Look at it as a public service kinda thing. Everybody loves spotting errors in games, books and films, so here's a place to tell everyone about them. ;D It might also spur discussion on whether something is or is not an actual mistake. Looking on the bright side, it should serve as a warning - we can see all the mistakes the OTHER people made, and try not to repeat it.
But HIDE YOUR SPOILERS please!
Discworld
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There's a barrel of gunpowder. But at best it should be called "gonnepowder" - there are no "guns" in the Discworld, there's just been a "gonne", once, in "Men at Arms". At any rate, it should be a keg of Nº1 Powder, which is the way they call it.
Also, in Discworld Noir Lewton became a werewolf because Carlotta kissed him. Am I missing something here? Because that would make Carrot a werewolf too. Didn't they do much more than kiss in "Men at Arms"?
One more thing, but only for the real nit-picky: Rincewind is the star of Discworld 1. That game sort of follows the plot of Guards! Guards! and *may* be regarded as the "Rincewind" version of Guards! Guards!, as opposed to the "Watch" version. But during that time, Rincewind was in the Dungeon Dimensions - having got there in Sourcery and not coming out until Eric.
Sleepy Hollow:
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Isn't it interesting how the headless horseman's skull's teeth were all nice and perfect? Not pointy at all. But when he appears as alive as possible, all his teeth have been filed to points! Did they re-grow after his death?
Nausicaa:
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Ok, I may be wrong here - but does Nausicaa's dress, at the very end, change from red to blue without explanation?
Pirates of the Carribean:
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If you look closely during one of the ship fights (or when they steal the ship, I'm not sure), 5 times during that scene, you can see 1 or two cameramen across the deck.
LoTR: Fellowship:
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During beginning to Frodo and Sam's journey to Elrond, Sam tells Frodo "If I take one more step, I'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been." Shortly after that, if you look in the backround to the far-right, you can see a car driving up the road.
Peter Jackson cut this from the VHS and DVDs, and what is now there is smoke coming up from the house right next to there, following the car's path as a cover-up. Pretty funny, how they went to that lengths to get it fixed.
Losing the Faith:
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When that one dude and other chick are busy making out they stop and have a lengthy discussion about whether or not to continue the relationship. During this his shirt switches from open to closed continuously. It's quite hilarious.
I am a huge freak when it comes to noticing mistakes in movies! Most especially editing mistakes.
Jurassic Park:
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When the helicopter is descending you can see the Jeeps parked by the pad (all the way back to the gate), when the camera changes the Jeeps are backing up to the gate.
Titanic:
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When Jack and Rose are walking with Molly (going to dinner) you can see them in the background as the camera focuses on Cal. When it cuts back to them they are in a completely different pose)
There are soooo many I could mention.
I am making a movie-review website and one of the sections is devoted to mistakes like this! So keep 'em coming!
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned http://www.moviemistakes.com/
I spent hours on here when I first found it. Be wary.
The King and I:
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In one of Yul Brenner's dance numbers he is whirling and twirling around the palace. He has on 2 ear rings which stand out at right angles to his head from the centriptal (sp?) force. At one point in the dance he bends over and when he stands up again the ear rings are gone. Ok, one could postulate that they fell off when he bent over, but a few minutes later he bends over again and this time when he stands back up the ear rings have magically returned to their former position firmly attached to his ears. :o
I HATE noticing mistakes, i HATE people telling me about them, nothing better at taking all the immersion out of a scene :| i ignore all of 'em in monkey island 2 :)
Heh. Maybe if the mistakes weren't there the immersion wouldn't be in danger. ;)
Nothing we can do about 'em but ignore 'em ;)
Whatever happened to recognizing mistakes and learning from them? :=
You can do that in life, but lets take Sleepy Hollow. It's 6 years old, sure we probably could go back and cgi it.. but they wont. So it could be a use if they made Sleepy Hollow 2 but it wont do anything to Sleepy Hollow :|
Anyway, I don't like this thread so this will be my last reply :P
I think you mis-understood me a bit. Since we're all creators here - mostly everyone in the community is a creator of some sort, after all creating is what usually drives people to AGS in the first place - it's always interesting to focus on some aspects of some games/films/stories/images/whatever. In this particular case I started wondering about the mistakes, so we could have a little laugh about it and so we see examples of things we should mind when we ourselves are creating something. I certainly would never have thought of remaking Sleepy Hollow or anything else.
(Shame on me for replying again)
I know what you mean, but for me.. if i do notice a mistake, it will drive me crazy, going as far as skipping past scenes and totally ruin something for me. Yes we need to learn from mistakes, but not at the cost of ruining stuff for me :| :P
QuoteNausicaa:
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Ok, I may be wrong here - but does Nausicaa's dress, at the very end, change from red to blue without explanation?
There was TOO an explanation!
I hate sites like moviemistakes, because it's just full of perfectionist nerds who have watched the dvd-version of some top movie frame by frame just to be able to claim something like "in scene x, frame y, you can see a camera man in the reflection of one of the actor's sunglasses."
WHO CARES?
Andail - I was thinking more along the lines of plot-holes, actually, as per my examples, but whatever people wand to contribute's fine.
Eggie, what was the explanation?
Quote from: Rui "Brisby" Pires (a Furry) on Sun 09/10/2005 15:16:38
Nausicaa:
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Ok, I may be wrong here - but does Nausicaa's dress, at the very end, change from red to blue without explanation?
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She was covered in Ohmu blood. Stained her dress blue.
Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.
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...ohmu's blood is blue? Musta been the crappy quality of the copy I saw, I didn't catch that.
READ THE COMICS!
...huh? You had to read the comics to understand that?
...there are comics?
It should have been somehow explained. I mean, everything else was.
Hehe no, as far as I remember it explains it in the anime. But the comics are so much better than the anime you'll want to die.
I will say that I do like moviemistakes.com. I can learn a bit while reading them, for I really do like making movies, and it can help me look for common mistakes in movie making.
There are many errors in the Dumb and Dumber movie, but that doesn't stop me from loving that movie till the day I die.
One thing I do hate about moviemistakes, is that some are actually not mistakes, but theyre posted there. I don't feel like registering there, but it erks me when people rant about some 'mistake' and its not really one.
Wow.. it costs 10 bucks to register there. I think not. I wouldn't mind being able to share my look on the scenes, such as when
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lloyd grabs the bartender with one hand, and then when the shot changes, its a different hand
which is a solid mistake, but then when they complain about
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that the bartender gives lloyd another beer, the error reporters didnt notice the bartender take one away..
and now that ive gone through the moviemistake page on Dumb and Dumber, that error isn't there anymore. And I do see that some are edited by 'moderators' to detract the error.
Overall, I do like the page, and listening to mistakes, in general, but I suppose there are some movies that I don't want to hear about mistakes, like, maybe Jurassic Park, but then again, I can just pick up on some mistakes by myself, so, if I guess, if you don't want to know about them, stay in the dark. But for an aspiring director, I say bring 'em on.
I think the most important question you have to ask yourself is "does this really make the movie worse?"
Like for Titanic, when thousands of people report on how certain stairs weren't in fact positioned in that angle, or how one of the tea-pots actually was black and not white, etc.
That doesn't really affect the movie, that's just something for the know-it-alls to revel in
Again, I was actually thinking more of plot holes and inconsistencies. What I mentioned about Sleepy Hollow did hurt my pleasure in watching the film, especially as it was so glaring. And just the other day I was watching the most hilarious videoclip where the girl's dress's shoulder straps were alternatively both down, both up and one down and the other up and the other way around. Naturally I don't even know what song it was now.
And to get to my own examples again, my Discworld trifles were mostly about consistency - a good thing, is it not?
Besides, for how much longer will you be able to suspend disbelief in, say, Ben Hur once you've seen that
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the main character has a wrist-watch at a certain point of the film?
Some things are nit-picky. Others actually do some damage - seldom serious damage, and many you'll only spot after having seen the film... but the others you spot AS YOU watch make you jerk back into reality and think in terms of actors and photography again. That's quite, quite damaging.
Besides, every sort of mistake deserves to be pointed out, even nit-picky ones. Everyone who cares about that sort of thing should know, because if they have a particular interest it might well be because they themselves undertake similar projects and want to know about the pitfalls to be aware of. The crew of Titanic probably paid a lot of attention to such nit-picking*, as it only helps them not make the mistake again.
*At least I HOPE so