Movie Mistakes. Do You Catch Them ?

[Dinner]

I'm a pilot and several of my friends pilot light aircraft as well so we found Pearle Harbor riddled with errors. Did you folks see how the co-star acted while in the cockpit? He was constantly jumping around and using "lock to lock" corrections". Any moron trying to fly like that would quickly find himself in a death spiral.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm a pilot and several of my friends pilot light aircraft as well so we found Pearle Harbor riddled with errors. Did you folks see how the co-star acted while in the cockpit? He was constantly jumping around and using "lock to lock" corrections". Any moron trying to fly like that would quickly find himself in a death spiral.

I liked the angled flight decks on the carriers, the 4-bladed propellors on 1940-1 era Spitfires, the 'Knox' class frigates subbing for 1940's ships, etc, etc...

However, my favorite error was the nurse character accidentally getting pregnant. She's a NURSE, fercryinoutloud!!!!

[Provost Harrison]

I just heard Pearl Habour was utterly awful anyway so have avoided it like syphilis...

[Dis]

actually I think I'll rent it on DVD. I may fast forward the sappy parts.

[Sonic]

The most funny mistakes regarding aviation I've found in book "Left Behind". One of main characters there is pilot and thus the book speaks about aviation much, but it seems neither of it's both authors understands anything about it. There were many mistakes about aviation in that book, most funny quoutes include:

(About pilot who flies UN general secretor's Boeing 757):
"Every pilot sometimes likes fast take-offs, thus he severly pushed accelerator pedal and that made UN general secretor to fall back a few salons"
Probably authors thinks that both pedals in planes are, like in cars with automatic transmission, for accelaration and braking .

Also in that book it was mentioned that US president changed it's plane from 747 to 757 cause 757 is so fast and powerful that it is even called "Porsche of planes" in the book. Also after that US president constantly flies around all the world on routes which would certainly be too long for 757.

Later in that book it is mentioned that UN general secretary secretly built a plane in some garage, "which is as big as two 747s (biggest plane ever built), but flies exacly as 757"

[RGBVideo]

I don't usually look for 'em, but I seem to notice lot of them when seeing bad movies...

[MattyBoy]

I had to learn to suspend disbelief and get on with it.
Top Gun was my breakthrough movie and since then I haven't looked back.

[Immortal Wombat]

I never find the little errors. I tend to point out the big big plot-holes.

[Jaguar]

Harry Potter II:

When the pixies are released in the Defense Against the Dark Arts Class, it appears the characters were told to play up the chaos a bit, because it looks like Emma Watson, who plays Hermione, deliberately knocks her own books off her desk.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I just heard Pearl Habour was utterly awful anyway so have avoided it like syphilis...

Not a good analogy... if you avoided Pearl Harbour like you've avoided syphilis, that would mean you stopped seeing all movies...

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

Anyway, it was a dumb, dumb movie and I wouldn't have paid to see it. Borrowing it from a friend to watch on a rainy day was my reasoning.

[Zopperoni]

Hm, some people have too much free time

[Sonic]

Better whatch movie Tora! Tora! Tora! if you want good and realistic historical film about Pearl Harbor...

[Dr Strangelove]

I think Pearl Harbor takes the record for most mistakes in a movie.

[Berzerker]

I caught one just last night watching Planet of the Apes. Charleton Heston and his crew landed in the "forbidden zone" in the eastern desert, but he later finds the Statue of Liberty on the west coast?

[Berzerker]

I liked Tora Tora Tora because it gave some time to the Japanese and the inner politics involved with the Navy and Army fighting over control of policy.