john wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Robert Swinney wrote:

Well, they can't all be gems. Esp. considering the dearth of knowledge the weenie Hollywood types
have about such things as combat. Not to even mention the outlandish special effects they use to
substitute for their distortion of the truth. Some examples are the spaghetti westerns where they
were showing dynamite and det cord used in a civil war setting.


That's almost as bad as their Spaghetti Sci-Fi movies where they are
using a flame thrower inside a space ship, and called it a laser.
Neither weapon is a good idea when you are in space.



When I was a kid they had slide projection shows in church with a audio
played off a record. In one scene Joseph was wearing a watch.
Every movie has those little in-anachronisms that are fun to watch for
especially if the movie is dull. Alferd Hitchcock would do a cameo
scene in his movies.


That is called 'Continuity' in move & TV production where one or more
people are responsible to make sure that doesn't happen. OTOH, some
things are spoofs, with intentional mistakes to see if people notice.


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