I Cant Stop Looking For Faults.....

[trt]

In fact its been getting worse over the years, and spoils things I want to enjoy.

For instance, if I am watching a movie, I will think/say, that's not possible, and tend to look for faults/mistakes, or check the times of a clock in a scene, so it changes with the continuity.

I also watch when the actors go in or out of a door, whether they lock it, to see if they use a key to go in next time.

I check that pictures, paintings, and mirrors are hanging straight, and all sorts of stuff which makes it impossible to follow the story.

Is it just me?

[ummmm]

Well I don't do it.

Films are filmed out of sequence so there are bound to be mistakes.

[andy-hughes]

I do have part of my subconcous that occasionally registers things that will crop up as bloopers later on, but never the amount that some people manage to find!

I think a certain subconscious observation of things is inherent in all of us - it's part of our primeval minds keeping us safe at all times.

But I am not sure it is common for this to be so intrusive that it spoils your enjoyment of things.

It may be stress-related - have a chat with your GP.

[EcclesCake]

I always look at drinks and cigarettes to check the continuity.

[trt]

## Films are filmed out of sequence so there are bound to be mistakes. ##

No Ummmm, that's no excuse, these people are/should be professional.

[Mamyalynne]

I think for some people the obsession with continuity errors can spoil watching a film - but if it doesn't then no matter.

[Cloverjo]

No, I also notice things like a character's hair being different when they go through a door and the next shot is them coming out the other side.

American shows tend to be bad for that. Especially Curb Your Enthusiasm. One time a character was writing on a pad, and the amount of writing on the paper went from full to almost clean and back again in a couple of shots.

[ummmm]

But they tend to be minor mistakes that the majority of people don't notice.

[Khandro]

You're becoming "A grumpy old man", why worry? - join the club.

[trt]

## You're becoming "A grumpy old man", why worry? - join the club. ##

That what my daughter says Khandro :-)

There was a complaint to the BBC last week about the series the Army Girl.

Apparently at the end, the sun was setting, with her silhouette in front, and it was supposed to be in a certain place in Africa.
Some viewer complained that it couldn't have been in that place, because the sun only rises there!

[andy-hughes]

trt - //Some viewer complained that it couldn't have been in that place, because the sun only rises there! //

I am no astronomer, but surely if the sun rises somewhere, it must logically also set there?

I am happy to be corrected - just using logic.

[Bazile]

A bit of OCD there ?

[Mamyalynne]

Obsessive continuity disorder - aye.

[Bazile]

Speaking of movies - this was not a movie , but rather filming at my workplace .

Sometime ago they were filming a manager , who wore brightly coloured turbans .

When the film was finished it showed this chappy going out of a room and entering another room - when he exited the first room he was wearing a red turban - however when he entered the other room the turban had changed to blue .

They had filmed him over two days - the first day ending with him leaving the room .
The following day they resumed filming with him entering the second room - however he had changed his turban to a blue one .

It was amusing - bit of a slip up in the continuity department

[woofgang]

Yes. its you.

[Mamyalynne]

With my late husband it was cars in films and TV - 'That model was the year after the film was set in..' or 'That registration plate is wrong for X model'.

Cars were his life, it was like he couldn't help himself.

[HansUrbancka]

I have looked for faults in films since I was a boy, almost back to the days of Silent Movies.

It's amusing to see a Roman Guard wearing a Wrist Watch, a cigarette continually changing length, and one of the best is seeing a plane's vapour trail in the sky of a Western film.

I think trt that we have something in common. Let's keep it that way.

Hans.

[Barsel]

Hi trt, we are always reading about these mistakes in films and TV programmes, they even make programmes about it, so it really doesn't surprise me that some of us do this, I do it myself. The problem I've developed since I got older is wondering whether or not the people in the old films are still living! After watching a film or old programme, I'm on the computer seeing if that person is still alive! Don't let it worry you, we all have our own little idiosyncrasies. x

[Unsureme]

My gripe is when Modern Films are made about the 50's and before.I worked at Wills Factory for many years,up until the early 60's there was only one type of "tipped" Cigarette and that was "Players Batchelor",Wills decided to trial "tipped Cigarettes in 1961,and the rest is history,I see many instances of "early"Films where they are smoking Tipped cigarettes,really gets my goat,they can't all be Players Batchelor type.Rant over.

[jno]

andy-hughes, characteristically, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. So when John Wayne had the sun setting over the sea in The Green Berets, he was forgetting which way Vietnam faced.

Not that I would notice such a thing myself, of course.

And in real life I have seen the sun rise in the west...