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Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts 
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No movie in particular, but usually when there is a film about a gold bar heist, they manage to pick up a whole bunch of them very easily.
Just picking up one would take some effort. I've seen various weights attributed to a standard gold bar. Forty pounds seems to be about right (that's what my stash of 117 bars hidden in my basement weigh). So load 10 of them into a duffel bag, and it would rip the bag apart if you could even possibly pick it up. "Three Kings" is a movie that comes to mind where they were handling the bars as if they were made out of balsa wood.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1778 Posts
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Whiplash had so many errors, it was excruciating to watch.
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Poof-Daddy Inner circle Considering Stopping At Exactly 5313 Posts
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I think I found an error in every Chuck Norris movie I ever saw as a teen (as simple as a knife gliding down a string tied to the bad guy he threw it at). But if you like errors and inaccuracies check out the YouTube channel "Cinema Sins" and their everything wrong with (EWW) vids. they are very funny. (bleeped out some but often NSFW).
Cancer Sux - It is time to find a Cure
Don't spend so much time trying not to die that you forget how to live - H's wife to H on CSI Miami (paraphrased).  
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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts
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On Mar 7, 2015, Jack Straw wrote: In one of the original Disney Witch Mountain movies they load the stolen gold bars into the back of a station waggon. The rear tires burst, the rear axle breaks and the car is disabled. I kind of liked seeing the reality of how that theft would have had to have ended.
Magic is like Science,
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18065 Posts
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Blues brothers had some interesting ones .... Jakes ring keeps appearing and disappearing in the movie....
THE MAN THE SKEPTICS REFUSE TO TEST FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS.. The Worlds Foremost Authority on Houdini's Life after Death.....
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Mar 7, 2015, Poof-Daddy wrote: I remember a comedian whose entire act was pointing out the errors in one of Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo" movies such as the fact that Rambo runs through a rice paddy, dodging enemy fire. The comedian, who actually served in Viet Nam points out that not only do rice paddies have thick heavy mud at the bottom and could never be run trough, the enemy fire generally creates a shrapnel field about 6 yards around and could hardly be dodged that easily.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Mar 2, 2015, mastermindreader wrote: I did just see a "historical inaccuracy" mentioned. In "The Longest Day," one of the teams is charged with taking German gun emplacements. When they go through the grueling trip there, they find the gun emplacements have been moved. One of the soldiers says; "You mean we did all that for nothing?" In reality, the gun emplacements WERE there and there was a pitched battle before they were seized, but the studio wanted a reference to the pointlessness of war!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Mar 5, 2015, ringmaster wrote: I watched the YouTube clip. It's pretty clear that's shot on a soundstage. So what we're PROBABLY seeing is a reflection of a light being moved behind the camera.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Villains explaining their plans to give time for the good guys to save the day is a movie error that keeps repeating itself.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Andrew Zuber Inner circle Los Angeles, CA 3025 Posts
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On Jan 10, 2024, Pakar Ilusi wrote: As a TV writer, this is one of my biggest pet peeves. The first pilot I ever wrote had a scene where that could have easily happened, so I chose to write myself into a corner and determine how the character would escape it. It took some doing, but it makes me crazy when the leads get all this extra time to figure things out, and in the end it added my favorite moment of the script which lead to the series premise.
"I'm sorry - if you were right, I would agree with you." -Robin Williams, Awakenings
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Jan 11, 2024, Andrew Zuber wrote: There's two times that's address and punctured: In "Dogma," the demon says; "Oh no. I've seen way too many Bond movies to know that you never reveal all the detail of your plan, no matter how close you may think you are to winning." And in "The Watchmen," RORCSCHACH: You know we can't let you do that! VEIDT: 'Do that,' Rorschach? I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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On Jan 17, 2024, ed rhodes wrote: SEVEN was even better. "What's in the box?!"
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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In the new season of True Detective a character who is obviously not rich affording a huge bottle of pure Vermont Maple syrup in Alaska.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1778 Posts
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In Spielberg’s film The Goonies (which was directed by Richard Donner), there was originally a scene with the kids battling a giant octopus. Even though the contraption cost a fortune to construct, Spielberg cut the entire scene because he felt it didn’t look realistic enough.
However, near the end of the movie when the children are interviewed by the police, one of the kids mentions fighting the octopus. Major oversight! |
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3434 Posts
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[quote]On Mar 7, 2015, ed rhodes wrote:
I've never assumed the characters were speaking English. I just assumed they were speaking whatever language they're supposed to speak and it's being translated for us. (The scene in "Red October" where Sean Connery is speaking Russian and the camera pulls to a close up of his mouth and suddenly he's speaking English is probably the strongest example.) Wasn't Connery but the actor portraying the KGB moral officer. Cheers! 
Stanyon
aka Steve Taylor "Every move a move!" "If you've enjoyed my performance half as much as I've enjoyed performing for you, then you've enjoyed it twice as much as me!" |
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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5162 Posts
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In going through these posts, I'm wondering if the conversation essentially comes back to magic? Cinema, and theater, are all about make-believe and storytelling. Both of which are based on the "third wall" principle, that invisible partition that allows us, as the audience, to be privy to the events before us. Magic is the same, but the third wall is not really a wall, but more like a veil. The veil encompasses the performer and everything she or he does as it's all part of the illusion of storytelling. If that veil is penetrated by any kind of exposure... the illusion of the story is diminished.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Posted: Mar 7, 2015 05:45 pm 