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At the end of the movie after Necros falls from the plane the camera cuts back to Bond, as he tries to struggle his way out of the nest. If you look closely under the nest you can see Necros at the start of his fall again. Also notice Necros is replaced by a dummy. See more...

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After Bond returns to London (when he's completed his mission in Eastern Europe) there's an 'establishing' shot of a London street scene. Look closely at the placards behind the newspaper vendor. One of the placards says "BLAZING JEEP AT 2,000 FEET" - a reference to the Jeep on fire and going over a cliff in the pre-title sequence perhaps? See more...

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The cellophane on Cara's flowers is foggy in the beginning of the chatting scene after the concert, but when Kamran Shah arrives, the cellophane is clear. [Quite simply the condensation on the cellophane has evaporated as the flowers and packaging warm up to room temperature.]
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When Bond comments on Kara's appearance in Afghanistan, he says a foreign word she doesn't understand. "It means 'beautiful' in Afghan," he says. Only one problem: Afghan isn't a language. Pashto (known as Pakhto in the north) and Dari are the two major languages spoken in Afghanistan and "Afghan" is not a language or a dialect or a slang term to refer to any known language or dialect. [Bond is not going to sit there and have a conversation about linguistics and dialects with Kara. He obviously knows what language is spoken in Afghanistan (as he speaks it), but simplifies the explanation for Kara.]
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Bond uncovers a plot to transport raw opium in fake aid packages. He tastes some, a brown, sticky substance that looks like Marmite. However, in a previous Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, Bond uncovers a plot to smuggle raw opium in giant paper rolls. He tastes some, but the raw opium is a golden substance more like honey. How does the opium change colour? [This is a question, not a mistake. It is obviously two different processing methods to refine the opium into different forms for transport. In "For Your Eyes Only" the giant paper rolls concealed barrels that held a liquified opium, in "The Living Daylights" the opium had to be transported in solidified blocks carried on horseback.]
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When Necros is clinging to Bond's boot hanging from the plane, and Bond starts cutting open his shoe laces - why didn't Necros just grab hold of the net again? [He could barely maintain his grip on the boot using both hands, if he took one hand off - even for a fraction of a second - he could have fallen. Apparently from his point of view he could not safely grab the net, and for all we know he was frozen in panic in the last few seconds before falling.]
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At the beginning of the film, Koskov is being sent down the pipeline in the "pig". After he's been sent, and the pipeline rumbles, there is an elevated piece of pipeline that the agent looks up at - with a bend in it. The "pig" is a longish cylinder that surely cannot go around bends. [There are no right-angle bends in the pipe; all of the bends are gradual curves. The pig is designed to negotiate the curves in the pipe.]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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