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Skyfall (2012) - 37 corrections

Directed by Sam Mendes, starring Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

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Updated recently At the end of the film, Bond is standing on the roof. The time seen on Big Ben is 5.55, and there's loads of traffic in the background as well. He returns downstairs with Moneypenny and Tanner appears from M's office saying "morning 007". If it was morning in the winter months (Scotland having frozen lakes) it would be dark and not daylight that early. [Sunrise in London after April 20th is earlier than 5:55am. And yet on or around that date I have, while flying from London to Glasgow seen frozen lakes in the mountains around Glasgow, while Glasgow is still well south of the highlands. Don't forget that the UK covers a large stretch of latitude, with London at 51.5N and Thurso on the North Coast of Scotland at 57.4N.]
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Early in the film after Bond is shot off the top of the train and floats down river he ends up in some run down hotel. He goes drinking at some local bar trying to drink some whisky with a scorpion on his wrist/arm. The scorpion's stinger has been removed. [No it hasn't. The sting is quite visible during the scene.]
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When the MI6 building is blown up, we hear the explosion as it happens. In reality, because of the distance they are away from it, the sound should be about a second later. [Certain movie-making conventions like this count as a stylistic choice, not a mistake.]
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The car used in the chase at the beginning has Turkish number plates. However, it also has an EU (presumably a UK) country disc. Turkey is not in the EU. [While Turkey is not, as yet, a member of the European Union, it has been a member of the European Customs Union since 1995 and thus their number plates include the blue "Eurostripe", but without the European flag symbol (which is correctly missing in the film).]
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When Bond looks at the map on the tube, it says that many different tube lines, including the Hammersmith and City line stop at Westminster, when in fact only the line he's on and the Circle line stop there. [When he looks at the map of the district line, it only says that you can change to the Jubilee line at Westminster. which is entirely correct. This can be verified if you look at a real London Tube map.]
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Silva spent years planning his revenge against M, yet the ability to carry out his plan depended on conditions that were entirely out of his control, such as being captured by MI-6 despite having no way of knowing that Bond was coming for him, and ambushing M at the court house despite having no way of knowing that she would be there that day. [His plan was always to blow a hole in the tube to have a train crash at that location. This would have caused mayhem and take up a lot of resources (police/ambulance/fire). Bond chasing him had no impact on this part of the plan. Then when his team picked him up, his team would have known where M would have been on that day and would have driven him there. With resources on a high at the train crash site, it would have made it easier to reach M.]
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When Bond arrives at the hotel in Shanghai, he takes off his leather gloves. Yet when he and the assassin are fighting and the assassin falls out the window, he is wearing the gloves again. [Bond can be seen hiding in the shadows for quite some time. Enough time for him to put his gloves back on. Seeing how the assassin is about to kill someone, Bond probably didn't want to leave his fingerprints behind for him to be connected.]
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Q and Bond are trying to crack Silva's computer code in the new MI6 quarters - Bond does not have an earpiece. Once MI6 has been hacked, all the doors open and Bond runs off to find Silva - still no earpiece. Once Bond runs into where Silva was held, he starts talking to Q through an earpiece. [He didn't have his gun in his hand either when he was in the same room with Q. Doesn't make it a mistake when he suddenly has it as he approaches Silva's cell. The earpiece was in a pocket, obviously. (And the gun was in a holster.).]
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In the fight scene in Raoul Silva's island, Bond defeats all the henchmen off Silva. During the fight Silva is holding a gun, but as soon as all his henchmen are down, helicopters arrive there. When Silva looks at Bond he doesn't have any gun in his hand. He is empty-handed. [It's on the ground. He dropped it.]
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When he is on the train being followed by the girl in the car he goes through a long tunnel, only for her to be waiting to shoot at the other side - surely a train going through a mountain must be quicker than a car driving round it. [She can drive car at faster rate. This was one of the reason why she was recriuted by MI6. Also the train in the tunnels can travel at only at slower speed (60-80km/h) while the car she is driving can travel at around ~120km/h.]
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During the chase on the London Underground, 007 walks past several Metropolitan Police Officers, however the London Underground is policed by the British Transport Police, who wear different uniforms with a high visibility vest. [Doesn't mean the police can't ride the Underground.]
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The excavator Bond uses in the train chase scene is a Caterpillar 320DL, however Caterpillar builds all of their excavators with the cab on the left of the arm, not on the right as shown in the movie. [This isn't true at all.]
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Mallory suggest to Q and Tanner that they lay the digital crumbs up the A9 as this is the most direct route. Glencoe is on the A82, not the A9, and in the next scene where the DB5 is entering Glencoe it is the A82 shown. [Direct route to Glencoe from the South is by driving some part of the A9.]
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When M breaks light bulbs to make nail bombs in chandeliers at Skyfall house and pushed them into shotgun cartridges the filament would have broken so there would not be a way of igniting the gunpowder to cause explosion. [The filament is just a small piece of metal that resists the current. Heating up and glowing causing light. Even if the filament is broken it you put something between the prongs of the light bulb. It will conduct electricity. If this is gun powder you would then connect an electrical circuit and set it off.]
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When on the motorbike on the rooftops of Istanbul, Bond at first has no sunglasses on, then sunglasses on, then no sunglasses. [Bond is never wearing sunglasses in the first place. From the beginning of the chase scene where he steals the motorbike to the end where he jumps onto the train he is never seen with a pair of sunglasses on. Not even the silver and black aviators he is seen wearing later in the movie.]
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The scene where James Bond kills a man in the water under the ice does not make sense. Bond wraps a leg around the man to strangle him to death. Strangling a man cuts off his ability to breath, but this is illogical as he already cannot breath underwater. [Loss of consciousness and death by strangling is primarily caused by cutting off the blood supply to the brain. This achieves the desired effect long before asphyxiation and is therefore correctly used in the underwater scene.]
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In the government committee shoot-out scene. The same Black police officer gets shot twice. He comes though a door, and gets shot by Silva. Scene cuts a wide shot, the officer is crawling across the floor. Scene cuts to Bond, then cuts back to Silva shooting. Cuts to the same door the officer just came though, and he comes though again and gets shot again. [He's initially shot near the door (which he doesn't enter through - he's already in the room). He survives the first shot, as we see him crawling to take cover in the recessed doorway. Once Silva is distracted by Bond's arrival and Moneypenny shooting at him, the officer takes the opportunity to attempt another shot, moving out of cover in the doorway (once again not entering through the door, which is still closed) to give himself a better chance. Unfortunately, this only gets him shot again, this time apparently fatally. A clear sequence of events, none of which represent a mistake.]
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When the explosion in MI6 occurs, they say that there are 6 deaths. When M is walking near the tombs with England flags, there are 7 or 8 tombs, not 6. [Pay attention to the exact wording of the news report: "Early reports from the scene indicate at least six dead." This clearly lends itself to the final total being higher, as additional bodies are found or the critically injured succumb to their wounds.]
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In the scene where M is asked to retire from MI6, she puts down her glass and gets up to leave. She picks up her coat from the back of the chair but leaves her bag on the floor. In the next shot, the bag is no longer there. [In this scene, M stands up to leave and grabs her coat. After she finishes talking the movie goes to a half shot of Mallory, giving her plenty of time to reach down and grab her bag. As she walks away both of her hands were hanging down and are cut off by the camera.]
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Just before Bond reaches the Chapel, he plunges into icy water. In the next scene, in the Chapel, he is perfectly dry. [Bond is wet when he enters the chapel. His hair and face are clearly seen to be dripping water.]
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