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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - 34 corrections

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Colin Salmon, Desmond Llewelyn, Geoffrey Palmer, Götz Otto, Joe Don Baker, Jonathan Pryce, Judi Dench, Michelle Yeoh, Pierce Brosnan, Ricky Jay, Samantha Bond, Teri Hatcher, Vincent Schiavelli (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

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Wai-Lin passes Bond the 'detonators' for the mines they planted on the stealth ship to destroy it; but the mines they planted were timed mines, not remote mines, and Carver had already sent his men to have them removed anyway. [Timed mines with a remote detonator back-up; in case they needed to set them off earlier than planned. If Carver's men had removed them they would probably not be aware that there was a remote detonator, since they appeared to be timed charges.]
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When Wai Lin was tied up in the chain and dropped in the water why didn't she either climb up the chain (her hands were partly free) or kick up to the surface? While the climbing might have been difficult, the kick swimming to the surface should have been easy. [She's wrapped in a heavy metal chain, weighing her down.]
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Why didn't Wai Lin and Bond place the mines on the outside of the ship near the waterline? It would have been much easier to place the mines without being detected and it would have made the ship visible on radar. [It would have been easier for the crew to spot them on the outside of the ship. Also it would be more difficult for Bond and Wai Lin to get the mines on both pontoons if they were placing them on the outside of the ship - they would have had to place them on one pontoon, then drive the raft around the outside to the other pontoon. They way they did it Bond places them on one side and Wai Lin climbs over to the other side - much easier.]
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When Bond comes back to the surface after diving down to the Devonshire we see some islands very close behind in the background. First, these would definitely have shown up on Devonshire's radar, and second, those islands are not 11 miles away. [The Chinese coast is 11 miles away, not the islands. With the GPS sabatoged the Devonshire obviously thought those were different islands - further out at sea. Either way, their attention was monopolized by the approaching MIGs.]
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Why are Stamper's people filming the murders of the surviving sailors? If that footage is released, it would be strange, because the Chinese would of course never film killing British sailors. [No; he is trying to show that the Chinese WOULD film the execution of the sailors in an effort to push the British to attack them. He's trying to make the tensions between the countries as high as possible.]
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Towards the end, Bond fires with a silencer but the shot is much louder than it should. [Duplicate entry, already corrected.]
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Bond is shown meeting his American colleague at a US Air Force base in the 'South China Sea.' In actual fact, the base you see in the background is RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk, England, as shown by the 'LN' tailcodes on the F-15s. [Unless you can identify the physical buildings as being at RAF Lakenheath, the tail codes don't mean much. F-16s from Alaska (Tailcode AK) can be seen in photographs taken in the Middle East.]
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Near the end of the movie Carver says "and I'll be watching and filming from a Carver News chopper". Well nowhere in the movie near the end do we see a news helicopter and he does not have one in the boat. How did he expect to get out and film all this? [We don't know that there wasn't a chopper on the stealth ship, but Carver probably was going to have somebody pick him up by chopper. But since both the Chinese and British were firing at the stealth ship, the chopper pilots either didn't want to risk getting shot down or were called off.]
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Stamper's men do their best to do damage to Bond's BMW in the parking garage using hammers and gunfire, but nothing happens. Later, in the car chase, the windows are smashed by bullets. So why change the windows from bulletproof to destructible? It can't have to do something with Bond's security system since it would be illogical that the car is indestructible with engines off but the driver can be shot sitting in the car. [There's no such thing as perfectly indestructible glass. Even a blow that causes no visible damage will have some effect, causing the material to weaken. As the impacts build up, the ability of the glass to resist damage decreases. It's a cumulative effect that ends with it shattering.]
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In the beginning of the movie, when the cruise missile is fired against the "terrorist marketplace," that missile cannot be ordered to self-destruct (by the famous "red button") because it is out of range. However, the on-board camera of the missile seems to be still within range, because it continues to transmit "live coverage" from its flight, which can be received and displayed in acceptable quality at the command post. [The video signal from the missile operates on a different frequency than the radio signal from the ship, higher frequencies can travel further.]
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In the opening scene when Bond is flying the jet and the guy in the back is choking him with the garroting wire, when Bond ejects the guy the wire is still wrapped around his neck, and as the other pilot was holding the wire pretty tight, surely the force of the upward motion combined with the tightness of the wire would rip Bond's head clean off, resulting in no more 007. [He was so suprised by the activation of the ejection seat that he released his grip on the wire. If you were about to crash head-first into the undercarriage of an jet you would also probably drop whatever was in your hands and brace for the impact.]
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Bond and Wai Lin should have had one hell of a bend or an embolism when they popped up out of the water after diving on the Devonshire. Not only did they unnecessarily ditch their diving gear (they could have just pushed the tanks in front of them to get up that pipe) but they had an uncontrolled ascent from well over 30 metres depth. Yet they show no signs of any decompression illnesses and carry on as normal when they reach the surface. Impossible. [If they have not been under for very long, then they might not get decompression sickness (the "bends"). And it is possible to exhale the entire way up to avoid a pneumothorax or emboli.]
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When preparing for the HALO jump, Bond is told that there is a danger of him getting tangled in his parachute and drowning when he hits the water. This is extremely unlikely since he is already breathing from the cylinders on his back via regulator which is firmly attached to his face. There's no way the parachute or any of the cords would be able to constrict the HP air hoses on the diving gear. [Getting tangled in the parachute cords could also mean having the cords rip your face mask off; very likely if the cords wrap around the skydivers head when he (or she) pulls the rip cord.]
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Right at the end of the film M is told that "Carver went down with the ship" and that Bond got out alive, M dictates a short statement to Moneypenny. After this, in the next scene, the British fleet is looking for Bond and Wei Lin. [Not nessarily a mistake. They know he is alive, they just don't know where he is. And as he doesn't answer when they call him, it is obviously a common thing for Bond to disappear.]
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In the scene where Carver dies, why would the designer of the stealth boat make it possible for the drill to come all the way into the control room? [In all the chaos, the mechanics of the drill could have been damaged, enabling it to come into the control room.]
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The officer who says "Sound the general alarm" right at the beginning of the film on HMS Devonshire is wearing a badge of the rank Lieutenant Commander when he is announcing that the MIGs are flying over. A second later when he says "officer of the watch, maximum speed" his rank has changed to Commander. [No, the man who says, "Sound the general alarm" is the XO (number 2 in command), and the man who says, "Officer of the watch, maximum speed" is the Commanding Officer (Captain). He just comes onto the bridge when he says so. He was probably off duty and in his cabin. The voices aren't the same.]
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When the helicopter crashes into the building it destroys a wall, which bends inwards suspiciously like card or plywood before smashing to show daylight behind it. [They're in a very poor area of the city, it's not unlikely that the buildings would be constructed of cheap materials.]
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When Bond and the Asian girl have jumped out of the window, they grab the banner to escape and rip it. A few shots later we can see the banner and it's not ripped. [No, the banner is ripped. You can see the black windows and white building color in the middle of the banner.]
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In the first scene when Bond tries to get into the plane, the ladder falls during the fight. In the next scene it is intact. [He kicks it, yes, but it doesn't fall over.]
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In the car chase, whenever tires get blown out, you can see that explosives were used. When tires blow out in real life, there is not a bright orange and yellow flash. [Oddly enough, in a blowout, tyres do in fact look like there is an explosion in them because of the heat of the air in them. This is the same principle as when the pump and tyre heat up when you manually fill up your bike tyres. Without the huge physics explanation, the jist is under extreme compression air heats up. As the car was driving, the air in the tyres would have turned hot and the pressure from the expansion of the gas would have caused the flash we see. This is the identical principle that causes cars to go faster with a supercharger. ]
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