A View to a Kill

Corrected entry: When Bond is knocked unconscious into the back of the Rolls Royce, everyone gathered around moves away. Listen carefully and you can distinctly hear a technician/assistant say, 'Mind that door.' It cannot be dialogue from the film due to the way it is said. (00:50:05)

Correction: It is definitely not "Mind that door." The henchman who closes the door says "Au château" ("[Back] To the castle") to his two female colleagues, which makes perfect sense if they are still in France.

DEvans

Corrected entry: When Bond and Tibbett are sneaking into the stables, they left a tape recorder in Bond's room playing sleeping/snoring noises to pretend Bond is in his room sleeping. When Zorin and Mayday look for Bond in his room the tape recorder isn't there any more. It is absolutely quiet in this room.

Lukas S

Correction: The tape had run out by the time Zorin and Mayday went into Bond's room which is why it was quiet. As for why they didn't see it...either it was an oversight, or they just didn't care.

Gavin Jackson

Corrected entry: When Bond leaps from the bridge in his pursuit of May Day, he lands on and crashes through the boat's roof. When we see May Day jumping onto the speedboat, the boat's roof is now completely intact. (00:20:00)

Correction: No it's not. The hole is visible near the end of the boat.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: When Bond makes a copy of the check to see the amount, the copy is readable. However, since it was made with a face down copier, the copy should have reversed.

Movie Nut

Correction: The image does not appear on the side of the paper that was in contact with the checkbook, which would be a mirror image. Bond flips the paper over to reveal the image (which essentially becomes a mirror image of a mirror image making it appear readable).

Bishop73

Corrected entry: When Bond fires a flare on the ground in through the side door of the helicopter, it crashes into an icy wall and explodes. However, in the next shot, the explosion is over top of the open water.

Correction: It's the same explosion; you just can't see the water in the first close-up shot of the helicopter hitting the ice wall.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: During the car chase where Bond steals a taxi and loses the back of it, he couldn't have driven it because there is no back to it, and therefore no gas tank.

Jeffy

Correction: As long as there is fuel in the carburetor and fuel lines, the car will still run. The time the car is shown driving without a fuel tank is not so long that it would be inconceivable for it to use up all the fuel in the lines.

Corrected entry: When Zorin is gunning down on all of his workers in the underground mine, Christopher Walken's lips move as if he is screaming something out, but his audio is muted.

Jeffy

Correction: He's firing a machine gun in an enclosed space. It's going to be loud enough to drown out whatever he says. (From the scene, we can infer that it was just words to the effect that he's enjoying killing them.).

Captain Defenestrator

Corrected entry: When May Day pushes the Rolls Royce containing Bond and Tibbett into the lake, the car begins to sink near land because there are branches of a tree close to the car. But just a few shots later, the Rolls Royce has moved to the middle of the lake.

Correction: It begins to sink near the land, but takes time to completely flood; we see Bond inside regaining consciousness as the car fills with water. The momentum carries it out further into the lake as it slowly begins to sink (the wire pulling it into the lake has already been submitted).

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: After killing Howe, Zorin drops the gun on the desk - with his fingerprints on it. Quite stupid for a genius I'd say. It should be Bond's fingerprints for Zorin's set up to work, so the plot doesn't even benefit from it. (01:27:40)

ichabod

Correction: Even a genius can make mistakes, and it's not "quite stupid"; just one aspect of the crime that he hadn't thought completely through. Not that it matters; his own fingerprints are probably not on file, so if his plan worked the police would find three dead bodies and a gun with an unidentifiable set of prints on it.

BocaDavie

Corrected entry: After the Eiffel Tower scene, Bond chases after May Day in a blue car. Eventually he crashes with another car, and the rear half of the car breaks off, but the car keeps going. How is this possible when the fuel tank is in the rear part of the car?

Correction: There would be some residual fuel in the fuel line in the engine to keep the car going for a few more miles - theoretically speaking.

Corrected entry: When Bond and Stacy leave the mine shack, him in a company jacket and her in overalls, you can see she is wearing red heels which Bond comments "it is the union" to a worker. Later when May Day rips the overalls off Stacy she is wearing white shoes to match her dress. (01:37:20)

Correction: Bond never says that to a worker. What he says is "It's Women's Lib. They're taking over the teamsters." When he does she still has white/silver shoes on.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: After the initial explosion below San Andreas Lake, there is another clip showing the fisherman in trouble. Water spray is now coming both from behind him - where the explosion was - and in front of him - from high above. How could an explosion from below generate water from above?

Jacob La Cour

Correction: The shockwave of the explosion causes the eruption of water on the surface of the lake. Since the mine is right below the lake, the explosion would definitely cause a disturbance in the water because it causes the water level in the lake to drop, as seen in a later shot of a dried-up San Andreas Lake.

Continuity mistake: When Bond listens to the cassette of the conversation between Zorin and Bob Conley at the dock warehouse, it is a completely different conversation to the one heard at the warehouse. (01:00:00)

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Tibbett, Sir Godfrey: Another wealthy owner?
James Bond: Who knows? But she certainly bares closer inspection.
Tibbett, Sir Godfrey: We're on a mission.
James Bond: Sir Godfrey, on a mission, I am expected to sacrifice myself.

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Trivia: When Grace Jones screams during the mine sequence, when sparks fly around her, her screams are for real. Jones did not know that the electric cables around her would go off as a special effect for the scene.

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Question: When Bond gets trapped underwater, could it be possible for him to survive using the air in the tyres?

Darth Crucible

Chosen answer: The Mythbusters tested that very thing on their show. The result was that it was impossible to breathe in air from a leaking tire while underwater.

raywest

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