My favourite was having dinner with a bunch of Oxford ornithologists. "Braveheart was RUINED for me about halfway through. Everyone knows black-headed gulls didn't nest inland in Scotland until the 1950s"
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Every time I see Marines called "soldiers," my face contorts in rage, and I'm taken right out of the movie/show. Once you know pretty much anything about the military, much of that stuff is unwatchable.
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Rough food = shorter people, but better teeth.
-- H. C. Andersen
Kung-fu movies have been in the US for a long time.
One of the strengths of Wolf Hall for me is that everyone (especially Rylance) looks like they have stepped out of a Holbein portrait.
https://youtu.be/tEiAFhLQVY8
So, depending on the time of year the movie is set, a loon call is not necessarily a problem!
The horse wouldn't move its mouth anyway. Horses are obligate nasal breathers, meaning they can't breathe through their mouth.
They actually vocalize through their nose.
Graciousness is a virtue we Scots are usually not lacking in.
My favourite of these is the cart tracks, since mum pointed out that when a horse pulls a vehicle you get a triple rut (with the horse's tracks in the middle of the lane) not a double one.
And let's not even start on Braveheart...
Quite hard to address the elm problem without CGI.
I'd like to see lots more people in the fields of such films, ploughing or bird-scaring or minding livestock, it would drive home that the past is a foreign country.
But it was SO pretty
It took me a minute to parse “blue willow” when I was a kid because my local Chinese restaurant used the pattern, but in BURGUNDY
But if you aim to be cinematic, then convincing landforms should be a minimum expectation. If a planet has water and breathable air it's not getting stepped cliffs naturally.
The only thing geologists like as much as rocks are maps. They take poor route finding really personally.
https://www.indy100.com/news/thor-the-dark-world-plot-holes-london-tube-underground-charing-cross-greenwich-marvel-8308556
(Cock and Bull)
Now of course, I've tempted fate, & there's gonna be some cannot unsee in the next 3 movies
[Let me know if I need to explain why that is absurd]
One film in particular, you'll know it.
::ducks::
now the english tried very hard to turn australia into england, but it didn't work and australia doesn't look anything like england.
Years later I was shocked to find it just means "protein made from single cells (like yeast)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cell_protein
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Last week: Johann Strauss nips round to the Habsburg Emperor and gives him a preview of the Blue Danube before popping it back in the cupboard for 15 years
Perhaps an 'incidental', but as far as I know, there weren't GHOs in Europe.
Told my youngest I could only watch Home Alone up to the point before burgles because I'm a grinchy old lady who is having trouble making believe.
(Ruined "The Music Teacher" for me. The actor playing the tenor did fine but the soprano, yeesh. 🙄
Otherwise a very good movie.)
Except Mr Robot, that got shit on the money.
Now they didn’t make the cosmetics in Dangerous Liaisons exaggerated ENOUGH, because to a modern eye it would have looked like clown paint.
"And Then There Was Vacuum"
"Murder on the Starlight Express"
"The Martian Vulcan"
Triggering Halon fire suppression systems in server rooms, then dawdling on the way to the exit.
Wiretaps - or, conversely, not using switch records.
Rotary dial phones that don't click correctly.
Finding the correct rack or cable on the 1st try.
Crosswalk markings that didn't exist in 1960s.
Color phone in a 1960s two-room artist's flat. (It cost a monthly fee that he was unlikely to afford).
I fully understand how these happen.
I also get upset about non-period rabbits
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/524389/EXCLUSIVE-Grantchester-s-flight-of-fancy-baffles-birders#amp-readmore-target
(Points to KELLY'S HEROES for turning a T-34 into a fairly convincing Tiger.)
resident had a window AC visible. Crew pays him to take it out. Next day all his neighbors have brand new window ACs because the bribe was more than retail cost!
silly
There's a Josephine Tey story which I think requires a witness to incriminate himself of a serious crime in open court and no one seems to even notice there was a crime.
Don't ask for details, no comment. 😆