how well do you watch shows on tv?

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I was watching a western a good one and a fairly new one this morning and I noticed that when the savages attacked as they rode up a close up of their horses hooves showed they had been shod.......as well when our heroes were making camp they built a fire and some of the wood was nicely cut small logs (straight cuts from a saw} that they found out in the forest.... does it matter?
 

My husband is always pointing out discrepancies in movies/tv shows. His favourite to point out is that the trees/flowers are one season, but it's being portrayed as another.
 

My thing is to see if the cars are the right age for the year that is being portrayed...
 
I think it was Braveheart which took place in the late 1200's where someone forgot to remove his wristwatch and nobody noticed.
 
I am very critical..which is why I can't watch historic period dramas because something is always wrong for the period it's portraying. I'm also very pedantic about continuity...it drives me nuts. For example a packet of Kelloggs cornflakes on the breakfast table..cut to next scene and the packet has now become a different brand...I could drive you all as nuts as me by listing zillions of ridiculous continuity errors that I've seen in every type of show, from talk shows to movies..
 
hollydolly said:
I am very critical..which is why I can't watch historic period dramas because something is always wrong for the period it's portraying. I'm also very pedantic about continuity...it drives me nuts. For example a packet of Kelloggs cornflakes on the breakfast table..cut to next scene and the packet has now become a different brand...I could drive you all as nuts as me by listing zillions of ridiculous continuity errors that I've seen in every type of show, from talk shows to movies..
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And there are MANY of them!
 
hollydolly said:
I am very critical...For example a packet of Kelloggs cornflakes on the breakfast table..cut to next scene and the packet has now become a different brand...I could drive you all as nuts as me by listing zillions of ridiculous continuity errors that I've seen in every type of show, from talk shows to movies..
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I see them all the time too. They just pop out at me. The same when cutting scene...The back of the girls hair is straight, next shot (same scene) her hair is in a pony tail. lol it's interesting.
 
I think that's called an anachronism - something that is not supposed to be there either in historical time or in chronological time. Doesn't bother me too much, when I notice it I figure the show or movie was either low-budget and/or badly edited.

What I find funny is when historical characters' make-up and hairstyles are very present day.
 
Having worked in the field of law for over 40 years, I can point out one of the most persistent myths: The Reading of the Will. Happens all the time in movies and on TV. Not in real life.
 
hollydolly said:
I am very critical..which is why I can't watch historic period dramas because something is always wrong for the period it's portraying. I'm also very pedantic about continuity...it drives me nuts. For example a packet of Kelloggs cornflakes on the breakfast table..cut to next scene and the packet has now become a different brand...I could drive you all as nuts as me by listing zillions of ridiculous continuity errors that I've seen in every type of show, from talk shows to movies..
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Did you see that movie a few years ago about Elizabeth I? I can't remember the name; it starred Cate Blanchet. The liberties they took with historical fact made me so angry, I almost walked out. The thing is - the factual life of Elizabeth I was full of drama, emotional highs and lows, excitement and danger. Why do they need to go and mess it up by inserting their shallow Hollywood daydreams?
 
Glinda said:
Did you see that movie a few years ago about Elizabeth I? I can't remember the name; it starred Cate Blanchet. The liberties they took with historical fact made me so angry, I almost walked out. The thing is - the factual life of Elizabeth I was full of drama, emotional highs and lows, excitement and danger. Why do they need to go and mess it up by inserting their shallow Hollywood daydreams?
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One movie that I love anyway, but had the facts very much fiddled with is Braveheart. Come on now, he had sex with the Princess of Wales?! Who, BTW, would have been 4 years old at the time and not yet the Princess.
 
AZ Jim said:
Many of what they call goofs in movies are described here: http://www.imdb.com/ Just search for your movie and they'll tell you more than you want to know about it.
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I go to imdb for anything I want to know about a movie or tv show...location, cast of course, and goofs. I just looked up one of my faves - To Kill a Mockingbird and couldn't believe how many goofs were in it and I didn't notice a single one.
 
Glinda said:
Having worked in the field of law for over 40 years, I can point out one of the most persistent myths: The Reading of the Will. Happens all the time in movies and on TV. Not in real life.
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I also worked in the legal field for about the same length of time. One thing that gets me about Law and Order is the way they appeal something and get it heard and ruled on the same day or later in the week!

Not here -- appeals (even interlocutory appeals) take forever -- like years.

I've never heard of a rel life Reading of the Will either. Maybe in the time of Dickens, but not now.
 
There is a re-make of an old series over here
called "Poldark" which is set in history, I think
he 1800s, in one scene there is a burglar alarm
box on the wall of a cottage.

Mike.
 

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