel, but above the panel adjacent to the center one.

  • Anachronisms: After H.W. returns, when he and his girlfriend are playing, in a close up you can clearly see that she has two, maybe three pierced earing holes.



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The Mist

Errors in geography: The fire engine that drives past the grocery store says "Caddo Parish" on the door. Caddo Parish is not in Maine, where the movie takes place, but in Louisiana (Shreveport) where the movie was filmed.

  • Continuity: The blood splatter on the windshield goes from being in the middle of the broken glass to being spread out across the windshield and then back again.

  • Revealing mistakes: The fallen tree which crashed through the house of David Drayton at the beginning of the film, appears to have had it's roots cut.

  • Factual errors: CMP (Central Maine Power) vehicles shown at the start of the movie should be orange, not white. In addition, Maine State Trooper vehicles are shown as being white later in the film, when they are in fact blue.

  • Revealing mistakes: "The Castle Rock Times", the newspaper a shopper is looking at in "The Food House" town general store has no datum, issue number or price on it.

  • Continuity: In the scene where Sally gets stung by the wasp-like creatures, the mark from the sting on her neck appears BEFORE the wasp has struck.

  • Factual errors: In the scene where you can see the headlines "Electric storm largest on record" on The Castle Rock Times, the entire text underneath it is in Latin. Same for the text underneath the "Celebrating Heritage" blurb above the masthead.

  • Continuity: When David is seen repeatedly beating down on one of the winged creatures in the grocery store with a mop, there is one brief camera shot that clearly shows the end of the mop still attached (it had been removed moments earlier). The next shot shows the mop without the end.

  • Continuity: After the bloody scene in the storeroom, David's shirt is wet, but not very soiled. When he steps into the market, there is a large smear of blood on his shirt.

  • Errors in geography: On the shelf in the store you can see bags of "Zapps Potato Chips" this is a Louisiana brand of chips and only sold in Louisiana, the movie takes place in Maine therefore, the chips should not be on the shelf.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: After David shoots the people in the car, we see blood stains on the inside of the windows, which we did not see from the outside when the shots were actually fired.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: After the tentacle slaps the bag boy, it leaves a noticeably bloody mark on his neck and chin which all but vanishes in subsequent shots of the doomed lad.

  • Factual errors: SPOILER: The white troops on the refugee-truck in the end wear Ukrainian PGM gas masks that were used in the late 70's, but never in the US. In addition, they wear the masks with sealed filters that, of course, would deter them from breathing.

Jumper

Continuity: During the scene at the airport, while waiting for his girlfriend, notice that the jumper's grey t-shirt has three small holes on the upper chest. During the next scene, when he's arrived at his girlfriend's apartment, the three small holes on his t-shirt have gone.

  • Errors in geography: David's home is in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but in two scenes, his father is watching NY1, a New York City local TV station.

  • Factual errors: When David is perched atop Big Ben in London, the clock behind him clearly states it is half past 8, however the chimes are the same as if it were to the hour, rather than half past the hour.

  • Continuity: Despite the relatively short period of time covered by the main part of the film, during various establishing shots of Manhattan, the Empire State Building is seen to be lit for two different holidays, Independence Day and Christmas.


  • Crew or equipment visible: When they are in Rome, there is a wide, high-angle establishing shot of the Coliseum. On the street by the Coliseum, we can clearly see a film crew, dolly tracks and a camera.

  • Continuity: When David rents a room in the apartment, the room he enters first is room 256. However, a scene later when the manager goes to knock on his door and complain about the noise, the room number is 205.

  • Continuity: When Griffin crash lands the jeep in the war zone scene, there is a man clearly seen sat next to him. However, when Griffin climbs out the jeep the seat in which the man sat is empty.

  • Factual errors: The Mercedes convertible Griffin steals from the showroom has its steering wheel on the left. In countries with left-hand traffic (Japan, UK, etc), such as the one where the scene takes place as apparent from the driving scenes, cars have their steering wheels on the right side for obvious reasons; it would be very unusual to have a non-standard car in a show-room.

  • Continuity: When David goes surfing he picks out a gray surfboard with blue edges. When another surfer says there are waves in Fiji, he jumps there and we can clearly see the board is Yellow. He then has lunch on top of the Sphinx in Egypt and the surfboard is once again gray and blue.

  • Factual errors: The "London" taxi shows a number on the wing. London taxis do not have any numbers on the exterior of the taxi, only on a plate at the back of the taxi.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: When David brings the bus with him on his jump to roll over Roland, you can clearly see people on the bus, but when the bus begins to roll the people are missing, including the driver.

  • Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Reflected in car window when Davey and Millie step out of the cab in Rome.

  • Continuity: SPOILER: When David breaks through the ice his backpack is suddenly gone.

The Prestige

Continuity: In one of the earlier scenes of the movie, Alfred and Robert are seen in the dressing room after one of their performances together. Robert puts on a brown vest and crosses the room, and in the next shot he is seen pulling it on over his shoulders once again.

  • Continuity: When Angier puts on his vest he buttons it up while talking to Julia then the shot switches. After it goes back to him he is buttoning up his vest again.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Borden mentions that a "penny" could be slipped into the barrel of the pistol used for the bullet catch trick. English pennies of this period were substantial and wide, much wider than the barrel of the pistol being used by Borden could accommodate.

  • Continuity: As Angier is walking towards the box in Tesla's empty room, you notice the hotel manager deliberately bring his hands from behind his back to his front. In the next shot, taken from behind, his hands are behind him again.

  • Anachronisms: Angier refers to the trick of sawing a woman in half, but, as Christopher Priest explains in the novel "The Prestige", this trick was only devised in the 1920's, two decades after this story's setting.

  • Continuity: In the scene when Angier first meets Alley, Angier is getting up after being shocked by the fence, and his watch falls out of his pocket. In the next shot, the watch is in his pocket again.

  • Anachronisms: During the magic show where Alfred meets Sarah for the first time, on both sides of the stage there are statues looking exactly like the two guardian statues found in King Tutankhamen's tomb, but the tomb was not discovered until 1922.

  • Continuity: After the double gives the "show" he takes out a drink while Angier is walking up the stairs, then he brings the drink to his side and as the camera angle switches he brings up two hands without the drink.

  • Errors in geography: When Angier is walking up the mountain to Tesla's work area, the trees are wrong. Foliage like that does not grow on the mountains in Colorado. And if it did, there wouldn't be leaves.

  • Continuity: When Borden and Olivia are speaking in Borden's workshop, Borden keeps switching between shots from leaning back with his arms crossed to leaning forward with his hands on the table.



Perfume: The Story of a Murderer


  • Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Grenouille meets the perfumer, at his house/laboratory, he knows where all the substances are, although he has never been there before. He is able to do this due to his heightened sense of smell, he is able to work out where specific substances are by the scent they give off.

  • Factual errors: Midway through the movie a whore appears with a Pekingese dog. The Pekingese were not formally introduced into Europe until midway through the 19th Century when Britain and France "sacked" the Chinese Empire (circa 1860). The Pekingese were kept exclusively in the Chinese Imperial Palace (Forbidden City) until then and maintained by eunuchs. The movie takes place in the mid 18th Century. While it may be possible British or French royalty could have had a Pekingese (although extremely unlikely), a French harlot owning a Pekingese in the 1700's is an impossibility.


  • Ridley Scott was attached to the project years before production finally began. Tim Burton was also considered as director.

  • Other directors interested in making this film were Martin Scorsese, Milos Forman and Stanley Kubrick.

  • Bernd Eichinger wanted to make this movie for years, but Patrick Süskind refused to sell the movie rights. Süskind finally relented and received approximately 10 million euros in 2001.

  • Author Patrick Süskind is known to be very skeptical and for a long time did not want to sell the movie rights to his novel. His experience with producer Bernd Eichinger and others who desperately wanted to turn "Das Parfum" into a movie was shown in the satire Rossini (1997), for which he wrote the screenplay himself. His character is the strange author Jakob Windisch, Producer Bernd Eichinger is portrayed in the character Oskar Reiter. In Rossini, the book everybody was fighting over was changed into a novel about the Loreley-legend. Other characters in this movie are caricatures of the Munich media business.

  • Héloïse Adam auditioned for the part of Madame Arnulfi.

  • As of 2006, the most expensive German movie ever made.

  • The actual liquid of the "ultimate" perfume at the end is a mixture of coke thinned with a bit of water.

  • Stanley Kubrick claimed the book was unfilmable.

  • The book was the source of inspiration for the Nirvana song "Scentless Apprentice." Kurt Cobain claimed to carry the book in his pocket and said he identified with Grenouille's alienation.

  • Most of the costumes were manufactured in Romania.

  • The production team scouted eight different countries in Europe looking of the best place to represent eighteenth century Paris before settling on Barcelona, Spain.

  • Julian Schnabel, after making Before Night Falls (2000), was another director who tried to mount a production of this story but the project never got off the ground.



No Country for Old Men

Anachronisms: When Bell responds to the hotel shooting, a modern Carl's Jr restaurant is seen in the background over his shoulder. Furthermore, Carl's Jr. was not operating in El Paso in 1980. In addition, when he is driving to the motel, as he first hears the shots, a modern day Wendy's sign is seen behind him.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene at the end of the film where Anton is driving and another car hits him, the license plate on the other car has a current plate on it that includes an image of the space shuttle. This plate was not being used in 1980.

  • Continuity: When Llewelyn finds the transponder, he leaves the suitcase open, yet when he is escaping minutes later, the suitcase is closed when he grabs it.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene where Anton makes the gas station attendant flip a coin, a rack full of Jack Links beef jerky can be seen in the background. The package is of the modern day design.

  • Anachronisms: Just before Anton enters the pharmacy, a modern Wells Fargo bank is seen in the background on the left side. Not only is it a modern sign, but Wells Fargo didn't operate in Texas in 1980.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene where Anton is chasing Llewelyn through the streets at night, a modern day Dominos Pizza sign can be seen in the background.

  • Anachronisms: The opening scene of the police car features an 1988 Chevrolet Caprice and not a 1980 (or earlier). There are numerous late 80's Caprices in the film - all too new for the setting of 1980.

  • Anachronisms: The glass milk bottle that Anton and later Sheriff Bell drink from is from Promised Land Dairy in Floresville, TX. This company did not exist until 1987.

  • Anachronisms: Area code 210 appears on Llewelyn's phone bill, however this area code wasn't created until 1992.

  • Anachronisms: When Anton goes into Mike Zoss Pharmacy, you can see a bottle of Prednisone on the shelf. This bottle was manufactured by generic drug company Watson, which wasn't established until 1984.

  • Anachronisms: When Llewelyn Moss is talking to the lady by the pool, there is a Brown 2000-up GMC Tahoe in the drive-through in the background. It also disappears between the takes.

  • Anachronisms: The $100 bills in the satchel have the signature of Treasury secretary Nicholas Brady. $100 bills with his signature were not printed until 1989. The newest possible $100 bills circulating in 1980 would be Series 1977 bearing the signature of secretary Werner Blumenthal.

  • Anachronisms: When Chigurh enters Llewelyn's trailer and takes the milk from the fridge, you can see a bottle of Dawn Dish Detergent using the current logo.

  • Factual errors: Several times the air device punches out lock cylinders, after which the door is pushed open. Actually the lock merely prevents the bolt from being withdrawn, it would still be necessary to reach inside the lock to slide the bolt in order to open the door.

  • Anachronisms: In the gas station scene, when Anton places the empty peanut wrapper on the counter, you can see the nutrition information on the label. This information was not on food wrappers in 1980.

  • Anachronisms: The weapon Moss picks up in the drug dealers truck is a Heckler and Koch SP89, so named because it was introduced to the American market in 1989. It was also a unique variation and was not sold in that form outside the US but modified specifically to conform with US gun laws.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene where Llewelyn calls Carla Jean from a rotary bank of GTE pay-phones, there is a clearly visible graffiti tag above the phone in silver ink. Not only would this kind of graffiti be hugely unlikely in Texas in 1980, but the tag is dated "06".

  • Anachronisms: In each hotel, modern models of smoke and heat detectors are visible on the ceilings.

  • Anachronisms: The ambulance used outside the hotel scene has modern multi-flash strobe lights. Those type of lights were not introduced until the mid 1990's.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the American border guard asks Llewelyn what outfit he was in Vietnam, the answer is "12th Infantry Battalion." This answer wouldn't make any sense to anyone familiar with how the army is organized and in fact would indicate that Llewelyn had never been in the army. (Every infantry regiment has ad-hoc numbered battalions. No regiment has as many as 12.) An infantry soldier would identify his unit by company and regiment, or just by regiment.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Just after Chigurh lights the car afire outside the pharmacy, a man walks past the obviously burning car with no reaction at all.

  • Anachronisms: The gray/blue Dodge 4x4 at the shoot-out is at least an 1982 (tail light design was changed in '82), and more likely an 83 or 84. Also the wheels on that truck weren't introduced until the mid 80s.

  • Anachronisms: As Chigurh walks through the pharmacy, away from the flaming car, a Tempur-Pedic advertisement is visible to the far left, through a window. The original Tempur-Pedic product was invented in 1983.

  • Anachronisms: In the shoot-out aftermath seen, the Ford Bronco has a FORD logo on the grill, meaning the truck is a 1983 -- 1986 model. In 1980, Bronco's had F O R D in chrome letters on the hood.

  • Anachronisms: The hotel in El Paso is overflown by a 747-400. Assuming that 747s ever landed at El Paso in 1980, this model did not exist until 1988.

  • Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Chigurh was involved in the auto accident and he is sitting on the curb talking to the two boys, he gives one of them $100 and tells them "Take it. You didn't see me. I was already gone". The response heard is "Yes, sir", however, neither of the boys' mouths move when the line is heard.

  • Anachronisms: In the scene where Anton shoots at the crow as he is crossing the bridge, the weapon used is a suppressed Tec-9. These pistols were not introduced until after 1982.

  • Continuity: While Moss is chatting with the girl by the pool, the exact same red coupe drives by in the background twice, in the same direction.

  • Crew or equipment visible: During the shot of Sheriff Bell's reflection on the TV in Llewelyn's home, you can see at the far right corner of the television the reflection of three crew members.

  • Anachronisms: Just before Anton's car gets wrecked, a late 90's Toyota Corolla wagon is clearly visible in the driveway of a neighborhood house.

  • Factual errors: When Anton opens the gas bottle, the valve would not make that squeaking sound. Removing the cap that protects the valve while in storage makes that exact sound, his bottle never was shown with the cap

Juno


  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): wasn't in When Juno is talking to Leah on the phone, she says, "It's Morgan Freeman. I was wondering if you had any bones that need collecting." Morgan FreemanThe Bone Collector.

  • Continuity: As Juno and Leah sit in the trophy case talking, the amount of food on Juno's shirt changes.

  • Continuity: When Bleeker is talking to Juno in the hallway at school while holding a box of donut holes, the box changes positions in his hands every time the angle changes.

  • Errors in geography: When Juno and Leah are at the mall, a Rogers Communications kiosk can be clearly seen in the background. The film takes place in Minnesota; Rogers Communications is a Canadian cable company, with no locations in the United States.

  • Errors in geography: When Juno and Leah are walking through the mall you can clearly see a Garage Clothing sign, which is a Canadian based clothing store with only 5 locations in the US, none of which are located in Minnesota.

  • Continuity: When Vanessa is feeling Juno's belly at the mall, Juno's hair changes (tucked behind her ear from the front, free from behind).

  • Continuity: While Juno and Bleeker are talking in the hallway near his locker, the shirt on Juno's right shoulder keeps changing position.

  • Errors in geography: The film appears to be set in Minnesota, but there is no city which is south of Stillwater and an hour from St. Cloud.

  • Factual errors: The CD of ‘Mott the Hoople’ that Juno brings to play for Mark actually doesn't have the song "All the Young Dudes" on it, which she proceeds to play.

  • Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Juno explains that her name comes from the mythological wife of the Greek god Zeus. In Greek mythology, Zeus' wife's name is Hera. Juno is the wife of the Jupiter - the Roman mythological equivalent of Zeus.

  • Continuity: When Juno peeks into Mark's room, she notices a dark brown Les Paul guitar with a white pickguard, but when she picks it up, it is gold-colored.

  • Factual errors: When Juno takes the pregnancy test at the store she opens the box and there is no inner wrapping, no directions, nothing. She just opens the box and there it is.