Movie & TV flubs...

[FordSVT]

Watching an episode of "Dynasty" titled "Two Flights to Haiti" where while in an elevator with Alexis and Adam, the boom mike comes into view overhead briefly for about three seconds. After it's gone, the actor who plays Adam looks over to where the boom mike holder might be standing and sort of gives a Fifth Wall breaking look like "moron".

Makes you wonder how much coke the director was on at the time to let that take make the cut.

 

[Worf412]

I hate when sound-effects guys dub in the sound of a hammer clicking in readiness to fire when the person is clearly holding a hammerless gun, (e.g., a Glock model). I don't know if it is more annoying that they think people are so uneducated about firearms or that it may be true.

I have one akin to this.

There's a commercial for either an electronics or a cell phone company, where the rube (aka: the customer) camps out all night to get a great deal; despite the fact that this deal is always offered - thus no need for camping.

Well, right before an employee of said store goes in, the customer says "I'll have coffee ready in a bit", right before we hear a clear "kettle whistle sound".

1) If the customer was woken upon the employee's arrival, how has the rube managed to get a fire going and water boiling during their 30 second back-and-forth?

2) Most people know to not boil water to make coffee. You can, but it's not as good. When camping, kettles are moved around to keep the water from boiling if at all possible.

3) He clearly had a percolator on the fire. Percolator's don't whistle.

and 4) Even if he somehow had insta-fire, and boiled his water in that rarest of beasts: the whistling percolator... There is no steam coming from the kettle. From whence comes the whistle?

 

[Trekker4747]

Anyone else think of Space Mutiny here?

"I think it's great of you to give that dead woman another chance!"

 

[Delta Belle]

In the recent Peter Jackson's King Kong we see Ann Darrow out in the streets of New York in just a slip of a dress in winter while everyone else is bundled up. And yet she doesn't show a hint of being cold and shivering like crazy.

The second is where Kong is sliding around on the frozen pond. Hell, that ice must have been really thick for something his size not to have gone crashing through the ice. And again Ann Darrow doesn't seem to notice the wintry cold.

And the final straw was seeing Darrow atop the Empire State Building and we can't see a trace of her breath in the cold air.

Little things, but

Film crews are a fact of life in downtown Los Angeles. Once I was out and about at lunch, and came upon a scene for the TV show The District just before the camera rolled. A crew member on the sidewalk briefly stopped several of us real people, while they filmed a man in an overcoat coming out of a building and hailing a taxi.

The scene was set in Washington, DC in the dead of winter. However, it was actually early September and still warm in L.A. So they had to keep us real people in shirtsleeves out of the picture, to preserve the illusion.

Having been to the doctor more often recently, I just caught this blooper on Law & Order: SVU/Serendipity. During an autopsy, Warner finds a small plastic tube of blood in a man's upper arm. The man had put it there himself, trying to beat a paternity test.

Warner says the incision for inserting the tube could have been missed, because they roll up one's sleeve only up to the elbow for a blood draw. Actually, they roll the sleeve up higher, to put the elastic band on one's upper arm to make the veins stand out.