Movie Mistakes Take 3 [Mass Market Paperback]

Jon Sandys (Author)

Book Description

Series: Movie Mistakes | Publication Date: September 1, 2004

Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder in them. In this completely updated edition, Jon Sandys has included new mistakes from films such as The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Matrix Revolutions, Finding Nemo, Intolerable Cruelty, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Kill Bill - Volume One.

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From the Inside Flap

Have you ever watched Gladiator and seen the gas cylinder in the back of one of the Roman chariots? Or the stagehand caught on set during the Tin Man's dance in The Wizard of Oz? Or the person escaping from the sinking Titanic wearing a digital watch - in 1912? Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder in them. Movie Mistakes invites you into the world of the movie and shows you how no director or actor is infallible. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

About the Author

Jon Sandys is the creator of the website www moviemistakes.com, which includes 30,000 entries from over 3000 films and gets up to 50,000 hits a day. He is also an in-demand media film spokesman.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Virgin Books; Revised and Updated edition (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0753509121
• ISBN-13: 978-0753509128
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 3.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,568,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Is that a gas cylinder in you chariot?, December 21, 2002

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Roger McEvilly (the guilty bystander) (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Movie Mistakes (Mass Market Paperback)

This is an entertaining compilation of some famous, and some not-so-famous, movie blunders. Mr Sandys has collected thousands of 'movie mistakes' from a variety of sources, mostly from keen internet users, and with some diligent checking, has lead to this good summary of various movie goofs.

The book is divided into various categories such as the all-time most popular mistakes (as voted on his website), visible crew, things that move that shouldn't (such as the dead), instantly changing weather, and the like. Some gems include wristwatches in 19th century Africa, visible land in the open ocean, actors knocking into doorframes, gas cylinders in ancient Rome, animals which don't care for directors ambitions, kids who cover their ears when a gunshot is coming, and the like. Its amusing, varied, painstakingly compiled and checked, and generally good fun.

Its not meant to be a criticism of various movies, just a lighthearted look at various movie goofs. If you have a DVD you can easily check some of the mistakes listed herein, although in recent years, wise editors have deleted some of the worst mistakes from DVD releases.

I have checked about 100 mistakes that interested me, and I have found that most of the time Mr Sandys and his horde of internet compilers are right, although I have found the odd 'mistake' amongst the listed mistakes, so to speak, at least in my opinion. But never mind about splitting hairs, most of the mistakes listed here are the more obvious and less contentious ones. Movie editors aren't perfect, and neither are mistake spotters!.

Its lighthearted, entertaining, and recommended for movie buffs, not to be taken too seriously. There is a good website also with much more detail, which gets quite a bit of traffic.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, October 13, 2002

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Katie (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Movie Mistakes (Mass Market Paperback)

Movie Mistakes is a really good book that I must say was fun to read. I love to watch movies and I am always looking for little errors that the directors, producers, ect. make. I have gone to the site movie-mistakes.com which is also a good place to find mistakes in movies.
When the movie Titanic came to theatres, there was not one person I knew who hadn't seen it. Everyone said it was the perfect movie but I found out they were so wrong! Last time I checked, Titanc had a total of 148 mistakes! I found that to be incredible! Anyways, buy the book. Its worth every penny and more!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Movie Mistakes Dot Com, November 16, 2004

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Daniel R. Russel (APO, AE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Movie Mistakes (Mass Market Paperback)

There is also a site - www.moviemistakes.com, which is free (unless you want to pay for membership which allows access to pictures of the mistakes, less ads, etc), and shows many more mistakes. There are sections for TV and movie mistakes, and each show is ordered either into episodes or ordered by rating (you can give thumbs up or thumbs down to the mistake, and the most popular will end up in the Top 20 mistakes). There are sections of each movie/show for major and minor mistakes, corrections (of the mistakes that are submitted), trivia, easter eggs, pictures, and questions (that are asked by anyone). You can submit any of these, as long as you follow the rules. There are also different types of mistakes - continuity, revealing, "deliberate", factual, audio, visible crew/equipment, plot holes, and other. The 'manager' of the site does not contribute mistakes, trivia, etc, but rather the audience submits all of the information. In the case of an incorrect mistake, someone can also correct it. It's a great site.