Movies mistakes starring George Clooney
Friday, August 17th, 2007Ocean’s Eleven [George Clooney = Danny Ocean]:
- Continuity: When the Malloy Twins are racing, the weather alternates from being totally overcast to sunny. When they first start, it is overcast. When the race starts and the camera pans in on the race car before it is flattened, there is sunlight on the side of the car.
- Plot hole: The Chinese guy has to do a back flip to avoid setting off the alarms in the vault, but they blow the vault afterwards. The alarm should have been triggered.
- Continuity: In the scene where Rusty and Linus are talking about Benedict, (the same scene where the glass turns into a plate and back) the napkin also changes positions on his arm and the way it is laying.
- Continuity: When Tess is first coming down the stairs, if you look closely you can see she is not wearing any shoes. But when it cuts to her coming down the last few steps she has on some high heels. Which would have very noticeable while she was walking down the previous steps.
- Visible crew/equipment: When the Malloy twins are introduced and seen racing each other with the monster trucks, the camera crew is seen several times in the reflection of the trucks. First when the camera pans out to see the large truck and then at the top of the door when the close up of Turk Malloy in the big truck is shown.
Thin Red Line, The [George Clooney = Captain Charles Bosche]:
- Continuity: As Stavros talks to Lt. Col. Tall about the time, his watch jumps ahead by a couple of hours, and the time he states is not the time on the watch anyway.
- Continuity: When that one captain is refusing to obey the orders of Nick Nolte he says the time is 13:21 but his watch says it’s actually 14:31. Then a couple of seconds later the time is 14:45. Their whole conversation was shown and there was no time in between and it was much shorter than 15 minutes.
- Visible crew/equipment: During the scene in which the small group of GIs, led by the young go-getter officer played by John Cusack, attack the Japanese hilltop bunkers, they seemed to be equipped with magic bullets. The American soldiers are firing wildly in all directions but seem to drop an enemy soldier with every shot. In some shots, the GI’s rifles are not pointing even near where the Japanese soldiers are but the latter obligingly fall dead nonetheless.
- Visible crew/equipment: During the scene in which the small group of GIs, led by the young go-getter officer played by John Cusack, attack the Japanese hilltop bunkers, they seemed to be equipped with magic bullets. The American soldiers are firing wildly in all directions but seem to drop an enemy soldier with every shot. In some shots, the GI’s rifles are not pointing even near where the Japanese soldiers are but the latter obligingly fall dead nonetheless.
- Continuity: In the scene where the two GI’s are living with the village of natives and a navy ship comes by, they run to hide. The camera pans across the scene and laying in the foreground of the boat passing by is a surfboard. This film was made about WWII, the surfboard style they show did not exist until, at earliest, the late 70’s. The board they show is a modern shape and design. In the 1940’s they would have ridden huge balsa-wood planks. That is if they were able to bring a surfboard with them into the army, which I doubt would be possible.
From Dusk Till Dawn [George Clooney = Seth Gecko]:
- Continuity: When Jacob gets bitten, he is thrown across the room by Sex Machine. If you look closely as he’s flying through the air, you can see the wound on his arm has disappeared.
- Continuity: In the beginning of the film, after the actor credits have been displayed, they show a shot of the car that Richie & Seth are in. As it’s coming down the road, you can see Richie’s foot hanging out of the window. In the next shot, inside the car, his foot is inside and they don’t show him putting his foot outside the window until a couple of shots later.
- Plot hole: When Seth’s piledriver gives out during the climactic fight, there are many vampires in the background politely keeping their distance while he tries to restart it. Similarly, they ignore him while both his hands are occupied with Sex Machine’s whip, even though vampires are running around behind him to no apparent goal.
- Continuity: In the liquor store, Seth kicks a shelf to get lighter fluid. Look closely - it is an overhead kick which means that his foot would be upside down. However Seth’s foot is the right way round.
- Continuity: As Santanico Pandemonium begins her dance, she tosses her cloak off and a stage hand emerges to remove it almost immediately. The stage hand then disappears in two shots of Santanico onstage, then reappears folding the cloak.
Three Kings [George Clooney = Maj. Archie Gates]:
- Continuity: Directly after Amir’s wife is shot Amir runs and puts his tied-up arms around his daughter, holding her face-to-face. In the next shot the girl is turned around with her back towards him.
- Factual error: It is said in the film that Ice Cube’s character works in an airport in Detroit. When the scene shows Ice Cube at work as a baggage handler, there are mountains in the background. There are no mountains in the Detroit area.
- Continuity: After the milk truck is shot at the four protagonists dive away from a door to avoid the blast. In the next shot Archie lands meters away, far beyond jumping distance. Then they are swept back to the door by the resulting milk flood, and when Archie gets up it’s again far away from the door, against the direction of the flood.
- Continuity: When you see Chief Elgin working at the baggage belt a suitcase pops open and stuff falls out. He throws everything into the lid, but when he closes it the lid is empty.
- Factual error: The stolen cars from Kuwait have Saudi Arabian registration plates instead of Kuwaiti ones.
Perfect Storm, The [George Clooney = Capt. Billy Tyne]:
- Revealing: When Capt. Billy Tyne climbs up the boom to free the loose anchor, instead of a real flame on his cutting torch, there is what appears to be a piece of illuminated glass.
- Factual error: When the men are watching movies, there’s a copy of Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) on the table. The director’s cut was released in 1992, but this movie is set in 1991.
- Continuity: The note from Chris to Bobby includes a section which reads “pillows I secretly bought at Penny’s.” In Chris’s voice over, she says “pillows that I secretly bought for us at Penny’s.”
- Continuity: As the Coast Guard cutter is making the second attempt to rescue the helicopter pilot and the injured para-rescuer, in one overhead shot we see the crew on the foredeck holding the cargo net. After the two men are swept off the net, another shot shows the foredeck empty, though the ship’s crew is still at the cargo net attempting the rescue.
- Continuity: When the crew pull the hook out of the man’s hand, he puts a spoon in his mouth - its facing right, but when he’s done it’s facing left.
Peacemaker, The [George Clooney = Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe]:
- Continuity: When Tom and Julia get out the Mercedes before it explodes, Tom shuts the drivers door after getting out, yet in the following shot it is open.
- Continuity: As Nicole walks across a plaza with Clooney to meet the Russian spy, she is wearing sheer stockings and low pumps. As she walks off the plaza she is wearing knee high boots with fur tops.
- Continuity: When the bomber walks on to the streets of New York, he passes a violinist standing next to a tree. There is a man with a red coat sitting on the trees ledge and a black man standing next to him, yet in the following shot (perhaps 1 second later) the man sitting on the ledge and the black man are both standing up about 4 feet away from the tree.
- Continuity: When one of the snipers accidentally shoots a woman in the leg, she falls backwards onto her back, yet on the closeup shot of her she falls to the side of her not on her back.
- Factual error: When they download the requested file from the computer you can read i.e. “600 Dantensatze in Databank”. Correct is: “600 Datensaetze in der Datenbank”. At the same time when the bad guys try to identify Clooney you can read on the screen the German “Gerwicht” for weight. Correct is: Gewicht.
