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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 .
In the more recent Elizabethtown, 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.
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)
