Drumline (2002) - 8 mistakes
When Devon recieves the tapes from his Dad, the zip code for Brooklyn is 11258. The 11258 Zip Code is actually for Massapequa. (Time visible to members)
In the scene where Sean is showing the line a snare part, he refers to it as "the part before my solo." Yet, at the field show in which Sean has his solo, this snare part never appears, though it is used in one of the cadences used for the tie breaker drum battle at the Classic.
In the scene in the cafeteria when Nick and Zoe are arguing, almost every cut is a jump cut with hands and expressions not matching.
In the scene where Shawn is teaching the new drummers not to look at their drums while they play, he and Devin play together until Shawn drops a stick. At this point, Dr. Lee comes over and starts playing with Devin, until Devin drops a stick. The drum stick falls from Devin's hand and bounces around on the field. In the next shot, Dr. Lee is talking to Devin, neither has moved, but now Devin has both sticks in his hand.
In the scene in the restaurant after one of their first halftime performances, the hamburger Ernest is wolfing down is more than half eaten, and he only has one burger. After a quick cutaway, the hamburger is whole again, and he attacks it anew.
During the scene at the first show that the band plays, the drumline finishes by playing a cadence at the end of the song. When the head section leader comes out to play his solo, Devan also plays with him. At the end Devan gets on his knees and starts playing a roll. There are two different camera shots of this, one where you see Devan's hands playing, and one of his upper body. Everytime they show the shot of his upper body, his arms and shoulders are moving way too fast for the roll that he is playing on the drum. But when they show the shots of his hands playing, his arms are moving like they should when you play a roll.
In the scene when the main character is trying out for his position, after he is done, the percussion leader is talking and the wind blows a piece of paper over his hand, but the shot cuts to him immediately afterward, and the paper is gone.
At the end of the very last drum scene, all the A@T snare drummers drop their sticks onto the other drummers' snares. They all drop them, most the sticks fall to the ground, the shot changes and you see all the sticks still bouncing on the drum, and the snare srummer closest to the camera is just dropping his stick.
Darkness Falls (2003) - 11 mistakes
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Throughout the whole movie, the evil tooth fairy is casting shadows in order to scare the caracters and the viewers, now, since the tooth fairy can't be in light, how can she be casting a shadow?
In the shot were the young boy's sister is reading the fairy tale book, she reads that light will kill the "Tooth fairy" when the camera scrolls by the words on the page, you can see that the line is, "Damned soul" but when she reads she clearly said "Wicked soul".
Towards the end of the movie when the three main characters are in the light house and they are at the top about to turn it on, there is a broken kerosene lattern that produces a good amount of light protecting them from the old womans spirit. The light is slowly going away and getting closer to fading out. If you watch when the light is going around the wall you can see the shadow of the old woman. Since light has to be hitting an object for it to cast a shadow how is it that she can cast a shadow if she cannot go into the light?
When the main characters are escaping from the Tooth Fairy in a police car they are worried about finding a flashlight because the Tooth Fairy is allergic to light. Don't vehicles have interior lights?
Towards the end of the movie, in the lighthouse when Kaitlyn and Michael are at the top of the lighthouse, lightning flashes constantly, making the light from the flare Michael is holding practically invisible. How is it that the Tooth Fairy can withstand the light from the lightning but cannot enter the circle of light given off by that little flare?
In the middle of the movie Kyle is in jail in Darkness Falls. He is talking to an officer about his first time he saw the tooth fairy. He states that he was 'ten years old', however it says at the beggining of the movie that he was twelve years old.
Near the end of the film when Kyle is fighting with the demon, the demon tries putting her thumb in Kyle's eye, only in the next shot the demon is doing something completely different.
It is very strange that they don't have power in the hospital because all hospitals must have backup power - a generator for those people on ventilators.
In the scene where the old woman's ghost is killing all the police in the police station and Kyle is in the jail cell screaming to stay in the light, there is a bad thunderstorm outside. The old woman can't stand light so every time light hits her she runs away. While she is flying around and killing people the lightning flashing doesn't seem to affect her.
When Kyle is trying to fight the evil tooth fairy he yells bitch normally but punches her in slow motion.
At the very beginning after the toothfairy kills Kyle's mom, he is waiting in the bath tub with about three bad scratches on his neck. The next day he is being put into the police car and they look like really faint scars.
Two Weeks Notice (2002) - 24 mistakes
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Directed by Marc Lawrence, starring Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, David Haig, Alicia Witt
In the scene after the tennis match, where Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock are driving home, in the shot facing them, you can see what looks like a large semi or other large black truck, kind of like a UPS truck, coming up fast behind them. The shot then switches to them getting on the exit, where you see a silver SUV following close behind them. The shot again changes and the large black vehicle is behind them again. (Time visible to members)
In the scene where they are driving after the tennis match, they are driving through town. You see buildings pass by. Then you see a shot where the car goes up a ramp and onto the Queensboro bridge. In the next shot, they are again driving through town with buildings on either side. Also, a UPS truck keeps appearing and disappearing behind them. Submitted by SanDiegoDeputy
In the scene where Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock are in the car and stuck in traffic, it appears that it is raining. However, there is no rain falling on the windshields. When both characters get out of the car to run to the RV, they cover their heads, but again no rain is falling and they are not getting wet.
The lipstick on Hugh Grant's cheek in his first scene changes from light to dark to light again.
Near the end of the movie when Sandra Bullock goes to Hugh Grant's place (when he is playing strip chess) to talk to him. The clock outside the hotel stays at the same time (1:40) between her going into the hotel and leaving the hotel. Kind of tough to get to the Penthouse and leave simultaneously.
In the scene where George is playing chess with his chauffeur, George takes two turns in a row, the chauffeur does not make a move. In his second turn he captures one of his opponent's men, which has then disappeared at the end of the scene as the camera pulls back.
In the scene where Sandra and Hugh are trying to get to the RV you see a door open and Sandra slip. She stands up with the help of Hugh and you see her skirt is completely clean. But in the next shot you see dirt on her skirt, supposedly from falling.
When Lucy is pushing the elevator button to George's penthouse in her bridesmaid dress, she's wearing only one glove. When she's in his closet helping him pick out clothes and giving her 'two weeks notice', she's still only wearing one glove, but now it's on the other hand.
In the scene in the coffee room with Alicia Witt after the tennis match, the things in Hugh Grant's hand changes with each shot. First it's a spoon, then nothing, then a spoon, then creamer, then a coffee pot, and finally back to nothing.
At the end of the scene where Hugh carries Sandra into the coffee room after the whole stapler fight with the new attorney, you can see that when Hugh leaves the stapler is by the coffee pot next to where Hugh was standing. In the next shot the stapler is on the counter next to Sandra.
In the begining scene where Sandra B is lying down to block the destruction of the building the crane operator is wearing shorts. When there is a closeup of his lower leg and foot pushing on the gas, you see long jeans.This goes back and forth several times.
In the scene where Hugh Grant is visiting his brother after he tells him they are tearing down the community center, the brother changes into his pyjamas. He puts on the pj top and it is unbottoned, the camera changes to Hugh Grant and then goes back to the brother within a few seconds. When it goes back the buttons are done up.
Hugh and Sandra are on the roof eating cake. In one shot, Hugh's cake is almost gone. When the camera goes back to him, there is more cake on his plate.
In the scene where George & Lucy are talking on the rooftop, their hair is blowing in the wind continuously. Each closeup, however, there is no wind and their hair is completely still and coiffed.
In the scene where Hugh and Sandra are on his yacht, while she is walking down the stairs she spills white wine, but in the next shot she has red wine.
There is a scene in the movie where Lucy is being comforted by her friend. As the camera keeps switching, Sandra Bullock's hand keeps changing. Sometimes it is on her friend's arm and sometimes it is on her lap.
At the Pediatric benefit when Hugh and Sandra are talking, it begins to rain (watch Hugh's jacket shoulder). In the next shot it isn't, and then it is again shortly afterwards. Submitted by ihavecuuuties
At the charity party, Hugh Grant's jacket is immaculate, then covered with what looks like raindrops or glitter, then immaculate again.
In the scene where Hugh and Sandra are in the restaurant, Hugh takes all the ice out of his drink and puts it into Sandra's drink. The shot changes and the ice is back in his drink.
Towards the end, when Hugh and Sandra are talking in the kitchen after the argument between Sandra and June over the stapler, Sandra's hair is draped over her shoulder in frontal shots, and completely back in the shots from the back. This shifts to and fro right throughout the scene.
Two Weeks Notice (2002) - 24 mistakes
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Directed by Marc Lawrence, starring Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, David Haig, Alicia Witt
In the scene where Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant are on the street and he's buying a hot dog Sandra's collar on her left side changes positions several times.
In the scene towards the beginning when Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant first meet and she is talking about the community centre, Sandra is wearing a singlet underneath a long sleeved shirt, however in the next shot she is wearing a short sleeved shirt underneath, then it changes back to a singlet again.
At the end of Sandra's leaving party when she is arguing with Hugh, her hair is in a different place for every shot.
When Lucy goes to George's penthouse while June is there playing strip chess, June is in the kitchen getting two beers out of the refrigerator. She is surprised to turn around and see Lucy and the door gets left open. George, Lucy and June have a conversation, towards the end of which the door somehow now closed even though nobody has made a move to shut it.
The Hot Chick (2002) - 3 mistakes
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In the movie, prom happens during the end of the film. The movie spans the length of a week, yet we see that Jessica's boyfriend in the movie (Matthew Lawrence) is still having football practice. The high school football season ends months before prom. If it was suppose to suggest they are having spring practice, then he's not even suppose to be practising since he's a senior.
When Jessica first wakes up as Rob Schnieder she has the earring on, but in other times in that scene she's not.
When Tequito (Jessica) first meets Jessica's father, the yellow beetle in the back has the hood up. After they talk, they go back to the beetle and its hood is down.
Catch Me If You Can (2002) - 35 mistakes
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Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams
In the scene where Handratty is studying a map of Europe, you can see Germany united. From 1949 til 1989, Germany was divided into West Germany (BRD) and East Germany (DDR).
There is a scene in which Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio are aboard a plane at LaGuardia Airport. This particular scene takes place in 1969, and at one point there is a shot of the New York City skyline with the Twin Towers intact. However, the towers were not completed until 1973.
In one of the bank scenes the camera zooms in on the bills as the teller is counting them out. They are obviously bills with the new larger presidential heads, printed after the year 2000.
When Frank Jr. is getting fitted for his pilot's uniform (because he lied and said he lost his other one), after the tailor finishes and tells him the cost, there are only two rank bars on his sleeves. Then, when he walks out in the uniform, there are three bars on the sleeves.
On the plane, while being escorted by FBI agents, Frank Jr sees New York's LaGuardia Airport and says 'there it is, LaGuardia Airport, runway 44.' A runway numbered 44 is impossible. No runway can be numbered over 36.
Towards the end of the movie, when Tom Hanks is briefing his staff on a fraud suspect, you can see on the chalkboard next to Hanks, on the bottom left, written 'Steven and Tom's 4th project'.
In a phone conversation scene between Leo and Tom, Leo is using a phone that has a plug type receiver. The phones in that era were all hard wired.
In an early scene where Frank Sr. and Jr. go to the Chase Manhattan bank in New York (1962) a Duane Reade Drug Store with new (1998)store signage is seen in the background.
The nurse in the hospital wearing braces has the stick on braces, which were not available at that time. The only type available had wrap around bands.
Towards the end of the film where young girls are 'interviewed' for stewardess' positions, one of them sings part of John Denver's 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'. The song was written in 1969 but by then Abignale was in jail in France, having been arrested in 1967.
In the scene at the French prison in 1969, Carl uses a pop-up mini-umbrella. This type of umbrella wasn't available until the late 70s. Until then, all umbrellas were of the two-hand, slide-up variety.
When Frank Jr. recieves the book of checks from his father, he flips through them. There is a zip code visible on his address, but zip codes weren't used until 1967. There couldn't be a zip code if it was 1963.
Towards the end of the movie, in the plane, you can see the green screen reflected in Hanratty's glasses while he is talking to Frank. Submitted by Sereenie
In the scene where Tom Hanks hits the button to stop the press, suddenly individual cheques come flying up from the press. This could not happen. On such a large press the cheques would be printed several up on a large sheet of paper, to be cut down after printing is completed.
In the scene where Carl comes to the engagement party to arrest Frank, it is so windy that when the window in the bedroom is left open, money is flying all around. However, the shots of the party outside show a calm night with no wind at all.
When Leonardo DiCaprio is arrested in France, Tom Hanks bends over to look at him through the rear window of the police car. You can clearly see the lines of the window defogger on Hanks' face. Cars did not have electric defoggers like that in the Sixties.
In the scene where Frank first meets the candy striper at the nurses' station, you can see a gray Notifier annunciator for the fire alarm system on the wall. These are for a digital system that could not have been around at that time.
In the scene where Frank's parents have been informed of their son's impersonation of a supply teacher, Frank is seen through the window of the office. At this point, when he flashes a cheesy grin, his hair is a mess - presumably to remind us that he is still only a young, cheeky schoolboy. However, upon his parents leaving the office, Frank's hair is perfectly styled again in a neat side parting.
When Tom Hanks is in France telling Leonardo DiCaprio that there are 20 cops outside you can see, when the cameran turns to Leonardo. Tom's mouth is still moving despite the fact that he is not talking.
As the plane lands in New York, there is a brief shot of the landing gear where a modern wide jet engine nacelle is visible. In all other shots the correct long skinny 60's style nacelle is seen.
In the scene where Frank Jr. gives car keys in a small gift box to his dad in a restaurant, his dad puts the car keys back into the small gift box and on the table in front of Frank. In the next shots the gift box is sometimes completly closed and sometimes a little bit open (as if the keys got stuck in between).
In the scene where Leonardo Di Caprio's mother spills red wine on the carpet the stain shifts altogether once the next shot shows his parents dancing.
When Frank Jr. is talking to Frank Sr in the dirty bar/restaurant, there is a red candle on the table, and nothing else. We then cut to Frank Jr, and cut back to Frank Sr. Now there is an ashtray there as well. It couldn't have just been put there by a waiter, as it has cigarette ends in it.
In the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio is eating dinner with Amy Adam and her family his napkin is in a different spot in each shot.
The green-capped McCormick spices on the spice rack in the apartment were not available in the early 1960s.
In the scene where Frank Abagnale is arrested in France, on of the police cars has a license plate that ends with 'PP 41'. Now the last two digits are a code for a particular French district ('departement') and the two letters indicate the age of the car, i.e. the first licence plates ever had the letters AA, then AB, all the way through to ZZ and most recent licence plates have three letters. For this particular 'departement' the highest possible letter sequence would have been HH for 1969 and JB for 1970. So this particular car, or its license plate, is much more recent than 1969 or 1970.
In the scene where Frank is talking to Brenda's father in Brenda's parents' home, he appears to be on the left side of the couch (as you face him on the screen), yet in the next shot, he is on the other end of the couch, and Brenda's father then sits next to him on the left. It would have made sense if Frank was shown moving over to make room, but instead, it's as if he was sitting at that end of the couch all along.
Carl and Frank Jr. flew home to LaGuardia Airport. However, LaGuardia is a domestic airport only (except for nearby Canadian cities, such as Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal). Coming home from France, they'd have flown to JFK.
When Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio are returning on the plane from France, Leo remarks that they are passing over, and apparently landing at, LaGuardia Airport. Flights from Europe never land at LaGuardia as the runways are too short for very large planes.
When Frank Abagnale Sr. unwraps the gift of car keys from Frank Abagnale Jr., he places the yellow ribbon on his right side, on the table. In the next shot, it is lying on the left side.
One of the end credits is 'saxaphone solo'. It should be 'saxophone'.
When Frank's parents are meeting with his principal after he pretends to be a teacher his mother is smoking a cigarette and is exhaling smoke, but when she looks at Frank there is no smoke at all in the air.
When Leo is having lunch with Christopher Walken and offers him a Cadillac, in some shots Leo's right arm is over the table, but in others he has both arms hanging.
In their new apartment, Frank Abagnale, Jr. is making pancake. One shot shows him pouring the batter onto the pan, but then when Frank Abagnale, Sr. goes to flip the pancake, it's already done, in a matter of seconds.
In the lunch scene in the fancy restaurant with Frank Sr. and Frank Jr., the crystal goblets are of a pattern that wasn't available in the 1960's. The pattern is Mikasa Parklane, which I believe became available in the late 1980's.
Analyze That (2002) - 1 mistake
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Right after Paul goes home with the doctor, the doctor and his wife are clearing the dinner table talking about Paul staying at the house. The wife turns to the dinner table and is holding 2 napkins. The camera angle changes and the wife is now seen walking 2 glasses over to the sink. Submitted by MCKD
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) - 16 mistakes
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Directed by Joel Zwick, starring Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, Joey Fatone, John Corbett
In the scene when Toula is having lunch at collage and she sits down with all the blonde girls, as she pulls the chair out she puts her lunch bag on the table but in the next shot when she is sitting down she again puts it on the table and the top of it is screwed up differently. (Time visible to members)
In Greek Orthodox churches, the only melodies that are heard throughout a wedding service are the chants of the priest, so why is the wedding theme being played when Toula walks down the aisle? The wedding themes are NEVER, under any circumstances, played in an Orthodox church.
After Tula's Mother hangs up the phone and continues peeling potatoes you hear a clicking sound. She stops for a second to turn the potato and the clicking sound continues while she is not peeling.
In the very first scene of the film when Toula and her father are driving to the restaurant the windshield is visibly clear, then the camera is on her father, then when it switches back to her, the windshield has fogged up on her side.
On the cover of the movie it says 'My big Fat GRΣΣΚ wedding'. The two 'ΣΣ' characters represent the greek 'S' in the alphabet and not the greek 'E'.So it reads 'My big Fat GRSSK Wedding'. (Time visible to members)
When Tula goes to meet Ian at the school where he works, and they are talking in the hallway, her arms continually move from behind his neck to the front of his shoulders. This happens everytime they switch from showing him to showing her.
After Tula scrunches up the college flier, she reopens it and, in doing so, she rips a corner off it. When she takes it out in another scene, it is clearly the same flier but the corner is intact.
In the scene where Toula and Ian are standing on the bridge talking about their families, you can see the Toronto skyline in the background (Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal), although they are supposed to be in Chicago.
When Tula and Ian drive to his parents' house, they are actually driving the wrong way down a one way street.
Near the end when Tula and Ian are in the limo, Tula starts to wipe off her makeup and take off or loosen her wedding dress. She actually pulls off the bow on the right arm of her dress. If you pause the movie right there, you can see by Ian and Tula's reaction the bow was not supoosed to be removed. The scene ends immediately after.
In the scene where Ian asks Tula to marry him, before he does it, they are laying in the bed talking. During the first shot, she is playing with his face with her left hand, and when the view changes to her, in the bottom left cornor of the screen, you can see part of the same hand on her stomach. In the next shot of him, her hand is on his face again. This continues to switch thoughout the scene.
At the scene when the mother shows the invitations to the rest of the family, there is a close shot of one of the invitations. The text is written in both Greek and English. However, the Greek spelling of the name 'Portokalos' is mistaken, because the first letter of the word is the one used for 'R' in Greek, not 'P'. According to what is written on the invitation, the name of the family would be 'Rortokalos'. Moreover, the Greek written word includes a symbol which indicates where a word should be stressed when read, which cannot be seen in any of the words of the invitation. (Time visible to members)
The night before Ian is baptized, the family is at the restaurant where Ian wants to talk to Gus. In one shot, you see Ian at the table with food and wine glasses. The next shot that you see Ian in, there is a wine bottle on the table.
In the scene when Ian first takes Tula to his apartment, they knock over a lamp. You can hear the bulb break, however the room stays lit.
At the engagement dinner hosted by Toula's family, Rodney and Harriet (Ian's parents) drink a few shots of the 'licorice' liqueur. After the third or fourth round they are weaving a bit and put their glasses on a proffered tray. In the next shot of them, Rodney is still holding his glass.
When Ian tries (and fails) to wish Toula's father Happy Easter in Greek, her father mumbles back in Greek (with the English subtitles) "When my people were writing philosophy, your people were still swinging in trees." In the subtitles, writing is spelled with two Ts.
Red Dragon (2002) - 31 mistakes
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Directed by Brett Ratner, starring Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anthony Heald, Frankie Faison
The text of Hannibal Lecter's message to the Tooth Fairy is "Graham home: Marathon, Florida. Save yourself. Kill them all." Sans spacing and punctuation, the message is 48 characters in length. Lecter's message in the Tattler listed only 47 Bible verses (line/letter pairs). Perhaps Dr. Lecter can't spell "Florida." (Time visible to members)
In the scene when Will is opening the drawer of films from the Leeds home, there is clearly a copy of Mrs. Doubtfire. How can that be? Red Dragon is clearly set "several years" after 1980, as the caption says, but before the 1991 Silence of the Lambs, so late 80's, but Mrs. Doubtfire came out in 1993.
When Emily Watson first strokes the tiger on the table her watch says 11:15, on the next stroke her watch says 11:20. Then the doctor hands her the stethoscope and her watch says 12:00.
When we first see Will Graham (Ed Norton) investigating the Jacobi household it is night time, yet once he is inside and heading up the stairs, the window behind him clearly shows dayight.
When Ralph Fiennes wakes up after sleeping with Emily Watson we see the elaborate tattoo work on his back. We also see the blue overspray from the outside of the stencils used to create the tattoo.
Before they reveal the face of the Red Dragon, they show him flipping through his book of newsclippings. He focuses on the face of the Tattler reporter and puts red markings through his face. When they show him closing the book, you can clearly see the face without any red marks before the book fully closes.
When Dolarhyde is taking Emily to the zoo in his van, there is a shot of the road he is traveling on behind him. For the entire trip, he is driving on the wrong side of the road.
In the scene near the end where Graham and his son are trapped in the bedroom, the Red Dragon attempts to break down the door. After many forceful attempts, we see parts of the door jamb and moulding break-away and stick out from the wall. However, when Mrs. Graham enters the room after the shootout, the door jamb and moulding are in perfect condition.
In the scene where Will Graham is flying from DC to Baltimore to return the note to Lecter's cell, we see a panoramic view of DC and the Potomac River. We see him fly over the FDR Monument (located on the Cherry Tree Walk on the Tidal Basin near the national mall). Although that area was authorized a Park on September 5, 1959, the monument itself wasn't constructed until 1990 and was dedicated on May 2, 1997. It wouldn't have been there for him to fly over.
When Will Graham (Norton) and the other investigator are at that restaurant, there's a car (it looks like a police car) outside behind Will's head that appears and disappears once or twice during that scene.
When the janitor goes back to mopping after returning the letter written to Hannibal to his cell, he stuffs the rubber glove into his back pocket. When it is first shown, there is one finger sticking out, but when Hannibal notices it, there are two.
In the scene when Emily Watson is petting the tiger, her hair alternates with the two shots: first it's tucked behind her ears, then it's not. It goes back and forth about 5 times.
In the scene where Norton's wife is target shooting with the revolver, you can clearly see that there aren't any bullet heads showing in the cylinder.
In the museum scene when Red Dragon is attacking two women and eating a painting, a CCTV camera is clearly visible above his head. Security should react in some visible way but they do nothing.
When the FBI scrambles the helicopter to return the letter to Lecter's cell in Balimore, the camera pans across a scenic view of Washington. You see the famous sites - the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in the bottom right of the screen. Trouble is the Museum opened in 1993 and the movie is set before 1991.
In the final shoot-out, Graham's gun appears to be a revolver. When he tells his wife to shoot Dolarhyde, the gun she picks up from beside her husband appears to be an automatic.
This error applies to the DVD version of the movie. When reading the Lecter case files in the special features section, the dates in which the events of the movie take place are all in the 1970's. However, the movie says that they occur in the 1980's. Which is it?
Dolarhyde pours a flamable liquid onto the floor of his house and creates a brilliant fire with ceiling-high flames and absolutely no smoke whatsoever. A real fire would have blackened the top half of the room during the minute or so it took him to fake his suicide after lighting the fire.
When Ralph Fiennes is in the Brooklyn museum, and hits the woman showing him the painting, over the head, you hear the sound before he actually hits her.
In the scene where the Dragon sets the ring of fire, he fires a shot and Emily is covered in blood. During the whole scene, Ralph (the man who is shot) is nowhere to be found, despite several wide shots of the fire being lit. How did the Dragon pull him through the fire, hold him up, and then shoot him in the head without moving out of the room?
When Dolarhyde fires the shotgun in his house, blood spatters on Reba's face. When this happens, Reba is sitting in the middle of the couch, and there is an end table with a phone on it between her and Dolarhyde. You'd think at least some of the furniture would get blood on it too, but as the camera pulls back, we see there is no blood anywhere on the couch, the table, or the side of the phone.
Towards the middle of the movie there is a quick shot of a van driving down a road. To the right of the van on the side of the road is a solar cell that is powering a Department of Transportation device. This is the type of solar cell you see for the construction arrow signs on the side of the road telling you that you must merge. These weren't around in the 80's.
In the scene where Ed Norton is teaching his wife to shoot, there is absolutely no muzzle blast as she takes each shot. Muzzle blast is always present when a gun is fired.
Toward the end of the movie, Will Graham (Norton) is talking to the blind woman at the hospital, and you can see that he has a pimple over his right eye; when he goes out of the room, someone hands him the Red Dragon's journal and he doesn't have the pimple anymore.
When the FBI finds out that Dolarhyde knows where Graham lives, they send a chopper and some agents over to Graham's house to pick up his wife and son. His wife is startled by the noise of the chopper SUDDENLY appearing without any warning. How could she have not heard the chopper approaching or seen the light?
In the scene right before the reporter is abducted by the red dragon, he is driving his car back to the garage of the newspaper he works for. In the scene of him pulling into the garage, he has half his arm hanging out of the rolled down window, then in the very next shot the window is rolled all the way up.
Hannibal should not be wearing the mask in this movie. He got that mask only after his bite attack in SOTL.
When Ed Norton and the police are headed to Ralph Fienne's house (after visiting Chromalux), you can see a billboard as the police car squeals around a corner. It's an H&R Block billboard saying: "It's your refund. Get it faster." Didn't this slogan just come out a couple of years ago?
It is impossible to make a set of dental casts from bite marks. You have to have full impressions.
At one point, it is mentioned that Hannibal has undergone a Rorschach test. However, the test relies on initial impact of the inkblots. If you've seen the images before, the test is useless. As a long-practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Lecter has probably seen the inkblots many times, and thus could not be tested.
Hannibal calls the outside by tapping the number out on the receiver hook of the phone. This is an old, well known trick. Who would have been that stupid to leave a man with Hannibal's intelligence alone with a phone without thinking of that?
Enough (2002) - 7 mistakes
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When Mitch is chasing Slim down the street she gets on the bus and the bus drives away. She doesn't pay.
When Slim and her daughter are running away from the husband they run onto a bus. When it cuts to the bus driving away you can see that Slim is holding a dummy, which is supposed to be her daughter.
There is a scene in the movie where Noah Wyle runs up to Jennifer Lopez's car. He's trying clearly to open the car door but it's locked. On the top corner of the scene from inside the car there is a thumb sticking inside the car.
When Slim first escapes, it is nighttime. She goes to the Biltmore and her card is denied. When she runs outside to get money from the ATM, it is daytime. The next moment she is at the bank, still trying to pay for that hotel at night. I don't know of any banks in the entire Los Angeles area that is open with tellers inside in the middle of the night.
In the scene where Jennifer Lopez and her daughter are driving in the old Ford Crown Victoria and discussing why they are running away, they show 2 shots of the speedometer. The speedometer clearly reads between 15 and 20 mph. They are driving on a highway, and the scenery outside the car is going by at a much faster speed.
In the scene where J'Lo and her daughter are in Northern Michiigan, they are walking into the hallway at the apartment. You can clearly see a crew member's arm in the background. (Time visible to members)
In the scene where Slim is dancing with her husband at their reception a guy comes up and gives her husband an envelope with money in it. Her husband slips it into his vest pocket. In the next shot he puts it in again.
Changing Lanes (2002) - 11 mistakes
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Michelle tells Gavin over the phone that it's Good Friday when he asks her what day it is. When Gavin comes back to the office after Doyle's arrest, a radio is on reporting the Dow and NASDAQ closes for the day. The market is not open on Good Friday.
After Ben Affleck sets off the sprinklers and drenches the office, none of the computers or monitors seem to short out despite being deluged with water.
When Ben Affleck is meeting with the man who changes Samuel Jackson's credit record, the man remarks that Samuel Jackson should not have told Ben Affleck that he was in insurance. Samuel Jackson never told Ben Affleck that he was in insurance.
In the daytime restaurant scene between Ben Affleck and his wife, the wife tells Ben Affleck that they are going to dinner that evening with two friends, one of whom is Carl and other a woman. However, later that evening the dinner date is with the wife's parents. The wife's father's name is Steve, not Carl.
When Jackson removes the wheel bolts from Affleck's car and Affleck crashes, the airbags on the Mercedes come out but when Affleck is out of the car the airbags are still fully blown. When airbags are activated in reality they inflate then immediately deflate, the idea being that you hit them as they deflate, cushioning the blow.
When Sam Jackson removes the lug nuts from Ben Aflecks' Mercedes, Ben's character continues to drive before the wheel comes off. All Mercedes models use wheel lug bolts and once removed, the wheel immediately falls of the hub.
After Affleck's car strikes Jackson's and comes to a halt, an overhead shot shows his driver's side door only a few inches away from the plastic barrels in the median. In the next shot, Affleck opens the door a couple of feet, enough to exit easily. The median barrels are filled with sand. It would be impossible to push them away with a car door.
During the events on the first day you see Ben Affleck wearing laced up shoes and then as he is stepping out of the car in the rain, he is wearing loafers. Where did the laced up shoes go?
At the end of the film when Samuel L Jackson's character is standing looking across at his family, it is raining on his side but not on the other side of the road.
When Ben Affleck is in court, he is playing with his wedding ring - the very next shot is him with his hands tother.
When the kid on the bike throws shredded paper in Affleck's hands, the paper is in the kid's left hand. Then when he throws it in Affleck's hand, it is in his right.
Die Another Day (2002) - 114 mistakes
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Directed by Lee Tamahori, starring Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese
If you watch the DVD release of this film with the MI6 Datafeed enabled a remark pops up telling the audience the large aircaft that Bond, Jinx etc are flying in is an Antonov 225 'Myria', 'The largest operating aircraft in the World'. The aircraft which is used in the film is actually an Antonov 124 which is smaller than the AN225, only has a single tail fin,(the 225 has two),and only has 4 engines, (the 225 has six).
In the fight scene at the end, Jinx and Miranda are fighting. Jinx gets the upper hand on Miranda and stabs her. Miranda soon afterwards falls backwards and lands with her arms pointing downwards. When Bond comes into the room after he's killed Graves, Miranda is lying down with her arms pointing upwards.
During the scene where James Bond and Gustav Graves are having their sword fight Gustav cuts James' knee but for the rest of the scene there is no blood. (Time visible to members)
Iceland has no vegetation above the size of birches and willows, which rather spoils the scene with Mr. Bond crashing through a patch of firs (or whatever those needle trees were)... (Time visible to members)
In the scene where James Bond and Gustav graves go outside during their sword fight, Gustav pushes James over a garden table but when he does this you can see that it's not Pierce Brosnan that he pushes over but Pierce's stunt double. (Time visible to members)
In the final fight scene on the plane between Jinx (Halle Berry) and Agent Frost (Rosamund Pike) Jinx is slashed across her stomach, drawing blood. In a later scene when Jinx and 007 are pouring diamonds over one another in the hut on the cliff her stomach is unblemished.
During the final Ice Palace action sequence, as Bond is getting into his Aston Martin just prior to his 'automotive duel', he crouches and hides behind the invisible car, even though Q was fairly clearly seen through the car when it was introduced.
In the pre title sequence James Bond travels in a hovercraft along the dirt road which is full of land mines. Soon after reaching the waterfall at the end, trucks drive up along the road he just drove in on to capture him. As there was only one road in to the waterfall complex the landmines must have all disappeared, as earlier on in that sequence we are informed that the only way that the North Koreans can avoid the mines along that road is by hovercraft.
When James Bond is about to jump into the hole he has made in the ice, he takes off his jacket. When he re-emerges in the tropical garden area, he takes his jacket off again.
When James and Jinx sneak on Gustav's plane, Jinx heads for the cockpit. The pilot gets out of his seat and leaves, making it easy for Jinx to knock out the co-pilot and take over the plane. But what happens to the pilot? he never comes back, even when Miranda is pointing a sword at Jinx, nor when she is fighting to keep the plane flying.
When Jinx and Bond sneak onto Grave's plane, Jinx can be seen with a nickel plated pistol (this is also evident throughout the entire film). Yet when Jinx is in the cockpit and Frost tells her to hand over the gun, it's now no longer nickel plated but standard gun metal black.
Hovercraft would set off mines. Downward pressure is exerted by the fans to keep them off the ground, just as much as if they were sitting on the ground directly. It wouldn't even make sense if the only mines used were pressure type antipersonnel mines. However, there is more than one kind of land mine, and many of them rely on methods other than pressure for detonation. Some anti-vehicle ordnance can detect the magnetic field given off by large vehicles and detonate that way, and systems on the drawing board use radar to aquire and aim at a vehicle in the nearby vicinity once deployed. Many mine systems also use trip wires for detonation. The Soviets were particularly fond of that system, and spread it throughout their dominion. But surely the North Koreans, having been neighboors and good buddies with the USSR for 40 years would be all too familiar with trip wire land mines, and would go out of their way to avoid them. In short any ground based advance is ill-advised on any minefield, as any good minelayer is going to use several different types of mines - the hovercraft would have set them all off.
During the car chase on the ice, Bond's Aston Martin flips over. You can see the right wing mirror break off as this happens. All through the rest of the chase, both wing mirrors are fine.
In the beginning, James Bond steals a suitcase full of diamonds. He takes the compartment with the diamonds out, and sets a bomb under it. When we see him putting the C4 in it, we can see that the explosive is very nearly as high as the edge of the case, but the diamond compartment fits back inside perfectly. How?
When M leaves Bond's bedside, the doors close but the LED of the security computer lock stays green. It should have turned into red to show that the door had been closed, as happens shortly afterwards when Bond locks the medical staff in.
In the scene where Bond is in the rocket sled being chased by the huge beam of light, Graves uses the laser to cut a huge section of ice out of the cliff, it cuts about 100 meters without problems. But when the laser is used on the ice palace, it just slowly melts instead of being completly annhilated.
In the opening sequence in North Korea. When James Bond detonates the C4 in the brief case carrying the diamonds, the diamonds fly into the air and some are embedded into Zao's face. When the C4 is detonated Zao has the back of his head facing the case with the diamonds in. When the case explodes Zao lands face down on the floor. How come he has diamonds embedded into his face - surely they should be in the back of his head?
Just before Zao runs to the helicopter, he smashes a stained-glass window. Afterwards, when Bond sees the window behind the rubble, the window is completely intact.
When Bond and Jinx are trying to escape in the helicopter, they open the door and start the conveyor. The red car drops. Quite a few seconds later, the yellow car is dropped. Yet, later, we see the cars nose down in the mud about 20 feet apart. How did this happen when the plane was moving at such speed?
Bond opens up the necklace that Zao had and there are 4 diamonds inside. Later when he shows them to someone else it changes to 5. Where did that extra diamond come from? It can't be that Graves gave him another one after Bond's bet - that was settled by cheque.
Jinx Shoots the Doctor twice, once through the cheque, and once in the neck/throat. In the next scene, the two bullet holes are in his upper left chest. Plus when Bond finds him, there's no blood on the body.
The sun reflector, when concentrated, emits an extremely bright, and hot ray of light. However, when Graves is using it to melt the Ice Palace it's directly over everything that's melting yet all interior scenes don't seem any brighter than they were before.
When Bond is talking to the General, he has his handcuffs on behind his back. When he starts walking down to the other side of the boardwalk his hands are at his sides without any restraints, and no-one undid them.
We see James turn his car invisible near the ice palace. When the villian with the diamonds in his face switches on the heat sensor thing in his car we see james bond's car glow red. Would that actually happen? Not likely, only the engine would show red along with james bond's body, not the whole car. Especially right after it was started after staying in the cold for a long time.
In the scene where Gustav Graves is demonstrating the power of Icarus, the audience has their sunglasses on to block the sunlight. After Icarus is shut down everyone has their sunglasses off. However, in a quick shot of Bond soon after Icarus shuts down, a woman is seen taking off her sunglasses after we have already seen her without sunglasses on.
At the end of the film as Bond and Jinx are in the helicopter after being dropped from the plane, as he is starting the engine, the caution/annunciator lights turn off 3 times in 3 different shots for no apparent reason whatsoever.
Bond shatters the widescreen of his car with his ring to retrieve Jinx. In the shot when his car comes to a stop after exiting the ice palace, the widescreen appears intact.
When Graves, Bond et al are on the plane at the end of the film there is a glass bit at the front of the plane enabling Graves to watch Icarus blasting the land mines. However, in a much earlier shot there is no glass bit at the front of the plane, there is just a normal nose.
When Bond is at the Ice Palace the car is invisible when hes sneaking around, but when he opens the door you can plainly see the wing mirror through the car window, if the car is invisible you wouldn't be able to see any of the cars exterior.
When Bond is driving in the Chevy in Havana, look at the speedometer. It's clearly at zero.
After the helicopter escape at the end, a red sports car is sticking nose down in the ground after falling hundreds of feet down out of the airplane, without a singe crack in the windshield, in mint condition. The yellow one only has the right door open.
When Bond first sees Jinx get out of the water, she is naturally dripping wet. After it cuts to him, it cuts back to her and she is already bone dry as she is picking up her towel to dry off.
The whole invisible car issue is just so wrong. He left his car parked outside the complex for ages, and no one walk or ski'd into it? Also when he is following the goons in the car, didn't they hear the engine or snow cracking under the tyres?
How did Graves manage to undergo gene therapy, create a diamond business, design, construct, and launch Icarus, become world famous and get knighted all in the 14 months Bond was held in Korea?
Why do the U.S give up after sending one rocket against the Icarus satellite? Why don't they just send 50 or 100 rockets up at the same time, all going in different directions? There would be no way the Icarus satellite could shoot them all down. That would of stopped the bad guy's master plan much more quicker.
During the car chase scene on the ice, the green Jaguar fires a minigun at Bond's car several times. Amazingly, Bond's car doesnt even have a scratch on it. Even if the car was bullet proof, it would still have large dents and scratches, not to mention the large cracks in the glass, the likes of which could be seen when Q fires a pistol at a sheet of bullet proof glass earlier in the film.
Why does the part of the ice palace in which Jinx is imprisoned melt so much faster than the rest? And why doesn't that apply to the walls and door?
James Bond is a highly trained, highly skilled secret agent/assassin. After he sleeps with Agent Frost, she removes the bullets from the magazine of his gun. Later in the film he seems surprised and shocked that this could have happened. Every handgun is significantly heavier with rounds in it. Surely 007 would be able to feel the weight of his empty gun was different when he picked it up the next morning.
In the first half of the movie, Miranda Frost is shown as completely blonde. Before sleeping with James Bond in Iceland, she is still blonde. In the next scene, she wakes up being brunette. Did bond colour her hair before leaving for the mission?
When the suitacase of diamonds explodes, surely the diamonds that caught the face of Zau, and other soldiers, would cut right through him/them, as diamonds are the hardest material on Earth. Instead they seem to have been implanted into his skin.
Given the amount of time Bond was maltreated by the North Koreans you'd think he would have suffered the effects of malnourishment (lost weight, muscle tone). Yet when he is seen bare-chested after the prisoner exchange, he appears perfectly fit and is able to win a physically demanding sword fight against Gustav Graves.
During the scene in which Bond escapes from MI6 custody, after inducing drop in heartbeat, he seizes the defibrillator paddles and uses them to shock the two male orderlies. However, only one of those paddles would have administered a shock; the other one is only there to form a circuit for the electric charge, therefore, at best it should only have shocked one of the orderlies.
Towards the end of the film as the helicopter tumbles through the sky after it has fallen out of the plane, Jinx looks back from the cockpit and sees the diamonds in a neat pile spilling out of the door. Surely if the helicopter has been tumbling through the sky, they would be scattered all over the place.
When Jinx chases Zao out of the clinic he is being treated in, her shoes miraculously disappear as she runs up the cliff.
When Bond is in the car following the goons heading into the facility, it shows Mr. Kill scan a card and then swipe it to open a door. Before he swipes it, the door is already opening.
The Aston is left invisible overnight at Graves' diamond mine. Given the temperature, there would surely have been a thick layer of frost on the car making it look like a giant ice sculpture.
When James and Jinx enter the Antonov, they climb through a door in the cargobelly-floor. In a pressurized aircraft there is absolutely no connection between the pressurised cabin and the wheelwells.
When Bond is about to sneak into the restricted area of the ice palace, he takes out two guards by opening a valve and causing steam to explode over them. He opens the valve by turning a wheel, which appears to be metal, using bare hands in sub-zero temperatures. Under those conditions his hands would have stuck to the metal and Bond would have left a good few layers of his skin on the wheel.
During the Iceland scenes, Bond cuts a hole in the surface of the ice and then swims through the water. As the surface is frozen, the water itself would have been close to freezing. How does Bond manage to swim in it with no protection against the cold? He doesn't even display any discomfort at swimming with his eyes open.
When Zao is having DNA alteration he still has the diamonds embedded in his face - what's the point in getting a face change? If they can be removed why hasn't he done this first? If they can't be removed he'll have a different face with a whole mess of diamonds embedded in it, which would be quite a major giveaway.
Bond cuts a hole in the ice so that he can swim across to the huge greenhouse. He pushes the circular section that he just cut out down then drops into the hole and starts swimming. Two problems with this - first, the entire area is sitting on a frozen lake. If he pushed the circular block of ice down, it should have just bobbed back up to the surface. Second, when we see the underwater shot of him entering the frozen lake the circular piece of ice he cut out is nowhere to be seen.
When Jinx drops from the top of the dome on a rope, at the top of the dome she is wearing stud earings, when she reaches the ground she is wearing drop earings. Did she stop on the way down?
The ASAT missile fired at the satelite was launched from a ship. In reality, ASAT is always launched from an F-15 because it would not have enough fuel to escape the Earth's atmosphere otherwise.
At the begining of the movie Bond place 2 pieces of C4 explosive in the case. This amount of explosive will be enough to level a small house, but Zao, who's standing about 2 metres from it, survives this with only a few scars.
The Underground station is supposed to have been abandoned long ago, and there is ancient advertising for Ford cars on the wall. But in the entranceway to the platform there's a recent ad for Philips electronics.
Several times in the movie we can clearly see Bond's unblemished torso, but are we to believe that after 14 months of torture in a Korean prison he would have no scars?
When the bad guy fires at Bond with the mini-gun attached to his green Jaguar, you can see that the gun does not have an ammo feed.
The North Korean air crew flying Moon's command post aircraft are wearing Soviet Air Force arm badges.
When Bond cuts the hole in the ice, he uses the laser on his watch at an angle. Yet he still manages to cut a perfectly round circle with vertical sides.
In the scene where Bond steals Graves's rocket-powered ice vehicle, there is an overhead shot looking down at the vehicle. At the top of the frame, you can see a white cable pulling the ice vehicle along.
Icarus is shown in low earth orbit, and would pass from horizon to horizon in under 15 minutes - yet the beam is always vertical as if fixed overhead. In low earth orbit, the chances of Icarus being right overhead Korea or Iceland at any given moment are quite slim. On the other hand, if it were in a geostationary orbit, it would be over the equator, and the beam would be at least 50 degrees from the vertical over Iceland. However, from that position it couldn't also target Korea. If there is a geostationary orbit visible from both Iceland and Korea, it would be very low on the horizon and thus useless for hitting a target.
Towards the end of the movie, M says something along the lines of, 'Well, if you had disclosed that Frost and Moon were on the fencing team at Harvard together, this all could have been avoided'. I seriously, seriously, seriously doubt that the U.S. government would/could have had any reason to prevent MI-6 from getting a roster of any university fencing club for one of their own agents. Just as a little test, I found out the current members of the Harvard fencing team in less than 2 minutes by hitting Harvard's athletics web page. MI-6 is in serious, serious trouble if they can't find a roster from, given the ages of Moon and Frost, at most 6 or 7 years ago.
When Gustav Graves has his little reunion with his father on the plane, he kills him and steals his medal. Now, that medal is the Order of Lenin, a Russian medal. A North Korean, even one who fought in the Korean War, wouldn't be awarded one.
At the start, Bond puts some explosive underneath the easily removable compartment in the suitcase. When he lands, the case is handed to someone, who's told "check this". How badly do they search it not to immediately find the diamonds? Even if that person's job is just checking the diamonds, the security is so tight around that area it's inconceivable that they wouldn't check the case for bugs or something.
If James Bond is supposed to be in Iceland, why is it whenever you see him breathing in an exterior shot, you don't see any steam coming from his mouth, as would happen in a cold environment?
Fencing jackets are reinforced on the weapon arm and zip up on the opposite side. Thus a right handed fencer has the closure on the left. Bond is fencing right handed but is wearing a left-handed jacket.
The shot of the missile leaving the warship to destroy the satellite Icarus is exactly the same shot as the missile leaving the warship in the opening sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies.
When Bond arrives in Cuba and walks past the children dancing in the foreground you can see a man leaning on a wall looking directly into the camera following it from left to right.
When we first meet Jinx, she has just been swimming. When she meets James Bond and starts talking to him, she has lip gloss and eye shadow on. Surely she couldn't put it on that quickly? (Time visible to members)
During the James Bond windsurfing scene as he was escaping the ice, his hair and suite are dry in what seems to be 50 foot waves.
Near the film's end, Gustav is clinging to an opening in the plane when Bond activates his electrocution button. This causes Gustav to surge with the same voltage he dished out earlier. Why is he being electrocuted? The shocks are released via the glove. If he was clinging from a metal plane, the glove would've sent the electricity throughout the plane's frame as opposed to just him.
Towards the end of the film when Jinx tries to level out the plane, she stabalizes it at just over 5,000 feet and then starts the fight with Miranda. Yet when Jinx and Bond are in the helicopter when it is falling out of the sky the altitude they fall from is clearly about 12,000 feet.
Helicopters do not need to have their engines running in order to avoid crashing. At the end of the film, Bond is desperately trying to start the helicopters engine to stop crashing. In reality, all he needed to have done was to perform an autorotation. This is a manoeuvre which is used to arrest the decent rate in an engine-out emergency in helicopters, and allows a smooth landing.
When Bond revives Jinx in the hot spring, she sputters a bit and starts talking. Previously, she had been unconscious and underwater. She should have a lungful of water to spit out before she could speak.
In the scene with all the high ranking Korean officers in the bunker, they all have identical medals evan though they are different ranks/ages. One of them even has his upside down.
During the hover craft race scene you can clearly see that Bond's face is covered in mud from the exploding mines. At the end when the other hovercraft has gone over the cliff into the waterfall Bond's face is immaculately clean.
The 'Vauxhall Cross' Tube Station appears to be on the south bank next to Westminster Bridge across from Parliament, but it is a Piccadilly Line station, which does not cross the Thames. You can tell from the tilework because it was filmed in Aldwych, which is a real, abandoned station on the Piccadilly Line - there is a sign that reads 'Piccadilly Line' in one shot.
In the scene where Bond is following the goons into the rainforest area of the ice palace in his invisible car, he makes car tracks, but when the shot changes to where he is running away, the tracks are gone.
In the scene where Bond pulls himself out of Hong Kong harbour you see the Hong Kong skyline in the background, therefore he has come ashore on the Kowloon side (also a reference to "The Man With The Golden Gun"). He then turns to see that he's at the Hong Kong Yacht Club - but the Yacht Club is on Hong Kong Island, not the Kowloon waterfront.
The premise of the movie is that Gustav Graves is dealing in conflict diamonds, which are distinguishable from non-conflict diamonds by their chemical makeup. In reality, conflict diamonds are in no way chemically or visually different from any other diamonds.
In the very first shot of the Korean camp, you can see the big power line pylons that are visible in the Pinewood area, where that part of the film was shot.
After Graves and Bond's fencing battle they shake with their right hands. By tradition all fencers shake with their left. Something going back hundreds of years about never releasing your weapon.
When Bond is first speaking to Jinx in the bar by the beach he is smoking a cigar. A front shot of Bond shows him with cigar in mouth. The next (reverse) shot over Bond's left shoulder shows him without cigar in his mouth. Although out of frame initially the cigar is in his hand. He then raises his hand into shot and proceeds to smoke the cigar.
In the scene where James Bond is cutting through the ice with the watch laser, we clearly see that the ice is (at most) 15cm thick - yet there are dozens of cars parked on the same ice. They'd have fallen straight through.
When M is talking to the American over the webcam conection, look at the bottom of the screen when we see the American. You can see the back of the webcam that is supposed to be taking the image. In the next shot it is gone.
Why can the lasers burn through metal in an instant, but take a few split seconds to burn through Mr. Kill's skull?
The plane is an Antov 124 (Russian) In some scenes the instruments are Cyrillic, in others they are English.
The first time we see the inside of the transport plane, the helicopter is very close to the yellow car, with its tail sticking most of the way over it. When Bond and Jinx come to escape and start up the conveyer belt, the yellow car's quite far back from the helicopter.
By the way the invisible feature of the Aston is explained, it would have cast a shadow underneath the car. There are no lights under the car to keep the ground equally lit.
Bond disables a camera to get into the highly-secured centre of the clinic. However, with all the advanced technology, this camera malfunction goes completely unnoticed. Apparently no one was even watching it.
When Bond is being chased in the rocket car by the sunbeam, for a few seconds he's in a coniferous forest. After that he's back on the sheet of ice, with no vegetation to be seen for miles.
We see the cars that were dropped out the plane have landed front end down in a ditch, but they have engines in the rear, making the back of the car more heavy, and due to the laws of physics, if anything they would land back end down. [It's been argued that the engines are open at the bottom to improve ventilation, and this would have reacted like a parachute where the engine is, pushing the back end up. In fact, both cars (Lamborghini Diablo and Ferrari F355) have closed bottoms to generate downforce when driving through corners at speed. The ventilation is taken care of by holes in the body of the car. The engineroom is completely stuffed with the engines anyway, so there's simply no room to hold the air for any parachute-effect whatsoever.]
In the Cuban clinic, Bond unplugs a wire from a camera that's covering the secret entrance. However, he only unplugs the wire that controls the zoom/focus (you can see the wire goes to a small motor or something on top of the lens). The power and video feed comes/goes from the thicker cable coming out the back of the camera into the wall.
In the scene where Bond is held at gun point by Mirinda Frost in the ice palace, he breaks though the floor and he and Miranda fall though. He runs and Miranda follows. Bond gets out to the fast speeder and in the next shot, Miranda is magically up by Gustav. How could she get there that fast?
When John Cleese is trying to regain control of the jet pack after Bond fools around with it, you can make out two strings diagonally attached to the top to lift the pack as the top comes down into view.
In the scene where Bond has just used his ring to break the glass floor and Miranda Frost is chasing him though the trees and plants, he gets to the rope (of sorts) which I assume is connected to a electronic pulley system. So as far as I can see, Jinx would have a remote control or something to control when the rope goes down, up, stops, etc. Bond obviously doesn't have this, but manages to grab the rope and shoot upwards on it.
In the pre-credit sequence, the guy who becomes Graves demonstrates the power of his shell launcher by blowing up Bond's chopper. Notice how the soldier behind him lifts up his AK-47. It skips to the helicopter exploding, and comes back to Graves firing the shell launcher a second time. The soldier lifts his AK up a second time, with identical movements.
Bond fences right-handed with an epee but is wearing a left-handed sabre jacket.
In the scene,where Bond meets Jinx the very first time, the bartender in the background does weird things. First, Bond asks him for a mojito, he comes to him. Later, when Bond looks at Jinx, the bartender is in the far left side of the counter. When next time Bond is seen, the bartender is close behind Bond. And next time the camera changes its view, the bartender is in the far left corner again. He remains there in the rest of the scene.
During the scene where Icarus is first set off, illuminating the palace enough that sunglasses are handy to use, notice that even though the light is very intense, neither Bond's nor Jinx's pupils shrink.
The plane flies through the icarus beam and is damaged on the underside of the fuselage. Only the top of the plane should be damaged.
During the car chase on the ice, Bond's Aston Martin flips over. At this point, one of the roof bars snaps off, but magically reappears in the next scene.
In the hovercraft chase at the beginning of the film, Bond knocks out the co-driver and eventually throws the driver over the side before gaining control of the vehicle. He then proceeds through a sequence of turns and jumps with the co-driver still sitting in his seat. All through the action the unconscious co-driver sits rigidly in the same position and is quite obviously a poor quality manequin, rather than a 'real' person.
In the parachuting scene of GG over the Buckingham Palace, the photogapher next to Bond is a more than obvious fake - he doesn't even know how to hold the camera correctly.
In Iceland, where Bond takes Jinx to the hot water, he brings her from his side of car, but the door on the Jinx's side of car is open. Why?
When Gustav Graves climbs out of his little ice-slidey-vehicle, he has the helmet in his hand when the glass lid is opened. His head was so close to the top of the glass that there is no room for him to remove the helmet before it is opened.
One of the trucks the North Koreans are using as a troop transporter has a cargo body and canvas tilt from a British Army Bedford MK or MJ truck cobbled on to what looks like an American miltary truck chassis.
In the hovercraft chase scene at the beginning, when the Korean hovercraft flip over, it can be seen that they have flat, metal bodies on the underside - but they should have lift fans there; with no lift fans, they would not be able to float at all.
When Gustav lets go of the Antonov, the airflow would have resulted in him passing along the side of the aircraft to freedom, not into the engine.
Right before Bond detonates the C-4 in the suitcase of dimonds, all the solders are scrambling to get the weapons out of the location and the firing squad is just about to fire at Bond. If you look real close there is someone still examining the dimonds with an eyepiece. Why take the time to examine the dimonds at this moment?
When General Moon berates his son for his betrayal to his country, the elder Moon makes no mention of Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea. Top North Korean party bureaucrats and military officers (and probably the entire North Korean people) are indoctrinated since childhood to worship and even deify Kim Jong-il and his late father Kim Il-sun. No self-respecting North Korean general will berate his son for disloyalty to his country without also mentioning disloyalty to Kim Jong-il.
The platform of the abandoned underground station is far too short to stop a train on - it is barely long enough for one carriage.
During the party in the ice palace, when everyone is all dressed up nicely, shouldn't everyone be cold or at least wearing something a little warmer? They're in the middle of an ice tundra!
At the very beginning of the big car chase, when bond gets in the Aston Martin. We see that the car is invisible when it's struck by a guy riding a skidoo. But when the Aston reappears visible, the rear of the car is completely undamaged.
