The Medium is Not Enough TV blog: Microfeed for "Question of the week: the most inaccurate TV show or movie?" http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2009/11/question_of_the_week_the_most_inaccurate_tv_show_o.php Comments for the entry "Question of the week: the most inaccurate TV show or movie?" en-us Movable Type v4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:16:07 +00:00 Comment from Aaron Inaccuracy doesn't bother me overly unless it's something glaring obvious. What's worse is when a show/movie can't at least sound convincing. Bonekickers for example, sounded like all the research came from a pop up book of archeology.

]]> 5556@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c30895 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:16:07 +00:00 Comment from SAF Space: 1999. Inaccuracies abound. 'Science', fashion and technological predictions, portrayal of some characters meant to be human (Barbara Bain!). I'll be honest, I enjoyed some of it despite all that and perhaps it's true that you can love things or hate them or whatever completely irrespective of inaccuracies.

(PS I don't think that's actually Hadrian's Wall in Robin Hood: POT. Someone told me where that location actually was, but I've forgotten now. Your point about geography remains the same. Alan Rickman and Michael Wincott aside, I thought that movie was rubbish, and accuracy wasn't the problem. :-) )

]]> 5556@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c30896 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:20:35 +00:00 Comment from MediumRob @Aaron: what's the "inaccuracy" threshold before something starts to annoy, I wonder?

@SAF: IMDB says Hadrian's Wall, but it's not always right

]]> 5556@http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/#c30925 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:16:49 +00:00 Comment from Toby O'B I don't mind them, especially when I know that I may have noticed them, but that folks in Peoria (or your side of the world) might never know there was something wrong. This usually happens with the juxtaposition of locations in movies and TV shows set in NYC.

For instance - in 'Hannah And Her Sisters', there's a shot of the famous "Little Church Around The Corner", followed immediately by Woody Allen talking with a priest. The inference being that it's a Catholic church; it's not.

Or in this most recent Thanksgiving episode of 'How I Met Your Mother', in which one character lost a turkey in a cab and it was retrieved at the Port Authority. That's not how it works for taxis.

But how about all those movies and TV shows that showed the near future, but now it's come and gone and those changes never happened - "Escape From New York", "Death Race 2000", "Soylent Green", 'The Jetsons'..... They were all just setting themselves up to be found inaccurate....

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