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Any football fan should note that in Forest Gump, Forest is placed as a kick returner on the football team solely on his ability to run fast. A kick returner needs much more than just the ability to run fast, he needs to know how to follow the blocking, avoid tacklers, etc., things Forest isn’t smart enough to master. Why not have him run the 100 yard dash instead, wouldn’t that make more sense? But I give it a pass, becasue the intent was to show off the impressive CGI recreating a full 80,000 seat football stadium circa 1960’s, which is much more impressive than recreating a track meet with 12 fans watching. Although they could have had him in the 1964 Olympics…
And in the movie Babe- pigs can’t really talk.
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in the book Forrest is a big guy, not a runner. He plays o-line and rooms with Bubba. The purpose of having Forrest go to Bama is so he can meet/interact with Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, arguably the greatest college football coach of all time, one in a line of famous and infamous people he meets. When the movie was retooled (considerabley) for the big screen, they made Forrest fast instead of big and were left with the kick returner angle. I don; think it’s much of a strectch. At least they didn’t make him a receiver. I also think you overestimate the size of then Denny Stadium circa 1960whatever. In the sixties it never exceeded 60,000 seats in capacity.
in Thank You for Smoking, the lead character is hit with an idea while watching his two friends eat a piece of apple pie covered with a slice of cheddar cheese (with a little American flag toothepick). The camera focuses in on the pie and the perfectly draped slice of cheddar. The problem is, seconds earlier, one of the people eating the pie cut off a piece with her fork and effectively dragged the cheese off of the pie. How did it get perfect again?
The Venetians celebrate Carnival in July, unlike the rest of the Catholic world which usually celebrates Carnival/Mardi Gras in February, on the last day before Lent.
A submarine the size of a modern aircraft carrier can not only fit into the canals of Venice but sail invisibly beneath the surface.
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I really tend to belabour this, but in the final battle scene in Return of the King, Aragorn and Co. are on horses when they talk to the Mouth of Sauron. When they charge, no horses.
FWIW, until 1950 the rule book pretty much let the home team bat first in the inning. In that year the rule was made hard and fast: The visitors bat first, home team last.
And the Pythagoran Theorem is: “The square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.” My Dad taught me that one when I was about eight. He wasn’t a math teacher–he was an aerospace worker and former Navy cook.
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
I’ve posted this one before, but I’ll post it again because it bugs me so much:
E.T.: In the first few minutes, poor li’l E.T. is stranded on Earth when the UFO he landed in takes off w/o him. He watches forelornly as the ship hovers - what? - ten feet off the ground?
Later on in the movie, E.T. levitates himself, Elliot & his bike (and later still, all the kids in the neighborhood & their bikes) miles through the air, soaring over the redwood forests.
Why in hell didn’t E.T. just levitate himself up to the ship in the first few minutes of the movie?
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…Think of it this way… If I am rushing to the dock to catch an ocean liner… and it just leaves the dock… I can swim can’t I? Why don’t I just jump in the water and swim up to the ship.
ET floats up to the ship.. what does he do? Knock on the door? Someone just happens to be hanging out by the hatch? Come on…
The doctor played by James Cromwell is trapped in his lab by a rogue A.I. controlling the building, so he decides to have his robot pal throw him out the window to his death, with a cryptically-worded recording meant for Wil Smith’s character to find and thereby uncover the A.I. menace. The same robot later jumps out the same window and lands, totally unharmed, and leads the police on a chase.
Which leads one to wonder
[spoiler]Why didn’t he have the robot simply break the window, jump out, and go tell the police exactly what was happening?
Or, failing that, why didn’t he have the robot jump out the window and deliver a coherent message that could be easily understood?
Or, failing that, if it was truly necessary for him to be thrown to his death, why didn’t he at least record a helpful message for Wil Smith, rather than the vaguely worded mystery message that was shown?
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The answer, of course, is that the movie was written by Akiva Goldsman, who is responsible for more stupid, illogical crap than any big-name screenwriter in Hollywood.
In Star Trek: Generations, when one of the evil Klingon sister’s (whose names escape me at the moment) is hit in the mouth, her blood is red. In STIV, Klingon blood was purple.
The Emperor’s Death Star throne room in Return Of The Jedi: watch the blue screen starfield out of the windows behind the throne as the stars drift lazily past. Now watch each shot which cuts back from Luke to the Emperor as the space/time continuum apparently resets and the same stars do the same slow drift again: yup, ILM have just reused the same effects shot. Repeatedly. Impossible to watch anything else in the scene once you’ve noticed it - there…they…go…again…wheee…
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar]
I really tend to belabour this, but in the final battle scene in Return of the King, Aragorn and Co. are on horses when they talk to the Mouth of Sauron. When they charge, no horses.
What happened to the horses?
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Wizard did it.
(Gandalf, that is. He’s got a thing for horsemeat.)
[QUOTE=cosmosdan]
I just noticed this today on AMC
In the original Wolfman with Lon Chaney Jr. the first time he changes he is sitting down wearing slacks and his wife beater T shirt. He notices how his feet are changing. The camera focuses on his feet as he becomes the werewolf and walks away, cut to the same wolf feet walking in the swamp. As the camera pans up we see the Wolfman is now wearing a buttoned to the collar shirt.
Did he stop to put on a shirt as he was changing into the werewolf?
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Well, maybe the undershirt was a were-shirt.
Although, it looks like the curse on the shirt was not lifted with the coming of the sun.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
…if they’re either paying close attention, or see the movie a few times too many. This is inspired by the “Movie flaws that no one should notice” thread in this forum, in which the OP wants flaws that you would only spot if you had expertise in the subject.
How about glaring mistakes that anyone could notice, given enough attention to detail? Here’s mine, and it’s from Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Indy and Sallah take the headpiece of the Staff of Ra to the old man in Cairo, in order to have him read the inscriptions to them. After the old man reads them the stern warning not to disturb the Ark, Indy prompts him to find how long the staff needs to be.
(approximate quotes)
Old Man: Here, it says six kadam.
**Indy: ** That’s about 72 inches. (Note that a kadam is apparently just a foot.)
**Old Man: ** But! (flips over the headpiece) Take back one kadam to honor the Hebrew god whose Ark this is. Indy: Wait, Sallah, did you say Belloch’s headpiece only had markings on one side? Sallah: Yes, the headpiece was the same, except for around the edges, which was rougher, and had markings only on one side. Indy: Belloch’s staff is too long… Indy and Sallah: They’re digging in the wrong place!
(Sallah starts to sing Gilbert & Sullivan)
And after all this deduction, apparently indicating a five foot staff, we see Indy in the map room with…a staff that’s at least a foot taller than Harrison Ford
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That’s because it was originally supposed to start Tom Cruise.
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt]
In Star Trek: Generations, when one of the evil Klingon sister’s (whose names escape me at the moment) is hit in the mouth, her blood is red. In STIV [sic], Klingon blood was purple.
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I understand the purple coloring was done because huge gobs of floating red blood would’ve earned the movie a PG-13, which the filmmakers didn’t want. It wasn’t really the “intent” of the filmmakers that Klingons had purple blood.
In The Rock, near the end when the jets are flying toward the island to bomb the threat away, there are three shots of the jets flying. In the first and last shots, there are six jets, shown from the side, flying in a triangular formation. In the middle shot, there are five, shown from behind and above, in a flat pentagon formation, flying under the Golden Gate Bridge. While the first and last shots are close and short, the middle shot is long and wide angle, and offers no chance of the sixth jet somehow being out of the shot.
[QUOTE=Nonsuch]
I understand the purple coloring was done because huge gobs of floating red blood would’ve earned the movie a PG-13, which the filmmakers didn’t want. It wasn’t really the “intent” of the filmmakers that Klingons had purple blood.
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Be that as it may, Klingon blood was established as purple. It’s rather jarring that it is suddenly not so.
Am I being wooshed? When you show somebody using a telescope in the 1190’s, an extraneous sound effect is the least of your problems. (Later, they use gunpowder.)
