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wagstaff
31 Jan 2004, 17:06
I watched 'Back to the Future 2' last night and couldn't get over the plot surrounding the 'Sports Almanac' that Michael J. Fox buys when in the future so that he can clean up on sporting events.
Most sport almanacs I've seen are usually very, very thick containing several hundred pages. Yet this one, which is supposed to have the result of every major sporting event (including the results of individual college football games) from 1950 to 2000, seemed to be about 40 pages thick. It was about the size of a comic book!
I wondered why the filmmakers had made such a major error (in a film series that was meticulous in its plot points usually), then I realised that they needed the almanac to be light so that it could fly around in the air in a climatic car chase scene. Oh well.
What are some other logical misfires you've seen in films?
Uncle Steve
31 Jan 2004, 21:10
Originally posted by wagstaff
Most sport almanacs I've seen are usually very, very thick containing several hundred pages. Yet this one, which is supposed to have the result of every major sporting event (including the results of individual college football games) from 1950 to 2000, seemed to be about 40 pages thick. It was about the size of a comic book!
absolutely absurd!
'coz If the almanac was really from the future, it would have been on a CD-ROM! :D
Mr Eagle
1 Feb 2004, 01:36
Drew Barrymore.
Oh sorry, I thought that said "make you go mmmmmmm" ;)
From my childhood, I can remember a few telegaph wires and poles, and even the odd aeroplane in the TV series "The Samurai".
Destructive
1 Feb 2004, 20:49
In the series Thunderstone, showing on 10 Sundays at 7am, The year is 2020. A scientist creates a wormhole which at the other end is a planet that has been colonised by humans. The planet's end of the wormhole is actually 45 years in the future. The adult colonists all died in a war between Earth and the planet, leaving very bitter children. The leader of the colony hatches a plan to destroy Earth in 2020. If that happens the colony will never be colonised, and the colonists don't seem to realise this.
The writers of the show seem to have forgotten about causality. Or maybe I'm jumping ahead of myself. As a sci fi and particularly time travel fan it's getting up my nose just thinking about it.
I definately have too much time on my hands.
Pessimistic
1 Feb 2004, 21:48
There is a website dedicated to film errors
sandeano
2 Feb 2004, 09:26
Originally posted by Pessimistic
There is a website dedicated to film errors
Best one of all - The Green Berets a late 1960s John Wayne right-wing Vietnam flag waver in which the final scene has the Duck walking along the beach with a little Vietnamese boy telling him how good the world will be once the Commie scurge is ousted. The sun is setting and that is the end.
All well and good, but it would mena that the sun was setting in the EAST, not the west!
Oh, and on that note, there was a pretty dodgey disaster film from the same time called Krakatoa - East Of Java
Krakatoa is actually to the West.
Originally posted by Pessimistic
There is a website dedicated to film errors
moviemistakes.com?
sabre_ac
2 Feb 2004, 13:40
I remeber in the pre dvd version of the last of the mochicans (sp?) the scene where the british are handing the fort over to the french the camera scans and you can see buses.
beckybiglands
3 Feb 2004, 14:57
Sorta not the right place to post this, but a few weeks back in The Simpsons, they had that one where they go into the future and see Lisa's wedding... and Maude was there :O
Originally posted by Mr Eagle
Drew Barrymore.
GOOD!!! i always get verbally vilified when i mention she is the hottest angel. Loved her in The Wedding Singer too.
Originally posted by wagstaff
I watched 'Back to the Future 2' last night and couldn't get over the plot surrounding the 'Sports Almanac' that Michael J. Fox buys when in the future so that he can clean up on sporting events.
Most sport almanacs I've seen are usually very, very thick containing several hundred pages. Yet this one, which is supposed to have the result of every major sporting event (including the results of individual college football games) from 1950 to 2000, seemed to be about 40 pages thick. It was about the size of a comic book!
I wondered why the filmmakers had made such a major error (in a film series that was meticulous in its plot points usually), then I realised that they needed the almanac to be light so that it could fly around in the air in a climatic car chase scene. Oh well.
What are some other logical misfires you've seen in films?
Okay, explain this. When Biff steals the time machine, and goes back to 1955 to give the book to himself, he alters the future, which creates an alternate (i.e evil) 1985, right? Old Biff then comes back to 2015 to return the time machine, but he comes back to the normal 2015. He should have returned to an evil 2015.
Also, the series of M*A*S*H went longer than the Vietnam war, on which it was based.
Originally posted by Mr Eagle
Drew Barrymore.
Oh sorry, I thought that said "make you go mmmmmmm" ;)
Is it just me, or does it seem like her face is melting off the side of her head? Smirking is fine, but I think she has bigger problems than that.
Stealth bomber
8 Feb 2004, 19:20
Originally posted by Dan26
Also, the series of M*A*S*H went longer than the Vietnam war, on which it was based.
Actually it was the Korean War, not Vietnam.
M*A*S*H ran for 11 seasons, which was a good 4-5 times longer than the war itself.
Falchoon
8 Feb 2004, 21:05
I've never sat there and really tried to figure it out, but the bible stamped by the Gideons from a Chicago Hotel in Mission Impossible goes over my head every time.
Originally posted by beckybiglands
Sorta not the right place to post this, but a few weeks back in The Simpsons, they had that one where they go into the future and see Lisa's wedding... and Maude was there :O You could write a book on the inconsistencies of the Simpsons.
Originally posted by Dan26
Okay, explain this. When Biff steals the time machine, and goes back to 1955 to give the book to himself, he alters the future, which creates an alternate (i.e evil) 1985, right? Old Biff then comes back to 2015 to return the time machine, but he comes back to the normal 2015. He should have returned to an evil 2015. What's to say he didn't?
Sure Biff came back to the same setting in 2015... but what's to say that part of the evil 2015 wasn't the same as the original 2015? :confused:
riccardo
13 Feb 2004, 08:15
There is a famous LOTR scene where you can see a blue van trundle past in supposedly non-technology Hobbiton.
For a movie full of mistakes and plot holes, Watch the unintentional comedy masterpiece Plan 9 From Outer Space. One moment it is pitch black, the next it is day time. Bela Lugosi died in filming, so his friend replaced him for the bulk of the movie - hiding his face with a cape! You can see the wires on the paper plate things they call spaceships, and I swear I could see a stage hand walk across a scene at one point! Funny, funny stuff!