Bloopers

[Nevada Ed]

I just have to laughg at some of these cop,murder shows that they produced in the old days.

Tonight there was a chase sceen with a jeep and two guys after a PU truck with three people in front of them.
After the jeep pulled out and the BG loadeded his rifle, in the chase..........

the PU truck all of a sudden, had the jeep in front of them shooting !!

Hellow.

Got to love those "Bloopers".

 

[Rudi]

I love watching for details like that. Some pretty sloppy production standards back when. Still today.

 

[LVSteve]

I'm a fan of Endeavour on NPR. It's set in the 60s and 70s. Watching them handle and collect physical evidence without gloves or any kind of documentation procedure makes me cringe. It's mostly because you know damned well that's what went on back in the day.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

It could be worse...

...you watch a cops and robbers shootout and see the gun in the cops hand go from a S&W to Colt and back again in the same scene!


Or the car the cops are chasing go from being a Chevy to a Ford to a Dodge in the same scenes.

Or the 1930's Ford police car running hot with a 1960s' electronic siren sound....

The list is endless

(groan)

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My F-I-L's wife was a training officer for Columbus' Crime Scene Search Unit. When the show CSI first came out, she was in another room working, and the talk was for real. The next week she watched it and was soooo disappointed. She forbade her students from watching it as the only examples it gave were bad!

Ivan

 

[Buzzzer]

Let's not forget the firearms you never had to reload and had all the shots a person ever needed to get the job done. Dang, I'm still looking for one of those "miracles"...

 

[UncleEd]

So far, you're all wrong.

The movies and TV show real life.

Unfortunately, you all have reel lives.

 

[Chuck24]

Near the beginning of The Guns of Navarone the responding Germans arrive in a Dodge

 

[jeffrefrig]

One '50s B movie on Svengoolie they were on a space ship going from Moon back to earth. There were crates full of grenades and 1911s. I hoped the engineers' slide rules accounted for all the extra weight. But anyhow, they were shooting at the moon monster on board and not one gun ejected any casings. These mindless movies are great if you're in the right frame of mind. But why were there all those crates full of grenades and 1911s in a spaceship?

 

[LVSteve]

Near the beginning of The Guns of Navarone the responding Germans arrive in a Dodge

Then there's the American sniper using a Mosin PU sniper rifle in Kelly's Heroes.

 

[Chuck24]

Near the end of The Undefeated you can see a couple of pickup trucks driving on the other side of the river

 

[rockquarry]

I never let these faults damage a good story, but some go out of there way to seek out the shortcomings. This would seem to assuredly ruin the film for them.

 

[Alk8944]

Near the end of The Undefeated you can see a couple of pickup trucks driving on the other side of the river

There are hundreds of Westerns where tracks of rubber tires are seen in the road, or airplane contrails in the background in the sky! "Ben Hur" has many tire tracks from the camera truck showing in the chariot race sequences. How about "Big Jake" (I think it was) where the son is riding a modern two-stroke dirt bike in 1910. There were motorcycles then, but they weren't ring-a-dings!

 

[Rustyt1953]

I am not a round counter nor do I look for incongruities.

I let the story take me where it will.

 

[rockquarry]

I am not a round counter nor do I look for incongruities.

I let the story take me where it will.

It's refreshing to hear such a comment; someone who actually sees beyond the blunders.

 

[Buford57]

My favorite was a 1960s era moonshiner vs. Sheriff pic where the dirt road car chases all had the same squealing tire sound FX. Sounded like they borrowed it from Wile E. Coyote. Turned out about the same, too.

 

[Alk8944]

Been watching Adam 12 re-runs. Amazing how Malloy is always driving what looks like 45-50 in residential areas, the tires always squeal from hard cornering, and he always brakes so hard the tires squeal on every stop.

Or they are in a situation where there is an armed man and they already have their guns out and pointed in the man's direction, but when he points his gun at them they always duck until he shoots at them, then look up and shoot back!At least that's what Malloy does! BTDT, gun fights don't work that way!

Or MASH. Time period was 1950-1953 during the Korean War and everyone wears black boots. The Army wore Brown boots until the uniform regulations changed in 1957! Most of the trucks are the same as those while I was in the Army from 1964-1967. There were still plenty old GMG gas trucks around when this was filmed. These are just the two anomalies that really stand out.

 

[Golddollar]

Then there are the movies set in the Civil War where the soldiers are all using Single Action Army Colts and Trapdoor Springfields.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Dave.357]

I like when they look at bullet hole and Declare it
Was a S&W revolver in .38 Special.