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#121 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 07 December 2012 - 03:06 AM

I've been wondering, didn't Bond grab hold of the elevator facing out and then Bond's facing in watching the light come in as the doors to the elevator open? 



#122 Cody

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Posted 07 December 2012 - 08:46 AM

I've been wondering, didn't Bond grab hold of the elevator facing out and then Bond's facing in watching the light come in as the doors to the elevator open? 

 

No, he was always facing in.



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Posted 07 December 2012 - 10:43 PM

Actually; that's a decent point- Bond runs at the lift doors that Patrice walks through and grabs on: the doors are now behind his back. When he gets to the top he is facing the doors, isn't he? It could well be that the lift has doors on both sides; I can't remember.



#124 Cody

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Posted 07 December 2012 - 11:37 PM

Oh, I see now. Yeah, the lift would have to have doors on both sides. The ground floor is the only one where someone could get on or off that one side.



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Posted 29 December 2012 - 02:02 AM

the guardian 29 dec 2012

 

If there's one thing the blockbuster merchants realised in 2012, it's that movies don't really have to make sense any more. And no one will notice so long as you take yourself very, very seriously. In fact, the more serious and illogical movies got, the better they went down. Exhibit A: Skyfall. It was presented as a Bond movie for grown-ups: Death! Character! Psychology! MILFs! But think about Javier Bardem's unfeasibly cunning plan. He must have basically worked out everything in advance: that Bond would kill that Shanghai assassin, which would lead him to Macau, where he'd be seduced by a disposable love interest, who'd lead him to Bardem's secret baddie island, where Bond would overpower him, bring him back to London, get Q to feed his deadly computer virus into the system, and so on. Tube schedules, sewer plans, police disguises, helicopters, perfectly timed getaway drivers, plus a small army – hosting the Olympics was a village fete by comparison. All this to get to M, while Bond simply broke into her apartment.


Edited by quantumofsolace, 29 December 2012 - 02:02 AM.


#126 Hockey Mask

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Posted 30 December 2012 - 10:35 PM

 MILFs!

Please tell me they're not talking about Judi Dench.


Edited by 00Hockey Mask, 30 December 2012 - 10:36 PM.


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Posted 02 January 2013 - 09:20 AM

An article today in the UK Mail Online says that 'Skyfall' is 2nd in the 2012 Top Ten movie mistakes list, with 35 errors. 'Men In Black 3' comes out on top.

 

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film9442

 

1. Men In Black III (63)

2. Skyfall (35)

3. The Dark Knight Rises (24)

3. The Amazing Spiderman (24)

5. The Avengers (22)

6. Looper (14)

7. Prometheus (13)

8. Argo (13)

9. Underworld: Awakening (10)

10. The Hunger Games (10)

 

The list compiled from moviemistakes.com consist of the following gaffs:

 

- When there is a BBC News Report for the BBC News at 10 (clock bottom right) the wrong news studio is used rather than the correct one. They also used the wrong opening standing position. The studio shown is for the BBC News at 6pm, and the position used is only used for the intro after the half way segment, not the lead headline

 

- The cars used in the chase in Istanbul have French licence plates.

 

- The caterpillar digger on the train carriage is to large to fit through the tunnels later on in the train fight.

 

- Just before Bond confronts the assassin in the high-rise building, Bond pulls his gun. You can see that the lights on his gun are green, however Bond is wearing leather gloves and the gun is set to activate only upon reading his unique palm print - impossible while wearing gloves.

 

- The VW beetles on the train are parked side-by-side. Cars are never loaded like this - they would be end-to-end to stop them overhanging the wagon and hitting passing objects. They're only positioned like that to facilitate driving the digger over them later.

 

- In the car scene just before the MI6 explosion, invalid IPv4 addresses (with digits larger than 255) are displayed on the laptop screen.

 

- Just before Bond reaches the Chapel, he plunges into icy water. In the next scene, in the Chapel, he is perfectly dry.

 

- In the bar with Bond drinking and watching television he reaches over for a bottle which is 80% full. He pours a small amount into his glass and watches the TV. In the next shot the bottle is only about 20% full.

 

- In the scene where M (Judi Dench) is been driven back to the MI6 building, her car is stopped on a bridge and you see two cars stopping behind M's vehicle while she is still inside. She then gets out of the vehicle to speak to a police officer who requested that the car stop, and now two different vehicles are behind.

 

- We don't see where Moneypenny shot Bond, and are never told later in the film, but no wound is visible when he is swimming, or when Silva undoes his shirt, only the wound he got on the train in the right shoulder.

 

- In one of the tube train scenes, the destination blind shows 'Wimbledon'. This is a terminus on the London Underground for the District Line, a sub-surface line. No deep-level London Underground line with the rolling stock shown in the film serves Wimbledon.

 

- In the scene where M is asked to retire from MI6, she puts down her glass and gets up to leave. She picks up her coat from the back of the chair but leaves her bag on the floor. In the next shot, the bag is no longer there.

 

- In the chase through the tube station, Bond and Silva both slide down between the escalators. On the London Underground this area has hard vertical signs at regular intervals, precisely to prevent people sliding down.

 

- At the end of the film, Bond is standing on the roof. The time seen on Big Ben is 5.55, and there's loads of traffic in the background as well. He returns downstairs with Moneypenny and Tanner appears from M's office saying "morning 007". If it was morning in the winter months (Scotland having frozen lakes) it would be dark and not daylight that early.

 

- In the scene where Bond is chasing Silva in the Underground, he leaps over the emergency buttons and slides down the escalator panel. Initially you can see the emergency buttons at the bottom of the escalator, which would have broken his slide, however, these "disappear" as Bond slides smoothly off the panel at the bottom.

 

- When M goes to see Mallory at the start of the film, he pours her a drink and places the bottle on the table with the label facing the camera. The label is off centre and more to the left - when M leaves the bottle has not been moved and the label is still facing the camera, but the label is now more to the right.

 

- When on the motorbike on the rooftops of Istanbul, Bond at first has no sunglasses on, then sunglasses on, then no sunglasses.

 

- In the opening scene on the train the coupling is shot away and the rear wagon separates, this ruptures the continuous brake pipe, which would cause both halves of the train to stop immediately.

 

- James Bond is seen driving down Whitehall in London. Behind him a number 38 bus is seen. However the 38 does not travel down or indeed particularly near Whitehall. This was probably done to show off the new Routemaster bus, which is currently only used on the 38 route.

 

- About a third of the way through, Bond is in a black car, being driven somewhere in London. In the first shot of the black car driving on the street, there is a white car behind. Then there is a close up of Bond in the black car through the window. In this shot there is a black car behind Bond's car. The next shot (back to the whole car) the white car is behind Bond's car again.

 

- When Bond is fighting on top of the train at the beginning of the film, his footwear changes from black lace up shoes to black slip-on ankle boots.

 

- When Silva places the glass of whiskey on the girl's head, the liquid is full to the brim in some shots, or a finger below in others.

 

- When Bond is drinking Macallan in M's apartment he set the bottle down with the label facing away from us. Next shot has the bottle facing towards us. Final shot and the bottle is back in its original position, with the label away from us again.

 

- As Bond chases Patrice over the rooftops of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul at the start of the film, in the close ups of Daniel Craig his tie can be seen noticeably flapping over his shoulder (as you would expect). But in the long shots with the stuntman it doesn't move about at all, presumably having been fixed in place for safety.

 

- When Bond confronts the assassin and lets him fall to his death from the building in Shanghai, he then looks over to the opposite window where Severine is standing in the smashed window hole, her hair blowing in the breeze. When it cuts to the closeup of her leaving you can see the light reflected in the window glass that has magically reappeared.

 

- While talking with Severine in the casino bar, Bond gets his martini in a frozen glass. He picks it up, the camera's point of view changes, and the glass is now completely unfrozen.

 

- The DB 5 drives from wet London to a wintery remote part of Scotland, and it's totally clean. The wheels and the bodywork are spotless when they drive into the grounds of the house.

 

- When Bond drives M away in the Jaguar XJ, police cars can be seen driving towards them when he speeds around the corner. The Volvo police car in front has two yellow dots on the top of the windscreen which mean armed response, but on the roof there is a circle, which means traffic/incident response. The aerial roof marking symbol should have been a five-edged star for armed response. Metropolitan police don't even use Volvos for armed response. They use BMW 5 series and X5s.

 

- Bond and Silva travel from Temple station on the District/Circle line, which is a sub-surface line that has square tunnels (dug out from above and then covered over) and uses large trains with an almost square cross-section. However, the train they board is of the type used on the deep-level lines (eg. Northern and Jubilee lines), smaller and almost cylindrical in shape, and is seen to fit snugly into the cylindrical tube tunnel as the train leaves the station. They therefore can't be travelling on the District/Circle line, and must be on a deep-level line instead. The disused Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross are often used for filming, and photographs available online show one such platform recently dressed as Temple station.

 

- M is called to a House of Commons Committee - Commons Committees are staffed by "backbenchers" (members of parliament not in government), but present here are a minister and a civil servant (Fiennes).

 

- The pursuit scenes along the train tracks leading west from Istanbul show mountains and even trestles and tunnels which do not exist. The true scenery is quite boring.

 

- In the opening chase scene 007 rides his bike against the wall of the bridge. The bike bounces back, but in the next shot it is catapulting over the wall, tumbling over and over.

 

- In the scene where the assassin is about to go up in the elevator the 3rd button down on the right has been pressed and is lit. As the elevator closes the button is no longer lit.

 

- In the Istanbul chase scene at the start of the movie, Eve knocks out the windshield of the car she's driving, which comes out in more or less one solid piece. For the rest of the chase, about half the glass is suddenly back in the frame. Also, although she cracked the windshield all over to facilitate its removal, the leftover glass is later basically unbroken.

 

- In the scene in the National Gallery early on in the film where Bond meets Q, there is a line of bench seats. Bond is sitting on the end of one benches looking at a painting. The shot is from behind. Q comes and sits on the adjacent bench next to Bond. You can see the gap between the two benches between the pair. Then the shot changes to a front view as they start talking. But suddenly there is no gap in the bench in between them, they are both sitting on the same bench, the gap is now to Bond's left.

 

 

 

Someone had a LOT of time on their hands. Well, my enjoyment of 'Skyfall' is now ruined with these glaring errors...! :P



#128 Vauxhall

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Posted 02 January 2013 - 11:35 AM

I saw that article too, and was a little annoyed, as quite a few of those listed aren't mistakes at all. It overlooks a few genuine continuity errors, and includes things that were clearly decisions taken to assist the process of actually making a film. Bah, humbug.

I also seriously doubt that SKYFALL actually has the second most mistakes of the year, but as the most watched film of 2012 in the UK, I guess that opens up the more field to people thinking they've spotted problems with it.

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Posted 03 January 2013 - 08:45 AM

I think those people are called "picky"!?  :)

 

I don't think there's that many either.



#130 seawolfnyy

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Posted 03 January 2013 - 08:56 AM

- Just before Bond reaches the Chapel, he plunges into icy water. In the next scene, in the Chapel, he is perfectly dry.

Unless I'm mistaken, and I don't believe I am, Bond's clothes are still wet when he enters the chapel. You can see the light glistening off the moisture on his jacket.



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Posted 03 January 2013 - 10:09 AM

That's what I thought, and the huge debate whether he cried as M passed, or it was water dripping from his hair.

 

(He was crying)

 

:P



#132 sharpshooter

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Posted 01 February 2013 - 10:43 AM

The first time I saw that sequence, I felt grossly underwhelmed. But the more I watch it, the more cool and complex I realize it is. The visuals were always impressive, but there's a lot of calculated narrative happening. Easily one of the classiest (and best) stalking sequences in a contemporary action film, let alone the history of the Bond franchise.

The cut to Severine just staring at him post-fight is one of the most epic "007" moments I can recall on film. The whole thing is so definitively James Bond.

Absolutely. The visuals are gorgeous. That blue and green lighting and the silhouettes made. With Newman’s excellent ‘Jellyfish’ playing behind it all. 

I now view it as a modern update of Grant stalking ‘Bond’ at the start of FRWL, with a more rollicking finale compared to Grant’s quiet garroting. 

 



#133 Shaun Forever

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 12:32 PM

How do people notice some of this stuff?

 

 

Good fun to read though.



#134 Vauxhall

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 04:53 PM

How do people notice some of this stuff?


Good fun to read though.

Well, quite a few of them are imagined, or not actually mistakes - but on the most still good fun, yes! :)

#135 Iceskater101

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Posted 05 February 2013 - 03:08 AM

How do people notice some of this stuff?

 

 

Good fun to read though.

 

That's exactly how I feel lol