The top mistakes in The Iron Giant http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1966 en Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:55:07 +0000 26908 In the scene where the Iron Giant is spinning the boy around in a junk car he is holding, notice that the car resembles a 1959 Cadillac...however since the film is set around 1957, this is not a likely car to be found anywhere yet, much less a junk yard. 103376 In the scene where the two boys fall from the building and the giant catches them, the boys would still be very hurt, as the giant catches them just before they hit the ground by putting his hand out, since his hand is made of metal it wouldn't do much help, in actual fact landing in the snow would be better for the kids. 80785 When the Iron Giant first learns to talk, he picks up a huge boulder that wasn't there earlier. The boulder was in a pretty big hole, but when Hogarth walks away the hole has disappeared. 47055 During the film, we see on Dean's tow truck and and on the sign at the entrance of his scrap yard that his name is McCoppin. But in the end credits, it is written Dean McCoppen. 43825 The story takes place in late 1957, as is evidenced by the appearance of Sputnik. Near the very end the U.S. military launches a nuclear weapon on a missile from a submarine. Problem: the U.S. had no such nuke launching subs at that time.