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Re:Did anybody else notice this?Probably plenty of goofs like that... in the 'locker' scene, where K retrieves his watch, J replaces it (at the behest of the 'little people', gag) with his own watch... but in cuts back to the little-people shot, the old K watch is still in place. More will eventually show up at Movie Mistakes.
Saw the flick last night, and felt cheated.... it's virtually a copy of the first movie, the effects brought nothing new to the screen, and at 1 hour 20 minutes, hardly a movie-going value.
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Re:Nitpicking at its worstOverall it's nice that people are thinking about physics (or at all); maybe the site's educational. I agree tho that many of the nitpicks are presumptuous -- I don't think we understand sufficiently the technology of (for instance) the Phantom Menace underwater force fields to predict how well they function in different circumstances.
Then again, I wasn't paying much attention. I rarely think at movies, especially blockbusters. I usually like them better if I can treat them like dreams.
Beyond the intro "errors made so frequently it'd be inefficient to keep pointing them out" page, I wasn't impressed. Here are some other nit-pick sites, not physics-specific, but a bit more thorough, and allowing for refutations:
- The Nitpickers Site, with a few decent physics nitpicks
- Movie-Mistakes.com, previously mentioned here
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Terminator 2 physics
the most unbelievable scene i've seen is in my favourite movie "Terminator 2 - Judgment Day". it's in the scene, where the t-1000 is chasing john on the motorbike. the t-800 (arnie) saves john and the big truck smashes in a concrete wall. to explain the explosion of the truck you see the tank leaking and a sparkle from the battery lead ignites it. BUT this truck is surely diesel powered and diesel does not ignite that way!
by the way: i'm from austria and think arnie is the one & only _good_ american!
there were already quite the same threads on
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Re:Head butts vs dismembermentLuke had called Leia "Carrie"
Did some searching around, and apparently Luke says "Hey", and the way it comes out sounds a bit like "Carrie". movie-mistakes.com discusses it:
When Luke exits his X-Wing , just after the final battle with the Death Star, Leia rushes to greet him. However, after he's climbed out, she greets him with "Luke!", whereas he greets her with "Carrie!". [This has been denied many times by George Lucas - it would have been very easy to dub over it, especially with the re-releases. He just shouts "Hey!", and it sounds a bit like "Carrie!"]
Though I am going to have to pay attention next time I watch ANH.
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Movie info: www.movie-mistakes.com/It seems people are stuck more on the subject of movies than the "free repository" part, so here comes my contribution...
I think the Movie Mistakes page is quite funny. Unfortunately when the big budget blockbusters have 115 entries, many of them are just "making of" trivia and so on instead of the hilarius Mystery Science Theatre 3000 badness that I crave. It seems that people submit more "mistakes" about famous films rather than about those really badly made films that are packed with errors of logic, continuity, special effects etc.
Also, even though I rarely buy stuff from them, I find it very fascinating to go to Amazon and just click around different reviews, "page you made", user made listmania lists and so on to find good stuff I might not have heard about before. It made me interested in old movies again, I have started to collect Kurosawa on DVD and I'm currently thinking of getting La Grande Illusion, Orson Welles films, The Third Man, lots of Noir detective films. Too bad Amazon doesn't stock more foreign films.
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