The Living Daylights (1987) - 9 corrections

Directed by John Glen, starring Desmond Llewelyn, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Dalton (add more)

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Entry The wheel of Bond's car is cutting no more than 4-5 cm into the ice. Nevertheless the ice cut is 15-20 cm deep. And it's not just broken off by the weight of the police car. It is a totally clean cut, so the ice was cut with a tool which reached deep into the ice. [Your conclusion is based on your knowledge of how the filmmakers produced the cut in the ice. The reality is that lake ice is treacherous and is strongest near the surface. Bond makes a cut on the surface of the ice, so the ice is weakened along this cut line. Add the weight of a car on top, and absolutely the ice might give, and cleanly at that.]
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Entry Q asks Bond to whistle the first bars of Rule Britannia. The part he whistles matches the words 'Rule Britannia'. But the first words of that song are 'When Britain first at Heaven's command'. [Bond whistles the first bars of the chorus, as most people would. It's the well-known part.]
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Entry Saunders is not in the door-way when the bomb launching the glass door goes off. He actually jumps forward to get there in time to get caught. [Of course not. Being good at his job, the assassin triggered the remote a few seconds before Saunders reached the doorway so that it would slam shut on him as he reached it. Saunders doesn't jump forward to get there in time but is simply startled by the explosion and stumbles forward. Or perhaps in the confusion of the moment he thoguht the explosion originated behind him, where he had just been sitting with Bond.]
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Entry After the plane runs out of fuel, Bond says "there's no place to put down". They then get into the jeep and out of the plane in a complex move, ending up on a huge flat desert, right next to a long straight road.... [A road like that would probably not support the plane's weight, and a sandy desert is NOT a good place to put down, as the wheels would sink quickly in the sand, probably causing the plane to cartwheel. Planes of that size take a very long taxi when landing, and even if the road could support the weight, it would need an uninterrupted length of smooth pavement to make a landing. It's one reason even pilots in small aircraft rarely land on a road, but in a field or something nearby a road. Most roads also have wires, poles, etc along the sides, which a plane could very well be destroyed from. Wires are not visible at altitude, thus roads are not necessarily the best place to try to land in an emergency.]
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Entry In the scene where Bond is driving through Tangiers, watch carefully. His Audi bumps into a extra. [People get hit by cars every day. Just because someone is in a movie, it does not mean they will have perfect body coordination or driving skills all the time, even if they're James Bond.]
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Entry Both in Czech and in Slovak, the forms of last names nearly always mark gender (aside from some exceptions which aren't relevant here). 'Milovy' is not a possible last name for a Czech or Slovak woman. 'Milova' would be possible, though. This kind of mistake is very commonly made with Slavic names (e.g. Russian women whose last names end in '-sky' when they should end in '-skaya'). [An auto correcting submission, "nearly always" leaves enough room for the possibility for Milovy as a woman's last name.]
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Entry Near the end of the movie, when Bond and his girl escape from the airplane in the Jeep and you can see the airplane crash into the cliff and explode. What would there be to explode? The fuel is used up/drained, so shouldn't the plane just crumple up? [There are fuel fumes in the tanks. The fumes alone are sufficient to cause the explosion.]
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Entry The gas pipeline through which they shoot Gen. Koskov into freedom ends in some big gas reservoirs. They do exist in Vienna, and they were really built for this reason. But no pipeline ends there - they've been out of service for almost 60 years. [Is it really a mistake in a Bond film to have the characters use a pipe which does not exist in reality? I'll bet the gas reservoirs don't have Harrier jets taking off from them either.]
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Entry In the beginning of the movie the KGB agent who was saved by James Bond escapes with an Harrier jet. It's supposed to play in Prague but actually was filmed in Vienna on top of the "Wasserturm". [It's not a mistake that it's in Vienna, because the scene is supposed to be in Austria anyway, not in Prague or anywhere else in (then) Czechoslovakia. That's why Q says, "Welcome to Austria, general" when he arrives through the pipeline and is about to be taken to the jet.]
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