Last week I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3, and I noticed something odd: In the scenes where they show the dead Kraken, and in the scenes where there are bodies floating on a cask in the water - the gulls didn’t fly right.
I could swear what they did was paint pigeons in gull colors (grey and white), and put them in the scenes. You can see some real gulls cruising in the background, but the ones right on the corpses aren’t flapping their wings the way real gulls do.
Anyone know more about this technique in movies?
Have you noticed anything in movies that isn’t quite what it appears to be?
I don’t look for them, but I often notice continuity problems (example: Eraser scene where the witness-protection bartender is speaking to Arny; his jacket is alternating on/off in subsequent camera cuts).
Dunno if it counts, but I am notorious about references. Farce of the Penguins went from being a suck-fest of majestic scope to a hilarity because of all the references - my favourite was the Adam Duritz cameo (Doesn’t anyone want to fuck the sensitive guy??) It’s not that I hate not getting them as much as I love getting them, so I usually look up movies due for a re-watch before I see them.
Other than that, poor execution of tactics and firearm handling really stick out. Just about every Hollywood movie plants it’s foot in it’s mouth and it usually stays there.
Here’s a little thing that I first noticed some 15 years ago which can haunt the rest of you now: no matter how bad a shape the rest of the car may be in (bondo, rust, bullet holes), the glass on 99 out of 100 cars on screen is in pristine condition.
One thing that’s driven me crazy for years is that no one ever pays when they eat out. At the toney restaurant, everyone just gets up & leaves when they’re finished eating.
If you’re watching only one side of a phone conversation, the person doing the talking has to repeat everything the person on the other end just said. I know it’s so we can “follow along” but normal conversations don’t go like this:
Yes, I did just get home.
No, I haven’t turned the TV on yet, why?
My God, Frank is dead? When did that happen?
Yes, I’ll be right there.
Really? I must admit that I didn’t get a good look at the gulls in question - just enough to determine that they weren’t really gulls and were flying like pigeons.
Craptacular CGI if that’s how they did it. They’ve got real gulls flying in the background for easy comparison. Is there any way we could find out if it really is CGI? KneadtoKnow - good point. I didn’t think about it until you pointed it out - the glass on movie cars, even the ones in terrible shape - is almost always pristine. I guess it’s hard to see the actors through dirty glass.
I tried IMDB, and it lists an animal coordinator on the crew for the movie, but he may have just worked with the monkey and had nothing to do with birds.
Heck no! And they leave their convertible top down, even in bad neighborhoods and when it looks like rain! And they leave their headlights on, too–they must have Sears DieReallyReallyHard 40-million-amp-hour batteries in their cars.
What my wife noticed is that no-one ever shuts a door. They just walk into a house and leave the door open behind them. Where were you raised, a barn? Gilmore Girls is an especially bad offender on this.
