Blast from the Past (1999) - 10 corrections

starring Alicia Silverstone, Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken (add more)

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Entry When Adam tells his father that the Cold War is over, his father refers to the Politburo just giving up. The ruling Soviet body wasn't called the Politburo until 1966, four years after he went into the shelter. In 1962, it was still called the Presidium. If he'd had time to learn what it was called after he'd left the shelter, he surely would have learned that the Cold War was over before that moment. [It was the Politburo prior to 1952 and again after 1966, so it was only referred to as the Presidium 1952-1966. Names may change, but people stick with what they know. Myanmar became the official name in in 1989, but the US doesn't recognize the name: Burma is that country's name.]
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Entry In the scene where Christopher Walken comes up in the elevator for the first time, he breaks through the floor of "Moms" quite easily. Earlier in the film, the builders discover the "septic tank" (which is the entrance to the shelter) they comment about laying the cement slab right over the top. If there had been cement over the top, wouldn't it have been a little harder for the elevator to get through and wouldn't there have been rubble, rather than the clean break he made? [There were two entrances to the shelter. There is a whole scene in which Calvin (Christopher Walken) explains to Helen (Sissy Spacek) about how they'd have to use the elevator back up, because the ladder entrance they took down in the first place had been caved-in from the "bomb." It is likely that perhaps the "septic tank" the men discovered was just a part of the roof of the fallout shelter, and not necessarily the elevator.]
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Entry When the plane crashes into the house, the elevator shaft is filled with rubble and debris, yet, years later, after the automatic timer opens the door to the same elevator, the shaft is only dusty with no wreckage. [Christopher Walken states that he hopes the service elevator didn't get hit in the blast. (It is at the opposite end of the enclosure) That is how they got out and why there is only dust.]
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Entry In the scene of Adam selling his baseball cards, we first see a shot of classic baseball cards from various years in his cigar box. Then in the next shot the shopkeeper holds the cards up to inspect them and we see the backs of the cards all have a uniform white background. These are obviously props. [If you look closely the cards do have writing on the backs. Older cards did not have the stats listed on them.]
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Entry In the scene where Eve runs into Adam as he's leaving the phone booth her hair is high and half up. In the next scene where she meets his parents, her hair is still half up but low and parted to one side. [Eve had plenty of time to change her hair before meeting Adam's parents.]
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Entry When Adam is talking to Eve after the dance, his glass is sometimes in front of him and sometimes in front of Eve. [Adam and Eve have the same looking glasses in front of them (although presumably different contents). On long shots you can see two identical glasses on the table. So when you see a glass in front of Eve that looks like Adam's, it is really her glass that had been there all along, not Adam's (and vice versa).]
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Entry The Cuban missile crisis happened in 1961 or 1962, if Adam is 35 when he comes up into the world wouldn't that make the movie based in 1996 or 1997, where the movie was released in 1999 and says present day. ["Present day" doesn't necessarily means the exact day or even year the movie came out. It just means that it's somewhere towards the end of the 90's.]
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Entry When Brendan Fraser's mom is sending him up to get supplies she pulls money out of a tank. If they have been in there for 30 years...how could they have fresh up to date all brand spanking new dollar bills? [The mother says "I hope this is still good up there" and when Brendan's character is up on ground level going on the bus he says "the bus driver yelled at me, he wouldn't let me give him this." this is because the money isn't good up there anymore. He got all his new up-to-date money from selling his baseball cards.]
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Entry In the scene where Adam brings Eve down to meet his parents, his parents are at the door getting ready to lock it for another 10 years. If this is the only entrance to the shelter, how were Adam and Eve able to surprise them from behind? [When Adam's parents first lock the shelter, his father talks about the front entrance (where the door locks are) and the back entrance (which is where the service elevator is). If they are locking the door at the front, that is how Adam and Eve surprised them, by coming down the only available entrance-the back.]
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Entry When Brendan Fraser is introduced to Jonathon and Jason he says that his mother told them to repeat the names of people he meets, but when he repeats them, he turns to Jonathon and calls him Jason, and turns to Jason and calls him Jonathon. [He did that on purpose just to let everyone know that repeating the persons name doesn't always mean that you will remember it...nor will you remember it for the correct person.]
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