# errors in movies - only nutcases would detect? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854 "2006-02-10T14:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/21 "2006-02-10T19:53:29Z")
The door lock on the upper doorpad of the Dodge **Charger** used in the 2005 movie _The Dukes of Hazzard_ keeps changing between the 1968 style and 1969 style throughout the movie (it’s supposed to be a '69 **Charger** ). The pushbar disappears from the front of the car as it does the ski stunt through the barn. While racing, you can see the General Lee pass another General Lee that is in a parking lot. This was _deliberate_, however. They did it as a nod to the first episode in the series where they accidentally left another General Lee parked on the side of the road during a chase scene. The car passed itself, now _that’s_ fast. The first four seasons of the series are loaded with inconsistencies. Warner Bros finally established a “standard” method of building the cars so they were always the same. Apparently, a lot of nitpickers were writing letters. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/22 "2006-02-10T20:08:35Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > It’s like if he was running past the Empire State Building, rounded the corner and into the Bronx Zoo, then out into Central Park, then crossed the street to the Statue of Liberty. You just reminded me of the movie **Kissing Jessica Stein** , where the _exact opposite_ occurs. In order to show the passage of time in between seperate scenes, there are some intermittant shots of NYC streets - or ‘street’ singular, rather. The film kept showing shots of a small stretch of Manhattan (Broadway between 79th & 82nd streets to be precise), but in such a way as if to suggest that the camera has canvassed a broad stretch of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/23 "2006-02-10T20:08:39Z")
In **The Wizard** , the kid is playing the NES version of Double Dragon on an arcade machine. Always bugged me. Now I need to find my Super Mario Brothers 3 cart. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/24 "2006-02-10T20:21:31Z")
In Raiders of the Lost Arc, Indiana is chasing the Nazis through the desert right before they are about to open the arc. He rides his horse down a steep hill that noone would have ever ridden on before. The problem is, there is already a pathway where the horse had ridden down on previous takes. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/25 "2006-02-10T20:31:21Z")
Before I hangup my “nutcase” hat, here’s another one from **The Birds.** Although it’s not really difficult to detect, you do have to actually _see the movie._ In the diner scene, there’s a long discussion about the birds being crows. We’ve also seen a few gulls freaking out. Later, when Melanie is trapped in the phone booth, we see the birds flying willy nilly in front of the camera. The ones that are attacking the phone booth are crows and gulls. The ones flying between the booth and the camera are smaller birds including budgies. It’s obvious that the smaller birds were prefilmed and added later. Which is a pretty good special effect unlike the giant stuffed crows attacking the children. But budgies? It was also mentioned earlier that the pet birds were not affected. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/26 "2006-02-10T20:49:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Kirk is part of a tour group looking at captive whales. Behind him is a short, round, middle-aged nun. In one shot, she’s suddenly tall, thin, and young. Then she goes back to her old self again. or, possibly, there are two nuns in the tour group. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/27 "2006-02-10T20:50:20Z")
I remember some TV shows when I was young where someone would be flying someplace and they’d stick in a couple establishing shots of the airplane landing; and one of them would be from a camera on the plane showing the landing gear coming down. My dad could always spot when the gear didn’t match the airplane. Similarly, In _Die Hard 2_, when the controllers are in a panic because they don’t have any transmitter to talk to the airplanes that are in holding patterns, I just want to shout “guys, every damn plane parked at that airport has a transmitter on it!” **pravnik** , I’ll have to watch the beginning of _Mission: Impossible_ again now that I’ve been to Prague. I was only there for a week, so I won’t recognize much, but I still might be able to spot a few things. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/28 "2006-02-10T20:55:35Z")
I don’t kow if this rises to “nutcase” status or not… but in a recent episode of _Monk_, there were a series of flashbacks to Adrian Monk in middle school, early 1970s. A $5 bill was among some money that had been stolen, and we get a close-up of the bill. It’s a new-style $5. I thought it would be obvious, and not “nutcase” detail, but I mentioned the error to a coupe of people, and they looked at me like I was crazy – they didn’t remember that $5 bills used to look different. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/29 "2006-02-10T21:00:43Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > **Brokeback Mountain** : Not actually a film flub, but a ‘revealing tidbit’ (which IMDB refuses to let me post, even though I’ve submitted it three times), but close-ups of BOTH Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger show that they have piercing-holes in their ears. Heath Ledger has at least three of them in one ear. I can’t imagine it was socially acceptable for rural midwestern guys (especially closeted guys who are afraid of being outed) to have ear piercings in the 1960s or 70s. Yeah, I notice that in a lot of current movies. You’d think there was some kind of makeup that would mask that, in this era of hi-res. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/30 "2006-02-10T21:06:42Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > or, possibly, there are two nuns in the tour group. :dubious: Watch the movie. It’s plainly clear there was a stand-in for one shot. **Bricker** , I remember that too, and it stuck out like a sore thumb to me. What’s really wacky is that that happened in Monk. Adrian would have caught that in a second! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/31 "2006-02-10T21:11:10Z")
> [@diku](#): > > Well then. The only diet Pepsi I knew of before the 80’s was the Pepsi Free brands. Looks like I was wrong. Isn’t Pepsi Free the caffeine free Pepsi that went nationwide in '82? ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/32 "2006-02-10T21:16:22Z")
At the end of **School of Rock** , during the battle of the bands: No Vacancy is playing, and a slide guitar is clearly audible. Problem is, no one on screen is playing a slide guitar. :smack: Bothers me every time I see it . ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/33 "2006-02-10T21:42:05Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > I saw _Flashdance_ in the theater when it came out. Her bike trips through town were a wonder to try to track. In one shot, she rides one of the inclines up to the top of Mt Washington, and then gets out several miles away in another part of the city. In the more recent [Elizabethtown](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368709/), Orlando Bloom is in a car, having flown from Oregon into Louisville, KY. A montage while he’s driving has him going past Slugger Field (home of the AAA affiliate for the Cincy Reds), then passing a series of concrete “silos” that have “University of Louisville” printed on them (one to two letters on each “silo”). The problem is that Slugger Field is located off of I-64 (it’s on his right, so he’s heading east). The U of L sign is off of I-65. And he’s already passed the interchange for the two highways. And, if he landed at Louisville International Airport, which is the implication, he would already have passed the U of L sign once. And, furthermore, when he’s driving into town, you see the cityscape as he approaches, complete with the Ohio River. The problem there is that the Ohio River is the boundary between Indiana and Kentucky. At no time would he have to cross it to enter the city limits if he landed at the Louisville airport. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/34 "2006-02-10T22:03:24Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Put your mind at ease: Diet Pepsi was introduced in '64. Diet _Coke_ didn’t exist. “Diet Coke” was Tab ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/35 "2006-02-10T22:04:17Z")
> [@Palooka](#): > > In **The Wizard** , the kid is playing the NES version of Double Dragon on an arcade machine. Always bugged me. I haven’t seen the movie in years. But is he perhaps using an arcade machine similar to the Playchoice 10 machines we used to have around here, where you could in fact play the NES version of games on an arcade machine? (a quarter got you a few minutes of play time) ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/36 "2006-02-10T22:05:38Z")
> [@Charger](#): > > The door lock on the upper doorpad of the Dodge **Charger** used in the 2005 movie _The Dukes of Hazzard_ keeps changing between the 1968 style and 1969 style throughout the movie (it’s supposed to be a '69 **Charger** ). > > The pushbar disappears from the front of the car as it does the ski stunt through the barn. > > While racing, you can see the General Lee pass another General Lee that is in a parking lot. This was _deliberate_, however. They did it as a nod to the first episode in the series where they accidentally left another General Lee parked on the side of the road during a chase scene. The car passed itself, now _that’s_ fast. > > The first four seasons of the series are loaded with inconsistencies. Warner Bros finally established a “standard” method of building the cars so they were always the same. Apparently, a lot of nitpickers were writing letters. The only error with this movie is that it was made at all. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/37 "2006-02-10T22:12:35Z")
> [@drm](#): > > In Raiders of the Lost Arc What’s that? A math movie? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/38 "2006-02-10T22:14:36Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > What’s that? A math movie? Yes. Which one did you think I was talking about? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/39 "2006-02-10T22:38:48Z")
> [@drm](#): > > Yes. > > Which one did you think I was talking about? Raiders of the Lost Ark. This is a nitpick thread. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854/40 "2006-02-10T22:40:06Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > What’s that? A math movie? 😛 More like a welding movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/errors-in-movies-only-nutcases-would-detect/343854.md?page=3)