I saw the film, "Swoon," tonight.  It is about the Loeb/Leopold murder
case.  Loeb and Leopold were rich young men who, back in the 1920's,
thought it would be exciting to kidnap and murder a boy, meanwhile
collecting a ransom from his family.

At one point in the film, one of the lead characters uses a telephone.
We hear him dialing.  Touch tone.  Now, they were rich, but just the
same....

We all know of classic movie blunders, such as Moses wearing a wrist-
watch.  What blunders have you noticed recently?

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An older one for the Trekkie in everyone. In "Star Trek II Wrath of Kahn,
Kahn glares at Lt. Chekov and says "And you are Chekov, I never forget
a face..." Neat trick Ricardo! Checkov didn't appear in the series 
Star Trek untill 2 seasons AFTER the season that your origional episode 
was on. 

a recent one - movie gettysburg - there is a battle scene
where some fighting is being panned over, and then some soldiers
from both sides are seen just kind of "hanging out" together...
 
movie jurrassic park -
several of them.  the first encounter with the t-rex - the door on the
explorer is open when the camera is with the kids.  closed when with
the main character guy in the rear explorer.  open again.  closed again.
it finally stays closed for good when the one kid yells "close the door!" ;)
the goat that the t-rex was supposed to eat was on the same level as the
explorers, seperated by the fence.  after the t-rex attack, there is
suddenly a 50 foot dropoff on that side of the road where they climb
down and the explorer nearly falls on them.
I guess a little nit-picky one is when they first come to the island,
the doctor who engineered the whole thing (sorry I am so terrible with names)
is the farthest one from the door, yet must have climbed over everyone's
cramped legs to be the first one to hop out.
same scene -as the helicopters are landing, the two jeeps are seen waiting
at the edge of the helipad.  then, they cut to just behind the jeeps after
the helicopter touches down, and they are just pulling up and stopping.

Re #1:  My favorite explination for that one is that Checkov was one of
the hundreds of people on board the Enterprise that the audience does not
get to see in any given episode.  Kahn met him when we weren't watching.

"Much Ado About Nothing" -- The camera tracks passed a sheet of music
printed on a Grand Staff (treble & bass clef for piano sight reading).
Didn't exist!  Kenneth Brannagh...what a boob!

"Fish called Wanda" In a scene in John Cleese's character's office, as
Jamie Lee Curtis walks by the camera with a mirror in the backround,
you can see the camera in the mirror.  The editor must've been
stoned...

In the movie Blue Thunder Roy Schider's partner is running from his 
captors with is hands cuffed behind his back with those plastic
handcuffs. There is a car chasing him but this kid on a bike rolls
out in front of him and when the guy runs into the kid you see his
hands come up to break his fall and in the next scene where they
show the cops "discovering" the body his hands are once again
handcuffed behind his back. This discrepancy is so blatent the
editor should be shot!!

In the James Bond movie "The Man With The Golden Gun", one of the cars in
the chase scene was a green 1955 Plymouth, but in the next scene, when the 
green car crashes, it becomes a green 1955 CHEVROLET!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Die Hard"... They can't use the control tower radios and the bad guys
blew up the reservation system radios, but they are instructed to go
prepare a plane for the escape, and planes have radios!.. This is a plot
hole big enough to fly a 747 thru!

I liked the point about the Grand Staff in "Much Ado About Nothing."  I prob-
ably would have missed that, but its very true.  One foul-up I noticed was
in the Bodyguard, when they are in the hotel.  You can see the Boom (micro-
phone that hangs down above the actors' heads) in the mirror.  Whoever made
the editor's coffee that day was serving decaf.

We watched the 2 night mini-series "Buffalo Girls" last Sunday and Monday.
There is on scene where Clamitiy Jane goes to visit a friend (either in
town or on a ranch, can't quite remember which) where there was an obvious
TV antenna on one of the buildings.  I didn't know that they had TV in
the mid 1800's.

The TV series "Daniel Boone" was famous for outdoor scenes that had jet
contrials in the sky (jets in 1775?  I think not!!).

It wasn't a TV antenna, it was...a...uh...lightning rod...yeah, that's it!

Heard on the radio about a blunder in _Forrest Gump_ regarding a "1978 _USA
Today_ photograph."  How can that be?  _USA Today_ didn't begin publication
until 1982!

Another _Gump_ blunder I heard about today -- there was a newscaster
mentioning and interview with Governor George Wallace of Alabama on videotape.
Only one problem, though.  In the early 1960's, file footage for the news was
on FILM, not VIDEOTAPE.

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'Ello Zombee

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