Film continuity. Does it bother anybody else?

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I can't help myself. Does anyone else enjoy finding mistakes in films?

I'm sitting watching apocalypse now and when the choppers attack the costal village, they all have external rocket pods and mounted guns. Yet, they land to drop off the air cav, and no chopper has anything mounted. Just the side door .50 cals.

Last other film I remeber was the Meg. Statham in the water with a Bluetooth headset in one ear. Goes underwater, pops back up, ear piece is in the other ear.

Good job I watch these things alone.

I wonder if i need a career change. :cry:
 
Watched well over 30 hours of stranger thanks recently, noticed zero continuity errors and neither did i look for any. I just cant be bothered to look for them although i have noticed some in movies before
 
Just to say I don't actively look for them. My brain just seems to see them and then yeah, that's it.

It is like the godzilla movies when godzilla stands up in the ocean. My brain goes whaaaa.


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I reckon I seldom notice them, though now I think of it, one from Black Hawk Down springs to mind (well, I assume it was a mistake).
 
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One that I notice all the time is when actors hold their head a certain way, pull a face or have a certain expression. Then the scene flicks to another camera and they’re not doing whatever they were doing just a second previously. It’s annoying!
 
Stock plane shots get right on my breasts - when characters take off in one plane but the shots in cruise or landing show an entirely different one, or they’ve taken a flight from Australia to the UK in a short haul 737.

It’s ten times more annoying when it military aircraft.

It’s literally ten seconds of research needed…
 
If anyone's drinking or smoking I pay a lot of attention to the level of said prop.

Boom's in shot are fascinating, the most recent one was in Dave, where they seemed to leave in about 1 second of the edit before adjusting the frame and the actors getting into character and the wide angle shows the whole boom and stick just sitting above the actors heads as they stand still then suddenly set off and the shot zooms so only they can be seen on the street.

I also enjoyed seeing the shadow of the boom coming and going in an old episode of Columbo recently (the one where Johnny Cash is the baddy)

I will also check the goofs section of IMDB after watching movies.
 
Lartyconshayo said:
If anyone's drinking or smoking I pay a lot of attention to the level of said prop.

Boom's in shot are fascinating, the most recent one was in Dave, where they seemed to leave in about 1 second of the edit before adjusting the frame and the actors getting into character and the wide angle shows the whole boom and stick just sitting above the actors heads as they stand still then suddenly set off and the shot zooms so only they can be seen on the street.

I also enjoyed seeing the shadow of the boom coming and going in an old episode of Columbo recently (the one where Johnny Cash is the baddy)

I will also check the goofs section of IMDB after watching movies.
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Holding empty cups on TV shows is one!
 
The one I do notice all the time is certain stock noises, there is one sound effect that is used for the computers in Deus Ex that is used in all sort of films that I always notice.
 
It doesn't bother me too much but I mention to my girlfriend a lot how unrealistic certain things are, especially in war/action films or death scenes (spent way to long on live leak as a kid)

She just usually sighs (same in the bedroom)
 
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