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SKYFALL Goofs
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Character error
The dress worn by Bérénice Marlohe is described (and referred to by Bond) as backless. There is clearly sheer fabric encrusted with crystals - hardly backless.
Continuity
When Bond is about to fight Patrice in Shanghai, the hammer of his gun changes its position (cocked and un-cocked) multiple times.
In the Shanghai Tower scene, the terrorist/sniper is seen operating a manual, bolt action rifle. Right after during the fight with James Bond, the gun is shot several times just as if it was a semi-automatic weapon.
When M is first debriefed by Gareth Mallory, she enters carrying a handbag, which she places on the floor beside her. The meeting ends abruptly and she leaves, and is not carrying her handbag, but she is not seen picking it up.
When Bond and Sévérine are walking in the island, her shoes change color between shots.
In the end when Bond and Eve stand on the roof Big Ben's clock shows a few minutes to six and Eve says: "Her will was read today", so it's presumably afternoon. But when they go inside Tanner greets Bond by saying: "Good morning".
During the motorcycle chase scene, both Bond and Patrice are seen wearing sneakers - with a clearly visible white rubber band around the soles (to add more grip to their foot-pegs) and NOT dress shoes, like they were using before. This then alternates between the two kinds of footwear during the chase.
Before Patrice enters the elevator in Shanghai, the button for his floor is already lit. After he motions to press the floor button, it is no longer lit. Later, as the elevator is moving up, the button is lit again.
When Bond is in M's flat, he puts down a bottle of Macallan whisky. When he is seen again, the bottle has been turned round, displaying the front label. In the next shot, the bottle is back to as it was.
When Silva challenges Bond on Silva's island to shoot a glass off of Sévérine's head, one of Silva's henchmen points a gun to Bond's head. As camera angles changes, the position of the gun moves from shot to shot from being directly pressed against Bond's left temple, to a few inches away, to pointing more towards his cheek.
When M is testifying to the ministers at parliamentary hearing, near the beginning of the scene, her wrist watch shows the time at 3:00. After about 5-10 minutes of dialogue, Silva approaching and Bond running down Whitehall, when they show M again reading poetry, her wrist watch shows the time at 3:55.
The wristwatches of the participants in the Ministerial Hearing are set to a variety of different times - even among participants sitting at the same table.
Mallory puts down a brandy bottle when he first meets M. When she leaves the bottle has turned.
In the gallery Bond and Q sit on separate benches when seen from behind, but in the frontal shot they sit on the same.
On the sailing yacht Bond puts the radio device in the right side pocket of his trousers, but when he shows it to Silva he must have taken it from the left pocket because his right hand is holding a gun.
When Bond and Séverine are approaching Silva's island she's not wearing any makeup, however, later when Silva puts the glass on her head to test Bond's aim, it's evident she was beaten and has been crying ruining a mascara she was not wearing before.
The level of whiskey in the glass on Séverine's head varies between shots.
Crew or equipment visible
During one of the beginning scenes, after Bond crashes his bike into a bridge wall and lands on top of a moving train, he almost slips off, but we see in a scene of the train moving away from the bridge that there is a platform which was supporting him as he was climbing back up onto the roof.
Errors in geography
The suggestion is that the building the Ministerial Hearing is being held in is in Westminster, in one of the Ministerial buildings off of Whitehall, however the building 'Silva' enters seems to be Trinity House on Trinity Square, close to Tower Hill and the Tower of London, several miles away, with Bond and others exiting the building after the shootout onto Seething Lane Garden.
The opening chase scene is shot at two different provinces of Turkey, namely Adana and Istanbul, approximately 950 km apart. It is not possible to see yellow cabs with license plate numbers starting with '01' (signifying 'Adana') near the Grand Bazaar (in Istanbul).
When leaving London the map discussed by Mallory and Q shows a route up the A9 on the east of Scotland. One of the mountains show soon after is the distinctive Buachaille Etive Mor which is adjacent to the A82 and marks the entrance to Glencoe on the west coast.
Factual errors
In the intro scene when James Bond's train car is uncoupled, the car's brake pipe is disconnected as well. Train brakes work on positive pressure, so if the brake pipe were disconnected, the uncoupled cars would immediately stop within a short distance, and the rest of the train would shortly follow. In the movie, the uncoupled cars continue closely following the train as if nothing had happened.
The shrapnel taken from Bond's shoulder are 'depleted uranium' yet these rounds do not go through the mild steel cab of the digger nor do they go through the glass.
Silva says that after he bit the capsule with hydrogen cyanide it "burnt his insides" but he "didn't die" because "life clang to him", and then shows the "effects of hydrogen cyanide". All of those statements are goofs. It's impossible for life to cling to anyone who ingests this chemical and he or she invariably dies within 1 to 10 minutes. The chemical doesn't "burn the insides"; it causes oxygen deprivation and death. It was used in Nazi Germany under the infamous name Zyklon B to kill people in extermination camps. It also doesn't cause any of the deformities shown by Silva.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
After the terrorist attack on MI6, TV reporter explains that 6 people died and others were injured in the hospital. In the next scene, when M stands next to the coffins, we can count 8 coffins that were the victims of the attack. However, the additional coffins could be explained that two of the injured had subsequently died of their injuries.
After Bond and M arrive at Skyfall they review the available weapons with Kincade. Kincade hands Bond what looks like a double barrel shotgun and says that is was his father's hunting rifle. This is an "express rifle", a double barreled large caliber rifle designed for dangerous game at close range, and easily mistaken for a shotgun.
Bond's father's gun is manufactured by Anderson Wheeler, so it might seem unlikely that Andrew Bond, a representative of the arms manufacturer Vickers, would have habitually used a competitor's product. But given the fact that Vickers only built military weapons and never produced sporting arms, it is perfectly normal that he would have chosen a double rifle from one of the big sporting guns firms in Mayfair.
Revealing mistakes
During the motorcycle chase, shots from behind show the riders are wearing padding underneath their clothing, particularly obvious for James Bond.
When the tube train falls through the hole into the area below, all its lights are still working. Once each carriage leaves the rails, which carry the electric current, these would all have gone out and the train would have been in darkness.
The train carrying a Caterpillar excavator and several VW Beetles parked sideways on to the direction of travel would not have been able to fit within the narrow and low rail tunnels which complete the opening sequence.
When the train crashes through the roof of the cellar it plows through columns that support the roof but no windows crack and the paint is hardly scratched and no people are shown aboard.
When James Bond chases Silva on the London Underground train, all the signage and stations suggests it's a District Line train; however this is actually 1996 Jubilee Line stock. This can be seen by both the colour scheme and deep level line body type.
In the closing scene on the rooftop of MI6, Big Ben's clock shows it is a few minutes before 6, and it is daytime. As it is presumably winter (given the frozen lake in Scotland a few scenes earlier, which was presumably no more than a few weeks earlier), if it were a few minutes before 6 in London (which is fairly far north, at 51 degrees latitude), it would be dark (the sun would not yet be up at 6 a.m., and it would have already set at 6 p.m.).
Continuity
When Bond realizes Silva's cage must have opened, he leaves the room running, without his communication device. When he reaches the prison cell, he is clearly talking into a microphone and his earphone is also visible.
Character error
The dress worn by Bérénice Marlohe is described (and referred to by Bond) as backless. There is clearly sheer fabric encrusted with crystals - hardly backless.
Continuity
When Bond is about to fight Patrice in Shanghai, the hammer of his gun changes its position (cocked and un-cocked) multiple times.
In the Shanghai Tower scene, the terrorist/sniper is seen operating a manual, bolt action rifle. Right after during the fight with James Bond, the gun is shot several times just as if it was a semi-automatic weapon.
When M is first debriefed by Gareth Mallory, she enters carrying a handbag, which she places on the floor beside her. The meeting ends abruptly and she leaves, and is not carrying her handbag, but she is not seen picking it up.
When Bond and Sévérine are walking in the island, her shoes change color between shots.
In the end when Bond and Eve stand on the roof Big Ben's clock shows a few minutes to six and Eve says: "Her will was read today", so it's presumably afternoon. But when they go inside Tanner greets Bond by saying: "Good morning".
During the motorcycle chase scene, both Bond and Patrice are seen wearing sneakers - with a clearly visible white rubber band around the soles (to add more grip to their foot-pegs) and NOT dress shoes, like they were using before. This then alternates between the two kinds of footwear during the chase.
Before Patrice enters the elevator in Shanghai, the button for his floor is already lit. After he motions to press the floor button, it is no longer lit. Later, as the elevator is moving up, the button is lit again.
When Bond is in M's flat, he puts down a bottle of Macallan whisky. When he is seen again, the bottle has been turned round, displaying the front label. In the next shot, the bottle is back to as it was.
When Silva challenges Bond on Silva's island to shoot a glass off of Sévérine's head, one of Silva's henchmen points a gun to Bond's head. As camera angles changes, the position of the gun moves from shot to shot from being directly pressed against Bond's left temple, to a few inches away, to pointing more towards his cheek.
When M is testifying to the ministers at parliamentary hearing, near the beginning of the scene, her wrist watch shows the time at 3:00. After about 5-10 minutes of dialogue, Silva approaching and Bond running down Whitehall, when they show M again reading poetry, her wrist watch shows the time at 3:55.
The wristwatches of the participants in the Ministerial Hearing are set to a variety of different times - even among participants sitting at the same table.
Mallory puts down a brandy bottle when he first meets M. When she leaves the bottle has turned.
In the gallery Bond and Q sit on separate benches when seen from behind, but in the frontal shot they sit on the same.
On the sailing yacht Bond puts the radio device in the right side pocket of his trousers, but when he shows it to Silva he must have taken it from the left pocket because his right hand is holding a gun.
When Bond and Séverine are approaching Silva's island she's not wearing any makeup, however, later when Silva puts the glass on her head to test Bond's aim, it's evident she was beaten and has been crying ruining a mascara she was not wearing before.
The level of whiskey in the glass on Séverine's head varies between shots.
Crew or equipment visible
During one of the beginning scenes, after Bond crashes his bike into a bridge wall and lands on top of a moving train, he almost slips off, but we see in a scene of the train moving away from the bridge that there is a platform which was supporting him as he was climbing back up onto the roof.
Errors in geography
The suggestion is that the building the Ministerial Hearing is being held in is in Westminster, in one of the Ministerial buildings off of Whitehall, however the building 'Silva' enters seems to be Trinity House on Trinity Square, close to Tower Hill and the Tower of London, several miles away, with Bond and others exiting the building after the shootout onto Seething Lane Garden.
The opening chase scene is shot at two different provinces of Turkey, namely Adana and Istanbul, approximately 950 km apart. It is not possible to see yellow cabs with license plate numbers starting with '01' (signifying 'Adana') near the Grand Bazaar (in Istanbul).
When leaving London the map discussed by Mallory and Q shows a route up the A9 on the east of Scotland. One of the mountains show soon after is the distinctive Buachaille Etive Mor which is adjacent to the A82 and marks the entrance to Glencoe on the west coast.
Factual errors
In the intro scene when James Bond's train car is uncoupled, the car's brake pipe is disconnected as well. Train brakes work on positive pressure, so if the brake pipe were disconnected, the uncoupled cars would immediately stop within a short distance, and the rest of the train would shortly follow. In the movie, the uncoupled cars continue closely following the train as if nothing had happened.
The shrapnel taken from Bond's shoulder are 'depleted uranium' yet these rounds do not go through the mild steel cab of the digger nor do they go through the glass.
Silva says that after he bit the capsule with hydrogen cyanide it "burnt his insides" but he "didn't die" because "life clang to him", and then shows the "effects of hydrogen cyanide". All of those statements are goofs. It's impossible for life to cling to anyone who ingests this chemical and he or she invariably dies within 1 to 10 minutes. The chemical doesn't "burn the insides"; it causes oxygen deprivation and death. It was used in Nazi Germany under the infamous name Zyklon B to kill people in extermination camps. It also doesn't cause any of the deformities shown by Silva.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
After the terrorist attack on MI6, TV reporter explains that 6 people died and others were injured in the hospital. In the next scene, when M stands next to the coffins, we can count 8 coffins that were the victims of the attack. However, the additional coffins could be explained that two of the injured had subsequently died of their injuries.
After Bond and M arrive at Skyfall they review the available weapons with Kincade. Kincade hands Bond what looks like a double barrel shotgun and says that is was his father's hunting rifle. This is an "express rifle", a double barreled large caliber rifle designed for dangerous game at close range, and easily mistaken for a shotgun.
Bond's father's gun is manufactured by Anderson Wheeler, so it might seem unlikely that Andrew Bond, a representative of the arms manufacturer Vickers, would have habitually used a competitor's product. But given the fact that Vickers only built military weapons and never produced sporting arms, it is perfectly normal that he would have chosen a double rifle from one of the big sporting guns firms in Mayfair.
Revealing mistakes
During the motorcycle chase, shots from behind show the riders are wearing padding underneath their clothing, particularly obvious for James Bond.
When the tube train falls through the hole into the area below, all its lights are still working. Once each carriage leaves the rails, which carry the electric current, these would all have gone out and the train would have been in darkness.
The train carrying a Caterpillar excavator and several VW Beetles parked sideways on to the direction of travel would not have been able to fit within the narrow and low rail tunnels which complete the opening sequence.
When the train crashes through the roof of the cellar it plows through columns that support the roof but no windows crack and the paint is hardly scratched and no people are shown aboard.
When James Bond chases Silva on the London Underground train, all the signage and stations suggests it's a District Line train; however this is actually 1996 Jubilee Line stock. This can be seen by both the colour scheme and deep level line body type.
In the closing scene on the rooftop of MI6, Big Ben's clock shows it is a few minutes before 6, and it is daytime. As it is presumably winter (given the frozen lake in Scotland a few scenes earlier, which was presumably no more than a few weeks earlier), if it were a few minutes before 6 in London (which is fairly far north, at 51 degrees latitude), it would be dark (the sun would not yet be up at 6 a.m., and it would have already set at 6 p.m.).
Continuity
When Bond realizes Silva's cage must have opened, he leaves the room running, without his communication device. When he reaches the prison cell, he is clearly talking into a microphone and his earphone is also visible.
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You guys must be cutting your wrists, that this terrible film is so successful, because all the points you made - the general audience couldn't care less. For them, it works beautifully as a film. Period.
But that post is copied from IMDb though ;)
Go watch Thunderball and then go through the same exercise.
I'm not saying this is the intention of this thread but I can't fathom some peoples continuous efforts to try and highlight all the negativity of Daniel Craigs interpretation of Bond, frankly, his box office figures are huge, inflation adjusted he's second only to Connery so the public love him.
I'm actually very relieved that the internet wasn't around until Brosnan (a safe choice but no way as good as Craig) became Bond.
Can you imagine what it would have been like when Lazenby or Moore took over if we'd had digital media.
Personally, people should take a leaf out of Rog's book when asked what he thought of Grace Jones 'if you can't say anything nice then best to say nothing at all'.
Locked.