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Topic: goof-ups in major films that should of been fixed!
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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-03-2013 05:03 PM
I tend to notice a lot of geographical goofs in movies, like if a car chase is taking place in the middle of Washington, D.C. near the monuments, Smithsonian Institution, etc. and then it winds up in a fictitious toll tunnel that doesn't exist and that toll tunnel is really Lower Grand Avenue in downtown fucking Los Angeles.
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That kind of crap happens all the time in the movies. The "filmmakers" and producers pretend none of us notice any of that shit. But guess what? We do. And the tools at the fingertips of today's movie-goer are incredible. You can spot all kinds of recycled movie locations using the Street View feature in Google Earth. Using that and skimming a scene in a Blu-ray frame by frame will get a lot of movies plain busted.
By the way, here's an image of Lower Grand Avenue:
Look familiar? The location has only been used in about 138,839 movies. That's kind of a rounded, conservative estimate. It could be closer to 150,000 movies. A chase scene in The Terminator or Jamie Foxx playing a street musician in The Soloist are two examples where the location was plausible.
But I guess it was kind of cool to see that location double as Osaka, Japan in Black Rain where it set the stage for Andy Garcia to get decapitated by sword wielding bikers.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-04-2013 11:37 AM
quote: Mike Blakesley
If by "we" you mean super-anal micro-detail-oriented people who watch movies over and over and over and over, you may be right, but I think most likely 99.9% of people wouldn't have a clue unless they happen to live in the location being shown, OR the one supposedly being depicted.
The problem is many movie locations are set in places where a lot of people live. Chicago has over 3 million residents within its city limits alone, not counting additional millions in the suburbs. Over a million people live on the island of Manhattan, but a lot more than that work in Manhattan every day. There's no shortage of movies featuring geographically illogical car chases in Manhattan.
By the way Live Free, Die Hard was the movie of reference when I was talking about a fictious toll tunnel in downtown Washington D.C. The movie also featured a fake high rise bridge with circular approach ramps -nothing like that exists anywhere near D.C.; I think you can find bridges like that in the Far East. I laughed at an aerial shot that was clearly Los Angeles, complete with the jagged San Gabriel Mountains in the background.
In X Files: Fight the Future the opening action set piece is set in Dallas (featuring a building implosion similar to the Alfred P. Murrah Bldg bombing in Oklahoma City). The two lead actors are walking around on a rooftop. Visual effects people tried to work in some Dallas skyline elements into a few shots. But they let the Fox's "Die Hard" building come into clear view, giving away the fact they shot the scene in L.A.
quote: Steve Matz
When you shuttle jog that scene on your DVD player you will come upon a couple frames that show its a Stuntman that doesn't resemble Bushemi facially in the least.
How about True Lies? There's a couple scenes in that movie where the stunt double for Arnold Swarzenegger has his face clearly visible in the shot. The snowmobile chase in beginning has a stuntman wearing what looks like a bad blond wig. You see the stuntman's face when one of the snowmobiles explode. I noticed this the very first time I watched the movie. There's another scene where Arnold's double, on horseback, comes riding into the frame behind the motorcycle riding bad guy in the foreground. Those errors are clearly visible on the non-anamorphic DVD. I imagine they would stick out big time on Blu-ray, which could be one reason why True Lies still hasn't made it to Blu-ray.
The Untouchables has one of the most famous gaffes: Sean Connery's shirt collar going from buttoned, to unbuttoned to buttoned again while he's talking to Kevin Costner.
The Usual Suspects had a funny one where Gabriel Byrne's cigarette went from being lit, unlit and lit again in a scene. I hadn't noticed that one until Bryan Singer pointed out the gaffe in his director's commentary track.
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