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[DLibrasnow]

Live And Let Die

From IMDb:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Quarrel was killed in Dr. No (1962), which is why Bond refers to "Quarrel Junior."

* Revealing mistakes: Except for the "pimpmobile", every car on the west side highway is a 1973 full size Chevy.

* Crew or equipment visible: The whole crew and spectators are reflected in the cab's window when Bond leaves the Voodoo shop.

* Crew or equipment visible: The wake from one of the camera boats is visible in one of the boat chase scenes.

* Revealing mistakes: Visible ramp built onto steps of building in NYC when taxicab goes up steps and then onto trash cans.

* Continuity: At the voodoo ritual, Bond shoots the man with the snake but a few scenes later he can be seen standing in the background.

* Crew or equipment visible: Crew member reflection against window just before Bond throws Tee-Hee off the train.

* Factual errors: In the U.N., the U.K. is shown seated next to Honduras, but countries are actually seated in alphabetical order.

* Revealing mistakes: When Tee Hee bends the barrel of Bond's Walther PPK, a close-up reveals that the gun barrel has been pre-cut.

* Continuity: When Tee Hee is feeding the alligators, his wrist moves on the prosthetic arm. Later, in the train fight, his whole arm is revealed when his sleeve rips, and the arm has no wrist joint.

* Continuity: During the boat chase, a shot of James' second boat (gold, inboard motor) is mixed in with the first boat (orange, outboard motor).

* Continuity: When Bond is en route to NY and his driver is killed the car swerves into the left lane. The next shot shows Bond telling the driver to "take it easy", but the scenery behind Bond (through back window of the car) still shows them as being in the center lane.

* Continuity: The first time we see Kananga's limousine parked outside the Fillet of Soul restaurant in Harlem, the driver's side window is rolled down. In the second shot of it, the window is rolled up.

* Continuity: When James Bond gives Mrs. Bell her "flying" lesson, the wings are torn off the plane. Yet when he asks her "Same time tomorrow?", the reaction shot of Mrs. Bell shows an intact left wing.

* Errors in geography: There are alligators and crocodiles living together in the Louisiana Bayou. Only alligators live in the fresh water of the Bayou. The only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles meet in the wild is in the Everglades of Florida, where salt and fresh water meet in estuaries.

* Continuity: In the motor boat chase, damage on the hull of the black police boat disappears and reappears between shots.

[Bondian]

Very interesting Darren. Thank you.

I'm going to link this over at JB&B.

[DLibrasnow]

Thanks Ian. Anyone have any more goofs to add to this list?

[Righty007]

* Continuity: When Tee Hee is feeding the alligators, his wrist moves on the prosthetic arm. Later, in the train fight, his whole arm is revealed when his sleeve rips, and the arm has no wrist joint.

This is the only one I was already aware of and it has bothered me for awhile.

[Righty007]

Anyone have any more goofs to add to this list?

Many little 007's are on the back of the tarot cards. The cards used in the film were promotional cards that could be bought by the public.

[Bondian]

You're welcome Darren.

The only one I know...how can you wrap a snake "lengthwise"?.

Cheers.


Ian

Thanks Ian. Anyone have any more goofs to add to this list?

[DLibrasnow]

Below is a list of goofs in Roger Moore's second 007 movie The Man With The Golden Gun. Any others that people are aware off?

From IMDb:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is said during the duel that the Golden Gun can fire only one bullet, yet at the beginning of the movie Scaramanga shoots the fingers off of the Bond dummy using multiple bullets. That's because he's using his dead opponent's gun.

* Crew or equipment visible: In the fight in the belly dancer's dressing room, when a thug falls against a mirror.

* Revealing mistakes: Right before the man is hit with the chair in the belly dancer's dressing room, we can see the pad on his back to absorb the impact.

* Factual errors: Absolute zero cannot be "maintained" since it has never been "reached". Even if that was permissible in the movie, it wouldn't require a man's body temperature to raise it, as the temperature of the surrounding air would already have done the trick.

* Revealing mistakes: When we first meet the two karate schoolgirls in the back of the car, the audio track simply repeats three times the following two sentences in Chinese (spoken presumably by the two girls): "How are you?" and "That's what I think".

* Continuity: When the sea plane is flying to the island it has a float on each wing, but when landing on the beach it has one missing.

* Continuity: When Bond arrives to Scaramanga's island in the Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibious airplane, the left wing float disappears and reappears between shots.

* Continuity: When the ballistics expert examines the golden bullet Bond retrieved from the dancer's navel, he estimates the caliber as 4.2 mm. The golden bullets which are shown later are much larger, being much closer in size to.38 caliber (9 mm), when the bullets should be smaller than.22 caliber (5.56 mm) bullets. In fact, they should be very close to.17 caliber (3.8 mm) bullets.

* Factual errors: When the ballistics expert examines the bullet, he declares it to be "4.2 mm," which would be .169", slightly less than the .172" of "17 caliber" weapons. He also declares the mass to be 20.53 grams (316 grains). Even though 23 carat gold is somewhat denser (1.67:1) than the lead alloy used in modern arms, this is still almost thirteen times as massive as the largest 17 caliber bullets manufactured (25 grains). It would look more like a thick needle than a bullet, and would be nearly impossible to stabilize.

* Errors in geography: Bond gets into a boat after leaving the Bottom's Up nightclub and asked to be taken to the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbour. The Bottom's Up club is on Kowloon side yet he has got into the boat from Hong Kong Island side.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: At several points, including the opening scene, silenced weapons are heard to fire like unsilenced weapons.

* Errors in geography: Hai Fat's home is supposedly in Bangkok, but it's located high on a lush hillside. There are no such hills in the vicinity of Bangkok.

* Crew or equipment visible: When Bond gets ready for the jump over the water in the car, a light along with the light guy on a ladder is seen in the car window.

* Continuity: When Nick Nack is throwing wine bottles at Bond, they all appear empty, even the unopened ones.

* Crew or equipment visible: A crewmember is visible in the large mirror as Bond walks across bathroom in the hotel to hand Maud Adams her robe.

* Factual errors: The liner Queen Elizabeth sank in the Hong Kong harbor in 1972, not 1971.

* Continuity: The statue of Bond in Scaramanga's funhouse changes position of the left hand in various shots.

* Continuity: When Bond is chasing Scaramanga through the streets of Bangkok, there is a scene in which they pass a cab driver in a 1955 Plymouth sedan. When the cab driver runs off the road and rolls his car over, it has changed to a 1955 Cheverolet Bel-Air.

* Crew or equipment visible: During the fight in Beruit a mirror shows a camera man and someone standing over the camera.

* Continuity: When Pepper is pushed into the canal, he falls in next to a sampan loaded with pineapples. When he stands up in the water, the pineapples have become bananas.

* Errors in geography: The flying car is supposedly found "200 miles west of Bangkok", which would put it somewhere off the coast of Burma. Also, the island they are head for is said to be about eight hours' sail from Hong Kong, at least 1,000 miles from Bangkok in the other direction.

* Revealing mistakes: During the opening sequence of the movie when the hired gangster assassin is walking through the maze, there is a moment when several gangster mannequins pop out and shoot. During the exchange of fire the Al Capone mannequin blinks several times.

* Continuity: During the dinner with Goodnight in the Thai resteraunt they are served Phuyuck wine. During the conversation the condensation on the glasses disappears and reappears between shots.

* Continuity: The tilted angle of the Queen Elizabeth as seen from the outside is different than from the inside.

* Factual errors: Bond is challenged to a duel - his Walther PPK against the Golden Gun. He says, "Six bullets to your one?" but a Walther PPK holds eight rounds (as correctly mentioned in The Living Daylights, incidentally). He cannot be trying to bluff Scaramanga, something of a firearms expert.

* Revealing mistakes: On the Chinese junk, Knickknack throws several wine bottles at Bond, who shatters them with a chair leg. The bottles are supposedly full, as their foils are intact, but when they shatter, there is no liquid in them.

* Factual errors: An accessory nipple can not be found between the "normal" ones. It would actually appear at some place along the "milk line" which runs in a straight line parallel to the body axis like on any other mammal (e.g. dogs, etc.).

* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bond is served a bottle of wine labeled "Phuyuck" and pronounces it "Foo-yuck". He should know that Thai words transliterated with "ph" are pronounced with an aspirated "p" sound: "p'oo-yuck" (making the names of the islands Phuket and Phi-Phi respectively less and more giggle-inducing).

[Double-Oh-Zero]

* Factual errors: When the ballistics expert examines the bullet, he declares it to be "4.2 mm," which would be .169", slightly less than the .172" of "17 caliber" weapons. He also declares the mass to be 20.53 grams (316 grains). Even though 23 carat gold is somewhat denser (1.67:1) than the lead alloy used in modern arms, this is still almost thirteen times as massive as the largest 17 caliber bullets manufactured (25 grains). It would look more like a thick needle than a bullet, and would be nearly impossible to stabilize.

Oh, well, obviously. How could you not spot that one?

[DLibrasnow]

The Spy Who Loved Me

Even my favorite Roger Moore 007 movie (and reportedly his too) isn't perfect

Any other goofs people have spotted?

From IMDb:

Continuity: The man who leads the assault on the control room and gets killed can be seen alive later entering the submarine.

* Continuity: The dirt on Major Amasova's dress suddenly appears in the middle of the scene by the ruins in Egypt.

* Errors in geography: The ruins where Jaws tries to kill Bond are actually from two different locations on opposite sides of the Nile.

* Revealing mistakes: In the car chase scene with the white Lotus (just before it runs into the ocean and transforms into a sub) the helicopter can be seen firing its machine guns directly into the ground, but there are no impact plumes or sound effects as in previous scenes.

* Continuity: Just as Bond is about to get up from his seat to follow Fekkesh, a jump cut makes several members of the audience change position.

* Revealing mistakes: In the scene where the boat blasts out of Stromberg's hideout and lands in the water, dummies are clearly visible riding in it.

* Factual errors: During one scene Bond honks the horn on his white Lotus before passing a truck on the cliff side road. Bond presses the center of the steering wheel when the Lotus horn is actually the lever on the left of the steering wheel.

* Revealing mistakes: As the Lotus Esprit drives off the pier and enters the water, we glimpse the exposed underbody of a normal car. After it enters the sea the underbody is sealed (as any good submarine car should be).

* Factual errors: At the beginning of the opening title sequence, there's a Union Flag fluttering in the background. It's upside down (the Union flag is not symmetrical and the broader white diagonal stripe should be at the top on the left - or flag pole - side).

* Continuity: In the underwater sequence, right before Bond fires a torpedo on a diver, he steers left, but the sub turns right (although this could conceivably be an idiosyncrasy of the sub's design).

* Errors in geography: When James Bond first arrives by boat in Sardinia, we can see some donkey carts. These carts are modeled upon those used in Sicily; they are not used in Sardinia.

* Errors in geography: Wrong kind of tropical fish in the Sardinian sea (in fact, underwater filming was located in the Bahamas).

* Miscellaneous: It's obviously a joke, but... as Bond drives his Lotus Esprit out of the sea, he hands a fish to a person on the beach. If there was a hole large enough to allow a fish to enter the car/submarine, they would surely have drowned, or at least got very wet (although a leak did occur in the roof of the car just before it emerged from the water).

* Revealing mistakes: When major Amasova enters the bar in Cairo, the slit on her dress shows her thighs. When she and Bond are stalking Jaws in the ruins, the dress is clearly longer.

* Continuity: Jaws's position under the magnet changes between shots.

* Revealing mistakes: When Bond escapes the baddies in the opening sequence he is forced to ski off a dead-end cliff which presumably no one skies off as it would result in their death. However, the slope from the hilltop down to the edge has a cleanly shoveled pathway about 6 feet wide.

* Revealing mistakes: When Bond and Amasova are on the speed boat going to see Stromberg, the underwater lair is super-imposed on the horizon, rather than midway. This would make the lair 50 miles high.

[Loomis]

This is just a guess on my part, but:

During the Bangkok car chase, Bond and Sheriff Pepper go immediately from being smack dab in the centre of the city to deep in the countryside - they'd surely have needed to drive for hours to get to where they do the corkscrew jump.

[DLibrasnow]

Nice catch Loomis...I am not familiar with the geography of the Bangkok area...maybe a CBNer who knows that area can say for certain?!

[DLibrasnow]

Moonraker

I guess it should come as no surprise that the fourth Roger Moore movie has its share of mistakes....in my opinion the whole last third of the movie was a mistake.

Any others people have spotted?

From IMDb:

* Factual errors: The pilot's parachute lacks leg straps.

* Errors in geography: There are no Mayan pyramids in the Amazon rainforest.

* Continuity: Bond's clothes but not his hair dry very quickly after he kills Drax' snake.

* Factual errors: Shortly after the liftoff of Moonraker 5, a monitor shows a clock with the time counting forward, but marked T- instead of T+.

* Factual errors: The external tank separates from Moonraker 6 too fast, as though it was falling away.

* Factual errors: The aircraft that is carrying the moonraker shuttle in the begining of the film is identified as a boeing 747, the plane that is carrying the shuttle is a boeing 707

* Factual errors: The pods of the space station are shown at all angles to the axis, but rotationally produced "gravity" is always away from the axis. Also, gravity would not change instantaneously when going from one corridor to another.

* Revealing mistakes: During the weightlessness on the space station you can see a cord holding up 007 in a close-up shot.

* Continuity: The helicopter that takes Bond from Los Angeles International Airport to Drax's estate has a registration number visible on the bottom (belly of the aircraft) when it departs the airport, but not when it lands at the Drax estate.

* Continuity: When Corinne is killed by the dogs, she first wears high heeled shoes and then black boots.

* Continuity: When Bond is being flown by helicopter to Drax's estate, the pilot's hairstyle changes half way through the flight and her headset disappears for the second half of the flight.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Drax asks Bond, "Why did you break off the encounter with my pet python?", Drax's lips are saying something other than "pet python" starting the first word "boa".

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Drax is "playing" the Raindrop Prelude on the piano, his hands are either playing different notes to the music, moving at the wrong time or not touching the keys at all.

* Errors in geography: When Bond and Dr. Goodhead are abducted in the Rio de Janeiro ambulance, the British Airways billboard advert is in English and not Portuguese.

* Continuity: Bond is shown not wearing his wrist-gun for the last third of the film, but the gun reappears when he needs it at the very end of the film. During the Amazon speedboat chase, the hang glider ride, and the underwater python battle, his sleeves are rolled up and the dart gun is absent. When he is escorted inside Drax' underground lair, his right sleeve is suddenly rolled down. It is possible that he was carrying it around in a pocket and put it on when he put his spacesuit on, but more likely, they wanted Bond's sleeves rolled up while he was in Brazil but didn't want the bulky wrist-gun showing.

* Continuity: When Bond takes his flight to Rio, the flight number is BA128 indicating British Airways. When his Concorde lands, it's clearly marked Air France.

* Continuity: When Jaws is chasing Bond during the parachute scene at the start, the distant shots show him with clear wind goggles but the close up shots show darker tinted goggles.

* Continuity: Chang watches Bond leave the room in which Bond finds the safe. When Bond walks away from the room, we see Chang's rear profile standing up, in the next shot he's back crouching in the corner again.

* Continuity: Jaws bites through the rope wire of the cable car. But when we see the winding wheel a second time the rope is complete.

* Factual errors: Anti collision lights on a Boeing 747-123(SCA) are red not white.

* Continuity: After Bond kills the python, Jaws pulls Bond out of the pond and Jaws' trousers are quite dripping wet. In the next shot, Jaws' trousers are dry when he walks into the shuttle control centre.

* Continuity: When Jaws' speed boat goes over the waterfall he is clearly seen but his two colleagues wearing yellow disappear even though they were seen in the previous shot.

[DLibrasnow]

For Your Eyes Only

Continuing on....I know a lot of these have been pointed out on CBn before, but here is the IMDb list:

Any others?

* Factual errors: It is impossible to fly a helicopter with both hands on the stick.

* Continuity: Rapid change from night to day when Bond attacks Kristatos' warehouse with Coulombo's men and then emerges from the tunnel.

* Errors in geography: James Bond and Melina first meet in a house which is supposed to be in a mountain area near Madrid. There are women wearing bikinis and a swimming pool. In the meantime, some farmers are harvesting olives near there. Olives are harvested in December-January, when temperatures around Madrid are around 5 degrees Celsius.

* Errors in geography: The ski jump and bobsled run are nowhere near each other in Cortina, Italy, as depicted in the film.

* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When James Bond and Melina are walking in the streets, some salesman hands them two figs to eat, and Bond says "Parakalo" (which means please or you're welcome) before receiving the figs. He says it after the man gives it to him, which should be followed by him saying "Efharisto" (thank you). The only reason it would make sense for Bond to say "Parakalo" afterwards is if he said it to Melina as a way of inviting her to try a fig, but he says it directly to the salesman.

* Continuity: When Melina removes her scuba helmet after diving for the device, there is a release in pressure. Her air tube had already been punctured by the bad guy, so the pressure was already released and therefore no sound should have been emitted.

* Crew or equipment visible: The camera and crew are visible in the window reflection of the car where Emil Locque is talking on the car phone at the ski jump.

* Continuity: After Bond has seized control of the helicopter, in the pre-title sequence, at one point he can be seen wearing a set of headphones.

* Errors in geography: Bond and Melina are chased by cars in the mountains near Madrid, Spain. Yet when one of the pursuing cars falls down a cliff and into a net where olives are being harvested, the farmers can clearly be heard swearing and talking in Italian, not Spanish.

* Continuity: In the sequence with the yellow 2CV being chased by two black Peugeot 504s, we see the car lose its nearside headlight after a roll down a hillside. Seconds later it is intact. (Apparently, filming this sequence wrecked seven 2CVs.)

* Continuity: In the downhill car-chase, the cars pass the same spot several times.

* Continuity: During the dinner scene at the Casino, Bond closes his menu twice.

* Continuity: Bond races through the ski chase with only one ski pole (the other was damaged by the sniper chasing him). The remaining pole was used to clothesline one of the bikers following him, but he has it again in the later shot when he first approaches the bobsled track.

* Crew or equipment visible: When Bond reaches the top of St. Cyrils, he throws away what's left of the rope he has around his waist. At this point, one of the crew coughs several times.

* Continuity: The Mercedes-Benz that Locque flees in after blowing up the warehouse is an older model S-Class, which becomes a newer model after it enters the tunnel.

* Crew or equipment visible: At the very end of the film, when the parrot drops the wristwatch in the water you can clearly see the wire that the watch is attached to as it is sinking.

* Crew or equipment visible: Near the beginning of the movie, when Bond and Melina are chased from the pool party, a near perfect reflection is shown in Melina's window of a crewman holding a yellow pole with equipment on top and wearing a short-sleeved tan shirt and black glasses. A few frames later he waves his hand between the backseat window and the camera.

* Continuity: After the car is kicked off the cliff, a dummy (representing the character inside) falls out of the car window when it lands. After Bond says his line, we cut back to the car, this time from above. The car is in a different place with the dummy where the car should be.

* Factual errors: Sir Timothy Havelock is referred to (by people who should know better) as "Sir Havelock" instead of "Sir Timothy".

* Revealing mistakes: The third time the ATAC officer reaches for the destruct switch, his thumb catches the destruct charge and flips it up about an inch, despite the fact that it's supposed to be fastened by a very strong magnet.

* Continuity: During the "umbrella escape" from Gonzalez's Place, a bullet hole appears in the umbrella before the guard fires at it.

* Factual errors: During the baccarat game, Bond wins the first hand we see played by drawing 'neuf' (nine) which defeats his challenger's 'huite' (eight); however, we can see his cards are the queen of spades and the five of diamonds, giving him a count of 'cinque' (five) instead of the winning nine.

* Revealing mistakes: Again at the baccarat game, Bond has the same cards for both the first and second hand; the queen of spades and the five of diamonds. While this is, strictly speaking, not impossible (several packs are mixed together to fill the shoe from which the cards are dealt) it is blindingly unlikely, and the fact that these cards are initially erroneously described as giving a count of nine (court cards and tens count nothing in baccarat, while number cards count for their respective number of pips) makes it far more probable that the close-ups of Bond's cards are in fact both taken from the second hand played.

* Continuity: When the mountaintop monastery guard is struck by Bond's piton, the blade enters his chest dead center, a few inches below the adam's apple. Yet when the body lands on the ground, the blade has moved to the man's left shoulder.

* Crew or equipment visible: During the car chase after the Gonzalez assassination, when the first thug's car tumbles off the road, a man in blue can be seen standing among the trees as the car passes in front of him.

* Factual errors: Bond and Melina dive underwater to a depth of 600 feet. This around the current deep diving record depth and cannot be achieved with the normal scuba gear that they're wearing.

* Factual errors: When Bond and Melina are to do the deep dive Bond mentions that they must use a mixture of helium and oxygen but when they communicate through the helmet radios there voices sound normal not high pitched like it should be.

[DLibrasnow]

Octopussy

From IMDb:

* Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bond kills the first twin, Mischa, and hides him in a cannon. While the border guards search a cannon, it's a duplicate.

* Revealing mistakes: The tiger head that roars out of the jungle at Bond during the hunt is a rather obvious, immobile stuffed head.

* Revealing mistakes: When Gobinda is fighting Bond on the outside of the plane toward the end, his jacket opens up to reveal the stuntman's parachute underneath, just as he falls from the plane.

* Revealing mistakes: When Bond is fighting on top of the train and flips Gobinda, the attacker's sword makes contact with the top of the train and bends in a rubbery fashion.

* Errors in geography: After the Octopussy Circus train leaves East Germany and enters West Germany, the train passes through a tunnel entrance festooned by an East German-style propaganda banner.

* Errors in geography: Many scenes set in West-Germany were obviously filmed in England - the bridges over the train track cannot be found in Germany, an English Stop sign is visible, etc.

* Revealing mistakes: When Bond and Vijay are trying to escape from Gobinda, Bond is fighting an assassin and flips him over, landing on the bed of nails. The nails are clearly made of rubber, as they bend around the assassin's body.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: Immediately after Bond deactivates the bomb at the circus, Octopussy asks Magda where Kamal was going. Magda's reply is "Back to India" but her mouth says something different.

* Continuity: At start of film Bond's briefcase disappears and reappears between shots.

* Revealing mistakes: As the Acrostar jet is flying thru the hanger, you can see that it has been mounted on a pole and is being pushed through the scene.

* Continuity: Towards the end of the movie, when Octopussy's fighters are attacking the castle, they scale the walls in the dark; when the action moves to the outdoors, it is daylight.

* Revealing mistakes: After James has the guards distracted thoroughly by his accomplice and pulls their ripcords, the two guards are pulled from the truck by a visible line.

* Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the briefing of Bond in Berlin, Chemnitz (then: Karl-Marx-Stadt) is put "further east from Berlin". The city is actually south-west of Berlin.

[DLibrasnow]

Well since this have been made into a single thread I feel obligated to finish the series with Roger Moore's swansong (and my second favorite Roger Moore 007 movie).

A View To A Kill

From IMDb:

* Crew or equipment visible: During the fire engine chase in San Francisco, on the back end of the truck you can see two crew members with a camera.

* Crew or equipment visible: When MayDay pushes Bond's Rolls Royce into the water, a cable that pulls the Rolls into the water is visible for a moment.

* Crew or equipment visible: Boom mike reflected in the car window when Bond drives off in the taxi at the Eiffel Tower.

* Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt man driving during the Paris car chase.

* Revealing mistakes: Zorin's safety harness is visible as he pulls Stacey into his blimp.

* Errors in geography: When Max Zorin falls from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge he is on the Sausalito side, but when he hits the water he is on the San Francisco side.

* Revealing mistakes: Bond's safety harness is visible as he flips over the railing of the Eiffel Tower.

* Revealing mistakes: When May Day jumps off the Eiffel Tower, she is about halfway up in the tower after being chased up the stairs, but when the jump is viewed from below, it is obviously made from the top of the tower. A special platform made for jumping is clearly visible mounted on top of the Eiffel Tower.

* Continuity: When the Rolls Royce is sinking into the lake the windows are open, but are closed when it is underwater.

* Continuity: The recorded conversation between Max Zorin and Bob Conley in the dock warehouse does not match the actual conversation.

* Continuity: Angle of the drawbridge when the officer looks down at the patrol cars beneath them.

* Boom mike visible: Reflected in the side windows of the goons' limousine as it leaves Stacey's house following the fight.

* Revealing mistakes: Bond attempts to free himself of May Day's wire in the Eiffel Tower. He is seen holding his gun when he goes to reach the wire. In the close-up shot, he is shown freeing himself with both hands and no gun. The next shot has him back holding the gun.

* Miscellaneous: Flipped image: when Bond is hanging from the ladder of the fire truck, he knocks the hats off men in a white Cadillac, which appears to be driven feom the right side.

* Continuity: Zorin's shoes change between shots at the end of the movie.

* Crew or equipment visible: Just after Stacey has climbed out of the mineshaft, a shot of the airship coming over the edge of the quarry towards the camera shows a crew member lurking in the bushes immediately below.

* Continuity: After Pola Ivanova sneaks out of the baths, she climbs into the car with General Gogol; however, there is clearly a different actor behind the wheel.

* Continuity: The locomotive that Scarpine drives/rides in the quarry throughout the mine sequence has an all green radiator, but when he and Zorin come out of the mine, the top of the radiator is black.

* Errors in geography: A British registered airship is highly unlikely to be flying around in the US (all of the shots of the airship which show the registration number clearly visible were filmed in the UK).

* Continuity: At the Golden Gate Bridge, Stacey is missing when Bond and Zorin are fighting, there are inconsistencies in the ships sailing underneath and then when Stacey and Bond are together at the end, the fire axe has disappeared.

* Continuity: Mr Howe's office exit-only office door is marked "Offices of Oil and Mines" during the corridor shots and when James goes out, but is marked "Office of Oil and Mines" when Stacey leaves.

* Audio/visual unsynchronized: A sound of an airplane crashing is played as the helicopter is spinning out of control in the opening fight sequence.

* Revealing mistakes: When May Day is winching James Bond and the bomb out of the mine shaft, the cogs of the winch are not moving.

[4 Ur Eyez Only]

I went and popped in For Your Eyes Only...

and These Goofs are WRONG! These reflections & guys hiding behind trees are just plain stupid & wrong!

There is a ton of skiers everywhere, some reflection for 1/2 a second where you have to frame advance isn't a Blooper.

The Guy behind a tree isn't holding a camera, damn he can be a Olive Picker.

The Coughing Crew Guy is wrong, Roger looks right after it happens & then the show a Bad Guy with a Gun walking and looking around. HE was the one that coughed.




I love bloopers, but I hate when people make things up & or has someone that is 1/2 of 1 frame in frame advance to see.

[Qwerty]

Some IMDb bloopers are very 'iffy' IMO.

[SecretAgent007]

TMWTGG: The Walther PPK in 7.65mm (as well as the .32 and .380) holds 6 rounds in the magazine (not eight as stated in the blooper). The Walther PPK/S holds 7 rounds in the magazine. Bond would also, undoubtedly have one round chambered so the PPK (7.65mm, .32, and .380)would have 7 rounds. The only way Bond's gun could hold 8 rounds in TLD is if he was carrying a PPK/S with 7 in the mag and one up the pipe, and since he doesn't carry a PPK/S, that is the blooper.

[Qwerty]

but I hate when people make things up

Definitely agreed.

[bryonalston]

The one about the Lotus in TSWLM always bothered me. Where did the blinds covering the windows come from? How did the car become encased in a white shell? How did a missile exploding underneath the car cause holes to appear in the top?

[Qwerty]

* Revealing mistakes: Zorin's safety harness is visible as he pulls Stacey into his blimp.

Didn't know about that one, will have to watch for it next time.

[Mr. Somerset]

In TSWLM as Bond is lighting Anya's cigarette in the hotel room, Moore's hair is freshly blocked in the back between shots. He had a trim.

[Bondian]

In all of Roger's love scenes, he had a stand-in. Well, so Rog tells us.

[Simon]

In the FYEO 2CV chase, there is a scene where the two cars have to overtake each other very quickly.

This couldn't be performed on the normal narrow roads, so this scene had to be filmed on a proper road with space for two cars and, tellingly, dotted white lines down the middle where there were none on all previous shots.

It is perfectly visible, not frame advanced, so should probably be included.

[Pussfeller]

I'm surprised the TMWTGG list didn't include these howlers...

* J.W. Pepper is trying out a car... in Thailand. Why would someone test-drive a car on vacation? I suppose this isn't actually an "error". It's still stupid, though.

* Moreover, AMC cars were never sold in Thailand. They aren't even capable of being driven in Thailand, where cars are driven on the left side of the road. The car driven by Bond is obviously an unmodified American car designed for American roads, since its steering wheel is on the left. Such a vehicle would never be sold in Thailand, as it would be illegal to drive it there.

[Qwerty]

It's still stupid, though.

Not as much as that whistle.

[Pussfeller]

The whistle was definitely stupid, and it destroyed what would have been a great stunt, but at least it was explicable. The Bangkok AMC dealership was just an astonishingly lazy way to shoe-horn the "comic relief" into the action, not to mention blatant product placement.

[Qwerty]

Quite.